Tourism in Liugong Island

1. Tourist boats

There are 22 tourist boats responsible for the ferry service from Weihai to Liugong Island, all of which are steel shells or fiberglass structures, with seating for 100-200 people. The average one-way sailing time is 15 minutes. The route was awarded the title of "Civilized Route" by the Ministry of Transport in 2001. In addition, a sea tour route around Liugong Island has also been opened. It takes about 40 minutes to take a tourist boat to circle around Liugong Island.

2. Cableway Station

You can take the tourist cableway from Liugongdaoding Highway to Qidingshan Fort to visit. The ropeway adopts a single-line circulating fixed rope-holding double-person gondola design. The total length of the line is 708 meters, the running speed is 60 meters per minute, and the transport capacity is 300 people per hour. There are 9 brackets and 60 gondolas at the highest point of the line. Up to 22 meters. The control platform adopts advanced hydraulic technology to ensure the safety and comfort of the ropeway. By taking the cableway up the mountain, you can enter Liugong Island National Forest Park for free.

3. Tour bus

You can take an open tour bus for sightseeing on Ding Highway and Deng Highway, the main roads in the scenic area. The main places along the way are: Tourist Terminal-Navy Plaza-Cultural Plaza-Liu Gongdao Expo Park - Cableway Station - Liugongdao East Village - National Forest Park - Ding Ruchang Memorial Hall - Naval Academy - Huangdao Weapons Museum - Military Exhibition Hall - Iron Wharf - China Sino-Japanese War Museum.

Bus station (train station)——→Weihai Tourist Terminal

Bus: Take bus No. 103 (or 104, 105, 106, 107, 111, 112, 114, 115), get off at Hualian Commercial Building Station, and walk 800m eastward to Weihai Tourist Terminal 1. Liugong Island Visitor Center

It is located in the northeast corner of the waiting hall of Liugong Island pier, covering an area of ??about 100 square meters. Square meters, fully equipped with facilities, can provide tour guide, rest, inquiry, medical treatment and other services for tourists visiting the island. The center is now equipped with more than 30 professional tour guides who have good personal qualities and comprehensive abilities and can provide comprehensive, accurate, thoughtful and warm tour guide services for individual travelers and groups. It is equipped with a doctor on duty and has some commonly used first-aid drugs. In terms of tourism consultation, the center provides free one-stop information consultation services on food, accommodation, transportation, travel, shopping, and entertainment to every tourist who comes to Liugong Island using film, television, text and pictures, computer information system inquiry, etc., so that tourists can Use the fastest and easiest way to understand the tourism environment of Liugong Island and even Weihai, and obtain the most valuable tourism information; in addition, the center is also equipped with 18 leather chairs for tourists to rest, and a 42-inch plasma TV. There is a touch screen for tourists to check information. While tourists are resting in the center, they can also watch scenic films on the large-screen TV and learn about the overall situation of the scenic spot and the conditions of each scenic spot through the electronic touch screen.

2. Weihai Scenic Spots Travel Agency

It is located in the waiting hall outside the tourist pier and is a subsidiary company of Liugong Island Industrial Development Co., Ltd. Main business: domestic tourism; purchase of plane, ship, train and bus tickets; booking of hotels and restaurants; storage of items; rental of wheelchairs and baby strollers; sale of handicrafts and daily necessities; publishing of advertisements. 1. Liugong Island Hotel

It is located about 1 km east of the dock on Liugong Island. It has a superior location and convenient transportation. It can be reached in 5 minutes by taking the island tour bus. The hotel faces the sea in the south, backed by green mountains, and adjacent to Liugong Island Expo Park and Ropeway Station, the main attractions on the island, on the west side, with an elegant environment. The hotel has 19 guest rooms of various types including ordinary standard rooms, deluxe standard rooms, economy rooms and suites, with complete facilities and equipment. Equipped with closed-circuit television and high-speed broadband Internet access. The restaurant is equipped with authentic Shandong cuisine chefs, and the luxury and frugality are managed by people, making you feel like you are at home while you are away. It is your ideal place to stay. Staying at Liugongdao Hotel will make you feel more friendly, convenient, comfortable, safe, hygienic and considerate.

2. Liugongdao Renjia Hotel

Affiliated to Liugongdao Hotel, it is located in the middle of Ding Highway, the main tourist road of Liugongdao, with convenient transportation. The hotel specializes in fresh seafood and can provide a variety of seafood dishes with Jiaodong characteristics. The hotel's unique decoration is a semi-open-air environment, where tourists can enjoy the beautiful seaside scenery while tasting seafood. Since its opening, the hotel's delicious food and beautiful environment have always won praises from tourists.

