Meizhou
(Chinese: 梅州; pinyin: Méizhōu;Cantonese: mui4 zau1),
historically known as Kaiying or Meihsien, is a prefecture-level city of
eastern Guangdong Province in the south of the People's Republic of China. It
has an area of 15,836 km², and a population of 5.05 million.
Meizhou is honored with the Hometown of Culture, Hometown of
the Overseas Hakka Chinese and Hometown of Football.
The name Meizhou comes from the Mei River and plum blossom
(mei). Meizhou was established as a prefecture named Jingzhou in the Southern
Han (917-971). It was changed into Meizhou in the Northern Song Dynasty
(960-1127) and Jiaying Prefecture in the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911). After
several subsequent shifts of jurisdiction, it became Meizhou City in 1988. Now
Meizhou is a famous historical and cultural city.
Meizhou is located in the northeast of Guangdong Province,
with Fujian Province in the northeast and Jiangxi Province in the northwest.
Meizhou City complex geological structure was formed mainly from granite,
spouting rocks, metamorphic rock, shale, sandstone, red rock and limestone.
Cherry blossoms!
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