Sections
Everything on the site sits in one of six sections. Each has a single front door; the second-level pages are listed below it. To read every entry, go into the section page itself. This page is a directory for search engines and for first-time readers, so it lists doors only, with no summaries.
The footer holds another group: About, Copyright and licensing, Commercial licensing, Call for material, Questions. The English, Japanese and Korean branches cover only part of the site and are not counted in the Chinese directory.
Travel14
Six itineraries from half a day to five days, plus cross-city routes by interest, transport and where to stay, season, a pre-departure check, outside reviews, and how to read the pages.
- Half a day
- One day
- Two days
- Three days
- Four days
- Five days
- Routes by interest
- Getting there and staying
- When to come
- Three minutes before you go
- Where plans go wrong
- Outside reviews
- How to read these pages
Destinations48
Three city guides, one each for the old city of Chaozhou, the old town of Shantou and the old city of Jieyang; thirty-eight sights; plus a walking route through Jieyang, a sight index and a places index.
- Chaozhou
- Shantou
- Jieyang
- Chaozhou old city
- Shantou old town
- Jieyang old city
- Walking Jieyang old city
- Sight index: thirty-eight places
- Places index
Food7
Chaozhou cooking, rice cakes, gongfu tea, and what to eat in Shantou. Methods and county differences, no rankings, no shop recommendations.
History and culture97
Eight pages on history and geography, forty-four on the ritual year and the rites of life, twelve on heritage listings and crafts, thirty-one on dialect and performance, one special topic.
- History and geography
- Administrative history
- Migration and remittance letters
- Qiaopi
- Houses and settlements
- Four-point gold
- Tiger descending the hill
- Zhanglin old port
- The ritual year
- Rites of life
- Folk belief
- Carrying the gods
- Three Mountain Kings
- Feasts and banquets
- Kinship terms
- God-parade calendar
- Heritage listings
- Dress and embroidery
- Dialect and performance
- The Chaoshan dialect
- Dialect glossary
Chaoshan Encyclopedia13
Six people, two pages of terms and word lists, three machine-readable pages, one page of sources.
- People
- Lin Daqin
- Weng Wanda
- Chen Beike
- Zheng Dajin
- Zheng Xin
- Glossary of terms
- Vocabulary (czns)
- Datasets
- Fact sheet
- Namespaces
- Sources
Explore and index4
Site search, the entry index, this directory. If you do not know where to start, start here.
Last revised: 3 November 2026