Meizhou Town, Xiuyu District, Putian City, Fujian Province

Meizhou town

Meizhou town is located in Meizhou Bay in the south of Xiuyu District, Putian City, Fujian Province, including Meizhou Island and its adjacent islands. The formal division of Meizhou Island is Meizhou Town, Xiuyu District, Putian City, Fujian Province. It has jurisdiction over 11 administrative villages.

Meizhou town was designated as a national tourist resort by the State Council in 1992. There are "Meizhou ancestral temple" (Mazu Temple) and jiubaolan golden beach, which is known as "the first beach in the world". Meizhou has a superior geographical location and convenient land and sea transportation. It is only 1.8 nautical miles from the mainland, 72 nautical miles from Taichung port in Taiwan Province in the East, 100 nautical miles from Xiamen port in the south, and 70 nautical miles from Mawei Port in Fuzhou in the north. Since ancient times, Meizhou has been a bridgehead of folk exchanges between Fujian and Taiwan.

On June 29, 2020, it will be included in the list of provincial rural governance demonstration towns.

history

Meizhou Island is located in the northern half of the mouth of Meizhou Bay. It is now a national tourist resort. This is an island 9.6 km long from north to south, 1.3 km wide from east to west and covering an area of about 16 square kilometers. The island is densely forested, with numerous harbors, winding coastlines, continuous beaches and beautiful scenery. The high-quality beach around the island is more than 20 kilometers long, which can build a bathing beach; there are more than 6 thousand mu windbreak belt, which is an ideal resort. The island is rich in grouper, which is a treasure of fish and sold to Hong Kong and Macao.

Meizhou Bay is adjacent to the Taiwan Strait in the southeast, and is far away from Taiwan. Because it is located on the land and sea, it is shaped like an eyebrow, so it is called Meizhou. Mazu on the island is famous at home and abroad. Mazu's original name was Lin Mo Niang (960-987 A.D.), because she was born to the full moon and never cried, her father named her "Mo". She was smart from childhood. She could recite sutras at the age of 8, interpret texts at the age of 10, learn Taoism at the age of 13, and cross the sea on waves at the age of 16. On the ninth day of September in the fourth year of Yongxi of Song Dynasty, when Lin Mo Niang was 28 years old, she bid farewell to her family and naturalized and ascended to heaven on Meiyu peak of Meizhou Island. In memory of her, people set up a temple beside the "historical site of rising to heaven" on Meizhou peak and worshipped her as the goddess of the sea, goddess of the dragon, goddess of the sea, etc. In Song Huizong's time, Mazu was granted the title of "Shunji lady", which was the first time that the court praised Mazu. In the later dynasties, the imperial court granted her such honorary titles as "Princess of heaven", "Queen of heaven" and "virgin of heaven".

Meizhou Island is the hometown of Mazu. The Mazu temple here is known as "Meizhou Temple of Tianhou Palace". The temple was founded in the fourth year of Yongxi of Song Dynasty (987 A.D.), the same year that Lin Mo Niang died. At the beginning, it was only a few rafters. Later, it became more and more majestic after being expanded in successive dynasties. Zheng He, a famous navigator of the Ming Dynasty, made seven voyages to the Western Ocean. He came back and said, "God shows his holiness on the sea." before his seventh voyages, he was ordered to come to Meizhou Island to preside over special Royal ceremonies and expand temples. During the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, general Shi langzou said that "the sea was aided by God", and he was ordered to expand it. Mazu temple has been renovated and decorated with new buildings. It has become a holy land for Chinese seafarers all over the world to worship and for compatriots at home and abroad. Mazu temple, Tianfei palace and Tianhou Palace are all over Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, as well as Haikou docks and inland river ports in mainland China. They are also distributed in Southeast Asia and 17 countries in the world, such as Japan, Korea, India, the United States, France, Denmark, Brazil, Argentina, etc. In Taiwan, there are more than 5000 Mazu temples, large and small, and more than 14 million Mazu believers. There are more than 5000 yizhimazu temples and more than 14 million Mazu believers. There are also places named after it, such as tianfeizha in Tianjin, Mazu island in Fujian, Magong (MA Palace) in Penghu, Taiwan, and mage in Macao. On March 23 of the lunar calendar, Mazu's birthday is full of people inside and outside the temple.

geographical environment

Location

Meizhou Island belongs to Putian, Fujian Province since ancient times. It is in the middle of the west coast of Taiwan Strait, and in the north of Meizhou Bay Port, one of the four major international transit ports determined by the Ministry of communications. It is about 9.6 km long from north to South and 1.3 km wide from east to west. The island is long and narrow from north to south, and shaped like an Emei, so it is called Meizhou. The island has a land area of 14.35 square kilometers, a population of 38000 and a coastline of 30.4 kilometers. Its south is Putian Wuqiu Island (Wuqiu township), including Wuqiu Lantau (big Wuqiu) and Wuqiu Xiaoyu (small Wuqiu).

