The blue sea surrounded by the Gulangyu Island, an area of 1.87 square kilometers, the island on the sea reef jagged, meandering shoreline, mountains, peaks and rocks tumbling, nature's ingenious work of art created the Gulangyu Island bright and timeless island scenery, the main attractions are the Sunlight Rocks, Peas and Beans Garden, Hao Yueyuan, are Xiamen's famous scenic spots. 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 Egret Sanctuary, and across the sea from the Kinmen Islands.
Before the Song Dynasty, Gulangyu Island 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 went 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 recapture Taiwan, which had been occupied by Dutch colonizers for 38 years. After the Opium War, Xiamen was opened as a "five port" port, in 1902, Gulangyu Island was reduced to 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 per capita piano ownership rate in China, and there are more than 100 musical families on the island. In 2002, Gulangyu was named the "Island of Music" by the Chinese Musicians Association.
Gulangyu is home to many famous historical sites. It is one of the most well-preserved areas for the historical relics of the national hero Zheng Chenggong, and a large number of precious cliff stone carvings on the island are still 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 "rocky" is located in the south of the central part of Gulangyu Island on the top of Longtou Mountain, 92.68 meters above sea level, is the highest peak in Gulangyu Island. It is 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, the scenery of Xiamen and Drums as far as the eye can see, the peak of the mountain waist jagged rocks, in the sparse woods, "Lotus Ann", "ancient avoidance of the Department of 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.
Friendly tips: a must-visit place Open time: 6:30 ~ 20:00 Ticket price: RMB 60 yuan / person
Peas and Beans Garden
Peas and Beans Garden was originally the private garden of Taiwan's wealthy Lin Erjia, and since the 1950s, it has been dedicated to the government as a park.
Lin Erjia carefully designed the garden, and strive to reproduce the style of Banqiao villa, but also with the charm of the Jiangnan gardens, the use of a not very large bay of sloping land, to create an infinite space, "every spring and autumn, to climb to the far end of 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 Mei Shoutang, non-autumn 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 so on 10 scenes, and the Taipei Panchiao villa in the small Panchiao also moved to the small, chic, unique.
Beans Farm Garden scenery, but the most distinctive are:
Hidden sea: all the way to the sea, to the garden door and even into the door is still not 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 of the meaning of the turn out The moon gate, suddenly "sea and sky", the sea rushed to, this first hidden after the disclosure of the technique, received the effect of surprise.
The clever borrowing: Lin Erjia the slope of the sea, the bay reefs, rising and falling tide, all the use of up, 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 level 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 Beans Zhuang sea viewing and enjoying the scenery, every mid-autumn, late at night, the waves gently rocking, to appreciate that sea color moon, really is the joy of life!
In recent years, many new facilities have been built in Beans Village Garden, and the scale has been enlarged. In particular, the Hearing Tao Xuan was converted into a "piano museum", which exhibits 30 world-famous pianos collected by Mr. Hu Youyi, a collector from Gulangyu Island, including the American-made "Steinway", the Austrian "Bosendorfer", and the "Bossen", which were made in the United States in the first half of the 19th century. "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 square in the garden erected a set 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. The relief reproduced the year Zheng Chenggong waved his division eastward and drove the Dutch to restore the historical scene of Taiwan.
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 inaugurated on August 27th, 1985. The tiger general's majesty has been permanently stationed on the overlaying rock since then. Statue height of 15.7 meters, weighing 1,617 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, Indian bucket stone tripod.
Nowadays, the statue of Zheng Chenggong, which stands at the top of the sea on the Ding Ding 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 of reliefs in the park reproduces the historical scene when Zheng Chenggong waved his troops to the east and drove the Dutch back to 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", it has become a symbol of the sea vessels in and out of the port, but also Xiamen, a representative of modern architecture. 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 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 is built by Singaporean overseas Chinese and 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 Xiamen underwater world's iconic building, but also the first tourists to take pictures of the landscape.
