Shantou, China's Tropic of Cancer Marking Tower is located in Shantou City, Guangdong Province, Jinping District, Tuolian Street, the southern foot of Jijiangshan. The tower was completed on June 20, 1986, east and Taiwan Jiayi a monument, west and from the two towers, Fengkai connected to a line, marking the precise latitude and longitude: 116 ° 35 ′ 8.78 ″ longitude, north latitude 23 ° 26 ′ 32.49 ″. 1994 November was announced by the people's government of Shantou City, Shantou City, municipal cultural relics protection units, in 1995 was designated as the city's patriotism education base. The upper part of the tower is a 5-meter diameter hollow earth model, the sphere is a reinforced concrete structure, the sphere inlaid with yellow, blue, white and other colors of the glass mosaic, so that the map of China is very conspicuous, the land and sea is clear, the center of the sphere running vertically through a diameter of 40 centimeters and 5 meters long seamless stainless steel tube, can look up to peer at the blue sky. The lower half of the tower is supported on all sides by "north" reinforced concrete columns, set with polished alabaster stones. The base of the tower is a two-story circular platform, 17.2 meters and 26 meters in diameter, the platform is paved with granite slabs, and from east to west with black marble paved with a black line symbolizing the Tropic of Cancer. The platform fence is one meter high and the tower covers an area of more than 200 square meters. The logo tower is novel in design and unique in shape, combining geographic science and visual image organically. When the summer solstice noon, the pole can not be seen; tube peep to see the sun, the sky phenomenon of strange appearances, let the investigation.
In the east-west direction of the viewing platform, marking the Tropic of Cancer, the black slate belt planted on both sides of the warm and hot zone plants. When we step on this slate belt, we are in between the northern temperate zone and the tropics, and it seems that we can feel the rotation of the earth, and there is a sense of mystery across the two zones. The "North Marker Peeping Sun", is the "summer solstice" to see the true portrayal of the sun. Every year on the summer solstice (June 22 at noon), the viewers of the sun is very enthusiastic, are competing to see this annual "pole not see the shadow" of the spectacle, and personally feel the moment of the alternation of spring and summer.
The Tropic of Cancer Pagoda is surrounded by a lot of trees and plants, paved hiking paths, and at the top of the mountain, there are also the "Kuazu Pavilion" and "Denglin Pavilion" (named after the myth of "The Classic of the Mountains and Seas"), and there are a lot of poems of hiking tourists engraved on the stone walls along the roadside. The stone walls along the roadside are engraved with many poems of mountain travelers. Denglin Pavilion can be climbed to the west to see the wide water of Niu Tian Yang, and to the east to see the ancient volcano Jigong Mountain.
The names "Kuafu Pavilion" and "Denglin Pavilion" are related to the sun, and the ancient book "Classic of Mountains and Seas" has a moving myth: Kuafu means big man. Ancient drought, he wanted to conquer the sun, chasing the sun, sweating, hot and thirsty, drinking all the water of the Yellow River and Weiwei water is not enough to quench the thirst, to drink the water of the sea, but not yet arrived, died of thirst on the way. Kwa Fu discarded the walking stick, inserted in the ground, that is, into a dense Deng forest. Denglin is the peach forest. Shantou Tropic of Cancer Marker Tower is located in our seaside city, and the scenery such as "Kwa-Fu Pavilion" matches very well with the mythological story of Kwa-Fu chasing the sun in "Classic of Mountains and Seas". North standard peeping sun: refers to the Shantou University is located 5 kilometers north of the Tropic of Cancer Marker Tower, built in the waist of the chicken cage, 13.6 meters high, 30 meters wide at the bottom. A 5-meter-diameter globe is supported by a bracket in the shape of the word "North". Every year on the summer solstice, when the sun shines directly on the Tropic of Cancer, you can see the sunlight from the small hole in the middle of the globe, reflected in the ground on the round shadow, a few minutes after the event has changed. Since then daylight gradually move south. The ground draws the invisible Tropic of Cancer into shape. You can cross the Tropic of Capricorn with one foot in the temperate zone and the other in the subtropical zone. Nearby there are also kwa-suk pavilions and other places for people to rest. Standing on the top of the mountain, you can look west at Niu Tian Yang and east at the conical volcanic landscape of Ji Gong Shan. The Tropic of Cancer region, located in the southeast end of Asia and Europe, has abundant precipitation due to the influence of the sea breeze, forming verdant tropical monsoon rain forests and subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests, which appear diametrically opposed to the entire return to the desert zone. The Shantou Tropic of Cancer Marker Tower is at the eastern end of this special landscape and has its important significance in environmental science research. The location of Shantou Tropic of Cancer Marker Tower is based on the following principles: (1) academic principle; (2) the principle of not occupying (less) farmland; (3) the principle of convenient transportation; (4) the principle of echoing with other tourist attractions; (5) the principle of aesthetics; and (6) the principle of traditional customs and other principles. Shantou Tropic of Cancer Marker Tower's architectural features: the base of the tower is in the style of the altar of heaven, and a huge model of the earth is placed on the body of the tower in the shape of the word "north", and in the center of the earth model there is a pipe that lets the sunshine pass through in order to facilitate the observation of direct sunshine on the day of the summer solstice, which is called "peeping hole of the sun". Shantou Tropic of Cancer Marker Tower's latitude position, measured accurately in January 1, 1990 AD 23 ° 26 ′ 32.48 ″ N, Lee, at the same time, the theoretical value of the Tropic of Cancer for the 23 ° 26 ′ 26.13 ″ N, taking into account that the Tropic of Cancer is a constantly moving line, the error is normal.
