Fengshun County
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Fengshun (Chinese: 豐順) is a county in Meizhou Municipality (梅州市), Guangdong Province.
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[edit] Ethno-linguistic Make-up
While Meizhou is famously Hakkanese, Fengshun is the southernmost of its counties : it borders Jieyang and Chaozhou municipalities and is comprised in their Teochew dialect area. (Teochew being a branch of the Min Nan language centred on the adjacent region of Fujian).
[edit] Administration
Fengshun County's executive, legislature and judiciary are in Tangkeng (汤坑), together with its CPC and PSB branches.
[edit] Town (镇, zhen)
- Shangbaxiang (上八乡)
- Xiabaxiang (下八乡)
- Puzhai (埔寨)
- Tangnan (汤南)
- Tangxi (汤西)
- Beidou (北斗)
- Jianqiao (建桥)
- Fengliang (丰良)
- Longgang (龙岗)
- Dalonghua (大龙华)
- Jingmen (径门)
- Xiaosheng (小胜)
- Shatian (砂田)
- Tanjiang (潭江)
- Tanshan (潭山)
- Liuhuang (_隍)
- Chabei (茶背)
- Donglian (东联)
- Pantian (潘田)
- Huangjin (黄金)
- Xiandong (仙洞)
[edit] Township (乡, xiang)
[edit] History
[edit] Yuan & Ming
[edit] Qing & Republic
The town of Tangkeng (汤坑镇) is here, the site of the clash on September 30 and October 1, 1927, called the Battle of Shantou, when 5000 communist-led mutinous troops from the Nanchang Uprising were nearly routed by 15 000 well-positioned and better-supplied Right-Kuomintang forces.
[edit] Liberation
[edit] External links
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