In 2006, the Swedish antique merchant ship "Gothenburg" revisited Guangzhou and docked at the pier of Zhoutouzui Park. Hundreds of thousands of Guangzhou citizens visited enthusiastically, and it became a good story.

In Zhoutouzui Park, facing the White Ear Pool, there is a unique monument in a prominent position, commemorating the history of friendly exchanges between Guangzhou and the people of Oman as an important port on the Maritime Silk Road more than 1,200 years ago.

The "Muscat-Guangzhou Voyage Monument of the Sohar Wooden Sailing Ship in Oman" is divided into three floors. The upper floor reproduces the navigation map of the three-masted wooden sailing ship Sohar.

The radiant red sun symbolizes the peace messenger of the Arab nation, facing the stormy waves and sailing triumphantly to the east after going through untold hardships.

There is also a schematic diagram of the route from Oman to Guangzhou at that time. It is clearly marked on the map: At that time, the wooden sailing ship departed from Muscat, the port of Oman in the eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula, passed through the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea, entered the Indian Ocean, and eastward along the coasts of India and Sri Lanka.

OK, enter the Strait of Malacca, bypass Singapore and go north, passing through Vietnam and the coast of Zhanjiang, directly to Guangzhou.

Muscat Port was an important port for trade between China and Oman in ancient times.

The Omanis are an ancient seafaring people.

1,200 years ago in the 8th century AD, a large wooden ship built by the ancient Omanis set sail from Sohar, an important commercial port in Oman. It sailed more than 6,000 nautical miles and went through many difficulties and dangers to reach Guangzhou, China.

Their adventures are all condensed in The Voyage of Sinbad.

Sinbad's voyage made trade and cultural exchanges between Oman and China prosperous, and Sohar Port and Guangzhou became the center of exchanges between the two countries.

In order to consolidate and strengthen the traditional friendship between Oman and China, the Omani people carefully imitated the wooden ship "Sohar" based on historical documents.

On November 23, 1980, the antique wooden sailing ship "Sohar" set sail from Muscat, following the route traveled by ancient Arab navigators. After 8 months (216 days), it finally sailed on July 1, 1981.

Arrive in Guangzhou on the same day.

This voyage reproduces the story of Sinbad's seven voyages to China described in "One Thousand and One Nights", and once again confirms the history of Guangzhou as a world-famous port as early as the Tang Dynasty.

To commemorate this event, the Ministry of National Heritage and Culture of the Sultanate of Oman and the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China established a monument in 1995 in Zhoutouzui Park on the south bank of Baietan where the "Sohar" landed.

Later, Guangzhou City built a giant city sculpture in the center of Zhou Touzui Park, with a 4-meter-tall and 26-ton giant anchor as the main scene, reflecting the glorious shipping history of Zhou Touzui.

On the east side of Chau Tou Tsui, there is also a monument and sculpture, which reflects the history of Guangzhou people's heroic fight against British invaders in the 19th century.

In 1847, the people of Guangzhou and Henan launched a vigorous struggle against the British invaders' attempt to seize Zhoutouzui as a concession. This struggle was a complete victory, which effectively dealt a blow to the arrogance of the British invaders and the Qing court's surrender and compromise forces.

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After the First Opium War, in order to expand their invasion of China, the British invaders coveted the strategically located Zhoutou Tsui, which is adjacent to the Baietan Lake, has a deep and wide channel, and blocks three rivers. They tried to seize it for themselves (Shamian had not yet become a foreign country

Concession).

On April 3, 1847, the British army sent warships to the Pearl River to put pressure on the Qing government and made unreasonable demands such as leasing Zhoutouzui in Henan Province. However, Qi Ying, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, agreed.

From May 15 to 17, 1847, the British invaders sent a survey team to Chau Tou Tsui to measure the land in an attempt to occupy it through force.

This absurd move aroused the indignation of the people in Guangzhou and Henan, and quickly set off a wave of resistance.

Henan Township 48 quickly dispatched representatives and gathered at Shuangzhou Academy to discuss countermeasures.

It was agreed to organize the Henan People's Armed Self-Defense Force to protect their homeland; and sent people to the suburbs of the city to ask for support; three days later, more than 3,000 representatives of the country's gentry and people were organized to demonstrate on the 13th row and submitted righteous letters of protest.

At the same time, 100,000 brave people also held demonstrations in the suburbs of Guangzhou to express support.

Frightened by the strong opposition of the people of Guangzhou, the British invaders had to stop leasing land in Zhoutouzui. The anti-British struggle in Zhoutouzui achieved a complete victory.

In 1987, in order to commemorate the 140th anniversary of the people of Zhoutouzui's anti-British struggle, the Haizhu District Government built a commemorative sculpture named "Nanxu Fenghua" and the inscription "Guangzhou and Henan people resisted British rent" in Binjiang West Park that year.

A monument with the inscription "Chronicle of the Earthly Struggle".

The imitation red rice stone base is inlaid with 18 dazzling gold-painted reliefs, vividly showing the entire process of the Zhoutouzui people's anti-British struggle.

However, in 2002, due to the expansion of Binjiang West Road, the sculpture was temporarily demolished.

In 2007, on the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the victory of the Zhoutouzui people’s anti-British struggle, the Anti-British Monument in Zhoutouzui was rebuilt in the small garden landscape area of ??Binjiang West Road.

According to reports, the reconstructed monument (see the picture below) has a very different design concept from the original monument. It mainly vividly reproduces the anti-British struggle deeds of the people of Zhoutouzui through four relief patterns such as "Give me back my rivers and mountains", with irregular shapes.

The interspersed geometric figures more subtly symbolize the process of the "anti-land lease" struggle at that time.