Why is Shangrao dialect like Shanghai dialect?

Because it belongs to Wu dialect. Shangrao dialect, generally referring to Shangrao urban dialect, belongs to Wu dialect.

Shangrao belonged to Yangzhou in ancient times, and it was the land of wuyue in the Spring and Autumn Period. It has been more than 700 years since Poyang County was established in Zhang Yu County during the Jian 'an period of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Shangrao dialect belongs to Wu dialect family and has a long history. Shangrao dialect (cavity) has soft morphemes, beautiful phonemes, easy to understand and beautiful expression.

The dialogue between Shangrao people and Shangrao people is like a punch line. To outsiders, it sounds like a leisurely and wonderful duet in Wu dialect. If Shangrao people meet Shangrao people in other places, a few words of Shangrao dialect will evoke the feelings of hometown, which can be described as: fellow villagers meet fellow villagers, wow Shangrao dialect.

Jiangxi dialect:

In addition to Gan dialect, Hakka dialect, Jianghuai Mandarin, Southwest Mandarin, Wu dialect and Hui dialect, there are some modern immigrants from other provinces who speak different dialects, mainly Min dialect, scattered in several counties in northeast Jiangxi. After the liberation of Xin 'anjiang Reservoir, many Wu-speaking Zhejiang immigrants moved to some counties in Jiangxi, mainly in the northeast of Jiangxi.

The minority language is Yao. There are about 200 people in Qianshan Village, Zhushan Township, quannan county, who speak Yao and local Hakka. Other ethnic minorities in Jiangxi Province, mainly She people, can't speak their own minority languages, but only speak the local Chinese dialect.