Why did Huangxian change its name to Longkou?

Longkou is a county-level city in Yantai. It is also the richest county-level city in Shandong, and it is also in a leading position among the top 100 counties with comprehensive economic competitiveness in the country, ranking around 10 every year.

Longkou is famous, but Yantai is known as "Huangxian County". In fact, Huangxian County is the original name of Longkou.

Longkou, called Huangxian in ancient times, was built in the pre-Qin period. The county seat was originally located in Huangchengji Village, Liang Shi Town, on the banks of Huangshui River. It was destroyed by floods in the Sui Dynasty and moved to Dongcheng District on the Jiang Shui River today.

Longkou Port is located on the west coast of the city. Historically, it was a shipping distribution center. 19 14 opened for trade, and Longkou Street developed into a town relying on Longkou Port. After that, it was once separated from Huangxian as Longkou Special Zone, and then returned to Huangxian as Longkou Town.

1986, huangxian county was removed from the county and the city was established as longkou city, and the names of the two places began to be objectively disputed. It was named after Longkou Town in the west of Huangxian County, and then Longkou Port.

At that time, the Huangxian Municipal Government did not move to Longkou Town as required. Longkou Old Town is the original location of Huangxian County, also known as the Imperial City. Xicheng District, with a small area, is a narrow sense of Longkou.

The main city of Longkou is the Imperial City. When buying a bus ticket or taking a taxi, the places to go to the imperial city and Longkou are different. This shows how deep the Longkou people's complex is.

Although the history of Longkou is far less than that of Huangxian County, it is puzzling for outsiders to introduce Huangxian County all day, but Huangxian County does not exist at all. The only result is the relationship between Huangxian and Longkou. Locals argue about several place names every day, while outsiders are confused and miserable.

For example, there is a local handicraft in Shandong called Cloth Tiger in Huangxian County. According to legend, Huang Buhu originated in the middle of the Ming Dynasty and has a history of four or five hundred years. Now it is mainly concentrated in Jiaoshang Village, Nakamura, Beizao Village and Nanshan Village.

There is no uniform specification and style for cloth tigers in Huangxian County. Because of the different materials at hand, ingenious women have created cloth tigers of different shapes with their own aesthetic concepts. The cloth tiger made has greatly distorted the original shape of the tiger, greatly reduced its body and tail, and shortened its limbs. His big round eyes and twisted teeth are obviously exaggerated, which truly reflects the expression of "looking for God is looking for God" pursued by China traditional art.

Travel to Longkou and buy a cloth tiger for your child in Huangxian. That's great.

The general difference between the two is that Longkou is the seaside part and Huangxian is the inland part. Longkou, with a coastline of 68.38 kilometers, is one of the aquatic products bases in Shandong Province, which is rich in sea cucumbers, anchovies, prawns, scallops and pomfrets. Huangxian has mineral resources such as coal, gold, lead and zinc, kaolin, fluorite and placer.

Longkou and Huangxian are now Longkou. It has a long history, with 19 places of interest and 4 revolutionary memorial sites. Among them, the Laiguo Capital Site, as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit, belongs to the city site.

Guicheng Ancient Town is located 6.5 kilometers southeast of Longkou City, between Laishan Mountain, the highest mountain in the county. The Rhine runs through the old city from south to north, joins Huang Shuihe in the northwest and flows into the Bohai Sea.

Guicheng, the ancient capital of Laizi, was founded in the early Western Zhou Dynasty and died in Zhou Lingwang in 55 years, which lasted more than 500 years. The hills around the ancient capital surround the whole city, forming a natural barrier, which is the main road from the northern plain to the southeast mountainous area. After three thousand years of ups and downs, the ground buildings of the ancient city have been basically destroyed, but the outline of the ancient city can still be seen from the remaining city foundation.

The familiar Longkou vermicelli is made of high-quality starch with mung beans and peas as raw materials and refined by traditional techniques. Slices are fine and even, with high smoothness, strong transparency and soft texture. Because of its good raw materials and refined processing, it is called "the crown of vermicelli".

In fact, there are strawberries in Longkou. In the late Qing Dynasty, strawberries were brought to Longkou, Shandong Province with the overseas business of local people, and were called "American berries" and "Korean berries". At present, the city has developed more than 20,000 mu of strawberries with a total output of more than 60,000 tons, ranking first in Shandong Province, and strawberry towns such as Zhongcun Town and Wenji Town have sprung up everywhere.

Now many scenic spots in Longkou are artificially transformed. There is a former residence of Shi Ding, also known as Shi Ding Manor, which was left by millions of Ding families during the reign of Qing Qianlong. It has a history of more than 200 years. Shi Ding's former residence is a large-scale, world-famous and well-preserved "quadrangle" complex in China.

This "Ding Million" is a folk legend in Laohuang County, and many places in Longkou are telling his story. Over time, Longkou's popularity gradually became prominent, and the story of Huangxian became history.

Since the beginning of this year, Longkou has integrated the eastern and western cities with Gangcheng Avenue and Huangxian Avenue as the horizontal axis. Through the expansion of urban areas, the development of important node villages and the layout of urban formats, the integration and interconnection of eastern and western cities have been promoted, the depth of the city has been lengthened and the capacity of the city has been increased.

On the surface, the dispute between the two names is a name change and historical confusion, but in fact it is a cultural and economic difference between geographical regions.

In order to bridge the gap, in recent years, the north and south mountains and seas of Longkou are connected, with the Yongwen River as the longitudinal axis. Through water environment management, landscape construction along the river, cross-strait development and infrastructure improvement, the city, township, mountain and sea will be organically connected from line to surface, and the urban function and quality connotation will be continuously improved.

The beautiful Longkou, an ancient Huangxian county, is actually a place.