[Nr9]

Those mandarin speaking chinese keep talking about their 5000 years from history when its widely known that the chinese spoken in the old days more closely resembles the Min languages. Yes, confucius spoke a variant of Min, the Tang dynasty poems were written in Min. The influence of Min in the old days is why Japanese, Korean, Thai, Tibetan etc among other languages from regions surrounding China have words that are similar to those in Min rather than Mandarin. Those Mandarin Chinese came afterwards and they take credit for everything the Min did. what losers they are.

[Lubaolong]

Uh, what?

[Nr9]

tang poems rhyme in min variants and not in mandarin. old chinese grammar is also closer to that of written min. the pekingnese conquered the min and then want to claim min history as their own.

[I Shoot Doubles]

What he said.

[Nietzsche13]

Confuscious say, man who post with dick in hand...

[Nr9]

and also why the english word for tea comes from the min nan word for tea

[Nietzsche13]

....take too long to type.

[Diomedes]

How about those Yankees huh?

[Lubaolong]

Originally Posted by Nr9

tang poems rhyme in min variants and not in mandarin. old chinese grammar is also closer to that of written min. the pekingnese conquered the min and then want to claim min history as their own.

Uh, I'm still not following. The Min language broke off from Old Chinese. Of course old Min writings would be similar to Old Chinese. And what does that have to do with anything anyway?

[Nr9]

Originally Posted by Lubaolong

Uh, I'm still not following. The Min language broke off from Old Chinese. Of course old Min writings would be similar to Old Chinese. And what does that have to do with anything anyway?

therefore the only true descendants of old chinese are min. therefore, mandarin han should not talk about their 5000 year history because they have none!