Xiangxiang dialect is popular in the ancient Xiangxiang area, including Xiangxiang City, Shuangfeng County, Louxing District and a part of Lianyuan (1952 used to be a county). According to the investigation, Xiangxiang dialect is one of the two oldest preserved ancient sayings, and Xiangxiang dialect belongs to the ancient Chu dialect. The representatives who speak Xiang dialect are Zeng Guofan, Mao Zedong (who studied in Xiangxiang, whose mother is from Xiangxiang), Cai Hesen, Chen Geng (one of the top ten generals), Tan Zheng (one of the top ten generals), Huang Gonglue (one of the 36 plans) and so on. Xiangxiang dialect has been mentioned as the national language twice. The first time was Zeng Guofan. At that time, Empress Dowager Cixi had agreed, but because Zeng Guofan was too busy with his official duties, all of them died without taking out the pinyin scheme! What a pity! The second time, during the Cultural Revolution, someone flattered and suggested using Hunan accent as the standard pronunciation, but Mao Zedong made no comment. Because Xiangxiang dialect is too difficult, and grandpa Mao knows it! [1-2] Although Xiangxiang dialect belongs to Xiang dialect, it is quite different from New Xiang dialect. The new Xiang dialect is represented by Changsha dialect, and its pronunciation is mainly unvoiced. However, it has been greatly eroded by the southwest mandarin, so it is not difficult to understand the new Hunan dialect represented by Changsha dialect. But Xiangxiang dialect is different. Xiangxiang dialect "has different sounds in ten miles and different languages in a hundred miles". I am an iron man in Xiangxiang County, Hunan Province. Because there are many migrant workers here, there are many different dialects mixed together. After a long time, I can speak. However, it is far from the authentic Xiangxiang dialect, and I can't understand it when talking to local people. After not studying in our factory's school, I just started a semester in another school, and all kinds of dialects are rampant, and I can hardly understand them. Old Xiangxiang people can understand Ningxiang dialect, Changsha dialect, Xiangtan dialect, Zhuzhou dialect and Yueyang dialect. On the other hand, they basically don't understand Xiangxiang dialect. Xiangtan and Ningxiang are still nearby counties, but they don't know anything about them. Hunan dialect is hard to imagine. Xiangxiang dialect is one of the most difficult dialects to understand and learn in China. Some people jokingly call it sad Fujian-Taiwan dialect and Chaoshan dialect! But now Xiangxiang dialect is under the constant impact of new Hunan dialect and Putonghua. Especially Mandarin. There are many words in my dialect in Mandarin now. For example, mom, who used to read "Mann" is now pronounced "momo", which means mom. Grandpa used to pronounce "ga ga", but now some places begin to call it "ya ya", which is grandpa's pronunciation in Hunan dialect. Other more nouns are imported from Putonghua. Words in Putonghua have begun to invade our Xiangxiang dialect. I think other dialects, too, are facing the erosion of Putonghua.

Loudi dialect, also known as Loudi dialect, is popular in Loudi area, including Loudi city, two market towns and eight towns in the suburbs. Loudi is located in the middle of Hunan Province, the middle reaches of Lianshui River, a tributary of Xiangjiang River. Loudi City consists of an old city and a new city, among which Changsha dialect is popular in the new city, and Loudi dialect is distributed in the old city and suburban towns such as Dake, Lianbin, Shijing, Mu Bai, Shanshan and Xiyang. Loudi dialect is roughly divided into three parts, Shuangjiang dialect and Xiaobi dialect; Tea garden, Wanbao dialect; Loudi Dialect Loudi Dialect has 24 initials and 40 finals.