用英语介绍厦门
用英语介绍厦门
Xiamen is a well-known tourist port city in the Southeast coast of China. It is one of the Cleanest Cities of China, the Garden Cities of China, the National Environmental Protection Model Cities, and the best sightseeing cities in China. Not only being wealthy with travel resources, Xiamen has also temperate weather, fast and convenient transport and communication, and complete travel establishments. All makes Xiamen one of the most suitable cities for investors and tourists in China. 厦门鼓浪屿英文简介（图）
Gulangyu，separated from Xiamen by the 500-metre-wide Egret River，with an area of 1.77 square kilometres，enjoys a lauditory title “Garden on the Sea." The original name of the islet was Yuan Zhou Zi. In the Ming Dynasty it was renamed Gulang，meaning ''drum waves"，because the holes in the southwestern reefs hit by the waves make sounds like the drum beating.
Overlapping peaks foil the blue water，white clouds，green trees and bright flowers. The air in the islet is fresh. The entire place is free from any sorts of vehicles and is particularly quiet. All
these render an atmosphere of a fairyland.
The roar of the waves breaks on the rocks. Impressive melodies surrounding and lingering on this island make famous for its piano-laden past. As a place of residence for Westerners during Xiamen's colonial past，Gulangyu is famous for its architecture and for being home to China's largest piano museum. It is known as the piano island because people here love the piano. As early as 1913，students in schools run by foreigners started learning the piano. The enthusiasm for music later spread to more ordinary people on the island. Many piano families have since then come into being and produced accomplished musicians. And the number of the pianos possessed is in the leading place in the nation，though there is only a population of 20，000 people.
No tourist can afford to miss one attraction located on the island ―― the nation's largest piano museum.
Divided into two exhibition halls，the museum guides visitors through a vivid history of the instrument with displays and illustrations. All different types of pianos such as miniature pianos，automatic pianos，accordion pianos and round-shaped pianos，are on display.
The architecture in the islet varies greatly in style，Chinese and foreign. Thus the islet has a laudatory title "the World Architecture Museum" Covered in green all the year round，it's charming，elegant，se
cluded and serene. A great variety of villas stand shrouded by lush wood resembling numerous jadeites embellished upon a piece of verdant silk brocade. Hundreds of flowers grown on the Riguang Rock （Sunlight Rock）vie with one another for beauty. With the caressing sea breeze，it's a quite cool place in hot summer. At the foot of the rock，there's the Memorial Hall to honor the national Hero Zheng Chenggong.
Today，Gulangyu is listed as one of the nation's major scenic spots. The main sites of interest here include the Sunlit Rock，Shuzhuang Park，Gangzihou Bathing Beach and Memorial Hall to Zheng Chenggong，which are visited annually by millions of people from all
parts of the country and the world. For people living in the hustle and bustle of today's metropolis，citizens on this island seem to live in a paradise with a relaxing，healthy and placid lifestyle. Find more in our detailed introduction of the major attractions in Gulangyu Tourist Area.
Xiamen, which is actually an island linked to the mainland by
厦门英语a long causeway of road and railway, is, like Shenzhen, a Special Economic Zone.
Xiamen is flush with Taiwanese investment. The local dialect, known as minnanyu, is nearly identical to
the dialect spoken in Taiwan, and the nearest Taiwanese-controlled islands - Matsu and Quemoy (Kinmen) - are just a couple of kilometers (a mile, or so) off shore from Xiamen.
Historically, Xiamen was established as a major seaport in the Ming Dynasty, in the seventeenth century to stem the southward influence of the Manchu Qing dynasty and restore the Ming rule. Xiamen was also an unofficial trading d
epot, doing a thriving under-the-counter business in silks with the Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch, until a British naval force stormed ashore after their victory in the first Opium War in 1841 and opened it up as a full Treaty Port. There is evidence today of its role as an international settlement in the surviving colonial architecture of parts of its skyline.
Xiamen has a subtropical oceanic climate. From July to September the summer is warm with temperatures reaching 37'C. Winter is cool with average temperature around 11'C. The best season for visiting Xiamen is from May to July. The 1.78-square-
kilometre Gulangyu Islet in the southwestern corner of Xiamen is a major scenic spot in Fujian, with serene beauty, a tranquil atmosphere and buildings in various architectural styles tucked away in the shadows of green trees. The air is fresh, the din of traffic is a sound practically unknown to local island
ers, and there is plenty to see and do on this small island.
The four-kilometre-long ring road is flanked on one side by the beach and on the other by a string of bungalows built in English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish and Chi
nese styles. Strolling along the road one can see islets, bays, flowers, trees, pavilions and terraces.
This is on the highest point of Gulangyu and is accessible only by a "sky ladder" - a steep trail which also takes one to Riguang Temple, the Ancient Summer Cave and the platform where General Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga) reviewed his naval force. Sunlit Rock provides a panoramic view of the booming metropolis of Xiamen. Right below Sunlit Rock stands the Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall, where the life of the general is relived through more than 300 cultural relics, historical documents, photos, sculptures and scale models, on display in seven showrooms.