Donglong Village

At the junction of Ningdu county and Shicheng County, where Hakkas first settled and developed, there is an Intermountain basin about 500 meters above sea level. Surrounded by green mountains and Qingxi River, the basin is surrounded by a millennium old village, Donglong village, Tianbu Township, Ningdu county.

In the Tang Dynasty, it was called dongtun. The Hakka ancestors went to Fujian from the east of Ningdu. Dongtun pass was a shortcut. In the early years of Qiande in the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Yijun, who settled down in Banjing, Shicheng, came to Donglong to hunt. He took a fancy to this green mountain and blessed land and moved his family to settle here. Because of its "southeast of a vein of mountains, winding ups and downs, shaped like Wolong", renamed Donglong.

Donglong Village

Donglong village, Tianbu Township, Ningdu County, is an ancient village with harmonious humanity and profound cultural heritage. It is the hometown of Li Tengjiao, a writer in the early Qing Dynasty and one of the nine sons of Yitang. In this ancient village, 50 kilometers away from Ningdu County, there are more than 400 families. At that time, the Li family lived in the "one hundred big houses" in the west of the village. According to the research of relevant historical experts, Donglong village was built in the fifth year of Qiande in the Northern Song Dynasty (967), with a history of more than 1000 years. The village is located in an Intermountain basin with an altitude of 500-900 meters and an area of about 2.5 square kilometers. In the basin, there are crisscross fields, clear streams, picturesque sceneries, ancestral halls, houses, alleys and alleys.

In August 2013, Donglong village was selected as "the second batch of Chinese traditional villages", and in December 2013, it was determined as the pilot village of "beautiful village" by the Ministry of agriculture

In November 2017, Donglong village was awarded the fifth national civilized village.

History and Humanities

Donglong is the hometown of Mr. Li Tengjiao, one of the nine sons of Ningdu Yitang, a famous writer in the early Qing Dynasty. It is located in the southeast of Ningdu County, Jiangxi Province, at the junction of Shicheng County

In an Intermountain basin with an altitude of about 500 meters, it is about 70 kilometers (35 kilometers) away from Ningdu County in the East and 20 kilometers (20 kilometers) away from Shicheng County in the West. It is adjacent to Jingli, Luoxi and Matou, Shanjian and Wangsha of Tianbu Township in Shicheng Town in the East, north, West and south, respectively, In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a large number of scholars came to Shicheng to take part in the scientific research. They were called "the son of Ningdu and the Lang of Shicheng"

The whole Donglong administrative village covers an area of about 10 square kilometers, with 2703 mu of arable land. It governs 13 natural villages and 18 villager groups. Among the 13 natural villages, 11 natural villages are located in the Donglong basin, including Butou, Dianxia, Gaopai, paixia, Zhongcun, shangdawu, xiadawu, beiliao, XiPai, Wushang and Nankeng, According to the statistics in 2002, there are about 400 households and more than 2000 people in the village

It is said that Donglong had built a village before the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty. At that time, the main people living in the village were Zeng and Liu, and their settlement was in Nankeng, about 1 Li southwest of Dizhong village. In 967, a villager surnamed Li from Banjing of Shicheng came to see this geomantic omen land while hunting, so his family moved to Butou Kaiji in the northeast of the village to make a living, He is Yi Jungong, the founder of Kaiji. Since then, Zeng, Liu, and Li have been interdependent, tearing and guarding the mountain forest and green land on the southeastern edge of Ningdu, and living a pastoral life of "work at sunrise and rest at sunset". However, this kind of life did not last long. It is said that one day, a geomantic omen suddenly came to the village and found that the mountain situation in Donglong village was particularly good, He took refuge in the Liu family. The Liu family thought that he was idle. They either wandered around or chatted with others all day. They were indifferent to him. So he went to the Zeng family again. The Zeng family also thought that he was lazy and tasteful. They were indifferent to him. Finally, he lived in the Li family. Although he was not good at farming, the Li family thought that he was not good at farming, One day, Mr. Feng Shui suddenly came to say goodbye. Before he left, he took his master's son to a place called "inverted gold hairpin" in the village and said to him, "your father will soon die. If you can be buried here after his death, Later, Mr. Feng Shui took him to other places and named him "phoenix", "flying goose" and "beauty mirror" This is the so-called "Eighteen emperor's land" that the Li family of Donglong is fond of talking about today. At the same time, they also leave a confession: "you (Zeng) want to break, you (Liu) can't keep, Li (LI) swim all over the river, you (Zeng) take the water." strange to say, since then, the Li family really began to develop, and soon "the number of people multiplied to dozens, The wealth accumulated to tens of thousands ". However, the surnames of Liu and Zeng gradually declined both in number of people and wealth. By the middle of the Qing Dynasty (i.e. the first half of the 19th century), Donglong became the leader of the surname Li, except for the one or two families with Zeng surnames left at Shuikou

