The blue sea surrounded by Gulangyu Island, an area of 1.87 square kilometers, the island on the sea reefs jagged, meandering shoreline, mountains stacked, rocky peaks and tumbling, nature's ingenious work of art has created the Gulangyu Island, bright and timeless island scenery, the main attractions are the Sunlight Rock, Peas and Beans Garden, Hao Yueyuan, are Xiamen, Xiamen, famous scenery. Gulangyu Island is a subtropical oceanic monsoon climate, abundant rainfall, four seasons of mild, the island of more than 90 families of more than 4,000 species of plants year-round lush, precious species of trees are the only large-fruited mahogany, the thickest Indian rosewood, from New Zealand and other countries to introduce various types of rare fruit trees, some of the vegetation on the island has been formed in a subtropical oceanic monsoon climate of the top communities. The sea around Gulangyu Island is the main part of Xiamen Harbor, bordering the Chinese White Dolphin Sanctuary, the Wenchang Fish Sanctuary, the Lantau Island Egret Sanctuary, and across the sea from the Kinmen Islands.
Before the Song Dynasty, Gulangyu was a small, uninhabited island with abundant water and grass, known as Round Sand Island. At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the Li clan from Songyu Island on the other side of the island came to develop the island and gradually formed a settlement. At the end of the Ming and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the national hero Zheng Chenggong trained sailors on Gulangyu Island, and in 1662, he waged an eastward expedition to recover Taiwan, which had been occupied by the Dutch colonizers for 38 years. After the Opium War, Xiamen was opened as a "five ports of commerce", and in 1902, Gulangyu Island was turned into a public **** lease, Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Japan and other 13 countries have set up consulates on the island.
From the middle of the 19th century, along with the spread of Christianity, Western music began to pour into Gulangyu, blending in with the island's elegant habitat to create the musical tradition of Gulangyu today, and nurturing a large number of outstanding musicians, such as Zhou Shu'an, Lin Junqing, Yin Chengzong, Chen Zohuang, and Xu Feiping. Today, Gulangyu has the highest rate of piano ownership per capita in the country, and there are more than 100 musical families on the island, which was named the "Island of Music" by the Chinese Musicians Association in 2002.
Gulangyu is home to many famous historical sites. It is one of the most well-preserved areas for the historical relics of national hero Zheng Chenggong, and a large number of precious cliff stone carvings on the island remain well-preserved despite years of wind and rain. The former homes and mausoleums of more than 60 Gulangyu celebrities, including Lin Qiaozhi, the founder of modern Chinese obstetrics and gynecology, Lu Duanzhang, the pioneer of Chinese language modernization, and Ma John, the initiator of modern Chinese sports, are all located on Gulangyu Island. Gulangyu Island, with its graceful natural scenery and profound cultural heritage, has become a national key scenic spot, one of the 35 ace scenic spots in the country, and tops the list of top ten scenic spots in Fujian Province.
Lost in Gulangyu Island is also a kind of happiness
Gulangyu Island - Sunshine Rock
Sunshine Rock, commonly known as "Shaking Rock" is located in the middle of the south of Gulangyu Island on the top of Longtou Mountain, 92.68 meters above sea level, is the highest peak in Gulangyu Island. The highest peak in Gulangyu. The top of the rock is built with a round platform, standing on top of the peak, with the railings far away, Xiamen and Drums scenery as far as the eye can see, the mountain peak waist jagged rocks, in the sparse woods, "Lotus Ann", "Ancient Avoidance Department Cave", "Longtoushan Ruins "" water drill platform "" Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall " and other buildings, caves, ancient cities and generations of cliffs and stone carvings can be seen, in the midst of it, thinking about the past and the present, will make people feel a lot of emotions. It can be reached directly by disembarking from the island's ferry terminal and walking for ten minutes.
Tips: A must-see Open: 6:30-20:00 Ticket Price: RMB60/person
Peas Farm Garden
Peas Farm Garden was originally the private garden of Lin Erjia, a wealthy Taiwanese gentleman, and has been dedicated to the government as a park since the 1950s.
