Tourism resources in Liuao Town

The city walls of Liu'ao Ancient City are all made of long granite strips, surrounding the mountain, with a circumference of 1931 meters and a thickness of two to three meters. Not only is its layout unique, its length is second only to Chongwu Ancient City in the province. There are three earthen battlements built on the city. There are three city gates on the south, north and southwest sides. As the main city gate, there used to be a 10-meter-high city tower on the north gate. Outside the gate, there was an urn city, a stone square and an imperial temple. There are hidden soldier caves, barracks, observation towers and beacon towers built inside the south city. In addition, there are 5 water gates built in the whole city, distributed on the east and west sides, which can be used for flood drainage and the entry and exit of soldiers and civilians when there is no war. Banyan trees are planted all over the mountain. The roots of the banyan trees are like huge dragon claws, tightly grasping the city walls and rocks. More than 100 ancient banyan trees of various sizes are either in groups or gathered together. The roots of the banyan trees are climbing up the city walls and their roots are intertwined. , forming a landscape of "the city is built in the forest and the banyan trees grow in the city", which is a rare coastal wonder.

Liuao City is basically well preserved and its old appearance still remains. When Beiying Film shot the color feature films "The Twilight Zone" and "Happy Heroes", they chose this magical, unique and beautiful ancient city as the main location. Some martial arts scenes in the previously filmed TV series "Kangxi Empire" were also chosen here. There are many natural boulders on the mountain. There are still three cliff stone carvings on the boulders, one of which is engraved with five unique poems, and five stone tablets. Among them, "A rugged piece of stone, facing the sea and the sky alone, the earth goes to the southeast, and the mountains dare not move forward" is the most famous. There is also a large war-prepared underground cave in the city - "Ao Cave", which was sealed by the government during peacetime and is now applying for opening to the outside world.

Liuao Ancient City is an existing living history textbook. Walking into the ancient city is like walking into the history of the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago. Based on subjective feelings, you can experience the heroic spirit of the soldiers who were stationed in the ancient city who dared to resist rape; the famous anti-Japanese general Yu Dayou commanded the battle here and killed the invading enemies; Jiangxia Hou Zhou Dexing inspected many times before and after the city was built. To this day, in the ancient teaching ground in the north of the city, there is still a monument commemorating Yu Dayou's contribution to Tingzhang's defense against the Japanese during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. The "Abstract Gallery" is located on the east slope of Laoshan Mountain to the east of the Liu'ao Peninsula in Zhangpu County. It faces the Taiwan Strait to the east and Taiwan Island across the sea. The southeast is surrounded by the 9-kilometer-long crescent-shaped Liu'ao Dayao Bay. To the northwest is a dense coastal protective forest. The entire area has a south subtropical oceanic monsoon climate, with an average annual rainfall of 1,250 mm and an average annual sunshine of more than 2,000 hours. The climate is pleasant, with abundant rainfall and sunshine, making it feel like spring all year round.

The "Abstract Gallery" scenic spot covers an area of ??about 1 square kilometers and is divided into four areas. They are the golden beach area, the red stone area, the strange stone scenic area, and the "Abstract Gallery" area. Among them, the golden beach area has a total length of 6 kilometers. After countless ebbs and flows, the sand is fine and white, with uniform particles. The setting sun shines slantingly, and the water and sky are of the same color, complementing each other and suitable for movement and stillness. At the same time, the sea breeze is gentle and the sea water is clean. , is a summer resort. On a night when the moon is bright, walking on the beach with couples and families, watching the tide and admiring the moon, is a unique mood.

After thousands of years of weathering by sea breeze and erosion by sea water, the abstract gallery has formed reddish-brown irregular geometric patterns on the light-colored base surface of the granite stone, just like modern abstract paintings. The traces have different shapes and scenery, and are well-proportioned, integrated and coherent, forming a unique natural landscape of weathered granite and sea erosion. It is called an "abstract gallery" by geologists. Entering along the rugged tunnel is like entering a fairyland. The main exterior scenes of the two movies "Love with Mazu" and "Haixia" were shot here.

The Zhangpu County Government, the Chengdu Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Subtropical Oceanography of Xiamen University and other units jointly conducted a research survey on the evaluation and development of Zhangpu coastal landscape resources. As a result, natural sea-eroded granite - —Abstract Gallery, which they consider one of the “five wonders” of the discovery. Mr. Chen Anze, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, and experts from the National Expert Appraisal Committee agreed that this wonder was discovered for the first time in China. It has the quality of a national special scenic resource and is also a high-quality coastal tourism resource in my country. It has mountains, water, and The beach, with trees, flowers, grass and strange rocks, is a rare comprehensive tourist attraction at home and abroad, with high appreciation and development value.