In China, when people say that a local literature and art is fresh, comfortable, and rich in culture, most people think of Gulangyu in the first time. This area has only 1.88 square kilometers of small islands, not only has been the city business card of Xiamen, but also carried the yearning and the sustenance of countless literary and artistic youth.
Geographically, Gulangyu is just an island on the southwest side of Xiamen Island, across the sea from Xiamen Island, only 600 meters across the Lujiang River. However, this "island in the island" enjoys numerous reputation as "sea garden", "villa of all nations", "piano island", "hometown of music" and so on.
Gulangyu environment is pleasant, here has a bright cheap flights to jieyang and meaningful island scenery, people fall in love at first sight. The island Shanghai reef is rugged, the shoreline is rugged, the mountains are verdant, the peak rock is ups and downs, the nature ghost axe craftsmanship has created this realistic version of the human lost paradise, but Gulangyu's beauty is far more than the beautiful natural scenery.
If Xiamen is a desirable and romantic city, Gulangyu is a place full of stories, but also known as the smallest place in China. But perhaps many people do not know, this place in the coat of literature and art, has experienced unknown vicissitudes of life, accumulated a profound cultural heritage.
As early as the Opium War in 1844, Xiamen officially opened its port. Gulangyu, as a window for the old China to the world, witnessed the process of cultural collision and blending between the East and the West, and formed the modern international community with the most perfect community facilities and the most diverse cultural life at that time.
At that time, foreigners who came to the island to trade, rich businessmen from Fujian and Taiwan, and overseas Chinese gradually increased, all regarded Gulangyu as a livable place, with all kinds of exotic amorous feelings. The combination of Chinese and Western buildings rose from the bullet island and gradually became today's "Universal Museum of Architecture."
It is no exaggeration to say that on this island, there jieyang flights are countless churches, restaurants, shops and coffee shops. So people say that Gulangyu is a reasonable waste of time, with the eyes, listen attentively, these broken time, will be an unforgettable experience.
At the 2017 World Heritage Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Gulangyu was approved for inclusion in the World Cultural Heritage list, becoming the 52nd World Heritage site in China, 51 representative historical buildings and residential gardens on the island, 4 groups of historical roads, 7 representative natural landscapes and 2 representative cultural relics, forming a unique and non-replicable Gulangyu Island.
Gulangyu is worthy of the pride of the Chinese people, but also more firm as a Chinese cultural self-confidence. But in the eyes of Xiamen, this is not what it was ten years ago. Today there is too strong and too heavy a business atmosphere, the trend of literature and art suffocates, but still have to admit, it is still worth exploring.
