Longhu Village

Although Longhu village has experienced thousands of years of vicissitudes, it still has many historic sites and charm. There are numerous alleys and alleys in the ancient village, famous houses and grand ancestral halls. These ancient buildings, a collection of the song, Ming, Qing and civil affairs period, "Chao style" architectural style. In particular, "fangbodi", "jinshidi", "tanhuafu", "xiuyidi" and "Xu's ancestral hall" and other residential buildings, the porch facade decoration is thick, exquisite, and the tide flavor is very strong, showing the dignity and bearing of "Kyoto Imperial Palace, Chaoshan people's home". The folk customs of the ancient village are simple and pure. The folk events such as dragon dance, lion dance, carp dance and Yingge dance, as well as the famous specialties and traditional handicrafts such as Longhu crisp sugar, stewed cake and brush all radiate the infinite charm of profound historical and cultural heritage. Longhu village, a thousand year old village with the reputation of "model of Chaoju, thousands of ancestral halls and thousands of generations of books", is located on the West Bank of the middle and lower reaches of Hanjiang River in Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, and Longhu town in the southeast of Chaoan County. It is known as "model of Chaoju, thousands of ancestral halls and thousands of generations of books". It was built in the Southern Song Dynasty and has a history of more than 1000 years. In ancient times, longhuzhai was not only an important trade port in Chaoshan Plain, but also a "geomantic treasure land" with flourishing human culture. According to the preliminary research, more than 600 celebrities, such as Jinshi, Juren, Gongsheng, and so on, emerged in the past dynasties, or their literary or military strategies, which wrote an indelible historical chapter for the brilliant Lingnan civilization. The ancient village is distributed in a belt from north to south. Because of the ponds in the west, South and north of the village, it was called Tanghu in ancient times. Facing the long Hanjiang River, the beautiful scenery of Hanjiang River dike outside the village and the "Dragon Boat island" outside the dike are beautiful and charming. Standing on the dike, you can see green waves, green water, green grass, swaying bamboo forest, green plantains and kapok. It's just "the river is as red as fire at sunrise, and the river is as green as blue in spring". It's an excellent rural carrier to appreciate the unique charm of "Chaozhou culture".

Longhu Village

In history, longhuzhai in Chaoan used to be the estuary and trading port of rivers in Chaozhou City and Xingning Meizhou area.

brief introduction

According to records, from the late Song Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, merchants gathered here, the economy flourished and the humanities flourished. Recently, the reporter made a special trip to Longhu village, which is just a dike away from Chaoshui, to see the elegant demeanor of this ancient village, which has the reputation of "Chaoju model, the thousandth ancestral temple, and the thousands of generations of scholarly people" - the "three streets and six Alleys" of juzhai used to have more than 50 surnames.

Features of scenic spots

Chaoan Longhu village, also known as Tanghu, has formed a settlement planning pattern of "three streets and six lanes" through the construction of Longhu ancestors. There are hundreds of ancestral temples, government houses, commercial houses, temples and other buildings in the village. Up to now, there are still more than one hundred of them, which are rare large-scale residential settlements for the study of Chaozhou immigrant culture, commercial culture, architectural culture and folk culture. According to records, from the late Song Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, merchants gathered here, the economy flourished and the humanities flourished. More than 50 surnames once lived together in the "three streets and six Alleys" of juzhai.

Although Longhu village has experienced thousands of years of vicissitudes, it still has many historic sites and charm. There are numerous alleys and alleys in the ancient village, famous houses and grand ancestral halls. These ancient buildings, a collection of the song, Ming, Qing and civil affairs period, "Chao style" architectural style. In particular, "fangbodi", "jinshidi", "tanhuafu", "xiuyidi" and "Xu's ancestral hall" and other residential buildings, the porch facade decoration is thick, exquisite, and the tide flavor is very strong, showing the dignity and bearing of "Kyoto Imperial Palace, Chaoshan people's home". The folk customs of the ancient village are simple and pure. The folk events such as dragon dance, lion dance, carp dance and Yingge dance, as well as the famous specialties and traditional handicrafts such as Longhu crisp sugar, stewed cake and brush all radiate the infinite charm of profound historical and cultural heritage.

