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Q: Statue of Gulangyu island - who does it represent?
Just off the coast of Xiamen there's this beautiful island called Gulangyu, and at its peak I remember seeing this massive statue of a man.
Anyone know how he was?
If you are referring to the statue of Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga), a general of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), at Gulangyu Island, Xiamen, southeast China’s Fujian province, the details are below.
The huge granite statue of Zheng Chenggong was placed on a huge rock (Fuding Rock) at the southeast tip of Gulangyu Island on August 27, 1985, to mark the 361 birth anniversary of the national hero. The statue is 15.7 meters high, 1,617 tons in weight and is formed by 625 pieces of “Quanzhou white” granites, with 23 layers in total. It was created by Ms. Shi Yi, a professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Zheng, who was known as Koxinga, was born in Fujian in 1623. He led troops across the Taiwan Strait from Kinmen Island in 1661, and, after a year of fighting, defeated Dutch colonialists who had occupied Taiwan for 38 years.
If you are referring to the statue of Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga), a general of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), at Gulangyu Island, Xiamen, southeast China’s Fujian province, the details are below.
The huge granite statue of Zheng Chenggong was placed on a huge rock (Fuding Rock) at the southeast tip of Gulangyu Island on August 27, 1985, to mark the 361 birth anniversary of the national hero. The statue is 15.7 meters high, 1,617 tons in weight and is formed by 625 pieces of “Quanzhou white” granites, with 23 layers in total. It was created by Ms. Shi Yi, a professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Zheng, who was known as Koxinga, was born in Fujian in 1623. He led troops across the Taiwan Strait from Kinmen Island in 1661, and, after a year of fighting, defeated Dutch colonialists who had occupied Taiwan for 38 years.
