Some people say that the dialects in the north of the Yangtze River can basically communicate, while the dialects in the south are really very different and cannot communicate normally. Why?

The north has been the political center of China since ancient times and the economic center of China in ancient times. In the history of our country, due to the earlier "civilization" in the north, the opportunities and scope of communication between northerners are much higher than those of southerners. In ancient times, when the north was developed, the south was still barren and exiled prisoners.

Due to frequent communication in the north, a language that is easy to communicate and adopted by most people has been formed in various places. This is the so-called "Putonghua", which is the most widely used mother tongue of our people. According to statistics, over 70% of the population in China speaks Mandarin as their mother tongue.

Mandarin has the characteristics of universality and consistency, and most areas can communicate with each other except some areas in the south.

Modern standard Chinese, including the Mandarin of Taiwan Province Province and the Mandarin of the mainland, is based on the Beijing dialect in Mandarin. Mandarin is roughly divided into North China Mandarin, Northwest Mandarin, Southwest Mandarin and Jianghuai Mandarin.

They are represented by Beijing dialect, Chengdu dialect, Xi dialect and Yangzhou dialect. North China Mandarin and Northwest Mandarin are spoken in the east and west of North China respectively. Southwest Mandarin and Jianghuai Mandarin are used in the vast areas of southern China.

China does not speak Mandarin, but only speaks some dialect areas such as Wu, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Fujian and Hakka, representing a population of about 20, and the rest speak minority languages (such as Mongolian, Tibetan and Korean).

70% of the population north of the Yangtze River speaks Mandarin. The local dialects used by the remaining 30% of the population are only used in Wu, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Fujian, Hakka and ethnic minority areas. These dialects are complex and changeable, so it is difficult to communicate with each other. Therefore, it is not a problem to master the northern mandarin and communicate with 70% of the people in the country.