Dabieshan
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Dabieshan is the name of a mountain region in central-eastern China, straddling the borders of Hubei and Anhui provinces. The name in Chinese literally means Great Dividing Mountains, and they rise to peaks of around 1,500 meters.
The region is very poor, and subsistence agriculture is the heart of its economy. Rice and tea predominate. Parts of the region served as a refuge for communist guerrillas in the 1920s and 1930s, and cannibalism occurred in the mountains, according to locals, in the late 1950s, when the harvests failed across much of China.
In recent years, many people from the Dabieshan region have gone to work in the coastal cities as migrant workers, leaving their parents and children behind them in the mountain valleys. Grahamearnshaw 13:45, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
