At night, the Longhu Zhai Food Street is lit up, and the shop stalls along the street are busy doing business. Lanterns, antique flags and various billboards are hung on both sides of the street, illuminated by the lights, dazzling and attracting tourists to sightseeing and shopping. There are sweet and delicious sugarcane juice, fragrant and crispy sugar onion pancakes, and sugar paintings with fish, shrimp, birds and animal characters. These are the small skills of the city, more are the local characteristics of the famous snacks, intangible cultural heritage Ruiyuan arched Longhu crisp sugar, Longhu stew cake; Guangdong time-honored zhenmei food Longhu Guzhai specialty store charcoal roast pork breast; the long-established "Three Treasures" Chaozhou Three Treasures food; Chaozhou time-honored "Deep Source" cake series products. There are also restaurants, the most famous of which is the "100-year Fried Noodle Gold Medal Celebrity Chef Award". There are freshly made and sold, there are on-site display for tourists to watch, hospitality, courtesy and service.
Guzhai Zhijie integrates leisure food, in addition to a large number of cuisines, there are inns, karaoke halls, and cafes.
I sincerely invite a retired local principal Xu to the café to taste tea and talk about the past of the ancient village. Principal Xu is eighty years old, but he talks endlessly, his mouth is like a river, and he laughs and laughs. He is an authentic Longhu native, born in Shuxiangmendi, graduated from normal school in the late 1950s, was assigned to a school far away from home as a public teacher, in the 1980s, transferred to a local public junior high school as the director of teaching, soon, promoted to the principal of the school, worked until retirement. President Xu is rigorous in his studies, conscientious and responsible in his work, and achieves many good results. After his retirement, President Xu participated in the revision of the Xu clan tree of Longhu Village, and was hired as a consultant by the Longhu Zhai Management Council. Let's listen to him talk in detail!
Longhu Village is named "Xiaochaozhou", because the overall regulation of "three streets and six lanes" is similar to Chaozhou. A thousand-year-old village, a century-old commercial port. In ancient times, called Tanghu Village, was founded in the Southern Song Dynasty, developed to the peak in the Ming and Qing dynasties, has a history of thousands of years, is the most prosperous ancient village in the history of the Chaoshan Plain, but also the Chaoshan coastal trade town, rich and powerful gathering, the ancestors of the past generations of people in the high position, enthusiastic hometown construction, to build the Longhu Village to create superior economic conditions, known for the "Ancestral ThousandTh Home", and three steps a scene, the courtyard is deep, the body is large, is a rare large-scale residential settlement for the study of Chaozhou immigrant culture, commercial culture, architectural culture, folk culture It is known as the Chaozhou Ancient Architecture Museum. By the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, there were more than 100 clan ancestral halls, famous eunuch mansions and merchants and rich gentry mansions in the village, among which the famous ones are "Apo Temple", "Fang Bodi", "JinshiDi", "Xu Clan Ancestral Hall", "Longhu Academy" and "Tianhou Temple".
Fang Bodi is famous, located in Chao'an District, Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province, Longhu Zhai Longqing Road No. 26, is the Jiajing guangxi envoy Liu Zixing's residence, because of its dilapidated age, in the twelfth year of the Republic of China (1923) by Liu Zixing's descendants, living in Singapore and Singapore Chaozhou Tongxiang Association the first president of the council Mr. Liu Zhengxing, completed in the twelfth year of the Republic of China (1923). Fang Bodi is a Combination of Chinese and Western architecture with Chinese style as the mainstay and Western style as a supplement. The pattern is three-in-two rear package. One into: Jinshidi, the second into: Fang Bodi, three into: Jichengtang, four into the back of the package, five into: floating altar, the east belt from the cuo, behind the floating altar for the garden, the total area of 1642 square meters, concentrated in the western architectural style in one. Because Liu Zixing was appointed to the guangxi buzheng, in the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, buzheng was the largest administrative officer of a province, equivalent to the earl of the five lords of the feudal system, so it was also called Fang Bodi. Fang Bodi's architectural craftsmanship is very exquisite, it brings together the essence of wood carving, stone carving, shell carving, inlaid porcelain, painted painting, shell gray sculpture and other Chaoshan folk crafts, and integrates foreign architectural art and China's palace architectural style. Despite the vicissitudes of the storm, the inscription on the belly of the gate tower is still clearly visible, and the murals on the walls are still vivid. The inlaid porcelain, flowers, insects, birds and beasts on the roof ridge vividly convey the spirit, and the "red jacaranda" in the hall and the house does not lose its former brilliance. The elaborate carved wooden beams, the stone carving hollows, the bright as new foreign tiles, the delicate doors, window lines and shell plasters, etc., make people feel as if they are in the temple of art.
