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General Introduction
Sitting
at the southernmost tip of China, Hainan Province
is separated from Guangdong Province on the
mainland by the Qiongzhou Strait. Established
as a province in April 1988, Hainan covers an
area of 34,000 square kilometers, including
Hainan Island and the Xisha, Nansha, and Zhongsha
islands and their surrounding territorial waters.
Hainan includes people of Han, Li, Miao and
Hui backgrounds who live happily together. The
population of the province has reached 6.7 million,
among which 1 million are members of ethnic
minorities and 1.2 million returned overseas
Chinese.
A
promising future lies ahead for Hainan’s tourist
industry. Its two main pillars of tourist interest
are Haikou and Sanya. The major drawing cards
of the former are the Tomb of Hai Rui, Memorial
Temple of Five Lords (Wugongci) and coconut
tree groves in Dongjiao County. The latter offers
a variety of choices such as the Remotest End
of the Earth and Corner of the Ocean (Tianya
Haijiao), Bay of Greater East Sea, Monkeys Island
at Nanwan, Center of Touring Stockade Villages
of the Li and Miao Peoples, and National Holiday
Center ay Yalongwan.
What
particularly attracts tourists, both domestic
and foreign, to Hainan is its characteristic
beauty of south China with sunshine, beaches,
sea water and hot springs. As a result if recent
efforts Hainan has completed and put into use
a series of holiday resorts with high-level
hotels, becoming a fabulous competitor in the
tourist market of East Asia. Leading festival
are the Hainan International Festival of Coconuts
and “Third Day of Third Lunar Month” Festival.
Beach
Resort at Guilinyang
Eighteen kilometers from Haikou and four kilometers
from Meilan International Airport, the Beach
Resort at Guilinyang is easy to reach. A 6.8-kilometer-long
silver coastline links two delicate and beautiful
bays together to form the Coastal Resort at
Guilinyang. Now shallow water ripples at the
northeastern part of the coastal resort, but
originally 172 villages stood there before an
earthquake in 1605 buried them under sea, transforming
them into a world-famous wonder known as the
“villages at the Sea Bottom (Haidi Cunzhuang)”.
At present, a number of large-scale entertainment
and recuperation programs, such as the Holiday
Resort, International Games Village, Thailand
Fruits Garden and World Wonder Park are nearing
completion.
Hainan
Deer Farm
Situated in Lingshan County, Qiongshan, the
Hainan Deer Farm is a breeding center that has
streamlined research, production, processing
and marketing. It now raises a variety of rare
species of deer, such as the sika deer, with
their number exceeding 600 heads. Many products,
more than 10 series of them, have been put on
the market as tourist commodities. These include
such products as deer placenta paste, dried
deer meat, dear bone liquor, and deer fat.
Qiongtai
Academy
The Qiongtai Academy is situated at Wenzhauang
Road in Fucheng County, Qiongshan. Construction
of the academy was first initiated in 1705,
the 44 th year after Emperor Kangxi of the Qing
Dynasty ascended the throne. It is said that
Qiongtai Academy was built in memory of Qiu
Jun – the most gifted scholar of Hainan, who
was a Grand Academician of the Ming Dynasty.
Now 280 years have passed, but the academy is
as elegant as it was in its prime days. Exquisitely
ornamented with carved beams and painted rafters,
the Tower of the God of Literature (Kuixinglou)
in the academy still stands calmly under the
cooling shade of green trees. From its graceful
beauty and serenity, one can still get much
of the feeling of the past. The Qiongtai Academy,
once the highest center of learning in Qiongzhou,
was a necessary threshold over which men of
learning needed to pass to seek an official
post.
Memorial
Temple of Five Lords
Where Haikou and Qiongshan border on each other,
an impressive array of ancient buildings await
the arrival of tourists who have an eye for
architectural beauty. The group is comprised
of temples, gardens and the houses of five famous
ministers of the Tang and Song dynasties. Construction
of these ancient buildings began during the
reign of Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty.
The group takes its name from its main building,
which is also called the Memorial Temple of
Five Lords. Nine meters in height, the temple
is a two-story wooden building covering a floor-space
of 560 square meters. During the Tang and Song
dynasties, five outstanding ministers were demoted
and exiled to Hainan-the bleak end of the earth
at that time. And it was to them that the temple
was dedicated. With a golden-glazed board reading
“Number One Building of Hainan” hung at the
front, the temple has become the most popular
site among Hainan’s cultural relics.
Hainan
China Ethic Culture Village
Situated in the “Jadeite City” of Tongshen,
the Hainan China Ethnic Culture Village is a
cultural and tourist zone featuring the folklore
o the Chinese people of different ethnic backgrounds.
Upon entering the village, the tourist is greeted
with authentic ethnic buildings of diverse architectural
styles as if he has suddenly found himself in
a real village of the said ethnic groups. Hainan
China Ethnic Culture Village is an ideal place
to savor and appreciate the folkways as well
as scenery of various ethnic minorities.
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