Which district of Xiamen is Gulangyu Island?

Gulangyu Island is located in Siming District, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, in Gulangyu Street, Siming District, Xiamen City, with an area of 1.88 square kilometers. Across the sea from Xiamen Island, the highest point is Sunlight Rock, facing Xiamen Shimao Strait Building and Xiamen University across the sea.

Gulangyu Island, formerly known as "Round Shazhou" and alias "Yuanzhouzai", was named "Wulong Island" in the Southern Song Dynasty. A sea cave in the southwest of the island was hit by the waves, making a drum-like sound, and it was renamed "Gulangyu" from the Ming Dynasty. With the development of Xiamen, Gulangyu Island has become a comprehensive island scenic and cultural tourist area integrating sightseeing, vacation, tourism, shopping, leisure and entertainment.

Main attractions of Gulangyu Island

1, Sunlight Rock: commonly known as "Yanzai Mountain" and alias "Huangyan", it is said that Zheng Chenggong came to Huangyan and saw that the scenery here was better than that of Japan's Sunlight Mountain, so he took apart the word "Huangyan" and called it "Sunlight Rock". Sunlight Rock Tourist Area consists of Sunlight Rock and Qinyuan. Sunlight Rock stands in the south-central part of Gulangyu Island, consisting of two huge stones, one vertical and the other horizontal, becoming the peak of Longtou Mountain, with an altitude of 92.7 meters, which is the highest peak of Gulangyu Island.

2. Liu Zhuang Garden: Located behind Gulangyu Gangzi, it was built in the second year of the Republic of China (19 13). Its owner is Lin Yongjia, also known as Uncle Zang, and its name is named after its homonym. 1894- 1895 After the failure of the Qing court in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1895, Taiwan Province Province was ceded to Japan the following year. Lin Weiyuan and his son Zang did not want to be conquered people and moved to Gulangyu. Later, Uncle Zang built this garden. Xinzhuang Garden has a total area of 20,328 square meters, including 3,352 square meters of water area and 245 1 square meter of building area.

3. Behind Gangzai Beach: On the wide beach behind Gangzai, the sand is soft, the slope is gentle, the seawater flow rate is low, and there are no sharks. There are five and a half months a year when the sea temperature is above 20℃, and the swimming season can last for half a year. Tide twice a day and swim for more than six hours. This is a natural bathing beach. All kinds of service facilities are complete, including yachts, motorboats and other water entertainment projects. 1998, the national OP sailing championship was held here.