Zhanjiang Mangrove National Nature Reserve is located in Zhanjiang City,Guangdong Province, covering an area of 19000 hectares. It was established withthe approval of the people's Government of Guangdong Province in 1990 andpromoted to the national level in 1997. The main protected object is mangroveecosystem.
The nature reserve is located in Leizhou Peninsula. Affected by thetropical marine climate, there are a large area of mangrove vegetationdistributed on the coastal beach. There are 12 families, 16 genera and 17species of mangrove plants in the reserve, which is the area with the mostmangrove species in China except Hainan Island.
In addition, the reserve has a large number and variety of cranes, storks,herons and other waterfowl and other wetland animals. According to preliminarystatistics, there are 82 species of birds alone, including 38 species ofresident birds and 44 species of migratory birds. The reserve is the largestexisting Mangrove Nature Reserve in China.
Dengloujiao, Jiaowei Township, Xuwen County, is the southernmost part ofthe mainland of China. Its geographical coordinates are 20 degrees 13 minutesnorth latitude and 109 degrees 55 minutes east longitude. It wedges into theQiongzhou Strait about 3 kilometers from north to south, and faces ChengmaiCounty of Hainan Island in the south. It is the key point of the channel betweenBeibu Gulf and Qiongzhou Strait.
In 1887, Wanguo company built the navigation lighthouse in Dengloujiao,namely Dengloujiao lighthouse. The original tower was of iron frame structure,where the imperial powers such as France, Britain and Russia built their houses.Today, there are still Western style houses and walls. In 1942, in order toavoid the use of Japanese invaders, Xuwen County Government demolished thenavigation lighthouse. After liberation, the iron frame lighthouse with concretepier was rebuilt in 1953, with a height of 15 meters and a range of 12 nauticalmiles. In 1979, it was rebuilt as a circular tower with stone brick and cementstructure. In 1994, the provincial maritime administration invested in theconstruction of a ten story 36 meter high hexagonal lighthouse. This lighthouseis the landmark of the Chinese mainland at the south end.
Dengloujiao was once occupied by France and other imperialist countries,and left many relics. When Hainan Island was liberated, it was also the firstport for the people's Liberation Army to cross the Qiongzhou Strait. It hasgreat historical commemorative value and has been set up as a patrioticeducation base.
Hello, tourists! I'm your guide, Xiao su. Today, I'd like to take you toHuguangyan, a 4A scenic spot in Zhanjiang City.
Huguangyan is located in the southwest of Zhanjiang City. Huguangyan is oneof the eight scenic spots in Zhanjiang, and is also a famous Crater tourist areain China. The air is rich in negative ions, so it is called "natural oxygenbar"___ It was also named "World Geopark" in. In the morning, a layer of whitefog shrouded Huguangyan, like a little girl in white clothes. At noon,Huguangyan was golden, as if it had been sprinkled with gold dust. At night, thelake is as quiet as a mirror.
Tourists, Huguangyan not only has beautiful scenery, but also has abeautiful legend. Legend has it that there is no lake here, only a smallvillage, the village has a pair of dependent mother and son. Unfortunately, herson died when he went to the mountain to collect firewood. The old mother criedto death. In the haze, the old mother saw a calf coming to farm for her son.From then on, grain grows automatically in the field. One year there was asevere drought, and the calf brought food to his mother. When the villagersfound the white cow, they seized it, slaughtered it and distributed the beef toeach household to satisfy their hunger. The old mother cried and threw the beefover the sky. The beef soared to the outside of the village, and the old motherstumbled to catch up. A bamboo branch suddenly fell from the sky for her. Whenwe got to Sangtian, the beef suddenly disappeared. Then the sky collapses andthe earth collapses, thunder and lightning suddenly rises, and the villagebecomes Jiangze. In a hurry, the old mother inserts the bamboo branch into thefield. Suddenly, the flood receded, leaving only one lake, which is today'sHuguangyan. Of course, this is just a myth. In fact, according to theinvestigation of geologists, Huguangyan was formed by a volcanic eruption 200000years ago.
Please enjoy the beautiful scenery of Huguangyan carefully. I hopeHuguangyan can leave good memories for you.
Dear tourists
Hello and welcome to Huguangyan.
