What are the must-see attractions in Xiamen?

1. Gulangyu Island

Gulangyu Island was officially approved as a national 5A tourist attraction on May 8, 2007. It was selected as "the first of the five most beautiful urban areas in China" by National Geographic magazine and is known as the "Garden on the Sea". Many buildings with Chinese and foreign architectural styles are well preserved on the island, and it is known as the "Architectural Exposition of All Nations".

The residents on the island love music and have a high density of pianos, so it is praised as the Piano Island. The main tourist attractions include: Sunlight Rock, Shuzhuang Garden, Bathing Beach, Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall, etc. Millions of Chinese and foreign tourists come here every year for sightseeing. On July 8, 2017, "Gulangyu: Historic International Community" was included in the World Heritage List, becoming China's 52nd World Heritage.

2. Xiamen Fantawild Dream Kingdom

Xiamen Fantawild Dream Kingdom is a large-scale high-tech theme park independently developed by Huaqiang Fantawild Group.

Xiamen Fantawild Fantasy Kingdom is located in Tong'an, a beautiful ancient seaside city in Xiamen. It is a large-scale high-tech fourth-generation theme park built with huge investment from Shenzhen Huaqiang Group. Its biggest feature is science fiction and interactive experience. It cleverly integrates international fashion entertainment elements such as animation, cartoons, and movie stunts with traditional Chinese cultural symbols to create a magical world full of fantasy and creativity.

3. Wuyuanwan Wetland Park

Covering an area of ??85 hectares, equivalent to half of Gulangyu Island, it is the largest park in Xiamen and the largest wetland ecological park.

Some aquatic and hygrophytic plant zones, aquatic plant communities, reeds and wetland plant communities will be protected, and Taiwan acacia, hibiscus, leucaena, water lilies, mangroves, etc. will be planted plants; and 25 species of wetland waterbirds from 9 families and 29 species of mountain forest and farmland birds from 17 families currently inhabiting the wetland will continue to live and sing here.

4. Jinguang Lake

It is located in Neitian Village, Lianhua Town, Tong'an City, Xiamen City, 23 kilometers away from Tong'an City and 60 kilometers away from Xiamen City. The mountain in the forest area is shaped like a "lake", surrounded by six mountains and two hills, forming a "gold" shape. The rising sun, crystal clear leaves and shining golden light make it named "Jinguang Lake".

Jinguang Lake is known as "Xishuangbanna in southern Fujian". It has a vast forest and a wide variety of wild animals and plants. The total forest area is 7,768 acres, and the highest altitude is 845 meters.

5. Nanputuo Temple

It was built in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, and was originally called Sizhou Yuan. Monk Wen Cui in the Northern Song Dynasty renamed it Wuwuyan. Yuan waste. It was rebuilt in the early Ming Dynasty and renamed Puzhao Temple. In the late Ming Dynasty, the poet monk Jueguang moved to the temple and built it in front of the mountain. The temples and courtyards were well-equipped, and there were often more than a hundred monks living there. In the early Qing Dynasty, it was abandoned due to military disasters.

In the 22nd year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1684), Shi Lang, the Marquis of Jinghai, stationed in Xiamen after regaining Taiwan, donated money to restore the old temple, and built a Dabei Pavilion to enshrine Guanyin Bodhisattva, which he combined with Putuo Mountain in Zhejiang Province. Similar to the Guanyin Dojo, it was renamed Nanputuo Temple.

In the following hundreds of years, monks such as Jingfeng, Shengji, and Xican, who presided over it, had been renovated and expanded many times. By the early years of the Republic of China, a Zen temple pattern with three halls and seven halls had been formed, which became the modern style of southern Fujian. The largest and most famous temple.

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The cultural spread of Gulangyu Island

Since the mid-19th century, along with the spread of Christianity, Western music began to pour into Gulangyu Island, and it was in harmony with the elegant music of Gulangyu Island. The integration of human settlements and environment has created Gulangyu's music tradition today, and has cultivated a large number of outstanding musicians such as Zhou Shu'an, Lin Junqing, Yin Chengzong, Chen Zuohuang, and Xu Feiping.

Today, Gulangyu’s per capita piano ownership rate ranks first in the country. There are more than 100 musical families on the island. In 2002, Gulangyu was named the “Island of Music” by the Chinese Musicians Association.

It has the only piano museum in the country and a world-class piano museum, and holds major music events such as the Gulangyu Piano Festival, National Youth Piano Competition, and American Music Week all year round.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Xiamen