Wanghai Tower is located in Yandun Mountain, 227 meters above sea level on the main island of Dongtou. It is a landmark building in Dongtou tourism. Founded in AD 434, it has a history of more than 1,500 years. Wanghai Tower was rebuilt in January 2005. Its main building was officially opened to the public on June 7, 2007, and other supporting buildings were completed in June 2012. The rebuilt Wanghailou Tourist Area covers an area of ??140 acres.

As a window to the history and culture of Dongtou and the first tourist attraction on the Hundred Islands, Wanghai Tower ranks among the famous historical and cultural buildings in China for its long history, majestic architecture and rich marine folk culture. As "swallowing three thousand miles from Wuyue and being famous as the first building in the southeast", it joined the China Famous Buildings Association in November 2012.

Mountain Gate

The mountain gate of Wanghailou Scenic Area is an imitation Qing-style building, using the style of a stele tower with four pillars, three bays and three floors. It rests on the top of the mountain and is 12.05 meters high and 19.4 meters wide. The walls on both sides are screen walls, decorated with bluestone reliefs of hundreds of islands. The plaque on the mountain gate reads "One hundred islands can be seen", which was written by the famous calligrapher and craftsman Mr. Han Meilin. If you want to climb the building and take a tour, you can see hundreds of islands in sight. "Wang" also means window. Wanghai Tower is a window to the history and culture of Dongtou and a window to enjoy the scenery of hundreds of islands.

The couplet on the mountain gate was written by Mr. Shen Peng, vice chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association: "A thousand sails are set in the sea, and the beautiful scenery is difficult to capture. It is for the morning glow to support the sun; there are hundreds of islands in the four seasons, and the good times are not yet over. "Leave a bright moon to wait for the tide to come." When Wanghai Tower was rebuilt, a nationwide call for building associations was sent. In just two months, 1,074 people from 30 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) across the country and overseas Chinese in Germany and Malaysia sent 3,191 couplets. . After expert review organized by the Chinese Couplet Society, 17 couplets won the award. Shanmen won the first prize. Written for Mr. Li Jun of Sichuan.

Statue of Yan Yanzhi

Yan Yanzhi was appointed as the prefect of Yongjia in 434 AD (Wenzhou was called Yongjia at that time). He praised the beautiful scenery of Dongtou and built the Wanghai Tower to enjoy the sea view. This stone statue commemorates him. The statue is 5 meters high and has a base of 1.5 meters. It is carved from Quanzhou stone. Yan Yanzhi holds the book in his left hand. It corresponds to his daily hard work and studiousness; he strokes his beard with his right hand and is intoxicated by the beautiful scenery of Dongtou.

Poetry Stele Gallery

After the main building of Wanghai Tower was completed, the Dongtou District People’s Government, in conjunction with the Chinese Poetry Society and the Zhejiang Poetry and Couplet Society, held the “Wanghai Tower Domestic and Overseas Poetry Competition. "In four months, more than 2,500 works were collected. After two levels of evaluation by experts from the province and Beijing, various awards were awarded. What are engraved here are the judges' specially invited works and some winning poems. The poems and lyrics for the stele gallery were written by famous calligraphers from all over the country. They had all kinds of calligraphy styles and styles. For the writing of Wanghailou couplets, poems and plaques, there are 11 presidents and vice-presidents of the Chinese Calligraphers Association; 32 people including vice-presidents and above of the provincial-level Calligraphers Association and directors of the Chinese Calligraphers Association; and two acting ministers of the Ministry of Culture. It can be said that It is a gathering of famous people.

The main building of Wanghai Tower

The main building of Wanghai Tower was designed by Mr. Chen Xingwen, the chief architect of the 29th reconstruction of Tengwang Pavilion in Jiangxi. It imitates Qing-style architecture, faces south, and covers an area of ??700 square meters. meters, with a construction area of ??2,700 square meters, three bright and five dark floors, and a height of 35.4 meters. There are peripheral viewing galleries on the third and fifth floors, and four small pavilions are placed on the top of the building, which looks like stars looming over the moon. The plaque "Wanghai Tower" erected on Wanghai Tower is a calligraphy masterpiece by Mr. Qi Gong, a master calligrapher. The horizontal plaque on the fifth floor "Yuanyun of Jin and Tang Dynasties" is a collection of Mr. Zhao Puchu's calligraphy. It uses the concept of time and a humanistic perspective to illustrate the long history and long-term inheritance of Wanghai Tower. The horizontal plaque on the third floor "Hai Ri Tian Feng" is a collection of Mr. Sha Menghai's calligraphy. It uses the concept of space and a natural perspective to praise the wonders of the sea and mountains, and the essence of the sun and the moon.