Lin Erjia designed the garden with great care, striving to reproduce the style of the Banqiao villa, but also with the charm of the Jiangnan gardens, the use of a not very large bay of slopes, creating unlimited space, "every spring and autumn, to see the sea and the sky, far away from the infinity," to see all the surrounding scenery into the garden embrace. He set up in the garden Meishoutang, nonautumn Pavilion, true rate Pavilion, forty-four bridges, beckoning pavilion, stubborn stone mountain room, twelve holes in the sky, also love my hut, tide building, small orchid pavilion and other 10 scenes, and the Taipei Panchiao villa in the small Panchiao also moved to the small, chic, unique.
Peas Farm Garden scenery, but the most distinctive is:
Hidden sea: all the way to the sea, to the garden door and even into the door still do not see the sea, a high wall blocking the line of sight, even look back, the garden door on the inside lintel hanging high "hidden sea" plaque into the eyes, suddenly realized the hidden sea meaning, turn out! The moon hole door, suddenly "sea and sky", the sea rushes to, this first hidden after revealing the technique, received a surprising effect.
Cleverly borrowed: Lin Erjia the slope of the sea, the bay reefs, rising and falling tide, all utilized, surrounded by steps, building bridges and pavilions, so that the original very small bay, borrowing the surrounding natural beauty as a pad, into the sea, a wide field of vision, quite a hierarchy of the seaside gardens. Especially walking on the forty-four bridges, the face of the vast sea and air, who do not feel its small, but feel the garden of the big. South Taiwu in the distance, under the mountain of Yuzaiwei, listed Tanyu, Green Island, Wuzhou Island, in front of the Sunlight Rock, Hero Mountain, in front of the Haicang Songyu corner and flying seagulls, have become the garden's exterior. Forty-four bridges on the ferry moon Pavilion, is the best point of peas and beans Zhuang view of the sea to enjoy the scenery, every Mid-Autumn Festival, late at night, the waves gently rocking, to appreciate that sea color moon, really is the joy of life!
Peas and Beans Garden has built many new facilities in recent years and expanded its scale. In particular, listening to the Taoxuan converted into a "piano museum", exhibiting by the Gulangyu Island, Australia, collector Mr. Hu Youyi life collection of the world's famous 30 ancient pianos, including the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States made "Steinway", Austria's "Bosendorfer", and the "Piano Museum". "Bosendorfer", the German royal family special royal piano, rare treasures gilded piano, the world's earliest four-corner piano, the largest upright piano, the oldest hand-cranked pianos, foot-operated automatic piano, eight pedal four sets of strings piano, the performance of more than a hundred years of the world's piano production technology and the level of development, which is unique in China. It is unique in China. The Piano Museum makes Gulangyu Island worthy of its name and adds luster to the island!
Gulangyu Island--Hao Yue Yuan
Hao Yue Yuan is a theme park commemorating the national hero Zheng Chenggong, located in the southeast seashore of Gulangyu Island, covering an area of 30,000 square meters, spread along the Heron River, is a beach, rocks, trees, pavilions and pavilions spread the garden. Built in 1985, the garden is named "Hao Yue Yuan" after the poem "Thinking of the king, the moonlight penetrates through the vegetarian apartment" in Yanping Erwangji, which is meant to express the memory of the heroes and the longing for Taiwan.
The garden square erected a group of bronze large-scale group relief screen "Vine Drive", 13.5 meters long, 4.7 meters high, weighing 18 tons, is currently the largest group of historical figures in relief. Relief reproduced when Zheng Chenggong waved his division to the east, driving Dutch restoration of Taiwan's historical scenes.
Hao Yue Yuan has a fascinating view, and the architectural features of the Ming Dynasty and the sand gulls, trees, seascape and mountain colors of the seashore reflect each other, constituting a natural picture.
The giant stone statue of Zheng Chenggong was completed on August 27th, 1985. The tiger general's majesty has been permanently stationed on the Overdrive Rock since then. Statue height of 15.7 meters, weighing 1617 tons, by 23 layers of 625 pieces of "Quanzhou white" granite carved combination. Duding Rock is 29.5 meters above sea level, extending 30 meters into the sea, the terrain is steep, magnificent, it and the sea of the sword stone, seal bucket stone tripod.
