Jiangmen

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European Style Street, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China

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About Jiangmen

Few cities have as many relatives abroad as Jiangmen. This prefecture on the western side of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong is the ancestral home of a large share of the Chinese communities in North America, Southeast Asia and Australia, and the money and ideas those emigrants sent home shaped its towns, villages and dialect.

The central districts of Pengjiang, Jianghai and Xinhui sit along the Xijiang and its branches. Arcaded qilou shophouses line the old Changdi waterfront, and Xinhui is known for its sun-dried mandarin peel, chenpi, used in Cantonese cooking and medicine. History runs deep: the sea battle at Yamen in 1279 ended the Song dynasty, and the reformer Liang Qichao was born in a Xinhui village.

The most striking legacy of emigration lies in Kaiping, where fortified towers built by returning migrants mix Chinese and Western styles and are protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Add the giant banyan of Bird Paradise, the forested slopes of Guifeng Mountain and seaside hot springs, and the prefecture fills several days.

Best seasonOctober to December, after the typhoon season and before the damp spring

Ideal stay2-3 days

ArrivingRail links to Guangzhou and Zhuhai; nearest major airports are Guangzhou and Zhuhai

What to See in Jiangmen: 11 Favorites

Landmarks 2

Kaiping Diaolou and Villages

Scattered across the rice fields of Kaiping, west of central Jiangmen, are some 1,800 multi-storey towers built mostly in the earl...

Li Garden Kaiping

Near Tangkou in Kaiping, Li Garden was created from the 1920s by Tse Wai-li, who had made his fortune in the United States. Wester...

Neighborhoods 1

Changdi Historic Street

Along the north bank of the Jiangmen River in Pengjiang, this restored street is lined with qilou, the arcaded shophouses of south...

Museums 1

Jiangmen Wuyi Museum of Overseas Chinese

This large museum tells the story of the millions of people from the Wuyi area, the five counties around Jiangmen, who left to wor...

Nature 3

Bird Paradise Xinhui

In the Tianma River in Xinhui, a single banyan tree has spread its aerial roots for centuries until it formed a wooded island of r...

Guifeng Mountain

Rising just west of central Xinhui, Guifeng Mountain is a forested park with paved paths and steps, waterfalls, a reservoir and a...

Gudou Hot Spring

In the hills near the coast of Xinhui, this resort is built around natural hot springs, with dozens of outdoor pools of varying te...

History 3

Yamen Ancient Battlefield

At the mouth of the Yamen channel in southern Xinhui, the Song dynasty made its last stand against the Mongol Yuan fleet in 1279....

Liang Qichao Former Residence

Liang Qichao, one of the leading thinkers behind the 1898 Hundred Days' Reform and an influential writer of modern China, was born...

Chen Baisha Shrine

This shrine in central Jiangmen commemorates Chen Xianzhang, known as Chen Baisha, a fifteenth-century Ming dynasty Neo-Confucian...

Food and Drink 1

Xinhui Chenpi Village

Xinhui is famous across China for chenpi, the peel of local mandarins dried in the sun and aged for years, prized in Cantonese sou...

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