Published on June 8, 2014 16:24

"A city is like a flower, half leaning on a stone, ten thousand green hills embracing the sea", "the sky is windy and the sea is green, the city is on the sea, and the sea is in the city", "there is no water under the mountain, and the trees do not bloom in autumn and winter". These are the words that the writers praise Xiamen, which is also the best interpretation of Xiamen. The beauty of Xiamen comes from nature. There are sea, island, mountain, city, sea water, beach, sunshine, safflower and so on. Despite the natural reasons, the overseas Chinese in Nanyang have also made indelible contributions to the prosperity and beauty of Xiamen. The sons and daughters of Minnan, who have been away from their hometown, are building their hometown with their hard accumulated wealth, insight and ideas. From the teaching building of Xiamen University, the arcade on Zhongshan Road, the Jiageng style building in Jimei learning village, to the "International Architecture Exhibition Hall" on Gulangyu Island, many of the buildings are representatives of overseas Chinese going to Nanyang to feed their hometown. In the architectural style, we can see the integration of Nanyang culture and Minnan culture, as well as the absorption and improvement of western culture, This is Xiamen's unique overseas Chinese culture, which represents the historical inheritance of Minnan culture. In ancient times, there was "heaven above and Suzhou and Hangzhou below". Today, the beauty of Xiamen in the eyes of Chinese people has already surpassed the former paradise - National Garden City, International Garden City, the most romantic leisure city, the most beautiful... It is almost one of the most romantic places that young people in China yearn for

The cause of the trip to Xiamen

It coincides with the promotion of spring and Autumn Airlines. Although there is no Shenyang Xiamen round-trip ticket, there are Shijiazhuang Fuzhou round-trip special tickets. The round-trip plus airport construction cost is only a few hundred yuan. If you add Shenyang Shijiazhuang round-trip train ticket, it is only 1000 yuan.

In addition, I read a blog about Gulangyu written by a netizen before, which made me fascinated. After a short hesitation, I decided to buy a ticket to

My whole trip is: Shenyang Shijiazhuang Fuzhou Xiamen Quanzhou Fuzhou Shijiazhuang Shenyang

Three day tour to Xiamen

The first day

Fuzhou -- three lanes and seven alleys -- Xiamen -- accommodation hotel -- Xiamen University -- Nanputuo Temple -- Zhongshan Road snacks

In the morning, I went to the old streets of three lanes and seven alleys in Fuzhou. They are still in the process of transformation. The original vicissitudes are quietly fading away, and only some historical lingering charm is scattered in the alleys. I went a little early. Most shops didn't open. Fortunately, a snack bar opened.

Fuzhou snacks (near Sanfang Qixiang)

Some of my southern netizens say that they like plain food more than greasy food. However, I do not know why snacks are greasy. Mujin meatball has said that the process is complicated, but it has a big oil taste, so I don't like it very much. The rice ball next to it is still light. Radish cake is fried, and it's still hot when you get it. It's made of shredded radish and dried shrimps. It's salty and tastes good. Crystal cake is cool at the beginning (in fact, it is not called crystal cake, some forget the name), white and some transparent ones are boiled with lotus root powder. Gold wrapped silver is lotus root powder outside, and inside is mushroom and bamboo shoots and other meatballs. To tell you the truth, I don't like it. I feel strange. Maybe it's with my father. I prefer sweet food, but I don't like eating too much meat

I got on the train from Fuzhou to Xiamen, waved goodbye to Fuzhou and started my journey to Xiamen.

I made an oral reservation by phone. It's on Zhenbang road by the wharf of Gulangyu Island. Its name is "Luhui Hotel". Today, I checked this hotel again. The single room is still 88 yuan, which is the same price as when I stayed in it a few years ago. The hotel is very close to the Gulangyu wharf. It's within five minutes' walk. The place I live in is close to the wharf and the pedestrian street. There is a small restaurant on the road opposite the window. It will open very late at night. It's a bit noisy. However, as long as I bring the earphones on the plane, there will be no problem. In addition, my sleep is always very good and there is little interference.

Putting down my luggage and coming out of the hotel, I first went to Nanputuo and Xiamen University, which are close to each other.

