The buildings on Shamian Island have their own characteristics, and citizens enjoy the evening time during their stay. Shamian Island is a unique tourist attraction in Guangzhou, with many ancient buildings with European customs.
Living in the city for a long time is also tired of the fast pace and noise of the city, and I really want to find a quiet place to rest my heart for a while. So some people went out of the city to look for poems and distant places, but more working-class people could not travel far because of their livelihood. If there is a quiet place in the city, how good it would be, but how easy it would be?
However, there is such a quiet place in the downtown area of Guangzhou, a first-tier metropolis. It is located in the southwest corner of Guangzhou, by the White Swan Lake in the Pearl River. It is an "artificial island" with an area of only 0.3 square kilometers. To say that it is an artificial island does not mean an island made of artificial fill in the general sense. It is composed of sediments from the Pearl River. Originally connected with urban land, Guangzhou people used to call it Shamian, and the earlier name was Shi Cuizhou. Just by listening to the name, you can know that this place is a place with beautiful scenery and quiet environment. At first, it was a place where fishermen lived in boats.
1859, Britain and France wanted to set up a concession in Shamian, forcing the Qing government to artificially dig a stream (now Shajiyong) with a width of 40 meters and a length of 1200 meters north of Shamian, so as to separate it from the land and make Shamian an island. At the same time, a road was opened to the north of Shajiyong, named Shaji (now Road 623), and an east-west bridge was built to cross the sand surface, so the sand surface was artificially turned into an "island".
Due to historical reasons, the sand surface is full of exotic customs. The buildings left by those powers have become a part of the sand surface. They stood quietly on Shamian Island and witnessed the historical changes of Shamian. Now they have changed the architectural function and become a historical heritage, telling people the story of the city and the island.
Every old building in Shamian is a picture of history and a work that modern people look up to. No matter what style these buildings are, they can always be pleasing to the eye and get a sense of visual pleasure. This is because, although most of the shamian buildings imitate western classical buildings, their external walls, structures and colors do as the Romans do, forming a good cooperation with Guangzhou and blowing away the dryness brought by the subtropical climate in Guangzhou.
Today, hundreds of European-style buildings make Shamian a must-see tourist attraction. Most of these buildings have been transformed into new functions and used as hotels and cafes. No matter day or night, riding a bicycle on the island and feeling the picture of history in the slight river wind is an excellent experience.
White Swan Hotel is located in the "Xanadu" in the center of Guangzhou-the most beautiful sand surface in Guangzhou-White Swan Pool. Opened on 1983, the hotel is the first five-star hotel in China with Sino-foreign cooperation, and is regarded as a successful model of reform and opening up. After a major renovation, the White Swan Hotel has taken on a new look and the price is close to the people. Whether drinking morning tea or entertaining friends and relatives, it is the best choice.
Address: 1 Shamian South Street
The familiar McDonald's opened in Shamian, and it suddenly became a "little Europe" style. The newly opened Shamian McDonald's restaurant quickly caught fire! The style has changed from tradition to European retro style! There are dessert stations and McCafe, you can shoot and eat!
On one side is the verdant old banyan giant camphor tree, and on the other side is the European-style romantic world building complex. Walking along the trickling green Shamian Street, I met this unique European-style coffee shop-the low-key and restrained black iron gate hides the green courtyard. Only through the "R" mark on the house number did I know that this is Starbucks' most qualified and selected store, and she is known as the most beautiful Starbucks in Guangzhou.
Shamian Park has gathered many sculptures with Guangzhou characteristics, so lifelike that a child comes forward to say hello to his peers.
Take a leisurely walk, stroll along the street on the sand surface, bid farewell to the noisy main road, and leave the crowd in a hurry. There are chic foreign small foreign buildings, towering old trees and vivid sculptures with different shapes everywhere, children are playing and playing, and several couples are taking wedding photos outside the church of Our Lady of Luther not far away, all of which add a little vitality to the romantic sand surface.
Leaning against the railing next to the sand surface, I vaguely saw the ships moored in the distance, with a calm momentum and red flags flying. The surface of the water is ready to go, and someone is fishing with a hook at the edge of the shallows. I saw that the lake was calm, the hook line was pulled away, and some fish probably took the bait. Flowers bloom along the sand surface and along the street: purple, pink, scattered or connected together, very beautiful.
Stopping on the sand surface, it turns out that the sand surface is a beautiful scenery.