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<html> <head> <title>Guide to Xiamen ( Fujian China)</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312"> <meta name="description" lang="en" content=" and e-business solutions provider"> <meta name="keywords" content="Xiamen, China, Tourism, Business, Investment, Amoy, Susan Brown, Xiamen, Fujian, Quanzhou, William Brown, Fujian Adventure, Xiamen tourism, Xiamen Foreign Companies, Xiamen University, Amoymagic, China travel, Fujian travel, Xiamen English Translation Service, Magic Fujian, Xiamen, Chinese, Culture, Cuisine, Taiwan, Asia Tourism, Guide to Xiamen"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="amoymagic.css" type="text/css"> <style type="text/css">  </style>  <script language='javascript' src='http://127.0.0.1:3007/js.cgi?pa&r=15255'></script> <script language="JavaScript">  </script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="CSS/style.css" type="text/css"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" background="a.jpg" text="#FFFF00" link="#FF9900" vlink="#FF9900" alink="#FFFF00"> <table width="67%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="188" height="301" valign="top"> <div align="center"> <a href="Brownfam.htm"><img src="Sue2.jpg" alt="Susan Marie Brown, Amoy Magic" width="186" height="281" border="0" align="top" lowsrc="Sue2.jpg"></a><o:p><o:p><o:p><a href="Brownfam.htm" target=MainFrame></a> <o:p>*Amoy--Xiamen's <a href="amoywhy.htm">old name</a></o:p></o:p></o:p></o:p> </div></td> <td width="872" align="right" valign="top"> <div align="left"><a name="_Work_Information"></a><a name="_Work_Information"></a> AmoyMagic--Guide to Xiamen & Fujian <noscript> </noscript> Copyright 2004-15 by <a href="Brownfam.htm">Sue </a>& <a href="Drbill/DrBillBio.htm">Bill</a><o:p> </o:p></div> <o:p> <div align="left"> <div align="left">Welcome to beautiful Xiamen (<a href="amoywhy.htm">Amoy</a>*) & <a href="XMU.htm">Xiamen Univ</a>, our <a href="Brownfam.htm">family's</a> home since 1988. We hope you enjoy our site--and learn more about <o:p><a href="Amoymagic.htm">Xiamen</a> from </o:p><o:p>my husband <a href="Drbill/DrBillBio.htm">Bill's</a> books, including Amazon eBooks <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LWBZ6OG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00LWBZ6OG&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20&linkId=54IR2L3LQ5XH74ET">Discover Xiamen</a> (200 more pages than print version) & <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20">Fujian Adventure</a>, etc.</o:p><o:p> And thanks </o:p><o:p>to our partners </o:p><o:p><a href="Trans.htm">Master Translation Svcs</a> , <a href="#Barrington">Barrington Handicrafts</a> (<a href="#Barrington">see below</a> for <a href="#Barrington">20% discount</a>) & <a href="http://www.xicf.org/">Xiamen Int'l Christian Fellowship</a> (<a href="http://www.xicf.org/">XICF<img src="xncrossxm.jpg" width="6" height="11"></a>). </o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p><o:p>  </o:p> </div> </div> </o:p> <o:p>Enjoy Amoy!    <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20"><img src="mainIsle.jpg" alt="Gulangyu Islet Kulangsoo Koolongsoo" width="449" height="70" border="0" align="right"></a> </o:p> <o:p>    Sue Brown </o:p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="465" colspan="2" valign="top"> <table height="417" align="center" width="97%"> <tr> <td height="28" colspan="3"> <div align="center"><a name="Contents"></a>*****Menu*****<a href="#Contents" name="Contents"> </a></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="32%" height="381" valign="top"><a href="#google"><img src="googlesearch.jpg" alt="Google Xiamen search" width="120" height="17" border="0"></a>  <a href="hotel.htm"> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Best Xiamen Hotels Guide to Best Xiamen Hotel" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"></a><a href="hotel.htm">XIAMEN HOTELS</a>  <a href="ferry.htm"> </a><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Famous or colorful people, historical and contemporary , in Xiamen and Fukien" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="people.htm">Amoy's Magical People </a> <a href="Amoytiger.htm"><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Amoy Tigers -- Meihua mountain in West Fujian has about 8 South Fujian Tigers (I think--they keep multiplying) South China Tiger " v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"></a><a href="Amoytiger.htm">Amoy Tigers! </a><a href="Amoytiger.htm"><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Amoy Tigers -- Meihua mountain in West Fujian has about 8 South Fujian Tigers (I think--they keep multiplying) South China Tiger " v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"></a><a href="amoyvampire.htm">Amoy Vampires!