Tourism resources in Lidao town

The iconic attraction of Lidao Town is "mottled colored stones". The mottled colored stone is a rectangular sea pillar, about 35 meters long, 9 meters wide and 20 meters high. Because of its huge volume, strange shape and colorful patterns, it has been called Dadong Scenic Area since ancient times. It was listed as one of the "Eight Great Scenic Spots of Rongcheng" in Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty. The mottled colored stone was a colored sacred stone that accidentally fell into the sea when the goddess of heaven was there.

It is said that after Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he first came to Rongcheng Chengshantou to worship the Japanese in 220 BC. When he came to the south coast of Chengshantou, he heard from local officials that there was a colored stone left by the goddess of mending the sky in the nearby sea, which could protect the country and the mountains. Qin Shihuang made a special trip to worship mottled colored stones. Excited, he bowed again and again, but forgot to count the times. Only when the etiquette officer supported him did he realize that he had bowed down to the stone 15 times. Later, the Qin regime lasted for 15 years, and was destroyed by Liu Bang and Xiang Yu in 206 BC. Later generations said that if Qin Shihuang had worshipped more at that time, the history of Qin and Han Dynasties might have been rewritten.

Since ancient times, variegated stones have won wide appreciation for their exquisite shapes, peculiar textures and colors. Its color is mainly composed of yellow, white and brown. Look carefully at these beautiful patterns, whether they are cast, cut, embroidered, curved or straight, vertical or horizontal, forming a variety of patterns, some like clouds, some like blue waves, some like birds flying with wings ... endless changes, dazzling.

Miscellaneous stones are fine but not coarse, soft but not rigid, beautiful but not greasy, and the texture is clear and beautiful. The farther you look, the more beautiful, the more charming, and the rougher you look closer. There is a kind of coarse and fine texture, which makes people feel that it is a stone but not like a stone. Therefore, you should appreciate the mottled colored stone from far and near, appreciate its charm from a distance, and see its rough beauty from a close distance.

The mottled colored stones are also very strange in shape. Seen from the east and west, it looks like a standing stone pillar. From the north and south, it looks like a boat out of the water, and it becomes various after being slapped by the waves; Seen from Zhanqiao Mountain, it is more like a giant boot with beautiful patterns left here by a fairy. According to folklore, the goddess fills the sky, and the locals call it "The goddess patching the sky".

In the magnificent patterns on the surface of colored stones, many beautiful and moving legends have also been interpreted. The white rock with brown papillae in the middle is called "Gu Hai Ru" by local fishermen. It is the goddess of the sea who nourishes the creatures in the sea with her own milk. There is an exquisite "bathtub", which fishermen commonly call "bath basin". Legend has it that the Dragon King's concubines take a bath. There is also the super comfortable "plush chair" of the Dragon King, where you can call the wind and rain; There are also some vivid patterns and shapes, such as "dressing table" and "the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon" three fairies. It is an excellent and rich collection of marine cultural legends. The ancients had a poem praising:

Elves have been floating on the water for thousands of years, making five-color ripples.

The glass screen surprised the eyes and the bright flowers broke their faces.

Ren Tongguang, a famous modern calligrapher, browsed the mottled colored stones and wrote a poem:

Agate and amber are piled up, and the sky is tapestry.

The difficulty of this miracle surprised the world.

Spotted colored stone is a very typical, beautiful and peculiar marine erosion landscape in geology. According to the determination of geological scientists, it belongs to tuff and is a basic volcanic rock erupted by CAMBRIAN volcano, which has been more than 500 million years ago. This tuff ornamental body with beautiful patterns is unique on the coastline of Chinese mainland 18000 km, and has extremely precious geological research and ornamental value.

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Seaweed House, the landmark residence of Lidao Town. Seaweed house, also known as seaweed house, is named after covering the roof with seaweed produced along the coast of Jiaodong. Seaweed contains a lot of halogen and gum, which can be used to make a thick roof, leak-proof and moisture-absorbing, warm in winter and cool in summer, durable and not bad for a hundred years. This is a unique ecological residence in the world. Weihai has a written history of about 2700 years, and the history of residential buildings and their buildings in Weihai is even longer. Ancestors living by the sea have long known how to use the abundant seaweed on the sea to build houses for us. An old man said, "Since Weihai is inhabited, there is a seaweed house."

These towering seaweed houses have many amazing miracles. Lidao is located in the coastal area, where the sea breeze blows all the year round, rainy and humid in summer, snowy and cold in winter. In this special geographical location and climatic conditions, preventing sea breeze, heavy snow and rainwater leakage is a severe test that seaweed houses must go through. Surprisingly, a seaweed roof often weighs five or six kilograms, even tens of thousands of kilograms. Without any bonding or binding materials, it can be used for decades or even hundreds of years.

There are about 5,000 households and more than 20,000 seaweed houses in Lidao Town, which are distributed in 87 natural villages in the town. There are many villages along the coast, such as JOE, Chenfengzhuang, Wawu City and Yandunjiao. The earliest building age is 1806, with a history of 200 years, but the stock is very small, mostly 1900 to 65438+. After 1980, due to the exhaustion of seaweed resources, the number of seaweed houses was very small, and seaweed was generally used to repair houses. The proportion of stone and masonry in the building structure is similar, but the stone structure houses in coastal villages account for the majority, and some villages are basically stone structure houses. ....