Guanqiao tourism resources

There are many scenic spots in Qifeng Songxiu.

Guanqiao is surrounded by mountains and has beautiful scenery. Tiefeng Mountain (commonly known as Tiejian Mountain) in the town east is a famous historical mountain, with the main peak at an altitude of 75 1 m. There are many natural caves in the mountains, and there are many strange stones in the mountains, which are different in shape and exquisite, leaving many inscriptions by historical celebrities; On the top of the mountain, there is the Tiefeng Pagoda built in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, with stone structure, hexagonal plane, solid single eaves, angular and unique structure; Tzu Chi Hospital, built in the Song Dynasty, was rebuilt in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty to commemorate the founder of Qingshui. There is also Tiefengyan. On the left side of the courtyard, there is a round monk pagoda made of stone, called Tiefengyan Pagoda, which is similar in shape to Taishan Pagoda. It is worth mentioning that there is an ancient cave in front of the mountain called Song Tiedong. According to legend, this cave is extremely dangerous, and it is one of the famous 18 caves in Yangping South in the Song Dynasty. Tiefeng is beautiful and the scenery is natural. However, due to the development at the end of the 20th century, it is regrettable that both the natural landscape and the human landscape have been destroyed by human beings.

Rhinoceros Mountain is located in Yilin Village, southwest of the town, and it is named because of its "sharp peak and sharp rock, which looks like a rhinoceros". The main peak, Ejiaoji, is at an altitude of1047.5m, which is the highest peak in the southeast of Anxi, and the Baiyan Peak on the right stands in thousands of feet, which is a natural barrier. There are towering peaks, ancient trees, rugged rocks and grotesque caves in this area. There are fascinating bat caves, majestic general rocks, legendary "Master General" transformed by Shi Yu, a five-tiger general in the Northern Song Dynasty, large-scale folk earth building "Yangshenglou" built in the 28th year of Qing Qianlong (1763), Tiger Pavilion built in the Qing Dynasty to catch tigers and many other strange stone landscapes. This is a new attractive natural ecological scenic tourist area.

Sima Mountain in the northwest of China is named after "the mountain is like a horse". During the God Blessed Period of the Tang Dynasty (904-907), Anchang Garden was built in the mountains, and there was a stone more than 20 feet high under the garden, which was called "Shi Ying". There is a sacred spring rock on the left side of the mountain, and the spring is inexhaustible. There is a cave at the foot of the mountain, which can accommodate 100 people. It's called "Tiger Cave", and the water in the cave gurgles. According to legend, this is the reading room in Lin Sihuan, which was once used as a place to avoid bandits and chaos. There is an ancient well near the east of the lake called "Huangjing", which will not dry up in a severe drought. In Hengneiwan, Lanxi, under Sima Mountain, the grotesque rocks on both sides of the river and in the stream are very similar in image, including stone apes, stone pheasants and sarcophagus, especially Shi Niu, which is said to have been discovered in the light years of Qing Dynasty (182 1- 1850).

Shi Niu Cui Wei, a strange rock, has been independent by the stream for thousands of years.

The wind blows all over the body, and the rain makes the whole body sweat.

Spring grass is hard to swallow, beyond the reach of the whip.

Take off the rope on your nose today, and the world will not close at night.

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty (1522- 1566), there was a "Panzong Building" in Chiling Village at the foot of the mountain, which was built by local resident Chang Lin to fight against bandits. Qing Qianlong's "Anxi County Records" contains: "The building has ten floors, the foundation wall is high and thick, the middle building is the main building, and the outer building is surrounded ... The main building system is like a family room, and the outer building has windows and holes, which can be opened and shot, and there are three outer ditches." At the end of Jiajing (1566), Chang Lin led many buildings to resist the enemy's siege. The next day, he killed more than 40 people, and then killed the enemy's chief, causing the enemy to retreat overnight. Therefore, the building is known as "Panzong Building". Linshiling, located in this village, is a famous temple in Anxi. It was built in the 13th year of Ming Dynasty (1448) and has a history of more than 500 years. In recent years, it has been rebuilt to make this famous temple glow again. There is also a "Xizhou Tulou" (also known as "Xizhou Guarding Castle") near the village, which was built in the 56th year of Qing Emperor Kangxi (17 17).

