Where is the Longquan Luodai in Chengdu?

Luodai Town, located in Dongshan, Chengdu, Sichuan, is an ancient Hakka town. Founded in the Three Kingdoms period, formerly known as Zhen Zichang. According to legend, the jade belt of Liu Chan, the ruler at the end of Shu-Han Dynasty, fell into an octagonal well near the town, which was named as "Luodai" and later evolved into "Luodai". During the Tang and Song Dynasties, it belonged to Lingquan County, Chengdu, ranking first among the "three towns" in Dongshan. Luodai Town is located at the junction of Chengdu Plain and Longquan Mountain Range, 8 km south of the seat of Longquan District Government in Chengdu, and 0/8 km west of Chengdu/KLOC. Now it is the main area of Chengdu's eastward development. The outer ring road bypasses Luodai, and the newly-built Luo Cheng Road is the main urban road of Chengdu, which is connected with Chengdu as a whole.

More than 400 years ago, a group of Hakkas moved from coastal areas to Luodai Town, the eastern suburb of Chengdu, with the immigration tide of "Huguang filling Sichuan". After that, Luodai Town gradually developed into the town with the largest concentration of Hakkas in western China, and was called "the first town of Hakkas in western China".

Luodai Town has a population of 23,000, more than 90% of whom are Hakkas, who speak Hakka dialect and follow Hakka customs. There are many legends and historical sites in Luodai town, and the old streets in the town are mainly in the architectural style of Qing Dynasty. The four major Hakka guilds, Hakka Museum and Hakka Park in Huguang and North Sichuan are located among them, which is also known as the "hometown of Hakka town guilds". At present, the town belongs to Longquanyi District of Chengdu, and it is a key pilot town for the construction of small towns in Sichuan Province and a provincial-level historical and cultural town. Now it is a national AAAA-level scenic spot. The town has developed rapidly, and there are many special snacks and local products in the town, such as sad bean jelly, old bacon in ancient town, swan eggs and so on. , deeply loved by tourists.

Hakka dialect, pronounced as "Haga" in both Hakka dialect and Chinese Cantonese dialect, originally means "customer", which is symmetrical with the local aborigines and later calls itself. With Luodai Town as the center, there are about 500,000 Hakkas living in more than a dozen surrounding towns, accounting for more than 80% of the local population. Their cultural identity is marked by whether they can speak Hakka, ancestral writing and family background.

The ancestors of Hakkas once lived in the Central Plains of China. Due to social changes and wars, they moved to the south on a large scale five times, and gradually formed the Hakka clan, which became an important branch of the eight ethnic groups of the Han nationality. On the occasion of the fourth migration of Qingkanggan, the Hakkas migrated from southern Jiangxi, eastern Guangdong and northern Guangdong to Sichuan, Hunan, Guangxi, Taiwan Province and western Guangdong, which was called "westward movement" in the history of Hakka immigration, and the Hakkas in Sichuan basically came from this westward movement.

Sichuan is one of the five largest Hakka settlements in China, with more than 2 million Hakkas, most of whom are descendants of immigrants from Guangdong, Fujian and Jiangxi in the early Qing Dynasty. They mainly live in Dongshan area in Chengdu, western Sichuan, and are collectively called "Dongshan Hakka" in academic circles. Up to now, more than1500,000 people can speak Hakka and keep Hakka customs.

Water Dragon Festival and Fire Dragon Festival are held every year in Luodai, and Hakka ancestor worship activities have been held since 2008.