Damen Island Scenic Spot

Damen Island Scenic Spot

Damen Island Scenic Spot is 15.5km away from the northwest of Dongtou island. It is composed of Damen Island, Luxi Island, beipanshan island and nanpanshan island. It is characterized by surfing, sand playing, stone watching and bird watching.

Introduction

Damen island is the largest island in Dongtou archipelago, covering an area of nearly 29 square kilometers. It is called "Damen island" because of its shape and two mountains facing each other like a gate. Damen island was called "qing'ao mountain" in ancient times. Why is it called "qing'ao mountain"? Here is a short story: it is said that during the northern and Southern Dynasties, Yan Yanzhi, the governor of Yongjia, visited the Dongtou archipelago. When his boat approached Damen Island, he saw that the island was lush with vegetation and flowers. At this time, the entourage asked the sheriff: "master, why is this mountain?" Yan Yanzhi came here for the first time, but he couldn't name it, so he replied casually, "this green Ao is also here!" So,

The island is known as "qing'ao mountain". Yan Yanzhi visited the island and was fascinated by the scenery. After leaving, he sent someone to build a sea watching Pavilion on the island. Later, he went to the island to enjoy the scenery from time to time. In the Tang Dynasty, Wenzhou prefect Zhang Youxin followed the old prefect to the island to search for the pavilion, but even the site was not found. He left behind a poem entitled "qing'ao mountain": "the blue sea is clear, the green peak is clear, and the appreciation of the past has become empty: today, there is no vestige in the pavilion, and the water is in the waves." Today, we follow the route of two pioneers to visit Damen Island, which is not in vain.

[tortoise morning glow]

Tourist friends, on Damen Island, you can see the representative landscape of Damen scenic spot -- Turtle Rock, namely the turtle morning glow.

Turtle Rock peak is 335 meters above sea level. The Turtle Rock at the top of the peak is made up of two huge stones. It squats in the northwest and faces southeast. It looks like a tortoise crawling forward slowly. When it climbs to the top of the peak, it is the rising sun in the East and the rosy clouds all over the sky, which forms the magnificent landscape of "tortoise in the morning".

How did such a big turtle come from? It is said that the Dragon King of Donghai sent a turtle egg to the queen mother. The queen mother couldn't put it down and often enjoyed it. She accidentally dropped her eggs to the earth. The turtle egg fell on the rock, its shell broke, and a turtle climbed out. The queen mother picked up a basin of fairy water and fell down. The Turtle was washed by the water and turned into a rock, lying on the mountain. The turtle's back sank into a small pool after being washed by water. No matter how dry the weather is, the water in the pool never dries up and is regarded as "fairy water". A handful of water can not only refresh the eyes, but also eliminate disasters and evil spirits. Turtle Rock peak is the highest peak in Dongtou archipelago. The turtle on the top of the peak is particularly conspicuous. It has become a navigation mark for ships and is known as the "holy mark of the East China Sea".

Guiyan beacon tower

About 1 km northeast of Guiyan, there is a beacon tower, and the site still exists. As early as the Jianyan period of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1130 A.D.), a military stronghold was built here and beacon towers were set up to maintain military contact with Wenzhou coastal areas. When you go to the beacon tower site and pay attention to the historic sites, you can think about the war thousands of years ago.

Sampan rock

Now we come to about 1km southeast of Guiyan beacon tower. Look at this huge stone lying on the back of the mountain. It's about 20m long and 5m wide. It's sharp at one end and wide at the other. It looks like a sampan, but it's several times bigger than a real sampan. It's a bit of a boat ride to climb the sampan rock. On this stone boat, you can act as a boss or a sailor. You don't have to worry about the wind and waves, but you can also get addicted to the fishermen. Sampan is a common means of fishery production on islands. It's fascinating to wonder why the creator of nature put a sampan on the mountain, which should have been sailing on the sea. You just expand the wings of imagination, play creativity, think about it!

< couplet rock

It's not far from Guiyan, but it's on the west side. Tourists must have noticed that this cliff is more than 100 meters high, flat and wide, hanging like a huge blue gauze curtain. Two of them are slightly darker, nearly 100 meters long and 10 meters wide. They are even and symmetrical, about 40 meters apart, just like a couplet hanging on the curtain. You can see that the landscape is very realistic. In front of Wu Zetian's tomb in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, there is a stele without words, but it is artificial; there are couplets without words, but it is natural. As a natural landscape, of course, it is better than it. This couplet without words arouses the viewers' interest in thinking, makes people have different opinions, opens the wings of imagination to guess what words and sentences should be inscribed by God, and it seems to be expecting that the later scholars will be able to write a unique couplet on it. What kind of couplets would you like to write?

< mouse rock

We're going west. Now when you look up the mountain, there is a protruding rock, which looks like a mouse, running up the mountain. I don't know who alerted it?

Guanyin reef bathing beach

Now we come to Guanyin reef beach in the southeast of the island. This is the second largest beach in Dongtou Island, 650 meters wide and 450 meters long, covering an area of about 0.3 square kilometers. This beach, with clear water and fine sand, is a good place for swimming and beach sports.

Houtouyan

Beside the beach of Guanyin reef, there is a rock, which looks like a monkey head, so it is called "monkey head stone".

Address: Damen Island, Dongtou County, Wenzhou City

Longitude: 121.142205

Latitude: 27.96139

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