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| | Guantou Ridge [edit this] | | Guantou Ridge, 8km away from the urban, lies down at the southwest end like a green dragon with the ridge length of 6km. The highest peak is 120 meters high. Climbing up to peak, sunrise, sunset, great waves and the charming lights on fishing boats at night are all within your eyeshot. Facing the sea, there are erosive flat and stiff cluffs which are strewn at random with all kinds of postures. At the root of the mountain, there is a cliff named Dragon King, in front of which the tide sound is thunderous. | Edit by: Tom | |
| Dongpo Pavilion [edit this] | | Dongpo Pavilion is located in Hepu teachers school. Su Dongpo lived in Qingye garden during the third year of Yuanfu in Song Dynasty. Although two-mouth living is a short time, he created some poems like “Lianzhou longan delicious enouth to rival litchi” and “Staying in Jingxing yard on a rainy night” and some notes as “Hepu old men's saying” etc. In order to commemorate him, later generations constructed Dongpo Pavilion which has been rebuilt later in the site of the former Qingye garden. It's a two-layer pavilion style with a brick and timber structure like Resting Peak . Above the front door of the main pavilion hangs a big word board “Dongpo Pavilion” which was written by Tie Buddhist in Six Banyan Temple of Guangzhou. In the front wall of the pavilion set a carved status Su Dongpo and steles of ten works of his poems and articles.
A well named Dongpo is to the east of the pavilion which was dug by Su Dongpo himself on old saying and its water is clear and sweet. In the east side of the pavilion is a Dongpo Garden in the middle of the lake. The murmuring lake water gently flows and weeping willows serve good shade and all of this make up a beautiful scenery. Dongpo Pavilion became an key historical relics protection unit and Hepu tourist site in the county. | Edit by: Tom | |
| Graves of Han Dynasty [edit this] | | Graves of Han Dynasty are three kilometers southeast of Lianzhou Town of Hepu County. They belong to ancient Chinese graves over a thousand years ago.
Ancient Chinese graves are divided into earth pit graves and brick pit graves. Those who were mostly government officials and their assistants coming from the south and immigrants were buried with many mortuary objects after they died in Hepu because honourable burial prevailed in Han Dynasty. Unearthed artifacts of these years include copper phoenix lamp, copper house, pearl, agate, amber, pottery house, ceramics ect.
These relics provide life historical information for us to study our ancient military, art, culture, politics, economy and friendly contacts and trade with people of Southeast Asia countries. It belongs to the key relics protection unit of Guangxi Autonomous Region. | Edit by: Tom | |
| City Church of Weizhou Island [edit this] | | City Church of Weizhou Island, built around 1880, named Goddess Church, was established by Abba Li of French Catholicism. A three-floor bell tower with 4.5 meters wide, 14 meters high stands in front of the church. The Word “Goddess Church” is carved on the front of the bell tower. At the back of church is a 265 sq.meters quadrate church. City Church of Weizhou Island is a typical gothic church. It's an only Goddess Church in Beihai showing French Catholicism introduced to Weizhou Island in modern history. Now the church is administrated by Catholicism Patriot Association of Weizhou Island. | Edit by: Tom | |
| Dashi Pavilion [edit this] | | Dashi pavilion, which is located in Yong'an Village of Shankou Town 85 kilometers southeast of Hepu County, is also called four-row building. The attic of the pavilion was once used for sacrificing to Guanyin. Hence the name Dashi Pavilion.
It was built at the beginning of Ming Dynasty and was rebuilt once during the year of Daoguang of Qing Dynasty. It's one of the old buildings which is closest to the sea in China.
The whole building is a beautiful and solid entity because of its reasonable and harmonious structure. According to annals, Hepu suffered storm attacks and earthquake from Ming Dynasty to Qing Dynasty, many farmhouses collapsed a couple of kilometers around but only Dashi Pavilion stands intact. The pagoda is of great scientific and artistic research value in architecture. Dashi pagoda is listed as a national key relics protection unit. | Edit by: Tom | |
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