Gulangyu Island, formerly known as "Round Shazhou" and alias "Yuanzhouzai", was named "Wulongyu" in the Southern Song Dynasty. There is a sea-eroded cave in the southwest of the island, which was hit by waves and sounded like a drum. It has been renamed as "Gulangyu Island" since the Ming Dynasty. It is located in Gulangyu Street, Siming District, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, with an area of 1.88 square kilometers, facing Xiamen Island across the sea.
Gulangyu Island has rugged reefs, rugged coastline, green mountains and ups and downs of peaks and rocks. Gulangyu Island takes architecture as its surface and music as its soul. Representative scenic spots include: Sunlight Rock, Luzhuang Garden, Haoyue Garden, Yuyuan Garden, Gulangyu Stone, Gulangyu Piano Museum, Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall, Underwater World, Natural Bathing Beach, Sea Paradise Structure, etc. With the development of Xiamen, Gulangyu Island has become a comprehensive island scenic and cultural tourist area integrating sightseeing, vacation, tourism, shopping, leisure and entertainment.
Climate Characteristics of Gulangyu Island in Xiamen
Gulangyu is a subtropical monsoon climate, warm and humid, with superior light and heat conditions. The seasonal changes of the four seasons are quite regular: the spring monsoon turns from northeast to south, from cold to warm, and the rainfall increases; In summer, there are typhoons and thunderstorms, which bring coolness to hot days, and sometimes there are typhoons; Autumn is rainy and sunny; There is a northeast monsoon in winter, which is cold but not cold. The sea-land wind 00: 15-06: 15 is extremely obvious every hour, and it often blows from the west to the northwest from midnight to noon, and from the afternoon to the southeast wind before midnight.
The summer monsoon is generally from southeast to southwest, with an average of only 2-3. Thunderstorms are most frequent from May to August, and1February is a lightning-free period, and thunderstorms often cause heavy rain. Sea fog is produced from November to June of the following year, with the most in March. Dense fog usually occurs at midnight and in the morning, lasting for up to 3 days, and the shortest is 1 hour.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Gulangyu