Where is Qingtang?

Qingtang Village belongs to Xin 'an Town, Lufeng City, Shanwei, Guangdong Province (before the establishment of Southwest Commune, it was under the jurisdiction of Da 'an Town). The village has a large population, all surnamed Huang, and they are descendants of Yongxing Gong, the ancestor of Qingtang Huang. Qingtang is an ancient village, dating back to before the Ming Dynasty. According to the elders, it was officially named Qingtang in the early Ming Dynasty. Qingtang village is a typical historical and cultural village with a single surname. Up to now, many ancient customs, etiquette and traditional culture are still preserved. Qingtang village is also one of the larger single surname villages around.

According to the elders, before Yongxing Gong, the ancestor of the Huang family, came here to start a business, Qingtang was not called Qingtang, but a scattered settlement composed of more than 20 small villages with different surnames (the farthest distance between villages was several hundred meters, so it was called settlement). Every village has its own name, such as Ye CuO, Mai Zhai, Chen CuO, Zeng CuO Liao and so on. Although there were many surnames at that time, the population living in Qingtang was very small, and the number of people with various surnames was of course different. Since my ancestor Huang began to thrive here in the early years of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, after five or six generations, the grandchildren of various families flourished, but there were fewer and fewer people with other surnames. According to the old people, since our ancestor Huang came to live in Qingtang, the decline of Ye's family is the most obvious. Our surname is Huang, and theirs is Ye. They said that our surname Huang hit their surname Ye, and the leaves turned yellow. The feng shui in our ancestral temple was much better than theirs, so they fell down. They felt that they couldn't afford to live here, and then they gradually moved to other places. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, they had moved 18 ethnic groups with surnames, such as Maizhai and Chencuo, and they moved very slowly. The year of moving was about the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, and it was not until a few years ago that I moved out of Lujia in Qingtang with Huang Ju Liao. Now only the Tseng family is adjacent to our Qingtang. Personally, I think this situation has a lot to do with the political situation at that time, whether there are capable people in society and family. ) The name of Qingtang is said to be that there is a pond behind the house of my ancestor Huang (now the ancestral temple). The pond is dark in spring, the water in the pond is crystal clear, and it doesn't dry up all year round, so it is named Qingtang. My ancestor Yongxing Gong, the founder of the Huang family in Qingtang, has been here for 600 years since the foundation of the Ming Dynasty and has been breeding for more than 20 generations. The big house, the second house and the third house found another resort to spread branches and leaves, while the descendants of the four houses, the five houses and the six houses lived in the village, and some ancestors of the five houses and the six houses also spread branches and leaves elsewhere. There are about 2,000 descendants of Huang living in Qingtang Village, about 20,000 people. According to an elder who once served as the mayor of Xin 'an Town, Beimenyuan, according to his conservative statistics, there are about 90,000 descendants of Yongxing Gong (including all descendants of Yongxing Gong in Qingtang, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan at home and abroad). The houses in Qingtang village are basically built around the big lotus pond in the village, with the back mountain facing the pond, and the layout is compact. The big lotus pond can be said to be a center of our village.

Qingtang Village is located in the northwest of Lufeng City, in the middle of the Luohe River Basin, with its back against the Jiulong Mountain and back to Zhatu (Qingtang Backrest Mountain), facing the Luohe River. Qingtang Village is separated from Da 'an Town by a river in the northeast, near Xin 'an Town Municipal Government in the west and connected with Hexi Town in the southeast. The terrain is mainly hilly and mountainous, with long green hills and flowing water, which can be described as beautiful scenery. Qingtang is a big village in this area and the largest in all districts of Xin 'an Town. Qingtang Village is divided into seven districts: Loushe, Songyuan, Zhaizhai (Zhaishang, Zhaixia, then living under Chen Maishi's name), Beimenyuan, Qiaodong, Qiaonan (Qiaodong used to be the place where people named Ye lived, formerly known as Ye Cuo) and Huang Ju Liao (including Xinxiang). Zengcuoliao and Yunqian are under the jurisdiction of Qingtang District. Qingtangguan area is shaded by trees, refreshing and pleasant, with beautiful scenery. There are also many places to play, mainly including the double-layer cave on the back of Qingtang Mountain (big mountain and small hill) and the monkey bulge, Tiger Mountain, Bajiaogang (also known as Badougang), the four-sided bucket stone on Miweng Mountain, the cow back stone, the drum stone on the broken kettle Jinshan Mountain, the flagpole stone on the shot bar mountain and the frog stone on the sedan chair bulge mountain (also called before liberation, the forest around Qingtang Village is very dense. During the Red Revolution, Qingtang Village was once the place where revolutionary volunteers often lived and lived. Comrade Xie Fei, former member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and secretary of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, once worked with me in the revolution in Qingtang Village. At that time, he was a subordinate of an old revolution in my village. At that time, Comrade Xie Fei lived in the villagers' home in Songyuan area of our village. Whenever we talk about Comrade Xie Fei, the older generation in the village will tell an old story (some stories of Comrade Xie Fei).

