Gulangyu IslandGulangyu IslandGulangyu Island，once named Yuansha continent and Yuansha zi, gained its current name in Ming Dynasty, because the Sea Cave, to the southwest of the sea, was lapped against by tides, with noise seemingly coming from striking drums. Because of history, the buildings of various styles home and abroad, gathered and persevered well here, has the name of "Gallery of World Architecture ". The small island, also the fertile soil for music, from which there are many famous people. It has got the beautiful name of "The island of music" and "The village of music", for it has the largest number of pianos.Brief IntroductionGulangyu IslandWith Xiamen city across the sea, Gulangyu Island, Located in the southwest corner of xiamen Island, is separated only by a Lujiang of 600 meters. It costs 5 minutes to shipped from Xiamen Island to Gulangyu Island. With an area of 1.87 km square and a population of more than 20 thousand, it is governed by SimingDistrict.The island, with a pleasant climate, four spring-like seasons, no horses and blatance, has the reputation of "the garden on the sea". The main scenic spots are sunlight rock、Shuzhuang Garden、haoyue garden、Yu garden、ring island road、Gulang Rock、Museum、koxinga memorial hall、The world under the sea、Natural beach bathing place and hi heaven. It holds the history、culture and natural views together, and it is the place of interest in national level. It's the top of the "Top ten landscapes" in the Fujian province and it's one of the "35 places of interest" in our country.As The Xiamen Special Economic Zone takes off, the service and equipment included in the travel to Gulangyu Island have improved. The Xiamen Special Economic Zone has become a comprehensive Cultural Tourism Scenic Area with spotting、holiday、travelling、shopping and entertainment. On May 8th, 2007, Gulangyu Island scenic spots in Xiamen City was ratified as the 5A state-level scenic spots by China National Tourism Administration。

Gulangyu Island, Located in the southwest corner of xiamen Island, is separated only by a Lujiang of 600 meters. It costs 5 minutes to shipped from Xiamen Island to Gulangyu Island. To the southwest of the island, there is a rock. When the tides rise, the tides strike the rock with big noise, so people call the rock "Gulang Rock". And Gulangyu Island gained its reputation for it.In the end of MIng Dynasty, national hero Koxinga once stationed troops here, and there are still old addresses of control console and Shizhai Door in the sunlight rock. In 1842, after the Opium War, consulates were once built on the island by 13 countries, including the UK、America、France、Japan、Germany、Spain、Portugal、Holland ，and so on. At the same time, businessmen、missionary and human trader set foot on Gulangyu island to set up residences、build churches、open banks、erect hospitals、open schools、speculate in building land、market workers，build “consular corps”，open “municipal council” and “mixcourt”，and changed Gulangyu Island to "international settlement " . Some overseas Chinese rich men came here to build houses and villa，run the business of telephones and water. In December,1942, Japan occupied Gulangyu Island. Gulangyu Island didn't end a colonial domination of over 100 years until the win of the Anti-Japanese War.Gulangyu Island, with an area of only 1.91 km square, is the biggest satellite island, and the number of permanent residents is 1 million six thousand. There are many beautiful rocks on the island. Because of the year-lasting striking of the tides, it forms many valleys and rocks, and sand beach, and they are well combined. Gulangyu street is short, crisscross, quiet, and the air is fresh, clean on the island, carpet, especially the lush green red tiles and trees chappaqua, appearing beautiful all set.Gulangyu IslandBuildings along the gulangyu Island, set in a tropical, subtropical forest, RiGuangYan qifeng, yea, group of gulls takeoff... As part of a beautiful picture scroll. Gulangyu is "musician cradle," piano, small island "gulangyu piano is 600 sets, its density occupies the national coronal. As long as you stroll in each corners trails, can sometimes hear sweet a piano, violin, melodious sound airy guitar sound, moving beautiful song, try to waves beat, environmental special charming.Gulangyu Island piano family, there are many music schools, a music hall, a symphony orchestra, the piano museum. Every false, holiday, often have a family concert, some a three generations performing together, make family, community, social filled with music atmosphere. Gulangyu music mahoganypanelled splendour, the music famous international YanChengZong, XuFeiXing, a pianist XuFeiPing, XuXingYi etc. China's first female vocalist and conductor ZhouShuAn, vocalist, singer LinJunQing, bass singer WuTianQiu, famous conductor ChenZuoHuang, and LiJiaLu, ZhuoYiLong