Wanghai Building is equipped with advanced landscape lighting. At night in summer, the building lights are bright and bright, which is particularly charming. Wanghai Tower is majestic and majestic, and people praise it for its "three unique and four most beautiful" features. The three unique features are: looking from the island on the sea, it is an excellent landscape; looking around from the building, it is an excellent viewing platform to see the scenery of hundreds of islands; the exhibition hall inside the building is an excellent classroom for popularizing marine knowledge. The four best places are: the island on the southeastern coast where the building is built is at the highest altitude, the shape of the building is the most majestic with the stars looming over the moon, the plaques and couplets on the building are the most prestigious, and the display of folk items from the fishing village is the most abundant.

The couplet at the main entrance: "Looking up at the eaves and holding the moon across the curved sill, I swallowed Wu and Yue for three thousand miles; I leaned over the Linghai Sea and rushed to the sky, returning to the sky. I am famous for being the first building in the southeast."

"Looking up, you can see the moon and horizontal clouds on the Wanghai Tower, which is extraordinary; looking down, you can see the roaring waves returning to the sails outside the Wanghai Tower. There are thousands of scenes. It is indeed: "Swallowing Wu and Yue for three thousand miles", "Famous as the first building in the southeast"! This The couplets were written by Mr. Ye Tong, secretary-general of the Chinese Couplet Society, and written by Li Duo, vice chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association and a general calligrapher.

First Floor

Fan Anchor Xiangyi Hall

The first floor is the "Sail and Anchor Reliance Hall". On the front is a large shell sculpture "Sail and Anchor Reliance", which symbolizes that the ancestors of Dongtou came with sails, anchored and took root, and worked together to develop the Dongtou Islands. The height of the shell sculpture is 5.7. meters, with a total area of ??70 square meters. It is made of 8,923 kilograms of wild triangular mussel shells and is the largest shell carving in China. The eight characters on the shell carving sail are "Dongtian Paradise, Beginning From Here", which is the name of the famous Taiwanese poet and writer Yu Guangzhong. It was written by a gentleman who visited Dongtou in January 2010 and gave a new interpretation of Dongtou's district name.

On the left side of the hall is the large-scale oil painting Banping Mountain. Tourism experts praised Banping Mountain as "China." "The First Screen on the Sea". It echoes the Banping Mountain in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and is a brother mountain with the same roots. The Yan Yanzhi viewing area is a new display area. There is an introduction about Yan Yanzhi on the display board, and the promotion of Wanghai Tower is played on the big screen

Second Floor

Genghai Muyu Hall

The second floor is the "Genghai Muyu Hall". ", which shows the general situation of Dongtou fishery production and related customs. It uses models, two-dimensional animations, feature films and other means of expression to introduce the brief history of the development of fishing boats, marine fishing operations and the development of marine aquaculture on the Dongtou Islands. Exhibition of Dongtou The folk "Jingtou Mane" model, the four tricks of fishery production in the "Eight Tips of Dongtou Folk Customs" and old items of fishery production are also installed in the exhibition hall to entertain visitors. Increase popular science knowledge about marine life in fun activities

Third Floor

Min'ou Customs Hall

The third floor is the "Min'ou Customs Hall", which introduces it in detail. Dongtou Archipelago’s fishing village life customs integrate Southern Fujian culture and Dongou culture, displaying the four wonders of fishing village life in the “Eight Cunning Arts of Dongtou Folk Customs”, the fishermen’s dishes “Twelve Delicacies from One Hundred Islands”, the lanterns of the fishing village, and the old life. Objects, etc. The realistic scenes reproduce the life of the fishing village, marriage and childbearing customs, birth customs-confinement ceremony, first-year birthday celebration, Chinese Valentine's Day coming-of-age ceremony, etc.

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The fourth floor is the "Intangible Cultural Heritage Hall", which uses various methods such as physical objects, models, animations, phantom imaging, etc. to show the national and provincial intangible cultural heritage of Dongtou District. Projects on the cultural heritage list. By 2021, Dongtou District will have 2 projects on the national level, 12 at the provincial level, 53 at the municipal level, and 88 at the district level.

Fifth Floor

Tourism and Lounge

The fifth floor is the "Tourism and Lounge". Step out of the corridor and walk along the viewing corridor to overlook the whole Dongtou. To the south, you can see the central fishing port of Dongtou, Banping Mountain and surrounding islands. To the east, you can see the old and new city, with crisscrossing avenues and numerous buildings; to the north, you can see the eight islands connected by seven bridges. When the visibility is high, you can still vaguely see Ling. The long embankment; looking to the west is the vast sea, with breeding grids and returning ships in sight.

