Qi'ao Island

Qi'ao Island looks to Hong Kong and Shenzhen in the East. It is located in the center of the golden triangle of Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao. It is the only way for Lingdingyang and cross sea bridge. Qi'ao Island has a long history. There are 17 temples on the island, including ancestral temples built in Song Dynasty, Wenchang palace built in Qing Dynasty, houshawan, dongaowan, Baishi street, ancient fort, sand dunes and other historic sites, as well as mangroves, red apple paradise, Dangan island and other natural scenic spots. Luling morning dew, Jinxing waves, Jiazhou misty rain, Jiezhu night moon, Chiling sun watching, Songjian water, Jishan sunset, powan evening ferry are the eight famous scenic spots in Qi'ao.

Qi'ao Island

Qiao island is 13 km northeast of Xiangzhou, 13 km west of the Pearl River Estuary, 13 km east of Neilingding Island, opposite Humen in the north and 1.2 km south of Tangjia mainland. The island covers an area of 23.8 square kilometers. The island has 2189 registered residence population (2016). The geology is the main body of granite structure, the surface layer is yellow sand clay, with shrubs, grass, pine forest, miscellaneous trees, etc., and the forest coverage rate reaches 90%. The terrain is high at the north and south ends and flat in the middle. The island is divided into North and South halves, with a northeast to southwest trend. There are 18 mountains more than 100 meters. Wangchiling, the highest peak, is located in the northeast of the island. There are many bays around the sea (harbor), mainly including erxie Bay, Guandi Bay, Jinxing Bay, Shijing Bay, Dawei Bay, and East Bay. Most of the bays are sandy banks, and most of the bays on the northwest side of the sediment bottom are silted mudflats. The water is shallow and the low tide dries out.

Practical information

Ticket information

Free Admission. Qi'ao Island itself is free of charge (because it is open), such as mangrove, exhibition hall of Su Zhaozheng's former residence, Baishi street, Tianhou palace, Qisha Bay, etc. Some scenic spots on the island need to be charged, such as Lingge paradise.

Opening Hours

The exhibition hall of Su Zhaozheng's former residence: 9:30-17:00, 16:45, closed every Monday.

Suggest playing

1 day

Traffic information

Take No.3 or No.10 bus to "Tangjia market" station, (to Qi'ao direction), transfer to No.85 bus and get off at "Qi'ao" station.

There is only No.85 bus on the island, which runs every 20 minutes. There is no ticket and 1 yuan air-conditioned bus. Operation route: Tsinghua Science and Technology Park ↔ Qi'ao north. Tsinghua Science and Technology Park: 6:20 for the first class and 20:00 for the last class. Qi'ao North: 6:30 for the first and 20:30 for the last.

geographical environment

Qi'ao Island is connected with the urban area by a bridge. Qi'ao Island is rich in animal and plant resources, and a mangrove wetland reserve has been set up in the north of the island. Qi'ao Island has a long history and rich cultural resources. Baishi street, Tianhou palace, anti British fort and Su Zhaozheng's former residence are cultural relics protection units in Zhuhai City. Qi'ao Island has beautiful natural scenery. It is known as "nine Bay and eighteen peaks" and is known as one of the "ten sights of Zhuhai". In 2000, it was identified as the eco-tourism area of Zhuhai City. The mangroves in Zhuhai are mainly distributed on Qi'ao Island, Hengqin Island, Hongqi West dike, Modaomen and jitimen waterways. Among them, the wet ground in Dawei Bay, northwest of Qi'ao Island, accounts for 15% of the total number of migratory bird protection agreements (227 species); 16 species of birds in China Australia migratory bird protection agreements, 19.8% of the total number of China Australia migratory bird protection agreements (81 species). In addition, there are endangered animals in the area.

Qi'ao Island of Zhuhai City is located in the Lingdingyang of the Pearl River Estuary. On the island, there is a Baishi street of Qi'ao paved with granite strips more than 1000 meters long and an ancient fort site. According to local folklore, this was related to the resistance of the residents of Qi'ao village to the armed invasion of the British before the Opium War, and Baishi street was built with the compensation of the aggressors. However, due to the lack of literature, there are many legends about the time, cause, organizer and course of the anti aggression struggle, which make people confused.

Qi'ao looks to Hong Kong and Shenzhen in the East, to Wanshan Marine Development Experimental Zone in Zhuhai in the south, and to Hengmen in Zhongshan and Humen in Dongguan in the north. It is located in the center of the golden triangle of Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao. Qi'ao is the only way for the world-famous Lingdingyang sea crossing bridge in Zhuhai.

Qi'ao has a long history and splendid culture embellishes this simple island. In the ancient sites of houshawan and dongaowan on the island, archaeologists have excavated a large number of painted pottery and white pottery about 4500-5000 years ago, which are the earliest evidence of human activities in Zhuhai. The ancient site of dongaowan is the most typical and complete sand and stone site in the Pearl River Delta.

Historical evolution

Qi'ao Island is rich in cultural relics. "Sand dune site" is the most complete fishing and hunting cultural site at the end of Neolithic Age in the Pearl River Delta. There are also Qi'ao ancestral temple built in Song Dynasty, Tianhou palace built in Ming Dynasty, Wenchang palace built in Qing Dynasty, and three banyan trees still green after 280 years of vicissitudes.