Xiamen Underwater World has innovative facilities with modern equipment, and the most prominent facility is the underwater tunnel. Undersea tunnel 80 meters long, 1.5 meters wide, enter the undersea tunnel, standing in the electric walkway, you can see both sides of the concave large 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 past ......, divers in the underwater feeding fish show, the fish are not the only thing that can make you feel good, but also a lot of people. 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 and 2.5 meters in diameter cylindrical fish pool, the height of this is equivalent to nearly three-storey building, in the steps you can look at the surface layer of 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" banner towering over the island. 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) Lu River night cruise route: ferry - Gulangyu Island - Xiamen University - Hulishan Fortress - Fiery Island - Haicang Bridge - ferry (complimentary entertainment)
Xiamen Hulishan Fortress
Hulishan Fortress is located in the southern tip of Xiamen Island, Hulishan waterfront, built in Guangxu twenty years (1894), there are more than 100 years of the history of the rise and fall of the tragedy. 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, the front of the fortress was built "Wanggui Terrace" and "Pan Gui Terrace", where tourists can look through the telescope to see the Datan Island and Ertan Island under the jurisdiction of the Golden Gate.
Hulishan Fortress is a national key cultural relics unit, in August 2000, was included in the 2000 Guinness Book of Records.
In recent years, the fort's courtyard is organized, a new large wall sculpture "national soul", showing the process from the knife and gun into the library to the vibration of power to fight against the enemy, the meaning of the deep attempt. Wall sculpture on the left, 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 viewing pavilion, harmonious and natural. The northern part of the small garden to open up the "moonlight rock" attractions, add "Longquan waterfall", "a line of heaven" and "Hulishan Fortress Poetry Wall".
Glory Treasure Museum
The museum is located in the former barracks of Mount Huli Fortress, and is a cultural exhibition organization jointly founded 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 Kuan, a Singaporean collector.
The museum is divided into five parts: "World Stones", "World Ancient Artillery", "World Ancient Sword", "World Ancient Musket", "Ancient Tree and Fossil Display". Exhibits since the 13th century, the world's cannons, guns, valuable swords and warriors armor and shield 455 pieces and colorful, clear texture, realistic image of mountains, rivers and seas, birds and animals, flowers, trees, insects and birds, and other natural landscapes of the image of the natural stone 3850 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 Myanmar, weighing 2.5 tons, the picture has a section from the northeast to the southwest of the grain veins, 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, the two sides of the river, and the two sides of the river. The river has a wide three-fold valley on its south side, with small spots in the valley, like a thousand sails, and many overlapping high mountains between the two banks, which is like the image of the Three Gorges.
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 characters in the series of the Garden of Eden, 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 the South Taiwu Mountain in Longhai City, south of Xiamen University. Nanputuo Temple is a famous ancient temple in Xiamen. It was built during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty (1403-1424) and was destroyed by fire at the end of the Ming Dynasty (1628). Qing Kangxi 23 years (1684), Jinghai Hou General Shi Lang rebuilt, because the temple is dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva as the main, and is located in one of China's four major Buddhist monasteries in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, the south of Putuo Mountain, so it is called South Putuo Temple.
South Puyin Temple is a grand scale, covering a total area of 25.8 hectares, with a floor area of 21,270 square meters. From the south to the north main axis of the Heavenly King Hall, Maharajah's Hall, the Great Compassionate Hall and the four Tibetan Pavilion, plus the left and right hipped corridors, bell tower and drum tower, Merit Building, Haihui Building, Puzhao Building, Taixu Library, Buddhist College classrooms, and raise the main courtyard. 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 Hall, there is a release pool, two newly built Manshou Pagoda and two pavilions, as well as lotus ponds, etc. Between the two pools, there are seven seven statues of Buddha by the Sakyamuni Buddha, Gautama Buddha and other seven Buddha Tower, Manshou Pagoda 11-story, rich in the style of the South Asian Buddhist architecture, so that the landscape of the South Putuo Temple is even more beautiful.
Heavenly King Hall, also known as Maitreya Hall, Maitreya Buddha's compassionate eyebrow and smiling eyes, ears drooping shoulders, bare chest and umbilicus, smiling, seems to every visitor to say respectfully welcome.
