Xieyang Island

Xieyang Island is an independent island near Weizhou Island. Weizhou Island is famous for its panoramic view of the sun. It lies in the southeast of Weizhou Island and its south is Yang. The island is also formed by volcanic eruption. There are only 290 people living on the island. The people are simple and honest. Most of the villagers depend on fishing for a living. They stay at home at night, just like a paradise in the world.

There is only one small village (i.e. two rows of houses) in the middle of Xieyang Island. After arriving at Xieyang Island, you need to go by mountain road. Xieyang chicken, a local specialty, is a native chicken fed by farm food. Its meat is rich and delicious, about 50-60 yuan / Jin, which is worth a try.

The sea water of Xieyang Island presents the mysterious emerald green. In different light and angle, the color of the sea water is more charming. It is also a holy land for sea fishing. Standing on the reef, the fish in the sea can be seen clearly. Many fishing enthusiasts come here by boat.

Xieyang Island

Xieyang Island is an island located in Beibu Gulf, with an area of 1.89 square kilometers and a population of about 280. It is under the jurisdiction of Xieyang village, Weizhou Town, Yinhai District, Beihai City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the people's Republic of China. The island has a pleasant climate and is full of marine scenery.

Xieyang Island is one of the shooting sites of deformation meter broadcast by Hunan Satellite TV on August 18, 2014.

Island profile

Xieyang Island is located about 9 nautical miles southeast of Weizhou Island (1 nautical mile is equal to 1.83 km). It is formed by volcanic eruption and congealing, covering an area of 1.89 square km. It is called Xieyang Island because the sun can be seen from Weizhou Island, and the island lies in the southeast of ganweizhou Island, with the sun in the south.

There are very few people living on Xieyang Island, about 290 people. The people are simple and honest. Most of the villagers rely on fishing for a living. They stay at home at night, just like a paradise in the world.

The volcanic rocks in Xieyang Island are spectacular, and the karst landscape is unique. There are many round pits left by volcanic eruption on the rocks. After the tide, the pits are filled with sea water. Under the refraction of sunlight, they are like blue gems scattered on the rocks, becoming the most beautiful ornament. The water of Xieyang Island is a little green and clear. You can see groups of colorful small sea fish just standing on the edge of the rock.

Xieyang Island is full of Acacia and cactus. The flowers of cactus are blooming all the year round, and the fruits are fragrant all the year round.

The beauty of Xieyang Island can make you forget time and thoughts; the beauty of Xieyang Island can't be described by words, only by heart!

Main attractions

Xieyang Island is far away from the mainland. If it had been a vast ocean thousands of years ago, it was created by nature after several volcanic eruptions.

Xieyang Island is a long strip-shaped Island, which is long from east to west and narrow from north to south. It is surrounded by steep cliffs. There are only paths to the East, North and West. Only to the south is Xieyang fishing port and wharf. It is also the only road to the village in the South. Standing on the east side of the wharf and looking west, you can see a "green backed turtle" going out to sea. The mountain range stretching south to the sea is the head of the turtle. It is slowly stretching its head into the sea. The semicircular Hill arched behind it is the back of the turtle. It is covered with lush trees, which makes the "green backed turtle" glow with youthful vitality. This "Tortoise" also has tortoise feet, that is, the same as the reef below, which is a posture of leaping and climbing. From the dock, standing in front of you is the crater formed by several volcanic eruptions in the past, but today it has become a loyal guardian of Xieyang Island. Along the way, you will see a lot of rocks in different shapes, most of which have been burned by fire, such as coke from steelmaking furnace, which is of course the landscape left by volcanic eruption. The large rocks are hundreds of tons, and there are clear traces of high-temperature magma flowing when the volcano erupted. The small ones have been decomposed into ashes and scattered on the roadside. As the sun moves in the course of the day, the uneven rocks with different shapes standing on the south coast of the island will change into wonderful light and shadow.

On a sunny morning, you can get to the west of the wharf before sunrise. To the East, you can see the strange scene of sunrise on the sea of Xieyang Island. The vast sea dyed red by the morning glow, dotted with stars, is the fishing boats of Xieyang Island fishermen. The most wonderful scene is when the red sun comes out of the sea. At first, it is a red dot, and then it is a half circle. At this time, it spreads a golden light from far to near to the sea level. A few minutes later, when the round red sun jumps out of the sea level, it is a beautiful scenery to shoot from any angle.

In the north of Xieyang Island, there is "Niubi cave". All kinds of landscapes and stone shapes outside the cave are fascinating. From inside to outside: distant mountains, close range, the sea, fishing boats, blue sky, white clouds, all kinds of light and shadow, unique cave, all kinds of rock posture changes, mysterious, reverie.

To the east of Xieyang Island is the place where the sea erosion and karst landscape are most concentrated. There are all kinds of rock strata, karst rocks, faults, ravines, caves, cliffs and cliffs, which are very beautiful. The sea water here is green, very clear and pollution-free. Fish and shrimps flock to the shore. Under the rocks on the shore, all kinds of crabs are either basking in the sun or crawling slowly. When they see people moving, they look for their own hiding places.

