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Zhangzhou Seashore Volcanic National Geo-parkGood morning, ladies and gentlemen.Welcome to Xiamen.Let me introduce our team first. Mr. Zhang is our driver. He has ten years of driving under his belt, so you are always in safe hands. I am David Chung, your tour guide from Xiamen U-young Travel Company. I have been a guide for more than three years. On behalf of U-Young Travel Company and my colleagues, I would like to extend a warm welcome to you and wish you have a good stay in Xiamen. If you have any problems and requirements, please do not hesitate to tell me, you are always welcomed.Today we will go to visit Zhangzhou Seashore Volcanic National Geo-park. It will take us about 1.5 hour to reach it from Xiamen.Zhangzhou is located on the lower reaches of the Jiulong River in the southeast of Fujian Province. It was one of Chinas chief ports for foreign trade in early times and is still a distribution center for commercial cargoes on the Jiulong River. The area around the city is rich in oranges, tangerines, bananas, shaddocks, longans, litchis, pineapples, and many others fruits. Zhangzhou has a developed food-processing industry. Todays Zhangzhou is not only famous for fruit and flower, but also for its volcanic Geo-park. Ladies and gentlemen, it has become a common way in the world to set up national parks to efficiently protect important and unique geological heritages, which have been formed during the long history of the earth. By now, 44 national geo-parks have been established in China, which are famous for their peculiar geological buildups. 8 national geo-parks are applying for World Geo-parks among them. They present some features of national geo-parks of China, expecting that people all over the world will understand and enjoy them.These national geo-parks are vast in territory and complex in geological and geographical features. Many unique landscapes have been created during the long earth history. In east China, there is the so-called Volcanic Museum of China - the beach volcanic scenic sites in Zhangzhou of Fujian province. It covers an area of 318.64 square kilometers.The park, located in southeast Chinas Fujian Province, is characterized by the ancient Niutoushan crater in the East China Sea, one of only several intact elliptical craters on the seabed in the world. The diameter of this crater is several dozen meters, and its central part is sunken slightly. According to experts, this volcano has erupted three times, and the latest eruption took place 22 million years ago. The magmatic rocks around the crater have been eroded by waves into piles of reeves that are various in shapes and closely interlocking. More exciting and attractive are the numerous 2-feet-high basalt pillars located on the seabed near the shore. Covering an area of nearly 7000 hectares, these pillars angle towards the deep sea, and are reminiscent of the famous terra-cotta warriors and horses of the Qin Dynasty (BC221-BC207).The volcanic park is composed of several parts such as Linjin Islet, Xiangshan Tourism Area, Nanding Island Stone Pillar Forest and etc. Dont worry, David will introduce all these beautiful palaces to you.Wuyi Mountain (Mt. Wuyi)Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.Welcome to Wuyishan.Let me introduce our team first. Mr. Zhang is our driver. He has ten years of driving under his belt, so you are always in safe hands. I am David Chung, your tour guide from Wuyishan U-young Travel Company. I have been a guide for more than three years. On behalf of U-Young Travel Company and my colleagues, I would like to extend a warm welcome to you and wish you have a good stay in Wuyishan. If you have any problems and requirements, please do not hesitate to tell me, you are always welcome.Today I am glad to lead you to visit Wuyi Mountain. It is about 15 kilometers south of Wuyishan City in Fujian Province. It will take us half hour to reach it from center of Wuyishan City.With its stunning scenery and wealth of cultural relics, in December 1999, Wuyi Mountain was put on the list of World Cultural and Natural Heritage by the UN World Heritage Committee, thus becoming the fourth in China after Mt. Taishan, Mt. Huangshan, and Mt. Emei. Mount Wuyi is one of the most outstanding subtropical forests in the world. It is the largest, most representative example of a largely intact forest encompassing the diversity of the Chinese Subtropical Forest and the South Chinese Rainforest. It acts as a refuge for a large number of ancient, relict plant species, many of them endemic to China and contains large numbers of reptile, amphibian and insect species. In 1988 it was listed as one of the worlds biosphere protection areas. The rive line landscape of Nine-Bend Stream (lower gorge) is also of exceptional scenic quality in its juxtaposition of smooth rock cliffs with clear, deep water. Besides, human settlement on the slopes of Mount Wuyi can be traced back 4,000 years by archeological remains. During the Western Han Dynasty, the ancient city of Chengcun was the capital of the Minyue kingdom. In the 7th century, the Wuyi Palace was built for emperors to conduct sacrificial activities. The mountains were an important center of Taoism and later Buddhism. Remains of 35 academies erected from the era of the Northern Song to the Qin Dynasty and more than 60 Taoist temples and monasteries have been located. At that time, Mount Wuyi was the cradle of Neo-Confucianism, a doctrine that played a dominant role in the countries of Eastern and South-Eastern Asia for many centuries and influenced philosophy and government over much of the world.Thanks to the superlative craftsmanship of nature, Wuyi Mountain has attracted an endless flow of tourists since ancient times. The most famous tourist attractions include the Jiuqu (Nine-Bend) River, Tianyou Peak, Waterfall Cave, Huxiao (Roaring Tiger) Rock, Wuyi Palace, Skyline (Yixian Tian) and so on.Nine Bend (Jiuqu) Stream It would be a wonderful experience to drift down this river on a bamboo raft through the whole 9 twists and 18 bends. Each bend has its own unique landscape. The water is so clear that you can see the stones at the bottom. Floating on a bamboo raft along the stream, you may raise your head to appreciate the towering mountains, and lower it to listen to the flowing water, and touch it with your hands. This spectacular landscape with water and hills has given the area the reputation of being the unparalleled scenic wonder in Southeast China.Suspended planks and boat-shaped coffins can still be seen on the precipices on