Atlas of China
Jiangmen 江门Jiāngmén
Emigrants' homeland, where money earned overseas built towers in the rice fields
About Jiangmen
Jiangmen's Siyi counties are the ancestral home of about four million overseas Chinese, and some half a million Chinese Americans trace their roots to Taishan alone. In the early 1900s, money sent home from North America built the fortified towers of the Kaiping Diaolou and Villages, inscribed by UNESCO in 2007. At Birds' Paradise, near Liang Qichao's family home, a single banyan has spread over a river islet for nearly 400 years, sheltering thousands of egrets, and Francis Xavier died on Shangchuan Island in 1552.
What to eat in Jiangmen
- Gujing roast goose (古井烧鹅)
- Taishan eel claypot rice (台山黄鳝煲仔饭)
Featured places in Jiangmen
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Kaiping Diaolou and Villages 开平碉楼
Fortified tower houses rising above rice paddies, built with emigrants' money
Listed sites in Jiangmen
12 sites in Jiangmen are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Birds' Paradise and Liang Qichao's Former Residence 启超故里·小鸟天堂 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Birds' Paradise is a river islet in Tianma village covered by a banyan grove that has grown from a single tree over more than 380 years, home to colonies of egrets and night herons that fly out and return at dawn and dusk; boats circle the island, and Ba Jin's 1933 essay about it made it famous across China. - Dayan Mountain Scenic Area 大雁山 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded hill just north of Shaping, the centre of Heshan, named for its supposed likeness to a wild goose; it was opened as a scenic area in 1989, a park in 1991 and a forest park in 2006. - Gudou Hot Spring Resort 古兜温泉 4A scenic area · on the map
A large hot-spring resort at the foot of Gudou Mountain in Yamen town, southern Xinhui, between the hills and the sea, with both saline and fresh spring pools, a water park, villas and hotels. - Guifeng Mountain 圭峰山 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested range of hills on the north-western edge of Xinhui's Huicheng, protected as Guifeng Mountain National Forest Park, with a hill lake, waterfalls and views over the delta plain. - Gulao Water Village 古劳水乡 4A scenic area · on the map
A landscape of villages, fish ponds and waterways inside the Gulao dyke on the Xijiang River, first built in 1394 against floods, developed since 2019 by the OCT Group into a tourism area. - Jinjiang Hot Spring Resort, Enping 锦江温泉 4A scenic area · on the map
A large hot-spring resort in Datian town, Enping, built around an activity theme, with a hot-spring surf pool, a circular rafting channel and about 50 themed spring pools. - Kangqiao Hot Spring, Taishan 康桥温泉 4A scenic area · on the map
A large hot-spring resort in Southeast Asian style in Baisha town, Taishan, with more than a hundred spring pools in activity, leisure, wellness and couples' zones, a water park popular with families and a resort hotel. - Naqin Peninsula Geological and Marine Park 那琴半岛地质海洋公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A coastal park on a granite peninsula at Beidou town, at the south-western tip of Taishan, where wind- and sea-worn granite boulders crowd the headlands and small bays above the South China Sea. - Quanlin Golden Town 泉林黄金小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A modern resort town in Dongcheng, east of central Enping, built around a hot-spring park with hotels and holiday housing. - Shangchuan and Xiachuan Islands 川岛 4A scenic area
The Chuandao resort covers Shangchuan and Xiachuan, the two main islands of the Chuanshan archipelago off Taishan, with granite hills and long sandy beaches such as Feisha Beach on Shangchuan's east coast and Wangfuzhou on Xiachuan. - Shanquanwan Hot Spring, Enping 山泉湾温泉 4A scenic area · on the map
A hot-spring hotel resort in the hills of Datian town, Enping, with themed spring-fed pools, water slides, a children's splash area and a large swimming pool. - Former Residence of Situ Meitang 司徒美堂故居 National heritage site · on the map
Situ Meitang (1868–1955), a leader of the Hongmen (Chee Kung Tong) society among Chinese in the United States who organised overseas fundraising during the war against Japan, founded the China Hongmen Zhigong Party and in 1949 joined the Central People's Government Council, was born in this late-Qing village house in Chikan.
On the map
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