The Magic Loaction of MIllennium Harbourview Hotel Xiamen

one of the best article for Millennium Harbourview Hotel Xiamen is what I will present you here , it is from whatsonxiamen.com special edition . Beautiful words, I put my photos into the lines for more lights.




The true magic of the Millennium came into being long before the Harbourview entered into the management of Millennium & Copthorne. Erected in 1992 by Singapore’s top designers, the hotel’s legendary design is told to have been inspired by the appearance of a lion. The setting of the hotel places you in the heart of old Xiamen. The hotel’s culture has the true feelings of an international brand, derived from staff whom are conversant in a total of over 15 languages and intermixed with 5 Western staff. You also have the delightful selection of cuisine variety for your dining experience at the Italian restaurant, Japanese restaurant, International buffet lounge, and Cantonese restaurant. When it comes to winding down, however, don’t miss out on the Hollywood Bar, a premium malt whiskey bar that brings you into the life of a L.A. movie star.


The side entrance to the hotel opens to Xiamen  famous street, Zhongshanglu Shopping Street
Walking out and around the hotel, you will be pleased to discover in the surroundings surviving architectural relics providing glimpses into Xiamen’s history. Continuing on downtown will take you to Zhongshan Road Shopping Street. The Shopping Street is the original downtown road of Xiamen Island, now become a pedestrian street, and is still festive with throngs of fashionably dressed young shoppers who quite literally know how to shop until they drop.




Within view of the Millennium is famous Gulangyu Island, A.K.A. Piano Island. Take a 10 minute stroll over to the Gulangyu Island Ferry and hop on board for a 5 minute cruise across the waters. Aboard the ferry enjoy the feeling of cool misty spray off the ocean waters and take in the fresh sea air. In no time at all you are arrived on the island met by beautiful gardens, museums, little souvenir shops, pearl stores, and seafood restaurants. At the fore of the island you must enjoy the climb up Sunlight Rock and catch the breathtaking view from the island’s renowned peak. Then explore on into the center of Gulangyu and behold the beautifully preserved colonial buildings such as the Gulangyu Catholic Cathedral and also the former British and American Consulates.



Another short walk down Siming Road brings you back to Zhong Shan Road and here on the right hand side you will find the First Church of China. Established in 1848AD, Xinjie Church is China’s first Protestant church, erected shortly after the start of the first missions to Xiamen. A visit to this church on any week day will allow you to enjoy the peace found in the sanctuary of this beautiful church. However, go by to sit in on a Sunday morning service and you will be amazed by its total transformation into a church overflowing with thousands of devout attendees.

Walking out and around the hotel, you will be pleased to discover in the surroundings surviving architectural relics providing glimpses into Xiamen’s history

Hop on a taxi for a brief ride over to Xiamen University and its neighbor Nanputuo Temple. Saunter around the university’s sprawling campus and take in the stunning beauty where over 17,000 undergrads come to further their knowledge of the world. Although much of this campus has been freshly landscaped together with buildings restored and new modern architecture erected, a few areas of campus still retain the cozy old red-brick dorms and apartments that remind us of the University’s past culture.



Next door to the University you will find Nanputuo Temple where nearly 120 monks make their abode. Nanputuo established originally out of a monk’s humble cave dwelling in 686AD and has evolved since into the capacious Buddhist center that you see today. Inside you may venture to their restaurant and try their famous vegetarian cuisine, a personal favorite of President Deng Xiaoping’s.


  The hotel's legendary design is told to have been inspired by the appearance of a lion

All days come to a close and by the end of your day you might be looking for Xiamen’s nightlife. Talk with the Millennium’s Concierge and they’ll have you whisked off by taxi to Haiwain Park, the focus of Xiamen’s nightly entertainment. On the other side of the board walk, across from Xiamen’s harbour, you may enjoy a walk around an elegantly terraced park, with brightly colored high reaching water fountains, a green earthen pyramid observation point, and scattered park benches. Then skirting around this park, along the harbour boardwalk, is where you go to enjoy Xiamen’s top Western bars were the party never ends...at least not until day break that is.