Huguangyan is located 18 kilometers southwest of Zhanjiang City. It is oneof the eight scenic spots in Zhanjiang. It is rated as "huguangyuan moon". It isa World Geopark, a national 4A tourist area, a national key scenic spot, and anational popular science education base for teenagers. It is also "the largestand most typical Maar Lake in the world". According to scientific research,Huguangyan was formed by lava eruption and depression 200000 years ago. Theaverage water depth of the volcanic lake is 18 meters, and the deepest is morethan 40 meters. The lake surface is slightly heart-shaped, covering an area of2.23 square kilometers, with a peripheral protection area of 38 squarekilometers. The steep xiongshiling is the highest point of the mountain aroundthe lake. It looks like a Fu lion and is located in the east of XiongSilake.
[ma'er Lake]
Why is Huguangyan also called "ma'er Lake"___ A new type of Quaternarywildfire was discovered by geologists during their investigation in Eiffel,Germany. This kind of volcano is different from the volcano that we usuallyerupt on the high and the volcano that erupts on the sea floor. It is a volcanothat erupts on the flat ground. Besides magma, there is also a lot of water thatevaporates gas and mud. Because the explosion of this volcano has huge energy,it often forms a large pit hundreds of meters wide and deep. After the eruptionstops, the crater lake is formed due to groundwater infiltration. Eiffel ofGermany called the sea, lake and swamp "ma'er". Geologists defined this kind ofvolcano as ma'er type volcano.
In 1997, the German Center for Geosciences and the Institute of geology ofthe Academy of Sciences jointly surveyed and determined that Huguangyan is thesecond well preserved ma'er Lake discovered in the world so far. Maar Lake inGermany covers an area of 18000 square kilometers, and Huguangyan Maar Lakecovers an area of 2.3 square kilometers, so it is the largest and most typicalMaar Lake in the world.
[Huguangyan gate]
Huguangyan has two gates. The east gate is newly built this year. The twosculptures you can see are the turtle and the dragon fish. Among them, theperfectly carved giant turtle is the largest stone turtle in China. It is 22.5meters long, 18 meters wide and 6.3 meters high, with a total weight of about360 tons. It is designed by Huguangyan scenic area according to the legend ofthe local residents. It has been carefully carved by eight craftsmen for morethan a year Carved in 20___ It was successfully completed in March 20__.
[Rongyuan]
Rongyuan was built in 1961 to commemorate the completion of Zhuhai levee onDonghai island. This group sculpture "unity is strength" truly reflects theintense labor scene of Zhanjiang people during the Great Leap Forward period.Huguangyan has beautiful scenery and many famous people's footprints. Forexample, these three big iron trees were presented by Vietnamese President HoChi Minh before 1962.
The bridge under our feet is called Jiuqu bridge. According to Buddhism,there are only two states in life: Qu and Zhi. Therefore, after crossing theJiuqu bridge, life will be smooth.
[Lengyan Temple]
Lengyan temple was first built in the Sui Dynasty with a history of morethan 1480 years. The seventh year of Jingkang in Northern Song Dynasty (1120)___Buddhist monk Shizong built grass here as an nunnery, worshiping the threetreasures Buddha of the Tathagata, known as "baiyunxiang nunnery". In the QingDynasty, the temple was renamed "Lengyan Temple". The word "Lengyan" is derivedfrom the Buddhist Sutra of Lengyan, which shows the strong meaning ofBuddhism.
The landscape of the temple is very beautiful. The gate of the temple isclose to the lake. The red walls and green tiles are reflected by the waves, andthe bamboo trees are whirling. The temple is deeply hidden, and the color isfragrant and quaint. Whenever the fog and gauze cage cover the temple, it alwaysgives people a mysterious and deep feeling. The temple has always been full ofincense and believers. Lengyan temple and Huguangyan cliff carvings are listedas key cultural relics protection units in Zhanjiang City.
