What is there to do in Luodai Ancient Town?

There are a lot of small attractions, and they are not very special. From top to bottom order

1, three hundred stairs is on the short hill of the long stone stairs

2, the pagoda

3, Guangdong Hall which has a sad cold noodles, but a little expensive

4, Zikuta Zikuta diagonal alley with pinching clay sculpture, this group of swan eggs sold more

5, wake up pile

6, Wushu Dafu The first nothing fun inside

7, Jiangxi Guild Hall, Wufenglou Square

8, Hukuang Guild Hall, also known as the Yuwang Palace, which seems to have a museum

9, Zhenzifang this group of a seller of Wudalang bakery, in fact, is the Wutailang, of course you do not care about nothing, the self-feeling taste is good

One, the Luodai Ancient Town Introduction:

Luodai Ancient Town is located in Longquanyi District, Chengdu City, is the key scenic spot in Sichuan Province to build "two lakes and one mountain" tourism area, the national AAAA level tourist attractions, the first batch of key small towns, Chengdu City, Chengdu City, Chengdu City, Chengdu City, cultural tourism development priority towns, provincial-level historical and cultural towns, the national "billion farmers fitness activities in advanced towns". Advanced Town of Farmers' Fitness Activity". As one of the core venues of the 20th World Hakka Congress, Luodai is called "Luodai of the World, Hakka Forever", and the positioning of "Hakka in the World" has also been established. Luodai Ancient Town is located 10 kilometers north of Longquan Town in Chengdu City, situated at the foot of Er'e Mountain in the middle section of Longquan Mountain Range. It was built in the Three Kingdoms period of the Shu Han Dynasty, and legend says that it was named after Liu Chan's jade belt which fell into an eight-pointed well next to the town. Luodai Ancient Town has a very thick cultural heritage, the town's thousand-year-old street, Hakka houses well-preserved, the old street was "a street with seven lanes" pattern, rich in spatial changes; stores on both sides of the street, is a typical Ming and Qing Dynasty architectural style. In October 2017, Luodai Ancient Town was selected as one of the first intangible cultural heritage towns in Chengdu.

Located in Longquanyi District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, Luodai Town is an ancient Hakka town, founded in the Three Kingdoms period, which is said to have been named "Luodai" due to the fact that the jade belt of Liu Zen, the later lord of the Shu Han Dynasty, fell into an eight-pointed well next to the town, and was later renamed "Luodai" after "Lu" and "Luo". Later, because of the homophone of "Lok", the town was named Lok Belt by the descendants. In the Tang and Song dynasties, Luodai belonged to Lingquan County of Chengdu Province and ranked the first of the "three major towns" in Dongshan. The town has become famous in recent years, but the attraction is the Hakka people living here, the special food and the rich Hakka flavor.

Second, Luodai ancient town features:

Luodai town is commonly known as cauldron field, is one of the five fields in Chengdu Dongshan. It is located by the mountains and the water, with Longquan Mountain at its back and facing the Chengdu Plain. Luo belt town has a long history, according to legend, the Han dynasty both into the street, the three kingdoms of shu han prime minister Zhu Geliang Xing town within the Huangjia river from east to west around the town, the shape of a belt of water flow Luo Luo. Luodai town is Chengdu Dongshan Hakka settlement. To the end of the people living here, are the Qing Dynasty before the "Hu Guang fill Sichuan" the tide of immigration from an East Fujian migrated from the Hakka people. Hakka people's hard work, honest and simple character in the untouched, unfamiliar land reclamation and agriculture, generations of entrepreneurship. The ancient town of Luodai still retains the Hakka people's native voice, native appearance, native feeling and native style. Some people call Luodai the first town of Hakka in Western Sichuan, it is not too much.

There are many legends and monuments in Luodai Town. The old street of the town is dominated by the architectural style of the Qing Dynasty, showing a pattern of "one street and seven lanes", Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, four major Hakka halls, Hakka museums and Hakka parks are located in which, and is also known as "Hakka town, the town of the halls".

Today, more than 90% of the 20,000 residents living in the town are Hakka people, who still speak Hakka language and follow Hakka customs. The town covers an area of 20 square kilometers, with Old Street as the center, while a dozen townships (towns, street offices) around the town of Luodai are still inhabited by about 500,000 Hakka people, accounting for more than 80% of the total local population.

According to evidence, the Hakka people's ancestors originally lived in the Central Plains of China, due to social changes and wars and other reasons, there have been five large-scale southward migration, in southern China gradually formed the Hakka people, became an important part of the Han Chinese people in the 8 major folklore. By the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Civil War, the basic scope of the distribution of the Hakka people was established. Mainly in Guangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian, Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and other areas, the population of more than 50 million, accounting for 5% of the Han population.

Sichuan is one of the five largest Hakka settlements in China, the number of Hakka is more than 2 million, most of which are the descendants of the old immigrants from Guangdong, Fujian and Jiangxi in the early Qing Dynasty, and they mainly live in Chengdu's Dongshan area in the western part of the country, which is collectively referred to as the "Dongshan Hakka" in the academic circles. More than 1.5 million people still speak the Hakka language and maintain Hakka customs.

The biggest feature of this town is that it has the biggest Hakka culture "dock" in Chengdu Dam, where Hakka people from Guangdong, Hubei, Jiangxi, and northern Sichuan, etc., still maintain their traditions, languages, and habits through many generations, becoming a distinctive group of Sichuanese, and preserving Hakka-style buildings - the Hakka Hall - which is the largest in Chengdu. Moreover, the Hakka style of buildings --- Hakka Guild Halls have been preserved. The preserved Hakkas include: Guangdong Hakkas, Chuanbei Hakkas, Huguang Hakkas, Jiangxi Hakkas, etc. Among them, Guangdong Hakkas are the largest and most representative of Hakkas architectural features. The three streets of Luodai Town form the town into a leaf-shaped tree. The Hakka people emphasize tea drinking, and the tea drinking here is no less sophisticated than the big teahouses in downtown Chengdu. The small patio-like courtyard, rockery, withered stones, bonsai, plants, rustic buildings, dappled trees, a few cups of fragrant tea, three or five old friends, a dozen tables, or drinking tea, or chatting, or playing cards, is very leisurely.

The traditional custom of the local Hakka people is the "Fire Dragon Festival", which is said to have originated from the Hakka people of the surname Liu of Jiangxi origin, who settled in Luodai and introduced this tradition to Luodai and the surrounding areas. To date, the Liu family still lives in Baosheng Village in Luodai Township, where they tie up dragons and dance dragons as a business, and finally formed a set of unique dragon dance programs: catching the dragons, sacrificing to the ancestors, welcoming the dragons back to their nests, killing the chickens out of the dragon, and dancing with the dragons to point out their eyes, and so on.