The 1.8-square-kilometer Gulangyu Island has gone through the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Communist Concession, the Japanese and Puppet Rules, the National Government, and the People's Government. The 30 road and place names to this day have undergone vicissitudes. There is a way to find out its origin.
Gulangyu Island - an elliptical terrain, surrounded by sandy beaches, "island in the river" (those who can live in the water are called islands), therefore, it was called "Yuanshazhou" in the Tang Dynasty, commonly known as "Yuanzhouzai", and its administrative structure It was also named "Shazhou Capital". At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, fishermen from the Songyu Li family came to reclaim the southwest corner of the island and discovered a sea cave. It made a drum sound when the wind and waves hit it, and was commonly known as "Gulang Stone"; in the Ming Dynasty, a mountain stone was also found at the foot of Sunlight Rock. , the sound is similar to a drum; in the first year of Wanli, Quanzhou Tongzhi Ding Yizhong inscribed the stone "Gulang Cave Sky" on Sunlight Rock, and the name of Gulangyu was determined. "Gulang Cave" has become one of the "Eight Scenic Spots" in Xiamen. Gulangyu Island is also known as the "Garden on the Sea", "Music Island", "Qindao" and "International Architecture Expo".
Gusheng Road - crosses Quanzhou Road and Kangtai Road. There is "Gulang Stone" on the seashore, which is named after the sound of the sea tide hitting the stone is like the sound of a drum. This section of the road is commonly known as "Five Pai". It is said that there was a group of tombs with five side-by-side tombstones ("pai" in dialect) in the early days. It is also said that in the late Qing Dynasty, the Fang and Huang families fought for the cemetery. Therefore, "In December of the 14th year of Daoguang's reign, the Chief of Coastal Defense of Qinjia Prefecture was stationed in the Xiamen branch of the town, and it was for the affairs of the Fang family's ancestral tomb mountain." The decision was made to set up notice boards, and five signs were erected one after another, hence the name. A cave opened near Gusheng Road in 1988 and is still named after the road as "Gusheng Cave".
Guxin Road - intersects Neicuo'ao Road, Sanming Road and Fuzhou Road. The British businessman Hutchison & Co., Ltd. originally built an inn here. It was named after the place named "Hutchison Road". There is a pier dedicated to foreign companies on the seaside called "Hutchison Road Head", and there is a slope nearby, commonly known as "Hutchison Qi". When the Pacific War broke out and Japan occupied Gulangyu Island in August 1943, the Japanese and puppet regime established a Place Name Correction Committee to abolish all place names with the words British, American and industry in them, and also changed Hutchison Road to "Restoration Road", which embodies the "Meiji Restoration" meaning. After liberation, the name was changed. In the middle of the road is the "Bagua Tower" (today's museum). There is also a slope leading to Yinghua Academy (now No. 2 Middle School), formerly known as "Academy Road".
Neicuoao Road - crosses Kangtai Road and Ping Ping Road. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, fishermen of the Li family of Songyu came here to park their fishing boats to take shelter from the wind, and gradually opened up a half-fishing and half-agricultural village, hence the name "Licuo'ao" ??(cuo means residence in dialect and means village; 'ao means sea-going ship). mooring place). Later, the miscellaneous surname ***ju, with Li and Li having the same pronunciation, and Li and Nei having the same meaning, was transformed into "Neicuo'ao". When the village was built, a small nunnery was built to worship Wu Kui (it was later moved to Sisong and named "Zhongde Palace" to distinguish it from the "Grand Palace" on Huangyan Road, commonly known as "Neicuoao Grand Palace"). The river in front of the nunnery also It was called "Jiu'an River" and became the common name of the old section of Neicuo'ao road. There are also "Jimei Road" named after Jimei Town, the tower-shaped "Nine-Story Tower" with 99 stone steps going straight up Bijiashan, the "Dajingjiao" named after the water well, and the "Ten Tower" named after the 18 cement laundry troughs. "Eight-legged bucket" is also the common name of the old road section.
Kangtai Road—intersects Xinghua Road and Gusheng Road. Neicuo O fishermen catch "gongdao" (a kind of tidal shellfish) from the shallows of the bay to feed ducks, so it is commonly known as "gongdao Bay". Later, the dialect was refined into "Kangtai'an" ('an' is a dialect, meaning gentle slope. It is also commonly known as "Kangtai'an", which means that the terrain is like an saddle. The old section of "Songyu Road" is named after It is named after the ancestral home of the pioneers.