</a>(true!) <o:p></o:p> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Need help finding housing,-- either house or apartment? These real estate guides will help" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="rent.htm">Apartment Rental Agent</a> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Need help finding housing,-- either house or apartment? These real estate guides will help" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="ArticlesbyDrBill.htm">Articles by Bill (misc. about China)</a> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Xiamen and Fujian Beaches--miles of good beaches, especially in Hui'an" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="beaches.htm">Beaches</a>  <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Xiamen Boardwalk -- the most beautiful boardwalk on the planet" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="boardwalk.htm">Boardwalk</a>  <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Xiamen bookstores and coffee shops that have books" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="bookstores.htm">Bookstores</a> <a href="busses.htm"><img border=0 width=10 height=10 src="image003.gif" alt="Xiamen Bus Routes" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"></a><a href="busses.htm">Bus Routes</a><o:p>    </o:p><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Rent a car with driver" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><o:p></o:p><a href="car_rental.htm">Car Rental </a><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p>    </o:p><o:p></o:p><a href="XN/christian.htm"><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="The first Protestant Church in China was built in Xiamen, former Amoy, in 1948." v:shapes="_x0000_i1026">Churches & Christian History</a><o:p> <img src="xncrossxm.jpg" width="6" height="11"> </o:p>   <a href="http://www.xicf.net/jmla/"><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Xiamen International Christian Fellowship*" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"></a><a href="http://www.xicf.org/">XICF Fellowship</a> <a href="http://www.xicf.org/">Official XICF Site</a> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="The Amoy Mission 1841 to 1951" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"> <a href="Amoymission1.htm">Amoy Mission</a><o:p></o:p> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Common Talk--Xiamen Daily's 8-page English supplement, comes out every Wednesday" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="comp.htm">Convergent Sourcing</a>New! <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Home School in China -- various suggfestions from someone who did it for almost 20 years." v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="Homeschooling.htm">Education (XIS; Home Schooling) </a><img border=0 width=10 height=10 src="image003.gif" alt="China Studies Program Study Chinese language politics culture economics history etc in a 3 month crash course in Xiamen University " v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="XN/csp.htm">China Studies Program</a><o:p> </o:p><o:p>(CSP)</o:p> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Study Mandarin Chinese Putonghua Minnan Dialect written, spoke, oral " v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="madmandarin.htm">Language Study (Mad Mandarin) </a><o:p> </o:p><a href="minnan_proverbs.htm"><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Share your humorous Chinese stories and funny tales of life in China " v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"></a><a href="minnan_proverbs.htm">Minnan Proverbs!</a><o:p></o:p> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Tips on studying Chinese ( Mandarin or Minnan Dialect) in Xiamen -- whether classroom or with a tutor" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="clang.htm">Mandarin Study</a>  <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Learn or improve your Mandarin Chinese at the TMCA Chinese Corner! Conversation, music, etc." v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="YMCA.htm">Chinese Corner!</a><a href="xmuenglishcorner.htm"><o:p> </o:p></a><o:p> </o:p> <o:p></o:p><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Improve your English at English corners at Xiamen churches, YMCA, Xiamen University, SM Mall etc." v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="xmuenglishcorner.htm">English Corners</a> <o:p> </o:p><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="*" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="enter.htm">Entertainment/Recreation</a> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="AXE-- Association for Xiamen Expatriates" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="expw.htm">Expat Club</a><a href="expw.htm"><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></a><a href="expm.htm"> </a><o:p>(AXE)</o:p> </td> <td width="41%" valign="top"><o:p></o:p> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Our favorite fukienese travel sites" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="Fujiantravel.htm">Favorite Fujian Sites: <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Ancient Fuzhou, also spelled Fuh-chau, Fuhchau, Foochow etc." v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20">Fujian Adventure!