Where to start
Chaoshan life and letters, and the Chinese calendar, are covered across three independent sites run to the same editorial standards.
Chaoshan Wiki
The main site, in Chinese. Customs and travel across Chaozhou, Shantou and Jieyang: the ritual year, rites of life, belief, crafts, food, plus thirty-eight sights and itineraries from half a day to five days. Entries are recorded county by county and every source is named; where the record is disputed, the disagreement is set out rather than resolved.
chaoshanwiki.com — with English, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese branches alongside the simplified Chinese original. This English branch currently covers the guides, the yingge dance set and the station pages; articles are still being translated.
The mainland mirror
The same Chinese content served from a server inside mainland China, which opens faster there. It is updated together with the main site.
chaoshanwiki.cn
Historical astronomy and calendar
Traditional Chinese calendrics, the twenty-four solar terms, the sexagenary day count and historical astronomy. Solar-term instants are computed from JPL ephemerides, with a data basis that can be recomputed and traced to sources; calendar changes are checked against the documentary record.
kuangchujia.com — rules and positions only, no auspice or fortune reading.
Who runs this
Chujia Kuang, from Jieyang in Guangdong. Independent research and independent publishing: no institutional backing, and no ghost-writing of content for others.
What is covered
The seven core counties of the old Chaozhou prefecture — Haiyang, Chaoyang, Jieyang, Raoping, Chenghai, Puning and Huilai — that is, the whole of today’s Chaozhou, Shantou and Jieyang. Dabu and Fengshun belonged to the same prefecture in the Qing and are now under Meizhou; they are not covered as core material, and are marked as within-prefecture comparison when cited.
On what basis
Local gazetteers and officially published heritage lists come first; oral accounts and folk sayings are logged as leads, with the source and the date of the interview recorded. Solar terms, sexagenary data and lunar phases come from the open datasets of the calendar research site and can be recomputed.
Where to begin reading
To look up a term, use the site search. To plan a trip, start from Travel. To browse, start from History and culture or the yingge dance set.
Material, corrections, contact
Documents, genealogies, old photographs, oral leads, or anything you think is wrong on the site: write to chaoshanwiki@gmail.com.
For a correction, three things make checking fast: which page and which paragraph; the source you are relying on; and what you think is wrong.
If you are sending material, read the five points in Call for material first.
Elsewhere
Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp carry short answers and update notices. Anything that involves submitting material, asking for a licence, or a correction that needs a paper trail should go to the email address above — email leaves a record, direct messages do not.
The site has no front-end submissions and no comments. Content is published after checking; material that cannot be checked is logged as a lead and not published. Folk activities are presented as activities, with no suggestion or endorsement of superstition.
chaoshanwiki.com — folkways, festivals, crafts, food and dialect in three cities, plus 38 heritage sites and itineraries. chaoshanwiki.cn — the same Chinese content, served from inside mainland China. kuangchujia.com — the Chinese calendar, the 24 solar terms and historical astronomy, computed from JPL ephemerides and open to recomputation.
Last revised: 3 November 2026