Aside from these two deltas, other densely-populated areas are the southern Mu-ming Plain in western Kwangtung and Ssu-i (including Hsin-hui, Kai-ping, Tai-shan, and En-ping) where the population density per square kilometer averages 300.]
People in the Ssu-i (the four counties — T'ai-shan, K'ai-p'ing, Hsin-hui, En-p'ing), for example, though not far from Canton, have their own distinct dialect, which is scarcely intelligible to an ordinary Cantonese.]
Report by village enumerates death and property losses in the Siyi region resulting from the Japanese invasion which began on 3 March 1941.
1998, Stephanie Po-yin Chung, “Hong Kong Merchants in New China, 1900-11”, in Chinese Business Groups in Hong Kong and Political Change in South China, 1900-25[4], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 52-53:
From this power base, Hong Kong’s non-Siyi residents were about to enter into another important struggle with the colony’s Siyi men: the redemption of Canton currency, a topic that will be dealt with in the following chapter.
