Gulangyu Island was originally called "Round Shazhou" or "Round Island Son" because there is a rock on the beach in the southwest of the island with a hole in it. Whenever the tide rises, the waves hit the rocks, and the sound is like drums. People call it "Gulangyu Stone", hence the name Gulangyu.

The green coverage rate of Gulangyu Island is over 40%, and the plant population is rich, including more than 90 families of trees, shrubs, vines and ground cover plants.

Representative scenic spots include: Sunlight Rock, Lu Manor, Haoyue Garden, Yuyuan Garden, Gulangyu Stone, Gulangyu Piano Museum, Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall, Underwater World, Natural Bathing Beach, Sea Paradise Structure, etc.

Gulangyu Scenic Area has successively won the honors of national 5A-level tourist attractions, national key cultural relics protection units, and the most beautiful five cities in China. On July 8th, 20 17, "Gulangyu Island: International Historic Community" was listed as the 52nd World Heritage Project in China.

Extended data:

Gulangyu is a subtropical monsoon climate, warm and humid, with superior light and heat conditions. The seasonal changes of the four seasons are quite regular: the spring monsoon turns from northeast to south, from cold to warm, and the rainfall increases; There are typhoons and thunderstorms in summer, which bring coolness to hot days, and sometimes there are typhoons;

It is rainy and sunny in autumn; There is a northeast monsoon in winter, which is cold but not cold. The land and sea breeze is very obvious, and it often blows northwest wind from the west from midnight to noon, and southeast wind from afternoon to midnight.

The annual average temperature is 265438 0.2℃. The annual average maximum temperature is 24.5℃, the annual average minimum temperature is 18.7℃, the annual extreme maximum temperature is 38.4℃ and the annual extreme minimum temperature is 2℃.