When it comes to the Shantou Tropic of Cancer Marker Tower, almost no one in Shantou knows about it. This has two "north" type concrete pillar of the sign tower is located in the G206 national highway, if from Shantou University drive, about 10 minutes to reach. 1985, Shantou Tropic of Cancer sign tower official construction, a year after the completion of the main project, in 1988 by the Shantou Municipal People's Government announced as municipal cultural relics protection unit, in 1995 it became the Shantou City, Shantou City, Shantou City, Shantou City, Shantou City, Shantou City, Shantou City, Shantou City and Shantou City, Shantou City. In 1988, it was announced by Shantou Municipal People's Government as a municipal cultural relics protection unit. Over the years, it has attracted countless citizens and tourists from home and abroad.
After many years of absence, the reporter recently came here again, due to the working day, almost no tourists around the tower, and occasionally only the local residents come here for a walk. In the sign of the tower near the kiosk opened Lin sister told reporters, usually come to visit the sign of the tower of the public and tourists are not much, to the weekend there are a lot of people drive over. In the course of the visit, the reporter noted that the Shantou Tropic of Cancer Marker Tower around the supporting facilities are relatively simple, but from time to time visible construction workers in the repair of the surrounding public **** facilities. Originally, due to the construction of roads and other factors, the sign tower for a long time in the state of power and water outages, public toilets can not be used, to the public and tourists to visit the inconvenience. Recently, the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio and Television Organization construction personnel to the site, improve the sign tower supporting public toilets, management room, signage, staircase handrails, water and electricity supporting facilities, in order to better serve the public and tourists.
It is understood that the Shantou Tropic of Cancer Marker Tower is 13.6 meters high and 30 meters wide at the bottom, consisting of three parts: the base, the pillar and the earth model. In the upcoming June 22 solstice, when 12:00 noon, the sun has a moment of direct sunlight on the Tropic of Cancer, the public can see the sunlight from the middle of the Earth model of a small hole through the vertical light on the ground, which is the "pole not see the shadow of the" astronomical phenomenon. In China's 10 Tropic of Cancer Marker Tower, Guangdong Conghua Tropic of Cancer Marker Tower total height of 30.25 meters, is the world's tallest Tropic of Cancer Marker building.
The tower is located in Conghua City, Taiping field of Yaumapu Village, Sanjiazi slopes, is currently the world's highest height on the Tropic of Cancer, the largest scale of a sign tower. The tower covers an area of 28 acres, the main part of the concrete granite mixed masonry structure, the foundation part of the altar type, the arrangement of the floor stone to take the form of Taoist gossip. Tower even tower base **** 30.4 meters, the tower height of 23.5 meters, for the upright rocket type. Tower bottom was spherical, paved granite in the center, carved into the hemisphere outline, with a diameter of 4 cm brass column embedded in the center point, and along the east-west direction inlaid with thick copper strips, in order to indicate that the Tropic of Cancer from this point to the earth's east and west, respectively, to extend. The top of the tower is a stainless steel cylinder supported by a hollow circular hole of 120 meters in diameter, for direct sunlight calibration. Every year at noon on the summer solstice (12:26), the sun will shoot directly at the ball in the hole, the point of light projected to the bottom of the tower spherical copper columns on the point, at this time people standing in the tower is no figure.
The tower was completed on December 17, 1985, 1986 summer solstice was unveiled. Guangzhou Municipal Government set up a stone chronicle, indicating that this place for the tropics and the northern temperate zone demarcation line. The Tropic of Cancer Marker Tower Park has now been built as a teaching observation point and tourist attraction. Guiping Tropic of Cancer Marker Tower is located in the Guiping Tropic of Cancer Park, which integrates science, culture and amusement, near Xiaowen Village of Shizui Town, 8 kilometers away from Guiping City, Guangxi, and next to Nanwu Secondary Highway. It was built after Chiayi and Hualien in Taiwan, Shantou, Congjiang and Fengkai in Guangdong, and Mojiang in Yunnan, and is the seventh Tropic of Cancer Marking Tower in the country, and the first Tropic of Cancer Marking Tower in Guangxi.
The marking tower by the span of 26 meters, a height of 17.2 meters of the arch-shaped building supporting a diameter of 6 meters resembling the image of the Earth as the main body of the ball. Every year at noon on the summer solstice, the sun will pass through the center of the ball of a 16-centimeter-diameter peephole, directly to the mark on the ground with granite stone paved with a map of Guangxi Guiping City location, become a magical and spectacular "no shadow" phenomenon. Located at the top of Daming Mountain in Wuming County, Nanning, Guangxi, this Tropic of Cancer sign tower tower is not big, but the significance is not small, it is built in the Daming Mountain, a natural sign of the park. The highest peak of Daming Mountain, Longtou Mountain, is 1,760 meters above sea level, and the total area of the Daming Mountain Nature Reserve is about 60,000 hectares, and the Tropic of Cancer passes right through the middle of Daming Mountain, which is the world's largest Tropic of Cancer Marker Garden.