The most beautiful university in the lens: Xiamen University [original]

The architectural style of Xiamen University has a strong architectural feature of Southern Fujian. The arcade and cornice are essential elements here, and the unique Tan Kah Kee Building is calm in publicity. Backed by Wulaofeng and facing the sea, Nanputuo temple and Wanshi botanical garden on both sides set off each other, clean and charming. What is more enviable is that academic celebrities and educational masters such as Lin Yutang, Gu Jiegang, Lu Xun, Chen Jingrun and Yu Guangzhong also have many origins with Xiamen University. Xiamen University, known as the maritime garden university, was once chosen as the most beautiful university in China. From my point of view, it is not too much. Even Peking University, which is located in the capital of emperors and has the style of royal garden, seems to lack a aura. The most beautiful place of Xiamen University is Furong lake. Furong lake is to Xiamen University what Kanghe river is to Kangqiao bar. Many students who want to come to Xiamen University, like Xu Zhimo, who was going to leave Kangqiao and recited "I'm willing to be a water plant in the gentle waves of Kanghe River", must be willing to be a water plant and sway himself in the gentle waves of Furong lake every year when the phoenix flowers bloom and pack up his departure bags

The self-study environment here is very good. I envy it

South Putuo temple is located in front of Wulao peak, a famous mountain on Ludao island. It is backed by Xiuqi peaks and faces Bicheng harbor. The scenery is excellent. At the beginning of the Five Dynasties and Song Dynasty, there were eminent monks who built a Buddhist temple on the mountain. It was built in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, and was initially called Sizhou courtyard. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Seng Wencui was rebuilt as endless rock. In 1684, after recovering Taiwan, Hou Shi Lang lived in Xiamen, where he donated money to restore the old temple and built the Dabei pavilion to serve Guanyin Bodhisattva. He compared it with the Guanyin Taoist temple in Putuo Mountain in Zhejiang Province and renamed it Nanputuo temple.

Eaves, generally in the form of relief, painted with clay, more landscape characters, a story. The dazzling coronal roof is the unique architectural style of Southern Fujian, which follows the traditional Chinese architectural culture, and has distinctive regional characteristics. It is all inclusive, showing the characteristics of diversified appearance, beautiful lines, complicated decoration and complex process.

This one is just as good-looking when enlarged. It's my desktop background.

The second day: Gulangyu temple fair with Taiwan characteristics

In the morning, I catch the earliest boat to go to Gulangyu. Because it's too early, there are almost no tourists. Most of the sellers take things to Gulangyu.

Gulangyu in the morning light

Gulangyu wedding dress is very romantic, but also suffering, happiness also needs courage[ [original]

"If you avoid the crowd, turn into those secluded alleys, listen to the faint sound of the piano, or simply turn into a path up the mountain, and be in a trance in front of those dilapidated courtyards, the real charm of Gulangyu will gradually unfold to you - at that moment, you are eager to touch it, Desire to go deep into it as if it had a strange connection with your previous life. " This is a description of lost Gulangyu written by the air couple. Through the author's lens and delicate words, it is like wandering in the alleys and streets of Gulangyu; Read the world architecture of Gulangyu carefully; Swimming on the beach with melodious music; Explore the corners of the ancient courtyard. Gulangyu is really beautiful. Anyone who has been to Gulangyu will fall in love with this beautiful island. Driving is not allowed on the island (the only one who drives is also the island's management personnel), and there is not even a bicycle, so the least worrying thing is traffic accidents. What's the most worrying thing about going to the island? It's just getting lost. It's not a big island. If you can walk twice, it's estimated that you can also become an island link. But if you don't have a map and come here for the first time, you will be more and more confused. After going to the island, it's not far to the left to Fuxing Road, the former Consulate Area on the island. There are many centenary buildings here. That's why Gulangyu is called "universal architecture". Walking along Fuxing Road is Lin Qiaozhi memorial hall, also known as Yuyuan. Of course, if you go along Zhangzhou road to haoyueyuan, you can continue to go along Zhangzhou road to Yuyuan. To the left of the pier is Longtou Road, the Commercial Street on the island. In fact, it is mainly restaurants and snacks. Many tourism strategies have detailed introduction of the food on Gulangyu Island. I will not introduce them one by one... Where is Gulangyu most worth playing? Haitiantang structure. The biggest advantage is that someone here will give you a detailed explanation of the history and architecture of Gulangyu, so that you can have a deeper understanding of the culture of Gulangyu; The puppet show inside is unique. Not only is the expression of the puppet extremely rich, but the smoking and juggling of the puppet are not ambiguous. It's totally true. Otherwise, the puppet show in the south of Fujian Province has been performed to the extreme

A glimpse of old buildings on Gulangyu Island

The most beautiful and romantic scenery

On the same day, a temple fair with Taiwan characteristics was being held on Zhongshan Road

Visiting temple fairs with Taiwan characteristics and eating Taiwan snacks [original]

