Places index
The site records by prefecture and by county, because most differences in custom show up at county level. Below, today’s administrative districts are matched against the seven counties of the Qing prefecture, so that entries can be found by place.
Note: the administrative map is today’s; the custom areas are historical. The two overlap heavily but are not identical. What one village does should not be extended to the whole county, and certainly not to “Chaoshan”.
Chaozhou
- Xiangqiao — the prefecture seat, formerly the seat of Haiyang county. Paifang Street, Guangji Bridge and Kaiyuan Temple are here.
- Chao’an — former Haiyang county land, including Jinshi, Fuyang and Jiangdong. Lin Daqin’s home village is in Jinshi.
- Raoping — county set up in 1477. Yingge dance and god-parade troupes are widely spread here.
Shantou
- Jinping and Longhu — former Chenghai county plus part of Haiyang. Weng Wanda’s native place lies in today’s Tuopu area of Jinping.
- Haojiang — former Chaoyang county land.
- Chaoyang and Chaonan — former Chaoyang county, the heartland of yingge; the Ximen women’s team is in Chaoyang.
- Chenghai — county set up in 1563. Zheng Xin’s native place is Chenghai.
- Nan’ao — an island county, its territory historically interleaved with Raoping and with Zhao’an in Fujian; a special case, to be treated in its own entry.
Jieyang
- Rongcheng — former seat of Jieyang county.
- Jiedong — former Jieyang county land, including Yujiao. Zheng Dajin’s home was in Meigang du, today’s Yujiao area.
- Jiexi — carved out of Jieyang and Lufeng in 1965. A Teochew-Hakka border zone where customs differ markedly.
- Huilai — county set up in 1524.
- Puning — Pu’an county set up in 1563, renamed Puning in the Wanli era. More than a hundred yingge teams.
Within the prefecture, for comparison
- Dabu and Fengshun — in the same prefecture in the Qing, now under Meizhou municipality. Not covered as core material here; cited as “within-prefecture comparison”. Ding Richang’s native place, Fengshun, falls in this category.
Finding entries by place
Most entries currently carry “Chaoshan” as their top-level tag; county tags are being refined as county-by-county comparisons are finished. Enter through these sections: Seasonal customs, Rites of life, Houses and settlements, People and events.
Sources
Historical-evolution pages on the Chaozhou, Shantou and Jieyang municipal government portals; the preface of the Qianlong Chaozhou Prefecture Gazetteer. Accessed 18 October 2026.
Last revised: 3 November 2026