Introduction to Xiamen tourist attractions~~

Gulangyu Island, Xiamen Introduction: Gulangyu Island, surrounded by blue sea, covers an area of ??1.87 square kilometers. The island has rugged reefs, meandering coastline, green mountains, and jagged peaks and rocks. The uncanny workmanship of nature has created the beautiful and timeless island scenery of Gulangyu Island. , the main attractions include Sunlight Rock, Shuzhuang Garden, and Haoyue Garden, all of which are Xiamen’s famous sights. Gulangyu Island has a subtropical maritime monsoon climate, with abundant rainfall and mild seasons. More than 4,000 species of plants from more than 90 families on the island are lush all year round. The rare tree species include the only large-fruited red heartwood in the country, the thickest Indian rosewood in the country, and imported from New Zealand and other countries. Various types of rare fruit trees and some vegetation on the island have formed top communities in the subtropical maritime monsoon climate. The sea area around Gulangyu Island is the main part of Xiamen Port, adjacent to the Chinese White Dolphin Sanctuary, the Amphioxus Sanctuary, the Lantau Egret Sanctuary, and across the sea from the Kinmen Islands. Starting from the mid-19th century, with the spread of Christianity, Western music began to pour into Gulangyu Island, integrating with the elegant living environment of Gulangyu Island, creating the music tradition of Gulangyu Island today, and cultivating Zhou Shuan, Lin Junqing, Yin Chengzong, Chen Zuohuang, Xu Feiping A host of outstanding musicians. Today, Gulangyu's per capita piano ownership rate ranks first in the country, and there are more than 100 musical families on the island. In 2002, Gulangyu was named the "Island of Music" by the Chinese Musicians Association. Gulangyu Island has many famous people and historical sites. This is one of the areas with the most complete preservation of the historical relics of the national hero Zheng Chenggong. A large number of precious cliff stone carvings on the island are still well preserved despite years of wind and rain. The former residences and mausoleums of more than 60 celebrities from Gulangyu, including Lin Qiaozhi, the founder of modern obstetrics and gynecology in China, Lu Xunzhang, a pioneer in the modernization of Chinese language, and Ma John, the enlightener of modern Chinese sports, are all on Gulangyu Island. With its graceful natural scenery and profound cultural heritage, Gulangyu Island has become a national key scenic spot and one of the 35 trump card scenic spots in the country. It ranks first among the top ten scenic spots in Fujian Province.

Gulangyu Attractions

Sunlight Rock

Sunlight Rock Sunlight Rock, also known as Huangyan, is the highest point on Gulangyu Island, with an altitude of 96 meters at the top. There are huge rocks on the mountain, stacked into caves. The trees are lush and covered with pavilions. Climbing up the stairs, we first arrived at Lianhua Nunnery, where a "piece of tile" huge stone was embedded in the hollow to form a palace. The huge stone next to the nunnery was engraved with "Gulang Cave Sky" and "Lujiang No. 1"; behind the nunnery were "Lujiang Dragon Cave" and "Ancient Summer Resort". Among the "dong" sites are Zheng Chenggong's Longtoushan Village and Shuicaotai ruins. Cai Tingkai and Cai Yuanpei praised Zheng Tiyong. Climbing to the top, you can see the wonders of mountains and seas, the scenery is infinite, and you can have a panoramic view of Xiamen, Gulangyu Island, Dadan and Erdan Islands.

Shuzhuang Garden

Shuzhuang Garden is located on the seaside at the southern foot of Sunlight Rock. In the 21st year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1895), Lin Erjia, a wealthy Taiwanese businessman, took his family to the mainland and settled on Gulangyu Island. This garden was built in 1913 to commemorate his hometown in Banqiao, Taipei. His nickname, "Uncle Zang", is homophonic to "Uncle Zang". Garden name. The bronze statue of the owner of the garden now stands in the garden. The whole garden uses the mountains to hide the sea, and the layout is cleverly arranged. There is stillness in the movement, and there is movement in the tranquility, which makes people linger and forget to leave. There are Renqiu Pavilion, Forty-four Bridges, stacked stones, rockery, Tan Yingxuan, and stubborn stone mountain house, which are the most famous gardens in Xiamen. The Aberdeen Back Beach on the left has clear sand and clean water, and can accommodate thousands of people swimming. There is Yanping Park nearby, which was built to commemorate Zheng Chenggong. Among them is the Jingjing Spring, commonly known as "Guoxingjing". According to legend, it was a well opened by the Zheng family when they were stationed in the army.

