Haikou bell tower

Haikou bell tower is located in Haikou children's Park on Changdi road in the north of Haikou City, facing the entrance to the sea, Zhongshan Hengjie in the South opposite to Zhongshan Road, Haidian River in the north, beside the street and water, with elegant scenery. Haikou bell tower is listed as one of the eight scenic spots in Haikou. It has a long history. It was first built to adapt to foreign trade and has become one of the most important landmark and symbolic buildings in Haikou. Those old and mottled buildings opposite the bell tower are the famous arcade street.

Today's Haikou bell tower was rebuilt in 1987 by the people's Government of Haikou according to the original appearance of the old bell tower according to the needs of urban construction. After its completion, it will become a major scenic spot in Haikou, named "new sound of ancient bells".

Haikou bell tower

Haikou bell tower, a scenic building in Haikou City, is listed as one of the eight scenic spots in Haikou. It has a long history. It was first built to adapt to foreign trade and has become one of the most important landmark and symbolic buildings in Haikou.

Haikou bell tower is built in Haikou children's park with beautiful scenery, elegant scenery and graceful appearance, which is listed as one of the eight scenic spots in Haikou. The new clock tower in Haikou was rebuilt by the people's Government of Haikou in 1987 and was completed on December 15 of that year. It covers an area of 25 square meters, the top floor is 28 meters high, 6-story steel plate concrete structure building, magnificent appearance, the clock is set on the top floor, with Shanghai 555 brand electronic clock, four sides of the clock face is made of 2 meters diameter plastic block, the length of the hour hand is 0.53 meters, the length of the minute hand is 1 meter, 30 minutes time, by the amplifier from four loudspeakers broadcast electronic music, clear, loud, melodious.

Historical evolution

The bell tower in Haikou has a long history. In 1686, Haikou set up a general customs port to manage ten coastal areas of the island. The number of domestic coastal ports and Southeast Asian countries' merchant ships increased day by day. In 1858, Haikou was cleared and opened as a foreign port, and the number of passengers and merchants increased significantly

In 1923, Haikou was prosperous in terms of transportation, port and commercial activities. But at that time, Haikou City did not have a unified standard timing facilities, which brought great inconvenience to transportation, business and people's life.

In 1928, Mr. Zhou Chengmei, a patriotic businessman, mobilized overseas Chinese to donate money to raise funds. Following the example of Guangzhou, Shanghai and other coastal cities, he meticulously designed and built the Haikou bell tower in 1929 at the Changdi road Wharf at Yaodui estuary, so as to unify the time. The bell tower with mixed structure, five stories high and covering an area of 16 square meters, is built with red bricks and white lime. The clock is set on the fifth floor. Seven pieces of 2 cm thick marble are installed on all sides to form a clock face with a diameter of 2 meters. The clock time is on the marble, inlaid with a lead plate and painted in black. The clock face needle is 0.96 meters long and the minute is 1.6 meters long. The sound of the clock is composed of two large and small cast iron bells, which tell the time every 30 minutes. At that time, the big bell was a pulley with a wire rope of more than 10 meters on it, and a big iron bowl was hung on the other end. The vertical weight was used to start the walking. The hanging weight dropped from the fourth floor to the bottom for two days. Therefore, the pulley had to be turned every two days to roll the hanging weight up to the fifth floor, and the time was more accurate.

However, this backward operation of the windlass can no longer meet the needs of Hainan's special economic zone. Therefore, in 1987, the people's Government of Haikou city rebuilt the old Haikou clock tower into a new one with modern characteristics and adopted advanced electronic clocks to keep the time accurate.

Overview of scenic spots

Haikou bell tower is a mixed structure, five stories high, covering an area of 25 square meters. The walls are built with red bricks and pointed with white lime.

The clock is set on the fifth floor, with seven pieces of 2 cm thick marble installed on all sides to form a clock face with a diameter of 2 meters. The clock time is on the marble face, inlaid with a lead plate and painted black. The clock face needle is 0.96 meters long, and the minute length is 1.6 meters. The sound of the clock is composed of two large and small cast iron bells, which are used to tell the time every 30 minutes.

At that time, the big bell was a pulley with a wire rope of more than 10 meters on it, and a big iron bowl was hung on the other end to start the walking by using the vertical weight. It took two days for the mound to fall from the fourth floor to the ground floor. Therefore, it is necessary to turn the windlass every two days to roll the weight up to the fifth floor. The time is more accurate.

Catering in scenic spots

Haikou's soup

Hainan Island has a hot climate, people go out to work or work during the day, the body water loss is more, so need a lot of water. Therefore, "drink soup before meals" has become the diet custom of most people in Hainan, which is different from that of northern people.

