"The city is on the sea, and the sea is in the city". Xiamen is an elegant "sea garden". Islands, reefs, rocks, temples, flowers and trees are in harmony with each other, blending the customs of overseas Chinese hometown, Fujian and Taiwan, seaside cuisine and exotic buildings. The spring-like climate all year round adds to the charm of the sea. With beautiful scenery and pleasant climate, it can be said to be one of the best cities in China. Surrounded by the sea, the beach is vast and the sun is warm. Because of the good ecological environment and fresh air in Xiamen, there are thousands of egrets, forming a unique natural landscape in Xiamen. Xiamen is called "Egret Island" because its terrain looks like an egret. In addition to the beautiful natural scenery, Xiamen's urban environment is also very clean and tidy, and it is a famous tourist city in China. Xiamen is also a famous hometown of overseas Chinese. There are as many as 380,000 overseas Chinese in Xiamen, and overseas Chinese have also made great contributions to Xiamen's economic development.
Best travel time
Xiamen has a mild climate and abundant rainfall, belonging to a maritime climate. It's hot here in summer, and it's usually above 30℃ in July and August. The temperature in winter is often lower than10℃; The annual average temperature is 265438 0℃. The sunshine is long and sunny, so Xiamen is full of flowers and trees all year round. Except for the typhoon season in August, the boats at the seaside have stopped, and you can't enjoy the beautiful sea view. It's good to travel to Xiamen at other times.
Traffic guide
Xiamen is one of the top ten ports in China, and it is open to more than 60 ports in more than 40 countries and regions. Xiamen is also one of the major aviation hubs in East China, with 102 domestic and international routes to Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Japan. Xiamen also has all kinds of modern communication facilities, which is very convenient for foreign exchanges.
Gourmet snacks
The core of Xiamen cuisine is the four treasures of seafood: crab, shrimp, fish and shellfish, mainly with Minnan flavor, but also with Taiwan Province and Chaoshan flavors. On the basis of the inheritance of Fujian cuisine, we should learn from the strengths of different cuisines, discard the rough and greasy taste, and extract the fresh and fragrant taste, steaming, frying, frying, stewing, frying, frying, frying, frying, frying. And other techniques, focusing on the five elements of color, aroma, taste, shape and quality, creatively developed the characteristics of freshness, lightness, tenderness, alcohol and slight spicy, and produced hundreds of delicious dishes, which won many awards in previous national cooking competitions and won high praise from the national cooking community.
In the past twenty years, the four treasures of seafood have made great progress. Those who won the national gold medals are: dry fried cover, green belt wrapped bag, jade emperor, Shi Huansha, butterfly dragon, dragon boat race, stewed cabbage with fish, yellow mandarin duck and Antarctic goose play.
Xiamen vegetarian dishes, originally a traditional practice, are made of bean products into pictographic foods such as chicken, fish, belly and feet. In the early 1960s, Master Su Zhai of Nanputuo abandoned the pictographic concept, creatively prepared vegetarian dishes and named them vegetarian dishes, and made them into exquisite and elegant dinners. Eating vegetarian dishes can not only regulate appetite, but also be an elegant artistic enjoyment. Now, after nearly 40 years' development, especially in the past 20 years, Nanputuo vegetarian dishes have become the top dishes in Southeast Asia, and are famous all over the country. I have been able to cook hundreds of dishes, 10 day cannot be repeated. It has become a beautiful business card of Xiamen cuisine.
Medicinal diet is also produced with the construction process of the special zone. It is no longer the "Angelica beef" in street stalls, nor is it just the "four muscovy ducks" that are supplemented in winter, but a medicinal diet with a full set of recipes. The antique medicinal diet in Lujiang Hotel is good in color, fragrance and taste. The dishes, jars and other utensils are specially made of purple sand, which is elegant and generous. Medicinal diet is undoubtedly an artistic feast with endless aftertaste.
shopping guide
The main commercial streets in Xiamen include traditional shopping places such as Zhongshan Road, Gulangyu Longtou Road, Xiahe Road, Bailuzhou Shopping Recreation City and Hubin Middle Road. There are some specialty stores in Xiamen Avenue, Beth-Datong Road and Hexiang West Road, which are more suitable for young people and worth spending time visiting.
Be sure to buy some Gulangyu pie, which is made of refined white flour and wrapped in various fillings. It tastes sweet, crisp, moist and cold, with many flavors, including red beans, mung beans, strawberries, pineapples, coconuts and other fruits, and the price is not expensive. Large 8 yuan/box and small 6 yuan/box are the best choices for tasting and giving gifts to relatives and friends, among which Wang Ji pie is a better one. In addition, the vegetarian cakes in Nanputuo are also famous. When buying dried seafood and tea, you should go to Xiaxi Road. When you buy it, you have to bargain, usually 60% off the original price.
Folk festivals
Xiamen is located in southern Fujian, with a long history of Minnan culture and many unique customs, especially on holidays. In addition to the traditional festivals in China, such as Lunar New Year, Lantern Festival, going to the streets, dancing dragons and lions, there is also a sacrifice to heaven on the ninth day of the first month in Xiamen, an outing to sweep graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day (the grave-sweeping activities in southern China reflect the ancient people's cultural psychology of being cautious in pursuing the distance), eating zongzi to catch ducks on the Dragon Boat Festival, and making cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15.
Matters needing attention
Xiamen is a national sanitary city, and every citizen, including tourists, has the responsibility to keep the city clean and tidy. The municipal government has specially promulgated relevant regulations for this purpose. Anyone who litters or destroys the cleanliness of the city will be punished according to the seriousness of the case. The municipal government has issued a regulation prohibiting smoking in public places, and offenders may be punished. Signs of "No Smoking" are posted in all places where smoking is prohibited.