The best time to visit Meizhou Island

Best time in Meizhou Island: Putian has a warm and rainy climate, which is a typical subtropical oceanic monsoon climate. The average annual temperature in Putian is between 18℃-21℃, and the climate is mild, making it suitable for travel all year round.

In the Mekong of the water, on the island of the sea, an islet is like an eyebrow, and there is a magical island embraced by the sea and sunshine. It is Meizhou Island. Meizhou Island is located at the mouth of Meizhou Bay in central Fujian, facing the Taiwan Strait, only 1.8 nautical miles away from the mainland, 72 nautical miles from Taichung Port in Taiwan to the east, 100 nautical miles from Xiamen Port to the south, and 70 nautical miles from Fuzhou Mawei Port to the north. The transportation is very convenient. The island is long and narrow from north to south, shaped like an emei, with a land area of ??14.35 square kilometers and a population of 38,000. Meizhou Island has a typical subtropical maritime monsoon climate, with an average annual temperature of 20°C and an average annual rainfall of about 1000mm. It has a mild climate, beautiful scenery and unique tourism resources, making it a rare tourist resort.

Blue sky, blue sea, sunshine and sandy beaches form a romantic and charming coastal scenery. The island's coastline is 30.4 kilometers long, with 13 golden beaches with a total length of 20 kilometers, and 5 kilometers of continuous sea rock. There are more than 20 scenic spots on the island that integrate blue sea, golden sand, green forests, sea rocks, strange rocks and temples, forming a unique natural landscape with mountains in the water and sea outside the mountains. The mountains and sea are connected, and the sea and sky are the same color. The Meiyu tide sound, which is a masterpiece of the ages, may be like the drizzle of an orchestra, or the sound of bells and drums, like a complaint, like a complaint, or like a song or a roar. The rugged Goose Tail Sacred Stone, after years of baptism, looks like a turtle, a frog, an eagle, a lion, and a boat, lifelike and lifelike. The gorgeous and charming golden beach is 3 kilometers long and 500 meters wide. The beach is flat and gently sloping, and the sand is as fine as face. It is known as "the best beach in the world".

Here, there are not only beautiful natural scenery, but also haunting cultural landscape. Meizhou Island is the hometown of Mazu, the famous goddess of peace on the sea, and the birthplace of Mazu culture. It is a holy place where nearly 200 million Mazu believers in more than 20 countries and regions around the world dream and worship. It is known as the "Mecca of the East". Mazu Lin Mo was born on the 23rd day of March in the first year of Jianlong of the Song Dynasty (960 AD), and died on the 9th day of September in the fourth year of Yongxi year of the Song Dynasty (987 AD). She never married. During her lifetime, she was intelligent, intelligent, studious, knowledgeable in medicine, weather, and good at navigation. In her short life, she did many good things for her neighbors and passing merchants and fishermen at sea. Later generations admired her spirit of doing good deeds, accumulating virtue, and rescuing people in distress, and built a shrine for her on Meiyu Peak. This is the origin of Mazu belief. Standing on the top of the Meizhou Ancestral Temple Mountain, the Mazu Ancestral Temple is majestic and majestic against the backdrop of beautiful peaks, strange rocks, secluded caves and quiet forests; the majestic statue of Mazu, facing the sea, is graceful and kind. It is an eternal sea god and a symbol of peace

The spirit of Mazu is everywhere in ancient and modern times. Mazu belief has a broad mass base in Taiwan. There are more than 1,500 Mazu temples in Taiwan and more than 16 million believers. Since the 1990s, Meizhou Island has received up to one million domestic and foreign pilgrims every year, including nearly 100,000 Taiwanese compatriots. It is the place where the mainland attracts the most and densest Taiwan compatriots, especially during Mazu’s birthday and Mazu’s ascension festivals every year. During this period, pilgrimage tourism activities were unprecedentedly grand. As the saying goes, "Kun Ling spread in the Song Dynasty, and the holy sites of Meizhou were evident; to this day, the fragrance is everywhere on the sea." In June 1988, Meizhou Island was designated as a tourism economic zone open to the outside world in Fujian Province. In April 1992, a special tourist visa on arrival for Taiwan compatriots was established. In October of the same year, a national tourist resort was established.

Since then, Taiwan compatriots have been making pilgrimages in an endless stream, and tourism and vacation are in the ascendant. Over the past ten years, the development and construction of Meizhou Island has made great progress. Now it has built Mazu Temple, Ewei Mountain, Golden Beach, Lotus Pond Beach, Sun Pattern Stone View and other scenic spots, a ring road across the island, a ferry terminal, a 3,000-ton More than 50 infrastructure facilities such as the Taiwan Passenger Terminal, cross-sea power supply and water supply, communications, and greening, as well as service reception facilities such as star-rated hotels, guesthouses, shopping malls, and entertainment centers that can provide more than 1,600 reception beds, make Meizhou Island increasingly famous Mazu cultural pilgrimage center and southeast coastal tourist resort.

The scenery here is beautiful, and it has been rated as a national AAAA tourist area, one of the top 100 green counties in the country, a demonstration site for civilized scenic tourist areas in Fujian Province, and one of the top ten counties with beautiful environment in the province; the folk customs here are simple, Warm and hospitable, you can come here to dress up in Mazu makeup, eat Mazu feasts, taste Mazu holy water, watch the sunrise, watch the fishing boats sing in the evening, and pray for smooth sailing. It is rich in seafood, and you can enjoy seaside fishing, seafood delicacies, and seaside vacations. Meizhou Island, the hometown of Mazu in the new century, is a rising sea pearl on the west coast of the Taiwan Strait!