Tonghui Pavilion

The pavilion is on the west side of the walking trail at the exit of the main building. It is a double-story building with hexagonal double eaves. On the top of Yandun Mountain where Wanghai Tower is located, at appropriate times in spring and autumn, you can see the beautiful scenery of the rising sun and the setting moon, the setting sun and the rising moon, so this is the name of the pavilion. The pavilion plaque was inscribed by Zhou Weizhi, Chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Acting Minister of the Ministry of Culture. He is a famous literary critic and musician. He wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Chinese People's Volunteers".

The pavilion couplet was written by Zeng Qingyan of Fujian Province, and won the second prize in the Wanghailou National Alliance Competition. The couplet reads: "When the moon comes to Xupeng Island, I can hear the wind singing in the pavilion, and fish are leaping in the bay; Wait for the sun to rise over the sea, watch the Seven Bridges locking the waves, and the stone ridges spraying clouds," wrote Xu Yu, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association.

Hongcheng Pavilion

The pavilion is located on the east side of the main building. It is hexagonal, with a double-layer structure and hexagonal double eaves, which embodies the "Liu Liu Da Shun". The name of the pavilion is taken from the poem Wanghailou written by Zhang Youxin, the governor of Wenzhou in the Tang Dynasty: "The spiritual sea is clear and the peaks are green". Hongcheng originally means the clearness, depth and breadth of water. Here it is borrowed to describe the clear and loud sound of the bells in the pavilion. The "Fuxiang Bell" is hung on the second floor of the pavilion to pray for islanders and tourists. The inscription on the bell is: "In the prosperous era of the new era, people and government are harmonious; the ancient buildings are restored to glory, and hundreds of islands are prosperous. The ugly has been replaced by the upright, and the bell has been cast with sincerity; the blessings are so auspicious that it will remain prosperous forever."

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The person who inscribed the pavilion plaque is Jia Pingwa, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, director of the Chinese Writers Association, winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award. The author of the pavilion couplet is He Chengyuan from Inner Mongolia, and won the second prize of the Wanghai Tower National Competition. The couplet is "Thousands of miles away, there are tall buildings, and the sky is as far as the eye can see, and the white clouds do not cover the moon in the Ou River; the four seasons are prosperous, the sky is vast and the water is far away, and the golden waves are still passing through the peninsula bells." The person who wrote the pavilion couplet was Zhang Biao, the former vice president of the Chinese Calligraphers Association. Mr.

Xin Shang Pavilion

The pavilion is located below the Hongcheng Pavilion in the northeast. It is a square shape, which means the sky is round and the place is round. The name of the pavilion is also taken from Zhang Youxin's poem Wanghailou. The sentence "The appreciation of the past sages has become empty" means appreciating the beautiful scenery with a good mood. The Tingbian was inscribed by He Jingzhi, the former deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the acting minister of the Ministry of Culture. He is a famous poet who wrote the poem "Back to Yan'an". ", "The Song of Lei Feng" and the opera "The White-Haired Girl" are urgently influential.

The pavilion couplet was written by Wu Hongyun of Zhejiang: "Poetry and wine are all immortals, where can the drunken soul go; the country. Picturesque, the moonlight and the sound of waves fill a pavilion. "The person who wrote the pavilion is Zhong Mingshan, vice chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association. Inside the pavilion is a stele of poem "Qing'ao Mountain" written by Zhang Youxin, who is the vice chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, former chairman of the Shanghai Calligraphers Association and a famous female calligrapher. Written by Zhou Hui_

This kind of Wanghai Tower, standing in the clouds, looks like a palace in heaven. Regardless of the fog, rain or snow scene, it is a masterpiece! The Wanghai Tower at night is even more impressive. Without opening your eyes, dots of starlight interweave into nebulae, holding them in the clouds, as if you are peeking into the palace of heaven, like a dream

Looking at Wanghai Tower from the Dongtou Gorge Cross-sea Bridge, you can see the colorful neon lights. And the mysterious and deep starry sky is just like this, it is rendered in the artistic conception of the island city at night, so dreamy and gorgeous

Climb up to Wanghai Tower along the Baima Ancient Road, and the lanterns are first lit ~ the entire Baima Ancient Road is full of colors, showing a beautiful scene Colorful scenery, twinkling stars and melodious music on the winding trail~ Walking on this trail is like being in a "river of stars". The island city is brilliant at night and the night charm of hundreds of islands is unobstructed

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