Meaning of Meixian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A former county of Guangdong, China, ancestral home of many Hakka emigrants
2. A district of Meizhou, Guangdong, China.

Examples

“To date Meihsien Prefecture has collected 160,000,000 piculs of manure, and spring farming is in full swing in the prefecture.”

“The first county centre gone through, that of Tsengcheng, was full of new construction. After it, the language on the road right on into the Meihsien prefecture was Hakka. It took us five hours to get to Hoyuan, where we had lunch and a nap, starting out on the road again at three in the afternoon, and finally coming to rest in Wuhua, our first stop in the Meihsien prefecture, at nine in the evening.”

“Mr. Ye's more recent roots are in a county of Guangdong called Meixian, which is now a city in the northeast part of the province.”

“She sadly bade farewell to the Sisters, who were returning to Jiaying (or Meixian), Guangdong Province, from Hong Kong. With foreseeable dangers ahead of them, the Sisters prepared for the worst in China.”

“Among them, the Minnan and Hakka peoples are collectively called benshengren, as they mostly moved to Taiwan before 1945. Specifically, most Minnan people, nearly 70 percent of Taiwan’s total population, can trace their ancestry to today’s Quanzhou and Zhangzhou in East China’s Fujian province; today’s Longyan city in Fujian province and Meixian district in South China’s Guangdong province are the ancestral homes for the majority of the Hakka people — making up about 15 percent of the total.”

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