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 of body fat bald monk. It is said that he traveled all over the world, carefree and free, people how to tease him, he always smiled, 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 Heavenly King Hall is flanked by the tall, handsome and powerful four heavenly kings. The whole body appears to be brilliant. The roof of the art of cutting porcelain, resistant to appreciation.
Da Xiong Bao Dian is turned Feng monk in 1932 rebuilt, a heavy eaves hysterical roof building, glazed stone columns, carved beams and painted buildings, 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.
Sakyamuni Buddha on both sides, there are two venerable, the east is the eldest disciple of the Buddha Gaya, the west is the cousin of the Buddha Ananda, in front of the thousand hands and thousand eyes 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.
The Maharishi Temple building, reflecting the "Southern Fujian Buddhist Temple" 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, railing are unique.
The Palace of Great Compassion was built in the early Qing Dynasty, was burned by fire. 1930 monk Taixu rebuilt in 1962. 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. Hands holding a variety of weapons, gestures vary, each to achieve its own.
The Palace of Great Compassion for the octagonal triple flying eaves, all built with arch stacking, the temple algal well, all with wooden arches, do not use an iron nail. Looking up at the well, chic and beautiful.
The Tibetan scripture pavilion is a two-story cultural relics building. Built in 1936. Downstairs is the Dharma Hall, is the place where monks preach.
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 and the ink treasures of the monks and great virtuosos.
In 1924, Nanputuo Temple was changed from Linji Sect Turning Fung Monk to Ten Square Jungle Selection of Sages System, and Venerable Huizuan 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, since 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, commonly known as "Wanshi Botanical Garden", is located in the southeast corner of the Chinese coastal city of Xiamen, 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, the shade shed area, the introduction of planting area, medicinal botanical gardens, large-scale cactus botanical gardens, the Hall of a hundred flowers, orchid beds and other more than 20 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 treasure of the cliff bamboo, Taiwan lotus black diamond. There are also valuable species such as Dillon Peach, Cat's Tail Wood, Butterfly Fruit, Black Beauty, Cross and so on. There are countless bamboos, cycads and exotic flowers and trees with peculiar names, decorating the Wanshi Mountain with verdure, full of green slopes, and sneaking through it, just like entering the primitive forest!
Xiamen Garden Botanical Garden decorated with Chinese-style garden layout, inside the 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 Ao Yuan 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. Currently, it is also the main track of the Xiamen International Marathon.
The width of the Ring Road is 60 meters, with 6 lanes in both directions, which is a secondary arterial road of the first class in the city. 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 small Kinmen, Datan, Ertan islands, both transportation and tourism functions, it has the following two characteristics.
First, the island road is built by the sea, the road surface flat curve with the coastline extension, monitoring the sea to see the sea, green belt, beach, islands, seascape is fully displayed, Ertan, Datan, Rabbit Island, Tiger Island, Smoke Island, Penang Island, Small Kinmen, Mouse Island, the large Kinmen can be seen at a glance. Among them, the large Kinmen area of 133 square kilometers, the small Kinmen, 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 Ring Road and the attractions along the route, Hulishan Fortress, on the Li Reservoir, Taiwan Folk Village (King's State Paradise), Jinshan Songshi, "one country, two systems, unification of China" placard, the International Convention and Exhibition Center, Ho Chu, "Cannonball Memorial Museum", as well as temples, ancient trees, strange and beautiful. As well as temples, ancient trees, rocks, sculptures and three sea squares, along the line, there are also coconut wind cottage, 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.
Xiamen International Convention and Exhibition Center is located in Qianpu Island Road, covering an area of 470,000 square meters, the main building, such as the desire to fly the roc, set sail on the ship, Xiamen, Xiamen in the twenty-first century and then create a brilliant new symbol. Its scale is currently the largest in China, ranking fifth in the world.
The north side of the island road under the broadcasting mountain, there is a "one country, two systems, unification of China," a large placard erected on the side of the road.
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