Trace the Heritage Hostnig On Kulangsu (“世遗寻踪”将在鼓浪屿举行)
To follow President Xi’s direction on maintaining the culture heritage of Kulangsu Island, the Xiamen Mid-autumn Travel Carnival will promote complement event, Trace the Heritage, which will combine the Carnival story with Kulangsu culture heritage to enhance local citizen and tourists’ knowledges about Bo Bing culture and World Cultural Heritage. The event will be hosting on […]
Kulangsu: Davily Visitors Will Be Limited To Fifty Thousand People During National Holiday(鼓浪屿:十一黄金周日接待量最多不超5万人)
The golden week during national holiday is coming, and the Xinhua reporter has interviewed Kulangsu government official and realized that the amount of daily visitors (including local citizen) to the island will be limited to 50,000 only. Xiamen Kulangsu Scenic Area Administrative Committee and Ferry Company notice all tourists coming to Xiamen that in order […]
Gallery Inn, Gu Yi (Hua Lang Lü Guan, Gu Yi Dian 画廊旅馆, 故驿店)
This special, relatively isolated bed-and-breakfast and café has a garden uphill from the new Kulangsu Gallery of Foreign Artifacts from the Palace Museum Collection (Gu Lang Yu Wai Guo Wen Wu Bo Wu Guan 鼓浪屿外国文物博物馆). Because of its elevated location, the space gets terrific sunlight. On a beautiful day, you may be tempted to hang […]
Xu Fei Ping 许斐平
Xu Fei Ping was born in 1952 on Kulangsu Island. His father was a priest and his mother was a pianist at a church. Growing up in a Christian family which has rich musical atmosphere, Xu Fei Ping was enriched by what he saw and heard, and showed his amazing receptivity and understanding of music from an incredibly […]
Street Ukeleles (You ke li li jietou yiren 尤克里里街头艺人)
These two licensed street artists provide some of the street-music atmosphere for which Kulangsu Island was once famous. Two colorful men hang out near the Marine Garden Hotel, on opposite sides of the dramatic typhoon-struck tree, playing and selling cheap ukeleles. Music includes a variety of Chinese folk songs, plus frequent renditions of “Gulangyu Zhi […]