The geographical location of Qingtang Village

Qingtang Village is located in the northwest of Lufeng City, in the middle of the Luohe River Basin, with its back to Houzaitu (Qingtang Backrest Mountain) in Dashan Mountain, the remaining vein of Jiulong Mountain, facing the Luohe River. Qingtang Village is separated from Da 'an Town by a river in the northeast, close to xinan town Municipal Government in the west and connected to Hexi Town in the southeast. The terrain is dominated by hills and mountains, with long green hills and flowing water, which can be described as beautiful scenery. Our Qingtang is a big village in this area, and it is the largest in all districts of xinan town. Qingtang village is divided into seven areas: Loushe, Songyuan, Zhaizhai (Zhaishang and Zhaixia, then living under Chen Mai's surname), Beimenyuan, Qiaodong, Qiaonan (Qiaodong used to be the place where people named Ye lived, formerly called Ye Cuo) and Huangjuliao (including Xinxiang), and Zengcuoliao and Yunqian are under the jurisdiction of Qingtang District. The trees in Qingtang Guanqu are shady, refreshing and pleasant, with beautiful scenery near the mountain and the water. There are also many places to play, mainly including the double-layer cave on the back of Qingtang Mountain (Dashan Hill) and the monkey convex, the tiger mountain, the eight-edged hill (also called Badougang), the four-sided fighting stone on Miweng Mountain, the cow back stone, the drum stone on the broken kettle Jinshan, the flagpole stone on the shot bar mountain, and the frog stone on the sedan chair convex mountain (also called Before liberation, the surrounding forests of Qingtang Village were very dense. During the Red Revolution, Qingtang Village was once a place where revolutionary volunteers often lived and lived. Comrade Xie Fei, former members of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and secretary of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, once worked here with me as a revolutionary in Qingtang Village. At that time, he was a subordinate of an old revolutionary in the village area. At that time, Comrade Xie Fei lived in the villagers' home in Songyuan area of the village. Whenever he talked about Comrade Xie Fei, the older generation in the village would tell an ancient story (some stories about Comrade Xie Fei in those days).

The spring breeze of reform and opening-up has blown the land of China green, from the city to the countryside, making the countryside develop along with it. The transportation, electric power and communication facilities in Qingtang Village are relatively perfect. The Lu (Feng) Xin (Tian) Highway passes through Hexi Town, passes through xinan town and connects with provincial highway 335 and national highway 324. A few years ago, the original sand pavement was built into cement sand concrete pavement. In xinan town, the section of Luxin Highway passing through the boundary of our village accounts for more than one third of the whole town. The newly-built Qingtang Luohe Bridge was completed and opened to traffic in 21, and a new road connecting Qingtang Luohe Bridge to the main road in the village was also built. In the past two years, most of the roads in Zhenlu and the village have been widened and built into cement sand and gravel concrete roads. From then on, the roads in Qingtang Village will no longer have the previous situation that people and cars are difficult to walk after heavy rain, and when it is sunny continuously, the cars will fly in the dust. The smooth and convenient traffic will naturally promote the development of rural economy and promote the prosperity of commerce and trade, which is called "access to roads and finance".

The development of this village is not only about building roads and bridges, but also has corresponding development plans in other aspects, such as power grid, telecommunication network and mobile communication network. As early as the mid-198s, Qingtang Village has been connected to the power grid. With the increase of new houses, the electricity consumption has also increased accordingly, so the power grid of Qingtang Village needs further improvement and development. In the rural areas of last century, the opening of wired telephone was also an important symbol in the development history of China Telecom, while Qingtang Village opened the fixed telephone network of China Telecom, which was also an earlier and more numerous village at that time. With the improvement of living standards, all households in Qingtang Village are equipped with fixed telephones, and the signal coverage rate of wireless mobile phone networks (China Mobile and China Unicom) is over 98%. In recent years, telecommunications networks and broadband networks have also developed very rapidly. In terms of public health care, the medical level and facilities of medical stations and maternal and child health centers in the district have also been improved and improved accordingly.

