What's interesting about Gulangyu Island in Xiamen?

1, Sunlight Rock: Sunlight Rock Sunlight Rock, also known as Huangyan, is the highest point of Gulangyu Island, with the top at an altitude of 96 meters. On the mountain, the huge stones are rugged and stacked into caves and valleys. Trees are lush and pavilions are shaded. Climbing up the stairs, I first arrived at the Lotus Temple. The "one tile" boulder was embedded in the air, forming a temple. The boulder next to the temple was engraved with "Gulang Cave" and "Lujiang First". Behind the nunnery are "Lujiang Longdong Cave" and "Guxia Cave", with the leading thatched cottage and Shuicaotai site in the middle. Cai Tingkai and Cai Yuanpei praised Zheng's poems. Climbing to the top of the mountain, the mountains and seas are spectacular and the scenery is infinite. Xiamen, Gulangyu Island, Dadan and Erdan Islands have a panoramic view.

2. Xinzhuang Garden: Xinzhuang Garden is located at the seaside at the southern foot of Sunlight Rock. Lin Erjia, a wealthy businessman in Taiwan Province, crossed the mainland with his family and lived in Gulangyu in the 21st year of Guangxu reign (1895). The park was built in 19 13. It was named after its homophonic "Uncle Zang" in memory of the hometown of Banqiao in Taipei. The bronze statue of the owner of the garden now stands in the garden. The whole park hides the sea by mountains, and the layout is ingenious. There is stillness in the movement, and there is stillness in the movement, which makes people linger. There are Renqiu Pavilion, No.44 Bridge, stacked stones, rockery, Tan Xuanying, and stubborn stone mountain house, which are the most famous gardens in Xiamen. On the left is Gangzaihou Beach. The sand and water are clean and can accommodate thousands of people to swim. There is Yanping Park nearby, which was built to commemorate Zheng Chenggong. Among them, it refers to Jing Quan, commonly known as "the country's surname well". It is said that Zheng Tunjun opened the well.

3. Hao Yueyuan: Hao Yueyuan is located in Fuding Rock Beach in the east of Gulangyu Island, covering an area of 30,000 square meters and built along the Lujiang River. This is a garden with beaches, rocks, green trees and pavilions. Founded in 1985, the garden was named "Hao Yueyuan" because of the poem "I miss you sleeping, and the moon shines on the plain" in "Two Kings of Yanping". There is a giant bronze statue of Zheng Chenggong and his Ministry in the park, which is 13.7 meters long and 4.7 meters high, and consumes copper 18 tons.

4. Guxia Cave: Guxia Cave is a very distinctive cave. Granite boulders falling from the sky are supported by stone walls on both sides, giving people the feeling that Mount Tai is the top of the mountain, which is very steep. The word "Ancient Summer Cave" was inscribed by Shi Shijie, a scholar from Taiwan Province Province in the late Qing Dynasty. The cave is bright, dry and airy. Go through Guxia Cave and turn left. There is a small and exquisite pavilion with a thin waist and a balcony made of rocks. It is called an "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 immortals wash their feet. There is water all the year round here, and there are immortal footprints next to it. In fact, "immortal seal" and "footbath" are both marine erosion landforms. In the distant geological era, it was still eroded by waves. Later, due to the rise of the earth's crust, these marine erosion landforms appeared on the top of the mountain. ?

5. Longtou Shanzhai: Sunlight Rock, also known as Longtou Mountain, faces Hutou Mountain in Xiamen across the sea, and Yi Long is a tiger guarding Xiamen Port, which is called "Dragon Tiger Defending the River". The original "Xu Ting" here has long been destroyed. Shi Guoqiu of Taiwan Province wrote an article "Xu Ting Ji", describing the Sunlight Rock "surrounded by mountains and seas, the first Tianjin in the southeast, the water and light meet the sky, and the Hongbo bath day all blame Brahma". The boulder stands on the wall, and the sea breeze passes through it, which means "the cold in September", and the coolness naturally comes from "Lujiang Longdong". "September Summer" is summer, and "Longdong" is where dragons live, because there are five dragons in Gulangyu legend. This house door is the house door of the "big house" where Zheng Chenggong was stationed in Gulangyu. The round hole in the rock was dug by soldiers in tents. General Cai Tingcuo, the former commander of the 19th Route Army of the Kuomintang, saw the scene and wrote down seven laws: "The heart only fills the sky, and the eight Fujian villages are the same as today; The ancient base is still there, and the heroic spirit is remembered under the Sunlight Rock. " It is unusual to praise Zheng Chenggong. Mr. Cai Yuanpei also has seven verses: "Whip the wind to calm the waves, and if the order is determined, the clouds will be high." Insects, sand, apes and cranes are sometimes exhausted, and Yi Binbin can't be scoured out. ""Worm, sand, ape and crane "refers to people who died in the army.

6. Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall: Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall1962 65438+1October 28th was established to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan Province Province. Zheng Chenggong, formerly known as Sen, was born in Ishii, Nan 'an, Fujian, and 1624 was born in Hirahutan, Japan. Nanming Longwu ascended the throne in Fuzhou. Seeing that he was loyal to the imperial court, he was given the surname "Zhu" and renamed "Success". Therefore, people called him "Zheng Guo's" and Li Yong named him King Yanping. His father, Zheng Zhilong, secretly descended to the Qing Dynasty, and Zheng successfully left Jinmen to fight to the death with the Qing government. Based in Jinmen and Xiamen, he fought against the Qing army for many years. He fought at the gates of Nanjing and was defeated by arrogant soldiers. 166 1 on that beautiful day in April, Zheng Chenggong led hundreds of warships and 25,000 officers and men from Keluo Bay in Kinmen to recover Taiwan Province Province occupied by the Netherlands for 38 years and strive to develop Taiwan Province Province. Zheng Chenggong died in Taiwan Province Province on July 1662 at the age of 39. For more than 300 years, the people of Fujian and Taiwan regarded Zheng Chenggong as a national hero, and the people of Taiwan Province Province honored him as the "King of Taiwan Province". Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall is divided into seven parts, exhibiting more than 300 pieces of various cultural relics, materials, photos and models. Among them, Fangguan and Zhangzhou Jungang are the original objects of that year, which are quite precious. Visiting the museum, you can systematically understand Zheng Chenggong's extraordinary life.

7. Piano Museum: The Gulangyu Piano Museum, which was completed in June, 5438+October, 2000, is located in the "Tingtaoxuan" of Xinzhuang Garden, covering an area of 450 square meters and divided into upper and lower floors. The museum displays more than 40 ancient pianos collected by patriotic overseas Chinese Hu Youyi, including rare and precious gold-plated pianos, the world's earliest four-corner piano and the earliest and largest upright piano, as well as ancient

Xiamen specialty snacks:

1. Frozen bamboo shoots: Frozen bamboo shoots are a special food originated in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, and are a kind of frozen products processed from specialty products. It contains gum, the main raw material is a worm, belonging to the starfish family, the scientific name is Eisenia deliciosa, and it is two or three inches long. After boiling, the colloid contained in the insect body is dissolved in water, and it condenses into a block after cooling.

2. Barbecued pork bun: Barbecued pork bun is a unique snack in Fujian. The barbecued pork buns in Quanzhou have a long history, sweet and smooth, oily but not greasy, and are carefully crafted. Quanzhou's meat dumplings are well-known at home and abroad, and meat dumplings shops are all over the streets. The most famous is jiaozi, a meat stuffing in Dongjie, whose jiaozi is rated as a famous snack in China.

3. Satay noodle: Satay noodle is a noodle snack of the Han nationality in Xiamen, Fujian, and its beauty lies in the soup head. Shacha, one of the main ingredients, is made of first-class shrimp heads, marinated in salt for more than two months, then ground, added with shrimp sauce and garlic sauce in turn, cooked and fried thoroughly, cooled, and added with spiced powder, curry powder, Chili powder and sesame seeds.

4. Horseshoe Crisp: Horseshoe Crisp, also known as "sweet cake", is a famous point in Xiamen and Quanzhou. Tongan's horseshoe crisp is the most famous. Horseshoe Crisp is a traditional pastry in Jiangyin. At the end of Qing dynasty, Zhenjiang cake with the same name was copied and improved into noodles. This product is made of high-quality flour and red beans as raw materials, nuts as auxiliary materials, and fermented with glutinous rice.

5. Dingbianju: Dingbianju is a special snack in southern Fujian. It is produced in Zhangzhou, Fujian, and is popular in Fujian, Taiwan Province and other places. Tainan and Miaokou Night Market in Keelung, Taiwan Province is very famous. Ding means cauldron, which means cauldron in Minnan dialect.

6, golden fragrant floss: The advantage of floss is that it is golden yellow, delicious, strips of shredded pork, clusters, sent to the mouth, without chewing, immediately soft and full of sweetness. As soon as the bacon meets saliva, it has become a paste before it can be chewed.

7. Pie in Xiamen: Pie is a traditional food in Xiamen with a history of 100 years. It is made of high-quality flour, lard and first-class mung beans. When making, the mung bean is steamed, shelled and finely ground. The crust and pastry were oiled and kneaded properly.

8. Golden Green Fruit: Golden Green Fruit is a special snack. It is made of olives, licorice and sugar water. Moderate sweet and sour, salty and delicious, fragrant. The fragrance of body fluid after meals soothes the throat, eliminates food stagnation and flatulence, sobers up and stops vomiting, refreshes the mind, nourishes the spleen and stomach, and stimulates appetite.