Liugong Island’s cuisine is famous for its seafood, especially seafood and small seafood, which are more distinctive. The dishes pay special attention to knife skills, presentation patterns, heat and taste. They are famous for their freshness, crispness and tenderness, and the original flavor of the soup. Most cooking methods include grilling, simmering, deep-frying, stir-frying, pan-frying, steaming, roasting, etc. The main flavor dishes include braised sea cucumber, hand-braised prawns, scallops with hibiscus, braised conch, fried "swan eggs", ginger crab, and steamed gajillo. Fish, fried longevity vegetables, Weihai clear soup, etc. 1. Liugong Street

Located on the north side of Liugong Island Navy Square, it is a semi-underground, 190-meter-long shopping street. The main products include Korean clothing, Korean handicrafts, Korean food, Weihai Specialty seafood and fishing gear, etc.

2. Liugong Island Fish Shop

Located on the south side of the exit of Liugong Island Expo Park, it is opened as the Liugong Island tourist product sales center and mainly sells fish, shrimp and other dried products. , fresh seafood, as well as sea treasures such as sea cucumbers and abalone, and delicious foods such as shredded squid and fish fillets grilled on site. It is the first choice for tourists visiting the island to buy marine specialties and taste fishermen’s snacks.

1. The ticket price for Liugong Island Scenic Spot is 138 yuan/person, cableway 60 yuan/person, island tour 60 yuan/person, sightseeing bus 20 yuan/person; Liugong Island Forest Park and other natural landscapes and historical sites No more charges.

2. The China Sino-Japanese War Museum is open free of charge.

3. The price of the entry ticket to the Liugong Island Scenic Area and the ticket price of the Liugong Island Expo Park are 138 yuan per person.

4. Other preferential policies

(1) Children under 1.2 meters in height are free of charge;

(2) Disabled servicemen are free of admission to attractions, and boat tickets are half price 15 yuan/person;

(3) Island tickets and attraction tickets for children with a height of 1.2-1.4 meters are half-price, 69 yuan/person;

(4) Seniors over 60 years old People and persons with disabilities are exempt from admission to scenic spots, 31 yuan/person;

(5) Active military personnel, people receiving the city’s minimum living security allowance, minors over 1.4 years old (including 18 years old), and full-time university undergraduates For students with academic qualifications or below, tickets to attractions are half-price, 85 yuan/person [31 yuan + (69+38) yuan/2.

Liugong Island Ferry Cruise Time: 7:00-16:30, 8 minutes, 10:00-17:30 in peak season;

7:30-15:00, 15 minutes, 10 in low season : 00-15:30 (the specific time will change due to weather conditions)

Liugong Island Expo Park: Ticket included

China Sino-Japanese War Museum: Ticket included

Sino-Japanese War Naval War Museum: Ticket included

Liugong Island National Forest Park: Ticket included

Forest Park Cableway: 60 yuan

Tour bus : 20 yuan

Sea island tour: 60 yuan. Taiwanese compatriots give away rare animals from the mainland: long-maned goats "Xi Yangyang" and "Leyang Yang" and sika deer "Xingxing" and "Diandian" April 16, 2011 Arrive at Liugong Island National Forest Park in Weihai, Shandong Province. The Weihai Municipal Government held a grand move-in ceremony on the same day.

The long-maned goats and sika deer presented to compatriots in mainland China by Taiwanese compatriots left Taipei at 8 a.m. on the 16th to settle in Liugong Island, Shandong. The Taipei Municipal Zoo held a farewell ceremony for the two pairs of animal babies on the 15th. The mainland "welcome group" consists of 10 people including Zhao Xidian, executive deputy mayor of Weihai City. Taipei City and Weihai City exchange souvenirs.

According to China News Service, on November 3, 2008, the leaders of the "Two Sessions" (Mainland Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits and the Taiwan Straits Foundation) completed the first Taipei talks in history and signed an agreement to make the "three "Connect" became a reality, and cross-Strait relations took a historic step. During the talks, the leaders of the "Two Sessions" jointly announced that the two sides would donate giant pandas, Davidia dove trees, long-maned goats, and sika deer to each other.

After the "Two Sessions" reached an intention to donate precious animals and plants to each other, the two sides started preparations.

