Half Moon Bay

Banyuewan, also known as Yueliangwan, is located in the north of beichangshan island. It is about 1km long, just like a crescent moon. It stretches close to the mountains and lies in the water. The mountains are green, the sea is green, and the pebbles are gorgeous. In the late 1950s, the garrison built a shooting range here, which was named Half Moon Bay according to the shape of the bay. In 1979, vice president Ye Jianying came here and wrote a seven character quatrain for this bay: "Yueya Bay, inner Changshan Island, is also known as Yueya Bay because it is a place where fishermen and farmers work hard and stone fields are built. The stone balls with high prices give birth to brilliant colors, and women and children do not cherish their fingers.". Qiuji Caishi is one of the four famous gravels in China. When visitors visit here, it's like entering a wonderful world full of colors and pearls. Picking up stones is the greatest pleasure for visitors.

Crescent Bay

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Banyuewan (banyuewan, Changdao County, Shandong Province) generally refers to yueyawan (the northernmost part of Changshan Island, Changdao County)

Crescent Bay, also known as half moon bay, is located at the northernmost end of North Changshan island in Changdao County. It naturally forms crescent beach about 2000 meters long, which is named for its shape of half moon.

It is backed by the green mountains and green fields, surrounded by the clear waves of the blue sea, a long beach of silvery white pebbles, inlaid between the green mountains and water, like a crescent moon in the deep night sky. Yueyawan, the song of the same name, is based on YueYaQuan (yueyawan) in Dunhuang. YueYaQuan is named after its shape is similar to a crescent moon. It is located in the Dunhuang desert and has not been buried by quicksand for thousands of years. It has become a wonder in the desert.

Yueyawan, Changdao County, Yantai

Step into Crescent Bay, step by step pearls, Qiang ran sound, as if into the silver flashing, jade mottled Moon Palace. Hand stroking pearl stone, one by one exquisite and clever, one by one crystal clear. There are many natural patterns on the stone: ancient pine, maple leaf, hairy bird, monkey, cloud, flower, etc. There are plenty of bays in the world, but the thousand meter long pebble beach, which is as white as jade and crystal clear as amber, is just like a jeweled pebble world.

Crescent Bay embrace a clear water, blue like agate, clear like a mirror, tempting can not help but jump in, the sea into his arms. When the wind is high and the waves are strong, the bay is full of emeralds and silver snow; when the sky is clear, the bay is quiet and beautiful and charming. For thousands of years, the sea has polished the pearls of the shore with its beautiful soul and beautiful hands. In the scenic spot, there are "fishing village singing late", "layer forest dying", "long street night market", "Guanlan Pavilion" and picnics base, which provide tourists with special items such as watching the sea, swimming in the sea, eating seafood, experiencing fishermen's life, etc. Songqian village is the closest to Yueya Bay scenic spot, and it is the earliest village to develop yujiale tourism project in Changdao. Marshal Ye Jianying and marshal Zhao Puchu both wrote poems about Yueya Bay. The famous calligrapher Qigong wrote in his poems that "a crescent moon marks the beach, the water is green and the mountains are green, and there is no one in the world.". There is no need to seek things in fairyland. Pedestrians step by step on the Pearl. "

Yueya Bay is named after the bay which looks like a crescent moon. The beach stretches over 1000 meters and is a natural bathing beach. Crescent beach is a rare gravel beach in China. Beach pebble is due to the crustal movement, the surface uplift caused by the nearby mountains of rock fall off, stones placed in the arc of the beach, after the endless wave scouring and grinding and gradually rounded to form pebble. Because the quartzite is mixed with iron, manganese, zinc and other impurities, it presents various colors. Main attractions: Seal garden, ocean amusement park, colorful pebbles

Address: Changshan Island, Changdao County, Shandong Province

Longitude: 120.708679

Latitude: 37.986916

Tour time: half a day

Traffic information: take a boat to the island from Penglai, Shandong Province. The flight takes half an hour, about 40 minutes.

Ticket information: Free

Opening hours: all day

Chinese PinYin : Ban Yue Wan