Nowadays, the statue of Zheng Chenggong, which stands on top of the sea on Duding Rock, has become the main building of the park, and it is also the largest one among the statues of Chinese historical figures. The large bronze group relief in the park reproduces the historical scene when Zheng Chenggong waved his troops to the east and drove away the Dutch to restore Taiwan. Hao Yue Yuan has a fascinating view, with Ming Dynasty architectural features and the seashore's sand gulls, trees, seascape and mountain colors reflecting each other, forming a natural picture. The garden is only a five-minute walk to the left from the island's ferry terminal.
Gulangyu Island - Organ Museum (Bagua Building)
The Bagua Building is a representative of modern architecture in Xiamen, built in the Qing Dynasty Guangxu 33 years (1907), with a total floor area of 3,710 square meters and a height of 25.7 meters. Dome height of 10 meters, there are 8 prongs, placed on the octagonal platform, the top window in all directions twenty-four to the folk called it "gossip building", it has become a symbol of the sea vessel in and out of the port, but also Xiamen's modern architectural representatives. The original owner of the gossip building for the Taiwan Panchiao Lin Benyuan family's third house Lin Heshou, the former Gulangyu Island, "Salvation Hospital" director of the Dutch-American Yu John volunteered to design it free of charge. John Yu, born in Holland in 1861, graduated from Utrecht University in Holland and the University of Michigan, studied civil architecture and medicine, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen. 1888 came to Xiamen with the U.S. Reformed Church, was first sent to Pinghe Xiaoxi to prepare for the construction of a medical center, and then in 1898 Xiaoxi medical center was moved to Gulangyu Island, and was named the "Salvation Hospital on Gulangyu Island for Men and Women". In 1898, the hospital was moved to Gulangyu Island and named "Gulangyu Men's and Women's Salvation Hospital", and he personally presided over the surgical operations, and was a highly skilled doctor of medicine and an accomplished architect. According to Lin Heshou's wish, he designed this unique antique building - Bagua Building, which is a blend of Eastern and Western architectural cultures. At that time, Western designers advocate retro, Yu John's design also draws on a blend of ancient Greece, ancient Rome, Islam and Chinese classical architecture of a variety of elements in the Bagua Building. Its dome directly by copying the world's oldest Islamic mosque in Palestine Al-Aqsa Mosque stone room dome (later rebuilt for the gold roof), this dome in Florence, Italy, Venice, Rome and many European countries can be seen on the church. Surrounded by 82 large columns is a reference to the 5th century A.D., the ancient Greek temple of the goddess Hera's large stone column design, this large stone columns can also be built in the 3rd century A.D. in the Vatican St. Peter's Square and the Pantheon in Rome and other places to see, people come to St. Peter's Square, the large stone colonnade, immediately have a high mountain on the sacred feeling, it is clear that the YuJohn is grafted on to the octagonal building of the holy, although the octagonal building is not as big as the St. Peter's Square St. Peter's Square Stonehenge Promenade is so inspiring, but in the gossip can also feel the charm of its architecture! Bagua building between the stone pillars flat support of granite beams, can also be seen in the Greek temple of Hephaus in Athens Square. Ancient Greece's three major columns in the Taurik columns and Ionic columns are quite pure and typical. Four sides of the corridor pressure bar using Xiamen's locally produced granite, rugged and beautiful. The vase of green dou stone under the pressure bar expresses the classical beauty of traditional Chinese architecture. Gossip Tower internal channel was cross-shaped, straight four-way, which is commonly used in ancient Roman church building techniques, Yu John will move it for gossip tower, seems quite harmonious atmosphere, the performance of the grand and spectacular. Some people say it is "the United States small White House" "Japan's Capitol", which is not true.
Embarked on the rooftop of the gossip tower, the field of vision is extremely wide, the Xia Drum panorama, the sea and the sky all embraced in the arms of the beauty. At once feel gossip building site, shape and many other architectural art of superhuman beauty. In the center of the 10-meter dome, there are 8 not very obvious sponsor line, dome under the perimeter of the opening of four 8 to the long window, the light into the ceiling with the cut and paste porcelain flowers, interwoven into a beautiful space, in the presence of, without feeling ethereal. Dome and towering over the octagonal platform, are 8 of the digital, and thus have gossip of the allegory, folk call it "gossip". It is not only the sign of the ocean liner in and out of the harbor, but also a representative of modern architecture in Xiamen.