On December 23, 2008, the "Panda Plane" of Taiwan's EVA Air carried the giant pandas "Tuantuan" and "Yuanyuan" donated to Taiwan by the mainland and 17 Davidia involucrata trees known as the "Green Giant Pandas" The saplings set off for Taiwan. "Tuantuan" and "Yuanyuan" checked into their "new home" Taipei Municipal Zoo after arriving in Taiwan that night. The Davidia involucrata saplings were sent to Yilan Fushan Botanical Garden.

After the mainland’s donation of animals and plants to Taiwan was successfully completed, the progress of Taiwan’s return of precious animals to the mainland has attracted much attention. On April 19, 2010, after a strict selection process, the Taipei Municipal Zoo officially selected a pair of long-maned goats and a pair of sika deer from mainland China, and held a naming event for these two pairs of "babies". After popular voting, the male and female long-maned goats and sika deer were named "Pleasant Goat", "Le Sheep Goat", "Stars" and "Diandian".

As the two pairs of baby animals are about to leave to settle in the mainland, the Taipei Municipal Zoo held a farewell ceremony for them on April 15 with the mood of "marrying daughters". The ceremony was hosted by Weihai City Executive Deputy Mayor Zhao Xidian and others A 10-member mainland wedding group attended the ceremony. The zoo has specially prepared 12 "dowries" for them, including the leaves, feed, food utensils and castanets they like to eat, as well as the traditional dowry of peanuts and longans that symbolize "early birth of a child", as well as Taiwan's specialty tea and pineapple cakes. .

Now the male long-maned goat "Pleasant Goat" is about to be 6 years old. After training, he is no longer afraid of animals. The female long-maned goat "Leyangyang", who has just turned 3 years old, is petite and likes to play in safe corners. The male deer "Fanxing" is 5 and a half years old and quite strong. The doe "Dian Dian" who is less than 3 years old is shy by nature and will hide in the grass whenever there is any disturbance.

Taipei Municipal Zoo researcher Zhao Mingjie said that after the two pairs of animal babies move to Liugong Island, if the pairing goes smoothly, a baby may be born as soon as the end of the year or early next year.

While Taiwan is making preparations, the mainland is also selecting the most suitable "new home" for these two pairs of precious animals from the treasure island. After investigation and demonstration, Weihai, Shandong Province finally won out from many cities such as Changsha, Hunan, Jingmen, Hubei, and Fuzhou, Fujian.

After more than two years of preparation work, Liugongdao Forest Park has prepared enclosures for sika deer and long-maned goats, as well as supporting animal medical rooms, monitoring rooms, floor heating and other facilities. According to the advice of Taiwanese experts, Comments are improved.

In order to ensure that these two "babies" can live a better life in the mainland, Liugongdao Forest Park and Taipei Zoo continue to send relevant personnel to inspect the environment, food formula, management methods, breeding, and animal training of the animals' new home. and medical and other work are ready to communicate with each other. The gain or loss of an island can be related to the modern destiny of a thousand-year-old country. The so-called "same race, same culture" yellow-skinned and black-haired brotherhood has been struggling in the "hunting ground" for half a century, and the aftermath is still there. This small island is Liugong Island.

The world is like a chess game, and the islands are like chess pieces. Although they are small, they are related to the overall situation. The 3.15-square-kilometer Liugong Island, old photos and new photos - contrast connects you and me now. The evolution of historical materials for the forts on Liugong Island. The existence and names of the forts on Liugong Island, according to the order of historical records, are: memorials of Qing officials before the war, letters and telegrams from officials during the war, statistics of the Japanese army after the war, and writings by modern people. .

On November 20th of the lunar calendar in 1889, an alternate county magistrate named Sa Chengyu started from Keelung, Taiwan, to inspect various coastal defense forts in China. On the 20th day of the seventh lunar month in 1890, Sa arrived in Weihai. The following is his report on the situation of the fort on Liugong Island, "... On Liugong Island, a hidden underground fort was built at the north entrance. The foundation was dug deeply, so that the underground pit was shaped like a full moon. , there are two newly made breech-trap steel cannons in Ammonshizhuang. To the north of the island is Huangdao Yan, with an earth embankment built at the foot of the mountain, accessible by land; to the south of the island is Ri Island Yan, surrounded by the sea and steep mountains. , the underground well concealed fort is now built, and the second gun position is installed." The inspection report was completed in December of the following year under the name of "Situation Book of Forts in the Southern and Northern Oceans", which can be called China's first coastal defense intelligence compilation in modern times. Sa refers to Huangdao as "North" and calls the two ground cannons built at the north entrance, which obviously refers to the fort behind Gongsuo. It can be seen that only the fort behind Gongsuo was built on Liugong Island in 1890.

