Where is Chaoshan? Chaoshan people?

Chaoshan area is located in the southeast coast of Guangdong Province, belonging to Chaoshan cultural area and Chaozhou dialect area. It is the ancestral home and concentrated place of Chaoshan people, the birthplace and prosperity of Chaoshan culture, and the popular and popular area of Chaozhou dialect, 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. Four cities cover 1 1 districts, 6 counties and 2 county-level cities. The total resident population of Puning and Lufeng is1more than 8 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 30 million overseas Chaoshan people. Overseas Chinese in Chaoshan are allowed to be included in the Memory of the World List.

Chaoshan is a national historical and cultural city, the jade capital of Asia, the medicine capital of China, and the industrial base of textile, hardware, stainless steel and daily-use ceramics. Shantou 1 1 Taobao Town ranks first in Guangdong [16]. Since the Song Dynasty, it has enjoyed the title of "Linghai Famous State, Southland County and Zou Lu by the Sea". Lao She, a famous contemporary writer, wrote a poem saying that he missed Chaoshan for dozens of autumn days.

Chaoshan is a famous tourist attraction, hometown of famous tea, hometown of delicious food, hometown of orange queen, hometown of banana orange, hometown of green plums, hometown of olives, hometown of bamboo shoots, hometown of litchi and hometown of Chaozhou cuisine. Chaozhou cuisine is the backbone and representative of Cantonese cuisine. In 2004, Chaozhou cuisine won the gold medal in the 5th National Cooking Technology Competition, and was officially designated as the only representative of China cuisine culture to participate in the World Expo three times.

Chaoshan, known as Chaozhou in ancient times, has been the land of Guangdong since ancient times. This is the birthplace of Taiwan Province Province in the Sui Dynasty, and it is also the place where the ten phases of 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 Province. A large number of porcelain, tea, silk, brown sugar and handicrafts were transported all over the world, which was an important base for Zheng Chenggong to recover Taiwan Province in Ming Dynasty and the No.1 excavation site in South Australia. ..

The ancestors of Chaoshan people moved to Chaoshan from the Central Plains through the eastern provinces in three important periods: the Five Rebellions, the Anshi Rebellion and the Jingkang Rebellion. They thought they could settle down at the end of the province, but wars and natural disasters continued. In addition to resisting pirates and Japanese invaders, it also suffered two massacres by the Yuan army and the Qing army. Two dynasties in history were ruled by ethnic minorities, 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, all of which made a final struggle in Chaoshan at the end of the province.

Belief of Chaoshan people

The belief of Chaoshan people who frequently encounter natural and man-made disasters is pinned on the gods and sages who perform their respective duties. Chaoshan Mountain Pond has gradually evolved into a religious charity integrating Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. An "old man's title" contains too many humiliations and hardships of hipsters, which is an explicit ceremony for hipsters to pursue a better life.