[Leizhou ancient courtyard]
Most of Zhanjiang City is located in Leizhou Peninsula
Zhanjiang Huguangyan scenic spot. In this place known as "Tiannan importantland", the hard-working people of Zhanjiang have cultivated for generations andcreated a splendid civilization. This ancient Leizhou courtyard is a miniatureof Zhanjiang people's production and life in the long history. The items insideare all from the vast mountain village fish village. They are daily productionand daily necessities, and each one may not be very impressive. However, it isthese unimportant things that make Zhanjiang spring all the year round. LeizhouPeninsula is rich in sugarcane, so this sugarcane rolling machine is a uniqueagricultural tool.
That's all for my introduction. Thank you
Hello, everyone, welcome to the southernmost city of Chinese mainland toZhanjiang. Once a great man Deng Xiaoping's sentence "Qingdao in the north,Zhanjiang in the South" incisively outlines a charming Zhanjiang which can becompared with Qingdao. Zhanjiang, like Qingdao, is also one of the first batchof open tourist cities in China. At the same time, Zhanjiang has a uniquegeographical location, rich natural resources and beautiful coastal scenery,just like a dazzling pearl, inlaid in the South China Sea.
Zhanjiang has a total land area of 12470.5 square kilometers, which can beillustrated by the following districts and cities.. Four are four urban areas:Chikan District, Xiashan District, Potou district and Mazhang district; threeare three county-level cities: Leizhou City, Wuchuan City and Lianjiang City;two are two counties: Suixi County and Xuwen County; one is a national economicand Technological Development Zone. Zhanjiang is located in the southernmostChinese mainland. The southwest of Guangdong province is located in the LeizhouPeninsula, east of the South China Sea, the west coast of the Beibu Gulf, thesouth facing the sea from Hainan, the North southwest, and the Guangdong,Guangxi and Qiong provinces. It is the necessary place for Hainan Island to goto the mainland, the main outlet for the southwest China, and the NorthwestHepu, Bobai and Lu Chuan county. Adjacent to the northeast, it borders MaonanDistrict, Huazhou City and Dianbai County of Maoming City. It is also theshortest foreign trade port from the mainland of China to Southeast Asia,Africa, Europe, Oceania and the Middle East. It plays an important role in theBeibu Gulf economic circle and Asia Pacific Economic Circle.
Zhanjiang is located in the low latitude zone south of the Tropic ofcancer. It has a North tropical marine monsoon climate. The annual averagetemperature is about 22.8 degrees, and the hottest month is July and August. Theaverage temperature is 30 degrees. The coldest months are January and February,and the average temperature is about 15 degrees. There is no severe cold inwinter and no severe heat in summer. The warm climate makes Zhanjiang green allthe year round, forming a unique North tropical plant ecological landscape.
The design idea of the sculpture is to symbolize Zhanjiang people's"sailing to the world" with sails, which is known as Zhanjiang City logo "windis flying". Unexpectedly, this group of "three sails" sculptures are more likethree machetes standing on the ground than sails. What's more bizarre is thatthe sculpture faces the office buildings of the customs, border control and taxauthorities. In the anti smuggling activities of the state a few years ago, thesculpture of this city was like "three knives" that "chopped" the three mainleaders of Zhanjiang customs, frontier defense and tax respectively. Therefore,the local people say that the presence of these three knives is also a wake-upcall for these government units. If they do not abide by the law, they will cutthem off.
Having said so much, how did the name of Zhanjiang come from? Why wasZhanjiang called "Guangzhou Bay" before?
