Why was Huang County renamed Longkou?

Longkou is a county-level city in Yantai. It is also the wealthiest 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 ten every year.

Longkou is well-known, but Yantai is known as "Yellow County". In fact, Huang County is the original name of Longkou.

Longkou, known as Huang County in ancient times, was built in the pre-Qin period. The county seat was originally located in Huangchengji Village, Shiliang Town, on the banks of the Huangshui River. It was destroyed by floods in the Sui Dynasty and moved to today's Dongcheng District on the Jiangshui River.

Longkou Port is located on the west coast of the city. Historically, it was a shipping distribution center. In 1914, the port was opened for trade, and Longkou Street developed into a town relying on Longkou Port. After that, it once separated from Huang County and became Longkou Special Zone, and later returned to Huang County and became Longkou Town.

In 1986, Huang County was removed from the county and established as Longkou City, and the two place names began to have objective disputes. It was named after Longkou Town in the west of Huang County, and later Longkou Port.

At that time, the Huang County Municipal Government did not move to Longkou Town as required. Longkou Old City is the original seat of Huang County, also known as the Imperial City. Xicheng District is not large in area and is Longkou in a narrow sense.

The main urban area of ??Longkou is the Imperial City. When buying a bus ticket or taking a taxi, there are different places to go to Imperial City and Longkou. This shows how deep the Longkou people’s Huangxian complex is.

Although the history of Longkou is far inferior to that of Huang County, it is baffling for outsiders to introduce Huang County all day long, but Huang County does not exist at all. The only result is the relationship between Huang County and Longkou. Locals argue endlessly 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 Huang County. According to legend, Huang Buhu originated in the middle of the Ming Dynasty and has a history of four to five hundred years. Now they are mainly concentrated in Jiaoshang Village, Zhongcun, Beizaoqian Village and Nanshan Village.

Huangxian cloth tigers do not have uniform specifications and styles. Ingenious women use their own aesthetic concepts to create cloth tigers of different shapes based on the different materials at hand. The made cloth tiger greatly distorted the original shape of the tiger, the body and tail were greatly shrunk, and the limbs were shortened. Its big round eyes and bared teeth are obviously exaggerated, truly reflecting the expression of "looking for God, but just looking for God" pursued by traditional Chinese art.

It is so wonderful to travel to Longkou and buy a cloth tiger for my children in Huang County.

The general difference between the two is that Longkou is the seaside part and Huangxian is the inland part. Longkou has a coastline of 68.38 kilometers and is one of the aquatic product bases in Shandong Province. It is rich in sea cucumbers, anchovies, prawns, scallops and pomfret. Huang County has coal, gold, lead, zinc, kaolin, fluorite, placer and other mineral resources.

Longkou and Huangxian are both now Longkou. It has a long history and has 19 scenic spots and 4 revolutionary memorial sites. Among them, the ruins of the capital city of Lai are provincial-level cultural relics protection units and are considered city sites.

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

Guicheng, the ancient capital of Laizi, was built in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty and died in the 55th year of King Ling of Zhou Dynasty. It lasted more than 500 years. The hills surrounding the ancient capital surround the entire city, forming a natural barrier and serving as the main road from the northern plains to the southeastern mountains. The ancient city has gone through three thousand years of ups and downs, and the buildings on the ground have been basically destroyed, but the outline of the ancient city can still be seen from the remaining city foundation.

Everyone is familiar with Longkou vermicelli, which is high-quality starch made from mung beans and peas and refined using traditional techniques. The slices are fine and even, with high smoothness, strong transparency and soft texture. Because of its good raw materials and exquisite processing, it is known as the "Crown of Vermicelli".

In fact, there are strawberries in Longkou. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, strawberries were brought to Longkou, Shandong Province along with the local people's overseas business, and they were called "American berries" and "Korean berries". At present, the city has developed more than 20,000 acres of strawberries, with a total output of more than 60,000 tons, ranking first in Shandong Province. Strawberry towns such as Zhongcun Town and Wenji Town have emerged as new players.

Many scenic spots in Longkou are now artificially transformed. There is a former Shiding residence, also known as Shiding Manor, which was the residence left by the Ding Wanwan family during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. It has a history of more than 200 years. Shiding's former residence is a large-scale, world-famous and well-preserved "siheyuan" building complex in China.

This "Ding Wanwan" is a legendary figure among the people of Laohuang County, and his story is told in many places in Longkou. Over time, Longkou's popularity gradually became more prominent, and the story of Huang County became history.

Since this year, Longkou has integrated 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 business formats, the point-to-face integration and interconnection of eastern and western cities has been promoted, the depth of the city has been stretched, and the urban capacity has been increased.

The entanglement between the two names appears to be name changes and historical confusion, but is actually cultural and economic differences between geographical regions.

In order to bridge the gap, Longkou has connected the mountains and seas in the north and south in recent years. With the Yongwen River as the vertical axis, it has integrated the city, countryside, mountains and sea through water environment management, riverside landscape construction, cross-strait development, and infrastructure improvement. Organic connections from line to surface continuously improve urban functions and quality connotation.

The beautiful Longkou, an ancient Huang County, is actually a place.