Popular Attractions Around Xiamen
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Zhangzhou
Zhangzhou, which is adjacent to Xiamen, is a famous land of overseas Chinese and the hometown of many Taiwanese, featuring picturesque landscapes, a number of cultural sites and unique folk customs. Zhangzhou boasts five major tourism resources gardens with flowers and fruits, sacred religious sites, places of cultural and historical interest, seaside scenery and green ecology, which consist of famous flowers, weird hills...
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Quanzhou
About 102 kilometers from Xiamen, Quanzhou City is a renowned land of overseas Chinese and the hometown of many Taiwan compatriots. With a warm and humid climate, Quanzhou is suitable for tourism all the year round. As early as in the Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1271-1368) dynasties, Quanzhou was a major trading port in the East and an important harbor on the Maritime Silk Road, and had frequent exchanges with other countri...
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Longyan
Longyan, also known as Minxi, is to the northwest of Xiamen. In the first year of the Tianbao reign (742) of the Tang Dynasty, Longyan County was named after Longyan Cave, a scenic spot in the east. To eluded endless disputes, the Han people in Central China moved to Fujian from the end of Western Jin Dynasty (265-316), giving birth to the Hakkas. All the Hakkas take Longyan as the milestone place where their ancestors...
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Sanming
Located to the north of Xiamen, Sanming has rich tourism resources. A cultural site of palaeoanthropology about 200,000 years ago has been found here. Ninghua Shibi, where was the transfer station during the great migration of the Hakkas, is known as the "Ancestral Land of the Hakkas." Sanming has given birth to a number of celebrities in Chinese history, such as Yang Shi (1053-1135) and Zhu Xi (1130-1200) who...
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Fuzhou
Fuzhou is an ancient city with a history of more than 2,100 year. It is one of the fourteen open coastal cities in China. Situated by the East Sea and in the lower reaches of the Min River, this area of 12,153 square kilometers is populated with 5.90 million people. The city tree is Banyan. Jasmine flower is known as the symbolic flower of the city.The city of Fuzhou is alternatively called Three Hills. The Yu, Wu and...
