Macao, a prosperous and peaceful coexistence, modern and historical overlap, East and West cultural intersection of the Holy Land. Her charm needs to be savored by every visitor.
Walking in this illusory square, people of all kinds of skin color are pictured, drinking coffee, chatting, and the crowd is rippling with ease and leisure. The streets of macao are not all spacious avenues and towering buildings, turning west from the alleys near the town hall, can immediately walk into the narrow and steep old guangzhou to zhangjiajie street, seven turns around, around, deep quiet, don't have a charm, between or can see some old churches and ancient inscriptions, can bring people the vicissitudes of history.
East and west cultures have long converged and exchanged on the land of macao, leaving behind many attractions: the mazu temple, the three-year-old ba archway, the popularization of zen, the cannon platform, and the scattered catholic churches everywhere.
In general, if you can't go to France, you can't go to Rome without going to Paris. Visit to Macau, really can experience many amorous feelings, different from Hong Kong's air, Macau can more pure show that the beauty of the combination of Chinese and Western.
With curiosity and reverence, the first thing we see when we look at this magical building is behind it, and it is true that we cannot describe it too tall and lofty. It was through the doorway that we reached the front of it, the archway we often saw on film and television.
It was the oldest building in Macau, founded in 1562 as a church known as the Church of St Paul's, and after many fires, the main front wall of the church was left behind after the last fire, and because the front wall was similar to the archway of our country, it was called the Big Three Bar Arch, the style of the front wall, which was one of the iconic buildings of Macau in the European Renaissance and the East.
Ma Zu Pavilion is located in the southwest of the Macao Peninsula, built along the coast, back mountains and sea, stone lion town gate, flying eaves in the air, is one of the three major Zen homes in Macao.
One of Macau's famous monuments, commonly known as the Temple of Heaven. Back mountain sea, along the cliff building, ancient trees towering, although the scale can be fully integrated with nature, the layout is fragmented, is a cultural characteristics of the ancient building.
Founded in the first year of Hongzhi Ming (1488), it has a history of more than 500 years. Ma-Ge Temple formerly known as Ma-Ma-Ge, commonly known as the Tianhou Temple, is located in the southwest of Macau. The main buildings are the main hall, Hongren Temple, Guanyin Pavilion and other halls. The temple mainly worships Taoist goddess mazu, also known as "tianhou mother "," tianfei mother ", known as can predict good or bad, often in the sea to help businessmen and fishermen to overcome the danger, eliminate disaster, so fujian people and local people to discuss in the site of temple worship.
Temple gate has a pair of stone lions, exquisite carving, lifelike shape; the temple flowers and trees scattered, rock vertical and horizontal, quiet scenery, year-round incense exuberant. Visitors into the temple can see purple smoke, many huge incense hanging high, rows of momentum, forming a large temple landscape.
"Ma Zu" is not only the "heavenly queen" worshipped by good men and women, but also forms an international cultural phenomenon -" Ma Zu culture ".
Walk through the historic city of Macau and you'll find a centuries-old building. Located on Fengshuntang Street, the Old Lenzo Church looks serene and peaceful compared to other bustling attractions.
The Church of San Lorenzo, commonly known as Fengshuntang, is one of the three oldest churches in Macau. Many years ago, Fengshun Tang in the Chinese population is called Fengxin Tang, meaning Shunfeng Shunshui. Most of the Portuguese people who lived in Australia went to sea for a living, and their families prayed for their loved ones to return safely. The church's hyacinth flagpole provided an important indicator for the Portuguese sailboat, which was then dominated by wind. "Fengshun" is "Fengxin" Cantonese homonym, this name, so that the church has a more cordial Chinese meaning.
Along the stone grade, into the church territory, flowers in the grass is the church of San Lorenzo. Although the church along the street, but through the steps of the transition, the worshipers gradually put up the common heart, the rise of piety. Flowers and trees cut off the noise of the world, making the church in the busy downtown particularly quiet.
The building is Portuguese-colored, with big bell towers on the right and left sides. On the altar of the Lord's sacrifice in the middle of the church was the statue of the Lord of the Holy Sacrament. There is a small sanctuary on the left and right, with a bird's-eye view of the cross.
The main theme in the side hall is the statue of the sick Virgin Mary, with a smaller statue of the King of the Holy Baby of Jesus under the right and a statue of St. Anthony, born in Lisbon, Portugal under the left. On the left side of the chapel is the statue of the heart of jesus, with a smaller statue of jesus de l'isa at the bottom right and a saint luzia at the bottom left.
Although the church in the bustling downtown, but particularly quiet. There were only a few worshippers in the church. Sitting in the church chair, the mood also became quiet. Whether you are a believer or not, you will feel the baptism and shock of your heart here.
Speaking of Macau, we all know that there is a famous street, the official street. This small street, which is only about 115 meters long and 5 meters wide, is one of the famous food streets in Macao and the earliest pedestrian street in Macao. The collection of East and West from the various flavor, there are Portuguese food to attract diners restaurant, there are countless Macau local characteristics of hand-letter shop!
It is convenient to take the free shuttle bus from the cheap flights from guangzhou to hangzhou Hong Kong-Macau Ferry Pier or the gateway. Across the way, Macau Galaxy is Guanye Street. Here you can eat some delicious food such as moiji durian sorbet, hongbinji miscellaneous cattle, big fish balls, bista wood bran cake, pork chop bag (ps: only after two o'clock in the afternoon, only butter bag and drink in the morning) and so on
At the centre of the southern district of Cotai, Ruada Cunha is located on the front of the fire station between Cheyenne Street and Tellya Shrew Street. In fact, Guanye Street is only about 115 meters long and 5 meters wide, but it brings together the essence of the whole Macau cuisine, especially all kinds of snacks and cakes. Here you don't need to consider your own good image, eating happily is the most important thing.
The streets were opened as pedestrianised areas, and the Australian government decorated the narrow roads to become a thriving tourist area. Because hand-letter shops, food shops, dessert shops and other shops are concentrated in this street, many tourists are here and in the streets of bunkers to taste food, and in front of Governor Barbossa to visit the French Renaissance-colored fountain of drinking water," and the goddess of beauty fountain ".
Puppets, roosters, small flying elephant and other Portuguese restaurants decorated their own character, lane head of the ice cream shop, rice cakes, wood bran pudding is also the charm of the street. In addition to the famous pork bag, squid curry, crab porridge, macau's famous beef jerky, almond cake and other gourmet hand letters, the official street has become a must-go place for all diners to come to australia.
