Meixian

Proper noun

Meixian

1. A former county of Guangdong, China, ancestral home of many Hakka emigrants
   • To date Meihsien Prefecture has collected 160,000,000 piculs of manure, and spring farming is in full swing in the prefecture.[1976 February 19 [1976 February 13], “Spring Farming in Kwangtung”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 34, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Canton...
   • 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...[1977 May, Rewi Alley, “Meihsien—the Great Hakka Centre”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16

   Synonyms:

   Mei County, Moiyan

2. A district of Meizhou, Guangdong, 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...2020 July 28, Taiwan Affairs Office, “Basic facts about Taiwan”, in State Council of the People's Republic of China, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2020

   Synonyms:

   Mui Yuen