Duntai mountain

Duntai mountain

Duntai mountain is located in the north of Bayuquan District, Yingkou City, Liaoning Province, bordering Bohai Bay in the West and Yingkou Xingang in the south, with an altitude of 133 meters. The mountain has dense vegetation and shady trees. It is also called Taizi mountain because there is a beacon tower (also known as pier) built in the Ming Dynasty on the top of the mountain.

Duntai mountain

According to the record of the Ming Dynasty, Japanese pirates often harassed China's coastal areas from the sea in the Ming Dynasty. In 1416 ad, Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty ordered that eight yanduns be built from liangfangkou (now Yingkou) in the north to weizitao (now Fudu River) in the south to guard the sea. Among them, the Shenjing Yandun refers to the beacon tower of Duntai mountain in Bayuquan.

Duntai mountain park is built on the mountain, which is a good place for people to relax and keep fit, get close to nature, climb high and overlook, and cultivate their taste.

Beacon tower of Duntai mountain

Duntai mountain is named after the Ming Dynasty beacon tower built on the top of the mountain.

The main body of the beacon tower is made of green brick, and there are granite strips at the base. Each brick is about 40 cm long, 20 cm wide and 10 cm thick. The upper part of the platform is narrow and the lower part is wide. The bottom is square. Each side is about 15 meters long. The upper part is about 11 meters long. There are battlements on the upper part. The wall surface is flat, and each wall has two wedge-shaped "water slide" and air vents with top sharp and bottom wide concave into the wall, which are used to drain the top rainwater and ignite the fire for ventilation. The design is quite ingenious. The total height of the wall is about 13 meters. The beacon tower is solid, rammed with sand inside, and built with battlements, about 1.6 meters high, with 1 meter long battlements on each side.

Due to long-term wind and rain erosion and man-made destruction, the original appearance of the beacon tower has long been gone. The beacon tower was rebuilt in 1988. In 1995, the station was designated as a patriot education base by Bayuquan District government.

Duntai Mountain Park

Duntai mountain park is built on the beacon tower of Duntai mountain, covering an area of 1.2 million square meters. It is a coastal mountain park with beautiful natural environment. There is a sightseeing tower and square platform in the west of the park. The platform covers an area of 1900 square meters and has a landscape fence. There is a sightseeing road around the mountain leading to the top of the mountain, with a total length of 1800 meters. On both sides of the road, the scenery is pleasant. Duntai mountain park is a good place for people to relax and keep fit, get close to nature, climb high and overlook, and cultivate their taste.

Steel structure observation tower,

A new observation tower with steel structure is built on the west side of the beacon tower, covering an area of 306 square meters and with a height of 41.53 meters, which is the commanding height of Yingkou Development Zone. The theme is divided into three floors: the first floor is the History Museum of the development zone; the second floor is the leisure hall; the third floor has the current situation and development planning sand table of the development zone. When you climb the viewing tower, you can view the sea and have a bird's-eye view of the development zone. When night falls, the tower lights are bright and magnificent, just like a fairyland in the world. It can be said to be a pearl in the Bohai Sea by the Liaodong Bay.

Address: Northeast of Xingang, Bayuquan District, Yingkou City, Liaoning Province

Longitude: 122.115695

Latitude: 40.296287

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