Now become an organ museum, if possible to listen to a song on the organ playing and then go to the next attraction!
The above attractions on Gulangyu Island have a combined ticket for sale
Gulangyu Island - Xiamen Underwater World
Xiamen Underwater World was opened in January 1998 to the public. It is located in Gulangyu Island ferry terminal west of the former Gulang Park, with more than 350 kinds of saltwater and freshwater fish from all continents and oceans of the world more than 10,000 tails.
Xiamen Underwater World covers an area of 17.5 hectares, with a total construction area of 7,500 square meters. It was built by Singaporean overseas Chinese in cooperation with the Gulangyu Island Scenic Area Construction and Development Company, with a total investment of 10 million U.S. dollars. This flower beds surrounded by sea-blue crystal palace building, the first phase of the project has built the Ocean Museum, penguins and freshwater fish museum. Its entrance in the main building outside the 60-meter place has a unique design, unique, teeth and claws of the octopus carving, 6 meters high, spanning 11.2 meters. It is a unique posture to warmly welcome travelers to visit, it is the landmark of Xiamen underwater world, but also the first visitors to take pictures of the landscape.
Xiamen Underwater World has innovative facilities with modern equipment, and the most prominent facility is the undersea tunnel. The tunnel is 80 meters long and 1.5 meters wide, entering the tunnel, standing on the electric walkway, you can see both sides of the concave fish pond. Travelers do not need to dive can "enter the underwater world" and fish *** swim, see in all directions and up and down before and after the world of fish, endless streams of fish close at hand, rubbing shoulders, showing sharp teeth of the ferocious sharks pounced on the free and easy to slow and huge Fish from the top of the head floated by ......, divers in the underwater fish feeding show, the fish are not the only thing that can be seen in the underwater tunnel, but also in the underwater tunnel. Groups of fish competing for food, human and fish mixed into one of the wonderful scene, let a person marvel at.
Xiamen underwater world another unique facility, that is 7 meters high diameter 2.5 meters cylindrical fish pool, the height of this is equivalent to nearly three-storey building, in the steps you can look at the surface of the fish activities, you can also look at the bottom of the fish activities. The three-dimensional sense is much more obvious. Large cylindrical fish tanks mainly display the colorful coral reef fish of China's South China Sea.
Xiamen sea view of the Golden Gate
From Xiamen ferry terminal to take a designated cruise around the island, to the current jurisdiction of the Golden Gate of the Datan Island near the surface of the island, looking at the huge spokes of the "Three Principles of Unity of China," towering over the island banner. The weather that day was good, quite clear, can vaguely see some of the military facilities of the island garrison, just not the movie "Heroic Little Eight Roads" in the shelling of Kinmen smoke-filled battle. Perhaps the relevant departments in order to publicize the unity, deliberately across the sea opposite the Xiamen island road with steel bars and iron bones also tree up a huge publicity rack, and will be "one country, two systems, unity of China," the eight big words firmly set on it, which has become a bright political landscape on the Xiamen island road, Taiwan tourists to Xiamen sightseeing will also be arranged! To visit this place, as we curiously look at the slogan of "Three Principles of the People's Republic of China" "Success One" luxury antique cruise ship is the first antique cruise ship built by Posidon, the cruise ship capacity of 258 people. It mainly sails "Jinxia Sea Cruise" and "Heron River Night Cruise". The cruise ship is divided into three floors, the first floor of the sea-viewing hall for the multi-function hall, sailing on the way to perform for you the opera "living fossil" - the cloth bag opera; the second floor for the river-watching building, with elegant seating, boxes and open-air performance stage, the moon viewing and listening to the waves to enjoy the cultural performances; the third floor for the Lingyun Pavilion, with a café and teahouse, tea, gossip, another interesting. The third floor is the Lingyun Pavilion with coffee and café, where you can enjoy tea and gossip, and have some other fun. Jinxia Sea Tour Route: Ferry - Gulangyu Island - Xiamen University - Hulishan Fortress - Baishi Fortress - Maritime Military Demarcation Line - Lantau Island - Ferry (return trip) (There is a palm bag show) Heron River night cruise route: ferry - Gulangyu Island - Xiamen University - Hulishan Fortress - Fire Island - Haicang Bridge - ferry (complimentary entertainment)
