Cantonese: Why do you speak Cantonese? What about Sichuan dialect? What's your name? Four languages?

"Yue" and "Yue" are interchangeable words, which refer to Baiyue area in the south of China. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the meanings of these two words have begun to differ. The former is mostly used in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Wu-speaking areas, while the latter is mostly used in Lingnan and Guangdong, which has long been a general term for Lingnan areas. Historically, Guangdong and Guangxi were called "Guangdong", "East Guangdong" and "West Guangdong" in Guangxi. It was not until the Republic of China that "Guangdong" gradually narrowed its scope and became the abbreviation of Guangdong Province. Therefore, in different historical periods, "Guangdong" can be divided into broad sense (Lingnan) and narrow sense (only Guangdong Province). "East Guangdong" and "West Guangdong" have different reference ranges in different historical periods. The origin and maturity of Cantonese were long before the early division of Guangdong and Guangxi in the Song Dynasty. Therefore, as far as history and culture are concerned, "Cantonese" is actually "Lingnan language" in a broad sense, not "Cantonese" in particular. Just like English, it's not particularly British. Cantonese, English is cantone, and Japanese is also written as Yidong, which is commonly known as "Cantonese". Since ancient times, Guangdong and Guangxi have been connected by mountains and rivers, and people are connected. Guangdong and Guangxi were inseparable until the Song Dynasty. Cantonese was formed much earlier than in the Song Dynasty, which is why Cantonese is only popular in Guangdong and Guangxi. Academically, Cantonese is different from Cantonese. Cantonese refers to the Chinese language that originated in Xia Dynasty, that is, Cantonese. The word "Guangdong" in Cantonese comes from the abbreviation of "Guangdong Province", not the "Nanyue State" in ancient Lingnan, but the generalized "Guangdong" extended by later generations.