Gulangyu Island is a beautiful island in the west of Xiamen, about 700 meters across the sea, with an area of ??only 1.71 square kilometers. You can walk around the island in just over an hour. On this small island, covered with thick shade and fragrant with flowers, it can be said that everything is like a park, with beautiful scenery everywhere you look.

Take a ferry from Xiamen and you can reach this sea garden in less than 5 minutes. The pier building on the island is shaped like a piano. This is a very imaginative and beautiful idea. Cars and horses are not allowed to pass on this small island, so you can't hear the noise of cars and horses, but you can hear the melodious sound of the piano at any time. Many residents on the island have pianos, and the sweet sound of the piano further enhances the charm of the island. Therefore, Gulangyu Island is also known as the "Island of Music". The shape of the island's pier building is to show people a feature of the island.

The best thing about Gulangyu Island is to walk by yourself instead of taking a tourist battery car. Dive into the small alleys, and the most charming and distinctive things on the island are the distinctive buildings. Gulangyu Island used to be a public concession. Many countries have established consulates on the island, so Gulangyu Island is known as the "Architecture Expo Park of All Nations". These buildings, manors and villas are either lonely and closed, or have been used for other purposes, and are somewhat decadent. There are some mysteries that quietly tell people about history. When you get to the island, you will come up and ask the local people who will guide you and act as a tour guide. You can ask them to take you to walk around Gulangyu Island. Otherwise, if you first arrive on the island, those alleys will make you dizzy and you will not be able to find your target. Xiamen people are very high-quality. , the tourism is very civilized, and there will not be any forced sales or insistence like other places, which makes people feel very comfortable.

The tourist attraction on the island is Sunlight Rock, and the tickets are also the most expensive. The slogan is "If you haven't been to Sunlight Rock, you haven't been to Xiamen." It is the highest point on Gulangyu Island. There are rental telescopes on the top of Sunlight Rock for tourists to see Kinmen Island. In fact, Sunlight Rock is just a bare stone. Bugs thinks there is no need to go there. You can find the closest place to Kinmen Island on your own on the Xiamen Island Ring Road. When the weather is clear, the effect of using a telescope should be better.

In the southwest corner of Gulangyu Island, there is a unique garden building - Shuzhuang Garden. It is also where the Piano Museum is located, and the ticket is 30 yuan. This garden covers an area of ??less than ten acres, but it is adjacent to the mountains and the sea. The garden is built on the sea, and the sea is in the garden. The garden is decorated with the sea, and the sea is used to expand the garden. It is integrated. Visitors feel that the scale of this garden is not small. The owner of the garden was named Lin Shuzang. When he built the garden here in 1913, he deliberately imitated the Yihong Courtyard where Jia Baoyu lived in the Grand View Garden and divided the whole garden into two parts: Zanghai Garden and Bushan Garden. Five scenes. Entering from the garden gate, a yellow wall blocks visitors' view. All you can see is a small courtyard with a flower bed decorated with potted flowers. Only when you walk out from the Meishou Hall on the right or the arch on the left, the vast sea suddenly appears in front of you. This is the artistic conception of "Zang Haiyuan", which is to let the sea hide before it appears. This is a commonly used technique in Chinese garden architecture. The Piano Museum is divided into two buildings, which contain more than 80 precious pianos of various types from all over the world collected by the owner of the manor. The owner, Mr. Lin, and his family now live in Canada. The manor has been donated to the country.

There are no major roads in Gulangyu Island, only asphalt roads or stone paths built along the mountains, which are as clean as water. The path is lined with green trees, flowers and buildings of various types. Some big banyan trees require three people to hug each other. Milan is taller than a person, with flowers blooming all year round. The quiet and beautiful environment makes visitors feel happy.

At noon, we had lunch at a small restaurant in an alley. The fish ball soup recommended by the boss was very good. The fish balls were especially delicious and unforgettable. Unfortunately, there was a class reunion in the evening and I was unable to enjoy the dazzling beauty of Gulangyu Island and the open-air concert in the evening.

Gulangyu Island, whether it is its superior natural conditions or the way people decorate it, is worthy of the title of "Garden on the Sea"