What are the interesting places in Pingtan?

The largest and most representative "Pingtan strange stone" is a spherical concentric wind fossil egg similar to "Peony blossoming". The inside of a stone egg is similar to that of an onion, with a concentric and round cross section.

Once your feet are sucked by mud, it is difficult to pull them out, but at the same time, your body is also easy to lose its balance and fall-at this time, if you encounter tides again, the consequences will be unimaginable.

If you plan to see the sea, it is estimated that few people will include "Fujian" in their itinerary, let alone Pingtan Island along the coast of Fujian. In fact, this seemingly insignificant island is not only the fifth largest island in China and one of the main ports of the ancient Maritime Silk Road in China, but also the closest place on the mainland to the island of Taiwan Province Province, only 68 nautical miles (about 126 km) from Hsinchu, Taiwan Province Province.

Geographically, Pingtan Island connects Fujian Haitan Strait on the left and Taiwan Province Strait on the right, surrounded by the sea, just like a pearl embedded in blue waves. The island is 29 kilometers long from north to south and 19 kilometers wide from east to west. * * It consists of 126 islands and 702 reefs, and is called "Thousand Island Reef". Because its main island looks like an altar floating on the water, Pingtan Island is also called "Haitan Island".

Rare marine erosion landforms:

Stone egg, stone peony, stone candlestick

Although there are white and soft beaches and winding beautiful coastline, the real essence of Pingtan Island is not the sea, but the reef at the junction of land and sea.

There are so many rocks on Pingtan Island that even if you travel around the world, it is hard to see them anywhere else. Strange rocks lie quietly on the beach, and some jump into the air like "dolphins swimming in the water"; Some are like "crocodiles stabbing the sky", which is unstoppable; There is also "turtle landing", swaying and crawling ... both in form and spirit, lifelike. Among these "pictographic stones", the most famous and majestic are "semi-sail" and "Haitan God".

Semi-Ocean Fan Shi (also called "Shipaiyang") is located more than 500 meters west of Kan 'ao Village, Suwo Town, Pingtan Island. Seen from a distance, it is a large disc-shaped reef, supporting two monumental sea pillars, one high and one low, just like a big ship with double sails braving the wind and waves. Among them, the east sea pillar is as high as 33 meters, and the west sea pillar is 17 meters, which is the largest weathered granite sea pillar found in the world at present.

On the south side of the island, corresponding to the semi-sail, there is a huge gray-white granite lying flat, shaped like Maitreya. This "Shili" has a bald head, a bulging stomach, straight arms, and complete ears and throat. It is 330m long, with a chest width of150m, a head width of 35m and a head height of 3 1 m, which is four times the size of Leshan Giant Buddha in Sichuan.

In addition to these big guys, the largest and most representative "Pingtan Rock" is a spherical concentric wind fossil egg named "Peony Flower". The inside of a stone egg is similar to that of an onion, with a concentric and round cross section. According to statistics, this kind of stone egg can be layered at most 18 laps, and at least three or five laps, and the distance between each lap is very symmetrical.

In Pingtan Island, all kinds of sea cliffs, caves, caves, terraces and other marine landforms are dotted with dazzling things. Tao Yuanming's works are like "Yangpingtan, but Shu Naizhuo; The beautiful scenery is full of joy and expectation. However, in the eyes of geologists, this kind of cultural scenery is a lasting competition between rocks and the sea: some experts point out that the rock strata in Pingtan Island are mainly granite, which looks hard, but there are many joints in it, and the sea water washes and erodes along the joints, eventually carving the rocks into strange shapes.

Stone fault:

A stone house like ink painting and oil painting

In addition to being used for viewing, stones are also very practical in Pingtan Island, which is known as "long stones don't grow grass". One of the most important uses is to build houses.

Pingtan Island is rocky, surrounded by the sea, and it is stormy all year round. Ordinary building materials are simply not resistant to "tossing". So Pingtan people took local materials and used the rich granite on the island as building materials: first, the stones were processed into square stones of different sizes to build the main body of the house, and the roof of the stone house was "human" without eaves; Then cover the arched tiles and press countless boulders to prevent the wind from lifting the tiles.

In Pingtan, as long as there are villages, there are stone houses. For thousands of years, the residents of the island have been living in caves, "watching the sunrise in the morning and listening to the sound of the waves at night;" Farmers can be seen farming, and birds can be heard whispering. "Looking around, these stones built on the mountain and living by the sea are basically made of granite, from foundation to wall, from doorframes to beams and columns, to fences and pigsty. Even the roads and alleys in the village, wells and docks by the sea are all made of stones.