Qingtang people have always been quite United, not only because of the same language and surname, but also because we are all descendants of Yongxing Gong and have a fine tradition of uniting clansmen and harmonious neighbors. As long as it's about the village, no matter how big or small it is, it's always very Qi Xin. In recent ten years, Qingtang Village has invested a lot of money for the development of education, culture and public undertakings, most of which are donated by the bosses of the village who are doing business outside. There are two full-time schools in the village, named Qingtang Primary School and qingyun middle school. Among them, Qingtang Primary School was formerly a private school in Qingtang Village. According to the elders, this private school has been built for quite a long time! (At that time, there were two private schools, which were built by Zhen Gong and Jue Gong, four rooms in Qingtang Village. Now there is only one left. ) The enrollment rate of school-age children in the district is 1%, the scores of the senior high school entrance examination in the third grade are improving day by day, and the enrollment rate of senior high school is also increasing year by year, which has also cultivated many college students! The completion of the new teaching building has greatly improved the teaching environment, and the newly-built dormitory for teachers in the school has also solved the housing problem of teachers, so the school has also been rated as an advanced unit to raise funds for running schools by the municipal leadership department!

Qingtang Village has a variety of festival cultural and entertainment projects, including local traditional dramas, lion dances, film screenings and other activities. Every Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, the troupe will be invited to perform to reward the gods, and the whole village will have fun together. On the Winter Solstice (Winter Festival), a grand ceremony for worshipping ancestors and offering sacrifices to winter will be held in the ancestral temple of Huang's ancestors. The scene is very grand (that is, the so-called "steaming compensation" in ancient times), and at the same time, the troupe will be invited to perform to reward the gods and ancestors for their protection. It is really lively. The operas performed during the celebrations are unique local operas in Chaoshan area. The so-called local operas are Lufeng Zhengzi, Lufeng Baizi, Western Qin and Chaozhou operas. Its vivid image and vivid language are one of the precious protected operas. Nowadays, there are fewer people watching plays and open-air movies than before, but the traditional lion dance is a festive performance that is very popular among men, women and children in the village. There are many performances such as traditional martial arts routines, unarmed combat, equipment combat and juggling in Qingtang village, which are very exciting. However, the traditional lion dance program can only be performed from the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival every year, and you can't see it at ordinary times. There are several lion pavilions in the village, and the lion dance teams in each pavilion are ready to go out to perform the "open-shed lion" after dinner at home. Before going out, they pay homage to their ancestors in the pavilion and then go to the temples and ancestral shrines before going out. Generally, the lion team began to perform the "Open-shed Lion" on New Year's Eve, and most of the time they performed in other places. They didn't return to their village until the Lantern Festival. After the performance in the village, they took a few days off, and various lion pavilions began to prepare for the lion performance on the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month. The venue for the lion meeting is in the square in front of the ancestral hall of Huang in Qingtang. On the lion meeting day, more than half of the men, women and children in Qingtang came. In the early 199s, every district opened a museum, and some districts also opened two museums, which was really unprecedented. The village has always had a strong martial arts style, which is a positive embodiment of protecting and inheriting the traditional culture of Qingtang. Every holiday or the first and fifteenth day of every month, the elders of every household in the village will prepare green tea fruit boxes and incense sticks. First, they will go to the temples in the village to burn incense and candles to pray for blessings or make vows, and then they will burn incense and candles to worship their ancestors in the ancestral temple. The village is very lively on big festivals like the Spring Festival, the first month, the Mid-Autumn Festival and the winter solstice! Although worshipping God is a superstitious activity, it is also something left by our ancestors, and it is only a wish for the older generation to pray for peace. But our folks are not stupid, because we believe in science more. When I was in primary school, the head teacher, President Huang Chunzhi, once said such a joke, "The children in the village are not feeling well, and the old people at home will go to Baibo to ask the flowers and leaves to boil water for the children to bathe, but at the same time they will also ask the doctor to show them."