One year later, in 1891, the triennial Beiyang Navy Review took place. This was also the first major review of the Beiyang Navy after its formation in 1888. On the twenty-fifth day of the fourth lunar month of that year, Li Hongzhang came to Weihai Guard by boat to review. Afterwards, in the "Naval Parade Completed" played on the fifth day of May, the Beiyang Minister mentioned his collateral in-laws and the Liugong Island base guard. Commander Zhang Wenxuan said, "Liu Gong Island is held across the entrance, and the situation is very concise. Lieutenant General Zhang Wenxuan led the escort to build a new Jiji fort in the north of the island. They dug caves and mezzanine tunnels in the mountains, and installed 24 centimeters (cm) behind them." The gun can be raised and lowered very quickly and can snipe enemy ships, while the gun body is dormant and cannot be attacked. This is the latest style of the Western Kingdom. A fort was built on the west side of Liugong Island and connected to Huangdao Island, and a cross-sea passage was built. It's especially difficult." Comparing the before and after, it can be seen that the Huangdao Fort was completed in 1891.

Three years later, in 1894, there was another naval review. Li Hongzhang arrived in Wei on April 15th of the lunar calendar and mobilized Beiyang Navy warships for review on the 17th. It is worth mentioning that a Japanese warship came to "visit" and praised the Beiyang Navy as "strictly controlled". This time, Li Hongzhang stated in the "Review of the Naval Forces Completion" played on April 25th of the lunar calendar that Commander-in-Chief Zhang Wenxuan built a fort at the south end of Liugong Island... and built a 10-meter-long fort on the top of Liugong Island. As a protective wall inside, an earthen wall was built in Nanzui, and a ground cannon was built in Huangdao. The so-called "Nanzui Fort" appeared for the first time. After the Battle of Fengshima broke out on the 23rd day of the 6th lunar month of that year, Zhang Wenxuan submitted a letter to Li Hongzhang on the 8th day of October, saying that the construction of the Gaochangying Fort would be completed within July, and the foundation of the Dadingzi Fort would be built in a hurry. So far, pre-war Chinese data have recorded six forts on Liugong Island: Gongsuohou, Ridao, Huangdao, Nanzui, Gaochangying and Dadingzi.

After the fall of the Liugong Island base, the right to speak of history was transferred to the hands of the Japanese occupying forces. On February 17, 1895, the Japanese fleet entered the port. On the 21st, people from the Japanese Land Survey Department went to the island and followed Huangdao, Gongsuohou, and Qiding Mountain from west to east, taking pictures of their battle results, focusing on iron. The buildings in the east and west areas of the pier and the ships in the port, Huangdao fort, signal tower, electric light tower, etc.

According to this, after the war, the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters edited and published the "History of the Sino-Japanese War in Meiji 278". Chapter 34 of this book starts with "Weihai Guards Port Fort Armament and Number of Mines Layed (Meiji 2)" The forts on Liugong Island were registered in tabular form under the title "Mid-January, 18th year)".

There are strange things between the old and new photos of the fort

Compared to today, there are many strange things about the Japanese army’s registration of the Liugong Island fort group, which is thought-provoking.

On March 5, 2011, starting from Huangdao, the reporter followed the ridge eastward to visit Liugong Island. At noon, we arrived at the so-called Qidingshan Fort and looked eastward. We saw two hills distributed in the north and south, with roughly the same height. Comparing its positional relationship and height, it is exactly the "Signal Station and Electric Light Station of Liugong Island in Weihaiwei Port" photographed by the Japanese Army Land Survey Department.

About 200 meters east from Qiding Mountain is a flat hilltop with a three-story hexagonal spire red glazed tile pavilion. This is the observation deck of Liugong Island Forest Park, which was the base of Liugong Island in those days. signal station. Turning to the northeast about 100 meters from here, there is a rocky mountain. This was the Liugong Island electric lighthouse, also known as the searchlight, used to monitor the narrow north entrance of Weihai Bay. Looking at old photos, the two mountains where the signal station and the electric light station are located seem to be parallel to the north and south, but in a straight line, they are actually staggered from east to west.

