Haifeng county has a population of nearly 9,, among which, except Ebuling in the southwest, there are dozens of She residents, all of whom are Han residents, including more than 2, people living in coastal areas. She people have their own language, but they don't have their own characters. When they communicate with Han people, they use the local Chinese dialects "Jimi" and "Hakka". The common Chinese and Chinese characters are widely used by the people. The only people who speak the vernacular (that is, Cantonese dialect) are seven or eight thousand deep-water fishermen who have settled in Shanwei and Magong fishing ports. Most of them have moved from western Guangdong in the past hundred years, and their vernacular is quite different from that of Guangzhou and Hong Kong. The "Fulao dialect" spoken by the people in Ouchuan is almost the same as that spoken by coastal residents, except for some differences in words and intonation.

Haifeng dialect is complicated. Residents speak Fulao dialect, Hakka dialect, Vernacular dialect and Jianmi dialect. Fulao dialect is Minnan dialect. The residents in Haifeng who speak Fulao dialect account for 8% of the county's population and are distributed in the central, southeast and coastal areas of the county, such as Haicheng, Houmen, Chikeng, Dahu, Shanwei and Magong. Residents who speak Hakka dialect account for less than 2% of the county's population, mainly living in the mountainous areas in the northeast of the county, such as Huangqiang Town and Pingdong Town. In addition, there are also "Hakka dialects" in Chishi Town, Ebu Town and Xiaomo Town in the west. As for "Jianmi Dialect", it is a mixed dialect that resembles both "Vernacular" and "Hakka Dialect". The composition of "Vernacular" is more than that of "Hakka Dialect", and less than 1, residents speak "Jianmi Dialect", which is distributed in the border area between Haifeng and Huidong. Haifeng's ancient diet was "rice, rice and soup fish"; After the late Ming Dynasty, sweet potato gradually became the staple food Haifeng, so it was called "Sweet Potato County". Since the reform and opening up, rice has been the staple food and flour has been eaten three times a day, or two meals have been added during busy farming hours; Eat porridge for breakfast, dry rice for lunch and dinner, or porridge for lunch and dry rice for breakfast and dinner, which varies from place to place. Influenced by the customs of provinces and ports, after the Republic of China, the trend of drinking morning tea in Shanwei and other towns became more and more popular, and it became stronger after the reform and opening up. At night, laborers often go to food stalls to "snack".

The household food customs are more casual and frugal, and the dishes are mostly seasonal vegetables and fish, and the frugal ones are accompanied by pickles, preserved vegetables and pickled mustard tuber. Festive food customs and etiquette food customs are rich and extravagant, commonly known as "food ostentation and extravagance" or "food nine"; In order to be loyal and decent, friends and relatives communicate and always have a family dinner, so there is a saying that "it is better to be a guest first, and the second is better than the New Year's Day". The diet is light in taste, full of alcohol, crisp and refreshing. I like to eat oyster salmon, shrimp salmon, fish salmon, etc. The traditional dishes are Big Three Immortals (pig's feet, preserved ink and chicken), Little Three Immortals (pork, eel and oyster), big ginseng, sweet-buckled glass meat, eel pickles soup, clam soup, three fresh soups, fish balls, meatballs and steamed crab. Steamed lobster, steamed ribs, fried squid, fried fresh oysters, fried silk clams, boiled chicken, anti-sand taro, winter melon cups and so on.

Haifeng snacks have many styles, sweet and salty. Common ones are sesame paste, bean curd, soybean milk ginkgo soup, sweet bean soup, three bean soup, clam spring pill, dog hair cake, grass cake, fish porridge, shrimp porridge, meat porridge, sweet distiller's grains, jiaozi, beef patties, winter clams, millet (sweet potato dumplings), flat food (wonton), sweet pills, salty pills and pigs.

Women's traditional daily drink is "Tooth Pot Tea", which is made by putting tea leaves and mint in a tea pot, grinding them into paste, adding some salt, and washing down boiling water. Or use the leaves of Zizania latifolia, mango leaves, bitter thorn heart and other tea leaves instead. The slightly advanced ones are called "fried rice tea" and "oil hemp tea", that is, sesame seeds, fried rice and peanuts are sprinkled on "tooth bowl tea". "Vegetable tea" used to be tasted at the Lantern Festival every year. In the 21st century, ordinary people also cook tea in their spare time. Pork, fresh shrimp, squid, preserved fish and spinach are put in a bowl, sprinkled with peanuts, fried rice, drizzled with light tea or pork bone soup, and seasoned with pepper, so it becomes a delicious vegetable tea. Fair and other places are also popular with "rice tea", that is, rice is added to vegetable tea. There is also the custom of drinking "kung fu tea", but it is not as exquisite and common as Chaoshan area. In case of something worthy of celebration at home, such as the birth of a baby, the discharge of a patient, the happy move to a new house, etc., please make tea with your neighbors and friends; "Eating tea" has become a good way to communicate the feelings of relatives and friends in the neighborhood. Haifeng is a veritable land of fish and rice, and the snacks made by Haifeng people are also extremely local. There are many kinds of traditional snacks, which are well-known and well-known, such as millet (jiaozi), beef patties, caiguo (caibao), leek dumplings, winter festival pigeons, pig rice rolls, layered cake, vegetable tea, salty tea, and so on.