The geographical environment of longjiang town

Longjiang town is located in the southwest of Huilai County, on the left bank of the middle and lower reaches of Longjiang River. According to the Records of Place Names in Huilai County, Longjiang Port (city) is named "Wanxingzhai" and "Furong City" because it lingers here, flows through Shenquan and enters the sea, and has a market. 360 villages have collected this transaction. Later, the market gradually prospered and was renamed "Longjiang".

Three years before Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1524), it belonged to Longxidu, Haifeng County, Huizhou Prefecture, and Huilai County belonged to Longxidu Longxibao after the county was established. According to the records of cultural relics in Huilai County, Longxi reaches Lanbiaodu in the south, Linzhaodu in the east, Qian Qiu Town in the west and Zhuzhen Mountain in the north. Fifteen castles and fifty-six villages.

In the sixth year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (1578), Longjiang (now longjiang town Neishe in Huilai County) was built, and castles, yamen, city walls and towers were set up.

Cultural customs:

1. Tea Ceremony, Longjiang people are warm and hospitable, using Chaoshan tea ceremony to receive guests and local cuisine to entertain guests.

2. Chaozhou opera, there was a famous Chaoshan "Zhengtianxiang" drama club in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, which gradually declined after the Cultural Revolution.

3. Dance, singing and dancing, heroic spirit, dancing out the spirit of Longjiang people. Lion dance is called tiger and lion dance in dialect. Huilai County has the custom of dancing lions from the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival. The lion's body is a nearly vertical yellow cloth, and the lion's tail is a large cluster of fragrant kenaf. When dancing, one person dances the lion's head in front, and the other person bends down to dance the lion's tail and performs according to the beat of gongs and drums. Reasonable movements, such as licking back, scratching, dozing off, etc. There is also a "stilted lion", where the lion dancer steps on stilts and adds a masked lioness. After the lion dance, there are martial arts performances, mostly boxing, sticks, forks, double knives, double maces and other southern real kung fu. Some people also perform the thrilling action of jumping into a ring of fire.

4. Thank God, from 10 to 12, every village, every community and every family chose an auspicious day to prepare for offering sacrifices to God. Usually acting (including shadow play), big gongs and drums, eight-tone classes, paper robes, whole pigs and whole sheep, and various quilts.

Education: Longjiang has a complete education system and a bilingual education school-Longjiang Chinese-English School; Sports Wushu School-Red Star Wushu School; Private education-yucai primary school. There are more than 30 Longjiang No.1 Middle School (complete middle school), Longjiang No.2 Middle School, Jinjiang Middle School, Longjiang Central Primary School and Village Primary School, and there is also Longjiang New City under construction-a systematic education school from kindergarten to high school-Huilai School affiliated to Capital Normal University.

Health: Longjiang People's Hospital and designated medical points in each village.