Xiamen Hulishan Fortress
Hulishan Fortress is located in the southern tip of Xiamen Island, Hulishan beach, built in the twentieth year of the Guangxu (1894), there are more than 100 years of history of the rise and fall of the misery. The foundation of the fortress is made of the sap of Wuzhang tree and glutinous rice, brown sugar, lime, sand and soil mixing, very tough. The whole fort consists of barracks, tunnels, command buildings, watchtowers, ammunition depots, moats, etc. It is a rectangular castle made of granite stones with an area of 13,000 square meters. Historically, it used to be an ancient battlefield for the people of Xiamen to fight against the imperialist invaders. The fort is divided into east and west, with two main cannons (only one survives now), purchased from the German Krupp Arsenal. Cannon body length of 13.13 meters, weighing 50 tons. The inner diameter of the muzzle 280 mm, the effective range of 16,000 meters. Battery also displayed from the Xiamen sea and infrastructure sites unearthed more than 50 cast in the Ming and Qing dynasty iron cannon. There is a tunnel connecting the east and west gun emplacements, and there is a barracks at the exit of the tunnel. There is a moat outside and a patrol road inside, which is a sea defense fortress.
In 9986, "Wanggui Terrace" and "Pan Gui Terrace" were built along the front of the fortress, where visitors can look through binoculars at the Datan Island and Ertan Island under the jurisdiction of Kinmen.
Hulishan Fortress is a national key cultural relics unit, and in August 2000, it was listed in the 2000 Guinness Book of World Records.
In recent years, the fort's courtyard was organized, a new large wall sculpture "national soul", showing the journey from the sword and gun into the library to the vibration of strength, resistance to the enemy, the meaning of the deep. The left side of the wall sculpture, the new "Rongquan", quite innovative.
The small garden behind the wall sculpture, green grass, there are many sculptures and golden tiger cactus, high up a leisure pavilion, harmonious and natural. In the north of the small garden, the "Moonlight Rock" attraction was opened, and the "Dragon Spring Waterfall", "a line of heaven" and "Hulishan Fortress Poetry Wall" were added.
Glorious Treasure Museum
The museum is located in the former barracks of Mount Huli Fortress, and is a cultural exhibition organization jointly established by the Mount Huli Fortress Management Office and Singapore's Billion Jewel Pte Ltd. All exhibits in the museum are provided by Mr. Teo Eng Kuang, a Singaporean collector.
The museum is divided into five parts: "World Stones Exhibition", "World Ancient Artillery Exhibition", "World Ancient Sword Exhibition", "World Ancient Musket Exhibition", "Ancient Tree Fossil Exhibition", etc. The exhibits are from all over the world since the 13th century. Exhibits since the 13th century, the world's cannons, guns, valuable swords and warrior armor and shield 455 pieces and colorful, clear texture, realistic image of the mountains, rivers and oceans, birds and beasts, flowers, trees, insects and birds and other natural landscapes in the image of the natural stone 3,850 pieces.
"World Stones Gallery" is divided into character series, landscape series, pine, bamboo and plum series, text series, animal series, gemstone series, etc., of which the treasure of the hospital, "Yellow River water from the sky", from Burma, weighing 2.5 tons, the picture has a section from the northeast to the southwest of the texture veins, it seems to be the Yellow River water from the sky; it is also a triple folding south and a wide river valley, the valley of the small speckles, seems to be a thousand sails racing, the two sides of the river. It is a thousand sails, and there are many overlapping high mountains between the two sides of the river, really like the Three Gorges image.
In the second museum, there is a "three layers of meat" stone, hanging on an iron hook, like a piece of three layers of pork, by the skin, fat, lean meat, cartilage and other parts of the composition, simply can be fake.
Others such as the Garden of Eden in the character series, landscape series of Mount Fuji, the Milky Way; pine, bamboo and plum series of double-sided bamboo, bamboo, etc., animal series of eagles, double geese, gemstone series of the Peach Blossom Society, flowers and so on. There is also a sword in the series of the King of Jordan's gold sword, etc., the list goes on and on, it really makes people applaud, in order to cause people to produce may have "acquired processing" suspicion, but it is best to take a look.