The ancient village is distributed in a belt from north to south. Because of the ponds in the west, South and north of the village, it was called Tanghu in ancient times. Facing the long Hanjiang River, the beautiful scenery of Hanjiang River dike outside the village and the "Dragon Boat island" outside the dike are beautiful and charming. Standing on the dike, you can see green waves, green water, green grass, swaying bamboo forest, green plantains and kapok. It's just "the river is as red as fire at sunrise, and the river is as green as blue in spring". It's an excellent rural carrier to appreciate the unique charm of "Chaozhou culture".

History and culture of scenic spots

Guest Lane

Born and raised in Longhu village, Xu Weibo led reporters to visit Ke Xiang, where Lin Daqin was born. According to him, Kexiang used to be called Longqing lane, but it was also called "Sangui lane" because there were three noble people in this lane, namely, Liu Zixing, the left political envoy of Fujian who organized the people to resist Japanese pirates, chengzixue, the Minister of Taipusi, and Lin Daqin, the number one scholar. It was called "Ke Xiang" because Cheng went to his mother's house to be a guest and gave birth to Lin Daqin, the number one scholar. It is said that during the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty, when the pregnant Cheng family went back to her mother's home to participate in festive activities, she was about to give birth. But the old tradition was that married women were not allowed to have children in their mother's home. Forced by helplessness, Cheng's family gave birth to Lin Daqin in the "delivery room" surrounded by Guda at Huicheng well in the back seat of the house.

First there was the Longhu academy, then there was the women's study

Longhu village is famous for its emphasis on culture and religion. In addition to the Longhu academy built in the Southern Song Dynasty, there are no less than 30 study rooms in the village. The famous ones are "Jiangxia family school" (surnamed Huang), "Gaoyang family school" (surnamed Xu) and "Lihua recitation hall". They are either owned by the clan or by the private. Generally, they are accompanied by elegant couplets. For example, the couplet of "read my book house" by dafudi of the surname Huang: "read history to know Sima Bi, I don't let Du Ling write poems.". In addition to a large number of study rooms for boys, there are also private schools for women. During the reign of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, Lang Huang Zuoyu, a member of Longhu village who "had a rich family in Chaozhou", not only set up a library in his courtyard for boys to read, but also set up a women's Library in zhongpingxiangtou for girls to study.

At the north gate of Longhu village, there is also a ancestral hall for Mr. Wang Dongchu. During the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty, Wang Dongchu and a disciple surnamed Xie came here from Fujian to teach. Because they spent all their energy on teaching, they had no children to pass on. After their death, the students "mourned for their lack of offspring, and set up a special temple to worship them." they even sacrificed together with Wang tongchu's father and the disciple surnamed Xie. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong, Zhou shuoxun, the governor of Chaozhou, specially wrote "Wang Sheng CI Ji" for the ancestral hall, which greatly appreciated the style of respecting teachers and valuing education. At present, the temple is in a state of disrepair, and the inscriptions are not clear. The only thing left is the distant memory of later generations.

Unique "ancestral temple" and female door god painting

"Po ancestral hall" is a special ancestral hall. It was built by Huang Zuoyu, a great rich man in Longhu in Qing Dynasty, in memory of his mother Zhou's family. It is unique in Chaoshan area to build a ancestral hall for an ordinary woman. The width of the gate of "Po ancestral hall" is half of the width of the building, and the proportion is highly publicized. It is known as "Kuo Zui ancestral hall". "Po Temple" was built during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty. In the early years of Kangxi, after the death of the 66 year old Zhou family, Huang Zuoyu wanted to put his mother's memorial tablet in the clan ancestral hall, but was opposed by the clan. They believed that Zhou's maidservant was a concubine, and her status was low, so she could not enjoy the qualification to enter the temple, otherwise it would break the rules of her ancestors.

However, Huang Zuoyu did not forget his mother's kindness in raising him, so he decided to spend a lot of money to build this ancestral hall next to his ancestral hall, which was broader and more imposing than his ancestral hall, to put his mother's memorial tablet. It was a good story for a time.

There is a queen's palace at the South Gate of Longhu village. What's strange is that the door god of Queen's palace is not as majestic as Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong, but two dignified, solemn, kind and kind women. They are holding their hands and wearing Luo skirts. No one can explain why they are women.

Address: Longhu Town, Chaozhou City

Longitude: 116.651462

Latitude: 23.556208

Tel: 0768-6598099

Ticket information: free visit

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