What does it mean to be called the old lady in Guangzhou?

Guangzhou's name "madam" is a kind of honorific title for the elderly mother-in-law. Here, she is older, equivalent to your grandparents' mother. Guangzhou dialect refers to the Chinese dialect used by the Han people in Guangdong, which is divided into three categories: Cantonese, Hakka, Min, Chaozhou and Leizhou.

Relevant materials of Guangzhou dialect

Cantonese, also known as Guangzhou dialect and Cantonese, is called vernacular and Hakka dialect by local people. Different places have different names, such as Hakka dialect, Suwon dialect, Ya dialect, etc. Min dialect mainly includes Chaozhou dialect, Xuelao dialect, Zhongshan Min dialect and Li dialect.

The source of Cantonese is the elegant language from the northern Central Plains and the Chu language of Chu State. Guang Yun, published in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, is the first official authoritative work on phonology and prosody in the history of China, which contains 36 initials and 206 finals.

Among them, Cantonese and Cantonese have 22 initials and 94 finals. Cantonese is a southern dialect that retains more elements of medieval Chinese, and its most prominent feature is that it completely retains the common entering tones in medieval Chinese.