Does the Chaoshan area include Shantou, Chaozhou, Jieyang and Shanwei?

Chaoshan area, located in the southeast coast of Guangdong province, belongs to Chaoshan culture area and Chaozhou dialect area. It is the ancestral home and concentrated place of Chaoshan people, the birthplace and flourishing place of Chaoshan culture, and it is an area where Chaozhou language is popular, including Shantou (special economic zone), Chaozhou, Jieyang and Shanwei.

Chaoshan is bordered by Lianhua Mountain in the north, South China Sea in the south, Haifeng County in the west and Raoping County in the east. The four cities in Chaoshan are similar in geography, culture, folk customs and language. The four cities cover 11 districts, 6 counties and 2 county-level cities. Puning and Lufeng have a total resident population of more than 18 million, with a total area of 16,189.5 square kilometers.

Chaoshan is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese, one of the important ancestral homes of compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and the hometown of more than 3 million overseas Chaoshan people. Chaoshan overseas Chinese approved to be included in the Memory of the World List.

Chaoshan is a famous national historical and cultural city, a jade capital of Asia, a famous city of traditional Chinese medicine, an industrial base of textiles, hardware, stainless steel and daily-use ceramics, and 11 Taobao towns in Shantou rank first in Guangdong [16]. Since the Song Dynasty, it has enjoyed the title of "Linghai Famous State, Southland State County and Seaside Zou Lu". Lao She, a famous contemporary writer, wrote a poem saying that he longed for Chaoshan for dozens of autumn.

Chaoshan is a famous tourist attraction, the hometown of famous tea, the hometown of delicious food, the hometown of orange queen, banana orange, green plum, olive, bamboo shoot, litchi and Chaozhou cuisine. Chaozhou cuisine is the backbone and representative of Cantonese cuisine. In 24, Chaozhou cuisine won the gold medal of the fifth national cooking technology competition group, and was officially designated as the only representative of China food culture to participate in the World Expo for three times.

Chaoshan, known as Chaozhou in ancient times, has been the land of Guangdong since ancient times. It is the birthplace of Taiwan Province in the Sui Dynasty, and the place where the ten phases of the Tang and Song Dynasties remain. Since the Tang Dynasty, it has been an important gateway to the Maritime Silk Road and the main passage to Taiwan. A large number of porcelain, tea, silk, brown sugar and handicrafts have been transported to all parts of the world, which is an important base for Zheng Chenggong to recover Taiwan Province in the Ming Dynasty and the excavation site of Nan 'ao No.1..

The ancestors of Chaoshan people moved from the Central Plains to the tide through the eastern provinces in three important periods, namely, the Five Chaos, the Anshi Rebellion and the Jingkang Rebellion. They thought that they could settle down after arriving at the national corner of the province, but there were constant wars and natural disasters. In addition to resisting pirates and Japanese invaders, it also suffered two massacres by the Yuan army and the Qing army. China was ruled by ethnic minorities for two dynasties in history, the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. They all came in from the north, and the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Nanming regime had to retreat all the time to the south, and they all made a final struggle in Chaoshan at the end of the province.

Chaoshan people's belief

The belief of Chaoshan people who frequently encounter natural and man-made disasters is pinned on gods and sages who perform their duties. Chaoshan Shantang has gradually evolved into a religious charity with Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. The phrase "the old man's title" contains too much humiliation and hardship of hipsters, which is an explicit ceremony for hipsters to pursue a better life.