Xiamen tourist attractions

Must-visit tourist attractions in Xiamen:

Gulangyu, Shiwan Botanical Garden, Hu Lishan Fort, Nanputuo Temple, Zeng Cuo An Village Village, etc.

Xiamen consists of Xiamen Island, Gulangyu Island, Haicang Peninsula on the west coast, Jimei Peninsula on the north coast, Xiang 'an Peninsula on the east coast, Dalong Island, Tongan Island and Jiulong River inland, with a land area of 1699.39 square kilometers and a sea area of more than 390 square kilometers. 2 1 century, Xiamen has gradually become a modern international port scenic tourist city, with the first batch of national 5A-level tourist attractions-Gulangyu Island. Former US President Nixon once praised Xiamen as "Hawaii of the East". As of 20 16, Xiamen's urban built-up area is 334.64 square kilometers, with a permanent population of 3.92 million.

Gulangyu Island (in English: Kulangsu) was originally called "Round Shazhou" and was also called "Yuanzhouzai". It was named "Wulong Island" in the Southern Song Dynasty and renamed "Gulangyu Island" in the Ming Dynasty. Because there is a two-meter-high rock on the beach in the southwest of the island, and there is a cave in the middle, whenever the tide rises, the waves hit the rock, which sounds like drums. People called it "Gulangyu Stone", so Gulangyu gradually changed its name. It is named after the high tide surging water, the waves hitting the rocks and the sound like drums. Gulangyu street is short and criss-crossed, and it is one of the largest satellite islands in Xiamen.

Gulangyu has a green coverage rate of over 40% and a rich plant population. There are more than 90 families and 65,438+0,000 species of trees, shrubs, vines and ground cover plants. Representative scenic spots include: Sunlight Rock, Lu Manor, Haoyue Garden, Yuyuan Garden, Gulangyu Stone, Gulangyu Piano Museum, Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall, Underwater World, Natural Bathing Beach, Sea Paradise Structure, etc.

Gulangyu Scenic Area has successively won the honors of national 5A-level tourist attractions, national key cultural relics protection units, and the most beautiful five cities in China.

Xiamen Garden Botanical Garden, commonly known as "Shiwan Botanical Garden", is located in Shiwan in the southeast corner of Xiamen Island, Fujian Province, backed by Nanputuo and Wulaofeng, and close to Zhongshan Road business circle. Founded in 1960, covering an area of 4.93 square kilometers, it is the first botanical garden in Fujian Province and an important part of Gulangyu Island, a national key scenic spot in Shiwan, integrating plant landscape, natural landscape and human landscape.

Xiamen Garden and Botanical Garden is the first AAAA-level tourist area in China, and it is also the popular science education base of provinces, cities and countries, the first environmental education base in Fujian Province and the ecological education base for protecting the mother river.

Hu Lishan Fort is located in the southeast corner of Xiamen Island, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, China, adjacent to Xiamen University Park and surrounded by the sea on three sides. The scenic spot is a national cultural relic protection unit and a national 4A-level tourist attraction.

Hu Lishan Castle was built in the 20th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, with a total area of more than 70,000 square meters and a castle area of 1.3 million square meters. It is divided into Zhanping District, Barracks District and Houshan District. The structure of the fortress is semi-bunker-style and semi-wall-style, with European style and architectural charm of China in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Historically, it was called "the gateway of Bamin, the key of Tiannan".

The scenic spot receives millions of Chinese and foreign tourists every year, and has become the business card and window of Xiamen's tourist city. It is also an important tourist attraction and patriotic education base in Xiamen.

Nanputuo Temple is located at the foot of Wulong Peak in the southeast of Xiamen City, Fujian Province, facing Bicheng Harbor. The temple covers an area of 258,000 square meters with a building area of 2127,000 square meters. Founded in the late Tang Dynasty, it is called Sizhou Temple. Song Zhiping changed its name to Zhao Pu Temple. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the temple was abandoned and was not rebuilt until the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. Because it is dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva, it is similar to Guanyin Dojo in Putuo Mountain, Zhejiang Province. It is named "Nanputuo Temple" in the south of Putuo Mountain and is one of the Buddhist resorts in southern Fujian. The most valuable things in the temple are the bloody book The Lotus Sutra and the famous white porcelain Guanyin in He Chaozong.

The main buildings on the central axis of Nanpu Sui Temple are the Temple of the King of Heaven, the Hall of Ursa Major, the Hall of Great Compassion and the Pavilion of Tibetan Scripture. There are bell and drum towers, meditation halls, living rooms and storage rooms on both sides, as well as Minnan Buddhist College and Buddhist Zheng Yang Hospital. There is a release pond in front of the temple and a newly-built "Taixu Master Memorial Tower" behind it. The whole temple is magnificent and orderly.

Nanputuo Temple is a key Buddhist temple in the Han area of China, the sixth batch of provincial-level cultural relics protection units in Fujian Province, and one of the eight scenic spots in Xiamen.

Zeng Cuo An Village Village, the most literary fishing village in China, is called "Wenchuang Village in Zeng Cuo An Village Village" for short. The alias "Zengli", also known as "Zengjiawo" and "Zengjiawan", is located in the southeast of Xiamen Island, where there are grass in Tuerling, stone in Taimu Mountain and reef in volcanic island, and nature and humanity are integrated. It has a history of over 800 years.

As a scenic spot, Wenchuang Village in Zeng Cuo An Village Village covers an area of only 0.33 square kilometers.

Zeng Cuo An Village Village is a community with eight natural villages: Zeng Cuo An Village Village (Wenchuang Village and Zeng Cuo An Village Village), Cangli, Maeda, Bian Xi, Qiancuo, Dongzhai, Shangli and Hu Lishan. * * * 10 Resident Group 1473 households with a total population of 4,252. Zeng Cuo An Village Village Community Neighborhood Committee (located at Canglishe 17, Zeng Cuo An Village Village, Binhai Street, Siming District, Xiamen City, with an area of 1450m2) has a party committee and three party branches in the community, which has jurisdiction over the Binhai Sub-district Office of Siming District, Xiamen City.