Jiangmen
Discover Jiangmen
Taishan, Kaiping, Enping, Xinhui, and Heshan are together known as Siyi/Sze Yup (四邑 Sìyì) or Wuyi (五邑 Wǔyì), the "four (or five) counties" that produced many emigrants who journeyed overseas to seek their fortunes in the late 1800s. Some returned, bringing newfound wealth and exotic ideas; others settled permanently, establishing some of the world's most important overseas Chinese communities. Many villages in the area had residents go off and settle abroad, and many overseas Chinese today trace their ancestry to Sze Yup, particularly in Southern Myanmar and North America. Visiting Jiangmen, you can find monuments and museums celebrating this unique heritage, as well as beautiful residences, courtyards, and hundreds of watchtowers built with money earned overseas. Kaiping has a bunch of these well-preserved historic sites, and Taishan has its share too.
Taste of Jiangmen...
Pu'er Tea（普洱茶）A type of fermented tea, with raw tea displaying a brick-red color and ripe tea presenting a deep reddish-brown color. Chaozhou Gongfu Tea（潮汕功夫茶）Chaozhou Gongfu Tea is the traditional tea culture of the Chaoshan region, renowned for its exquisite brewing techniques and tea utensils. White Tea（白茶）A lightly fermented tea made from tea buds and leaves. Sweet Soup（糖水）A sweet soup primarily composed of sugar, with added ingredients such as red dates, lotus seeds, peanuts, etc., simmered to perfection.
Essential Information
Getting There
Multiple OptionsThere are buses from the nearby towns Zhuhai and Zhongshan or provincial capital Guangzhou. CKS runs a daily ferry connection with Macau. To travel to Jiangmen from Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, you can take the Intercity Bus. The first bus leaves at 08:50. There are railway stations in Central Jiangmen, Kaiping, Taishan, and Enping, with direct service to Guangzhou, Maoming, Zhanjiang, and Zhuhai. Service from Jiangmen to points west is less frequent than between Guangzhou and Jiangmen. As of 2018, there is one direct train from Beijing (D921, Beijing-Guangzhou-Zhanjiang) that stops at Xinhui station in Jiangmen. It is one of the comparatively few overnight high-speed trains with sleeping berths that operate in China. It leaves Beijing at 20:30 in the evening, crosses the entire country overnight, and stops at Xinhui at 07:33 in the morning. A second-class seat (二等座) is ¥754; a sleeping berth (动卧) is ¥1430....
Getting Around & Staying
Getting Around
Pu'er Tea（普洱茶）A type of fermented tea, with raw tea displaying a brick-red color and ripe tea presenting a deep reddish-brown color. Chaozhou Gongfu Tea（潮汕功夫茶）Chaozhou Gongfu Tea is the traditional tea culture of the Chaoshan region, renowned for its exquisite brewing techniques and tea utensils. White Tea（白茶）A lightly fermented tea made from tea buds and leaves. Sweet Soup（糖水）A sweet soup primarily composed of sugar, with added ingredients such as red dates, lotus seeds, peanuts, etc., simmered to perfection.
Money & Budget
Pu'er Tea（普洱茶）A type of fermented tea, with raw tea displaying a brick-red color and ripe tea presenting a deep reddish-brown color. Chaozhou Gongfu Tea（潮汕功夫茶）Chaozhou Gongfu Tea is the traditional tea culture of the Chaoshan region, renowned for its exquisite brewing techniques and tea utensils. White Tea（白茶）A lightly fermented tea made from tea buds and leaves. Sweet Soup（糖水）A sweet soup primarily composed of sugar, with added ingredients such as red dates, lotus seeds, peanuts, etc., simmered to perfection.