In the 11th year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (186 1), Shantou, an ordinary small fishing village under the jurisdiction of Top, Chenghai County, Chaozhou Prefecture, opened its port. After more than 40 years of ups and downs, at the beginning of the 20th century, Shantou Port, which was originally unknown, has gradually developed into a coastal town in eastern Guangdong. With dense population and prosperous industry and commerce, it has become a new port connecting Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tianjin and overseas. 1904, Zhang Yunan, a native of Songkou, Meixian County, saw that there was great development potential and commercial interests here, so he appealed to the Qing government to set up Chaoshan Railway Company to build a railway line from Chaozhou Prefecture to Shantou Port. From this time on, people began to have the concept of "Chaoshan" in their minds. In the process of railway construction, Wu, Li Xingbo and other old democratic revolutionaries in Haiyang County managed to get the task of building roads on some sections of Chaoshan Railway. So he recruited about 700 revolutionary volunteers (including members of the secret anti-Qing gang) as railway workers, and secretly trained them to launch an armed uprising to overthrow the Qing dynasty. Later, because of the leak, the uprising aborted. Later Li Xingbo was arrested and killed. The above-mentioned events related to the word "Chaoshan" left a deep impression on people. /kloc-at the end of 0/906, the Chaoshan railway was completed, and the company purchased the "Chaoshan" locomotive head and passed the train. As a result, a new word "Chaoshan" appeared in the world. But at this time, it only refers to the railway line, not others.
1907 On May 22nd, Ding Wei Huanggang Uprising broke out. This is the first armed uprising led by Sun Yat-sen to overthrow the corrupt rule of the feudal dynasty in the Qing Dynasty after the founding of the League. Participants include members of the League and some private secret organizations. Commander Chen Yongbo and Commander Yu Yongxing are members of the original three-point meeting who just joined the League. Therefore, the influential Nanyang Daily strongly accused Sun Yat-sen of colluding with the Chaoshan Socialist Party to instigate the Huanggang Uprising, trying to belittle its significance, and many newspapers at home and abroad followed suit. The name "Chaoshan" is gradually widely known in newspapers. The fertile soil of Chaoshan has gradually attracted the attention of the outside world.
192 1 year later, Shantou set up a city hall, which was soon changed to a municipal government, directly under the leadership of the Guangdong provincial government. It has become another regional highlight in eastern Guangdong after Chaozhou. At about this time, the statement that the land in eastern Guangdong is collectively called "Chaoshan" officially appeared in the official text. Later, Shantou gradually grew into a new political, economic, military, cultural center and transportation hub in eastern Guangdong. In this way, people are used to saying things like Chaoshan Plain, Chaoshan People, Chaoshan News and Chaoshan Business.
However, many overseas hipsters still like to call themselves chaozhou people, and the overseas hipster club is still called "Chaozhou Club". This is probably a continuation of the customary appellation. Just as some early overseas hipsters claimed to be "Yi 'an" people and organized the Yi 'an Company with the nature of hometown association, there are still "Yi 'an Company" today, because the ancient Chaoshan area was under the jurisdiction of Yi 'an County. With Chaozhou becoming one of the three prefecture-level cities in Chaoshan, Shantou people pay more attention to distinguishing Chaoshan from Chaozhou, such as Chaoshan dialect, Chaoshan congou, Chaoshan wax figure, Chaoshan embroidery and so on, rather than simply calling it Chaozhou.