Meizhou, prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, is located in northeastern Guangdong Province, at the junction of Fujian, Guangdong and Ganzhou provinces, bordering Longyan City and Zhangzhou City in Fujian Province in the east, Chaozhou City, Jieyang City and Shanwei City in the south, bordering Heyuan City in the west, and Ganzhou City in Jiangxi Province in the north. It enjoys local legislative power[1]?
Meizhou is a regional central city on the border of Guangdong, Fujian and Gan, a national ecological civilization construction experimental area, a cultural tourism characteristic area in Guangdong, and one of the important power bases in Guangdong Province. The terrain of Meizhou is high in the north and low in the south, with a combination of five major landform types: tableland, hills, mountains, terraces and plains, covering an area of 15,876.06 square kilometers, with 2 districts, 1 city and 5 counties under the jurisdiction of Meijiang District, Meixian District, Xingning City, Daipo County, Fengshun County, Wuhua County, Pingyuan County, and Jialing County, and a household population of 5,514,000 at the end of 2016. It is also one of the key overseas Chinese hometowns in the country, with more than 7 million overseas Chinese living abroad. It is also one of the important ancestral home of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots, while 1.8 million of Taiwan's 5 million Hakka people have their ancestry in Meizhou.On October 13, 2013, the China (Meizhou) Migrants' Memorial Plaza, set up by UNESCO and the only migrant commemorative project in domestic China, was formally inaugurated in Songkou Township, Meixian District. At the same time, the World Hakka Migrants Exhibition Hall was also opened to welcome guests. [2]? And the CCTV Mid-Autumn Gala was successfully held in 2013. [3]?
Meizhou is one of the more concentrated Hakka settlements, known as the "Hakka Capital of the World" [4-5]?
Meizhou is one of the most concentrated Hakka settlements and is known as the "Hakka Capital of the World"[4-5]. It is also one of the top ten green cities in China, and the first livable urban and rural demonstration city in Guangdong. It is known as "the hometown of culture[7]", "the hometown of overseas Chinese" and "the hometown of soccer". , the hometown of overseas Chinese, the hometown of soccer, the hometown of Hakka cuisine[8]?" It is also known as the "Hometown of Guangdong Han Opera [9]? and the Hometown of Guangdong Han Opera[9], the Hometown of Guangdong Han Music[10]? and the Hometown of Golden Pomelo[11]? the hometown of Chinese opera[9], the hometown of Chinese music[10], the hometown of golden pomelo[11]? , the hometown of hot springs[13-14]? , the Hometown of Longevity[15-16]? , the hometown of printmaking? and other beautiful names.
Architectural Culture
Meizhou culture is a typical Hakka culture. There are a lot of ancient Hakka houses in the city,
including Weilong House, Go Ma Lou, Wu Feng Lou, Tu Wei Lou, Si Jiao Lou and so on, among which Weilong House and Si Jiao Lou are the most characteristic and famous.
During the long period of production and life, Meizhou has also created Hakka mountain songs, Cantonese opera, Cantonese music, Hakka rhymes and Hakka proverbs, etc., all of which have made great contributions to the prosperity of the Chinese culture.
Culture and Art
Meizhou has seven provincial art townships. Three of them have been named "Hometowns of Chinese Folk Art", i.e. the Hakka Mountain Songs Hometown of Meixian District, the Garland Dragon Hometown of Chaoyang Township of Tai Po County, and the Fire Dragon Hometown of Puzhai Township of Fenshun County.
In addition, there are:
Hometown of the Art of Boat Lantern Dance in Pingyuan County
Hometown of the Art of Bamboo Horse in Xinqiao Town, Wuhua County (Xinqiao Town has been merged into Huacheng Town)
Hometown of the Art of Cup Flower Dance and the Hometown of Prints and Paintings in Xingning City[17]?
The Hometown of the Art of Cantonese Han Music in Tai Po
Passing Language
Meizhou City is one of the more concentrated settlements of the Hakka people. Most people in the city speak Hakka, except for about 110,000 people in three towns in Fengshun County, including Tangnan, Liuhuang, and Dongliu (Dongliu has been merged into Liuhuang Town), who speak Teochew.
