According to local folklore, this is related to the residents of Qi 'ao village resisting the British armed invasion before the Opium War, and the Baishi Street was built with the compensation of the invaders. However, due to the lack of documentary records, there are many versions about the age, cause, organizer and course of this anti-aggression war.
Qi 'ao Island is a small island with a long history and full of stories. The fishing and hunting cultural sites in the Neolithic Age, the Qi 'ao Ancestral Temple built in the Song Dynasty, the Tianhou Palace in the Ming Dynasty, and Baishi Street, where the legend of the anti-aggression struggle of the Opium War was circulated, filled the island with a strong historical and cultural atmosphere.
Qi 'ao Island is rich in animal and plant resources, and a mangrove wetland reserve has been established in the north of the island. Qi 'ao Island has a long history and rich human resources. Baishi Street, Tianhou Palace, Kangyingbao and Su's former residence are cultural relics protection units in Zhuhai.
The most famous natural scenery in Qi 'ao Island is mangroves. Walking into the mangrove forest, are you confused about "everywhere green"? What about the agreed "red" forest? In fact, mangroves are evergreen. Nor is it a forest made up of only one kind of plant called mangrove. There are about 30 species of mangrove plants in Qi 'ao mangrove forest and 37 species in China. Mangrove is a woody plant community that lives in intertidal zone of tropical and subtropical coast (tidal flat zone between ebb and flow) and is submerged by periodic seawater. Mangroves are known as "marine forests" or "undersea forests". Mangroves are "red in heart but not red in face". Mangroves are rich in a substance called tannin, which can prevent mangroves from being corroded by seawater and bitten by animals. If mangroves are destroyed, tannic acid will oxidize and turn red in the air, and mangroves are mainly composed of mangroves, which is the origin of the name "mangrove". Mangroves can be divided into straight mangroves and semi-mangroves, in which straight mangroves can only thrive in the intertidal zone along the coast, while semi-mangroves can not only live in the intertidal zone, but also reproduce naturally on land, so they are "amphibious" plants. The mangroves here are not red. Mangroves get their name from a tree called Bruguiera gymnorrhiza. Its bark and trunk are all red pigments, but its surface is not red. Even if the blade is cut off, it will be dyed red In the mangrove forest with "red heart but not red skin", there are various exotic flowers and herbs such as Bruguiera gymnorrhiza, mango, Kandelia candel, sea grape, paulownia cotton, hibiscus, candel fruit, water yellow skin and Leucaena. , as well as a variety of wild animals such as mudskippers, fiddler crabs and human-faced spiders. Qi 'ao Island is a small island with both humanistic atmosphere and natural beauty.