Meizhou Island Putian Fujian China——Fantastic Stones in the shape of geese tail
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Meizhou Island, the second large island of Putian city, lies in 42 kilometers of southeast of Putian urban center and only 1.82 sea mile away from the main land. The area of the firm ground is 14.35 square kilometers, including more than 30 islands, islets, and reefs. Meizhou Island is 72 sea miles away from Taizhong Wharf of Taiwan It is 9.6 kilometers from the north to the south of the island, and 1.3 kilometers from the west to the east of the island. The middle part of the island is plain and the whole coastline of it is 30.4 kilometers. There are 13 sandy beaches of all kinds, which are more than 20 kilometers. The rock of marine abrasion amounts to 5 kilometers, the seabed of which is mainly made from granite and diabase. Meizhou Island boasts the typical maritime monsoon climate of subtropical zone, with average annual temperature 18 20℃, the average annual rainfall 1, 000 millimeters. Meizhou Island yields numerous products. The industries of sea product catching and feeding are well developed; abound with prawn, lobster, conch, swimming crab, roach, sea Li, laver, etc. Meizhou Island has ever been named as "the Southern Penglai Island", which is a fabled adventurous Island for fairies living happily. On the island there are more than 30 places of interest such as attractive Sound of Mei Tide, Jiubao River Golden Beach with a name of Eastern Hawaii, Fantastic Stones in the shape of geese tail in the Little Stone Forest. What’s more, there is a Temple of the Sea Goddess Mazu, which is attractive for 200 million people with belief of the Sea Godess Mazu. On the 23rd of the third lunar month and 9th of the ninth lunar month, which are the dates when the Sea Godess Mazu was born and passed away respectively, people come on a pilgrimage amounts to the most. Meizhou Island therefore is praised as Eastern Mecca.The southeast of Meizhou Bay faces the Taiwan Straits, opposite to Taiwan Island far away. Because it locates between the mainland and the sea in the shap