As a tour guide, how are you going to introduce Quanzhou, a world garden city with a long history and beautiful scenery, to foreign tourists?

Quanzhou is located in the southeast of Fujian Province, on the west bank of Taiwan Strait, with east longitude 1 17 degrees 25'-19 degrees 05', north latitude 24 degrees 30'-25 degrees 56', east-west width153km, and north-south length/kloc. It is separated from Taiwan Province Province by water, and the nearest place to Taiwan Province Province is only 97 nautical miles. The land area of the whole city is 1 10 15 square kilometers.

Quanzhou is surrounded by mountains, facing the sea, with rolling mountains, vertical and horizontal canyons and vertical and horizontal basins. /kloc-There are 455 peaks above 0/000 meters, which are mainly distributed in some mountainous areas of Dehua, Yongchun, Anxi and Nan 'an. The Daiyun Mountain Range extends from northeast to southwest, with the main peak at an altitude of1856m, and is known as the "roof of central Fujian". The territory is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, with a transition from Zhongshan and low mountains to coastal hills and basin plains.

Quanzhou coastline is tortuous, mostly bedrock coast, with a total length of about 42 1km. It has four harbors, namely Meizhou Bay, Quanzhou Bay, shenhu bay and Weitou Bay, and 14 ports, such as Xiaocuo, Chongwu, Houzhu, Meilin and Shijing. Quanzhou has an "E"-shaped front opening to the southeast, which is beneficial to the transit of the southeast monsoon and is extremely beneficial to the development of agriculture, forestry and fishery production and export-oriented economy.

By the end of 1997, the total population of Quanzhou was 6.46 million, of which the urban population was 2 1.8 million. The population of the city is mainly Han nationality, accounting for more than 99% of the total population, and most of the ethnic minorities are Hui, She, Miao and Mongolian. Hui people are mainly distributed in the suburbs of Jinjiang Chendai, Huian Baiqi and Licheng, while She people are distributed in Dehua, Anxi and Huian. Quanzhou's population density is uneven, the southeast coast is densely populated, and the northwest mountainous area is relatively sparse. Mandarin and Minnan are widely used in urban and rural areas of Quanzhou, and local residents, especially rural residents, are more accustomed to using Minnan every day.

Quanzhou is also a famous hometown of overseas Chinese and one of the main ancestral homes of Han compatriots in Taiwan Province Province. At present, there are more than 6.2 million overseas Chinese and 750,000 compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao in Quanzhou. Many famous people in overseas economic, scientific and cultural circles are from Quanzhou. Overseas Chinese are mainly concentrated in Southeast Asian countries. Among the Han compatriots in Taiwan Province Province, Quanzhou people account for 44.8%. Quanzhou people and their compatriots in Taiwan Province Province are related by blood, have the same language, similar customs and the same culture. Overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan have made great contributions to strengthening the economic and cultural exchanges between Quanzhou and overseas countries and promoting the economic construction and social development of Quanzhou's hometown of overseas Chinese, and have become an important bridge and link between Quanzhou and the world.

Quanzhou has a long history. As early as the Neolithic Age, people worked and lived here. Quanzhou Gong Yu belongs to Yangzhou City, and the surrounding area is Qi Min. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, crossing the land. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were frequent wars in the Central Plains, and a large number of Jin people moved south, bringing advanced production tools, technology and culture from the Central Plains, which further developed Quanzhou. In the second year of Tang Jingyun (AD 7 1 1 year), it was renamed as Quanzhou from Wurong Prefecture. The "An Shi Rebellion" in the mid-Tang Dynasty caused a serious disaster to the Central Plains. The people of the Central Plains moved further south and the economic and cultural center shifted, which promoted the further prosperity of Quanzhou. During the Tang Dynasty, Quanzhou had a strong style of writing and many academies. Economically, Quanzhou has gradually become an important port in the south, God bless it. It is already an international port city, with many cars, tourists and businessmen. "Yunshan people and the city enter the ten States." In the Northern Song Dynasty, it set up a city shipping company in Quanzhou, specializing in overseas trade. In the Southern Song Dynasty, it kept pace with Guangzhou and became two major commercial ports in China. In the Yuan Dynasty, Quanzhou became the largest port in the East, and it was also called "the first trading port in the world" with Alexandria, Egypt, and had trade with more than 100 countries and regions in the world.

Quanzhou is one of the first 24 famous historical and cultural cities in the State Council, and is known as "Zou Lu by the sea". Here is rich in historical and cultural accumulation, dotted with places of interest and historical sites, and the treasures of cultural relics attract worldwide attention. There are 12 national cultural relics protection units and 27 provincial cultural relics protection units. Quanzhou was "the largest port in the East" in ancient times. The starting point of the "Maritime Silk Road" is that since ancient times, various religions have coexisted and eastern and western cultures have met. In particular, Buddhism, Taoism and Manichaeism were once very popular. Many religious relics constitute a unique cultural landscape with historical and artistic value.