维基百科http://www.wikipedia.org(自由百科全書) Wikipedia在美頗受欢迎，它的确系相当不错的信息网站。偶然兴发，找了下台山，发覚内容还蛮有趣，转上来大家齐齐睇下。可按链接至维基百科直接阅读或阅下列内容. 英文版比较有趣。
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B0%E5%B1%B1%E5%B8%82
台山市
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台山市位于中國广东省珠江三角洲的西侧、南海岸边，隶属于地级江门市，是中国著名的侨乡。目前全市旅居海外的华侨约有130余万，数量位居中国第一。
历史
原属新会县地，明代析置新宁县。1914年更名为台山县，以城北的三台山而得名。1992年撤县设市。台山以前叫姜吴，是一个古老的小城。台山有个名将出自官步里。
地理
台山地势中部较高，西北部和东南部多丘陵，其余沿海和沿潭江地带皆为平原。海岸线长达216千米，在海上还有上川岛、下川岛等近百座岛屿。全市年平均气温21℃，降水量1,936毫米。
交通
西部沿海高速公路横贯市境，并连接伶仃洋大桥，新台高速公路直达台城。沿潭江和南海有公益港、广海港、鱼塘港等客、货、渔港码头。
经济
台山建设了装机容量达300万千瓦的神华公司台山发电厂，是中国华南地区最大的发电企业之一。台山市曾多次入选全国综合实力百强县。工业有机械、医药、建材、纺织、食品、电器、五金等诸多门类。农业主产水稻、花生、甘蔗、蔬菜、水果、禽畜、花卉等，林业发达，盛产近千种海产品。
文化
城市文化设施先进，排球运动非常普及，有“排球之乡”的美誉。
语言
台山的本地语言台山话是粤方言四邑片的代表语言。 台山话（四邑话）是粤方言中最具特色的一种，与广州话差异明显。例如：广州话里“咁”的意思在国语里大概表示“这样”，而台山话里是用“靠”来表示其意思。
- 现时大部分的台山年轻人在网上与台山人聊天或书写时，通常都会用台山话。例句：国语“你在这里做什么呢？”转成台山话后“你到丐做乜啊？”。国语“我这样子怎么可以出去玩呢！”转成台山话后“我靠样几嚎出去捞啊！”
著名人物
英文版 English Version
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan
Taishan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Taishan (Chinese: 台山; Mandarin: Táishān; Cantonese: Toisan; Taishanese: Hoisan, Other: Toishan, Toisaan) is a coastal county-level city in Guangdong Province, China. The city is located in the Pearl River Delta, southwest of Jiangmen (to which it administratively belongs) and 140 kilometers west of Hong Kong, with a population of approximately 1 million. It contains 95 islands and islets, including the largest island in Guangdong, Shangchuan Island. It is one of four county-level cities in an area known as Sze Yup.Because it is estimated that over 75% of all overseas Chinese in North America until the mid- to late-20th century claimed origin in Taishan, the city is also known as the "Home of Overseas Chinese."[1]
Taishanese speak the Taishan dialect, a dialect of Cantonese. Before the 1970s, Taishanese was the predominant Chinese language spoken throughout North America's Chinatowns. It is the de facto language of Taishan.
History
On February 12, 1499 in the 12th year of the reign of the emperor Hongzhi during the Ming Dynasty, Taishan was founded as Xinning County (新宁县) from land in the southwest of Xinhui County. Xinning has also been romanized as Sunning, Sinning, Hsinning, Hsînnîng, and Llin-nen.
From 1854 to 1867 a genocidal war broke out mainly in Taishan County between the Punti and Hakka people with disastrous results for both sides.
In 1914, Xinning was renamed Taishan to avoid confusion with the Xinnings of Hunan and Sichuan. Unfortunately it is now confused in English with Taishan Mountain in Shandong Province.
On April 17, 1992, Taishan's status was upgraded from county (县) to county-level city (县级市).
Education
Education in the city of Taishan enjoys significant support from overseas Chinese professionals and businessmen. Many secondary schools were built and financed by Chinese living in the SAR (Hong Kong and Macau) and various foreign countries, such as the US, Canada and Brazil. To their credit, almost no strings are attached to their beneficence.
To honor their benefactors, these schools often bear their names or the names of their parents. An outstanding example is the Pengquan Middle School (鹏权中学), which was constructed during 1999–2001, and is now integrated into the city's public school system. It is situated on the west side of the city, and was built by a Hong Kong businessman.
Primary and secondary education is generally excellent for the region.
The only university is the Deng Xiaoping-era Television University (电视大学), which mostly services high school dropouts and adults seeking additional education credentials for jobs they have already have.
Local high school students usually try to attend universities outside the city, in Guangzhou and Jiangmen. Admissions to prestigious universities are rare, but a few students succeed each year, with most attending Tsinghua and Beijing University.
Administration
Taishan is under the jurisdiction of Jiangmen. In a jurisdiction of 3,286 km², Taishan contains 20 townships (镇), which are subdivided into 503 village residential committees (村居委会) and 3,655 natural villages (自然村).
These townships (镇) are:
These "natural villages" (自然村) include:
Transportation
Taishan is currently accessible by bus and hydrofoil ferry. There is a bus station in Taicheng and a port at GongYi.
Demographics
Today, some 1.3 million people living overseas can trace their ancestry to Taishan, outnumbering those who now live in Taishan.
Among these are:
References
- ^ Hsu, Madeline Y: "Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home," Stanford University Press, Stanford CA 2000, page 3.
External links
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