This year's Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day are on the same day. Everyone must also want to celebrate the Double Festival in a different way. Let's have a good time. Today, Abby would like to share with you that Xiamen just launched the country's first cultural tourism sea night tour light show tourism project on September 19. After experiencing it for yourself, I feel really good. Let's take a look together.

When it comes to night travel, many people have had relevant travel experiences. It is said that Xiamen is a "sea garden", so naturally we need to take a boat for the night tour at sea. We are riding the "Taikoo-3" under the Huangu Night Tour. Now everyone sees this colorful cruise ship with auspicious dragon patterns. It combines ancient blessing boat cultural elements, southern Fujian cultural symbols, and new national trend style.

After stepping into the cabin and before setting sail, staff will teach everyone how to use life jackets. There are life jackets under each seat. The safety awareness is very in place, making people feel at ease and full of expectations for the entire journey.

Our feast of light and shadow set sail from the rumbling sound of drums on the third floor of the cruise ship, recreating the momentum of national hero Zheng Chenggong beating drums and setting off on the expedition. The sense of ceremony is particularly suitable for a Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day night tour.

When the boat starts to move forward, we can choose different floors to experience sightseeing according to our personal preferences. One end of the first floor is similar to a teahouse, where you can make tea and chat with relatives and friends to eat.

The retro tea sets bring people full of emotions. With the eight immortals table placed in this way, the atmosphere rises. It is said that the best love is companionship. In this way, while enjoying the beautiful scenery of Ludao, drinking tea and chatting, it is very comfortable and relaxing. I personally think that the best thing about a cruise ship is to enjoy life in a "slow" way. There is no fatigue and fatigue from traveling, but only a leisurely swimming while painting. It is suitable for all ages.

At the other end of the first floor is the model of a small theater of puppet shows on the sea. Once you sit in the chair, the music plays, and the excitement of the red stage comes on stage.

Puppet puppet theater is a traditional local drama that originated in the 17th century and used puppets to perform. The head of the puppet is a hollow human head carved out of wood. Except for the puppet head, puppet palms and puppet feet, the trunk and limbs of the puppet puppet body are all made of cloth. During the performance, gloves are put into the puppet costumes for puppet manipulation, hence the name "puppet show". With the changes of the times, traditional puppet shows can be seen in fewer and fewer places. I didn't expect to see this intangible cultural heritage on the Taikoo-3. It makes people happy and also makes them feel gratified.

The performance on the stage is a classic scene of Wu Song fighting a tiger. The young master performing the performance is less than 30 years old, but he has been engaged in this industry for more than 10 years. It is not easy. The hand control skills are very good. The left hand is Wu Song and the right hand is a tiger. The coordination is seamless. The movements are lively, fast and powerful. They are multitasking and echo freely, which attracted thunderous applause and endless cheers from the audience.

If the first floor is an immersive experience in southern Fujian culture and folk customs, the open cabin design on the second floor allows you to enjoy the beautiful night view of Ludao while blowing the sea breeze.

You can also feel the flavor of Fujian on the tip of your tongue. Here, you can not only eat freshly made spring rolls, but also the cool and sweet four-fruit soup.

In addition, there are many intangible cultural heritage art works with southern Fujian characteristics displayed here, and friends who like them can buy them and take them home. For example: well-carved and lifelike puppets, from their demeanor to their costumes, are vividly depicted.

There is also Zhang embroidery, which ranks second only to the four famous embroideries in the history of Chinese weaving, namely Su embroidery, Shu embroidery, Hunan embroidery, and Guangdong embroidery, and can be regarded as the fifth most famous embroideries in China. Zhang embroidery was famous at home and abroad in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and "Zhangrong" has always been a tribute to the court. Its artistic characteristics lie in the exquisite and novel composition, beautiful and realistic image, vivid expression, and colorful and magnificent colors. Among them, hollow seed embroidery and convex gold embroidery are special effects of Zhang embroidery.

The most distinctive and shocking thing is the night tour around the drum. This is also the first sea laser projection light show in China and a special tribute to the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Xiamen Special Economic Zone.

We have seen laser projection light shows in many places, but watching it at sea and on a moving cruise ship really has a special flavor. Especially the whale escort part makes people can't help but associate it with "Big Fish Begonia", which is simply a realistic reproduction of the movie version of romance.

The most exciting thing about the sea light show is that it combines the three-dimensional interpretation of the sea, land and air in Xiamen Bay. During our voyage, we could see Xiamen's bougainvillea blooming in the waves, we could see jellyfish floating around Gulangyu, and we could see dolphins swimming under the Haicang Bridge.

You can also witness the dancing of colorful beams full of technology, or like dots of stars shining on the sea, or like countless light beams shining on the international cruise terminal on the shore, or turning into wavy lines, round circles and illusory whale chasing in the water... It makes people dizzying and praising.

Around Gulangyu Island, you can enjoy the night view of the hundreds of billions of gold bricks in Xiamen Bay on both sides of the Lujiang River. You can experience the triple charm of technology, folk customs and art. You can feel the down-to-earth experience from the ceremony, from the influence of intangible cultural heritage to the romantic light show. Immersive experience, don't miss this kind of festival.

Abby Tips:

Boarding and ticket purchasing place: Xiamen Bay Maritime Cruise Waiting Hall, 3-104 Lujiang Road, Heping Wharf, Siming District, Xiamen

Flight: Departure at 18:40 and 20:20 every night, you need to bring your ID card and arrive half an hour in advance

Ship name: Taikoo-3, current discount price is 120 yuan/person