The spring breeze of reform and opening up has blown the land of China green, from the city to the countryside, and the countryside has also developed, such as our Qingtang Village. The transportation, electric power and communication facilities in Qingtang Village are relatively perfect and have developed rapidly in recent years. Lu (Feng) Xin (Tian) Highway passes through Hexi Town and Xin 'an Town, and is connected with Provincial Highway 335 and National Highway 324. The original gravel pavement has been built with cement gravel concrete pavement several years ago. In Xin 'an Town, the section of Lu Xin Highway passing through our village boundary accounts for more than one third of the town. The newly-built Qingtang Luohe Bridge was completed and opened to traffic on 200 1, and a new road connecting Qingtang Luohe Bridge with the main road in the village was also built. In the past two years, most roads in Lu Zhen and the village have been widened, and cement-sand concrete roads have been built. From then on, the road in Qingtang Village will no longer be difficult for people and cars to walk after heavy rain, and the cars will be dusty when it is sunny continuously. The smooth and convenient traffic will naturally promote the development of rural economy and the prosperity of commerce and trade, which is called "access and finance".

The development of our 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-1980s, Qingtang Village had been connected to the power grid. At present, the reformed power grid is still sufficient. However, with the increase of new houses, the electricity consumption has also increased accordingly, so the power grid in Qingtang Village needs to be further improved and developed. In the 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, every household in Qingtang Village is now 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, telecommunication 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 whole region have also been improved accordingly.

Qingtang people have always been quite United, not only because the language shares the same surname, but also because we are descendants of Yongxing Gong and have a fine tradition of uniting people and harmonious neighbors. As long as it is about the village, no matter how big or small, it is always very new. In the past ten years, Qingtang Village has invested a lot of money in the development of education, culture and public utilities, most of which were donated by the boss of the village who was doing business outside the country. There are two full-time schools in the village, namely 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 Gong Zhen and Juegong, and there were four rooms in Qingtang Village. Now there's only one left. The enrollment rate of school-age children in the whole region has reached 1.000%, and the results of the senior high school entrance examination are getting better and better, and the enrollment rate of senior high school is also increasing year by year, which has also trained many college students! The completion of the new teaching building has greatly improved the teaching environment, and the newly-built teachers' dormitory 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!

The festival cultural and entertainment projects in Qingtang Village are rich and colorful, 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 a reward for the gods, and the whole village will have fun together. In winter (Winter Festival), my Huangzu Temple will hold a grand ancestor worship and winter sacrifice ceremony. The scene is very grand (that is, the so-called "steaming compensation" in ancient times), and at the same time, a troupe will be invited to perform in return for the protection of the gods and ancestors. It's really lively. The operas performed during the celebration are unique local operas in Chaoshan area. The so-called local operas are Lufeng Zhengzi, Lufeng, Xiqin and Chaozhou Opera. Its vivid image and vivid language are one of the precious protected operas. Nowadays, fewer people watch dramas and open-air movies than before, but the traditional lion dance is a festival performance that is very popular among men, women and children in the village. There are many performances in Qingtang village, such as traditional martial arts routines, unarmed combat, equipment fighting, juggling and so on, which are very exciting. However, the traditional lion dance program can only be performed during the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival every year, which is usually invisible. There are several lion pavilions in the village. After eating the New Year's Eve dinner at home, the lion dance teams in each museum are ready to go out and perform "Opening the shed lion". Before going out, they will visit temples and ancestral temples. Generally, the lion team began to perform "open-shed lions" on New Year's Eve, and most of the time they performed in other places. It was not until the Lantern Festival that they returned to their village. After the performance in the village, they took a few days off, and the lion houses began to prepare for the lion performance on the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month. The venue of the Lions Club is in the square in front of the Huangancestral hall in Qingtang. On the day of the Lions' Club, more than half of the men, women and children in Qingtang came. In the early 1990s, every district opened a museum, and some districts opened two museums. This is an unprecedented activity with strong martial spirit, 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 temple in the village to burn incense and candles to pray for blessings or wishes, and then they will burn incense and candles in the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors. Every Spring Festival, the first month, the Mid-Autumn Festival and the winter solstice and other major festivals, the village is very lively. Although worshipping God is a superstitious activity, it is also something left by our ancestors, and it is just the wish of 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 a joke, "The children in the village are not feeling well. The old people at home will go to Bai Bogong to spend leaves to boil water for their children to bathe, but at the same time they will also ask the doctor to show them."