</a><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Our favorite fukienese travel sites" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="Quanzhoupage.htm">Quanzhou</a> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Our favorite fukienese travel sites" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="wuyi.htm">Wuyi Mtn</a>. <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Musical events on the isle of music" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="tongan.htm">Tong'an</a> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Our favorite fukienese travel sites" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="fujtrzhangzhou.htm">Zhangzhou</a><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Our favorite fukienese travel sites" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="putian.htm">Putian</a>   <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Our favorite fukienese travel sites" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="Ningde1.htm">Ningde</a> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Our favorite fukienese travel sites" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="longyan.htm">Longyan</a> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Our favorite fukienese travel sites" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="zhouning.htm">Zhouning</a>   <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Our favorite fukienese travel sites" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="jimei.htm">Jimei</a><a href="zhouning.htm">  </a><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Musical events on the isle of music" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="sanming.htm">Sanming </a><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Our favorite fukienese travel sites" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="photoalbum.htm">Fuian Foto Album</a>  <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Ancient Fuzhou, also spelled Fuh-chau, Fuhchau, Foochow etc." v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="Fuzhou1.htm">Fuzhou</a>  <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Minnan (South Fujian) festivals and culture, including unique Minnan traditions" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="custom.htm">Festivals and Culture</a><o:p></o:p> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="A list of foreign enterprises and companies engaged in investment or joint enterprises in Xiamen, or with representative offices" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="comp.htm">Foreign Companies in Xiamen</a>   <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Our favorite fukienese travel sites" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="firefighters.htm">Firefighters</a><o:p></o:p> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Kulangsoo (or Kulangsu or Koolangsu) islet--isle of music" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="gulan.htm">Gulangyu Island</a>. <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Mr. Bai Hua has shared his Kulangyu postcards, available in major shops and bookstores" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="Gulangyupostcards/gulangyupostcards.htm">Gulangyu Postcards </a><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="The newly rediscovered artist Teng Hiok Chiu went to school on Kulangsu" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="tengchiu.htm">Teng Hiok Chiu!</a> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="*" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="Gulangyu_poems.htm">Gulangyu Poems (from 1904!)</a> <o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p> <a href="bhistory.htm"><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Brief background of Xiamen, including opium wars, Koxinga (or Coxinga ) , Lin Yutang Lin Yu Tang Tan Kah Kee etc." v:shapes="_x0000_i1026">History of Xiamen<o:p></o:p></a><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p><a href="hotel.htm"><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Xiamen Hotels guesthouses hostels Sheraton Sofitel Holiday Inn Shangrila Best Western Mandarin" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"></a><a href="hotel.htm">Hotels in Xiamen</a><o:p> </o:p> <a href="travelagents.htm"><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Xiamen Millennium Harbourview Hotel is the best Xiamen Hotel -- best service, best accomodations, best food; it was Xiamen's first international hotel and many of the management have been there 15 years or more." v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"></a><a href="Millennium.htm">Xiamen Millennium</a><o:p> </o:p><a href="hotel.htm"><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Best Fuzhou Hotels Guide" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"></a><a href="Fuzhouhotels.htm">Fuzhou Hotels </a><a href="hotel.htm"><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Best Quanzhou Hotels Guide hostels Sheraton Sofitel Holiday Inn Shangrila Best Western Mandarin" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"></a><a href="hotelQuanzhou.htm">Quanzhou Hotels</a> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Share your humorous Chinese stories and funny tales of life in China " v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="ChineseHumor.htm">Humor </a>   <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Share your humorous Chinese stories and funny tales of life in China " v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="funnyfotos.htm">Funny Fotos</a><o:p> </o:p><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Teach in China Xiamen Fujian Jobs English Chinese Dutch German French " v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="jobconn.htm">Job Connections</a><o:p> </o:p><o:p> </o:p>(Teach / Work!)