Meixian District ( 梅县区 ) is a district of Meizhou City , in northeastern Guangdong Province , China. The district is an important Hakka settlement and is the ancestral home of many Hakka descendants living in Taiwan .
4-665: Meixian may refer to the following places in China: Meixian District , a district in Meizhou, Guangdong Meixian dialect , the local dialect of Hakka spoken there Mei County , also known as Meixian, a county in Shaanxi Meixian, Fujian ( 梅仙镇 ), town in and subdivision of Youxi County , Fujian Meixian, Hunan ( 梅仙镇 ), town in and subdivision of Pingjiang County , Hunan Topics referred to by
8-501: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Meixian District Its original name was Chengxiang county ( 程鄕 ) during the southern Han Dynasty where it was first created, all the way to the Song , Yuan and Ming dynasties, and then renamed Jiaying county during the Qing dynasty . It only obtained the name Meixian in 1911 during
12-598: The Xinhai Revolution . Meixian almost completely surrounds Meizhou 's central urban Meijiang District . This is due to the old urban core of Meixian becoming separated from the bulk of the county in the territorial reorganization following the 1949 establishment of the People's Republic of China , when it was given equal status. Meixian is noted for its large Hakka population. Meixian has administrative jurisdiction over one subdistrict and 18 towns . With
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