Jieyang Hot Springs

Jieyang Hot Springs are geothermal springs in Jieyang city in eastern Guangdong Province, China, in the Chaoshan cultural region — the homeland of the Teochew (Chaozhou) people, whose diaspora throughout Southeast Asia and beyond has made Chaozhou cuisine, Teochew opera, and the exquisite gongfu tea ceremony among the most widely practiced Chinese cultural traditions outside mainland China. The bicarbonate thermal waters of Jieyang emerge from the granitic and volcanic geology of the Rongjiang River basin, where the subtropical climate of eastern Guangdong combines with geothermal activity to produce warm springs valued within a long thermal tradition associated with well-being. The hot spring bathing in Jieyang connects visitors to the extraordinary culinary, artistic, and mercantile culture of the Chaoshan region, whose refined aesthetics in food, ceramics, woodcarving, and embroidery represent one of the most sophisticated regional cultures in the Chinese world.