Gulangyu Island Attractions is located in the southwest corner of Xiamen City, Fujian Province, is a national civilized scenic tourist area, national 5A-level tourist attractions, national scenic spots, World Heritage.
The southwestern end of the island has a sea-eroded caves of the reef, whenever the waves impact, sound like a drum, the reef because of the name "Gulangshi". Gulangyu Island representative attractions are: Sunlight Rock, Beans and Peas Garden, Hao Yue Yuan, Yuk Garden, Gulang Stone, Gulangyu Piano Museum, Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall, Xiamen underwater world and natural beach, sea paradise structure, and so on. Integration of history, humanities and natural landscape in one, for the national scenic spots, Fujian "top ten" scenic spots first.
Since the Opium War, more than a hundred years of Gulangyu Island development of the unique history of Gulangyu Island has formed a strong humanistic landscape, complex historical interest, a number of national styles, the East meets West, the "architecture of the world's exposition". The representative attractions of Gulangyu Island are Sunlight Rock, Beans Village Garden, Hao Yue Yuan, Yuk Yuan, Gulang Rock, Gulangyu Piano Museum, Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall, Xiamen Underwater World and the natural seaside bathing beaches, Haitian Heavenly Architecture and so on.
Gulangyu Island's climate characteristics:
Subtropical monsoon climate, warm and humid, superior light and heat conditions. Seasonal changes in the four seasons is quite regular: spring monsoon from the northeast to the south, from cold to warm, more rain; summer has a typhoon and thunderstorms of the transfer, to the hot days bring cool, sometimes typhoon; fall less rain and more sunny; winter monsoon in the northeast, cold but not cold. The sea and land winds are extremely pronounced, often from midnight to noon blowing west to northwest winds, from late afternoon to midnight before the south to southeast winds.
Summer winds are generally from the southeast to the southwest, with an average of only 2 to 3 levels. Thunderstorms from May to August at most, December to February for the mine-free period, the generation of thunderstorms often cause heavy rain. The average annual temperature in Xiamen is 21.2℃. The average annual maximum temperature is 24.5℃ and the average annual minimum temperature is 18.7℃.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Gulangyu