Brief introduction of flower and bird lighthouse

It is the second largest lighthouse in Asia and a provincial key cultural relics protection unit. It was once called the North Saddle Lighthouse. In the ninth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1870), it was built by the British, with a total construction area of 10000 square meters, of which the light room area was 12.56 square meters. The tower is divided into four floors, which is a brick cylindrical building with a white top and a black bottom, and its height is19.17m. After the transformation of 19 16, the candle power increased to 500,000, and the fog flute was set for short-range navigation in foggy days, and the sound propagation exceeded 10 nautical mile. The candle power of 1928 increased to 740,000, and a radio director was added for long-distance navigation. 1937, the Japanese army occupied the flower and bird lighthouse and laid submarine cables directly to Tokyo. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it was returned to the government of the Republic of China; 1July, 950, which was taken over by the Ministry of Communications of the Central People's Government and now managed by the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration of the Ministry of Communications; Whenever night falls, the top of the tower will emit a rotating hot white light with a range of 24 nautical miles, flashing once every 15 seconds, which is called "night sea monster light"; Especially in foggy days, the lighthouse looms on the foggy sea. Every 40 minutes, it is like a fog flute in Niu Jiao, sending the gospel to the ships in chaos and summoning the lost life; This group of "foggy lighthouse" landscape also makes flowers and birds famous all over the world.