Hunanese people

Hunanese people
湖湘民系/湘人/湘語人 Shiōn'nỳ nin
Two Hunannese men counting brass coins in Changde, circa 1900-1919.
Total population
38,149,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
China Mainland ChinaHunan
Northeastern Guangxi
parts of Guizhou
Taiwan Republic of China on TaiwanAs a small part of Mainlander population of Taiwan island
Languages
Xiang Chinese
Mandarin Chinese
Religion
Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Chinese folk religion

The Hunanese people or Xiang-speaking Chinese (Chinese: 湖湘民系; pinyin: Huxiang minxi; Xiang Chinese: 湘語人 Shiōn'nỳ nin) are a Xiang-speaking Han Chinese ethnic subgroup originating from Hunan province in Southern China,[2] but Xiang-speaking people are also found in the adjacent provinces of Guangxi and Guizhou.

  1. ^ "Han Chinese, Xiang in China" Joshua Project
  2. ^ Original from the University of Michigan Digitized Dec 21, 2006 Levinson, David; Christensen, Karen (2002). Encyclopedia of modern Asia, Volume 6. Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-684-31247-7. Retrieved February 29, 2012. XIANG The term "Xiang" refers to the people and the local sublanguage used in Hunan, a province in southeast-central China; Xiang is derived from the older literary name of Hunan. It is estimated that more than 25 million Chinese (most of them living in Hunan