Welcome to Dongguan. The first thing we need to pay attention to when wecome to Dongguan is the pronunciation of our city name. Many friends who camehere before read it as "Dongwan" just because there is an idiom called smile.You are very happy. We Dongguan people don't agree. How can we become a bowl?Dongguan is only rich in a kind of aquatic plants, called guancao. Itspronunciation is "Guan". It is also in the east of Guangzhou, so it graduallyhas the name of Dongguan.
Some people may want to ask, what is the use of guancao? It used to be veryuseful in the past. It was hot in Guangdong. In the past, Cantonese used to havemats on their beds all year round. What kind of mats were they made of? This isguancao! At that time, it was also exported to Hong Kong and Southeast Asia inbulk, because the weather there was also very hot! In the past, when studentsfrom Guangdong went to Beijing to study, everyone took a mat instead of amattress. In winter, there was only one mat on the bed board. When the schoolleaders checked the students' dormitories, they almost burst into tears. Theyquickly asked the students' office to subsidize him with a mattress. As aresult, when they went to see it in a few days, the mattress was supplemented,but there was also a mat on it. There was really no way to take them. This isour guancao The huge attraction of Xi! But now the grass industry in Dongguan ismiserable. Because people's living standards have improved and every family hasbeen equipped with air conditioners, the industry has come to an end. Now if youwant to see the grass mat in Dongguan, you have to go to the museum!
OK, now our car is in the center of Dongguan City. Do you see the ancientcity building in front of us, which is a bit like Tiananmen Square? That is thewest gate of Dongguan. It was built in the Ming Dynasty. Some tourists aresurprised that Dongguan has a long history. In fact, Dongguan has a much longerhistory than this. The first official office was set up here by the firstemperor of Qin Dynasty. Dongguan county was set up in the Three Kingdoms period,and Dongguan county was set up in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Unfortunately, it wasDongguan County until 1985. Look at us here. We have been a county for nearly20__ years!
What is more, what is the reason why, in the past, there was no such thingas Dongguan in history. Destructed opium in the town, such as "Humen tobacco",everyone knows it, but Humen is just a town in Dongguan. Everyone who readshistory books knows Humen, but no one knows Dongguan. If we had named Dongguantobacco for that year, then Dongguan would have known destructed opium.
This tower is called Yingen tower. It is said that during the Hongwu Periodof the Ming Dynasty, Japanese pirates often came here to plunder. At that time,there was no barrier around Dongguan. So a general named Chang ran led the armyand the people to build a city wall and four gates around Dongguan. The wholewall was 1299 feet long, which surrounded the whole Dongguan City. At that time,the gate was closed, xiaori Let's jump outside the city! No matter whether it'sa ninja or a tortoise, it can't get in.
Moreover, the city wall has the function of flood control. When there is aflood in summer, the city gate is blocked with sandbags, so that the city willnot be flooded. It's really making the people rich. Therefore, the people ofDongguan have a lot of feelings for this building. Even though the urban area ischanging, they are reluctant to demolish the old building. Now they haveinvested a lot of money to rebuild the surrounding area into xichengmen CulturalSquare, which has become an important place for citizens to have leisure andentertainment and hold large-scale festivals. You can see that behind theancient city building is the newly built four-star hotel in Dongguan. Does itfeel like "five thousand years at a glance" standing here?
Well, our car continues to show you around the city. Have you noticed thatthere are many majestic motorcycle mounted policemen on the streets of Dongguan?This is our 110 public security police in Dongguan. They are very quick. Theypromise to arrive at the scene within 5 minutes when they report the case. Butthere is one. They don't wear white police uniforms, but colorful camouflageclothes. So some tourists say that Dongguan seems to be under militarymanagement. Don't get me wrong. Our Dongguan is not under military management,but the police are armed police. So they wear this kind of green clothes, maybebecause everyone likes green. You don't see our Dongguan How good is thegreening of the block? The roads are like gardens.
However, Dongguan was not so beautiful in the past, but now it is mainlyforced by Shenzhen, because Dongguan and Shenzhen are both built on the same 107national highway. Once upon a time, people from Shenzhen moved Miaopu to thestreet, and then they went to Dongguan, where, wow, there are houses everywhere.The whole big construction site is full of mud trucks, The cement road haschanged into a yellow mud road. There are some small trees on the roadsideoccasionally, and the leaves are also covered with a layer of ash powder.Therefore, the environmental reputation of Dongguan was bad at that time. Nowyou can see that there are several green belts on the roadside, including darkgreen trees, light green grass, red flowers and golden petals. We are all proudto live here!
