Jiexi County () is a county of eastern Guangdong province, China. It is under the administration of Jieyang City. Immigrants from Jiexi form a large

overseas Chinese Overseas Chinese () refers to people of Chinese birth or ethnicity who reside outside Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. As of 2011, there were over 40.3 million overseas Chinese. Terminology () or ''Hoan-kheh'' () in Hokkien, refe ...

population who speak the Hepo dialect of Hakka (70%), mainly in Sarawak, Johor and

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( Malaysia), and

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( Indonesia). Other people from Jiexi speak the Teochew dialect (30%). 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 (揭阳霖田祖庙). Jiexi is home to the

Huangmanzhai waterfalls The Huangmanzhai waterfalls are five waterfalls in Jiexi County, Jieyang, Guangdong Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capit ...

. There are ambitions to make Jiexi County a more attractive tourist destination following investment in 2010.Guangdong Special :Jiexi looks to leisure and tourism
Zhan Laoji, China Daily, 2011-06-01 10:13, retrieved Feb 2016 The Lords of the Three Mountains (, also Kings of the Three Mountains) are a

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Taoist deities worshiped in Southern China (mainly Teochew people) and the part of Hakka people in Taiwan. The Three Mountains refer to 3 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

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