Jiexi County
Jiexi County is a county of eastern Guangdong province, China. It is under the administration of Jieyang city with a jurisdiction area of 1,279 km2 and a total population of 674,829 according to the 2020 census. Amongst them, 209,233 are downtown residents.
Immigrants from Jiexi form a large overseas Chinese population who speak the Hepo dialect of Hakka, mainly in Sarawak, Johor and Negeri Sembilan, and Bangka Belitung, Sumatra. Other people from Jiexi speak the Chaoshan Min. In the late 18th and early 19th century, settlers from Jiexi county formed the Lintian kongsi republic, an autonomous polity named after a temple in Jiexi dedicated to the Lords of the Three Mountains in Jieyang.
Jiexi is home to the Huangmanzhai waterfalls. There are ambitions to make Jiexi County a more attractive tourist destination following investment in 2010.
The Lords of the Three Mountains, also Kings of the Three Mountains) are a triad Taoist deities worshiped in Southern China and the part of Hakka people in Taiwan. The Three Mountains refer to three mountains in Jiexi County:
- Jin Mountain - protected by the Great Lord
- Ming Mountain - protected by the Second Lord
- Du Mountain - protected by the Third Lord
Geography