Xiamen Nanputuo Temple
Nanputuo Temple is located in the city under the Wulao Peak, facing Longhai City, South Taiwu Mountain, south of Xiamen University. Nanputuo Temple is a famous ancient temple in Xiamen. Built in the Ming Dynasty during the Yongle period (1403-1424), it was destroyed by fire at the end of the Ming Dynasty (1628). In the 23rd year of the Qing Emperor Kangxi (1684), Jinghai Hou General Shi Lang rebuilt, because the temple is dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva as the main, but also located in China's four major Buddhist monasteries in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, the south of Putuo Mountain, so it is called the South Putuo Temple.
Nanpuyuan Temple is magnificent, covering a total area of 25.8 hectares, building area of 21,270 square meters. From the south to the north spindle has the heavenly king hall, daxiongbao hall, dabei hall and hidden sutra pavilion four, plus the left and right hipped corridors, bell tower drum tower, merit building, sea meeting building, puzhao building, taixu library, buddhist academy classroom, raise the main courtyard and so on. All of these buildings are situated on the hillside, with layers of heights, solemn and dignified. In recent years, in the south of the Heavenly King's Hall, there is a release pool, two newly built Manshou Pagodas and two pavilions as well as lotus ponds, etc. Between the two pools, there are seven Seven Buddha Pagodas consisting of seven statues of Shakyamuni Buddha, Gautama Buddha and so on, and the Manshou Pagoda is 11-story high, rich in the style of South Asian Buddhist architecture, which makes the scenery of Nanputuo Temple even more beautiful.
The Hall of the Heavenly King, also known as the Hall of Maitreya, the Maitreya Buddha, with his kind eyebrows and smiling eyes, ears drooping over both shoulders, bare chest and navel, and smiling heartily, seems to express his respectful welcome to every visitor.
Maitreya Buddha in India is a head wearing a crown, the body is not fat sitting statue, and in our country has become a hand holding a bag body fat bald monk. It is said that he traveled all over the world, carefree, free, people how to tease him, he is always smiling, and kind to people. Later, he sat down in Yue Lin Temple rock, reciting the words: "Maitreya true Maitreya, divided into thousands of billions, when the world, the world does not recognize themselves".
The Hall of Heavenly Kings is flanked by the tall, handsome and powerful four heavenly kings. The whole body appears to be brilliant. The art of cutting porcelain on the roof is appreciated.
DaXiongBaodian is turn Feng monk in 1932 rebuilt, a heavy eaves hysterical roof building, glazed stone columns, carved beams and paintings, solemn and dignified. Mainly dedicated to the past, present and future "three Buddhas", the center is Shakyamuni, the east is the Medicine Buddha, the west is Amitabha.
Shakyamuni Buddha on both sides, there are two venerable, the east is a big disciple of the Buddha, the west is a cousin of Ananda venerable, in front of the thousand-handed thousand-eyed Guanyin. Folk legend: in ancient times there was an old man, raised three daughters, one day the old man was sick, need human eyes as a medicine. The first and second daughters did not care, while the daughter voluntarily offered her own eyes to cure the old man. This incident moved Shakyamuni to create a thousand-handed, thousand-eyed Goddess of Mercy to honor her and stand in front of himself.
Da Xiong Bao Dian building, embodies the "Minnan Buddha Hall" four major features: First, the wall has a "clear shadow shaking the wind", "Chujiang Autumn" and other landscapes and bird paintings, and "God River bath", "six years of austerity" and other Shakyamuni's birth story of the comic strips. Secondly, the roof ridge is curved moon rising, purple swallow in the sky, appearing light and agile. Third, the construction is exquisite, skillful, the ridge embedded with "nine carp into a dragon", "unicorn running away", "phoenix wings" and other patterns, are cut porcelain inlaid. Fourth, the building materials taken from local granite, stone, all beams, pillars, bases, arches, railings are unique.
