Does Chaoshan include Shanwei? Does it include Lufeng?

First of all, we should know what Chaoshan people are. After all, this concept has puzzled many foreigners. The definition of Chaoshan people is not immutable, but a historical, regional and cultural name. In a narrow sense, Chaoshan people refer to Chaozhou, Shantou and Jieyang, as well as Liu Liu Town, Tangkeng Town, Tangnan Town, Feng Liang Town, Puzhai Town and Liu Dong Town in Fengshun County of Meizhou City. They are Heluo people with similar Chaoshan cultural background. They call themselves chaozhou people, because most of these areas were originally under the jurisdiction of Chaozhou Fucheng. This also includes a large number of Hakkas in China, some of whom are already Heluo people due to various factors of intermarriage. For example, some Hakkas in Huangliu Town in Fengshun, Gurao Town in Chaoyang, Liangying Town in Huilai County and Qianzhan Town are all Heluo people. These are some phenomena of the so-called "chaozhou people, the ancestor of Hakkas". In a broad sense, Chaoshan people include Heluo people in Hailufeng area of Shanwei, which can also be understood as the integration of the original Chaozhou government and Shanwei city, with similar language and folk culture. Lufeng is close to three Jiazi towns, Jiadong town and Jiaxi town in Huilai area, as well as Jieshi town, Nantang town and Neihu town, and has a good hall with distinctive features such as Chaoshan culture, English songs and Kung Fu tea. As for the Xuanwu Mountain Buddha in jieshi town, it is a holy place for Chaoshan people to worship. Chaoshan Guild Hall in history and Chaoshan Chamber of Commerce distributed all over the world can also witness the combination of Chaoshan merchants and Hailufeng merchants. In addition, many Shanwei people overseas, especially in Hong Kong and Macao, will also identify themselves as chaozhou people. However, because Hailufeng area has been far away from Chaoshan base camp for a long time, it has almost always been under the jurisdiction of the original Huizhou government, and it is inevitable that there is insufficient sense of identity. In addition, the unpleasant experiences experienced by Chaoshan people who have passed through Hailufeng section of National Highway 324 do not quite agree with Hailufeng. This requires the joint efforts and mutual recognition of both sides in the future. After all, whether they like it or not, the concept of Chaoshan has been gradually accepted by outsiders. In fact, the phenomenon of one glory and one loss has begun to appear. Incidentally, there are two ethnic groups in China who prefer wandering, one is Heluo ethnic group and the other is Hakka. The difference between the two is that the former is a group of people who can easily make their hometown in other places, unlike the latter, who always visit everywhere. Although the Hakkas will give people a feeling of coming from other places, at least they have the same name as the Hakkas. From Minnan to Chaoshan, from Leizhou Peninsula to Hainan Island, from Gaozhou to Wenzhou and then to Taiwan Province Province, Heluo people will only call themselves by the name of their place of residence. Therefore, compared with Hakkas, they are more likely to lose their own language and be assimilated, such as tens of thousands of Chaozhou fishermen who once lived in Huizhou. Most of them don't know that they belong to the Heluo family, and even think that they belong to the Heluo family. It was not until modern times that they gradually got a perceptual knowledge. In addition, the Heluo clan has a kind of infighting. Although this is a common bad habit of China people, the internal situation of Heluo clan with relatively fierce folk customs may be more serious. This may also be the reason why students of Heluo Folk Department often fight in Guangzhou's secondary school. For example, Chaoshan Jiefeng often collaborates with students from Hailufeng and fights with students from Leizhou. After the other party is settled, it may also split and fight. In Chaoshan, they played badly behind closed doors. So in Guangdong, unlike the vernacular, foreigners are vaguely regarded as Guangfu people, and Hakka people who speak Hakka are also regarded as Hakka people, but Heluo people who speak Heluo dialect are divided into several regions. People of insight in Chaoshan should be aware of such a problem before slowly trying to integrate the Heluo clan in Chaoshan.