There is a saying in Haifeng that "Haifeng is a man, but Lufeng is in a trance". It is said that there are many celebrities in Haifeng and many temples in Lufeng. In fact, Lufeng has produced many famous civil servants and military commanders in ancient and modern times, which are recorded in detail in the Records of Lufeng County. There are many temples and many people in Lufeng, and there are many dialects in Lufeng. As far as Hakka dialect is concerned, there are several in xinan town alone. The language used by our Qingtang people is different from other surrounding villages. The language used by Huang people in Qingtang is a dialect called military dialect, and they can also speak many dialects including Hakka dialect, Fulao dialect and Chaozhou dialect. Military dialect, also known as Mandarin, is mainly distributed in a few areas of Guangdong or Hainan. It was used by the soldiers of the Wei Institute in the Ming Dynasty, belonging to military secret language. Due to historical reasons, it later developed into a dialect similar to the Ming Dynasty telephone conversation used by the descendants of the Wei Institute soldiers. In addition to Kanshitan and Liangjunzhai, the villages around Qingtang use another military dialect slightly different from ours, and other villages around Qingtang all speak Hakka dialect and Fulao dialect (Hakka dialect and Fulao dialect vary from place to place, and some people call Fulao dialect Chaoshan dialect). Due to the scattered residence and the influence of various social factors, the military dialect varies from place to place, and the descendants of military personnel in some places no longer use military dialect. Compared with the people who use Hakka dialect and Chaoshan dialect, the number of people who use military dialect is really very small. Nowadays, this language contains many language features-military dialect. All the villagers in Qingtang Village use the language of "military dialect". In Lufeng, Qingtang Village in xinan town has the largest number of people using military dialect and is the most concentrated group, so this village is also one of the best groups and regions to study and study military dialect! For the specific reference and explanation materials of military dialect, please read the Study of Military Dialect written by Mr. Qiu Xueqiang, which has a detailed explanation of the phonetic symbols and the formation of military dialect.

If a family can flourish, they must be strict in running the family. If a clan is prosperous, they must inherit the patriarchal clan system. On the left side of the gate of the ancestral hall of the Huang family in Qingtang, there is a stone tablet engraved with commandments, which all Huang people in Qingtang must abide by. The stone tablet was erected during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. For the sake of the Ming dynasty, the clan should have a generation order, and the generations should be clearly defined. I Huang people also pay great attention to such etiquette and ethics. A four-sentence, five-character poem handed down from Yongxing Gong, the ancestor of Huang family in Qingtang, is the preface of the first 2 generations.

The preface from the first generation to the twentieth generation is as follows: There are also the preface from the thirteenth to the thirty-second generation:

Yong yue should be Mao Dong, benevolent, courteous and wise, and

Qin Bo Chong in the next week. Filial piety and thinking are good.

Open your world to prosperity, keep your health and build your business, and

Prosperity will last forever. Guang Yu Yao zong Qiang

That's the preface poem of Qingtang. Generally, by looking at someone's name, we can know which generation of grandchildren he is and what generation he is, that is, what word generation we usually talk about. The names of the ancients were all famous and Chinese characters, and they still existed until the Republic of China. For example, the name of the ancestor of Huang in Qingtang is: Huang Run, the word Yongxing, so we call our ancestor of Huang in Qingtang Rungong or Yongxing Gong. In modern times, the names of Qingtang people are the same as those in other parts of the country. Most Qingtang people's names contain the words of generation order, and the first word in our names is the word of generation order. Perhaps our naming habit of Qingtang people is directly related to Huang's patriarchal clan system. I, the Huang family in Qingtang, have always maintained a genealogy, which can let us know which faction our clan came from, so that people will not forget the root; Genealogy can inherit the patriarchal clan system and family laws and regulations, so that we can understand the difference between kinship and seniority, so as not to distinguish between the young and the old. Writing genealogy is a major event of clan, and it is also a very complicated work, which requires collecting relevant information, sorting out old genealogy, arranging and registering, etc. It also requires a certain amount of funds to carry out the work, which does not mean that you can do it immediately if you want to, let alone finish it in ten days and a half. According to the representative of the Council, the generation order has been rearranged for a hundred years, and the matter of rebuilding the genealogy has not yet begun and is still being planned. I, Huang in Qingtang, have been ranked 32 nd first, and then ranked 1 th. This time, the pecking order is the same as that of the clansmen in Fujian and Taiwan Province. It is estimated that new pecking order and other new contents may be added when the genealogy is rebuilt next time. We will not abandon the generation order of the Huang family in Qingtang, but will protect the generation order of the Huang family in Qingtang and the traditional culture in Qingtang and pass it on from generation to generation.