Fortune-telling in Chaling Dialect _ Spread in Chaling County Dialect

Is Hunan Province the province with the most dialects?

There is a prefecture-level city in Hunan Province called "Zhuzhou City", which is divided into urban area, Zhuzhou County, Liling City (county-level city), Youxian County, Chaling County and Yanling County. Among them, the dialects in urban areas and Zhuzhou County are called Zhuzhou Dialect, Liling Dialect, Youxian Dialect, Chaling Dialect and Yanling Dialect. The difference between any two of these five "XX dialects" is basically as great as that between "Mandarin and Cantonese". Even in the same "XX dialect", people in different towns and villages still have some differences in accent and vocabulary habits, and these differences are basically "incomprehensible and unpredictable". Take chestnuts for example. If a person in Youxian invites you to eat "elegant" rice, you have to ask what it is, because some towns and villages in Youxian say that "elegant" rice refers to lunch (dinner is called "Li Yafan" or "dim sum"), and some places say that "elegant rice" refers to dinner (lunch is called "lunch"). Give me another chestnut. If you learn "Uncle" from a person in Youxian County, OK, I remember it, and then the next time you meet another person in Youxian County, you also speak this "dialect", and the other person will probably "I don't understand what you are talking about at all" because he comes from a town and says "Uncle" in the dialect. I am an immortal, born and raised in Youxian, and my mother tongue is "Youxian dialect". Although I am not in Youxian now, there are a large number of people living in Youxian, which is a bit like walking in Youxian County (of course, Youxian County is not so prosperous and modern). I can only speak "Youxian dialect" most of the time. But there are still some "Youxian dialect" that I don't understand.