Why do northerners generally think that Cantonese is Cantonese?

Cantonese is a dialect originated in Guangdong. Cantonese in Guangdong is the representative pronunciation of Cantonese. Its native speakers in Guangdong account for about 45% of the local people in Guangdong. The other two major dialects in Guangdong - Min dialect and Hakka respectively account for about 45% of the local people in Guangdong. 43% and 25% of people. And because Guangzhou is the provincial capital of Guangdong, it is also the economic, political and cultural center of Guangdong. Its influence not only spreads throughout the province, but also affects many cities outside the province. Many migrant workers in Guangdong are mostly in vernacular areas such as Guangzhou and Dongguan. This makes people think that the language spoken by Cantonese people is Cantonese, so it is also commonly known as Cantonese. In addition, Hong Kong and Macao, two economically prosperous special administrative regions where Cantonese is the official language, can be used from daily exchanges between citizens, to school education, industrial and commercial industries, to government offices, Legislative Council elections; to scientific research, news media, and mass entertainment. , Cantonese has an absolute dominance (in addition to Cantonese, English is also more popular). Among the Chinese language family, apart from Mandarin, Cantonese is the language that has been relatively successfully developed into a full-function language. At the same time, the prosperity of Hong Kong's mass media and entertainment industry has given Cantonese a very strong influence across the country and even overseas. Overseas, since a large proportion of immigrants come from Cantonese-speaking areas, Cantonese has become one of the most popular languages ??in most overseas Chinese communities.

Therefore, let alone northerners, it is not surprising that even most areas in the south think that Cantonese is Cantonese. However, it is not scientific to think that Cantonese is Cantonese, because the local Chinese in Guangdong includes Cantonese, Hakka, Chaoshan dialect, Leizhou dialect, Shaozhou dialect, etc. Among them, except Tu dialect, the others belong to Cantonese among the seven major dialects of Chinese. Dialects, Hakka dialects and Min dialects, the native speakers of these three major dialects account for about 45%, 30% and 25% of the local people in Guangdong. There are also quite a few speakers of Guangdong Min dialect and Hakka dialect. Bi Yi said that it is not scientific to think that Cantonese is Cantonese.