“龙会”是杭州旧时的民间救火组织。因为当时称消防器材为“龙”,如用人力出水的肩抬的“抬龙”,十几个人拖拉的“拖龙”,机械化的汽车“洋龙”,半机械化的“泵浦龙”、“蝴蝶龙”,因此,救火机构称作“龙会”。辛亥革命后,出现了“消防”这一新名词,但老百姓口头上仍旧沿用“龙会”这个称呼。 “龙会”是泛称,每个“龙会”都有自己的名号,并按地段命名,如清泰集、盐桥集、南星集、艮山集、天竺集等等。每个集的人数不等,多则上百,少则几十人。清同治的期杭城龙会有23个集,1934年发展到43个集,并拥有抬龙31 “Dragon Club” is an old-time civil fire fighting organization in Hangzhou. Because at that time the fire fighting equipment was called “dragons,” such as “lift dragons” carried by man-made water shoulders, “dragons” dragging by dozens of people, mechanized cars “foreign dragons,” semi-mechanized “ ”Butterfly Dragon“, therefore, the fire agency called ”Dragon will.“ After the Revolution of 1911, a new term of ”firefighting“ appeared. However, the common people still used the term ”longhui“ verbally. ”Dragon will“ is a general term, each ”Dragon will" have their own name, and named by the lot, such as Qingtai set, salt bridge set, Southern Star Set, Genshan set, Tianzhu set and so on. The number of each set ranging from as many as hundreds, ranging from dozens of people. Hangzhou Tongzhi period will have 23 sets, the development of 43 sets in 1934, and has a dragon 31