Guangzhou Shamian island is famous for its architectural beauty. Almost every building in Shamian has a historical story behind it. Wandering among those buildings with exotic customs and recalling the moving stories a hundred years ago, visitors can't help feeling nostalgic and don't know where they are Stepping into Shamian Island, the first thing you see is the European style buildings with different styles. 150 years ago, Shamian became a British French concession. More than ten countries set up consulates in Shamian, and nine foreign banks and more than 40 foreign banks operated in Shamian. More than 50 buildings in that year formed today's European style architectural Grand View Garden in Shamian and became a national key cultural relics protection area. You see, the original HSBC building with neoclassical architectural style is a building of the same era and style as the Shanghai Peace Hotel. It is said that both of them are from the same architect. Now it has been more than a hundred years, the style remains the same, showing the vicissitudes of the years. The sky tower on its roof is more like a standing guard, overlooking the present and past of the century old sand. Source: visual China Every building in Shamian has a story. Now there are two-dimensional codes beside the doors of these buildings. As long as the mobile phone is swept, you can travel through time and space and understand its past and present lives. Shamian has evolved from the former concession to today's scenic spot, attracting a large number of Chinese and foreign tourists. The streets in Shamian are in good order. The straight Shamian street runs from east to west. The street park and towering trees form a green world. Looking down from a high place, it is found that every flower grassland in the street park is a "green carpet" with beautiful patterns, which makes people dizzying. The trees on the sand surface are mainly camphor trees, Ficus microphylla, Ficus macrophylla and red cotton. Camphor trees and Ficus microphylla are evergreen all year round. When spring comes, the golden leaves of Ficus microphylla fall in succession, and the scene of "bringing golden armor all over the island" is intoxicating. When it drizzles in March, standing on the wide corridor of the arch corridor building, listening to the rustling rain, breathing the fragrance of plants in the air, looking at the European buildings and century old trees looming in the misty rain, and there are few pedestrians on the exotic ancient street. For a moment, you seem to have no idea where you are. Further on, you will come to the Pearl River. Shamian is located at the intersection of the three sections of the Pearl River. The wide and beautiful white goose pond has left the legend that Huang Xiaoyang, the leader of the Guangdong Nanhai peasant uprising army in the Ming Dynasty, was helped by two big white geese. Today, there is a statue of Huang Xiaoyang facing the white goose pond in Shamian Park, telling the story of the past. White goose pond is the location of "night moon in goose pond", one of the "Eight Sights of Yangcheng" selected in 1963. When night falls, lights are on and the moon is full, the bright moon in white goose pond is high, the sky is clear for thousands of miles, and the water surface of the Pearl River is sparkling, which has unique charm and beauty. This is: Geese carry Xiao to stay in scenic spots, There is always love in the shadow of the pond and the secluded waves; The night is quiet and the sound of nature is long-standing, The moonlight washes the city of Yangcheng. (Xinhua News Agency)