etc, it stars brilliant.Gulangyu Island is "building expo hall", many buildings have strong European style, ancient Greek three pillar type TaoLiKe, love Mr Nick, Collins, each exhibition its appearance of cylindrical, gothic Romanesque peaked, islamic dome, baroque anaglyph, two fireplace, balcony, hook column, tu arch Windows. Scrambling to dou yan, extraordinary splendour confused is shown, be permeated with classicism and romanticism colour. Gulangyu has repaired a huandao road, the span 6 km, by road, tunnel, music bridge composition to sanya instead of walking.Gulangyu Island has repaired a huandao road, the span 6 km, by road, tunnel, music bridge composition to sanya instead of walking.Huandao road as the starting point to ferry pier, east to the haoyue garden - bathing - view sea greatness remember garden - beans village garden - port after youngs YingXiongShan tunnel - bathing - stone - drum drum wave wave villa - overseas Chinese subtropical plants crafts school garden - introduced in Australia - coattails "mountain - historic house QiuTian traveling port - three underwater world - ferry pier; To the west and vice versa. Gulangyu night appear quiet quiet andtastefully laid out. Especially after night engineering construction, representing the natural scene RiGuangYan, representing the exotic architecture style of gossip floor, representing music island piano formative syndrome stands in the ship hall and the overburden tripod rock in all kinds of statue zheng chenggong transparent backdrop with brightness, light shines. Especially a few laser ray flickered across lujiang air, fluctuates, dazzling understand disorderly. Overlooking the river at night, like a big gulangyu ablaze orders gathered POTS of flowers, and xiamen gorgeous the neon lights, zhongshan high-rise building shoot the lamp and many colour spotlights, hand in photograph reflect, glaring and dazzing, make the island, sea and sky 3d space bright and charming.The originThe application won't be passed until 2013Located in the southwest, and xiamen gulangyu downtown area of xiamen across the 500 meters) across. She is like a glittering and translucent jade, white with enchased in xiamen island sea, known as "southeast Asia a single sea pearl". Gulangyu formerly known as "round bar", also called "round state, it was initially wang" half a fishing village. Half a plow Late yuan dynasty, just have a family gradually develop appropriate for lee. Because the beach a two meters high, in a cave, and a rock sound of slight impact, like the drum, and was called "drum wave stone", island are named for the gulangyu island "and" officially name in the Ming dynasty.The wanli three years, all the observation in RiGuangYan springs name one TiKe "drum wave hole". Owing to the Ming dynasty, in the TunBing national hero zheng, training, the infamous gulangyu navy to zhang cloth.HistoryThe exploration and development of gulandyu island in the Song, Yuan, Ming DynastyGulangyu IslandXiamen is one of the southeastern coast of China harbour city. Its southwest of fujian gulangyu, always belong to the administrative jurisdiction of xiamen. As early as 3,000 years ago in the neolithic age, xiamen have the human life.In the 8th century quzici (before and after the from zhongyuan) xue Chen, the family has moved to the island as development and production, the island and has "new" "enterprise of" in place name.The song and yuan dynasties, sparsely inhabited gradually numerous, its island near quanzhou port on the north sea trade prosperity further promoted the xiamen (called enterprise lantau) the development of social economy.Kublai Khan designed to yuan sixteen years (1279) set up "for the first time in the island" by thousands of enterprise.Because the related cultural relics, literature material shortage, song, yuan before the history of gulandyu island already cannot take an examination. Because the outline of gulangyu around, so the folk legend nearly round the song and yuan dynasties for the name "circle" circle chau sandbars "wang". Today's coattails "mountain in the map was called" chau pups mountains ", can be used as a tail a textual research gulangyu according to ancient places.Ming qing dynasty to opium war eve without the preliminary prosperity gulangyuIn late Ming and early qing dynasty, according to national hero zheng golden gate, xiamen two island is home to the fight against south in the practice, the army, navy, expel the Dutch army roster rate of the invaders, recover Taiwan. The initial zheng chenggong gulangyu is base areas.The history of scaling nanjiang etc in nanan documented, zheng chenggong native who consumed tsing yi immediately after "with the thick ChenHui more than 90 people first trip to south Australia with the golden gate, impaling all collected, over thousands of", then the "shift in gulangyu", tuen mun when