Although these people all claim to come from the same Kaiji ancestor, they are divided into two different branches. Each branch has its own ancestral hall, its own genealogy, its own ancestor's memorial ceremony, and its own tomb. In the past, there was almost no other contact except for the annual temple fair. One of them, because the ancestral hall was above the dragon vein, was called "shangci Li family", Its population in the village accounts for about 2.5% of the total number of Li family in the village. The other branch is called "Xiaci Li family" because its ancestral temple is built under the dragon vein. Its population in the village accounts for about 97.5% of the total number of Li family in the village

In addition to the Li family, there are about 30 members of five families living in the village. According to the Shixiu Genealogy (1941), these people's ancestral home is Dongyuan village, Guangchang county, and later moved to Dongshao, Ningdu. During the reign of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, the emperor Tongzhen of Jizu moved here from Dongshao. According to local legend, he was taught Confucianism in Dongxiang, Fuzhou by Xu Gong, the 25th ancestor of the Li family, The reason is that they can blow trumpets and perform puppet shows, which can provide paid services for the Li family to worship their ancestors and hold temple fairs. So the Li family let them settle down in Donglong village for a long time and regard them as relatives in law (because the Li family of Donglong had many marriages with the Chen family of other villages), At least 2-3 people in each generation live by blowing trumpets and performing puppet shows

Economic overview

The traditional economy in the village used to be self-sufficient feudal economy. However, because the village is located on the main road from Ningdu to Shicheng and even to Fujian, and the villagers used to produce a lot of land in other places, most of the rations can be provided by tenant farmers from other places, so the land in the village is mostly used for planting white lotus (also known as "Gonglian"), Alisma orientalis (traditional Chinese Medicine), glutinous rice, tobacco, etc, Before the Republic of China, more than 100 local people were engaged in all kinds of commercial activities. Some of them trafficked Bailian to Jianning, Fujian Province to sell tobacco leaves and glutinous rice to Changting, Fujian Province (sometimes more than 100 people were employed for a batch of goods). When they came back, they sold food and seafood to the surrounding villages, In addition, due to the strong reading atmosphere of Donglong people, the cultural quality of the villagers is generally high, Therefore, handicraft and knowledge-based industries also have a good development in the local area, such as carpenter, strip maker, blacksmith, plasterer, tofu master (local people called Donglong people's craft is particularly good, and their products are particularly popular), fish breeding master, teacher, feng shui master, Taoist (Wudang school), zhaigong, zhaipo, all kinds of talents needed by the traditional society, There are all kinds of things here. Among them, the technology of fried bean curd and the technology of culturing mullet fish has a long history and the most influence (the technology of culturing mullet fish used to be passed on from father to son in the past. But before the technology was learned by Diaofeng people in this county, only Donglong family was able to engage in this breeding in Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces), The number of traffickers in the township is up to one or two hundred

Because of such commercial conditions, Donglong village formed a market for local villagers and foreign merchants to exchange business activities. The market opened in the early morning and closed after breakfast, so it was called "zaozao market". It is said that at the beginning of the market, there were more than 10 stores in the market, which were engaged in groceries (general merchandise and non-staple food), wine and rice, tofu products, fish, etc, This market has lasted for hundreds of years. Although the scale of today's market is not as big as before, there are still pork, tofu, vegetables and other supplies in the morning, as well as several department stores, non-staple food stores and agricultural materials stores that are open all day

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