Dongji Town Travel Guide Dongji Town Tour Guide

Dongji Town is located on the coast of the East China Sea. It has a very rich cultural and historical atmosphere and charm. The people here live a very leisurely life. Natural beauty can be seen everywhere. The fresh seafood delicacies will open your eyes. Here You can feel the different atmosphere of life. I will share with you a detailed introduction below.

Dongji Town is located at the easternmost end of Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province. It consists of 162 islands and reefs isolated in the East China Sea. The islands and reefs vary in size, and most of them have no residents.

After the movie "See You Again" was released, Dongji Town was packaged as the easternmost island on the mainland, so it became well known to tourists. In fact, the concept of "Dongji Island" is an island group composed of four main islands: Miaozi Lake, Qingbang, Huangxing, and Dongfushan.

To visit Dongji Island, you need to start from Shenjiamen Pier and take a two-hour ferry to Miaozi Lake Island. This is also the main filming location of Dongji Island in "We Will Never End".

During holidays, tickets from Shenjiamen to Dongji can be purchased on the "Zhoushan Starfish Ferry" official account. If it is a holiday, ferry tickets are extremely popular. You need to grab tickets at 5 a.m. three days in advance. The price ranges from 100-300.

Transportation in Dongji Town is difficult and supplies are at a premium, so it is most cost-effective to have a seafood meal on land before going to the island. It was already evening when I arrived at Lakeside Square in Zhoushan. A row of seafood stalls were built facing the East China Sea. These stalls were all decorated in the same yellow simple shacks. The dishes were the same, with fish, shrimps and crabs placed at the stalls for customers to choose from. The price is also estimated to be the same, about 150 yuan per person.

The stall was agitated and noisy, drunkards raised their glasses, chefs shook their spoons, the fumes and alcohol were blown away by the sea breeze, and the sea turned from blue to black with the sky.

After a night, after breakfast, we went to Shenjiamen Pier. During the May Day period, the parking lot at the pier was already full. Taxi drivers here, aiming at business opportunities, began to recommend parking spaces for tourists' vehicles. However, the driver would not take tourists to a private parking lot, but would find a nearby one that did not know how to park. Where the ticket was issued, the tourists will be taken to the pier. In fact, you can find it if you look around. The routines of scenic spots always make people realize it later.

During the two-hour flight, many people became dizzy and vomited while scratching the railings. The stimulation of the vomit caused some people to vomit. After landing, loading and unloading cargo, and tourists disembarking, I saw a graffiti in an alleyway of a stick figure vomiting a rainbow, with the accompanying text: After vomiting for two hours, we finally arrived at Dongji Island. Very vivid.

Miaozi Lake Island is the seat of the Dongji Town Government. It has only more than 3,000 registered residents and a coastline of nearly 12 kilometers. It can not sustain a large number of passengers. Coupled with the impact of the epidemic, the island Not crowded. The sea breeze is gentle and the waves are crashing on the shore. Li Zhi is always preferred in literary and artistic pubs in tourist areas. The tension in the city was quickly stripped away.

On the north side of the island, stands a statue of a middle-aged fisherman with sharp edges, facing the sea and holding a torch high. This is Cai Bogong, the iconic attraction on the island. The statue itself does not have much ornamental value or artistic concept. What is worth sighing is the spiritual value of Cai Bogong.

This story is promoted like this:

Cai Bogong’s real name is Chen Caifu. He was a fisherman in the early Qing Dynasty about 200 years ago. One day when he was fishing at sea, his boat was overturned by the wind and waves. , his companion drowned, and he swam to Miaozi Lake Island alone. Then every night, he lit a flame to illuminate the direction of distant ships and lure them to the island to take shelter from wind and rain. The fishermen thought it was the appearance of the Bodhisattva. Until Chen Caifu died on the island, the fishermen didn't see the flames at night, so they had the courage to go to the island to inspect, and everything became clear.

The patron saint of a place must have a spirit of dedication and a sense of sacrifice, in order to meet the standards of a spiritual idol. In fact, this is a typical scenic spot promotional story, which is very lame in my opinion.

Two hundred years ago, the Qing Dynasty was in the Jiaqing period, which belonged to the middle period of the Qing Dynasty. After Chen Caifu landed on Miaozi Lake Island, he had no boats and could only make a living by collecting. He was the only one on the isolated island. I couldn't believe that he lit the night fire in such a situation, just to illuminate the direction of the fishing boats in the distance. In my opinion, this was an obvious act of asking for help.

A local resident told me another version: People at that time were very superstitious. When Chen Caifu set fire to the fire at night, everyone thought it was a miraculous deity and did not dare to approach it. Until later generations landed and found Chen Caifu's body. He had been dead for more than ten years. In the thatched house he built, a brief introduction to his life was carved on a wooden board. That place still exists today and is called Miaokeng.

There is also some uncertainty in the boatman's description - an ordinary fisherman in the middle Qing Dynasty was most likely illiterate. At night, I looked for Miao Keng according to the map, and only saw a wilderness under the moonlit night.