Among them, the original documents such as the order of Lu Kun, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, to foreign businessmen confirmed the legend of the anti aggression struggle of Qi and Macao residents before the Opium War, which made us understand the truth for the first time: at noon on October 13, 1833 (the first day of September in the 13th year of Daoguang), Su Shangpin, a villager of Qi and Macao, and other four people were fishing in the port at the foot of Jinxing mountain. They heard Guo Yaxiang, a fellow village, shouting "foreigners steal cattle". When they went ashore and saw foreigners pulling away the cattle, they arrested the cattle thief. The village magistrate believed that the cattle were stolen by foreigners and could not send them back to the officials. On the same day, more than 50 foreigners came to the village to fight, and the villagers came out together to drive them out. Foreigners fled in a hurry when they saw the large number of villagers. One of them fell behind and used a sword and a shotgun to deal with the chasing villagers. Later, Su Shangpin stabbed him in the stomach with a knife and fell to the ground to die. On the way to escape, other foreigners saw Guo Mingqiu, a Chinese, and Huang yayang, a worker working in the field, and kidnapped Guo Mingqiu on board. Huang yayang yelled. He was shot and wounded by them. Later, he died because of serious injury and ineffective treatment. On October 15, 1833 (the third day of September), Ma Ji, the owner of the ship, led many foreigners to take more than ten sampans to Qi'ao village and fired at the village.

They also said to Ni Yinglong, general manager of Fangyi thousand, "this village is not willing to comply, so it should cover its nest immediately." On the same day, sun Yafu, a villager, was fishing on the sea in front of the village. He was shot with a shotgun because he couldn't escape. After hearing the news, the local government of the Qing Dynasty immediately sent troops to the village for defense. The governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Tongzhi of Macao, and Xiangshan County Magistrate successively issued orders to the British senior class, demanding that they release Guo Mingqiu, hand over the murderer, and forbid foreign sampans to make trouble in China. It is also recorded in the book "chronicle of East India Company's trade with China" written by American Max in the 1920s. In the report, British Captain Grant falsely claimed that the incident was caused by a Chinese stealing copper and iron from a broken foreign ship. However, he admitted that he had called on foreign armed barge boats to attack Qi'ao, and said that when foreign boat teams arrived in Qi'ao, they were fired by local residents.

Opium War

The Qiao village incident in October 1833 was a large-scale spontaneous struggle against foreign aggression by Chinese residents before the Opium War. Although its scale was smaller than that of Sanyuanli residents in Guangzhou, it was eight years earlier and should occupy a certain position in the history of Chinese people's anti aggression struggle.

The Qi'ao village incident was not accidental. Before the Opium War, a large number of foreign opium smuggling ships berthed in the sea area of jinxingmen, which is adjacent to Qi'ao Island, making jinxingmen the base of opium smuggling.

Foreign opium dealers often harass Qi'ao Island, infringing China's sovereignty and endangering the safety of local residents. There are many examples in the documents of East India Company. On August 17, 1833, British Opium dealers jailed a Chinese in Qi'ao on the Weichen vessel berthed at jinxingmen on the ground that he had stolen the goods and materials of the damaged merchant ship, which destroyed China's judicial autonomy. Macao Tongzhi therefore asked the British big class to release the criminals so that they could be tried according to Chinese laws. Another example is that on September 7, 1833, Huang Yaxiu, a Chinese, and his son went out to sea to sell fish. When they passed by the Weichen ship anchored at the gate of Venus, foreigners forced them to buy the ship and had a dispute with each other. Foreigners pushed Huang Yaxiu into the sea and drowned him. The armed boat team that attacked Qi'ao village in October of that year was organized by foreign opium dealers. Therefore, the incident of Qi'ao village in 1833 can objectively be regarded as the struggle of Chinese residents against foreign opium smuggling.

In October 2000, at the seminar "Baishi street and the Opium War in Qi'ao" held by Zhuhai municipal government, I released the archives of the anti aggression struggle of Qi'ao residents brought back from Britain. In view of the great significance of this struggle in the history of the Chinese people's anti aggression struggle in 1833, the famous patriotic poem "crossing Lingdingyang" written by Wen Tianxiang in Lingdingyang, and the fact that the former residence of Su Zhaozheng, the famous leader of the workers' movement, is still preserved in Qi'ao Island, more than 10 experts and scholars present at the meeting suggested that the whole Qi'ao Island be used as a national patriotic education base.

As for whether there was a large-scale anti aggression struggle in Qi'ao in 1836, and the use of opium dealers' compensation to build Baishi street, no written materials have been found to confirm it. Whether the tombstones of foreigners found on Qi'ao Island have anything to do with the anti aggression struggle of Qi'ao residents remains to be studied. It is hoped that the historians will make joint efforts to further uncover the historical mystery of Qi'ao Island.

Main attractions

"Eight scenic spots of Qi'ao" are popular scenic spots on Qi'ao Island. They are: Luling morning dew, Venus waves, Jiazhou misty rain, Jiezhu night moon, Chiling sun watching, Songjian water, Jishan sunset, powan evening ferry.

Qi'ao has beautiful mountains and waters, and "nine Bay and eighteen peaks" are famous for their primitive and simple style

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