Meizhou (梅州) is a prefecture-level city of eastern Guangdong Province in the south of the People's Republic of China. It has an area of 15,836 km², and a population of 4.8638 million. A prefecture-level city (地级市 Pinyin: d , literally region-level city) or prefecture-level municipality is an administrative division of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Guangdong (Simplified Chinese: 广东; Traditional Chinese: 廣東; pinyin: Guǎngdōng; Wade-Giles: Kuang-tung; Kwangtung in older transliteration; Cantonese: gwong2 dung1), is a province on the south coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ...

Meizhou Prefecture (in yellow)

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Administration

Meizhou has jurisdiction over the six counties of Meixian, Dapu, Fengshun, Wuhua, Pingyuan, and Jiaoling; the district of Meijiang, and the mandate for the city of Xingning. In the context of Political divisions of China, county is the standard English translation of 县 (xiàn). ... Meixian (梅縣; Hakka: Moi-yen or Moi-yan) is a county in north eastern Guangdong province, Peoples Republic of China. ... Pingyuan can refer to: Pingyuan County, a county in Shandong province, China Pingyuan County, a county in north east Guangdong province, China Pingyuan (province), a former province of China Pingyuan is also the Chinese word for plains. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that... District, in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China. ... Xingning (traditional Chinese: 興寧 simplified Chinese: 兴宁) is county-level city, under the jurisdiction of Meizhou, in the Guangdong province of the Peoples Republic of China. ...

Culture

One experiences a very different culture, when visiting Meizhou. The standard dialect Hakka dialect is spoken here, the traditional Hakka culture is present. Hakka is one language in the family of languages known as Chinese. ... Hakka (Chinese: 客家; pinyin: kèjiā, literal meaning guest families) are a Han Chinese people whose ancestors are said to originate from around Henan and Shanxi in northern China over 2700 years ago. ...

It is considered one of the largest habitations of Hakka people in the world. It is the home of pomelo, and the home of football, and also the home of many expatriate Chinese. For these reasons Meizhou is famous. Binomial name Citrus maxima Merr. ... Football is the name given to a number of different team sports. ...

Hakkas are a unique ethnic group of Han Chinese originally from around the Yellow River area, later they migrated to the south to avoid the chaos created by wars centuries ago. The word 'hakka' means literally 'guest'. The "guests" chose to live in the mountain regions, and led a hard and thrifty life there, so they gradually acquired a tradition of welcoming strangers. An ethnic group is a group of people who identify with one another, or are so identified by others, on the basis of a boundary that distinguishes them from other groups. ... Han can refer to: Han Chinese, the dominant majority ethnic group of mainland China The Chinese written language (漢文) The Han Dynasty (202 BCE - 220 CE) of China The state of Han, a state during the Chinese Warring States Period Han, one of the Chinese Sixteen Kingdoms, founded by the... For other Yellow Rivers, see Yellow River (disambiguation). ... Mount McKinley in Alaska has one of the largest visible base-to-summit elevation differences anywhere A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ...

Hakkas are among the most conservative keepers the tradition. Yet, many are willing to take risks and seek new opportunities elsewhere to establish themselves. The migratory tradition results in the redistribution of Hakka people in the most remote parts of the world. Many people in Meizhou migrated during the last century to earn money to raise their families. They then returned to build their hometown. Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ... The word tradition, comes from the Latin word traditio which means to hand down or to hand over. ...

Many buildings can be seen named after famous people in Meizhou. They were built by the returning Hakkas. Tsang Hin Chi, founder of the Gold Lion Tie company, has made a great contribution to the development of Meizhou. Thanks to this company, the city has fine buildings and the economy has improved.

As Meizhou is a mountain area so there are many beautiful natural scenes and the air quality is good. Many visitors came to the Yannanfei Tea Garden to mountaineer. On the mountain, eyes will view the green colours, and one will feel as if walking among the clouds. Here, one cannot avoid the flavour of the tea. The Air Quality Index (AQI) is a standardized index of the air quality in a given location, given in parts per billion. ...

Hakka folk music is also a feature of the area. One must experience while there a musical tour of Hakka traditions in the parks. Here many old people gather to sing the folk songs for entertainment. In the folks songs one will hear more about the Hakka people and their passion for their hometown, and love songs. Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ...

Food

If one visits Meizhou after August or September, one will view a sea of pomelos (a kind of fruit, yellow, shape like calabashes), especially in the orchards in the villages. The visitors will perhaps buy this delicious special local product as well as the salt baked chicken, the most famous Hakka food, which can be bought in many other cities in China. Another local dish is Yong Tau Foo, a kind of meat-stuff bean curd, which has a very interesting origin. It is said that when Hakka people first came to the south, there was no wheat flour to make dumplings so they used bean curd instead. They put meat and some other ingredients into the bean curds and it made a good, special taste. It was handed down and became a special recipe of Hakka cuisine. Other foods like preserved beef, ginger candies are also very popular. Binomial name Citrus maxima The Pummelo (Citrus maxima) or Shaddock is a citrus fruit, usually a pale green when ripe, larger than a grapefruit, with sweet flesh and thick spongy rind. ... Binomial name Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl. ... An orchard is an intentional planting of trees or shrubs maintained for food production. ... A village is a human settlement commonly found in rural areas. ... In chemistry, salt is a term used for ionic compounds composed of positively charged cations and negatively charged anions, so that the product is neutral and without a net charge. ... Binomial name Gallus gallus (Linnaeus, 1758) A chicken (Gallus gallus) is a type of domesticated bird which is often raised as a type of poultry. ... Hakka people are migratory tribes of ethnic Han people originated from central China. ... Meat is animal tissue (mainly muscle) used as food. ... Green beans Bean is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of Fabaceae (formerly Leguminosae) used for food hjhgjhgfjhjhfjgjor feed. ... Curd is a dairy product obtained by curdling (coagulating) milk with rennet or an edible acidic substance such as lemon juice or vinegar and then draining off the liquid portion (called whey). ... Species T. boeoticum T. durum T. monococcum T. spelta References:   ITIS 42236 2002-09-22 Wheat (Triticum spp. ... Look up flour on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A dumpling may be any of a wide variety of dishes, both sweet and savoury, in several different cuisines. ... Beef is meat obtained from a bovine. ... Binomial name Zingiber officinale Roscoe Ginger root is used extensively as a spice in many if not most cuisines of the world. ...

External links

• http://www.getgd.net/gd_city/meizou/mzintr.e.html