Chaozhou city, located in the east of Guangdong Province, lying in the middle and lower reaches of the Han River, also bordered Zhangzhou City in the east, west, south, north and east Guangdong. Chaozhou is an ancient cultural city with a history of more than 1,600 years. Chaozhou culture is an important part of Lingnan culture, an important branch of Chinese culture, an important gateway to the Silk Road Over Sea and a channel to Taiwan.
Chaozhou is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in China. There are about 12 million oversea Chaozhou people and their descendants. Except for people in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, they are mainly distributed in Thailand, Singapore, Australia, America and some European countries.
She Ethnic culture
She nationality is the only ethnic minority in Chaozhou city. Phonex Mountain in the north of Chaoan District of Chaozhou city is the birthplace of She nationality, which is recognized by more than 700,000 She nationality people in China. Chaozhou is the birthplace of She culture, which is a part of Chaozhou culture.
Tanka culture
The Dan people, also named Tanka people in Chaoshan belong to one of Baiyue. The Tanka fishing songs and Chaoshan she songs are of great significance to the emergence and development of Chaoshan literature. All kinds of fishing ingredients and sea fishing activities are naturally inseparable from the Tanka family. They have left a strong mark in the Chaozhou dishes. The classic Chaozhou cuisine fish rice comes from the Tanka family.
Longhu Old Village
Longhu Old Village of Chaozhou is located in the shore of the middle and lower reaches of the Hanjiang River, was built in the Southern Song Dynasty more than 1000 years ago, for the development of the Ming and Qing dynasties, is the Chaoshan coastal trade town, still preserved more than 100 ancient buildings, can be called "Chaoshan Ancient Architecture Expo". In November 2012, Longhu Ancient Village was selected as one of the ten most beautiful ancient villages in Guangdong. There are countless temples in the ancient village. It is a national treasure of ancient building group. It is a rare large residential settlement to study Chaozhou immigrant culture, commercial culture, architectural culture and folk culture. The overall layout of Longhu ancient village is exquisite to the whole village structure, which was built in accordance with the ancient Bagua culture, means eight diagrams and nine palaces. There were 53 intellectuals who won the imperial examinations. And the ruins of inscriptions, calligraphy and inscriptions could be seen everywhere in Longhu Old Village.
Han Yu Memorial Hall
Chaozhou Hanyu Memorial Hall is located on the east bank of the Hanjiang River, at the west foot of Hanshan Mountain. With the east gate of Chaozhou across the river, there is a Xiangzi bridge interlinked. The memorial hall relies on the Chaozhou Han Wengong Temple scenic spot, the main building complex takes the main peak of Bijia Mountain as the central axis, and the supporting landscape extends along both sides, integrating the archway, monument corridor, temple, garden, pavilion, high pavilion and green stream, as one. the landscape is well arranged and orderly.
Chaozhou Guangji Bridge
Guangji Bridge is located in the ancient city of Chaozhou east, across the han river, connecting east and west, beam bridge, floating bridge, arch bridge, for the ancient Guangdong to Fujian and Zhejiang traffic, is one of the eight scenic spots, is famous chaoshan area cultural relics resort, and has reputation of TOP 4 Old Bridges in China. Bridge expert, Mr. Mao Yisheng praised Guangji Bridge as "the world's earliest open and closing bridge".
Guangji Bridge was built in the Southern Song Dynasty. 1171 AD; its structure, composed of stone bridges, is composed of piers, stone beams and pavilions. The bridge length is 518 meters, the eastern beam bridge is 283.35 meters long, with 12 piers, one abutment and 12 holes; the western beam bridge is 137.3 meters long, with 8 piers, 7 holes and a stone beam 5 meters wide. The middle pontoon bridge is 97.3 meters long and is connected by 18 wooden boats.
Chaozhou ancient city
The Old City of Chaozhou is located in Chaozhou, Guangdong province. It is one of the two cities in Guangzhou won the honorary title of "national historical and cultural city" , and it is China's excellent tourist city. It has famous "Chaozhou Eight Scenic Spots ", its landscape relied on "three mountains around water profile", and people speaking more in Chaozhou dialect, and Chaozhou cuisine and Chaozhou Kungfu Tea is unique tourism culture. Chaozhou has more than 700 cultural relics and historic sites, including Guangji Bridge, one of the four ancient Bridges in China, Kaiyuan Temple built in the Tang Dynasty.
Jieyang School Palace
JieyangSchool Palace, also known as "Jieyang Confucius Temple", is located in the east of Rongcheng District, Jieyang City. It is one of the palaces of the three Confutius School in Guangdong Province. It was built in the tenth year of Shaoxing of the Southern Song Dynasty 1140AD, and rebuilt in the second year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty 1876AD. The existing building group of Jieyang Academy Palace is composed of 21 single buildings, covering an area of about 16,000 square meters. It is the largest, the most complete supporting buildings and the most complete preservation of similar historical buildings in Lingnan region. It is a historical and cultural landmark of Jieyang ancient City, with the style of ancient buildings of Ming and Qing Dynasties and distinct characteristics of Chaoshan ancient architecture. Jieyang School Palace is the highest institution of learning to worship Confucius and train students in Jieyang.
The Asian Jade Capital- -Jieyang
Jieyang is known as the "Jade Capital of China". The jade industry has a long history of more than 100 years. It is the most important base of middle and high-grade jade production and wholesale base in China, and has formed the Asian jade carving technology and jade trade distribution center. Among them, there are 4,846 jade producing, processing and trading enterprises in Yangmei District, with 126,000 employees.
Nan Ao Island
Nan Ao Island is located in the Southeast sea area of Guangdong Province, facing Zhelin Bay in the north and the South China Sea in the south,reaching 21.5 kilometers from east to west and 10.5 kilometers from north to south, covering an area of 117.73 square kilometers. The Tropic of Cancer crosses the whole island.
There are three peaks above 500 meters, and the western peak is Dajian Mountain (588.1 meters), the eastern peak is Guoluo Mountain (573.3 meters), the Bainiudajian Mountain (524.3 meters) is located in the central and northern parts of the island.
Naoao is the only national 4A level tourist attraction among the 12 island counties (districts) of Chinese mainland. It is rich in island resources and is an oasis on the Tropic of Cancer. The tourism resources of Nanao have the three-dimensional cross characteristics of sea, history, mountain and temple. Many scenic spots such as Song Well, General Military House, Qing Ao Bay and Island National Forest Park have been favored.