The music fountain in Bailuzhou Park is also appreciated. People who enjoy the cool in summer nights can enjoy the beautiful scenery of the fountain every holiday. Legend has it that long ago, Xiamen was a beautiful island. Legend has it that one day, the Queen Mother sent the Egret Goddess to patrol the Taiwan Province Strait and came to the sea fairy island of Kinmen Island. Kinmen Island looks like a beautiful butterfly flying from a distance. The beautiful scenery deeply attracts the goddess Egret, and she plans to stay on Kinmen Island for a few more days. One day, melodious piano music came from the direction of Dadan Island, so the goddess sought sound and boarded Dadan Island. She climbed up and looked out, only to find that it was leisurely. So the goddess Egret turned the wood into a boat and a fisherman's girl. She named Egret and sailed to Xiamen Island. Looking for sound, she saw a young boy named Shiwan playing the piano, and many villagers sang and danced to celebrate an old man's birthday. ...
The beautiful scenery of Xiamen Island attracted the beautiful egret goddess and fell in love with the versatile Shiwan son. While the villagers were preparing for their wedding, a fierce Sharkticon came to Xiamen. Suddenly, the waves are rough, the waves are rough. Seeing that many villagers and their beloved Shiwan childe were dismembered and fell into fish mouths, the Egret Goddess bravely used her magic to fight the fierce Sharkticon. Under the struggle of Shiwan Gongzi and villagers, after many twists and turns, her body became many egrets flying on Xiamen Island.
The Queen Mother was moved by the "love" of the Egret Goddess and her brave spirit, and sent white dolphins to guard the waters around Xiamen. Since then, there are no more sharks in Xiamen waters, people can rest assured to work in the sea, and children can enjoy playing in the water by the sea.
People on the island named Xiamen "Ludao" to commemorate the goddess of egrets, and later there were Lujiang and Egret Island. ...
A few years later, many buttonwood trees and beautiful phoenix flowers grew on the island, which continued to provide shade for people on the island and made the island more beautiful.
The prince of Shiwan was deeply saddened by the loss of his beloved egret goddess. He still stood on Shiwan Mountain, looking forward to the return of the goddess. ...
A few years later, the people of Xiamen and Jinmen built a tall and beautiful "Egret Goddess" on the "Dadan Island" to commemorate the beautiful and brave Egret Goddess. Since then, the "Egret Goddess" has become a landmark building in Xiamen and Kinmen. It attracts people from all over the world to visit Kinmen and Xiamen. There is an egret goddess sculpture in Egret Island Park, which is a symbol of Egret Island and a masterpiece of Xiamen city sculpture. The ancients said that small is hidden in the wild, middle is hidden in the city, and big is hidden in the DPRK. This is a holy place to seek peace in trouble. Bailuzhou Park is divided into two parts: Central Park and West Park. It is the largest fully open square park in Xiamen: Central Park, with an area of 59,000 square meters. It opened on 1995, with the theme of tourists returning to nature. The statue of Egret Goddess stands at the yacht pier in the south of the garden, with a height of 13.6 meters. It is an iconic sculpture in Xiamen. There are pigeons in the square in front of the statue, which is close to tourists and natural and warm. This is the East Garden of Xiamen Egret Island Park, centering on the Egret Goddess Sculpture Square. Bailuzhou Park is a terrace of Bell Lake with an area of 65,438+00 hectares. It is a newly-built park in Xiamen, focusing on leisure, entertainment and shopping.
This sculpture was designed and created by Wang Zejian, an associate professor at the College of Arts and Crafts of Fuzhou University, on 1977, and his works won the first National Excellent Works Award for Urban Sculpture Design on 1984.
Sculptor Wang Zejian recalled: "At first, this' Egret Goddess' was a white cement sculpture five or six meters high that he was invited to design for the campus of Arts and Crafts College of Fuzhou University in Gulangyu. 1977, and put it at the school gate. In the 1980s, many people who have been to the Arts and Crafts Institute were deeply impressed by this sculpture, but in the outside world, it was still in a situation of "being bred in the inner room and no one knew her". Not many Xiamen citizens know the existence of this statue, let alone where it is. China Post issued a set of "Special Economic Zone" stamps on 1995. The design idea of female stamp designer Wang Zhenhua is to use urban sculptures that can represent the style of special economic zones as the theme of stamps. " Since the reform and opening up, Xiamen, as a port scenic city, has not only made rapid economic development, but also spared no effort to beautify the living environment. Urban sculptures emerge in an endless stream: there are mighty Zheng Chenggong and Chen Huacheng, as well as beautiful Jiahe girls and lotus girls; There is the "golden key" of Xiamen Bridge and the silver "Endeavour" of Toyama Convention and Exhibition City. There are He Lin, Children Playing in the Water and Girls by the Lake ... It is not difficult to choose one of these urban sculptures to represent Xiamen. However, Wang Zhenhua, a female designer, always feels that she is more strong and less feminine. One day, she happened to see this exquisite sculpture model-"Egret Goddess" in the Fujian Academy of Arts and Crafts on Gulangyu Island, and was immediately moved by her subtle and feminine charm, pushing her to the world as a symbol of Xiamen. Zheng Qiwu, executive director of Xiamen Postal Society, once revealed to the media that the "Egret Goddess" has changed from a small white cement sculpture into a stone carving art with a height of 14m and a weight of 400 tons in the lake. It turns out that this set of "special economic zones" special stamps aims to show the elegance of a special zone city in square inches, and the composition of the five special zones must echo each other. On the other four special zone stamps, four sculptures, such as "Pioneer Cow" in Shenzhen, "Goddess of Haizhu" in Zhuhai, "Star of Hope" in Shantou and "Luhuitou" in Hainan, are all "leaders" who can reflect the local spirit and scenery. However, this artistic concept oriented to urban landmark sculpture stumped the designers in Xiamen. Wang Zhenhua happened to meet the "Egret Goddess", which was the luck of Wang Zhenhua and Xiamen.
After the stamps were issued, more citizens and tourists yearned for the "Egret Goddess". Later, there were a lot of reports in the media, both in words and photos. The "Egret Goddess" gradually became famous, but foreign tourists couldn't find this sculpture, and even Xiamen locals didn't know where it was, which was quite embarrassing for a time. Therefore, the relevant departments of Xiamen Municipal Government approached Mr. Wang Zejian and expressed their intention to enlarge the "Egret Goddess" and put it in the public space of the city. The two sides hit it off and immediately started the site selection of the new home of the "Egret Goddess". The "Egret Goddess" was originally planned to be built on the rock opposite the Zheng Chenggong Stone Statue in Gulangyu, facing the Zheng Chenggong Stone Statue across the sea. However, after many consultations and repeated revisions, the new home of the statue was finally settled in Bailuzhou Park. The original award-winning sculpture was placed on the campus of Fujian Institute of Arts and Crafts on Gulangyu Island. This huge sculpture is enlarged according to the winning manuscript. The Statue of Liberty is 14 meters high and used about 400 tons of granite. The integral granite is pure and elegant, and the hard texture can make the wind and rain falter, which can set off the beauty and nobility of the "Egret Goddess". Finally, two years later, on 1997, the "Egret Goddess" stood in Egret Island Park, becoming the symbol of the park and the landmark of Xiamen. Since it is the goddess of egrets, egrets on Egret Island use this beautiful goddess to bathe and wash their hair. The sculpture of egrets standing on the shoulders of the goddess is often regarded as real egrets, and those real egrets standing beside the goddess are often regarded as part of the sculpture. Look, how leisurely the egret leans on the goddess' leg with her legs crossed!