Haikou people, in addition to work lunch box, pay attention to the restaurant's high-end banquet, ordinary is in the family dinner table. Haikou people always eat soup. Despite the high and low grade of soup, people drink it with great flavor. There are two orders for Haikou people to eat and drink soup

One is to drink soup before meals.

No matter how attractive the dishes on the table are, he first lowers his head and drinks a few mouthfuls of soup, then raises his head and looks at the delicious dishes with smiling eyes, and then drinks the soup. After that, he ate and ate. When he was full and tasted enough food, he had to drink another bowl of soup, which was the end of the meal.

Second, drink soup after meals.

He first enjoyed the delicious food and then began to drink soup. This kind of people drink soup almost as long as they eat. If you don't drink soup, you are not satisfied.

Haikou people love to drink soup. Naturally, they are very particular about the making methods of soup. Generally, there are three ways: rolling soup, pot and stew. There are differences in materials and making.

Soup: simple and fast is the characteristic of soup, busy families use this method. The soup is mainly made of seasonal vegetables with fresh fish and shrimp. Haikou People's daily egg soup, vegetable soup, bean curd soup are all rolling soup, ready to do, ready to use, with the taste of modern fast food.

Soup making: it's the characteristic of soup making to use tile pot. Because it takes longer time to make soup than rolling soup, Haikou people usually drink soup for dinner. Soup raw materials can not be separated from pork, mutton, ribs and so on, that is, broth based.

Stew: Haikou people pay attention to using stew cup to make stew. Haikou people often make stews to celebrate holidays or when distinguished guests come. Chicken and duck are the most used raw materials for stew, plus some Chinese herbal medicine.

The reason why Haikou people like to drink soup is not only the need to supplement water due to the heat mentioned above, but also the need to nourish the body. Haikou people believe that soup is rich in nutrition, and drinking soup is a good way to nourish and strengthen the body. Especially for the weak and sick people at home, Haikou people always make soup for them to drink, looking forward to their early recovery.

Northerners please remember yo, to Hainan tourism as a guest, if the host invited you to dinner, before dinner, please drink a small bowl of soup, don't be surprised yo.

Haikou grilled oysters

Almost every barbecue garden in Haikou has it, but the different ways of cooking make the taste different. Sanya also has places to cook raw oysters, but there are far less places than Haikou. You have to look for them to find them.

As for the way to eat oysters, they used to be blanched, fried with ginger and scallion, iron plate, crisp fried and so on. I don't think it's very interesting to fry ginger and scallion, iron plate and crispy fried food. It's better to blanch to get the original flavor, or use cheese butter to bring out the flavor of fragrant oyster. In the barbecue garden, most of them are scalded oysters. In the barbecue garden at the intersection of World Trade Center, there is a lot of scalded oysters.

When eating raw oysters, the seasoning can not be ignored, most of them are "lemon juice with sauce" or mustard, which can make the raw oysters taste more fresh. But many people love lemon juice, because lemon juice can reduce the smell of oyster, but it can also be seen in the fragrance and sour taste of the oyster. It can be more delicious if it is served with cold baijiu. If you are not afraid of fishiness, you don't need to use too complicated sauces. The original flavor of the sauce is always more able to show its endoplasm. People who are afraid of fishy smell, or can eat it by heating. It's good to taste the cooked one after a long time, but don't cover up the unique flavor of oyster with thick sauce.

When eating oysters, you can drink two glasses, which is the realm of tasting food. Some people say that drinking dry white wine or champagne is a good match. However, I think the deep-sea oyster is translucent, which is considered to have erotic fantasy. If you use a crystal clear, curvy red wine glass, pour half a cup of dry red wine, dip mustard on the oyster (friends who like to taste heavy or are afraid of choking may as well dip it in guacamole), pick up the oyster shell, stir up the whole oyster, chew it slowly, and the taste is nerve transmitting A kind of wild desire, and then look at the amber like red wine, light taste slow drink, is another kind of taste. This kind of food, no matter from taste to vision, can be regarded as a very high sensory enjoyment.

Sirloin rice

Beef Brisket means the fat on the belly; beef brisket means the fat on the belly. Because it's fat meat, it's not worth money. That is to say, it serves as a dining table for the common people and becomes a scene of the market. In Haikou, especially in old streets such as New South China and Boai Road, there are many stores with big signs of "beef belly rice" (generally, there are "pig's feet rice"; some stores even don't have business names). Generally, these stores are small in appearance, and they are put on the street to save space;

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