two years (1646 martial augmentation in). Zung up at the money, and military division in difficulty.There happened to be a ship ZhengGu apart from Japan of ships berthed at gulangyu, zheng chenggong took this merchant ships to bring 10 100002 silver recruiting and purchasing system ordnance. Then RiGuangYan etc in gulangyuvillage, tuen mun rebel camp pierced water training sets a, and actively practice with led soldiers from KangQing gulangyu in quanzhou minnan strength and deep, the sea, and fight against the army chengcheng area.Until the everlasting calendar years (1650), zheng chenggong plan ZhengCai, xiamen, merger took ZhengLian army, beginning formed, including the gold, xiamen gulangyu, KangQing base areas. Zheng chenggong rate in gulangyu, four years before and after the division for its future KangQing after Taiwan drawn and lay the foundation.England Army Occupied Gulangyu in the time of Opium WarIn the second half of the 18th century, with the development of capitalism, the western capitalists ceaselessly scrambled the commodity market and material supplying places in the outside world. Conservative old China became one aggression target of theirs. As an important shipping trade center in the southeast coastline of China in the Ming dynasty, Xiamen was coveted by the western capitalists and was regarded as one of the important aims of aggression and trading. In 1832 , the eastern company of England dispatched some messengers like H·H·Lindsay to reconnoiter China’s southeastern coastline including Xiamen by armed ship Later , H·H·Lindsay suggested foreign missions that , if they wage aggression war to China, they must close off and occupy Xiamen. When England government made aggression policies , they mentioned Xiamen again and again, pointed the aggression aim to Xiamen. England aggressors tried to open the door of China by using opium. In order to protect the dishonorable deal of selling narcotic drugs, they strengthen their strength to capture all kinds of privilege inChina. In 1840 June 3rd, England waged aggression opium war in China. At the beginning of the war, England army dispatch army ships to pry and defiance southeastern sea for several times. Then leader who lead to fight against England army was Deng Tingzhen. He was a representative of resistant patriotic personages. Because of his active war preparation, the strengthening of defiance power, and the solidarity and braveness of the people in Xiamen ,The England army was defeated in the armed aggression in 1840 July 2nd and August 21st ,ending with fail. England armed ships went out of Xiamen, then went forward the north, trying to threaten the Qing government. The Qing leader were afraid of the situation ,so they tried to compromise .At he time of appointing Yan Botao as the governor-general of Fujian, Qing leader ordered to withdraw troops. In 1841 August, Englang aggressors again appointed H Pottinger as the full-fledged ambassador in aggression of China. He leaded the armed ships himself to aggress Xiamen and demanded the local government to give up their territory. In the violent war in the day of August 2nd of the same year, though Xiamen army hit several England armed ships, they still were in the position of minority. The leader of Jinmen county Jiang Jiyun and his army insisted to fight against the enemy to the end. At last, they all sacrificed for the country. Xiamen and Gulangyu were fell into the hand of England.Climatic characteristicsXiamen subtropical maritime monsoon climate. Warmer and wetter, solar-thermal condition is superior, abundant precipitation, winter is not too cold, summer is not too hot. Four something bright in phase change quite have the rule: spring by south, northeast monsoon turn by cold, warm, rain increase; Summer wind and the relief of a thunderstorm, to bring cool idea, there is a typhoon heat; How sunny autumn rainfall; Winter has northeast monsoon, cold and not cold. Annual average temperature for 21.2 xiamen ℃. The highest annual average temperature, average annual ℃ for 24.5 ℃, the lowest temperature for 18.7 ℃, the highest temperature extremes, 37.2 in extreme minimum temperatures 2 ℃. Most LengYue average temperature in 13 ℃above, year-round frost free. Seawater surface years for 10 ℃, the lowest temperature ℃, the highest annual average $3.15 a career-high 21.6 ℃ temperature for 20.7 -. Xiamen sea LiuFeng extremely distinct till noon, often midnight up wind blowing west to (usually 1 to 2 hurricane, with maximum level 4), up until midnight afternoon before south to the southeast wind blow (general 3, 4 hurricane, with maximum level 6). Summer monsoon is commonly southeast to the southwest, since June, July, August prevalent soil. An average of only 2-3 grade. In late September, beginning to April of next year for the winter wind. In November, the biggest wind is generally。