Longtou Road - it intersects Zhonghua Road and Gu Ferry. It is named after the first end of the road is located under Longtou Mountain (the old name of Sunlight Rock). The old road section is: Gulangyu's first electric light factory. "Dian Deng Alley" named after the location; "Rixing Street" opened by Huang Yizhu and named after Huang's "Rixing Bank" in Xiamen; "Mahjong Street" named after the mahjong tiles (dialectal mahjong tiles) workshop ; The "Tongshang Pier" and the "Fuji Pier" dedicated to Fuji Rice Shop were renovated by Huang Zhongxun, and the "Huangjiadu" was named after the clan clan.
Huangyan Road - intersects with Fujian Road and Ganghou. Road. In the Ming Dynasty, Chi Xianfang built a hut under Sunlight Rock called "Bamboo Forest" and named it "Huangyuan". It can be seen that Sunlight Rock has been called Huangyan for a long time. The road starting from the bottom of the rock is called Huangyan Road, and its beginning is also commonly known as "Huangyan Road". "Yanzaijiao" (now Yongchun Road).
The old section of the road has the "Foreign Tomb Kou" (commonly known as Fan Tsai Tomb Kou) because there was a foreign (dialect Fan Tsai) cemetery beside the road; Fan Tsai Qiupu (formerly a foreigner stadium, now the People's Stadium); Dagongkou (road There was originally "Xingxian Palace" next to it).
Ganghou Road - runs across Huangyan Road and Tianwei Road. It is named because it is near the back beach of Aberdeen. Its road section was formerly known as "Valley Road" and Haiqian Road, both of which are famous for being located near mountains and seas.
Gushan Road - Hengjie Anhai Road and Bishan Road. It is named after Gushan in Fuzhou, which also means "Mountain of Gulangyu Island". It is a tripartite with Gusheng Road and Guxin Road. They are all preceded by the word "gu" and both belong to the Neicuo'ao area.
Lujiao Road - a multi-directional intersection with Longtou Road, Fujian Road, Zhangzhou Road and Guludu. It is named after the deer-ear-shaped reef on the nearby beach. Lujiao Road was originally divided into two sections: the upper section was called "Dingluerjiao" and the lower section was called "Xialuerjiao" (later classified as Fujian Road). The old names of its sections include: "Pok Oi Road" (the former location of Japan's Pok Oi Hospital); "Church Road" (the location of the Catholic Church); "Singapore Road" (after a foreign name).
Fujian Road—intersects Lujiao Road, Huangyan Road and Fuxing Road. It is composed of Luzon Road, Manila Road, Xuewu Road (all named after places in the Philippines), and Tongan Road, and is named after Fujian Province.
Fuzhou Road—intersects Longtou Road, Jinxiang Road, and Sanming Road. It was commonly known as "An Haijiao" in the past. After liberation, it was composed of "Hong Kong Road", "Guangdong Road", "Shantou Road" and "Nanjing Lane", and was named after the capital of Fujian Province.
Zhangzhou Road—intersects Huangyan Road, Zhonghua Road, and Fuxing Road. Xunyuan Middle School was established here from 1907 to 1925. Most of the students were from Zhangzhou, hence the name. "Ma Jun Road" (Pastor John Ma of the London Guild once lived here, named after his surname), "Dade Ji" (the British businessman De Ji's foreign trade company "capitalized" lived here in the mid-19th century, named after his business name and professional title) (name), "Lijiazhuang", and "Liaocuo" (all named after private residences), are all old or common names for their road sections.
Yongchun Road - a multi-directional road crossing between Neicuo'ao and Huangyan Road. Named after Yongchun County. In the early years, mangoes were planted, which was commonly known as "Guzijiao", which was the old common name of this section of the road.
Anhai Road—intersects Guxin Road and Yongchun Road. It is named after Anhai in Jinjiang. "Longkeng Well" (there is a well with water as sweet as "dragon liquid"), "Heshan Road" (named after the suburbs of Xiamen), "Litchie House", and "Zhonglou" (all are private residences, or there are lychees or towers planted in the house) There is a clock shape on the top, so it is named after it), which is the old common name for this section of the road.
Sanming Road - crosses Guxin Road and Fuzhou Road. Named after Sanming City. It was formerly known as Sanhe Road (so named after the Fujian Navy Admiral built the "Sanhe Palace" here in the Qing Dynasty). "Three hills of fields" (there were three hills of fields in the early days) is the common name for this section of the road.