The "Double Carp Pavilion" in Hengmei Village is a county-level cultural relics protection unit, named after the double stone carp in the pond in front of the door. The existing building is a relic of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty (1736— 1795), which was rebuilt with donations from Taiwan Province compatriots. Long Rui Palace and Jueqi Palace were built in the Ming Dynasty, while Wan 'an Courtyard, Qiming Hall, Baofeng Hall, Nantai Hall, Yumeitang Hall, Hushan Hall and Ying Ji Hall were built in the Qing Dynasty. In the northwest of Wuzong Village, at the foot of Xukou Mountain, there is a huge stone engraved with a horizontal line "Four Years of Wanli (1576)". It is speculated that the flood may have flooded the plain areas such as Guanqiao and Longmen. This stone provides an important physical specimen for the study of ancient hydrology in Anxi.

The new atmosphere of the famous hometown of overseas Chinese

Overseas Chinese living in Guanqiao are mainly distributed in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, the United States and other countries 10. According to 1997 overseas Chinese survey statistics, the total number of overseas Chinese in the town surpassed that of their hometown, reaching more than 90,000 people, second only to Penglai town.

As early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Guanqiao people went abroad to make a living. At the beginning of the Republic of China, the domestic war continued, and villagers fled abroad to escape the war. In the middle and late period of the Republic of China, people were poor and more people fled to Nanyang. In the hometown of overseas Chinese in Guanqiao area, there is a Minnan dialect song "Guo Fan Ge", which tells the difficult scene of Guanqiao people leaving their hometown to make a living overseas because of their poor family. According to textual research, this seven-character quatrain with more than 760 sentences was written by Zhong Xin, a native of Shantan Village. One of them sang: "It's sad to leave home, to send my family out, to carry food, and my eyes are like frost. Thinking of my sore feet and soft hands, I came to the mud pond for a while, but I was worried that the water was far away. I will look back at our village ... "The earthen pond belongs to Shangyuan Village. In the past, Shantan people went abroad to make a living, that is, they walked from the earthen pond and went to Xiamen by boat. This song "Guo Fange" is a valuable material for studying the history of overseas Chinese going abroad.

Guanqiao people worked hard in agriculture or commerce after they went overseas. After accumulation, many people gradually turned to large-scale native products industry, construction land industry, foreign exchange finance industry and hardware industry. After years of hard work, many people have achieved success in their careers.

Chen, whose ancestral home is Guan Yu Village, is a famous entrepreneur and social activist in Indonesia. He was elected president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Coconut City (now Jakarta) in Indonesia and president of Fujian Guild Hall for many times. He actively responded to Sun Yat-sen's call and raised huge sums of money to support the motherland's revolution. He successively won the "Patriotic Badge", "Guardian * * and Medal", the third-class silver medal awarded by the Grand Marshal and the second-class silver medal awarded by the National Government. He was hired as an adviser to the Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee of the National Government and the Fujian Governor's Office. In 1 1 (1922), he and his uncle Chen Huiyi donated money to establish Zengyu Primary School. In the Republic of China 16 (1927), he took the lead in donating10,000 yuan as the fund for the preparation of Antong Highway, and voluntarily went abroad for public offering. In 35 years (1946), he and Zhong donated money to establish the first overseas Chinese hospital in Anxi County-Yixin Public Hospital.

Zhong, who lives in Shantan Village, Singapore, has developed finance, architecture, real estate and tourism in Singapore and Hong Kong successively, becoming a famous industrialist in Singapore. Before and after the founding of New China, he donated money in his hometown to set up public welfare undertakings such as medical and health care, culture and education, and building bridges and roads. His philosophers have also achieved success, among which Zhong, Zhong Minghui, Kun Zhong's enterprise group and Zhong Qionglin's Tiande Group are all well-funded enterprise groups in Hong Kong. Since 1990s, Zhong Kunzhong has inherited his father's legacy, and successively donated huge sums of money to build Xuan Ming Middle School, Xuan Ming Hospital and Xuan Ming Bridge named after his father in Anxi County, and donated money to pave the cement road leading to Shantan Village in his hometown and build Shantan Primary School.

