Why is Xiangyang dialect very similar to Jingzhou dialect?

Xiangyang and Jingzhou are geographically close.

Due to geographical proximity, Xiangyang and Nanyang have been more closely linked since ancient times. At the same time, Xiangyang is adjacent to Shaanxi and influenced by Guanzhong dialect, so the accent has become a combination of Henan dialect and Shaanxi dialect. In the Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu once commented that Xiangyang people spoke clearly about the taste of Chinese dialects. "Xiangyang people are happy, and Hanbin Qianzhai is easy to understand. The language is slightly lighter than Qin, and Nantong is in Guangxi. "

Jingzhou is divided into seven counties. The northernmost is Nanyang County, which is an example of Zhuge Liang's' I devote myself to Nanyang'.

Geographically speaking, the lower part of Nanyang County (to the south) is Nanjun, and the governing place of Nanjun (the center of a country is called the capital, and the center of a county is called the governing place) is in Jiangling, which is the Jiangling of Li Bai's poem "A thousand miles away in Jiangling, and it will be returned in one day".

Xiangyang is the northernmost part of Nanjun, belonging to Nanjun, at the junction of Nanjun and Nanyang. Xiangyang is an important town in the Three Kingdoms. If Jingzhou is a battleground for military strategists, then Xiangyang is its top priority.