Xīnhuì

The Xīnhuì are the people of the lower Tan River in the south-western Pearl River Delta, whose speech, with the Huicheng accent as its standard, is one of the representative dialects of the coastal Siyi or Four Counties branch of Yue.

Settled on land silted up at the confluence of the Tan and West Rivers, Xinhui was the scene of the Battle of Yamen in 1279, when the last Song fleet was destroyed by the Yuan navy and the boy emperor Zhao Bing perished in the sound.

Under the Ming it produced Chen Baisha, born in 1428; his Baisha school of Neo-Confucianism shaped Lingnan thought for generations. The county also gave its name to Xinhui chenpi, the dried mandarin peel prized across China in cooking and medicine.