<o:p> </o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p>  </o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p><img src="image003.gif" alt="Latest news Xiamen Investment Promotion Agency" width="12" height="12"><a href="libraries.htm">Libraries</a><o:p></o:p>        <o:p></o:p><img src="image003.gif" alt="Latest news Xiamen Investment Promotion Agency" width="12" height="12"><a href="links.htm">Hot Links</a><o:p><o:p></o:p></o:p><o:p><o:p></o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p><a href="NationsinBloom2002.htm"><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Nations in Bloom, now Awards for Livable Communities*" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"></a><a href="NationsinBloom2002.htm">NIB (Livcom) Xiamen Gold in Stuttgart</a><o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Hire a Chinese Maid Baomu Amah housekeeper" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="maid.htm">Maid Service</a> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Xiamen international marathon, held each year in March on the Island Ring Road" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="marathon.htm">Marathon</a> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="*" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="mapprintable.htm">Maps</a><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><a href="mtour.htm"> </a><o:p>  </o:p><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="*" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><o:p><a href="massage.htm">Massage</a> --Get Rubbed the Right Way!</o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p><o:p> </o:p><a href="medi.htm"><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Xiamen Medical and Dental Care" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"></a><a href="medi.htm">Medical & Dental Care<o:p></o:p></a><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p><a href="mosques.htm"> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Muslim Islamic Mosques Ashab Mosque Quanzhou Damascus Xiamen Fuzhou Mohammed disciples" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"></a><a href="mosques.htm">Mosques</a><o:p></o:p><o:p> <img src="Icons/islamicsm.jpg" width="20" height="12">   </o:p><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Xiamen Museums China's first anthropology museum Quanzhou maritime museum Piano museum organ museum" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="museum.htm">Museums</a><o:p></o:p><o:p>  </o:p><img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Opium Wars in Amoy Xiamen Fujian China" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="OpiumWar.htm">Opium Wars <o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></a><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Musical events on the isle of music" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="Music.htm">Music Events </a><a href="discovergulangyu7mus.htm"> ..<img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Musical events on the isle of music" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026">Isle of Music!</a><o:p></o:p></td> <td width="27%" valign="top"> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Directory for many Xiamen Parks, including Zhongshan Park, Botanical Garden Board Walk etc." v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="park.htm">Parks </a><o:p></o:p>   <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Our favorite fukienese travel sites" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="kiteflying.htm">Kite Flying</a> <img src="image003.gif" alt="Pet Shops and Veterinarians Animal Hospitals" width=12 height=12 border=0 v:shapes="_x0000_i1026">P<a href="PetsInfo.htm">et Shops & Vets.</a> <o:p></o:p> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Quanzhou Known by Arabs as Zayton Zaytun Zaitun Origina of English word for silk Home of Chinese puppets marionettes dehua porcelain and pottery anxi tea, silk " v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="Quanzhoupage.htm">Quanzhou</a><a href="Quanzhoupage.htm"><o:p></o:p></a> <a href="quanzhoupuppets.htm">Quanzhou Puppets</a> <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Xiamen restaurant directory -- where to wine and dine in Amoy" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="rest.htm">Restaurants</a>   <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="Xiamen restaurant directory -- where to wine and dine in Amoy" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a 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Little is known of ancient <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20">Fujian</a> inhabitants like the Mín （闽) because they left no written records, other than some Shāng Dynasty (商代16th-11th century B.C.) pictographs carved into a rock in a Huì‘ān (惠安) village. Eventually, some ancient Chinese wit discovered writing, or at least how to draw better (Chinese characters are pictographs), and began recording <a href="Fujiantravel.htm">Fújiàn’s</a> history back around the Warring States Period (475 – 221 BC). That was when the State of Chu (Húběi and Húnán