Jin dialect is the only unofficial dialect in northern China.
The biggest feature of Jin dialect, which is different from Putonghua, is to keep entering tone.
Most Jin dialects have five tones.
The tone of Jin dialect has a very complicated tone sandhi phenomenon.
Today, when reading the fricative of Jin language, the ancient voiced sound is not aspirated.
Jin dialect retains many characteristics of ancient Chinese.
Shanxi is one of the birthplaces of China's traditional opera art, and is called "the cradle of traditional opera".
In the Han Dynasty, drama appeared in Shanxi. During the Northern Song Dynasty, all kinds of local operas were active in Shanxi-these local operas were the embryonic form of China opera; During the Yuan Dynasty, Shanxi became the center of the national opera art, and the Yuan Dynasty stage found in the whole country was basically in Shanxi.
Shanxi is one of the earliest regions in China where festivals and folk customs appeared.
China promoted the summer calendar very early, which was used in the Xia Dynasty in history.
The southern part of Shanxi is one of the birthplaces of Xia Dynasty, and the northern part of Shanxi is inhabited by Hu people and Han people for a long time, forming a folk custom with local characteristics.
Extended information Shanxi is called "China Ancient Architecture Art Museum", and the well-preserved ancient buildings on the ground before Song and Jin Dynasties account for more than 70% of the country.
Ancient human cultural sites, the ancient capital city, Baosha Buddhist temple, grottoes and steles, sculpture murals, ancient pagodas and ancient tombs, Buddhist and Taoist shrines, dangerous castles and revolutionary cultural relics. From north to south, it constitutes an ancient and modern cultural landscape in Shanxi.
By the end of 20 13, there were 452 national key cultural relics protection units in Shanxi province.
Wutai Mountain in Xinzhou is one of the four Buddhist holy places. Yungang Grottoes in Datong is one of the three major Buddhist grottoes. Hengshan Mountain in Beiyue, Datong is one of the five mountains in China. Hanging Temple is the only temple in China that integrates Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. The ancient city of Pingyao in Jinzhong is one of the three existing ancient cities; Yuncheng Jiezhou Guandi Temple is the largest martial temple.
Huangcheng Xiangfu, Qiaojia Courtyard, Qujia Courtyard, Wangjia Courtyard, Lijia Courtyard, Taigu Sanduotang, Changjia Manor, Shenjia Courtyard, Mengmen Ancient Town and Kong Xiangxi Former Residence are the representatives of Shaanxi residential buildings.