Historical evolution of Longzhou

In the early Tang Dynasty, Yongxi County was changed to Longzhou, and Luoding restored the political system of one state and four counties. After being renamed Kaiyang County, Longzhou was renamed Longzhou in the first year of Gan Yuan (AD 758), which governed four counties: Longshui, Kaiyang, Yongxi (later changed to Yongning) and Annan (later changed to Zhennan), including all Luoding and a small part of Yunfu, Xinyi, Yunan and Cenxi. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the treasure was opened for six years, Longzhou was abolished, and the four counties were merged into Longshui County, which lasted for more than 600 years.

In the fifth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1577), Longshui County was upgraded to Luoding Zhili Prefecture for suppressing the "Yao Rebellion" in Luopang area, and the name "Luoding" went down in history. Luoding Zhili Prefecture governs Dong 'an (Yunfu County) and Xining (Yunan County), commonly known as "San Luo". Until the Revolution of 1911, Luoding Prefecture was changed to Luoding County. Sanluo area has been an important administrative region of Guangdong for more than 340 years.

In the 16th year of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (AD 728), the secretariat of Longzhou led the Liao people to oppose the Tang Dynasty and proclaimed themselves emperor, and captured more than 40 cities in western Guangdong. In the Tang Dynasty, eunuchs led hundreds of thousands of troops to encircle Longzhou. Chen and more than 60,000 uprising aides were killed, and many aides were forced to move westward. Liao people who stayed in the same place in the Tang Dynasty were renamed Bo people (now Zhuang people) in the Song and Yuan Dynasties.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Yao people who originally lived in Jingchu moved southward on a large scale and settled in various parts of Guangdong and Guangxi. Since then, the Five Dynasties, the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty have lasted for 8900 years, and the residents in Luoding area are mainly Yao and children. Gu Yanwu, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, said, "Young people are old."

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During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the struggle of Yao and Dong people in Luoding area against the oppression of feudal dynasties was ups and downs, which lasted for more than 200 years. In the early Wanli period of Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty dispatched 100,000 troops to conquer Luoding Yao nationality, which lasted for one year and killed more than 40,000 people. A large number of Yao people fled and a small number fled to the mountains.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the system of reclaiming farmland was implemented, and many Han soldiers who participated in reclaiming farmland settled in Luoding. At the same time, the government openly recruited refugees to settle down and reclaim land, and a large number of Han people moved to both sides of the Longjiang River. In the fifth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1577), officers and men sent to Luoding besieged the Yao people who settled in Luoding in batches. Since then, a large number of Han people have been moving in, and the structure of Luoding residents has changed greatly, from the original Yao and Dong people to Han immigrants as the main body.

Although Gu Luoding was located in Lingnan, his fame spread to China. Many famous historical figures in the past dynasties have been to Luoding, such as the poet Song of the Tang Dynasty, the prime minister Zhang Jianzhi and Huan of Wuhou. Weng Fanggang, how. They all avoided chaos or lived in Luoding, leaving many poems. Song Wenzhi was an outstanding poet in the early Tang Dynasty. When he joined the army in Longzhou, he wrote two poems, Crossing Man Cave and Entering Longjiang, which were included in The Whole Tang Poetry, describing the situation of tooth tattoos, boils and poverty of ethnic minorities living in Luoding at that time.

Chen Jiyuan, an aristocrat of Chen family, wrote the Cliff Stone Inscription of Longci Dojo (Preface to Parallel Prose) in the Tang Dynasty, taking the essence of parallel prose in the Six Dynasties, with beautiful writing and composition, which was later included in Quantang Wen and Guangdong. During the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty, many local officials in Luoding had martial arts in writing, such as Chen Lin, Zheng Renkui, Zhang, Hong and Song Qifeng. He advocated learning and promoted the development of Luoding's culture and education. By the Republic of China, Luoding had become one of the cultural counties and cities in Guangdong.

Luoding, known as the "hometown of culture", is a famous historical and cultural city in Guangdong.