Xiang Explained

Xiang or Hsiang may refer to:

• Xiang (place), the site of Hong Xiuquan's destruction of a Chinese idol early in the Taiping Rebellion
• Xiang (surname), three unrelated surnames: Chinese: 項 and Chinese: 向 (both Xiàng) and Chinese: 相 (Xiāng)
• Xiang Chinese, a group of Chinese varieties spoken in Hunan
• Xiang Island (simplified Chinese: 响沙; traditional Chinese: 響沙; pinyin: Xiǎngshā), a former island in the Yangtze estuary now forming part of Chongming Island in Shanghai
• Xiang River, river in South China
• Hunan, abbreviated in Chinese as 湘 (Xiāng), a province of China
• Xiang, capital of the Shang dynasty during the reign of He Dan Jia

People with the name

Xiang

• Half-brother of legendary Chinese leader Emperor Shun
• Xiang of Xia (3rd millennium BC), fifth ruler of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty
• Duke Xiang of Song (died 637 BC), a ruler of Sòng in the Spring and Autumn period
• Duke Xiang of Jin (died 621 BC), a ruler of Jin
• King Xiang of Zhou (died 619 BC), king of the Zhou dynasty
• Liu Xiang (disambiguation)

Hsiang

• Mina Hsiang (born 1981), administrator of the United States Digital Service
• Solomon Hsiang, scientist and economist
• Wu-Chung Hsiang (born 1935), Chinese-American mathematician
• (born 1937), Chinese-American mathematician; see Kepler conjecture

See also

• Xiang Army raised in Hunan by Zeng Guofan during the Qing dynasty
• Townships of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan (simplified Chinese: 乡; traditional Chinese: 鄉; pinyin: xiāng)