When Hong Kong's martial arts, movies, TV dramas and songs are on fire, it is precisely when Hong Kong's economy is stronger than that of the mainland. In the early 1990s, in my hometown in the northeast frontier of the motherland, I often heard the songs of beyond, Jacky Cheung and others, and saw the movies of Stephen Chow and Chow Yun Fat, but it was not easy to see the duet performance.
At present, Hong Kong's economy is not much stronger than that of the mainland, and Hong Kong stars also come to the mainland to make money, so Hong Kong movies and songs are gradually declining. Although Hong Kong has declined, Guangdong, opposite Hong Kong, has risen. We often say that Guangzhou, Guangzhou and Shenzhen are two of the four first-tier cities, and it is clear at a glance how well Guangdong's economy has developed.
With the rise of Guangdong's economy, Cantonese people gradually become self-confident in culture, and the ultimate of self-confidence is ignorance. When you are not confident, your ignorance will be buried in your heart. When you are confident, your ignorance will spring up like a spring.
When I was studying in Guangxi University in Nanning, several Guangxi-born college students told me this ignorant argument, saying that "only by reading Cantonese poems can you read the feeling of cadence". I also read James J.S.Wong's doctoral thesis "Musicality of Cantonese Nine Tones".
These statements are really ridiculous. Anyone who reads ancient poems in his hometown language in China can feel the beauty of music in the poems. People in Jiangsu and Zhejiang who use Wu dialect can feel it, and so can people in Northeast China. So, which languages are Cantonese, Wu dialect and Dongbei dialect?
The reason why we can feel the musical beauty of ancient poems when we read them aloud is not because we use Cantonese, Wu dialect or Northeast dialect, but because ancient poems have musical beauty! You can't feel the beauty of music when you read something without music in a language with musical beauty!
As for James J.S.Wong, it's also ridiculous. If Cantonese has nine tones, I also say that there are only seven tones in modern music and five tones in ancient music. The two or four extra sounds you have don't match the notes, so it's difficult to fill in the words. You are the only one who can argue, James J.S. Wang?
The reason why more and more people talk about the advantages of Cantonese is nothing more than professional problems such as linguistics. Many people have no right to speak at all, and the aborigines in Guangdong, an economically developed area, are naturally ignorant. However, due to their economic development, people have become very confident. They get carried away, get carried away, and raise Cantonese indefinitely for the sake of protecting their "mother tongue".