Da Bei Hall was built in the early Qing Dynasty, was burned by the fire. 1930 monk Taixu rebuilt, 1962 renovation. The Great Compassion Hall is dedicated to Guanyin, the remaining three sides of the 48-armed Guanyin, each carved in the palm of a hand and eye. The hands hold a variety of magic weapons, different postures, each perfect.
The Great Compassionate Temple for the octagonal triple flying eaves, all built with a stacked arch, the Hall of Algae Wells, all with wooden arches, without an iron nail. Looking up at the well, chic and beautiful.
Collection of the Pavilion for the two-story cultural relics building. Built in 1936. Downstairs is the Dharma Hall, a place for monks to preach and teach.
The second floor is the Jade Buddha Hall, there are 28 Burmese Jade Buddha, and the collection of Chinese and foreign Buddhist scriptures tens of thousands of volumes. Among the more precious ones are the Moraine Sand Sutra of the Song Dynasty, the Da Zang Sutra of the Ming Dynasty, the Amitabha Sutra of the Buddha, the Lotus Sutra of the Myriad Laws of the Blood Scriptures, the Japanese Da Zang Sutra, etc., and there are also bronze Buddhas of the Tang Dynasty, bronze pagodas of the Song Dynasty, the statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva Shi Ganlu of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the ink treasures of the monks and great masters.
In 1924, Nanputuo Temple was changed from a Linji Sect transferring monks to a ten-faceted jungle electing sages system, and the Venerable Master Huiquan was appointed as the first abbot. The temple was founded in 1925 for the earliest domestic Buddhist school - Minnan Buddhist College. 1934, Venerable Hongyi and additional Buddhist foster hospital, ushered in the South Putuo Temple since the establishment of an unprecedented period of prosperity. 1937, the Buddhist College was closed due to the war. Over the past ten years, the Buddhist College *** training students more than 200 people, many people for Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries to make great contributions to the cause of Buddhism. 1985, the Buddhist College to re-open the school, is now set up to raise the College, preparatory classes, classes, each for two years, 1992, and the addition of two years of study, in the domestic and Southeast Asia has a wide range of influence. Nanputuo Temple and Xiamen University are only separated by a wall, but two moods; "ancient and modern coexist, small monks and college students as neighbors.
Wanshi Botanical Garden Scenic Area--Wanshi Botanical Garden
Xiamen Garden Botanical Garden is commonly known as "Wanshi Botanical Garden", is located in China's coastal city of Xiamen, southeast corner of the Wanshi Mountain, was built in 1960, the entire garden of about 1.8 million plants, cultivated more than 3,000 kinds of trees and shrubs. The garden has about 1.8 million trees and shrubs and cultivates more than 3,000 kinds of tropical and subtropical plants, enjoying the reputation of "plant kingdom" or "plant museum".
Xiamen Garden Botanical Garden is a well-designed botanical garden around the Wanshiyan Reservoir. Inside the garden, the landscape is beautiful, the forest is lush and rich in vegetation, the main tourist parks are: pine and fir botanical garden area, rose botanical garden area, palm botanical garden area, shade shed area, cited plant area, medicinal plant garden, large cactus botanical garden, flower hall, orchid nursery and other more than 20 kinds of specialized gardens and planting areas.
The garden also has more than 300 years old "hammer elm bonsai", the first-class protected plant golden camellia, tree ferns, bamboo in the precious bamboo, Taiwan lotus black diamond. There are Dylan peach, cat's tail wood, butterfly fruit, black beauty, cross and other valuable varieties. What's more, there are countless bamboos, sundews and exotic flowers and trees with strange names, decorating Wanshi Mountain with verdure, full of green slopes, and sneaking through it is like entering a primitive forest!
Xiamen Garden Botanical Garden decorated with Chinese-style garden layout, water, and decorated with buildings, platforms, pavilions, pavilions and modern recreation, physical training facilities, is a beautiful scenery, flowers and plants fragrant excursion entertainment park. The entire botanical garden is a green treasure trove of beautiful forests and ravines, with lakes and mountains, winding stone paths, and exotic flowers and trees competing with each other. In addition, the botanical garden also has "Taiping Shi Xiaoxiao", "Wanwu Chaotian", "Tianjie Xiaozhong" and other historical scenic spots. The formation of "scientific content, park appearance" as the characteristics of "garden art, horticultural technology" and the integration of science and art, nature and artificial combination of garden-style botanical gardens. It is one of the attractions of Xiamen travel and tourism.
