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The vast Han River flows endlessly day and night around Songkou Town, flowing eastward to Shantou and into the sea. Songkou Town is part of Meizhou City, Guangdong Province. Meizhou borders Fujian to the east, Heyuan to the west, Chaoshan to the south, and Jiangxi to the north. Since the Song Dynasty, Han people in the Central Plains have migrated south on a large scale many times in order to avoid the perennial wars. After passing through southern Jiangxi and western Fujian to Meizhou, a relatively mature and stable Hakka ethnic group was finally formed. Songkou Town is located in the northeast of Meizhou City, Guangdong Province. It is surrounded by mountains and feels like spring all year round. The water of the Han River has nurtured the local indigenous people and allowed the migratory Han people from the Central Plains to live there for a long time and thrive to this day. In modern history, as one of the areas closest to the South China Sea in mainland China, as early as the feudal era of the late Qing Dynasty and the war period, due to various reasons such as wars, countless Hakkas took ships from Songkou Town and went down the Han River from Shantou to Shanwei to go to sea to work and make a living in Southeast Asia and even around the world, completing the sixth Hakka migration in history.