Buddha Island

Buddha Island, located in the Bohai Sea Gulf southwest of Laoting County, is an international base for watching birds and an ecological tourist model area at provincial level, covering 2.34 square kilometers. Sandy hills around the island look like mortars. Thus it enjoys another name: Mortar Island.

The natural environment of Buddha Island is untouched, with more than 260 varieties of plants covering 98 percents of it. Odd-shaped flowers and grass are seen here and there. So many bodhi trees on it make a wonderful sight in North China. In addition, wood excelsior and cecelastruss articulates are rarely seen north of the Yellow River Bodhi Island is the home of 408 species of birds and a transfer station on their migration. Sixty-one of them belong to Slate-Level 1 or 2 protection. Black-mouthed seagulls, the stump-tailed albatross and other rare birds are seen frequently here. The sites of Chaoyang Temple in the Ming Dynasty and Chaoyin Temple in the Qing Dynasty are clearly seen. Perhaps Buddhism prospered at that time.

Buddha Island is blessed with antiquity, privacy, wildness, wonder and leisure. Here are mist around the island, dancing crabs on the seashore, ancient wood sculpture, military castles, spring water and others. The mysteries of circle, fire and voice are hard to understand. Legend says that the Tang Emperor Li Shimin once stayed on this island. The myth of Zhou Sheng and Precious Pearl, Monk Faben's lighting the lantern with a finger and other stories are popular. Bodhi Island is full of wonders of wildness, sea, sand, majesty, greenery, birds, sun and moon and Buddhism that eight islands have.

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