Nanputuo Scenic Spot--Xiamen University
Xiamen University was founded in 1921 by the famous patriotic overseas Chinese leaders, by Comrade Mao Zedong known as "the flag of the overseas Chinese, the national glory" Mr. Chen Jiageng, is China's modern education history of the first overseas Chinese-founded university. At present, it is the only comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education located in the Special Economic Zone of China, and is also one of the national universities focusing on the construction of a number of high level across the century. The campus is located at the southern tip of Xiamen Island, covering an area of 2,188 acres, with beautiful scenery by the mountains and the sea. With the current campus across the sea, 3.5 nautical miles away from the current campus, covering an area of 2,568 acres of Zhangzhou campus has broken ground.
Jimei scenic spot - Jiageng Park
In order to fulfill the long-cherished wish of Mr. Chen Jiageng, invested 10 million yuan Jiageng Park was completed in 1993, and the Aoyuan connected to one. Jiageng Park covers an area of 5,000 square meters, pavilions and pavilions like a picturesque, winding corridors dotted between.
Not a big place, but there is a performance of chimes
Golden Coast of Xiamen Ring Road
The Eastern Ring Road of Xiamen, known as the "Hawaii of the East", is also known as Xiamen's Golden Coast, which starts from Xiamen University's Baicheng in the south, and runs through Zengcuo Aun, Huangcuo, and Qianpu to reach the Hecuo Fragrant Hill, with a total length of 12.76 kilometers, which is a new landscape to showcase Xiamen. The 12.76-kilometer-long road is a new landscape that showcases Xiamen. At present, the Ring Road is also the main track of the Xiamen International Marathon.
Round Island Road is 60 meters wide, six lanes in both directions, for the city's first-class secondary roads. Motorized traffic 18-24 meters, non-motorized traffic 6-7 meters, sidewalks 6-8 meters, green belt 80-100 meters. Baicheng to Huangcuo, construction began in February 1997, September 8, 1998 completion. Huangcuo to Qianpu, September 8, 1999 completion. The section from Convention and Exhibition Center to Xiangshan started in September 1999 and was completed in September 2000. from May 2001 to December 2002, the section from Xiangshan to Wutong was opened. As of now, Xiamen Gaoqi Airport Airport to Lujiang Road coastal line, the whole line opened. The Eastern Ring Road is facing the islands of Xiaojinmen, Daitan and Ertan, and has two major functions of transportation and tourism, it has the following two characteristics.
One is the island road built by the sea, the road surface flat curve with the extension of the coastline, monitoring the sea to see the sea, green belts, sandy beaches, reefs, seascape is fully demonstrated, Ertan, Datan, Rabbit Island, Huzai Island, Smoke Island, Penang Island, Small Kinmen, Mouse Island, the Great Kinmen can be seen at a glance, the Great Kinmen can be seen. Among them, the big Golden Gate area of 133 square kilometers, the small Golden Gate, also known as Lieyu Island, an area of 15 square kilometers, 0.79 square kilometers of Datan, 0.28 square kilometers of Ertan, the rest are very small.
The second is the combination of the island road and the attractions along the route, Hulishan Fortress, on the Li Reservoir, Taiwan Folk Village (Jingzhou Paradise), Jinshan Songshi, "one country, two systems, unification of China," placard, the International Convention and Exhibition Center, Ho Chu, "Artillery Battle Memorial," as well as temples, ancient trees, strange and beautiful. As well as temples, ancient trees, rocks, sculptures and three seaside plazas, along the line there are also built Coconut Walled City, play the moon slope, the number of star garden, the sea rhyme platform and other facilities, strung together into a colorful and rich in the content of the seaside tourism tourism belt.
The Xiamen International Convention and Exhibition Center is located in Qianpu Island Ring Road, covers an area of 470,000 square meters, the main building, such as the roc wants to fly, set sail on the ship, Xiamen in the twenty-first century to create a brilliant new symbol. Its scale is currently the largest in China, ranking fifth in the world.
Broadcasting the mountain below the north side of the island road curb, erected "one country, two systems, unification of China," a large placard.
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