- Many people know that the city flower of Shanghai is “Magnolia denudata”, but few people know that the former city flower of Shanghai was “cotton”.
- When meeting strangers, people in Shanghai generally call young women “little girl” and older women “aunt”. Expressions like “sister” and “big sister” are not the way people in Shanghai address others.
- Tongji University was established by Germans. And it was formerly called “Deutsch University”. The origin of the name Tongji University is because “Deutsch” in German is a transliteration of Shanghai dialect.
- The average salary of people in Shanghai is lower than the average salary of Shanghai. But local people in Shanghai are all richer than people in Shanghai.
- There is a Shanghai license plate that cannot enter downtown Shanghai, that is, license plate “Hu C”. Except for this license plate, all other license plates can enter downtown Shanghai.
- Shanghai has roads named after all provinces in the country, but there is 唯独 no road named after Anhui.
- The Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower is very famous and was also the tallest building in Shanghai at that time. So much so that people forgot about the Shanghai Tower.
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Xi’an Jiao Tong University are like brothers, very close ones. Because they were originally one school. Due to some reasons, they operate in two places.
- A small part of Chongming Island, the third largest island in China, does not belong to Shanghai but to Nantong in neighboring Jiangsu Province. Moreover, Chongming Island is still growing day by day. Soon it will become an island that is no longer an island.
- Pudong New Area actually has plane tickets to Hongqiao Airport. And the ticket price is only 80 yuan. As the richest city in the country, perhaps only Shanghai can achieve flying within its own territory.
- The founder of Chongqing Stewed Chicken Pot, Zhang Chongqing, is from Shanghai. So strictly speaking, Chongqing Stewed Chicken Pot should be a Shanghai dish.
- Shanghai is the city with the second most 985 universities after Beijing in the country. There are four 985 universities in total. Nanjing and Wuhan, two major educational cities, only have two 985 universities each.
- People in Shanghai will intersperse a little Mandarin when speaking Shanghai dialect, rather than interspersing a little Shanghai dialect when speaking Mandarin.
- There is a special sauce for eating fried pork chops in Shanghai called Worcestershire sauce.
- The buses in Shanghai are particularly interesting. Generally, after the Mandarin announcement, there will be another announcement in Shanghai dialect.
- Fudan Middle School, Fudan University, and the High School Affiliated to Fudan University are very interesting. Ordinary people can’t figure out what the relationship between them is. In fact, it’s easy to understand. The High School Affiliated to Fudan University is the own son of Fudan University. And Fudan University is the own elder brother of Fudan Middle School.
- In Shanghai, the elderly are even better at playing with funds than young people.
- People in Shanghai can’t afford houses in Shanghai at all. Don’t ask why. Just look at the average salary and average housing price in Shanghai.
- In the mouths of people in Shanghai, there is no word “baozi”. They usually call baozi “meat steamed bun” or “vegetable steamed bun”.