Meizhou Island has a typical subtropical maritime monsoon climate, with an average annual temperature of 2 1℃ and an average annual rainfall of about 1 1,000 mm, with a mild climate. The unique coastal scenery and natural resources are rare tourist attractions. Blue sky, blue sea, sunshine and beach constitute a romantic and charming coastal scenery. The coastline of the whole island is 30.4 kilometers long, with 13 golden beaches and 5 kilometers of marine erosion rocks. There are more than 20 scenic spots on the island, integrating blue sea, sandy beach, green forest, sea rocks, strange rocks and temples, forming a unique natural landscape with mountains in the mountains, mountains in the sea, mountains in the sea and the sky and the sky. The eternal sound of cocoon tide is like an orchestral drizzle, or like the ringing of bells and drums, like complaining, like the roar of Song Like. The rugged goose tail stone, after years of baptism, is as cool as a turtle, frog, eagle, lion, boat and lifelike.
When it comes to Meizhou Island, we have to talk about Mazu culture. This is the birthplace of Mazu culture, and this is Mazu Tempel where 200 million Mazu believers haunt. During the period of Mazu's birthday on March 23rd and Mazu's ascension to heaven on September 9th every year, the pilgrimage is unprecedented. Oriental Mecca? . Who is Mazu and what is her origin?
Mazu was originally named Moline, also called Moline Niang. According to legend, Mazu was born on March 23rd in the first year of Song Jianlong (AD 960) and died on September 9th in the fourth year of Song Yongxi (AD 987). Because she never cried from birth to the full moon, her father named her Yue? Silence? . Never married. She's smart and studious,
At the age of 8, I can recite scriptures, 10 can interpret texts, 13 can learn Taoism, and 16 can learn medicine, meteorology and navigation. In her short life, she has done a lot of good things for her neighbors and past maritime fishermen, and often rescued fishermen in distress at sea. On the ninth day of September in Song Yongxi's fourth year, when Lin Moniang was twenty-eight years old, she ran away from home and ascended to heaven at Meiyu Peak in Meizhou Island. People admire her spirit of doing good deeds, accumulating virtue and saving the suffering. In memory of her, that year was on Meizhou Peak? Ascension monument? Beside the temple, she was enshrined as a sea god, a dragon lady, a goddess and so on. When did Song Huizong name Mazu? Mrs. Shunzhi? This is the first time that the court praised Mazu.
Later, the court also sealed her? Tian Fei? Tianhou? Virgin Mary? Wait, your honor.
White Beach is backed by Mazu Mountain, and there is the tidal sound of Meiyu Island in the north, smiling to welcome the East China Sea, green mountains and green waters, blue sea and silver beaches, and surfing in Bai Ou. More fishing villages are nostalgic The coastal rocks in front of the ancestral hall are staggered, with large diabase, which has been eroded by wind and waves for a long time, forming a natural groove with a width of 12 meters and a length of several hundred meters. With the tidal throughput, it produces * * * vibration, makes a beautiful and rhythmic sound, and forms a touching natural symphony. Tourists must blend in when they come? Mei Yu tidal sound, generations of incense? In the atmosphere.
Standing on the top of Meizhou ancestral hall, Meizhou ancestral hall is magnificent against the backdrop of beautiful peaks, strange stones and secluded forests.
The scenery here is unique:
1. Blue Gold Beach
Known as? The first blue-gold beach in the world is located in the southwest of Meizhou Island, with blue sea in front and green fields behind. The golden beach stretches for several kilometers, spacious and flat, like a crescent moon, hanging on the blue sea. After visiting Mazu Mountain in the north of Meizhou Island, tourists drive into Lan, just like Moon Cave in Fairy Palace.
Blue beach is 3 kilometers long and 500 meters wide, with gentle slope and fine sand. Facing the vast blue sea and backed by thousands of acres of lush Casuarina, the beach is beautiful and rugged, and the natural Zhong Ling is beautiful and magical. An American globetrotter was touched by the scene and praised the place. Hawaii in the East ". Since 2000, Lan Beach has become a leisure resort and bathing beach. Surrounded by hotels and guesthouses of different grades, there are elegant couples' rooms and chic simple tents on the tree-lined beach. In spring and autumn, especially in summer, there are endless tourists, especially energetic young people.
Visiting Lanzhou, the last hour is dusk in the morning. Since ancient times, many people have written about sunrise and sunset, but the spectacular sight of the sea devouring the sun and the moon is difficult to express in words. Only by being there can we get the message. If on a moonlit night, the beach is white and the sea is sparkling, the scene is just like that described by Qin Bangkun. The full moon island is quiet, and the tide comes to the silver house. ?
2. Goose tail stone
Goose tail sacred stone garden is located at the southernmost tip of the scenic Meizhou Island National Tourism Resort, covering an area of 32 hectares and 65 meters above sea level. Stone bonsai? , is it? Small stone forest? It echoes the world-famous Mazu Tempel scenic spot at the northern end. The park is named for its goose tail shape and strange rocks. These strange stones are beautiful, vivid and charming, and contain beautiful and touching Mazu legends and rich geological science knowledge. They have become representative natural landscape stone gardens in Meizhou Island. Jinshan' ao? Outside the cave? Haimen? Lion Mountain? And then what? God salt incense? It consists of five parts, including: tortoise pilgrimage, Buddha mirror, flying halberd cave, axe chopping cliff, Carp 18 Festival, Haimen, Mazu Library, Longdong Listening to Tide, Lovers Frog, Listening to Tao and other dozens of scenic spots. In Shenshi Garden, visitors can climb high and overlook, watch the huge waves lapping against the river bank and listen to the singing of fishing boats at night. The adjacent bathing beach, music leisure square and forest children's playground can provide fun and leisure for tourists.
3. Meizhou ancestral hall
Mazu Tempel in Meizhou Island is known as? Meizhou ancestral temple? Founded in 987, the same year as Lin Moniang's death, there were only a few rafters at the beginning; After several generations of expansion, it has become more and more magnificent. Zheng He, a famous navigator in Ming Dynasty, went to the Western Ocean seven times and came back to play. God appeared at sea? Before his seventh voyage to the West, he came to Meizhou Island to host a special royal sacrifice and expand the temple. Taiwan Province Province was unified during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, and General Shi Lang claimed that God helps at sea? And the expansion of orders. It is the ancestral temple of more than 3,000 Mazu Tempel in the world today and the spiritual home of 200 million Mazu believers around the world.
Meizhou Ancestral Temple, with carved beams and painted buildings, is resplendent and magnificent. It is a holy place for Chinese sailors all over the world to worship and for compatriots at home and abroad.
On the rock behind Meizhou ancestral hall, there are? Ascension monument? Guanlan? Waiting for the stone carving. Standing on the stone, looking at the vast sea, Bai Ou sweeps the waves and the boat shuttles; Mountains and seas intersect. There is a large area of diabase on the seabed in front of the rock bank, which is eroded by wind and waves and forms natural grooves. The wheezing sound of the tide, from far to near, sounds like a orchestral at first, then a bell and drum, then a dragon and a tiger roar, and finally a huge thunderbolt and a sudden rainstorm. Exciting? Mei Yu Yin Chao? It's so famous.