Looking southeast from the lighthouse, you can see across the pine forest, there is a small hill on the right, and in the distance is Dahong Island in the sea. This layout is consistent with the "Distant View of the Southeast Point Fort on the Southeast Highlands of the Liugong Island Electric Light Station in Weihai Port" taken by the Japanese Land Survey Department on February 21, 1895.

There is an annotation in small print in the old photo: "On the right ridge, there is a K-type Jiushan cannon, and below it are the houses and military buildings." The cannon is located in a semi-underground fort on the top of the mountain, with the muzzle facing Weihai. At the north entrance of the bay, today there is the Yingmendong Fort, a national key cultural relic protection unit on the top of this hill.

However, unlike the circular sunken gun emplacement of today's "Yingmendong Fort", the gun emplacement in the old photos is a straight vertical wall sunken type. Considering that the British leased it from 1898 to 1904, , out of the strategic need to contain Russia, the British colonial authorities initially positioned Liugong Island as a military fortress in the Far East. It is not difficult to understand the change in the shape of the fort, but the principle of the configuration of a gun remains the same.

The "Yingmendong Fort" is not recorded in the appendix of "History of the Japanese-Qing War", and the Japanese Army's "Land Survey Department" did not take a special photo of it. This omission is different from the seriousness with which they took pictures of the Weihaiwei North and South Gang forts. When photographing the Nanbeibang fort, the Japanese army took a photo even at the Jiufengding fort on Weihaiweihou Road where no fighting took place.

An even bigger mystery appears in the "Qidingshan Fort", one of the landmark buildings on Liugong Island today. At this location, the Land Survey Department took a picture of the "Liugong Island Signal Station and Electric Light Station in Weihaiwei Port", but did not take a picture of the fort on the mountain. You know, in modern writings after 1949, it was recorded that this place was equipped with four 240 mm large-caliber cannons. This omission does not seem to be Japanese style.

The sea near the iron pier is quieter

In addition to the fort, iron pier and surrounding naval offices, Ding Ruchang's residence is also a key target of the Land Survey Department. There was no wide-angle lens at that time, so they took three consecutive shots from the Naval Office to the west to the Iron Pier, recording the situation of the Japanese combined fleet docking at the Iron Pier on the 21st, which revealed a wealth of information.

In the old photo "Weihaiwei Port Liugongdao Street and the Collection of Ships in the Port (Part 4)", between the two tilted masts in the middle right of the screen is the Beiyang Navy Liugongdao base subway At the south end of the pier, there was a short "T" shaped approach bridge. The two ship masts tilting in the sea are the Beiyang Navy training ship "Weiyuan" that was sunk by torpedoes during the second entrance sneak attack of the Japanese torpedo boat fleet in the early morning of February 6.

The three mosquito ships of the Beiyang Navy are slightly larger and have higher freeboards in the middle of the nearby sea. Among them, two ships have two masts and single chimneys, and the other ship has no mast, so it should be "in the middle of the town" or "by the town". On the side of the three mosquito gunboats close to the iron pier are two torpedo boats with lower freeboards, and on the other side of the mosquito boats are four Japanese torpedo boats. Torpedo boats were the decisive equipment for the victory of the Japanese combined fleet during the entire Sino-Japanese War. On Liugong Island, it was they that severely damaged Dingyuan and sank Laiyuan, Baoban, and Weiyuan. Ironically, they are so close to Weiyuan.

Following the extension line of the iron pier to the south, between the two high-freeboard transport ships, is one of the three remaining Beiyang battleships at that time (the other two are Jiyuan and Pingyuan) "Guang Bing" number. Directly south of the four torpedo boats, there is a small warship with two masts and a single chimney. It is obviously smaller than the "Guangbing". This is one of the four Akagi-class gunboats of the Japanese Combined Fleet.

To the west of the building complex on the shore, there are two outstanding roof ridges, front and rear, which are higher than other houses and darker in color. This is the current residence of Ding Ruchang. The lush pine forest on the island blocked the photographic field. The reporter only found one angle and used the southern end of the iron pier as a reference to take pictures of the current scene. The shooting point was further west than in the old photo, and Ding Ruchang's residence was blocked to the east of the new scene. Comparing the old and new buildings, we can’t find any roofs that are the same. The traditional Chinese-style small green tile roofs from the Beiyang Navy period have disappeared and turned into houses with high chimneys and large spans.

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Ticket price: Package 138 yuan/person

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Suitable for: families, individuals, couples, companies, friends, children, the elderly

Best time: March, May, June, July, August, September, October, November

Travel mode: group tour, self-driving tour

Scenic spot type: leisure vacation, island