What's the difference between Shanghai natives and Shanghainese?

1. Life activity track: Shanghainese mainly live in urban areas, while locals basically live in suburbs.

Shanghainese grow up in the urban area of Shanghai, and their growth environment is basically completely influenced by the urban residents' environment. The local people were born and raised in the suburbs.

2. Ancestor origin: The ancestors of Shanghainese are basically descendants of immigrants 49 years ago. The ancestors of local people mainly live in the suburbs of Shanghai, and their families generally own homesteads. Their ancestors were basically from the suburbs of Shanghai.

3. Common languages: Southern Jiangsu and Southern Zhejiang dialects in Wu dialect area (Shanghai dialect); Songjiang dialect, Jinshan dialect, Chongming dialect, etc (locals). Shanghainese can speak Shanghainese (in fact, many words are similar in pronunciation to Suzhou dialect and Ningbo dialect). For Shanghainese, dialects from southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang, both from Wu dialect areas, may be relatively better understood.

Shanghai people's household registration

A person who was born in Shanghai and obtained a Shanghai hukou can only be called a Shanghai hukou. Only when someone's great-grandfather or above-at least the fourth-generation ancestor's permanent residence is within the scope of Shanghai today, can someone be called a Shanghainese.

In the eyes of Shanghainese, the real "natives" are earlier, referring to the aborigines who settled in the box in the old town of Nancheng, Yuan Hua Street in the core of Shanghai in 1843. Most people in Shanghai have registered in other places (mainly in Jiangsu and Zhejiang) for more than three generations.