Zhanjiang belongs to Baiyue of Chu state in the pre Qin period. In the QinDynasty, it belonged to Xiang County, and in the Han Dynasty, it belonged toHezhou. In the song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, it belonged to Jun, Lu andFu. In modern history, Zhanjiang was a French colony. After the second OpiumWar, that is, in 1898, France coerced the Qing government to lease Guangzhou Bayin the three counties of South Wuchuan for 99 years. Then, the French colonistswantonly expanded the scope of leased land by force and occupied a large area ofland along the harbor (now Zhanjiang Harbor Area), which was collectivelyreferred to as Guangzhou Bay (Zhanjiang area was formerly known as "GuangzhouBay"). This name was formed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Some scholarsbelieve that it was named because there are "Guangzhou Bay" villages in thethree southern islands. Others believe that it was named because gaolei mansionis under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou and the map is in the middle of"Guangzhou". In 1897, the French warship Bayard broke into the "Guangzhou Bay"to avoid typhoon, and was moved by this deep-water harbor. The government leasedthe "Guangzhou Bay",
It opened the prelude of the colonial history of Guangzhou Bay. In April1898, the French invaders occupied haitouxun (jinxiashan) and set up theirterritory in the mainland, which was resisted by the local people for more thana year. On November 16, 1899, China and France signed the Treaty of Canton Bayconcession between China and France, which collectively referred to theterritory in the concession as "Canton bay" and leased it to France in 1999. Tocommemorate the Bayard, the French called the central city of Guangzhou Bay"fort Bayard". From the outbreak of the Pacific War to 1943, Guangzhou Bay wasin a stable state and enjoyed a short-term prosperity. On February 21, 1943,Japan and France signed the agreement on joint defense of Guangzhou Bay, whichwas occupied by Japan. After the surrender of Japan, on August 18, 1945, Wuguoframe, chief executive of the Ministry of foreign affairs of the nationalgovernment of China, and Dai Litang, acting office of the French Embassy inChina, signed the "treaty between the national government of the Republic ofChina and the provisional government of France on the handover of the leasedland in Guangzhou Bay" in Chongqing on behalf of the Chinese and Frenchgovernments, and the leased land in Guangzhou Bay was returned to China. OnAugust 22, the Guangdong provincial government, by order of the nationalgovernment, established the leased land in Guangzhou Bay as a provincial city,named Zhanjiang City. Zhanjiang City was liberated on December 19, 1949. )Zhanjiang is called "Zhanjiang City". In fact, there is another saying. BecauseZhanjiang belonged to Shenchuan County in ancient times, and Zhanjiang wassurrounded by the sea on three sides, it was changed into Zhan, which impliedthe sky and the blue sea water of Zhanjiang. There are three main roads inZhanjiang, namely Renmin Avenue, Shenchuan Avenue and Haibin Avenue. These threemain roads are just three parallel lines, On the map, it's just like the Chinesecharacter Chuan. Because Chuan means water and river, it's changed to "River".The name of Zhanjiang comes from this..
Zhanjiang is famous for its outstanding people, rich specialties andbeautiful environment. It is the southernmost city in mainland China; GuangdongProvince was first listed as one of the 14 coastal port cities open to theoutside world by the state; the coastline is 1556 km long, accounting for about2 / 5 of the total coastline and 1 / 10 of the whole country, which is thelargest in the whole Province; Zhanjiang port is one of the deep-water ports inChina; Xuwen Coral Reef group, a national nature reserve with an area of 143.7square kilometers, is the coral reef group with the largest area and variety inChina. It has 1.49 million mu of marine beach, accounting for 48% of theprovince, the largest in the province. Donghai Island, with an area of 286square kilometers, is the largest island in the province and the fifth largestisland in the country; Donghai island beach is 28 kilometers long, of which20663 meters is the continuous part, which is certified as "the longest beach inChina" by Shanghai Guinness; the northeast of Leizhou Peninsula in Zhanjiang hasthe largest area in China and the largest low-temperature geothermal field withthermal fluid reserves; Zhanjiang is an important base for offshore oil and gasdevelopment services in South China, and the South China Sea near Zhanjiang isone of the four major offshore oil and gas accumulation centers in the world;Zhanjiang's salt production ranks first in the province, with a productioncapacity of 150000 tons, accounting for half of the province's sea saltproduction; Zhanjiang is one of the four major sugar industry bases in China,and the largest municipal sugar industry base in China; Zhanjiang has more than180000 Mu pineapple base and more than 140000 Mu mango base, ranking first inthe province.
Zhanjiang is the largest marine pearl breeding base in China. BecauseZhanjiang faces the sea three times, most of the harbors have moderate salinity,small waves and rich bait organisms, which are suitable for pearl breeding. Themain pearl culture areas are Leizhou, Xuwen and Suixi in Leizhou Peninsula.Among the sea pearls, "Nanzhu" has the best quality and the highest grade.Leizhou Peninsula is the main producing area of South Pearl; pearl peoplegathered pearls as early as Qin Dynasty, and pearls were abundant in later HanDynasty. Emperors of all dynasties sent internal supervisors to Zhuchi tocollect pearls and pay tribute to the imperial court.