@@caspar1031 No! Mandarin (Pu Tung Hua) was created thousand years ago in order to standardize a common language for all Chinese people to communicate in China. Actually, that is no point to count by time and ages, we should face the facts, the reality, forget the ancient old cultural, follow the current trend, new culture, up date our knowledge in every thing. No matter how, Mandarin is the whole China's (Including Hong Kong and Taiwan) Chinese National Official language which has been selected , legalized, authorized, registered and approved by the education and cultural departments of Chinese Government, they are in charge, only they have the rights. We have no rights at all. Please look at the Chinese Schools in the world, almost all of them are teaching in Mandarin. Hong Kong's majority Cantonese group took the best chance to make their own dialect to be one of the official languages of colony Hong Kong when mainland China was under the domination of weak and dying Manchurian, they were not Chinese ethnic, so they did not stop this, and they were forced to lease or give Hong Kong island to the British's White ethnic. This was a Super Big shame in Chinese History. Cantonese party is far fat too selfish, always dream of forming their own Cantonese country, they looked down and bullied their same race of of Chinese people in other provinces, extremally proud, thought that they are the best of Chinese people, this is far beyond normal selfishness and mentality. Based on many other countries people, most of them said that Mandarin sounds much official, grace, high class and formal than Cantonese, Hakka, Teo Chow, etc. Check it out on the internet. Cantonese never has a country's official legalized status, why Cantonese people refused to accept and always want to fight and challenge with Mandarin? Why Other provinces of China never think like that? This is a very stupid thinking and dream.