What accent do Shanghainese speak?

Shanghainese speak Wu dialect, also known as wuyue dialect, Jiangnan dialect and Jiangsu and Zhejiang dialect, which is a collection of languages derived from Middle and Upper Ancient Chinese in Sino-Tibetan language family.

It is mainly used by Wu-speaking immigrants in southern Jiangsu, China (except Nanjing and Zhenjiang), most parts of Shanghai, parts of southern Zhejiang and Anhui, northeastern Jiangxi and the northwest corner of Fujian, as well as Hong Kong and San Francisco.

Shanghai dialect is a Chinese dialect formed in the long history of Shanghai, which brings together the essence of wuyue Jiangnan language and culture and has a profound cultural accumulation. Shanghai dialect bears the echo of Shanghai's times, cultural blood and historical memory. Shanghai should inherit the essence of Shanghai's language and culture if it is to become a pearl of oriental culture with individual characteristics.

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Language and culture

Shanghai dialect is an important foundation of Shanghai local culture. Shanghai should have its own distinctive local cultural characteristics if it is to stand in the world and be different from other international cities in culture.

Language is not only a communication tool to exchange ideas and express feelings, but also a carrier of cultural information in each era. China's culture is profound because it has been multicultural since ancient times and always contains spiritual civilization created and accumulated by people from all over the world.

As the foundation of Shanghai's local culture, the language and culture of Shanghai region is the creation of one person in Shanghai and the contribution of Shanghainese to human multiculturalism. Inheriting Shanghai dialect means inheriting Shanghai's cultural genes.

Shanghai dialect is a dialect formed in the long history of Shanghai and has a profound cultural accumulation. Shanghai was originally located on the undeveloped beach of Wudi. After the opening of the port, Shanghai has rapidly developed into an international metropolis where five places blend and Chinese and Western cultures meet.

Shanghai dialect not only inherits the ancient phonetic, lexical and grammatical phenomena, but also reflects the cultural information of ancient Jiangdong. It has made great progress in the advantages of language hybridization after its opening to the outside world, bringing together all kinds of fine words, idioms and proverbs from agricultural society, industrial society, especially commercial society, and all kinds of words have developed colorful.

For example, developed business activities have led to a large number of business words such as "stealing", "selling", "locking up" and "pushing and pulling goods" entering Shanghai's daily life. Because of active thinking, a large number of idioms have appeared, such as showing off, closing bones, poking at the wall, scouring paste, seven meats and eight vegetarian dishes, etc. All of them are full of the whimsy of Shanghai culture, making Shanghai dialect a very culturally expressive dialect.