Longxian Village has a history of 1200 years. There are more than 400 acres of fish terraces and 1, more than 40 ponds in the village, which has a unique advantage in cultivating field fish. Fish farming in rice fields has become a habit passed down from generation to generation by local farmers. In front of and behind the villagers' houses, in the fields and wherever there is water, fish are raised in paddy fields, canals, ditches, ponds and ponds, regardless of the depth of water. Walking into the dragon is like walking into the world of fish. "There is water in the pond, there are fish in the water, and fish are birds" has built a beautiful landscape.
1999, Longxian Village was awarded the title of "China Tianyu Village" by the Ministry of Agriculture. On May 16, 2005, fish farming in Longxian paddy field was listed as one of the first four "global important agricultural cultural heritage protection projects" by FAO for its unique, key and ingenious system, and fish was born here.
Every year, experts and scholars from FAO and Chinese Academy of Sciences will hold a seminar on rice and fish health system in Lailong County. More than 20 foreign scholars, including the United States and Japan, came all the way to Longxian to inspect the rice and fish health care system; Students from Zhejiang University, China Agricultural University, South China Agricultural University, Nanjing Agricultural University and other well-known domestic universities have used Longxian as an important internship place; Well-known media reporters from home and abroad, such as CCTV 1, CCTV 4, CCTV 7, Hong Kong Ming Pao, Hong Kong Cable TV, BBC and National Meteorological Administration, went to Longxian County to cover the Qingtian rice and fish health care system, and Longxian Village became a household name "China Tianyu Village".
Overseas Chinese in Longxian have a long history. Wu Gankui of Longxian Village is one of the earliest overseas Chinese in Qingtian. He first sold Qingtian stone carvings to Europe. In the thirty-first year of Guangxu, he won the silver prize and the first prize in Belgium and Rome respectively. This is the first time that Qingtian Stone Carving has won an international prize. 1930, Wu Gankui returned to China and built a house with five rooms, two halls and three floors in Longxian Village, which was called "Yanling Old Residence" in history. Bricks, cement and other raw materials for building this house were all brought back from America, and the old house is still well preserved. Today, the younger generation of overseas Chinese are engaged in trade, clothing processing, catering and other industries in more than 20 countries and regions around the world, most of which are concentrated in western European countries such as Italy and Spain, so the Dragon is now an "overseas Chinese family".
There is a saying called "One United Nations". During the Spring Festival, foreign relatives and children come back for dinner together, including Italy, Spain, Brazil, Germany and so on. Up to 10 countries, no less than the round tables of the United Nations. More than 50 children in Longxian Kindergarten come from 10 countries, and the fight between two children is dubbed as an "international dispute". Now the villagers in Longxian are most concerned about the euro market and international news. Because it is well known in Longxian that the international situation is related to the trend of the euro, the usual greeting is "Is the euro going up or down today?"
Longxian village can be listed as an important agricultural cultural heritage implementation site in the world, and the original ecological farming mode of rice and fish system can remain unchanged for nearly a thousand years. In fact, this has a lot to do with overseas Chinese. On the one hand, overseas Chinese brought back advanced ecological concepts, broadened the horizons of Longxian people, and kept the traditional concept of harmonious coexistence between man and nature from being destroyed. On the other hand, overseas Chinese have brought back wealth, making rice and fish farming a leisure mode rather than an industrial mode. Similarly, it is overseas Chinese who make the golden signboard of agricultural cultural heritage bigger and bigger, and embark on the road of heritage promoting the development of eco-tourism and feeding back the development of new countryside with tourism. At present, the three farmhouses in the village are all founded and operated by overseas Chinese, which has driven the employment transfer of nearly 400 farmers.
There is a long history of fish farming in rice fields in Longxian County. When villagers' daughters get married, there is a custom of taking fish (fingerling) as dowry, which symbolizes love of labor and getting rich. Fish lanterns are also a traditional culture bred by fish farming in rice fields. They are made according to the image of freshwater fish, with beautiful shapes and bright colors. Generally, it consists of 1 1, 13, 15 lanterns. There is a women's fish lantern team in Longxian village. During the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and other important rural festivals, fish lanterns will be performed to promote traditional culture. Arowana lanterns "swam" into Beijing, "swam" to Shanghai, and even "swam" out of the country, and were displayed on the international stage such as the Olympic Games and the World Expo, and were praised as "the best fish in the world" by national leaders.