Haoyue Garden

Haoyue Garden is located on Fudingyan Beach in the east of Gulangyu Island. It covers an area of ??30,000 square meters and is spread along the shore of Lujiang River. It is composed of beach, rocks and green trees. , a garden spread with pavilions. Founded in 1985, the garden is named "Haoyue Garden" after the poem "I can't sleep thinking of you, the bright moon shines through the plain curtains" in "The Collection of Two Kings of Yanping". There is a giant bronze statue of Zheng Chenggong and his generals in the park, which is 13.7 meters long, 4.7 meters high and consumes 18 tons of copper. This giant bronze sculpture, except for Zheng Chenggong and his left and right generals Chen Ze, Chen Guang, Chen Yonghua, and Yang Chaodong, is slightly larger than the real size. The other soldiers and horses extend towards both sides. The picture is broad and attractive. Attention. What is more prominent in the park is the giant granite statue of Zheng Chenggong standing on Fuding Rock. This giant statue was completed on August 27, 1985. It is 15.7 meters high and weighs 1,617 tons. It is carved from 23 layers of 625 pieces of "Quanzhou White" granite. , very powerful.

Ancient Summer Cave

The Ancient Summer Cave is a very unique cave. The stone walls on both sides support granite boulders falling from the sky, giving people the feeling of being overwhelmed by Mount Tai. It is very steep. The four words "ancient summer cave" above were inscribed by Shi Shijie, a Taiwanese scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. The cave is bright, dry, ventilated and refreshing. Passing through the ancient summer cave and turning left, there is a small and slim pavilion, which supports the slender waist and uses the rock as a balcony. It is called "Umbrella Pavilion" for tourists to shelter from the sun and rain. On the top of the rock next to it, there is a stone basin where the immortal washed his feet. It has been filled with water for many years. There are also the footprints of the immortal on the side. In fact, the "Immortal Seal" and the "Foot Washing Basin" are sea erosion landforms eroded by waves. In the distant geological era, this place was still under the erosion of waves. Later, due to the rise of the earth's crust, these sea erosion landforms appeared in the On top of the mountain.

Longtou Mountain Village

Sunlight Rock, also known as Longtou Mountain, faces Hutou Mountain in Xiamen across the sea. One dragon and one tiger guard Xiamen Port, which is called "Dragon and Tiger Guarding the River". The original "Xu Pavilion" here has been destroyed long ago. Shi Guoqiu of Taiwan wrote an article "Xuting Ji", describing Sunlight Rock as "surrounded by mountains and sea, the first lake in the southeast as far as the eye can see, with water shining from the sky and floods bathing in the sun, all of which are the wonders of a Buddhist temple."

Dengdao is flanked by boulders and dense walls, and the sea breeze blows through it, which means that "nine summers bring coldness", and the coolness naturally comes from the "Lujiang Dragon Cave". "Nine Summers" means summer, and "Dragon Cave" is the place where dragons live, because it is said that five dragons once lived on Gulangyu Island. This village gate is the gate of the "Longtou Mountain Village" where Zheng Chenggong stationed troops on Gulangyu Island. The round hole on the rock was dug by soldiers setting up tents. General Cai Tingcuo, the former commander of the 19th Route Army of the Kuomintang, was so moved by the scene that he wrote this Qilu: "I have only one hand to mend the sky, and the eight Fujian villages maintain the unity of the present and the past; the ancient fortress is still there, and the heroes are recalled under the Sunlight Rock." The praise for Zheng Chenggong is extraordinary. Mr. Cai Yuanpei also has a poem with seven rhymes: "The strong wind suppresses the sea waves, and the command is as high as the formation. Sometimes the insects, sand monkeys and cranes are exhausted, and the righteousness cannot be lost." "Chongsha monkeys and cranes" refer to those who died in the army.

Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall

The Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall was established on January 28, 1962 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan. Zheng Chenggong, whose original name was Mori and whose courtesy name was Damu, was born in Ishii, Nan'an, Fujian Province in 1624 on the coast of Hirado, Japan. Longwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty came to the throne in Fuzhou. Seeing that he was loyal to the court, he gave him the surname "Zhu" and changed his name to "Shenggong", so the people called him "Zheng Guo surname". Emperor Yongli named him King Yanping. His father Zheng Zhilong secretly surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and Zheng Chenggong left Kinmen and vowed to fight to the death against the Qing Dynasty. He used Kinmen and Xiamen as his bases and fought fiercely with the Qing army for many years. He once reached the gates of Nanjing, but was defeated due to arrogance. On the bright day of April 1661, Zheng Chenggong was fully prepared and led hundreds of warships and 25,000 officers and soldiers from Koro Bay in Kinmen to recover Taiwan, which had been occupied by the Dutch for 38 years, and worked hard to develop Taiwan. Zheng Chenggong died of illness in Taiwan in July 1662 at the age of 39. For more than 300 years, the people of Fujian and Taiwan have admired Zheng Chenggong very much and respected him as a national hero. The people of Taiwan respected him as the "Sage King who founded Taiwan". The Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall is divided into seven parts, displaying more than 300 pieces of various cultural relics, materials, photos, models, etc. Among them, Guanfang and Zhangzhou Military Steel are original items from that time and are quite precious. Visiting the museum can give you a more systematic understanding of Zheng Chenggong’s extraordinary life.

Shui Cao Tai

Shui Cao Tai is the site where Zheng Chenggong trained his navy in order to regain Taiwan. The four characters "Fujian Sea Mighty Wind" on the giant cliff are round, full, hearty and vigorous. On another boulder on the right front side, there is a poem written by Zheng Chenggong written by Wu Jue: "Rites, music, clothes, status, articles about Confucius and Mencius. Nanshan opens Shoucheng, and the East China Sea brews flowing clouds." It is said that this poem was copied from Zheng Chenggong's handwriting. , and two seals "Zheng Sen's private seal" and "Success" are engraved on the bottom. Standing on the water platform, it always reminds people that Zheng Chenggong commanded Ruoding here, and he was hunted by hanging flags on the river, and hundreds of companies competed for swimming. A spectacular scene of warriors gearing up for the reunification of the motherland.

Gulang Cave Sky

The scenic spot of Sunlight Rock is famous all over the world. It has attracted many literati throughout the ages. They were intoxicated by the wind and waves of the sky, recited poems and composed poems, leaving many Precious handwriting. After walking through the gate of Sunlight Rock Temple, you can look up at a huge cliff. The inscription on the giant cliff - "Gulang Cave Sky" provides a wonderful summary of the fairyland-like scenery of Sunlight Rock. It was written by No. 1 Middle School in the first year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty; "Lujiang No. 1" highlights Sunlight Rock. It is the most scenic spot in Xiamen and was written by Lin Cheng in the first year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty; "Tian Feng Haitao" just pointed out the characteristics of Sunlight Rock and was written by Xu Shiying in the fourth year of the Republic of China.

Heroes Garden

Heroes Garden was built to commemorate the martyrs who liberated Xiamen and attacked Gulangyu Island. It consists of three parts: a small memorial square, a memorial sculpture and a memorial room. At the end of September 1949, the Tenth Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army liberated the southern Fujian mainland, forming a situation of encircling the Kuomintang troops in Kinmen and Xiamen on three sides. On October 15, the 31st Army and the 29th Army of the Corps began to launch cross-sea operations against Xiamen. At 18:00 that day, the fleets of two battalions each from the 271st Regiment and the 277th Regiment of the 31st Army took the lead. From Haicang and other places, we divided into two routes to the southwest of Gulangyu Island. With the close cooperation of the boatmen in front of the support, the heroic PLA officers and soldiers fought against the wind and waves, braved the fierce enemy artillery fire, marched forward bravely, and landed on the beach at the foot of the mountain. For a moment, artillery fire was flying, thunder and lightning crashed; the sound of soldiers was killing them, and their anger was overwhelming the sea and mountains. Unfortunately, Wang Xingfang, the leader of the 271st Regiment, and hundreds of other commanders and combatants, as well as Zhang Shuijin's family and other ex-support boatmen, died gloriously in the battle. After two days and nights of bloody fighting, our army finally liberated the entire islands of Xiamen and Guzhou and achieved final victory. The mountains are full of loyalty, and the annals of history shine with loyalty. After the liberation of Xiamen and Guzhou, the people called this mountain (originally called "Qizaiwei Mountain") Hero Mountain. This expresses people’s infinite memory for the revolutionary martyrs! In 2000 AD, the Gulangyu People's Government built the "Heroes Garden" on the mountain, blending this glorious revolutionary historical site with the beautiful scenery of the South, so that people can never forget the baptism of blood and fire in the past amidst the strong winds and sea waves. .

Best time to travel

Except for the typhoon season in August, when all boats on the beach are stopped and you cannot enjoy the beautiful sea view, it is good to travel to Xiamen at other times.