Xieyang Island is full of Acacia, Pinus massoniana, banyan, cactus and other flowers and trees, which are evergreen and fragrant all year round.

Revolutionary armed struggle

Xieyang Island was still under the jurisdiction of Suixi County, Guangdong Province in the Qing Dynasty, and was later assigned to Hepu, Guangxi Province. It was once the "red revolutionary base" of Zhanjiang City in Guangdong Province during the great revolution period. Here, a farm army once cultivated and produced on an isolated island and fought with the enemy to death. Here, a glorious "red history" of Zhanjiang was recorded. In the late 1920s, a branch of the first agricultural army of the South Road revolution waged an arduous revolutionary struggle on the island. The Kuomintang reactionaries sent out warships and planes to the sea for many times, and the land and air forces besieged them. The island's agricultural army, with its extremely inferior strength and equipment, fought bravely in accordance with the dangerous terrain, and went to Europe to smash the enemy's attack. It persisted in fighting for five years.

In early September 1927, the CPC Suixi County Committee and ministries decided to divide the uprising peasant army into two parts to carry out activities in order to preserve the revolutionary forces. Huang Guangyuan, member of the South Road special committee of the Communist Party of China and head of Suixi County's ministries and commissions, led some of the uprising peasant troops to stay in the area of the sixth and seventh districts, secretly carried out mass work and continued to fight with shuituo, shannei, Yingliang, Wuliang, Shatang and other villages as their strongholds; the other part was led by Chen Guangli, member of Suixi County's ministries and commissions, to withdraw to Xieyang Island, educate and transform the pirates on the island, and expand the armed forces, Wait for the opportunity to return to the inland to attack the enemy.

On a night in September 1927, Chen Guangli, Xue Jinghui and Yu Daosheng, together with more than 100 members of the agricultural army, set out from the hongshetou area of Suixi River in three sailboats and secretly withdrew to Xieyang Island. Most of the people living on Xieyang Island are poor farmers in the area of Yue min, Ji Jia, Yang Jia and Tang Jia in Suixi and Haikang. They sympathize with the situation of the peasant army, so they agreed to take refuge on the island.

If the peasant army wants to survive in such hard conditions as Xieyang Island, it must first solve the problem of food, guns and ammunition. They carried out the method of production self-help, and reclaimed dozens of mu of wasteland on the island, planting corn, sweet potato and other crops. The female soldiers and their families raised pigs, cattle and three birds on the island, transported livestock and poultry to the mainland for sale, and used the money to buy bullets. In order to improve their lives, soldiers often go out to sea with fishermen and share the fish. Despite our efforts in production, Xieyang Island has a large population and little land, and its grain harvest is limited. If the weather is good, it will be windy and rainy, and there will be strong waves on the sea, so the transport ships will not be able to get out, and the crops in the field will be washed away by the rainstorm. The farmers will have to eat the vegetable balls cooked and kneaded with corn bran, potato seedlings and cockscomb grass. After many years on the island, the soldiers of the peasant army were still wearing two sets of shabby coarse cloth clothes. They were not fully clothed and could not eat enough, so their life was very hard.

"The revolution should be far sighted and not be intimidated by the present difficulties." On the island, Xue Jinghui often told the soldiers about the October Revolution of Russia and the vigorous revolutionary movement in big cities, "there will be difficulties in doing revolution, and when there are difficulties, we have to overcome them. Overcoming difficulties is victory." Simple words encourage everyone to bite their teeth, overcome difficulties and stick to the island.

The fishermen on Xieyang Island have deep feelings with the peasant army. Every time they come back from the sea, they always choose a few big fish to give to the peasant army. When there is a lack of salt, fishermen take the initiative to send salt to their families. When the isolated island was trapped and the food supply of the agricultural army was difficult, many people took the initiative to take out dried potatoes, corn and other food; in the fight against the invasion of the enemy, the young and middle-aged people and the agricultural army dug trenches, built fortifications and patrolled together to guard the island.

The rural army of Xieyang Island repeatedly returned to Suixi and other places to fight against the Kuomintang reactionaries. At one time, it stormed into Suixi County, held a mass meeting, shot the reactionary leader, and sacrificed the revolutionary martyrs. The enemy was greatly shocked. The enemy stepped up its campaign to clean up and suppress the coastal areas, built high artillery barracks, set up secret checkpoints, sealed them off, and sent more motor boats to patrol the sea, expanding the armed forces of the reactionary militia in various districts and townships. Since then, the situation of the agricultural army on the island has become increasingly difficult.

In 1929, the Kuomintang reactionaries madly "encircled and suppressed the countryside" in the coastal areas of Suixi's second, sixth and seventh districts. Many innocent people were killed, a large number of houses were burned, and properties were looted. According to incomplete statistics, people were killed in the areas of Hetou, Lemin, Jijia and Jianghong

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