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英语介绍鼓浪屿Gulang Island is located in the southwest to the Xiamen Island. At the end of Yuan Dynasty, it was called "Circular Shoal" and "Ro[FrontPage Image Map Component]und Sandbar". In Ming Dynasty, the names were changed into "Gulang Island".The island covers an area of 1.78 kilometers, with about 23,000 permanent residents. It is abut 1,800 meters long and 1,000 meters wide, just like an ellipse. Together with a winding costal line and falling and rising rocks, green trees, red tiles and golden sand enhance to one another's beauty. Bays, rocks, cliffs and hills form a pleasing scene. Buildings of various styles, the high-standing Sunlight Rock, and groups of fluttering seagulls constitute a shining picture of seaisland. Gulang Island is also named "Pearl on the East Sea" and "Garden on the Sea", for its unique beauty. In 1988, it was ranked as anationally important scenic zone. In the southwest corner of the island, there are two overlapping crags, eroded by sea water over the years. Later, a vertical hole was formed in them. Whenever the tide flew in, waves rushed onto the crags, with a rumbling sound like an echo of the beating of a drum. So people called the crags "Cleaving Wave Crags". And the name of Gulang Island was derived. Gulang Island has always enjoyed the reputation of being "Land of Music" and "Land of Piano". It had more than 500 pianos in 1950's and1960's. Many world-famous musicians were once born and grew up here.The ferry dock on the island looks like a piano with its open lid,which may remind people of its uniqueappeal as soon as they step onto the dock. After the Opium War, Xiamen was opened up as one of the five trading ports. The western Powers kept pouring in and took a fancy to Gulang Island. In 1902, the island was occupied as a public concession.Britain, America, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, Portugal, the Netherland, Austria, Norway, Swede, the Phillipines and other countries once established their own consulates on the island and set up foreign firms, hospitals, schools and churches. Some rich overseas Chinese also come here to build houses and villas, to invest in real estate. When the Pacific War broke out in 1941, Gulang Island was occupied by Japanalone. More than 100 years of colonial rule did not end until the success of the Anti-Japanese War was achieved. Because of that special period of history, the buildings on the island are of a great variety. There are south Fujian houses with upturned eaves, the Eight Trigrams Tower called "Little White House",grand and towering catholic churches, European buildings with red tile sand large roofs, and villas of both Chinese and western styles. The island may be rated as Museum of "Ten-thousand Nations' Buildings". The streets and buildings on Gulang Island are built at both sides of the mountain. Some are spiraling high up, and some are lowly zigzagging, according to the geographical location. Beautiful flowers are in bloom everywhere in deep lanes, and green vines are climbling on the housewalls. This is a peaceful place, with downtown areas, but without vehicles coming and going, and without the noises of vehicles. Mountain ranges rise and fall on the island, with Dragon Head Mountain being the highest peak, which stands against Tiger Head Mountain of Xiamen on the opposite shore. So there is a folk story that a dragon and a tiger guard the Xiamen port. In the east of the island is Flag-raising Mountain. In its west is Bijia (Penholder) Mountain.The obtruding part opposite to the east sea is Fujing Rock. In addition,there are Hen Mountain, Swallowtail Mountain, Camel Mountain, Hero Mountain, and so on. The island has over 4,000 kinds of plants, belonging to over 80 families. The affrested cover rate reaches as high as 40%. And there is an average per capita affrested area of 5.1 square meters. With fresh air, thick forests and blooming flowers all year around, the island is also named "Garden on the Sea". The main scenic spots on Gulang Island are: Sunlight Rock, Shuzhuang Garden, Bright Moon Garden, Yuyuan Garden, Xiamen Museum, Road around the Island, Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall,and so on. 分给我！

Yongding Hakka earth tower is a kind of unique and fantastic residential building around the world. Well-known for its long history, unique style, large scale, exquisite structure, varied functions and rich connotation, Yongding Hakka earth tower has developed a school of its own and been reputed as “a shining pearl of oriental civilization”. Now it is one of the eight tourist brand names in Fujian Province.In the village, tourists will find over forty styles of earth towers, for instance, the magnificent style of “Round Tower Prince” represented by Zhencheng Tower and Wufeng Tower (mansion-styled earth tower), the classic style characterized by Fuyu Tower, the Potala-styled palace architecture featured by Kuiju Tower, the style of “Mini Round Tower” represented by Rusheng Tower, as well as other styles such as Tianhou Palace and the earth tower museum. They spread along the river in a dotted manner but with magnificence; they harmoniously co-exist with green mountains, clear water, emerald bamboos, arch bridges, mill wheels and farmlands, constituting a colorful and florid picture.Now although time has changed, the Hakkas in west part of Fujian Province still retain their traditional culture and folk custom. For example, the dragon dance play, the lion dance play, drum beating show, holding religious ceremonies, lantern festival, Han drama, puppet play, Shifan folk music, stunt show by folk artists, greeting the bride and Hakka folk songs. All these demonstrate the colorful, unique and extraordinary flavor of Hakka folk custom and symbolize the endless pursuit of Hakkas for happiness and bright future. With unique glamour and elegance of Chinese civilization, the folk custom and cultural village is an excellent spot for travelers at home and abroad to tour, explore or seek entertainment.The Zhencheng Tower is the best embodiment of “Integration of Heaven, Earth and Man”, an idea in the Book of Change, and therefore it is the earth tower which is built up according to the Eight Diagrams that tourists should never forget to take a look at. The magnificent Zhencheng Tower has exquisite structures and a lot of famous lines and couplets hung on columns of the tower. The scripts of great features, such as Sun Yetsen and Li Yuanhong, both of whom had gone abroad for study, are well retained. It is for this that the Zhencheng tower is crowned as “The perfect combination of Chinese Architecture with Western Culture”. In 1985, together with the architecture models of Tiantan and Yonghe Palace in Beijing representing Chinese ancient architecture, the appearance of Zhencheng Tower’s architecture model was a big hit in the international exhibition of architecture models in Los Angeles, America.The Yongding Hakka earth tower museum has a collection of the production tools, pictures and precious cultural relics of Hakkas in different historical periods, embodying the long history and unique folk customs of Hakkas in an all-round manner.