Food Culture
Meizhou has many Hakka cuisines, such as:
? Hakka Salt-baked Chicken, Hakka Stuffed Tofu, Duck Meat with Plum Cabbage, Hakka Red Stew, Hakka Roasted Carp, Hakka Nyonya Chicken, Hakka Nyonya Wine, Meizhou Pickled Noodles, Meizhou Salt-baked Chicken Claw, Hakka Pork Belly wrapped in Chicken, Hakka Fish Balls, Hakka Beef Balls, Changle Roasted Wine, Meixian Malt Candies, Pingyuan Ci Oranges, Green Elemis, Plum Dried Vegetables, Rice Kisses, Yellow Kisses, Chicken Neck Plate, Red Wine in Pearls, Ju Ju Ju Cake, Three and First Soup, Hakka Salt-brined Duck Paws, and Dadaego Hop Persimmon Cake, Cotton and Yang Peach Plum, Dried Bean Curd of Tai Po, Baihou Mango, Dada Guohe Persimmon Cake, and so on.Religion
Meizhou is the province's religious work of the city, there are Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism, Christianity, the four major religions, as of 2012, there are the Holy Family Cathedral, Lingguang Temple, Thousand Buddhas Pagoda, Shenguang Temple, the Temple of Ten Thousand Blessings, Shilin Temple, Ping'an Temple, Taiping Temple, and other religious activities in 469 places, religious groups 37, more than 1,200 clergy, believers in about 150,000 people. The city has 37 places of religious activities by the provincial Ethnic and Religious Affairs Commission awarded the "Guangdong Province model places of religious activities", 147 places were assessed as the creation of harmonious temples and churches in the country's activities "up to the standard places".
City icons
Landmarks
February 2017, planned by the Meizhou Daily, jointly with the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio and Television, the Municipal Tourism Bureau, the Municipal Bureau of Housing and Urban Development *** with the sponsorship of the "Hakkadu cultural landmarks" large-scale cultural activities, assessed the "Hakkadu ten cultural landmarks". Cultural landmarks". People's realm hut, meijiang bridge, yinna mountain, Ye Shuai's former residence, Shen Guangshan, Cheng Min's hometown, Qiu Fengjia's former residence, father and son of the scholar plaque, Changle Palace of Learning, fall Han Mingquan, etc. List. [78]?
City Flower
Meizhou has been famous for its plum blossoms since ancient times, and is currently the only city in China named after the plum. Yang Wanli, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, who traveled to Meizhou, once wrote, "Who planted ten miles of plums along the way, which bloomed at the same time under the streams; there was no official business on this trip, but only for the plum blossoms to come together. The poem was written by Yang Wanli during his visit to Meizhou. The poem.
In 1993, the plum blossom was recognized as the city flower of Meizhou City, and in 1994, the World Hakka Congress held in Meizhou adopted the proposal of "building Meizhou as the hometown of the plum blossom", and the city of Meizhou has now built a number of plum blossom mountains, plum blossom gardens, plum blossom islands, plum blossom belts, as well as plum blossom planting bases, and so on. [79]?
May 22, 2008, Meizhou City, the fifth session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the tenth meeting of the "plum blossom fragrance from the bitter cold" identified as "Meizhou people's spirit", issued "on the promotion and cultivation of the "spirit of Meizhou people Spirit of Meizhou People" (Meizhou City Office [2008] No. 69) was issued. [The first is the "Municipality of the city", which is the largest city in the world.]
In 2017, Meijiang District plans to invest more than 100 million yuan to build a ten-mile plum blossom promenade, while Meixian District has also accelerated the "Ancient Plum Dreamscape" project, which is based on the "spirit of the Hakka people" and "plum blossoms" as a clue. "The project. [82-83]?
Cultural relics and monuments
According to archaeological discoveries and cultural relics census statistics in recent years, there are 398 Neolithic cultural sites and relic points in Meizhou.