Beihai, the hometown of Nanzhu.
Beihai is a beautiful coastal city, known as "Beidaihe in the South" and "Hawaii" in the East. Beihai City is located at the southern end of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, with its back to the southwest and facing Southeast Asia. Land and sea are adjacent to Guangdong, Hainan, Hongkong, Macau and Vietnam, and have unique geographical advantages in the southwest of China and the Asia-Pacific Economic Zone. 1984 became one of the first coastal port cities in China to further open to the outside world. It is an important exit of the southwest sea passage. The urban area is 957 square kilometers, with a total population of 6.5438+0.45 million, including 520,000 in the urban area.
Beihai and Hepu are rich in Nanzhu, which has a production history of more than 2,000 years. Since ancient times, Phyllostachys pubescens has been famous all over the world for its dignified, huge, crystal clear and brilliant luster. Ancient emperors and generals regarded it as a luxury and could not put it down. In order to satisfy their desires, they took advantage of this opportunity to send officials to the coastal area of Hepu to search for the treasures of Nanzhu, forcing the people to live in poverty, resulting in a tragic scene of "collecting pearls at the bottom of the waves, blood accumulating in seawater, a thousand villages and a half, and a bamboo house without a vase or millet", forcing pearl collectors to collect pearls everywhere and staged tragic stories, which were widely circulated among the people and gradually formed a Nanzhu culture represented by Hepu Zhu Huan. The history of two thousand years has endowed Beihai with rich humanistic connotations. Dongpo Pavilion, which has a history of 900 years, Wenchang Pagoda and Kuixing Pagoda built in Ming and Qing Dynasties are all places of interest in Hepu. Yong 'an Dashige is a national key cultural relic protection unit. Beihai has a long history and its ancestors lived in the Neolithic Age. It has always been an important port for foreign trade in southwest China, and it is also one of the original ports of the ancient Maritime Silk Road.
Beihai is named because the north of the city is close to the sea. It was first seen in the early years of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, and it began to be called the city from Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty. 1876 Sino-British Yantai Treaty establishes a trading port. 1949 was liberated on February 4th. At that time, it was a town under the jurisdiction of Hepu County. 10, 19565438 was changed to the municipality of Guangdong province. In May of the same year, it was entrusted to the leaders of Guangxi Province. 1952 was officially assigned to Guangxi in March, 1955. 1959 was changed to a county-level town, 1964 was restored to a county-level city, and1965 was transferred to Guangxi in June. 1982 was approved by the State Council and became an open city for tourism. 1983 10 was restored as a prefecture-level city. 1April, 1984, was identified by the State Council as one of the fourteen coastal cities for further opening to the outside world. 1. 0987 June Hepu County was placed under the jurisdiction of Beihai City.
Everything related to the sea is the wealth of the North Sea. Sea water, beaches, marine forests, submarine corals, coastal tourism, seafood ... Among them, the beach is the most charming, it has a fairly high-quality marine environment, clear sea water and light beach. According to experts' research, the bathing beach resources in Beihai are equivalent to the sum of Dalian, Beidaihe, Yantai, Qingdao and Xiamen, and they can swim in spring, summer and autumn. The local area also produces the famous "South Pearl", so Beihai is also called "Pearl City".