What areas does chaozhou people include?
We need to know what Chaoshan people are. After all, this concept is confusing for many foreigners. The definition of Chaoshan people is not unchangeable, but should be the name of a historical, regional and cultural interpretation. In a narrow sense, Chaoshan people refer to Chaozhou, Shantou and Jieyang, as well as the towns of Liuliu Town, Tangkeng Town, tang nan zhen, Fengliang Town, Puzhai Town and Dongliu Town in Fengshun County of Meizhou City. They are Heluo people with similar Chaoshan cultural background, and they call themselves chaozhou people, because most of these areas were originally under the jurisdiction of Chaozhou Fucheng. This also includes a large number of Hakkas in China, some of whom have been Heluo due to various factors of intermarriage. For example, some Hakkas in towns such as Liuhuang Town in Fengshun, Gurao Town in Chaoyang, Liangying Town and Qianzhan Town in Huilai County are completely Heluo. These are some phenomena of the so-called "chaozhou people, the ancestor of Hakka". In a broad sense, Chaoshan people include Heluo people in Hailufeng area of Shanwei, or it can be understood as the fusion of the original Chaozhou government and Shanwei city, with similar language and folk culture. Lufeng is close to Sanjiajiazi Town, Jiadong Town and Jiaxi Town in Huilai area, as well as jieshi town Town, Nantang Town and Neihu Town, and it has a good hall with distinctive characteristics of Chaoshan culture, English songs and Kung Fu tea. As for the Xuanwu Mountain Buddha in jieshi town, it is a holy place for Chaoshan people to worship. The Chaohui Guild Hall in history and the Chaoshan Chamber of Commerce distributed all over the world can also witness the combination of Chaozhou businessmen and Hailufeng businessmen. In addition, many shanwei people overseas, especially in Hong Kong and Macao, will also identify themselves as chaozhou people. However, because Hailufeng area has been far away from Chaoshan base camp for a long time, it has almost always been under the jurisdiction of the original Huizhou government, and it is inevitable that there is insufficient sense of identity. In addition, the unpleasant experience experienced by people in Chaoshan, which used to pass through Hailufeng section of National Highway 324, did not quite agree with Hailufeng. This requires the joint efforts and mutual recognition of both sides in the future. After all, whether they like it or not, the concept of Chaoshan has gradually been accepted by outsiders. In fact, it has also begun to appear that one glory is all glory, and one loss is all loss. Incidentally, there are two ethnic groups in China who prefer wandering, one is Heluo ethnic group and the other is Hakka ethnic group. The difference between the two is that the former is a group of people who are easy to make their hometown in other places, unlike the latter, who are always visiting everywhere. Although the Hakkas will give people the feeling that they are from other places, at least they have the same name as the Hakkas. From Minnan to Chaoshan, from Leizhou Peninsula to Hainan Island, from Gaozhou to Wenzhou and then to Taiwan Province, the Heluo clan will only call itself by the name of the place where it lives. Therefore, compared with Hakkas, they are more likely to lose their own language and be assimilated, such as tens of thousands of Chaozhou fishermen who used to live in Huizhou. Most of them didn't know that they belonged to the Heluo people's family, or even thought that they belonged to the Heluo people's family. It was not until modern times that they gradually had a perceptual knowledge. In addition, there is also a kind of infighting in Heluo clan. Although this is a common bad habit of China people, the internal situation of Heluo clan with relatively fierce folk customs may be more serious. This may also be the reason why students of Heluo Folk Department often fight with each other in Guangzhou's technical secondary schools. For example, Chaoshan Jiefeng often unites with students from Hailufeng and fights with students from Leizhou. After the other party is settled, they may also split and fight. In Chaoshan, they fought in a mess behind closed doors. Therefore, in Guangdong, unlike the vernacular people, outsiders are vaguely regarded as Guangfu people, and the Hakka people who speak Hakka dialect are also regarded as Hakka people, but the Heluo people who speak Heluo dialect are divided into several regions. People of insight in Chaoshan should be aware of such a problem before they slowly strive to integrate the Heluo clan in Chaoshan.