This visit to Xiamen is just in time for the local temple fair with Taiwan characteristics, which is located in the pedestrian street of Zhongshan Road, Xiamen, near the Gulangyu ferry terminal. There are many Taiwanese snacks at temple fairs, but more people visit them. From the point of view of the clothes of the stall owners, those who set up temple fair snack stalls in Xiamen are Taiwan night markets or local famous snack stalls! The temple fair also has local snacks in Xiamen, which are usually stalls on Zhongshan Road. Snacks at temple fairs start at 10 yuan, and the most expensive is no more than 25 yuan. Because the price is not expensive, every snack stand is full of people who buy things, and some stalls are already in the middle of the road! I also bought some and tasted it. Overall, I felt it tasted good. From my personal point of view, the characteristics of Taiwan snacks (including Minnan snacks) are that compared with other places, the food materials in Minnan and Taiwan are not too special. Most of them are ordinary things. However, they will fully mobilize people's taste and visual sense, and may be more colorful, just like Minnan Dacuo, There will be a lot of colorful things on the food, let people have a different freshness, there is an impulse to buy; In the sense of taste, the use of different flavors to stimulate people's sense of taste, and even a snack can make people experience a variety of tastes! In addition, the snacks in Southern Fujian are very different from those in Suzhou and Shanghai. Many Suzhou snacks are sweet, even yuntun is sweet; Many of Minnan's snacks are meat, such as meat swallow, meatballs, glutinous rice dumplings, Shacha, youcong, congee and so on. Even the noodle paste you drink in the morning can add meat. It doesn't look like much, but it feels very strong after eating! Taiwan snacks at temple fairs are really in demand. It seems that they don't need money. It often happens that the goods are sold out and the stall owners borrow goods everywhere

The third day Jimei -- Quanzhou

Fujian is characterized by "half the world in the forest and half the world in the forest and half the streets in the yellow and Zheng". Lin Chen and Huang Zheng are the four surnames of Fujian people. Walking on the street, holding on to one and asking, you will never leave these four surnames. Zheng Chenggong, Lin Zexu and Chen Jiageng are the three representatives of Xiamen. When it comes to Chen Jiageng, Xiamen people are proud. If you come to Xiamen and don't go to Jimei School Village, you have never been to Xiamen. It was the place where the famous overseas Chinese leader Tan Kah Kee returned to Sangzi and started education. Today, many of the buildings in Jimei University and Xiamen University are funded by Tan Kah Kee and his family.

When you go to Xiamen, you must go to Jimei. That's because Chen Kah Kee, a well-known overseas Chinese entrepreneur and patriotic overseas Chinese, was born in a small fishing village in Jimei. Jimei was a small fishing village at the beginning of last century, named Xunwei. Since 1913, Mr. Tan Kah Kee has successfully set up a factory in Nanyang. He has made the first pot of money in his life and has been investing money in his hometown to set up a school. First from kindergarten, primary school, middle school, then to normal school, fisheries, navigation, agriculture and forestry, until the proposal to establish Xiamen University. With the increasing expansion of the school, the spirit of Tan Kah Kee's investment in running the school is well-known all over the world, and Jimei, along with Jimei School Village, has gradually replaced the name of Xunwei in the past. It's no exaggeration to say that Tan Kah Kee was the God of wealth in Chiang Kai Shek's eyes. In 1936, with his personal influence and positive efforts, he led the overseas Chinese in Malaysia to raise more than 1.3 million yuan, which could buy 10 airplanes. In July 1937, after the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, the "Nanyang overseas Chinese relief association" led by Tan Kah Kee raised 150 million yuan in 1938 and 1939 alone. Together with the donations in 1937 and 1940, the total amount was nearly 300 million yuan. In addition, Tan Kah Kee also presided over the work of soliciting donations to buy "national salvation bonds" in Nanyang. In 1938, he raised 15 million yuan of government bonds in Malaysia alone. He also raised more than 5 million yuan from overseas Chinese in Malaysia for the Chongqing "children's care club" and "cold clothes fund-raising club" under the chairmanship of Song Meiling. According to the report of he Yingqin, the military Minister of the Kuomintang, at the national political conference in 1940, the military expenditure of the Nationalist Government in 1939 was 1.8 billion yuan, while the amount of money remitted by overseas Chinese to the motherland in the same year was as high as 1.1 billion yuan, of which donations accounted for about 10%, while donations from overseas Chinese such as Tan Kah Kee accounted for more than 70% of the total donations. Therefore, in 1940, when Tan Kah Kee returned to China as chairman of the Federation of overseas Chinese, Chiang Kai Shek, because of his great appeal in the overseas Chinese community, regarded him as a god of wealth and mobilized relevant party, government and military officials to welcome and receive him. Chongqing alone prepared 80000 yuan. Besides, Xiamen University, Jimei Middle School, Xiang'an No.1 middle school, Jimei school village and Xiang'an Tongmin hospital were all founded by Tan Kah kee. It is reasonable to say that such a big God of wealth must have a very good life. Luxury should be a very particular life. When I visited Tan Kah Kee's former residence, my biggest feeling was "is this the home of the God of wealth"? It's too frugal. The mosquito nets, bedding, clothes, hats and shoes on display are old-fashioned and old-fashioned. According to the introduction, Tan Kah Kee usually wears such clothes in his life.

Xiamen snacks