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Meizhou 梅州Méizhōu
Round earthen fortresses, mountain songs and tea on the Hakka hills
About Meizhou
Meizhou calls itself the world capital of the Hakka, and linguists treat its Meixian dialect as the standard form of the Hakka language. Hakka clans built earthen houses here such as the round Hua'e Lou of 1608 and the square Tai'an Lou, tea terraces climb the hills at Yannanfei Tea Field, and two cypresses, one living and one dead, stand before Lingguang Temple. Wuhua was the ancestral home of Lee Wai Tong, who led China's footballers at the 1936 Olympics.
What to eat in Meizhou
- Yan mian noodles (腌面)
- Sanjidi soup (三及第汤)
Listed sites in Meizhou
21 sites in Meizhou are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Yannanfei Tea Field 雁南飞茶田 5A scenic area · on the map
A tea estate and resort in the hills of Changjiao village, Yanyang town, whose terraced tea gardens produce the local Yannanfei tea; it was rated a 5A scenic area in 2011. - Baihou Historic Town 百侯名镇 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
An old Hakka town in Dabu County whose villages of Hounan and Houbei keep more than 120 houses from the Ming and Qing dynasties, many built in the grand 'official-hall' style of scholar-official families. - Changtan Scenic Area 长潭 4A scenic area · on the map
A reservoir on the Shiku River in the hills of Changtan town, northern Jiaoling County, set among wooded slopes in an area protected as a provincial nature reserve. - Former Residence of Zhang Bishi (Guanglu Di) 张弼士故居 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
The family home that Zhang Bishi (Cheong Fatt Tze, c. - Hakka World (Ketianxia) 客天下 4A scenic area · on the map
A large Hakka-themed tourism and residential development in Sanjiao town on the southern edge of Meizhou, built up since the mid-2000s and planned to cover some 637 hectares. - Hanshan Historical and Cultural Scenic Area 韩山 4A scenic area · on the map
A tea-growing upland on Hanshan in Fengliang town, northern Fengshun County, developed as a scenic area around the Hanshan tea plantation and rated 4A in 2023. - Lee Wai Tong's Hometown Cultural Tourism Area 球王故里 4A scenic area · on the map
A football-themed tourism area in Wuhua County honouring Lee Wai Tong (Li Huitang, 1905–1979), the Hong Kong-born footballer of Wuhua descent who captained China at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and later became a vice-president of FIFA. - Lingguang Temple, Meizhou 灵光寺 4A scenic area
A Chan Buddhist monastery on Yinna Mountain, founded in the Xiantong era of the Tang dynasty (860–874) by the monk Pan Liaoquan as Shengshou Temple and renamed Lingguang Temple in 1385. - Sanheba Battle Memorial Park 三河坝战役纪念园 4A scenic area · on the map
A memorial park on Bizhiwei Hill at Sanhe, the town where the Ting, Mei and Meitan rivers join to form the Han River, marking the battle fought here in early October 1927 between part of the Nanchang Uprising army under Zhu De and the Nationalist 32nd Army. - Shenguang Mountain National Forest Park 神光山 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded hill park in Fuxing subdistrict on the edge of Xingning, a national forest park since 2005, named after the legend that the Song scholar Luo Mengjiao studied here by a divine light before passing the imperial examinations. - Tai'an Lou 泰安楼 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A square fortified house of the Lan family on Tai'an Road in Huliao, Dabu's county town, built in 1763. - Wuzhishi Scenic Area 五指石 4A scenic area · on the map
A Danxia landscape of reddish sandstone cliffs in Chagan town, close to where Guangdong, Fujian and Jiangxi meet, named after five sheer peaks that stand side by side like the fingers of a hand. - Xihewan Hakka Culture Park 熙和湾 4A scenic area · on the map
A modern theme park at Lanpai village, Yonghe town, on the edge of Xingning, built around Hakka culture, the area's lantern-making tradition and Chinese family names. - Yanshan Lake International Garden Resort 雁山湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A flower-themed holiday resort at Nanfu village in Yanyang town, combining seasonal flower gardens with a lake of about 800 mu (some 53 hectares) and the wooded hills of a national forest park. - Ye Jianying Memorial Park 叶剑英纪念园 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A memorial park in Yanyang town built around the birthplace of Ye Jianying (1897–1986), one of the Ten Marshals of the People's Liberation Army, who was born here into a Hakka merchant family. - Father-and-Son Jinshi Archway, Chayang 父子进士牌坊 National heritage site · on the map
A granite memorial archway built in 1610 in Chayang town to honour Rao Xiang and his son Rao Yuling, who both passed the highest imperial examination and became jinshi. - Former Residence of Huang Zunxian 黄遵宪故居 National heritage site · on the map
The home of Huang Zunxian (1848–1905), the late-Qing poet and diplomat whose Treatise on Japan argued for reform, beside the Zhouxi stream on the eastern side of Meizhou city. - Former Residence of Qiu Fengjia 丘逢甲故居 National heritage site · on the map
The house that Qiu Fengjia (1864–1912), the Taiwan-born scholar who led local resistance to the Japanese takeover of Taiwan in 1895, built in 1896–97 in his ancestral district after leaving the island; it is also called Peiyuan Tang. - Former Residence of Xie Jinyuan 谢晋元故居 National heritage site · on the map
The birthplace of Xie Jinyuan (1905–1941), the Nationalist army officer who commanded the defence of the Sihang Warehouse in Shanghai in 1937, a Qing-dynasty Hakka house built by his great-grandfather in Jiankeng village, Xinpu town. - Hua'e Lou 花萼楼 National heritage site · on the map
A circular earthen fortress house of the Lin family in Lianfeng village, Dadong town, begun in 1608 and regarded as one of the best-preserved round houses (tulou) in Guangdong. - Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Sanhe 三河中山纪念堂 National heritage site · on the map
A memorial hall to Sun Yat-sen completed in 1929 in Zhongshan Park at the foot of Fengxiang Hill, Huicheng village, in Sanhe, the old river-junction town that Sun had visited in 1918 to thank the troops stationed there.
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