3 Days in Meizhou

The China Hakka Museum lays out the migration history of the Hakka people hall by hall; the iron pagoda of 965 from the Southern Han state stands on the Eastern Hill east of town. Evening noodles and salt-baked chicken downtown.

1. meizhou china hakka museum
2. meizhou qianfo pagoda

In Yanyang town, the memorial park keeps the birthplace of Ye Jianying (1897-1986), his former residence a national protected site. Nearby the Yannanfei terraces climb the slopes as a 5A scenic area, and Lingguang Temple, founded in the Tang era around 862, keeps two cypresses some 1,100 years old, one living and one withered.

1. meizhou yejianying memorial park
2. meizhou yannanfei tea garden
3. meizhou lingguang temple

Qiaoxiang village in Nankou holds over 30 Ming-Qing walled houses in the weilongwu form; then Songkou, the river port from which generations of Hakka emigrants left for Southeast Asia from the late Ming on, marked since 2013 by an emigration memorial square. Bus or car back to Meizhou West for departure.

1. meizhou qiaoxiang village
2. meizhou songkou old town