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Hongkee Buddy Gathering in Millennium Xiamen Hotel on Oct 16

It was a great place to for such gathering , Hongkongnese who resided in Xiamen always had a gathering in Golf Bar in Millennium Harbourview Hotel Xiamen.

Laughters , joy , chatting , old and new friends ...









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Xiamen , worth the time

Just grasp a composition from a magazine about Xiamen , the magazine is called grand hotels.It happens that the author stayed in Millennium Harbourview Hotel Xiamen while writing this .

Have a quick share:



Xiamen , worth the time.

October is a golden month for family travel and vacations, and your writer strongly recommend Xiamen, a popular tourist destination without visiting which you can’t leave China’s Fujian province, they say. As one of the representative cities of Minnan (Southern Fujian) culture, Xiamen presents spectacular scenery. Every time I visited Xiamen, the weather was fine. Under the clear sky and bathed in sunlight, the distant mountains produced an ink-and-water effect. Sunlight Rock and western-style houses hidden in the lush greenery on Gulangyu Islet, a tiny island off the coast of Xiamen, were faintly visible. Golden beaches on one side of the Island Ring Road, roadside greenbelts and the blue sea formed a vivid, colorful picture.



Xiamen’s cityscape has undergone drastic changes compared with a dozen years ago, featuring carefully preserved traditional Minnan-style verandah buildings as well as contemporary high-rises and luxuriant gardens. Millennium Harborview Hotel Xiamen where your writer stayed is adjacent to shop-lined Zhongshan Road pedestrian, the history of which can date back to the 1930s when it was a busy commercial street. The numerous restaurants, snack bars and vendors selling dried foodstuffs make your life easy and convenient.



Xiamen is a city of leisure. Unlike Chengdu where you seem can find teahouses everywhere, Xiamen adds a heavy dose of Minnan culture to its leisure activities. The warm weather has also contributed to the vibrant scenes in which you will always feel fresh and energetic. To immerse yourself in the leisure activities, you can sample the “noon tea” at Lu Dao Hotel which overlooks Gulangyu Islet in the distance, and visit Harbor Hotel for an extravagant dinner, feasting your eyes on the glorious sunset, starry night sky and twinkling lights, and letting the sea breeze gently caress your face. No wonder the city had appealed to so many great names in history who lingered on and on.



Xiamen has a strong humanistic touch. The home to overseas Chinese reflects the combination of Minnan culture and the tropical flavor of Southeast Asia. The city is marked with Minnan culture, from the local vernacular to Tieguanyin Oolong Tea, from Kingmen gongtang (hard candy) to Taiwan fenglisu (pineapple cake). Lu Xun, Yu Dafu and Lin Yutang had left their footmarks in Xiamen, which takes pride in Tan Kah Kee (“a flag of overseas Chinese and glory of China” by Chairman Mao) and Madame Dr. Lin Qiaozhi, modern China’s pioneer gynaecologist.



Xiamen is definitely worth the time.






source: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_49e0b6010100faob.html

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Xiamen Listed Top Ten of Hottest Cities and Best Destinations from Ctrip

Ctrip released Top Ten Hottest Cities and Best Destinations during the Golden week , China National Days 2009.

Xiamen is on both list of course , ranked 8 on Hottest Cities and 6 on Best Destinations. From Government report 8.5 hundred thouands touriests visited Xiamen and spent more than 8.6 thousand millions rmb .

