Why do people in Guangdong and Hong Kong often call someone "XXX"?

Because it is fluent and friendly, and it has the function of emphasizing explanation. Moreover, many places in China have such oral habits, which can be regarded as a national feature. This is only because Cantonese is widely used in Guangdong and Hong Kong.

Adding "A" can make people feel kind and close the distance. In Cantonese, for example, when brothers and sisters are chatting, they often say "grandma", "dad" and "sister", and those who call grandparents will have "grandma grandpa". Used as a title before some people's surnames, first names, nicknames and official titles, it often has a certain emotional color or condescending relationship.

There is also to emphasize, better explain to others, easy to describe, used to refer to a certain type of people, meaning "people ...". In daily conversation, sometimes I want the other person to know more about who he is talking about. I will add "A" before his name. For example, "doctor" refers to a doctor and "taxi" refers to a taxi driver.

For example, the former crown of the ancient famous minister "A": Alian (younger brother, Hui Lian, the younger brother of Xie Lingyun in the Southern Song Dynasty, is very talented, and people call him Alian together with Xie Lingyun); Adu (originally referred to as Du's concubine of Zhou Panlong, later another name for concubine); Gillian (the nickname of Empress Chen of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty; Generally refers to beauty); Amon (Monroe, the famous Wu in the Three Kingdoms); A Shen (fine print of Cao Cao in Three Kingdoms).

Extended data:

Cantonese style features: A large number of ancient elements of China have been preserved.

Standard Cantonese/Cantonese Cantonese dialect has many archaic sounds. There are many ancient words, ancient meanings and quaint expressions in Cantonese, and many words in Cantonese, including modal particles, can be directly found in ancient books in China. In the northern dialect of China, these archaic words have been abandoned or rarely used. Are there any grammatical items such as postmodifiers and inverted sentences in Cantonese? .

In addition, modern Cantonese still tends to use monosyllabic words which are dominant in ancient Chinese. Some words that are regarded as popular by Cantonese speakers can be found in ancient books. Guangdong, which is located in a corner, is rarely in war and has not been affected by too many wars, so it has always retained the language and culture of Han and Tang Dynasties.

Today, the phonetic system of Guangdong dialect has a very strict correspondence with the phonetic system of Sui and Tang Dynasties, that is, the phonetic system of Qieyun (medieval phonetic system), that is, the phonetic characteristics of Guangdong dialect today are very close to those of Chinese in Sui and Tang Dynasties. The first official authoritative work of phonology and prosody in China's history, Guang Yun (full name: Rebuilding Guang Yun in the Great Song Dynasty), in which the pronunciation of the words marked is highly consistent with the current Cantonese.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Cantonese

People's Daily Online-Have you ever heard Jiaxu sung in Cantonese?