Old Photo Album —— Four of the Ten Old Scenes in Qingdao: Keizaki Matsumura

Keizaki Matsuyuki is one of the ten scenic spots in Qingdao selected by Qingdao Municipal Government in 1936. The so-called "meeting" is the village before the meeting. Today, Taiping Mountain was originally called Huiquan Mountain, or Huishan for short. There is a village in front of the mountain, which is located in the present Zhongshan Park. In 1898, Germany occupied Qingdao and built a plant experimental park in the village before the demolition meeting. In 193s, "pre-meeting" was renamed as "Huiquan"; The so-called "battery", Kangxi dictionary means curved shore. The word "Qiqi" in "Huiqi Songyue" refers to Taiping Bay, which is located at the southern end of the village before the meeting. There are two headlands, namely Taiping Cape and Huiquan Cape. When the moon is loose, especially when the moon is full, the pines are bursting and sparkling, and the bright moon is in the sky, listening to the waves by the sea and enjoying the moon in Panasonic is really a great beauty.

? In the 193s, most of the scenery in "Keizaki Matsumura" has disappeared, but the natural scenery of Huiquan Bay and Taiping Bay is still charming. Huiquanjiao is a long promontory, extending from northeast to southwest into the sea. The promontory is 3 meters above sea level and faces Taiping Cape across the sea in the east. Go south from Nanhai Road to Huiquan Road to Huiquanjiao. Enjoy the scenery of Huiquan Bay at Huiquan Corner.

? Huiquan Dynasty Hotel, located at No.9 Nanhai Road, is a foreign-related five-star hotel opened in January 1979, which is unique among the coastal buildings.

? Qingdao Donghai Hotel, located at No.7 Huiquan Road and facing the sea on both sides, was built in 1935, with seven floors and 88 rooms, and was the largest and most advanced hotel in Qingdao at that time. Modelling adopts the internationally popular modernist style in 193s, and it stands conspicuously at the neck of the headland at the northern end of Huiquanjiao. For a long time, it has been a beautiful scenery and a landmark-level representative building on the seashore of Qingdao.

Later, the Donghai Hotel, which is 17 meters high and 38 floors above ground, was built in 1997. The beautiful scenery and landmark architectural scenery of Qingdao Donghai Hotel are no longer there, and the old ten scenic spots of Qingdao, "Meeting the battery and relaxing the moon", are even forgotten.

? Huiquanjiao, extending into the sea from the southeast of Huiquanwan, has the highest elevation of 32 meters. After Germany occupied Qingdao, the pre-meeting point fort was built here in 192, equipped with five dome cannons covered with heavy steel plates, two 24mm cannons and three 15mm cannons. The turret is a 36-degree rotary lifting type, and a large shelter is built under it. There is a tunnel connecting the shelter in the dense forest at the waist of the headland. There is an ammunition depot, a bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom, an underground railway for transporting ammunition, etc. There is a power grid around the shelter, which is the largest defense project of the German army in Qingdao, with nearly 1 troops stationed. After the Beiyang government recovered Qingdao in 1922, Huiquanjiao was turned into a seaside park. After renovation, it was the first scenic spot in Qingdao. In 1984, Qingdao municipal government listed the fort site as a municipal cultural relics protection unit. However, Huiquanjiao has always been a military station and is not open to the public.

? In 1917, Kang Youwei came to Qingdao for the first time, and once watched the tide and wrote poems in Huiquanjiao: "The sea is looking at the rocky mountains, and the raging waves are high into the clouds; Flying sails and clouds, the island is green at sunset. " At that time, there were no existing buildings in Huiquan Corner. There were pines and cypresses everywhere, and the pine scenery under the moon and the bright moon in the pine forest were really a great sight. Later, it was known as "Huiqi Songyue", and it was reasonable to be selected as one of the top ten scenic spots in Qingdao.

On the east side of Huiquanjiao is Taiping Bay, where there are many reefs and rock plates, which are as steep as knives and axes, or as flat as rakes and plows, and extend into the sea in a large area. When the tide goes out, a large area of maroon rocks are exposed, which has become a location for wedding photographers to choose. There are also patches of rock disks covered with moss and green, which are very similar to the farmland after the emergence of seedlings.

? There are also large beaches in Taiping Bay, where Qingdao Second Bathing Beach is located. Although the area is much smaller than that of the first bathing beach, the slope is gentle, the sand is soft, the waves are small, the water is clean, and the beach area is large, especially with an extraordinary history. In 1957, the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee was held in a small arbor to the east of the bathing place. President Mao Zedong also swam here many times.

? On the north side of Taiping Bay is the famous Badaguan Pass. On ten roads named after China's pass, each road has its own trees, such as Begonia in Ning Wuguan, Ziwei in Zhengyangguan, Five-pointed Maple in Jiayuguan, Cedar in Zijingguan, cherry blossoms, ginkgo and Metasequoia. It is home to buildings of different styles from more than 2 countries, including Russia, Germany, France, Britain, the United States, Denmark, Greece, Japan, Spain and Switzerland. Therefore, it is also known as the "World Architecture Expo", and the famous Huashi Villa stands proudly on the mountain road leading to Taiping Cape.

? From the trail on the south side of Huashi Villa to the east, there is a newly built Taipingjiao Park on the south side of Taipingjiao Road in 28. If you go east, you will enter the trail around Taipingjiao. Although troops are still stationed on the island, the first line around the island is completely open.

? Walk along the trail around the island to the southernmost tip of Taiping Cape. In front of the trail is the final entrance of the headland into the sea. Standing on the trail Little Square, you can see the whole Taiping Bay and the Qingdao scenery behind it. Taiping Cape is surrounded by the sea in the east, south and west, with a trail around the island of 16 meters, starting from Taiping Cape all the way in the west and reaching the third bathing beach in the east. Taiping Cape was called "Ludou Island" in ancient times. After Qingdao's sovereignty was recovered in 1922, mindful of repeated humiliation by the great powers, the government named a number of place names titled "Taiping" and Ludou Island was renamed Taiping Cape.

? The headland of Taiping Cape is the most beautiful place among the many headlands on the seashore of Qingdao, with many reefs, which are especially suitable for fish to inhabit, so it is also an excellent place for fishing. The black pine revetment in the west of the headland basically blocks the view, while the reef rocks in the east of the cape are completely naked. In addition to the unique red reef in Qingdao, there is also a rare blue reef, and the cracks between the reefs are full of flowers. Strolling around the island trail, watching the reefs and waves, step by step is a scene, as if walking into the corner of the sea, the horizon is boundless.

? Taiping Bay is indeed an excellent place to enjoy the night. I have come here many times to enjoy the night and photographed the full moon. Although I didn't see the scenery like "Huiqi Songyue", I still got something.

? The round moon hangs high above the headland. Although there is no pine shadow swaying, it illuminates the headland and the sea surface, and the waves and moon shadows set each other off. It is very similar to "Keizaki Matsumura" instead of "Keizaki Matsumura".