The Tropic of Cancer passes right through the middle of the Daming Mountain forest area, and with a bird's eye view of the earth from space, people will be amazed to find that in the same region of the earth's Tropic of Cancer, the vast desert that stretches on and on, forms a grayish-yellow desert belt. In this barren and arid zone there are still a few green patches, Daming Mountain is like a green gem set in this zone, known as the Tropic of Cancer "green pearl". Tropic of Cancer across Taiwan's Penghu, Chiayi, Nantou, Hualien four counties, Taiwan in the east and west of the island each set up a monument, the west monument is the Chiayi Tropic of Cancer monument, the east monument was built in Hualien County, Hualien County, there are two Tropic of Cancer monument, an earlier one was built in the Ruisui Township, the village of Maizhe, and another is the Tropic of Cancer sign of the Jingpu Tower.
The Tropic of Cancer Marker in Chiayi was built in 1908, in the 34th year of the Qing Dynasty, and is the earliest Tropic of Cancer Marker established in China.
The Tropic of Cancer Marker Tower in Jingpu Village, Fengbin Township, Hualien County, facing the Pacific Ocean to the east, is cylindrical and lighthouse-shaped, with a pillar in the sky, which is quite spectacular. The north and south sides of the tower are engraved with the words "Tropic of Cancer", and in the center of the column there is a longitudinal narrow slit through which the Tropic of Cancer passes. Every year, the summer solstice (June 22 or so) this day at 11:54 pm, the sunlight from the top of the vertical irradiation, in this moment, you can see the astronomical phenomenon of the "pole without a shadow". It is also from this moment that the northern hemisphere enters summer. When you step on the stone plate in the center of the bottom of the tower, one foot is in the tropics and the other in the subtropics (north temperate zone), which is a unique geographical feeling. The Tropic of Cancer runs through Nanao Island. The pleasant climate gives the island a unique temperament, elegant, gentle and yet mysterious, and Qing'ao Bay is even more blessed with the Tropic of Cancer, from which the Tropic of Cancer passes through. There is a crescent-shaped bay here, with golden sandy beaches stretching along the seashore, and the sea and sky are all in one color. The Tropic of Cancer Marker Tower is built here - 23°26′38.45″N latitude, 117°07′50.89″E longitude. Her appearance makes this bay more attractive.
Recently, the reporter came to Qing'ao Bay and visited this "door" of the sea standing in South China in advance. On the site, workers are working under the scorching sun. Nature's Gate is located in Qing'ao Bay Plaza. Qing'ao Bay Plaza covers an area of 33 acres, about 225 meters long, from west to east, the attractions are in order of the former square, such as the green lawn and the main attraction of the Tropic of Cancer sign tower. At present, the works of the plaza and the sign tower are advancing at the same time. The construction of the main structure of the gateposts and the aerial cantilever on both sides of the sign tower has been basically completed, and the sphere is still in the process of production. The platform of the logo tower has been completed, and is undergoing the construction of exterior decoration. The whole square will strive to complete the construction before the National Day this year. At that time, in the move between the scenery, the sea, beach, square and green mountains connected to a vein, echoing each other, let people linger.
The chief designer, Zheng Shaowen, told reporters that the design of the natural door integrates astronomical phenomena and common sense. After completion, in different angles, the sign tower will show a different momentum, in different light and shadow, will also produce different artistic effects. The design of the Nature's Gate is unique, with a sphere radius of 3.21 meters, corresponding to the spring equinox on March 21st; a cantilever length of 6.22 meters, corresponding to the summer solstice on June 22nd; a distance of 9.23 meters between the gate pillars, corresponding to the autumn equinox on September 23rd; and a height of 12.22 meters from the base to the sphere, which corresponds to the winter solstice on December 22nd. As the nature of the door is located in the sea, the use of materials also fully considered the salt water, strong sea breeze and other objective factors, the main body of the stone columns of the dry hanging parts are used in corrosion-resistant stainless steel.
Qing'ao Bay Plaza construction project manager Fang Li introduced to the reporter, the construction of the logo tower of the greatest difficulty lies in the fixation of the sphere. The reporter saw that the entire sphere is similar in appearance to the return capsule of the manned space shuttle. Inside the sphere, the various support frames evenly spread, which ensures that the sphere is uniform and stable. Sphere in the middle of the diameter of the position of a hollow shaft, this axis is the summer solstice when the sun will pass through the place. The workers who are making the sphere are very conscientious, they take a ruler and a pen, measure, draw and take notes at the same time, meticulously. In addition to this, the wind and corrosion resistance of the marker tower is also crucial. Fang Li said, at present, the sign tower to withstand 12 typhoon blowing no problem, the material used also has a strong anti-corrosion ability.