What makes people shine is the mottled color of these stones. Among them, the rocks from the living water on the island to Donglong are mostly igneous rocks. This kind of stone is hard and slightly black in blue ink. After a long period of wind and rain, their color gradually changed from blue ink to black, which looked like ink painting from a distance. In contrast to this elegant ink painting style, Shicuo, located in Baisheng Village at the northernmost tip of Pingtan Island, has formed a more enthusiastic and visually impactful oil painting style: rows of stone houses are red or yellow or white or gray, with cold or warm colors, and the picture is bright, smooth and very beautiful.

If we look closely, we can find that there are three main types of stone houses in Pingtan Island: four fan cuo, bamboo cuo and a stone cuo dedicated to official residence. Among them, "Sifancuo" is the main stone cuo type in Pingtan, which is similar to "Siyantang" in Putian, and generally has no eaves (eaves are not exposed) or only half eaves.

Locals say that the four-door style is dominated by "single entry and four rooms", and the left and right four houses are distributed on both sides; Nave is also divided into front hall and back hall. The back hall is generally used as a kitchen, utility room, warehouse, or for placing fishery and agricultural production equipment.

So, when did the caves on Pingtan Island rise? According to the Records of Pingtan County, before the Han Dynasty, the houses in Pingtan were mostly simple stone rafts, with herringbone roofs, tile roofs, tile tubes for pressing tiles and tile pipes for eaves to facilitate drainage-this is the predecessor of the current "stone raft". In the Tang and Song Dynasties, Shitoucuo developed into a number of modular bungalows, each with a width of more than 2 meters and a depth of more than 3 meters, and a small hole in the wall, which is convenient for lighting and ventilation. Since the mid-Qing Dynasty, four doors with strict structure have finally appeared in Pingtan Island. ...

Begging for the small sea:

Walk briskly in the gap of the tide

For photographers, the scenery of Pingtan Island is not only the sea erosion landform and rock outcrops, but also the beaches in the sunset, the afterglow of the sunset, the never-ending waves, the abandoned mottled wooden boats, and the beautiful fishermen wearing bright headscarves to clean, dry and repair fishing nets.

Every evening, when there is a motor sound from far and near on the sea, the originally calm and peaceful beach immediately becomes noisy. Women and children who have been waiting on the beach are getting ready. As soon as the boat landed, they ran to their husbands and fathers to share the joy of harvest.

As soon as the ship docked, every household was busy: strong men were busy pushing, carrying and pulling nets; While helping to count the fish and shrimp in the basket, the women bargained with the fishmongers who had already waited there; While the children are drilling around in the crowd, laughing and playing with each other.

There is an old saying: "eat mountains by relying on mountains, and drink water by relying on water." Pingtan people understand this truth very well. Like other fishermen who eat by the sea, in Pingtan, in addition to those fishermen who are fishing in the open sea with big boats, some people are fishing in the offshore in the most primitive way. They are called "people who beg for the small sea".

The so-called "begging for a small sea" is to catch fish and shrimp on the shallow beach with special tools when the tidal range is low. Because there are many waist-deep trenches on the beach, every fisherman looking for a small sea must put on a special kind of rubber waterproof pants in advance. After launching, fishermen set up purse seines according to their own experience and put cages at the lower end of the purse seines. Everything is ready, and then there is a long wait: at high tide, fish and shrimp will swim offshore and enter the purse seine. When the tide ebbs, the sea will drop, and the fish and shrimp in the purse seine will be trapped and have nowhere to go. In order to find the exit, they will rush into the cage and become "turtles in a jar."

"Begging for a small sea" seems simple, but there are still some risks. Because the cage is placed in the hinterland of the beach and immersed in seawater, knee-deep thick mud will make walking very difficult. If you are not careful, your feet will be sucked by mud and it will be difficult to pull them out. At the same time, your body will easily lose its balance and fall. If you encounter tides again at this time, the consequences will be unimaginable. Therefore, when seeking the sea, whether casting nets or harvesting fish and shrimp, we must speed up and strive for time to go out to sea as soon as possible.

The tides rise and fall, and the sea breeze and waves are like meat cutters, which not only carve out a fairy mountain-like Pingtan Island for the world, but also "turn stone into gold", giving Pingtan people wisdom and inspiration and building a colorful "stone castle". Moreover, in the hazy and dreamy sunset, the tide brings hope and surprise to those who beg for the sea. ...