OK, now look at the car window. Do you see the strange building withChinese style cornice and glazed tile roof in the front and Western stylefactory building in the back? That is the branch of the famous Swiss Nestlecoffee company in Dongguan. They may have designed the gate and wall of thefactory with glazed tile roof to express their respect for Chinese culture, butthe factory keeps its western architectural characteristics, which is a typicalreflection of the characteristics of Dongguan industry, that is, Sino foreignjoint venture.
Dongguan is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in Guangdong Province,mainly Hong Kong compatriots. There is a saying in Hong Kong that "one out ofevery 10 Hong Kong people is from Dongguan". There is also a saying in Dongguanthat "every Dongguan family has at least one relative in Hong Kong.". Somepeople may not understand the relationship between this and Dongguan industry.This is because at that time, Hong Kong received many foreign orders for toys,electronics and other processing. It was too expensive to produce labor in HongKong. Therefore, after favorable policies, they all moved their factories to themainland one after another. Where is the best place to move to the mainland? Ofcourse, it's moving to a place close to you and where you have acquaintances. SoDongguan became their first choice.
Now, it's no longer just small-scale Hong Kong private enterprises settingup factories in Dongguan. Many well-known international companies have alsochosen Dongguan, such as the famous Nokia company, the Nestle coffee company wesaw just now, and the company that produces the golden overlord battery. Thereare also many large factories in Chinese Taiwan, all of which are listed companies inChinese Taiwan. Some of the factories set up here are as large as a few in one factoryTen thousand people! For example, the largest Yuyuan shoe factory producesfamous brand sports shoes such as Nike, Adidas and fina. There are nearly 100000people in one factory! According to media reports, one of the ten pairs ofsports shoes in the world is made in Dongguan, and 80% of the world's mice aremade in Dongguan. This achievement is also the result of the efforts of a largenumber of foreign workers and technicians. Therefore, the number of localresidents in Dongguan is 1.5 million, while that of foreign ones is 3million.
Great changes have taken place in Dongguan. In the past, it was just asmall town. You can know from many local place names, such as Huangcun,Zhangcun, yajiaowei, niushitang and so on. But now there are no villages inthose places. They are all high-rise buildings and wide streets in the urbanarea. Therefore, niushitang has changed its name to aozhitang, because itspronunciation is the same as that of "niushitang" in Guangdong, but it'sdifferent when it's written. It's not so ugly to hang a road sign high up likethis.
Many towns below Dongguan are no longer rural towns. If you have the chanceto visit Chang'an and Zhangmutou in Dongguan these days, you may have to marvelthat they are small Hong Kong! Dongguan has a total area of 2465 squarekilometers. If you ask how many cities and villages there are, I can hardlyanswer you. Because Dongguan's countryside is also like a city with high-risebuildings, just take a look at the road from Dongguan to Houjie Town, which weare going to pass. It's full of factories, shops and houses. We can no longerfind the boundary between towns.
Everyone can see that there are many luxuriant trees on both sides of theroad, full and round crown, that is the famous litchi tree! If you come toDongguan from May to June, you can see that these big trees are all covered withred litchi. I remember that a poet once praised them as "flying flame to crossthe sky" and "red cloud tens of thousands of weight". That's true.
As we all know, the biggest characteristic of litchi is that it can't bestored. Bai Juyi said that it changes color in one day, fragrance in two days,taste in three days, and color and fragrance in four or five days. That's whythe story of Yang Guifei's "riding the princess of the red world and laughing".Now with modern means of transportation, it becomes "a plane, everyone laughs.".Have you ever laughed in your hometown? However, no matter how fresh it is, it'sbetter to come to our litchi village in Dongguan, pick the biggest and reddestone from the litchi tree by hand, crack the skin, and bite it so delicious!That's a real laugh!
So welcome to Dongguan litchi market. The litchi varieties in Dongguan arethe best in Guangdong. We don't eat litchi from other cities. However,Dongguan's good varieties of litchi are very concentrated in the market, whichis relatively short. Only in the tens of days from May to June every year, therest of the time, such as March Red in March and April and black leaves in Julyand August, are not good varieties. So you should not come in those few months.If you come to Dongguan and eat bad varieties of litchi, why don't you go backand say bad things about Dongguan litchi Is bad our Dongguan litchi name, thenour litchi can not agree!
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