Lin, who lives in Chiling Village, Singapore, founded an overseas Chinese travel agency in Singapore to operate the exchange industry, and set up branches in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and China, becoming a leader in the exchange industry in Singapore. He is the chairman of the Singapore Chinese Exchange Industry Association. In 35 years of the Republic of China (1946), he donated money to establish a private Lanxi junior high school in Chiling, becoming the first middle school in southern Anxi.

Lin Jingkui, whose ancestral home is Jiangling Village, is a famous entrepreneur in Malaysia. Meijia Company, a family business in Malaysia, became a listed company, and its name was once included in the global Chinese rich list.

Lin Shengzhi and Lin Shenggui of Lianmei Village have set up many companies in Malaysia, such as hardware, trade, steel and so on. Anxin Steel Company is one of the top ten steel companies in Malaysia, and their brothers are well-known local entrepreneurs. Lin Shengzhi is currently the president of Anxi General Association, Longxue Hardware Association and Anxi Club in Malaysia, and has led many delegations back to China to participate in activities.

Chen Jiangsu, now living in Indonesia, founded Yu Miao Group in Indonesia, and runs the banking industry. He is a famous local entrepreneur. He inherited the legacy of his father, Chen Huiyi, and successively donated the school buildings of Guanqiao Middle School and affiliated primary school (formerly Zengyu Primary School).

Since the reform and opening up, overseas Chinese in Guanqiao have become attached to mulberry, which has further set off an upsurge of donating money to run public welfare undertakings, especially running schools. In Lanxi Middle School, relatives of overseas Chinese donated money to build the Alumni Building, Yan Shu Building, Teachers' Dormitory, Jinshan Building and Pei Lin Building, Students' Dormitory, Junior High School Building, Senior High School Building, New Dining Hall, Jin Woo Building and Golden Bird Science Building, which is the construction of 65,438+00 large school buildings. In Guanqiao Middle School, the teaching building, Jinxiang Building, Jinxiang Teachers Building, Tang Mingzhao Multifunctional Auditorium, Rongrun Teaching Building, Liping Office Building and Liang Jinfeng Foundation Building were donated successively. In No.5 Middle School, teaching buildings, teachers' dormitories, Jinyu Auditorium and students' dormitories were donated. Overseas Chinese Lin and his son in Lianmei Village donated money to establish a nine-year compulsory school, and successively built teaching buildings, dormitory buildings, office buildings, music rooms and canteens for primary and secondary schools. Overseas Chinese also donated more than 20 primary school buildings in the town, including Shantan Primary School, Chiling Primary School, Shangyuan Primary School, Xinting Primary School and Yuling Primary School as key projects, and donated money to build an open flame kindergarten. In addition, they donated money to create more than 10 education foundations and scholarship and teaching foundations, with a total amount of several million yuan.

In addition, in terms of medical and health care, relatives of overseas Chinese donated to build the No.2 ward building, overseas Chinese light building and outpatient building of Guanqiao Hospital. Over the years, the total donation to Guanqiao Hospital has reached 10 million yuan. In terms of transportation, overseas Chinese with a glorious tradition of repairing bridges and building roads donated money to build the 1 100-meter-long Chiling Luting Bridge as early as 1956, which became the largest bridge donated by overseas Chinese in Jinjiang at that time. 1980 also donated money to vertically connect the Chiling Primary School115m bridge from the center of the bridge, making it the only large T-shaped bridge in the county. Bridges such as Biyi Bridge, Shangyuan Bridge, Yishan Village, Shanzhen Village, Renfeng Village and Chiling Village have been donated, and roads leading to Wuzong Village, Neicun Village, Xinchun Village, Yishan Village and Shangyuan Village have been built. In recent years, overseas Chinese have donated money to build cement roads in Shangyuan, Chiling, Neicun and Xinchun villages. At the same time, relatives of overseas Chinese also donated money to build Guanqiao Theater and Chiling Luting Theater, built Liandu Meixia Banxi Dike and built Guanqiao Overseas Chinese Federation Club. Over the years, relatives of overseas Chinese have donated more than 6,543.8 billion yuan, which has effectively promoted the development of social and economic undertakings in their hometown.