hometown; native place; home village

township - a rural administrative unit under county

village; countryside; rural area

to go to the countryside | Cant.: 落鄉

to leave one's homeland

home-style fried onion cakes

in a foreign land; away from home

a country bumpkin

(of educated urban youth) go and work in the countryside and mountain areas

home style cooking

a country bumpkin; a villager; a hick | [普]: 鄉巴佬

country boy

young male from village or rural (spoken)

home return permit [Syn.] 港澳同胞回鄉證

travel permit to Mainland China for Hong Kong and Macau residents

people from the same hometown

rural country accent

rural village accent (refering to the way a person from the countryside might speak a little bit differently according to his/her own village subdialect)

fellow-townsman, fellow-villager

to move away from one's hometown or motherland and move somewhere else | also 離鄉背井 or 背井離鄉 in Mandarin

to leave one's home / hometown

to go to the countryside

run into an old friend in a foreign place:

他鄉 literally means "other township/countryside", refering to somewhere foreign, not your hometown.

故知literally means "history-knowing", refering to someone who knows your history and story, thus an old friend.

village neighbourhood; one's native district

(noun) someone who comes from the same village or home town as you

one's native land; hometown, native place

(noun) Hometown

"When in Rome do as the Romans do", on arrival in a new place follow local customs

country sickness; homesickness; nostalgia [Syn.] 思家; 思家病; 思鄉病; 鄉愁

homesick

a person who comes from countryside and seems stupid [also] 大鄉里出省城

village girl

(noun) hometown

fellow-villager; fellow-townsman