Longwan Village is a fishing village near the sea, with 8 villagers' groups (natural villages) and the transportation between them is very close to each other. The Leizhou dialect (Li dialect) of the Southern Min language family is commonly spoken, and it is recognized that our ancestors originated in Putian, Fujian Province. According to genealogical records, most of the ancestors migrated and settled down from Leizhou, Suixi and Donghai Island during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with a history ranging from 120 to 600 years, and there are more than ten family names such as Wang, Chen, Li, Deng, Peng, Shen, Xie, Fu, He, etc. Among them, the most ancient human history is that of the village, which has a long history. Among them, Longshe Village, which has the longest humanistic history, has 26 generations, Shannei Village has 24 generations, and Wugu Village has only 5 generations. The people of Longwan have been sweating on this hot land for generations, engaging in productive activities such as plowing and fishing, agriculture and planting, and prospering their homeland.
Before the liberation, life in the countryside was extremely difficult, and poor farmers usually ate sweet potatoes mixed with porridge, which did not fill their stomachs; and lived in thatched huts with rammed earth walls, which did not protect them from the wind and rain. Many people therefore left their homes to go out to make a living, and died in a foreign land; some girls sold themselves as maidservants, suffering; some less than adult drowned at sea ....... After the founding of the country, especially since the reform and opening up, with the economic and social development, the appearance of the human environment and the quality of life of farmers greatly improved, to achieve the "two do not worry, three guarantees", a lot of farmers live in the building, travel with a car, enjoy the good life.
Hundreds of years of prosperity, the formation of a strong marine characteristics of the local culture, the flame, never interrupted.
Remaining ruins
Honor the ancestors
Build ancestral temples and repair genealogies. Temples were built in villages to worship and offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors. The built sacrificial buildings include the clan ancestral halls, public ancestral halls, Baima Temple (Fukuo, Linggang, Jiangmiao), Land Temple, and the larger "Longquan Temple of Donghaidao", "Min'an Longshe Thunder Temple and Three Temples", "Shengong Temple", "Xingzhong Temple", "Xingtong Temple", and "Donghaidao Dragon Spring Temple". "" Xingzhong Temple "" Shenzhou " **** more than 30 sacrificial buildings. Families set up incense burners for their ancestors. Spring Festival, Ching Ming, winter solstice and other large-scale folk festivals family worship, marriage, birth, occupation and other major events must be performed worship rituals. On the 17th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the White Horse God is worshipped; on the 15th day of the first month, the three temples of the Thunder Temple are worshipped; on the 22nd day of the third month, Mazu is worshipped, and a grand "Mazu Birthday" parade is held; on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, or the ceremonies of starting a foundation to start the earth and other rituals are routinely worshipped.
Chen's Ancestral Hall in Shannei Village
Fu's Ancestral Hall in Beiyuan Village
Longquan Temple
Lei Zhidian in Longshe Village
Linggang Temple in Longxian Village
Xingzhong Temple in Wencang Village
Land Temple in Longshe Village
Sakubong Temple in Beidu Village
Schools were built to educate people
Olden times, the public *** fields were put at the disposal of the clan temple. In the olden days, the land was put at the disposal of the clan, and the income from the lease was used for the management of the clan, as well as for the welfare of the clan, subsidizing students' studies and funding for schools, etc., which was called "Steam Tasting Field". For example, founded in the winter of 1938 during the war period, "Yingcai School" is one of the earliest village schools in Longwan, the source of funding for its operation is "steam tasting field". Nowadays, Yingcai School has long gone out of the narrow space of the ancestral temple and developed into a "municipal civilized school" with an area of 1 hectare. There are three elementary school, namely Yingcai Primary School, Longguang Primary School and Xinming Primary School, with more than 20 teachers and 200 students. It has a good tradition of respecting teachers and teaching, and has many talented people.
Yingcai Primary School in Shannei Village
Longshe Village Longguang Primary School
Xinming Primary School in Beiyuan Village
Revolutionary Tradition
The four villages of Longshe, Beiyuan, Shannei, and Anle are located in the vicinity of each other, and in olden days, the surrounding villagers were called the "Four Neighboring Villages" or "Four Linked Villages". "In July 1939, Chen Guangjue and Chen Yuanshou, farmers from Shannei Village, Fu Lianjin and Fu Lianguang from Beiyuan Village, and Wang Shisheng*** from Longsha Village were absorbed into the Party by Wang Yuyan and Xie Guomei at Yingcai Elementary School. At the same time, the establishment of the Silien Village Party Group, the same year in the winter was changed to the Party Branch, is the early Donghai Island, one of the only three rural party organizations (the rest are Xishan Village, Tiaowen Village). During the period of revolutionary struggle, the outstanding sons and daughters of Si Lian Village, through hardships and difficulties, went forward and backward, not hesitating to throw their heads and spill their blood. They established immortal merits for national independence, national liberation and people's happiness. A number of revolutionary martyrs such as Wang Yuwu, Chen Guangjue and Chen Yuanshou emerged, and the people of Silian Village have made significant contributions and sacrifices for the victory of the Chinese Revolution. After liberation, it was designated as an old revolutionary village by the People's Government of Guangdong Province.
Cultural Activities
The village has a cultural building (theater), and invites the Lei Theater Troupe to perform in the village during the Spring Festival, Mazu's Birthday and other grand festivals. Recently, it is fashionable for married women to return to their mother's home or for siblings to have a big reunion, etc. Young people organize themselves to write, direct and perform literary and artistic programs, which enliven the cultural atmosphere in the countryside.
Cultural performance for the inauguration celebration of the cultural building in Wugu Village (2019)
Sibling reunion in Beiwu Village (2018)
Youths in Beiyuan Village self-directed and performed cultural programs (2018)
Folklore New Year's Example. The New Year's Example is a traditional folklore of the Leizhou Peninsula, and is held every year according to the example. The form and content are colorful, including cultural parades, rituals, cultural performances and other activities. The days of the lunar calendar for the annual festival in each village are as follows: 17th day of the first month of the lunar calendar in Wugu village, 22nd day of the third month of the lunar calendar in Longshe, Shannei, Tochiai, Anle, and Longtsuk, and 3rd day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar in Beibeiwi and Wincellular villages.
Shannei Village A-Ma's Birthday Parade Team (2016)
Longshe Village A-Ma's Birthday Parade Team (2019)
The women of Longshe, Shannei and Wenjiao villages organized their own dance teams and insisted on rehearsals. The Longshe Village dance team has repeatedly represented Longwan Village in square dance performance competitions in the Development Zone and Min'an Street, and is often invited to go out and perform, showing a new look for women in Longwan.
Longshe Village Women's Dance Team
There are also sports and cultural facilities such as blue ball fields, ping-pong tables, fitness equipment, villagers' parks and cultural corridors, which continue to improve the physical and cultural quality of farmers.
Wenjiao Village basketball court
Habitat environment
With the "new rural construction", "three cleanup, three demolition, three rectification", "toilet revolution" and so on. With the continuous promotion of a series of habitat improvement projects, the completion of the village road hardening, street lighting, sewage pipeline and other infrastructure projects, as well as rural sanitation and environmental remediation, the rural landscape has changed dramatically, becoming more beautiful and livable.
In the distance is the Shannai Village Farmer's Park
Wenjiao Village Park