Longhu Village people are brilliant, there are many famous eunuchs, sages are born, and they have remained for thousands of years. Since the Ming Dynasty, with the establishment of the "Longhu Academy," culture and education have reached their peak, and there are only 53 jinshiju people who were born in keju, including Yao Hongzhong and Xu Hongyu; there are ChengZixue, who is known as one of the "Seven Sages of the Ming Dynasty in Chaozhou"; Liu Zixing, who served as an envoy to Guangxi during the Ming Jiajing period; Xia Jianzhong, Xia Hong, and Xia Maoxue, who were the first three branches of the imperial examination; Huang Zuoyu, a supervisor of the State Sons in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties; lin Xiu, the county magistrate of Chao'an County during the Republic of China; and so on. 5 of the 39 arches on Chaozhou Arch Street are erected in honor of the ancestors of Longhu.
There are indeed many stories of Longhu Village. Among them, the most widely circulated is the deeds of Liu Zixing's arrival at Wukou. In the sixteenth year of Jiajing (1557), thieves ravaged Chaozhou and captured Jiesanyang, and many villages were plundered. At that time, Liu Zixing, who was serving a funeral in his hometown, organized the villagers to build military defense facilities such as watchtowers and fences; he also recruited many township braves and conducted strict training to defend against the invasion of thieves. In the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing (1558), the Wokou plundered Dajing, Pu, Pengzhou, Antou and other places, and Tanghu Lake was also in danger. In order to strengthen his defenses, Liu Zixing then raised funds among the townspeople as a defense fee, and the key points in the township also set up fences, added sentry posts, and sent township heroes to take turns guarding everywhere day and night. At that time, many nearby villages were plundered by the Wokou, and Tanghu Lake was so well defended that the Wokou did not dare to invade. At that time, there were many officers and soldiers in transit, and they harassed the villagers from time to time. Liu Zixing has intervened and stopped many times. Liu Zixing was deeply admired by the townspeople, and on the west side of the north gate of the present-day Longhu Village, there is still a "Monument to the Protection of Liu Gong of Tanghu Lake", which records his merits.
Located in the ancient village of Longhu in Chao'an County, Guangdong Province, the Ancestral Hall has a history of more than 1,000 years and was built by huang Zuoyu, a wealthy merchant in the Qing Dynasty, for his birth mother, Zhou. The Zhou family was a concubine of the Huang family, and could not enter the ancestral hall after death according to the feudal etiquette, but Huang Zuoyu, out of respect for his mother, resolutely spent a huge amount of money to build this generous and grand ancestral hall next to his clan ancestral hall. The erection of a shrine for an ordinary woman is unique in the Chaoshan region.
There are many stories of Longhu Village, including the origin of "Wang Dong Chu Ancestral Hall", the legend of "Zhuangyuanjing", the story of Xia Yulai and so on. There are thousands of stories in the ancient village, and there are thousands of eloquent texts.
Nowadays, under the great attention and vigorous support of the functional departments of the party and the government at all levels, Longhu Ancient Village is full of vitality, poetry, welcomes guests from all over the world, and creates a better future!