The Aesthetic value of Chinese dialect

Chinese dialects have more than 3000 years of history and are divided into mainly 4 types of that often speak by Malaysian Chinese are Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka and Teochew. These dialects came from our ancestor that came from different part of china, it is our mother tongue. We usually speak among family or friends, this would make our relation of friends and family getting closer, it would let us feel familiar. Nowadays Malaysian Chinese mainly are using lingua franca to communicate with people, and if we do not preserve we might lost it forever. Although using lingua franca is easier to communicate with but we lose our identity of Chinese. Most of the younger generation is not learning the dialects of their own, and their parents are not teaching them to speak.

Speaking of Chinese dialects is not just to get closer to people but it is also the Chinese culture. In Cantonese there are divided into 3 subgroup that is Guangfu, Sei Yap and Guangxi and it is a little different and this is the unique point of Chinese culture. Dialect is also history from china that preserved and circulated by our ancestry. Beside that Chinese dialects not just spoken by Chinese it also spoke by many races in Malaysia. In some of the country’s Chinese had lost their root of Chinese dialects and their surname also changed. In conclusion, if we do not preserve our dialects and hand down to our younger generation, we will lose our Chinese identity and culture. Chinese is not Chinese anymore if we do not speak our own dialect.

Justification of Research

I want to do this research because I want to promote the usage of Chinese dialect in Malaysia and to show the values to preserve and to pass down to the next generation.