There are so many people in Shenzhen, why do you seldom see people who speak Cantonese?

There are many people who speak Mandarin in Shenzhen, and some who only speak Cantonese are older. People in Guangzhou are generally more sensitive, but those who stay in Guangzhou are people who like to develop at home. They have houses at home and there are many locals nearby, so it is normal to say Cantonese. Shenzhen natives are also divided into several dialect areas, including Cantonese, Hakka and Chaoshan dialect. However, most people in Shenzhen are immigrants from other places! The communication between immigrants from all over the world can only be achieved through Mandarin! Don't expect tens of millions of people from other places to learn the pronunciation of millions of people.

In the early 1980s, Cantonese was still very popular in Shenzhen, occupying a strong position. On the one hand, Shenzhen itself is the edge of Cantonese, and it is semi-Hakka and semi-Cantonese, so it has the foundation to speak Cantonese. Moreover, in the 1980s and 1990s, Hong Kong's culture was very strong, and the mainland was watching TV movies from Hong Kong and Taiwan, so Cantonese was very popular. As the nearest city to Hong Kong, Shenzhen is inevitably influenced by the culture of Hong Kong, and it is also common to speak Cantonese.

There are many floating people in different places, so they can only speak Mandarin, otherwise they really don't understand. In Hong Kong, which is near Shenzhen, Cantonese has always been maintained because Hong Kong people have a strong sense of their mother tongue. It can be said that it is difficult to move in Hong Kong without Cantonese, mostly because of self-confidence. This self-confidence is not a sense of superiority, but because they want to preserve the language and culture left by their predecessors. Bian Xiao believes that everyone should be proud of their local cultural characteristics, but now many locals don't think so. When Bian Xiao said this, he actually called on everyone to have the awareness of protecting their dialects.

There are people from all provinces in Shenzhen, not only from Guangdong, but also from Hunan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan and other provinces. There are many Hunan restaurants and Sichuan restaurants in Shenzhen. These migrants themselves can't speak Cantonese, and 10 people who haven't studied Cantonese for more than 20 years can be found everywhere. Shenzhen itself is on the edge of Cantonese, so there are more people who speak Hakka, and the cultural foundation of Cantonese is not so strong.