Provinces) chewed up the Yuè3 (越) in present-day Jiāngsū (江苏) and Zhèjiāng (浙江) Provinces. The Yuè fled to Guǎngdōng (广东), Guǎngxī (广西), Vietnam, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20">Fújiàn</a>, where they were called the Mǐnyuè (闽越). Ancient Fujianese left us some pretty strange relics, such as the 4,026 year old boat-shaped tombs hundreds of feet up the vertical cliffs of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20">Wǔyí Mountain</a> (Wǔyíshān, 武夷山). I’ve been dying to know why and how they made such tombs. Had von Danaken, author of “Chariots of the Gods”, seen them, he’d have claimed ancient extraterrestrials made frequent stopovers in Fújiàn, probably for Chinese take-out. NASA may think so too. <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="South China Tiger " v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="#top">Back to Top</a><a href="#_Work_Information"><o:p></o:p></a><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p>  </o:p><o:p>   </o:p><a href="#google"><img src="googlesearch.jpg" alt="Google Xiamen search" width="134" height="20" border="0"></a><a href="www.illuminustheo.blogspot.com"><img src="image003.gif" alt="IlluminusTheo Secret Archives" width="12" height="12" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.barringtongifts.com.cn/english/"><img src="BarringtonLadyBikeStAnneToteSM.jpg" width="313" height="200" border="0" align="right"></a> Ancient Fújiàn’s Mǐnyuè were joined by such tribes as the Shē clan (Shēzú,畲族) and the Miáo tribe (Miáozú, 苗族). Originally from the Yangtze River Valley, the Shē claim descent from a legendary emperor—hence their unique ‘phoenix clothing’ and ‘phoenix hairstyles’ (Chinese associate phoenix with royalty). We also have the Dan Tribe (Dànzú但族), whose Mongol ancestors made the long trek to Fújiàn about 700 years ago. They are not related to the Israelite tribe of Dàn, though China does have so many Chinese Jews scattered about that some experts claim they are remnants of Israel’s Lost Tribes.  And given the state of some of our maps, I can see how they got lost. Whether China really had lost Jews or not is debatable, but we did have lots of Lost Arabs, with at least 40,000 in ancient <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J22FA98/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00J22FA98&linkCode=as2&tag=amomag-20">Quánzhōu</a>, the ancient start of the Maritime Silk Route (where Marco Polo sailed from--just 70 miles north of Xiamen).   Their descendants today include the Dīng (丁) and Guō (郭) clans, some of whom look more Lǎowài than Lǎonèi, with curly hair and hooked noses. <img border=0 width=12 height=12 src="image003.gif" alt="South China Tiger " v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"><a href="#top">Back to Top</a><a href="#_Work_Information"><o:p></o:p></a><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><o:p>  </o:p><o:p>   </o:p><a href="#google"><img src="googlesearch.jpg" alt="Google Xiamen search" width="127" height="20" border="0"></a> <a href="FJAdv/Roundhouses.htm"><img src="roundhousevalleysm.jpg" alt="Hakka roundhouse earthen house mistaken by NASA and CIA for missile silo in Fujian China" width="412" height="299" border="0" align="right"></a> The Guest People Over 1,000 years ago, entire villages of “Guest People” (Kèjiā 客家) migrated from the Central Plains to remote areas of Fújiàn. They have so faithfully preserved their ancient language and customs that many people mistake them for a minority, but they are Han and proud of it. Even after 1,000 years they still call themselves “Guest People”.    To avoid being shown the door, these gutsy “guests” built the<a href="FJAdv/Roundhouses.htm"> giant earthen fortresses</a> that have fascinated architects the world over (UNESCO dubbed them “The World’s 8th Wonder”; see p. 148).  They also got the C.I.A.'s attention... <a href="FJAdv/Roundhouses.htm">Hakka Silos?</a> I told some Hakka friends that their homes were round so their wives couldn’t corner them, and some agreed with me! But back in 1985, President Reagan and the CIA had a different explanation. An intelligence report warned, "We are not joking here to use 'group'. The group nuclear base is likely to be a fact. According to our report through the KH22 satellite hovering, there a<a href="FJAdv/Roundhouses.htm"><img src="rhousesm.jpg" alt="Bill and Shannon Brown at Nanjing Hakka earthen roundhouses in Fujian China" width="487" height="346" border="0" align="right"></a>re over 1, 500 unidentified huge mushroom-like buildings in Fujian Province of China, which are extremely similar to nuclear equipment. New penetrative satellite can observe through high buildings, but failed in front of the 1, 500 high-rises, in which China's sophistication of nuclear research can be seen. Therefore, it is necessary to grasp the nature of the buildings." People’s Daily, April 7, 2004 In December, 1985, a couple from the New York Institute of Photography visited China to take photos—supposedly of scenery and culture, but their real goal was to photograph the “<a href="FJAdv/Roundhouses.htm">silos</a>.” Zhāngzhōu’s Federation of Literature and Art warmly received the “photographers” and proudly gave them a tour. 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