Heyuan, also known as Tea City, is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province and a city in Shenzhen metropolitan area. It is located in the northeast of Guangdong Province, in the middle and upper reaches of Dongjiang River. It has Lvwan Lake, the largest lake in South China, and Heyuan National High-tech Zone. With a total area of 1.5642 million square kilometers, it governs 5 counties in 1 district. In 20 19, the registered population was 3.727 million. The municipal government is stationed in Yuancheng District.
Heyuan City is a national civilized city nominated city, a national garden city, a national health city, an excellent tourist city in China, a national double-support model city, a national ecological protection and construction demonstration zone, an international green eco-tourism city, top ten green economic cities in China, top ten characteristic leisure cities in China and the best example of national ecological environment protection.
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Heyuan is the hometown of the earliest Hakka ancestors and the birthplace of Lingnan culture. Hakka has a long history. For thousands of years, Hakkas in Heyuan have settled in Dongjiang Valley, forming a unique Hakka culture with Dongjiang as its emotional link.
Hakka folk arts are rich and colorful, such as Hakka folk songs, Longchuan acrobatics, Zijinhua Chaoxi, Dongjiang Hakka cuisine, Longchuan acrobatics, Zijinhua Chaoxi, Li Anping tea-picking opera, Taiping paper horse dance, Spring Bull dance, boat lantern dance, lantern dance, Hakka wedding and so on.
And the Hakka spirit known as "emphasizing honor, filial piety, culture and education, and faithfulness". Among them, Zijinhua Chaoxi was identified as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
Hu Feng Miscellaneous Notes written by Heping Yi people Xu is the pioneering work of China to systematically expound Hakka history and culture.
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