Chaozhou City

CCTV.COM (04.28 2003 15:40)

    Chaozhou City is situated in the east of Guangdong, the middle lower reach of Hanjiang River． The area is 3,613．9 square kilometers, of which the land area is 3,080．9 square kilometers, sea area 533 square kilometers, with a coastal line of 136 kilometers．

    Chaozhou is a famous homeland of overseas Chinese, which numbered over 2．30 million including compatriots in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan．

    Chaozhou is a famous historical and cultural city in the country, with over 700 relic spots． Among which are Guangji Bridge, built in the South Song Dynasty (1171 A．D．) and Xu, Imperial Son-in-law, Mansion, which retains the basic pattern of the architecture of the Song Dynasty． Kaiyuan Temple, a Buddhist center in East Guangdong, embodied with the quintessence of the architectural art of various dynasties such as the Tang, the Song, the Yuan and the Qing, Huang Konglue Temple, displaying the carving art of Chaozhou in the Qing Dynasty, and the old site of Song Kiln, that shows the scale of production and the exquisite craftsmanship of ceramic in ancient Chaozhou． They are the key units for cultural protection at the state level．

    Jiadixiang, the ancient family houses; the Ming city wall, 2．6 kilometers long; Chaozhou dialect, Chaozhou opera, Chaozhou Kungfu tea, and etc． all have unique features of Chaozhou culture, attracting numerous tourists from home and abroad, and are the richly endowed tourist resources．

Editor:Han Ling