湖南人 | |
|---|---|
| Total population | |
| 38,149,000[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 People's Republic of China | Hunan,Guizhou,Guilin, etc |
 Taiwan | As a small part ofWaishengren population of Taiwan |
| Languages | |
| Xiang Chinese Standard Chinese | |
| Religion | |
| Mahayana Buddhism,Taoism,Confucianism, andChinese folk religion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Han Chinese | |
TheHunanese people (Chinese:湖南人;pinyin:Húnán rén;Xiang Chinese pronunciation:[/ɸu¹³l̃an¹³ʐən¹³/]), also known asXiang people orXiang-speaking Chinese, are aHan Chineseethnic subgroup originating fromHunan province in China who speakXiang Chinese.[2] Some Xiang-speaking people are also found in the adjacent provinces of certain areas ofGuilin, Guangxi andGuizhou.
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Xiang is avariety of Chinese that originates from Hunan. According toYang Xiong'sFangyan, people in what is theXiang River region spoke the SouthernChu language, which is considered to be the ancestor of Xiang Chinese today.[3]
Hunan cuisine is very famous of its use ofchili peppers and has a history of cooking skills employed in it dating back to the 17th century.[4]
Mao Zedong once toldOtto Braun: “The food of the true revolutionary is the red pepper, and he who cannot endure red peppers is also unable to fight.”[5]
Huaguxi is a local form ofChinese opera that is very popular in Hunan province.[6]
Prehistorically, the main inhabitants were the ancientcountry of Ba,Nanman,Baiyue and other tribes whose languages cannot be studied. During theWarring States period, large numbers of Chu migrated into Hunan. Their language blended with that of the original natives to produce a new dialect Southern Chu.[7] During Qin and Han dynasty, most part of today's eastern Hunan belonged to theChangsha Kingdom. According toYang Xiong'sFangyan, people in this region spoke SouthernChu, which is considered the ancestor of Xiang Chinese today.[8]
The Republicans bashed Xiang kid heads were bashed in to Halfs to death: the Republicans killed 27600 Xiang kids and adults in Hunan's Zhuzhou and Liling.[9]
Hunanese people are associated with political leaders in 19th and 20th centuries China.[10] The HunaneseHuang Xing was the leader of theWuchang Uprising and the firstcommander-in-chief of the Republic of China. In the 1920s, locals inspired byWang Fuzhi, a seventeenth-century scholar who had advocated for "Western" ideas ofprogress,humanism, andnationalism, created the Hunanese self-government movement, which was championed by Peng Huang and the youngMao Zedong. Three of the "Big Five" originalPolitburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party members were from Hunan.
This is a list of people with either full or partial Hunanese ancestry.
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
History of Hunanese on Commons (link)