There is also a "Folk Culture Center" in Longxian County, which focuses on the fish culture, overseas Chinese culture and farming folk culture in Longxian County. The national flags of more than 20 countries are placed on both sides of the hall, representing the places where more than 800 overseas Chinese in Longhua live and work. There are traditional farm tools such as looms, stone mills and farm tools in each exhibition hall, as if you can see the pastoral life of the ancestors of Longxian County, that is, "You plow the fields and I weave, you chop wood and I cook".
Another feature of Longxian County is that "no rope is needed to plow cattle". When you arrive at Longxian Village, you will find that there is no cow nose rope for cattle farming equipment. In other places, cattle noses are tied with ropes, but there is no cow nose rope for cattle farming in Longxian Village. Stranger still, as long as the cattle in Longxian county are sold to other places, they must use cow ropes. Cattle from other places don't need ropes when they arrive in Longxian County. Why? There is an ancient and moving legend among the people-Xiujinkou, Luo Yin. According to legend, Luo is the son of a woodcutter and a tiger spirit, and he will keep his word. One day, he passed by Longxian County and the binding rope was broken. He saw a farmer plowing the land with a rope in his hand. Luo asked Li Tian's brother for a cow rope and said, "We don't need a cow rope to plow in this place in the future." . Since then, Longxian Village has stopped using cattle ropes to cultivate land.
Longxian county, surrounded by mountains, is a "small basin" in Fangshan basin, which is called "Little Fangshan". Holding the house in the shade, the stream passes through the village, which has the charm of "Xanadu" written by Tao Yuanming. You can hear the roar of water far from the entrance to the village, which is the Eighteen Lakes in Longxian County. After the rain, you can see waterfalls, which shake the valley. The current is swift and confusing, just like "the cry of hordes" and "Ma Benteng". Just like the vanity hanging in the air, flying beads and jade, like fog and haze, it is spectacular. The village is densely covered with fish ponds, houses are strewn at random and terraced fields are distinct. Behind the village, there are green bamboos in Gu Song, deep valleys, many strange rocks, mountains falling in love one after another, and silver dancing in the mountains, which are water, streams and springs. Accompanied by the singing of running water and the laughter of field fish, you will see the world of water, the ocean of fish and the fairytale new countryside.
There is also Yun Qi Mountain, which combines "the beauty of the south of the Yangtze River and the amorous feelings of the north" at an altitude of165,438+064m. It is the largest alpine wetland, the largest alpine meadow and natural pasture in eastern China. In order to prevent cattle from escaping, a stone wall about 4 kilometers long was built, which is called "Little Great Wall" and quite spectacular. There are Yun Qi Mountain Reservoir, Longgong Lake and Gaotianyue Lake, which are good places for cool summer and autumn and outdoor camping. Standing on the top of Yun Qi Mountain, you can see Jiang Xinyu, Wenzhou, which feels like "Yun Qi Mountain rises and Jiang Xinyu ebbs".
This village is clean and tidy. Street lamps are installed every 50 meters in the village. A 600-meter-long outdoor leisure and sightseeing trail has been built. The investment is 6.5438+0.5 million yuan, and all canals, rivers and ponds in the village have been comprehensively improved. The activities of "building a clean village and a harmonious home" were carried out, and a cleaning team was set up, with a special person responsible for cleaning public health, collecting and transporting village garbage, strictly implementing the health management treaty and implementing the "three guarantees" system in front of every household. Highlight ecological protection, strictly control forest fire prevention, increase the management of graves, block up the new and treat the old, carry out afforestation activities and restore vegetation. Carry out pollution control actions to protect rivers from the source.
In the construction of spiritual civilization. There are folk mediation groups at the village level, and a long-term mediation mechanism has been established, which has changed the single mediation into multi-party mediation, and truly realized "small things don't leave the village, big things don't leave the village". Village libraries have also been established to provide villagers with popular science and cultural knowledge. At the same time, a fish lantern team, a yangko team and a cultural performance team were established, which made the village persist in activities all the year round. Civilized schools have also been established in the village, occupying rural ideological and cultural positions with healthy and progressive spiritual culture, and the villagers' civilized quality and moral habits have been continuously improved.
Management democracy. Village party branches and village committees strengthen and improve various systems such as village-level democratic management. In order to strengthen democratic supervision and increase the transparency of work, the standardized village affairs publicity column was re-installed, and the examination and approval of housing and homestead, family planning indicators, financial revenue and expenditure, etc. were all disclosed to the masses on time and accepted by the masses. In recent years, the village-level democratic system is sound, the construction of group organizations is standardized, various rules and regulations are complete, and village-level archives management is equipped with special personnel to be responsible for management.