But what is certain is that there is indeed Chen Caifu. I prefer to believe this version:

After the shipwreck, Chen Caifu relied on his excellent water properties to board Miaozi Lake Island and set fire to the island every night to ask for help. Someone saw it by chance, but thought it was a god. There was no sign of anyone coming to save him. Many years later, he died on the island and was later found, becoming a legend.

In my opinion, this character is a metaphor for an unacceptable loneliness.

The scenery of Miaozi Lake Island is excellent. The most fun thing is to take a speedboat, swim around several islands, and take a bath in the sea water. The single ticket price of the speedboat is 500, but through the introduction of the B&B owner, it was reduced to 300. The big brother who was driving the boat was very cheerful and deliberately drove the boat very fast. The hull of the boat kept falling heavily on the sea, and the water splashed from the side of the boat. It was accompanied by the popular song on Douyin, which was also a DJ version. It's like drinking an entire can of iced Coke in one go on a hot summer day, an unhealthy stimulation. The boatman brother said: When you come to Dongji Island, isn’t it just for playing in the water?

In the process of circling the island, you can see scenery that cannot be seen on the island.

Zhubajie Island is named after it looks like a little fat pig from the side. This naming method is a commonly used idea for tourist attractions, and is similar to the homophones in jokes.

There are two islands not far apart and become Lover's Island. When the tide drops and the rocks stand out, you can see that the rocks between the two islands are actually connected, and people can walk there. of the landscape, only 40 minutes per year.

Sleeping Buddha Island is the most vivid island among the 28 islands under Dongji Town. Its shape resembles half a sleeping Buddha. At sunrise, if you sail in front of the island and watch, you can see the red The morning sun spits out from the Buddha's mouth. This scene is called the sleeping Buddha spitting out beads.

Internet celebrity small lighthouse

I was really lucky. I met a whale near Dolphin Bay! Looking from a distance, I could see a huge splash of water, and the waves turning from time to time. The white belly exposed. The boatman brother said that the probability of meeting a whale is 100 times lower than that of a dolphin. He also said that the island was not well planned by the government. There were many sea rainbows planted near Lover's Island, and the floating bags destroyed the police officers. It was obviously the May Day period, but roads were being built on the island.

"The authorities allocated 200 million and built a few roads. How could this small island spend 200 million!"

The boatman brother was very talkative, but he didn't let it go. People feel trivial. Traveling is like this. Seeing the scenery is one kind of experience, and immersing yourself in the joys and sorrows of the local residents is another experience.

After staying one night in Miaozi Lake, we took the ferry to Qingbang Island the next day. There is no need to book ferry tickets between islands, just go to the pier in advance and queue up to buy them.

Compared with Miaozi Lake, Qingbang looks much more downtrodden. The most famous attraction is the "Potala Palace on the Sea", which is actually a row of abandoned houses scattered around the sea. This kind of oriental Paris wedding photography, which reminds me of the "touch of porcelain" style locations in the town, will mostly disappoint people.

The correct way to open Qingbang Island is to walk along the seaside path. You will find that most of the residential houses in Qingbang are empty, with the doors and windows closed. They have been deserted for an unknown period of time, and only a few shops remain. , food stalls, walking in the shady alleys, the salty smell of the sea comes from nowhere, which is quite delicious. The trail around the mountain ranges from wide to narrow, with some places only a foot wide. Several times I felt like there was no path ahead, but then I found a thin path in the weeds. The graves of martyrs can often be seen on the roadside, which is a metaphor for the unrest this place has experienced.

Stay in Qingbang for three hours, then take the ferry to Dongfushan Island. Higashi Fukushima has a large mountain range and a wider sea view. If you are a person who is fascinated by sunrise and sunset, you should come to Dongfushan Island.

I sat on the rock by the sea and watched it for a long time. It was the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen. At night, I bought some barbecue beer at a food stall, sat on the platform of the B&B, and listened to the sound of the ocean tide. It was so leisurely that it made people nervous.

The next day, I got up at 4:30 again and went to the east hillside to watch the sunrise. At dawn, the hillside was crowded with people, and there were backpackers setting up tents to live on it.

At around 5 o'clock, the sun suddenly poked half of its face out of the gray clouds, and the first ray of sunshine from the mainland shone down. I looked at it for a long time, until the sun was dazzling, and I felt that I had no regrets about this trip.

On the return trip, you still have to book tickets on WeChat, then return to Miaozi Lake and take the ferry.

In general, Dongji Town has not been fully developed, many infrastructures are not yet mature, and the island area and passenger capacity are also quite limited, but this does not hinder its beauty. It can be seen that the local government wants to promote each island to the Internet celebrity attractions, but this approach will actually reduce the beauty it deserves.

Compared to some abstract business concepts, I prefer to regard Dongji Town as an ordinary sea town, a small part of the Zhoushan Islands. If you want to leave the land one day and go to a place with waves and sunrise and sunset, it will be good to know that there is such a good choice.