both banks of the Nine Bend Stream and on the northern side of the mountains. Water Curtain CaveWith an area of 17 square kilometres, the Water Curtain Cave is the largest rock cavern in Wuyi Mountain. The cave is 100 meters high and wide. It is very spacious and bright inside the cave, where altars were built for memorizing three outstanding literates of the Song Dynasty. In front of the cave, bubbles formed in a clear stream resemble a collection of white pearls being tossed over the rapids. Sometimes gusts of wind sweep up water droplets moving in all directions and forming a beautiful curtain of water. For more than 1000 years, literates have flocked here to write poems and prose praising the place for its enchanting beauty. Tiger Howling Rock Tiger Howling (Huxiao) Rock rises straight from the ground. It is imposing and powerful. One may feel puzzled about the name of the rock. A legend has it that once a supernatural being passed the rock astride a tiger. Every time the tiger got on the rock, he heard an orotund sound of a tiger roaring. He felt puzzled and wanted to find where the sound generated, but he got no answer. However, today this mystery has been unveiled. In the middle of the rock there is a huge cave. When the wind blows through the cave it makes a sound like a tiger roaring. Sometimes the mountains seem to be shaking. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.Welcome to Putian.Let me introduce our team first. Mr. Zhang is our driver. He has ten years of driving under his belt, so you are always in safe hands. I am David Chung, your tour guide from Putian U-young Travel Company. I have been a guide for more than three years. On behalf of U-Young Travel Company and my colleagues, I would like to extend a warm welcome to you and wish you have a good stay in Putian. If you have any problems and requirements, please do not hesitate to tell me, you are always welcome.Today we will go to visit Mazu Temple in Mezhou Island. It will take us about 1.5 hours from city center of Putian. On the way to Meizhou Island, I like to share some information about Mazu and Mazu culture.Over 1,000 years ago, a beautiful young girl by the name of Lin M was born at the Xianliang Port of Meizhou Bay in Putian, Fujian Province. Clever, brave and kindhearted, Lin Mu could forecast the weather and was happy to help fishermen in distress at sea. She encouraged the people to conquer nature and defeat evil, so she was much loved and esteemed by the people in her hometown. Unfortunately she died an early death at only 28. As the legend goes, she ascended to heaven and became an immortal at Meizhou Bay located opposite to the Xianliang Port. For more over 1,000 years, she has been living, with a composed and tender smile, in the hearts of the people. The people pay homage to her, respectfully calling her fairy, the daughter of dragon, goddness, the mother or Mazu (a title of respect for an aged woman): rulers of past dynasties upheld her and granted her the titles of Lady, Heavenly Queen and Holy Mother; the times have bestowed her a series of loveable and respected names such as Goddess of the Sea, Goddness of the the Straits and Goddess of Peace of the Straits. She is none other than the world-renowned Mazu, goddess of the sea, of Fujian, China. The respect for Mazu has turned into a wide-spread belief with the passage of time. Following the footprints of sea merchants and overseas Chinese, Mazu went out of Putian, out of Fujian and out of China, making her presence in many corners of Asia, America, Australia and Europe. Consequently, over 1,500 Mazu temples are found all over the world, where Muzu from Meizhou are consecrated. The belief in Mazu has become a sort of transnational folk belief with more than 100 million worshippers. However, different from a religion in the ordinary sense, is a special kind of ideology connected with chorology, religion, folklore, sociology as well as the history of sea communication overseas Chinese, culture and the development of Fujian and Taiwan. For geographical and historical reasons, the belief in Mazu at Taiwan has turned out to be a popular belief. According to statistics, more than two-thirds of Taiwanese believe in Mazu, and more than 500 Mazu temples are scattered on Taiwan Island. In the wake of improving relations between both sides of the Straits, tens of thousands of Taiwan compatriots swarmed to the Meizhou Island to dedicate their piety at Mazu temples to fulfill their sincere wish which they had cherished for decades. The unique Mazu Pilgrim Tour will undoubtedly breakthrough the artificial hedge standing between the people on both sides of the Straits.Mazu Ancestral TempleAfter she passed away, a temple was built on Meizhou Island in 987 to offer sacrifices to and in memory of Mazu. It was the earliest Mazu Temple in the world, and enjoyed the honorific title of Ancestral Temple. The Ancestral Temple keeps the Mazus gold body of Song Dynasty, the stone statue of Mazu, stone-carved royal instruction and a seal presented by an emperor of Qing Dynasty, which reveal the profound historical origin of Mazu culture. For hundreds of years people have been burning incense at the Meizhou Mazu Temple, although it has been rebuilt and extended many times. In recent years the temple has undergone further repairs and reconstruction and has now reached an unprecedented scale.Behind the temple gate is the Heavenly Ladder, a flight of 150 steep stone steps leading up to a huge stone ceremonial gateway. Behind the gateway， it is a large square with a platform in the centre and a Drum Tower and Bell Tower on either side. If you walk up the stone steps along the central axis between the two towers you come to the Main Hall of the temple.The magnificent Main Hall has a nine-ridged roof with upturned double eaves. On the front terrace of the Main Hall are two stone columns with exquisitely-carved coiling dragons, and inside the hall is a statue of Mazu. The Main Hall and the square are where the memorial ceremonies are held for Mazu every year. All kinds of activities such as performances, operas and acrobatics take place here. But the busiest place, the place where all worshippers come to burn incense, is Tianhou Hall, located just behind the Main Hall.Tianhou Hall, also known as Chamber Hall, enjoys paramount prestige in the minds of believers because it was the first place where Mazu was ever worshipped. It is in fact the temples ancestral hall and holds two statues of Mazu. The one in front is known as Mazu Parading the Sky, as it can be carried in a parade; the one at the rear is a cla