Here is the list:

The Hottest Cities:

1. Beijing 2.Shanghai 3. Hangzhou 4. Hongkong 5. Chengdu 6.Nanjing 7. Qingdao 8. Xiamen 9. Xi'an 10.Dalian

The Hottest Outgoing Cities:

1. Shanghai 2. Beijing 3. Guangzhou 4. Shenzhen 5. Chengdu. 6.Hangzhou 7. Nanjing 8.Wuhan 9. Chongqing 10.Xi'an

The Best Destinations :
1. Beijing 2. Sanya 3. Hangzhou 4. Guilin 5.Chengdu 6.Xiamen 7.Lijiang 8.Qingdao 9.Jiuzaigou 10.Huangshan Mountain

The Balanced Index list:

1. Beijing 2. Shanghai 3. Guangzhou 4. Hangzhou 5. Chengdu 6.Nanjing 7.Xi'an 8. Qiangdao 9. Xiamen 10. Shenzhen

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Moon Cake Gambling in Millennium Xiamen Hotel

Few days ago , I have introduced the moon cake game specially in Xiamen , and the real battle came on 30Sep, 2009.

It was fun and every one tried hard for good luck . Cheers have been all around , just enjoy ! No wonder local Xiamen people would take lots of times of gambling every mid-autumn festival.









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China National Day Golden Week's Xiamen Heat Remains

Yesterday we took the ctrip.com online check and found out the hotness of Xiamen Hotels in the fourth day of the Golden week - China 60th National Day .

Today , the ctrip.com check is going on , but none of the hotels is full house . well,still , Millennium Harbourview Hotel Xiamen , Seaside hotel , Wyndham Hotel , Best Western Hotel and Lujiang Hotel all show high occupancy online .

This year there are 8 days holiday set , so when last year the fourth day is the day people start to leave , for this year , the day is still packed.

You can find on the street of Xiamen the sea of people , you will believe its magic . I keep a secret , I prefer a quiet Xiamen for its unique glamor.....





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How Hot is Xiamen During the 60th China National Holidays ? Xiamen Hotels say...

All the Xiamen hotels are worrying about the business during the 60th China National Holidays, would it be as hot as last year , since Beijing has drawn lots of attention of travellers .

Today is the fourth holiday of the National days, the result comes out with checking on ctrip.com, including Millennium Harbourview Hotel Xiamen , the Seaside hotel , the Wyndham hotel and the Asia Gulf are fully house tonight . So the highlight comes late.

I still expect the trend for tomorrow and the days after , there is possibility of the second wave to Xiamen from the 8 days holiday. Wait and See.





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Michael Jackson's top ten Music Videos

Even in Xiamen , you can not escape from him...


Some time ago while I was unable to put these into blogger , and that was the time Michael Jackson away from us.  To complete this wish , I put it here for you , for me and for him.


With the passing of the King of Pop comes the end of a musical videography that helped to define, well, the entire first decade of MTV. Michael Jackson turned out videos that rocked the collective worlds of pop, R&B, filmmaking and multimedia promotion.

And of the many M.J. clips that have burned prison-tattoo impressions into our video-loving souls, these are the Top 9 most kickass. Did we leave any off, or make a bad call?

1. "Billie Jean": Some messiahs walk on water, others light up the asphalt in a bow tie and high-waters. In a word: unstoppable.

2. "Thriller": When the making-of video is just as iconic and popular as the video itself, you know you've got a holy frickin' grail on your hands.

3. "Beat It": Fight! Fight! Er, wait, no...Dance! Dance! Makes West Side Story look like My Dinner With Andre.

4. "Smooth Criminal": Nine minutes of nonsensical gangster melodrama, yet we gladly lost sleep wondering if Annie was really OK.

5. "Scream": Long before The Matrix, Mike and sister Janet were tripping on animé and digitally morphing to a deceptively killer dance jam.

6. "Bad": Remember the guy from the "Beat It" video who tried to break up the fight? He's finally had it, and he's got a posse. Scorsese directs!

7. "Black or White": Macaulay Culkin, Norm from Cheers, a U.N.-worthy array dancers and eye-popping morph effects prove Jacko to be a uniter, not a divider.

