How Beautiful Is a Place You Wouldn't Want to Leave: Xiamen?
This is a city on the sea, with the sea in the city's harbor, often called 'Ocean Garden' due to its beautiful scenery. It boasts wonderful natural landscapes, deep cultural heritage, and friendly Xiamen residents. The beauty of Xiamen encompasses both its outward appearance and its profound soul.
1Wonderful natural scenery
Xiamen is located on the southeastern coast of Fujian Province, facing Taiwan and the Penghu Islands across the sea, belonging to a subtropical marine monsoon climate, mild and rainy. The entire island has a coastline of about 234 kilometers and about 31 small islands. As a city next to the ocean, it has green mountains and clear water and blue sky and white clouds. Here, it is always spring, the sea surrounds it, there is warm sunshine and romantic beaches. There are exotic-style Gulangyu, ancient temples South Putuo, Golden Coast Ring Road, Petite Town Cangzhouan, the most beautiful seaside subway Line 1, old-fashioned commercial street Zhongshan Road, the most beautiful university Xiamen University... etc. As a seaside tourist city, Xiamen is mountains and seas, beautiful scenery.
2Deep cultural heritage
How much do you know about the history and culture hidden in Xiamen? Xiamen's local dialect is one of the eight major dialects of China, a trans-regional, trans-provincial Chinese dialect. Xiamen's religions are Buddhism, Christianity, Catholicism and Islam, mainly Buddhism, South Putuo Temple, Minnan Buddhist Academy are renowned both at home and abroad. Xiamen has a World Heritage Non-Material Cultural Heritage: Gulangyu. It also has a National Level Non-Material Cultural Heritage Protection List: Minnan, Gaojia Opera, Gaizai Opera, Lacquer Wire Sculpture. Xiamen has national heroes Zheng Chenggong, modern literary giants Lin Yutang, and overseas Chinese who run schools and save the country Chen Jiaheng. There are historical and cultural treasures hidden in every corner of Xiamen.
3Civilized and friendly Xiamen residents
Xiamen is also a famous seaside tourist city known for being a civilized city. Walking on the streets of Xiamen, you look up and see endless blue, and you look around and see civilized and polite pedestrians. In 2005, Xiamen was awarded as one of the first batch of national civilized cities, and in 2017, it won the 'five consecutive championships' of national civilized cities. Now it is striving for its sixth term as a national civilized city.
