Meizhou Hot Springs

Meizhou Hot Springs are geothermal springs in Meizhou city in eastern Guangdong Province, China, the cultural heartland of the Hakka people — one of China's most distinctive Han sub-groups, whose global diaspora spans Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and the Americas, and whose unique earthen fortress architecture and distinct cultural traditions reflect centuries of migration from the Central China heartland. The bicarbonate thermal waters of Meizhou emerge from the granitic geology of the Wuyi Mountain range foothills, providing therapeutic bathing in a city that is both China's foremost Hakka cultural heritage destination and home to the Meizhou Mazu Temple — one of the world's most important pilgrimage sites for the sea goddess Mazu, worshipped by over 300 million people across the Chinese-speaking world. Soaking in Meizhou's bicarbonate hot springs connects visitors to the cultural depth of the Hakka homeland, where thermal wellness traditions are embedded in a civilization of extraordinary global reach.