8. "You Rock My World": Any project that gets Marlon Brando, Chris Tucker, Michael Madsen and the King of You-Know-What in the same storyline is, like, instantly incredible.

9. "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough": Prehistoric special effects don't detract from the baddest and most infectious solo performance of his pre-Thriller career.

10. You Tell Us! What'd we miss? Paul McCartney collabos? "Man in the Mirror"? Does the Pepsi commercial count? Speak now, or forever hold your junk and scream, "HEE-hee!"



I say , we are the world!






Farewell , the king of the pop!


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Moon cake gambling in Xiamen , MId-autumn festival hottest tradition than ever

In Xiamen ,even the spring festival( Chinese new year ) could not compare...

You know what I am talking about , if you are now lucky enough to be in Xiamen , don't tell me nobody invites you to play the Mid-Autumn moon cake gambling game.

MId-Autumn festival  ,also known as the Moon Festival, or in Chinese, Zhongqiu Jie (traditional Chinese: 中秋節), is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese people .
The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is usually around late September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumn and spring Equinoxes of the solar calendar, when the moon is supposedly at its fullest and roundest. The traditional food of this festival is the mooncake, of which there are many different varieties.

Moon cake is the must have snack in the Mid-autumn Festival. The traditional moon cake is round shaped which symbolize the family reunion. To have a piece of moon cake with family members during the Mid-autumn Festival is one of the favorite times for most of people in China.  

The moon cake in Xiamen is different from elsewhere in the world. A set of moon cake composes of 63 moon cakes classified in 6 different sizes. To decide who can take which one, a moon cake game was innovated by general Zheng Chenggong about 300 years ago for easing soldiers' home sick during the Mid-autumn Festival. The game is so entertaining that only play once you'll never forget it.

The rule of moon cake game is quite similar to gambling. 6 dices are put into a big ceramic bowl. 10 people around the table, drop 6 dice one by one in clockwise. As a rule of thumb, the more dice with red four-point in one drop the bigger moon cake you can take. People drop the dice one after another until all the moon cakes are taken. Normally all the 63 moon cakes can be taken within 30 minutes, however the game can last for several hours until the last moon cake is taken by specific dice combination.

Mooncake Game was started about 1500 years ago by scholars craving success in imperial exams. The total of 63 prizes, based on various dice combinations, was named after imperial titles earned from the exam:

One prize for #1 Scholar (Zhuangyuan) The seven prize levels:

Highest 1. Zhuangyuan with Gold Flower

2. Hongliubo (6 fours)

3. Yaodianliubo (6 ones)

4. Heiliubo (6 of the same, except fours)

5. Wuhong (5 fours)

6. Wuzi (5 of the same, except fours)

Lowest 7. Sihong (4 fours)

Two prizes for No. 2 Scholar (Duitang) A straight.
Four prizes for No. 3 Scholar (Sanhong) Throw 3 fours
Eight prizes for No. 4 Scholar (Sijin) Throw 4 of the same, except fours
Sixteen prizes for No. 5 Scholar (Erju) Throw 2 fours
Thirty two prizes for No. 6 Scholar (Yixiu) Throw 1 four

The Mid-autumn Festival with moon cake game in Xiamen sounds more important than the Spring Festival. A couple of weeks before and after the Mid-autumn Festival, all people in Xiamen enjoy the moon cake game. Companies use this game to distribute welfare to employees, shopping malls use this game to promote merchandise The award of the game changes as time goes by. Almost everywhere in Xiamen, you can take chances to win something by this game. A final moon cake game is held every year, the winner can take a house or a luxury car that worth around half million CNY.

At last , today 3rd Oct ,2009 is the day of mid-autumn festival of 2009! happy gambling!

 thanks to the resources:

http://offthewallchina.blogspot.com/2008/09/mooncake-game-origin-and-rules.html
http://www.englishcafe.com/blog/moon-cake-game-xiamen-33045

 

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