1. Shenzhen is a city that does not speak Cantonese:

1. The "Shenzhen generation" does not speak Cantonese:

Since 1978, our country has officially Implement the national policy of "reform internally and open to the outside world". Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shantou, Hainan, and Xiamen also took the lead in establishing pilot special economic zones in 1978. At that time, people from all over the country were full of passion and yearning for the newly established Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, and groups of people traveled thousands of miles to Shenzhen regardless of their own safety. These are the earliest "Shenzhen people" and the so-called "Shenzhen generation"!

When the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone was established, it was only 327.5 square kilometers. Shenzhen City is also divided into "inside the customs" and "outside the customs". When the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone was first established, there were very few locals in Shenzhen, not even many Cantonese. The largest number of people at that time were people from various provinces across the country. This is also the "deep generation", the initial population composition ratio! Therefore, what the "deep generation" at that time spoke most was not their respective hometown dialects, nor the unique Cantonese of Guangdong, but Mandarin. This may be the historical root or historical tradition of Shenzhen’s current dislike of speaking Cantonese.

2. The "Second Generation Shenzhen" do not speak Cantonese:

The earliest "First Generation Shenzhen" came to Shenzhen in 1978, and most of the "First Generation Shenzhen" came to Shenzhen in 1980 Later I went to Shenzhen. The "Shenzhen generation" who were the first to come to Shenzhen are the luckiest. The Shenzhen Special Economic Zone at that time was like the current Xiongan New District in Hebei Province. Large-scale construction was going on everywhere, and construction started 24 hours a day. The "deep generation" at that time were smart enough to run a small business and make money selling anything; it didn't matter if they were honest and honest, as long as you were willing to work, you could earn a lot of money. At that time, housing prices in Shenzhen were extremely cheap. Many "Shenzhen Generation" people bought their houses between 1980 and 1999, and many "Shenzhen Generation" people bought and repaid several houses.

Most of the children of the "deep generation" were born between 1980 and 1999. This is the so-called "deep second generation"! Although most of the "Second Generation" people grew up and lived in Shenzhen since childhood, they rarely speak Cantonese and rarely lack Cantonese. The "Second Generation Shenzhen" are deeply influenced by their parents, the "First Generation Shenzhen", because most of their parents "The First Generation Shenzhen" came to Shenzhen and were accustomed to speaking Mandarin; the "Second Generation Shenzhen" were also deeply influenced by the culture of Shenzhen at that time. The influence of the language environment was because Shenzhen had already formed the habit of speaking Mandarin at that time.

3. The “third generation” do not speak Cantonese:

Most of the “second generation” were born between 1980 and 1999. As for the "deep third generation", most of them were born between 2000 and 2021. Compared with the "deep generation" and "deep generation", the new "deep third generation" are luckier and happier. Because most of the "third generation" people are already sitting on tens of millions or hundreds of millions of assets as soon as they are born. Nowadays, a house in Shenzhen costs tens of millions of yuan, and families of the "third generation" generally own several houses. But the lucky and happy "Three Generations" don't speak Cantonese either.

If it is not surprising that the “first generation” does not speak Cantonese, it is not surprising that the “second generation” does not speak Cantonese. So it is not surprising that the "deep third generation" does not speak Cantonese. Of course, "Three Generations from Shenzhen" will also be embarrassed when talking to Cantonese people: Sorry, I don't speak Cantonese...

4. "New Shenzhen people" are the same Don’t speak Cantonese either:

There is a classic saying in Shenzhen: When you come, you are a Shenzhen native. It is this sentence that attracts countless people across the country to come to Shenzhen despite all the difficulties and become "new Shenzhen people". However, the "Shenzhen generation" who first came to Shenzhen did not speak Cantonese, and the new generation "Shenzhen second generation" and "Shenzhen third generation" did not speak Cantonese. Even the "new Shenzhen people" who came to Shenzhen later did not speak Cantonese either. Speak Cantonese.

The "new Shenzhen people" don't speak Cantonese, but they are actually easy to understand. Because the "new Shenzhen people" and the "Shenzhen generation" are the same, they come from all over the country. And people all over the country have their own dialects. When they come to Shenzhen and become "new Shenzhenites", it is naturally impossible for them to continue to speak the original dialect, but it is also impossible to speak Cantonese. Because the "new Shenzhen people" do not speak Cantonese in the first place, they do not speak Cantonese, so the "new Shenzhen people" can only speak Mandarin.

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2. Shenzhen, why not speak Cantonese:

1. Shenzhen people speak Mandarin:

Shenzhen people live in Guangdong Instead of speaking Cantonese, they mainly speak Mandarin. It seems as if Mandarin is specially designed for Shenzhen people, as if Shenzhen people are born to speak Mandarin, and as if Shenzhen people are born not to speak Cantonese like other cities in Guangdong. Nowadays, Shenzhen uses Mandarin as the mainstream language, which seems very strange among many cities in Guangdong. However, after a long time, it feels so natural.

2.? Shenzhen people speak Hakka

Shenzhen people also speak Hakka, because before Shenzhen became a special economic zone, Shenzhen at that time was in a "half Cantonese and half Hakka" "state. Although the number of Cantonese-speaking people in Shenzhen has decreased significantly, the number of Hakka-speaking people has not decreased much. Most of the urban villages in eastern Shenzhen were once Hakka villages, and they still insist on speaking Hakka.

3.? Shenzhen people speak Chaoshan dialect

Shenzhen people also speak Chaoshan dialect. Although there were very few Chaoshan villages in Shenzhen before the reform and opening up, the Chaoshan people flocked to Shenzhen after the reform and opening up. But there are so many people. In the Chaoshan area, the first choice place for Chaoshan people to go out to work, do business, and live is not the provincial capital Guangzhou, but the special economic zone Shenzhen. This has caused the Chaoshan people living in Shenzhen to gradually accumulate into a huge group, and thus there are a large number of Chaoshan people speaking Chaoshan dialect in Shenzhen.

4. Shenzhen people rarely speak Cantonese:

Shenzhen people speak Mandarin, Hakka, Chaoshan dialect, and even many Shenzhen people also speak Hunan dialect. But people in Shenzhen rarely speak Cantonese, or in other words, fewer and fewer people in Shenzhen speak Cantonese. Nowadays, in the traditional Cantonese-speaking urban areas of Shenzhen, such as Luohu District, Futian District, Nanshan District, etc., fewer and fewer people speak Cantonese. As there is less and less Cantonese-speaking environment in Shenzhen, there are fewer and fewer Cantonese-speaking people in Shenzhen.