Meizhou Island is located in the southeast of Putian City, Fujian Province. It is the second largest island in Putian City, Fujian Province, with a land area of 14.35 square kilometers, including more than 30 islands, islets and reefs. Meizhou Island is known as "Penglai in the South". There are more than 30 scenic spots, such as the exciting tidal sound of Meiyu Island, "jiubaolan golden beach in Oriental Hawaii," little stone forest "and" geese tail strange stone ". There is also Mazu temple, which is haunted by 200 million Mazu believers. Every year, during the birthday of Mazu on March 23 and the ascension day of Mazu in early September of the lunar calendar, the pilgrimage tourism is unprecedented and is known as the" East Island " Fang Maijia.

climate

Meizhou Island is a typical subtropical marine monsoon climate, with an average annual temperature of 21 ℃ and an average annual rainfall of about 1000mm. It has a mild climate and beautiful scenery. It is an ideal resort. Meizhou Island is the birthplace of Chinese Mazu culture. In 1988, it was established as Fujian Province's Tourism Economic Zone open to the outside world. In 1992, it was approved as a national tourism resort by the State Council.

administrative division

Meizhou town is located in Meizhou Bay in the south of Xiuyu District, including Meizhou Island and its adjacent islands. The formal division of Meizhou Island is Meizhou Town, Xiuyu District, Putian City, postcode 351152. It has jurisdiction over 11 administrative villages. In 1992, it was designated as a national tourist resort by the State Council, with Mazu temple and jiulangwei beach.

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201 Gongxia village 202 Gaozhu village 203 Dongcai village 204 Lianchi village 205 Zhaixia village 206 Shanwei village 207 Xiting village 208 Beidai village 209 GangLou village 210 Houxiang village 211 Xiashan Village

It belonged to Zhongmen commune in 1958, Meizhou commune in 1961 and township in 1984. On September 14, 1992, the Provincial Department of Civil Affairs agreed to change Meizhou Township into town system. In 1997, it covers an area of 14 square kilometers and has a population of 34000. It has 11 village committees: Gongxia, Gaozhu, Dongcai, Lianchi, Zhaixia, Xiting, Beidai, GangLou, Houxiang, Xiashan and Shanwei.

Sociology

Meizhou Island is a base for Taiwan. Mazu culture is the only mainstream folk culture in Taiwan that can transcend ethnic consciousness, regional boundaries and social strata. It has more than 16 million believers, accounting for about 75% of the total population. With Mazu culture as the emotional link, the people of Meizhou and Taiwan have continuously deepened exchanges and created many new records in the history of cross-strait relations. For example, in 1987, tens of thousands of Taiwan compatriots went to Meizhou to participate in the "Mazu Millennium sacrifice" activities, which set off an upsurge for Taiwan compatriots to visit their ancestors and relatives in the mainland; in 1989, nantiangong in Ilan County organized 20 fishing boats to sail directly to Meizhou Island, becoming the first organized and large-scale non-governmental direct navigation after 40 years of isolation between the two sides of the Strait; In 1997, Meizhou Mazu toured Taiwan for 102 days, which is the longest and most extensive cross-strait non-governmental exchange activity. In 2006, more than 4300 people from Taiwan Mazu Association and other organizations went to Meizhou ancestral temple to pay homage to their ancestors, which is the largest number of people from Taiwan to the mainland for cultural exchange.

Meizhou Island is a tourist attraction. Meizhou Island has the best coastal tourism resources in the southeast coast. The coastline of Meizhou Island is 30.4 km long, surrounded by 13 golden beaches with a total length of 20 km and 5 km long sea erosion landscape wonders, and distributed with more than 30 scenic spots. It is a national 4A tourist attraction, one of the top ten tourism brands, top ten tourist destinations and ten business cards in Fujian.

After more than 20 years of development and construction, the world's most magnificent Mazu temple and a number of coastal scenic spots, such as golden beach, Meiyu Chaoyin and eweishen stone garden, a number of infrastructure, such as island crossing highway, island ring highway, ferry terminal, Taiwan passenger terminal, cross sea water and power supply, and a number of three hotels, such as international hotel, Seaview Hotel, Meihai Hotel and Antai Hotel, have been built In 2010, it received 1.56 million domestic and foreign tourists.

Meizhou Island is an ecological highland. Meizhou Island adheres to the guidance of the scientific outlook on development, vigorously promotes the construction of ecological civilization, further improves the island's ecological conditions, and lays a solid foundation for sustainable development. By the end of 2010, the green coverage rate of Meizhou Island had reached 49.8%, and the per capita green space area was 31.2 square meters. It has won the honorary titles of national advanced afforestation unit, national greening model county (District), and China's ecological civilization construction demonstration base.

Economics

Meizhou Island is taking the opportunity of creating a national 5A tourist attraction and building a demonstration base of ecological civilization construction in China to continuously improve its tourism facilities. The auxiliary building of the five-star Meizhou international hotel has been capped and the main building has been built to the eighth floor. Seaview Hotel is in the process of revising the construction drawing design of the main building and cleaning the ground; another catamaran luxury yacht is being built; the panoramic map, guide map, scenic spot introduction board, tourism signboard, safety warning board and public information symbol graphics of Meizhou Island have been installed and used.

At the construction site of Gongxia (Wenjia) land island transportation wharf, a key project under construction at the provincial level, the reporter saw that workers were operating hoisting equipment to riprap stones to the prefabricated foundation bed. This wharf is nearly completed, and can berth 3000 ton passenger ships after completion to meet the needs of direct navigation to Taiwan.

While striving to improve the port facilities and tourism facilities, Meizhou Island also plans various theme activities to enrich the tourism content and deepen the impression of tourists. According to their own characteristics, according to the different needs of tourists in different seasons, strengthen the planning of four seasons theme tourism activities. Tourism banquets attract tourists from home and abroad to Meizhou Island to receive tourists

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