There is a saying in Hai Lufeng that "Haifeng is a human being and Lufeng is in a trance". It is said that there are many celebrities in Haifeng and many temples in Lufeng. In fact, Lufeng has also produced many famous civil servants and military commanders in ancient and modern times, which is recorded in detail in Lufeng County Records. There are many temples and people in Lufeng, and there are many Lufeng dialects. As far as Hakka dialect is concerned, there are several in Xin 'an Town alone. The language used by us in Qingtang is different from other villages around us. The language used by Huang in Qingtang is a dialect called Jun dialect, and we 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. Used by soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, it belongs to military secret language. Due to historical reasons, it later developed into a dialect similar to the telephone conversation in the Ming Dynasty used by the descendants of soldiers in the health center. In addition to Kanshitan and Liangjunzhai, the villages around Qingtang use a slightly different military dialect from ours. Other villages around Qingtang speak Hakka dialect and Fulao dialect (Hakka dialect and Fulao dialect are different from each other, 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 military descendants in some places no longer use it. Compared with people who use Hakka dialect and Chaoshan dialect, there are really few people who use military dialect. Now, this language-military dialect, which contains many linguistic features, is on the verge of extinction. The villagers in Qingtang village all use the language of "military dialect". In Lufeng, Qingtang Village of Xin 'an Town has the largest number of people who use military dialects, and it is also the most concentrated group, so this village is also one of the best groups and regions to study and study military dialects! For specific reference and explanation materials of military dialects, please read Mr. Qiu's Research on Military Dialects, in which the phonetic symbols and composition of military dialects are explained in detail.

If a family wants to prosper, it must be strict in managing the family. If a clan is prosperous, they must inherit the patriarchal clan system. On the left side of the gatehouse of the Huangs Ancestral Hall in Qingtang, there is a stone tablet engraved with the commandments that all Huangs in Qingtang must abide by. This stone tablet was erected during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. For the sake of the Ming Dynasty, clans should have a generation order and generations should be clearly divided. I yellow people also pay great attention to such etiquette and ethics. A four-sentence five-word preface poem handed down by Yong Xing Gong, the ancestor of Huang clan in Qingtang, is the preface of the first twenty generations of Yong Xing Gong, the ancestor of Qingtang.

The order from the first generation to the twentieth generation is as follows: In addition, the order from the thirteenth generation to the thirty-second generation:

Yongyue should be Mao Dong, kind and polite, wise and trustworthy,

Qin Bochong in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Filial piety, good thinking.

Open your world to prosperity, maintain Cheng Kang and develop your career.

Hua Rong Wanzai Dragon. Guang Yao Yu zong Qiang

The above is the preface to the clear soup. Generally speaking, you can know which generation of grandson a person is by looking at his name, that is, what generation we usually say. The names of the ancients were all big names and Chinese characters, which still existed until the Republic of China. For example, the ancestor name of Qingtang Huang is: Huang Run, the word Yongxing, so we call our ancestor of Qingtang Huang Rungong or Yongxing Gong. In modern times, the names of Qingtang people are the same as those of other parts of the country. Most of the names of Qingtang people contain substitution words, and the first word of our name is substitution words. Perhaps the naming habits of our Qingtang people are directly related to Huang's patriarchal clan system. I, the Huang family in Qingtang, have always kept a genealogy, which can let us know which faction our clan comes from, so that people will never forget their roots; Genealogy can inherit the patriarchal clan system and family laws and regulations, so that we can understand the difference between consanguinity and seniority, so as not to be equal. Writing genealogy is a major event of the clan, and it is also a very complicated work, which requires collecting relevant information, sorting out the old genealogy, sorting out registration and so on. You still need a certain amount of money to carry out the work, which doesn't mean that you want to finish it right away, let alone in ten days and a half months. According to the representative of the Council, the rearrangement of generations and the reconstruction of genealogy in the past 100 years have not yet begun and are still under planning. The generation order of the Huang family in Qingtang has been ranked 32nd, and now it has been ranked for a hundred years. The generation order of this renewal is the same as that of the clansmen in Fujian and Taiwan Province provinces. It is estimated that new contents such as new generation order may be added in the next reconstruction of genealogy. We will not abandon the generation order of the Huangs in Qingtang. We should protect the generation order of the Huang family in Qingtang, protect the traditional culture of Qingtang and let it be passed down from generation to generation.