Hunanese people
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 38,149,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Mainland China
|
Hunan Northeastern Guangxi parts of Guizhou |
 Republic of China on Taiwan
|
As a small part of Mainlander population of Taiwan island |
| Languages | |
| Xiang Chinese | |
| Religion | |
| Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Chinese folk religion | |
The Xiang-speaking Chinese or Hunanese people (Chinese: 湖湘民系; pinyin: Huxiang minxi; Xiang Chinese: 湘語人 Shiāen'ỳ nin) are a Xiang-speaking Han ethnic subgroup originating from Hunan province in Southern China, but Xiang-speaking people are also found in the adjacent provinces of Guangxi and Guizhou.
Hunanese people are often associated with political revolutions.
The 19th and 20th century renaissance of Hunan centered around the revival in the ideas of Wang Fuzhi, a seventeenth-century scholar who had advocated for "Western" ideas of progress, humanism, and nationalism. Local reformers considered themselves as successors of Wang Fuzhi's ideas, and the movement culminated in the 1920s with the Hunanese independence movement, led by future Communist Party of China General Secretary Mao Zedong.
The Xiang Army, commanded Zeng Guofan, was instrumental in defeating the Taiping Rebellion. Hunan-born Huang Xing was the leader of the Wuchang Uprising, the first successful uprising against the Qing dynasty and the first army commander-in-chief of the Republic of China. Three of the "Big Five" original Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China members were from Hunan.
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