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Shanwei 汕尾Shànwěi
Salty pounded tea, beaches and old opera on the coast east of Shenzhen
About Shanwei
Shanwei, long known as Hailufeng after its old counties of Haifeng and Lufeng, speaks a Southern Min dialect of its own and lives from the sea, with fishing harbours and beaches around Honghai Bay. In the coastal town of Jieshi, Yuanshan Temple crowns Xuanwu Mountain, and Haifeng keeps two old local opera forms, Xiqin and Baizi opera, both on China's national intangible heritage list. Haifeng's old Confucian school became the Red Palace in 1927, when Peng Pai proclaimed a soviet government there.
What to eat in Shanwei
- Salty pounded tea (咸茶)
- Vegetable tea (菜茶)
Listed sites in Shanwei
6 sites in Shanwei are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Honghai Bay (Zhelang) 红海湾 4A scenic area · on the map
A coastal scenic area on the Zhelang peninsula at the eastern end of Honghai Bay, south-east of Shanwei city, where sandy beaches alternate with rocky headlands and a lighthouse stands on the offshore Zhelang Rock. - Luodong Plum Garden 螺洞世外梅园 4A scenic area · on the map
A hillside plum orchard around Luodong village in Shuichun town, Luhe, a Hakka county known for its green plums, rated a 4A scenic area in 2023. - Red Palace and Red Square, Haifeng 海丰红宫红场 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Haifeng's former Confucian school, with its Lingxing gate, crescent pond and Dacheng Hall, where Peng Pai convened the county congress of workers, peasants and soldiers on 18–21 November 1927 that proclaimed the Haifeng Soviet government; the buildings were painted red and renamed the Red Palace. - Shuidishan Hot Spring Resort 水底山 4A scenic area · on the map
A hot-spring resort of about 85 hectares in forested hills at the heart of the Shenzhen-Shanwei Special Cooperation Zone, where a river valley forms a chain of pools and waterfalls. - Xinshan Red Tourism Village 新山村 4A scenic area · on the map
A village in Fucheng town on the edge of Haifeng that was an early base of the peasant movement led by Peng Pai: its farmers' association was founded in 1923 in the village hall Yipingshe, and its peasant guards drilled on an open ground known as Laohuiding. - Xuanwu Mountain and Yuanshan Temple 玄武山 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A hill in the coastal town of Jieshi, Lufeng, crowned by Yuanshan Temple, dedicated to the Daoist god Xuantian Shangdi and founded in 1127.
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