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What kind of city is Xiamen?
There are many coastal cities and peninsular cities in China, but not many island cities. The two most famous cities are Hong Kong and Xiamen. Xiamen Island, the smallest island in the bay, retreats in the coastline and is surrounded by the mainland on three sides-wandering in the "garden", which is dazzling.
-0 1- The sea grows into the body
Shimao Strait Building, Gulangyu, Lujiang Road, Xiamen
Xiamen in history refers to the area of Xiamen on the Lujiang River opposite Gulangyu Island. In the traditional sense, Xiamen Port has two meanings. The fishing port around Shapowei used to be? In the 20th century, the golden light of the fishing era flashed by. It began to decline in the 1980 s; Another significance is the freight port, witnessed by the docks along Lujiang Road? The heyday of Xiamen freight port in 1930s. Today's Xiamen Port is a broad modern concept. It has eight ports, including Du Dong, Haicang and Songyu, and also includes Gulei Port and Dongshan Port in Zhangzhou. It has a vast territory and can't see the edge as far as the eye can see.
Longzhuang Garden in Gulangyu, Xiamen
But although Gulangyu and Xiamen are close, they are two worlds.
Gulangyu used to be a sparsely populated island. 1840 After Xiamen became a trading port, westerners successively built religious schools, hospitals, churches, bookstores and consulates on Gulangyu Island. Overseas Chinese in Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, who worked hard in Southeast Asia in the early days, also chose this lush, quiet and deep island, and spared no expense to choose first-class building materials and advanced technology to create a dream of returning home. On Gulangyu Island, about 70%? Where is the building? From the early 20th century to the 1930s, it was built intensively. After the ups and downs, Gulangyu island was isolated from the world.
-02- The island became a city.
In 1930s, the market of Xiamen Dashengli was "connected in time and space", which was the Dashengli of Xiamen in 20 17. Photo courtesy/Purple Day
Xiamen is a bright, warm, beautiful and somewhat lazy city.
After the Opium War, Xiamen, as the first port city in China, began to approach? 200 years of urban development. After the Japanese occupation period, the early days of the People's Republic of China 1949, the renovation of private houses, the "Cultural Revolution", reform and opening up, and the reorganization of state-owned assets, how close is it? With the explosive development of real estate in the past 20 years, this old city with arcades has been preserved, and its texture has remained basically unchanged. Its function has gradually changed from the commercial, political and cultural center in the past to the contemporary comprehensive use and tourist area.
Nanputuo Temple Hall of Great Compassion. At the beginning of the 20th century, a group of German marines took a group photo in front of the temple, and on 20 18, they "met" enthusiastic tourists. Photo courtesy/Purple Day
Now the whole Xiamen Island has become a city. Island is romantic, which makes people attached to it, but understanding a city in the context of urbanization has another meaning.
Once, there were sailboats on the surface of Lujiang River. Now, yachts shuttle on it, and there are many tall buildings on both sides. Photo courtesy/Purple Day
-03- Gardens and orchards, everything is getting better.
The relationship between Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, the "golden triangle" in southern Fujian, is quite subtle. If Quanzhou is the eldest son of southern Fujian and Zhangzhou is the second, then Xiamen is the "little sister".
At the stall selling Creary (a four-stringed instrument) on Gulangyu Island, the stall owner set up a microphone and sang while playing. Photography/Liu
Xiamen is more tolerant and rich in local culture than Zhang Quan. Xiamen is an immigrant city. It knows how to accept and will not be exclusive. Historically, the subjects who created and enjoyed superior conditions here were not locals, but mostly westerners and overseas Chinese. Although Xiamen has ushered in various forces in its ups and downs, there is no collision between them, and this young city has not been able to integrate, thus developing a life culture.
The lifestyle of "Old Gulangyu people" is very foreign-living in foreign houses, drinking coffee, painting oil paintings and holding family concerts. Photography/Liu
A relatively stable and prosperous life seems to have found the Garden of Eden, and contentment is always happy; In a small circle, in a semi-acquaintance society, things are relatively peaceful and gentle, making money harmoniously; The relative edge of geographical location and mild natural conditions make people feel gentler, and they don't need or want to know the big and bad outside the island, leaving room for polishing the details of life, leaving a blank.
Xiamen is a slow city. Compared with the pace of life in other cities, it is slow and leisurely. Such a day has its own charm.
Night view of the eighth market in Xiamen
Xiamen is the kind of leisure to make tea, blow hair, listen to the waves and watch the moon, always in her tenderness.
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