Foreign friends obviously prefer Guangzhou, and they are more intimate with Guangzhou and even Guangdong. This is due to the fact that since the end of the Song Dynasty, the Han people in the southeast coastal areas went to Nanyang, among which Guangfu, Minnan (including Chaoshan) and Hakkas were the main forces. Because the main force was Cantonese, most overseas Chinese chose to use Cantonese as the common language in the early days. Most foreigners first came into contact with China culture and China dialect, so this is true. As for what a pure Cantonese is, it is not objective. In fact, there is no such thing as a pure Cantonese. Take Guangzhou as an example. At least 10 tens of thousands of people stayed in Guangzhou when the People's Liberation Army's Fourth Field Army went south. Today, many "authentic" Cantonese people are "fishing loose" (that is, "man"). Therefore, there are no pure Cantonese, but no matter where they come from, Guangdong, especially Guangzhou, has integrated these people with a unique culture, including "new Guangzhou people", which can be regarded as the authentic Cantonese culture.
Cantonese people are very famous for their food. To put it mildly, it is called food in Guangzhou, while other provincial capitals say that Cantonese people eat everything, flying in the sky and swimming in the water, which has almost become a knowledge and a stalk. For example, the famous Cantonese people eat Fujian people, which makes people laugh and cry. Let's talk about Cantonese Mandarin, some of which are embarrassing. As the saying goes, I am afraid that Cantonese people will speak. I have to say that since my nine-year obligation, my Mandarin in Guangdong has been good. What's more, I can't even speak local words, but Mandarin is a thief. Besides, Cantonese is an older language, and it became Mandarin only a few votes away. How dare you be sarcastic? Guangdong is a desert of culture. This is what the teacher said in class the year before last. I won't refute this.
In the early days of reform and opening up, a large number of migrant workers from other provinces flooded into Guangdong, and they were strangers and unaccompanied. In a difficult situation. There is natural affection in the world, and it is the locals who help them, without discrimination, helping them to contact their jobs and enthusiastically helping migrant workers from other provinces. Therefore, Cantonese people are tolerant and enthusiastic. Local young people, diligent and hardworking, create unlimited wealth by their own hands. If you don't go out to work hard, you will be idle all day and rely on others. People say that you are a loser. Diligence and hard work are a major feature of local people. Food, clothing, housing and transportation, in our place, every household basically owns a car, and every family builds a new building. Life is booming. In the morning, three or five confidants went out to the teahouse to sigh early English, one method and two pieces, sighing all the world. Cantonese cuisine is full of color, flavor and freshness, which is the essence of Cantonese cuisine. Whether it's chicken, duck or fish, it's alive and kicking. Advocating natural flavor, chicken, goose and duck are mainly chopped in white, fish and shrimp are mainly steamed, and the food is accompanied by ginger, onion and garlic. It's delicious. I once invited friends from the north to dinner, including boiled chicken, steamed sea bass and steamed prawns. Tail keel stew. Mingyou dialect in the north, your dishes are tasteless and tasteless, not as good as fried chicken with Chili in my hometown. I am speechless, the food culture is different.
Nowadays, the gift money for marrying a wife in the northern region should be weighed by scales, and the gift money should be 3 Jin and 3 Liang, which is equivalent to RMB150,000 yuan. In Guangdong, it is not so "practical". As long as both men and women are congenial, when they get married, the man gives the woman a gift at will, or 13888 yuan, 18888 yuan. More gifts are 33,388 yuan and 38,888 yuan. The woman doesn't care about how much money is, but only wants the two to love each other. My friend graduated from college, and his girlfriend is a classmate. When he was going to get married, his girlfriend's parents let it out. According to local customs and rules, the gift money should be 3 kg 3, and his daughter would not be allowed to marry without paying. My friend made a careful calculation. Oh, my God, it costs150,000 yuan. That's not selling girls, right? Helpless, it's a local cultural custom to discuss with my father. Since the two love each other, it doesn't matter how much the gift is. The difference between Guangdong local culture and northern culture is measured in terms of money. The money worship culture in the north is relatively strong, so a little bit of money is focused on marrying a daughter.