Haitan Road—intersects Longtou Road and Yongchun Road. It is named after Haitan County in Fujian Province. It was filled in by Longtou River, so it is commonly known as "Heziqian". "Bamboo Forest" (original bamboo trees) was the old name for this section of the road.
Xinghua Road - runs across Kangtai Road and Yanwei Mountain (shaped like a swallow's tail). There is a slaughterhouse in Linhai and a "pig ridge" wharf dedicated to pigs shipped from Xinghua area, hence the name Xinghua Road.
Jishan Road—intersects Kangtai Road and Quanzhou Road. It is named after the nearby Ji Mu Mountain. It is also commonly known as "Jimu Zuikou" because it is located at Jimu Mountain Pass. "Gongshan Road" (Gongshan Mountain) is the old name of this road section.
Tianwei Road - located on the shore of the beach. It is said that in the early years, the Hong family of Maxiang cultivated fields here until the end of the seaside, hence the name. It is also said that during farming at that time, water and soil were lost and washed down the beach, forming a ditch over time and resembling five dragons. Therefore, the older generation called Gulangyu Island "Five Dragon Island".
Ping Ping Road - runs between Neicuo'ao and Yongchun Road. It was originally named "Baoshun Lane" because senior staff of the German businessman Baoshun Yang Company lived here. During the Japanese-Puppet period, it was renamed Gongping Road. One section of the road is commonly known as "Tree Orchid Foot" because of the orchids that were planted there in the past.
Zhonghua Road—intersects Anhai Road and Tianwei Road. Because it is located in the middle of the island, it was called "Middle Road" in the early days. Later, it merged with "Cao Pu Zai" (Hua Cai Cao) and was named Zhonghua Road because of the flowers in Tonghua. "Chujiayuan" and "Leichuo" (both private residences) were the old common names for this section of the road.
Wudai Road—intersects Zhonghua Road and Yongchun Road. It was originally called "Wudaijiao" (because the sludge from the original "Tui Gong River" was used to fill in the road, and because "the water was blocked into a weir called Dai", so it was named. "Jinyucheng" (old private goldfish breeding Chidi for sale) is the old name of this road section.
Market Road - it intersects Haitan Road and Huangyan Road. In 1927, Wang applied for a patent construction market from the "Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau", hence the name "Shima". The old common names for this road section are "Alley" (named after Shima Town), "Luzhujiao" (the original species includes Arundo japonica), and "Guogujiao" (the original storyteller's place; storytellers told ancient stories in dialect).
Fuxing Road - crosses Lujiao Road, Zhangzhou Road, "Liziyuan" (originally planted with pear trees), Dongshanshan Road, Tong'an Road (named after the place in the province), etc. are all the old or commonly known names of the Xinhai Revolution. , Chinese Renaissance, named after its beautiful words.
Jinxiang Road - intersecting Longtou Road and Fuzhou Road. After the First World War, the former Indonesian overseas Chinese Guo Chunyang built shophouses here for rent. The name of the tea shop opened in Xiamen is "Jinxiang".
Qishan Road - Hengjie Fuxing Road, Shengqi Mountain Foothills (in 1877, Xiamen Customs established Bailu Cave as a port stop, The "Flag Raising Platform" where strong winds were forecast and the flag was moved was originally called "Mile Mountain" and later called "Shiku Mountain", hence the name)
Qiwei Road - intersects Gusheng Road and Huangyan. Road, Ganghou Road. It was named because of the nearby "Qiwei Mountain" (today's Yingxiong Mountain).
It crosses Zhonghua Road, Yongchun Road and Haitan Road in 1916. After swimming from Nantaiwu Mountain, he was shot here, hence the name.
Bishan Road - Intersecting with Neicuo'ao Road, Gushan Road is in the shape of a pen stand. "The foot of Bijia Mountain" (common name), hence the name.
"Houcuo Road" (named after the residential buildings behind the mountain) is the old name of this road section. It is bounded between the two major areas of Neicuo'ao and Longtou. , a peacetime and wartime air defense tunnel that penetrated Bijia Mountain and was transformed into an underground passage in 1975, also named "Bishan Cave"
Huandao Road - newly opened in 1987, starting from Guzhou Ferry. , passing by Haoyue Garden, Dadeji Bathing Beach, Guanhai Garden, Shuzhuang Garden, Yanping Park, Hong Kong Back Beach, Gusheng Cave, Subtropical Plant Introduction Field, Meihua Beach, Sanqiutian Tourist Pier, Sailing Club, Gulang The park and other tourist attractions return to the Drum Ferry and go around the island, hence the name.