Example sentences for: gulangyu

How can you use “gulangyu” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And of course you can see Gulangyu itself, a dense sea garden of flowers, red-tiled villas, and tiny seafood cafés, a bright home to just 12,000 residents.

  • Best views are from the towering Sunlight Rock (Riguangyan) in Yanping Park, the highest point on Gulangyu and well worth the climb.

  • Gulangyu has banned automotive vehicles and is a pedestrians island — not even bicycles are allowed here.

  • Beginning in 1842, Western traders allowed in after the Opium Wars built Gulangyu into a virtual European town, with their own schools, churches, and hospitals.

  • The Xiamen Museum, housed in Gulangyu’s most striking red-domed building, contains a sprinkling of odd exhibits on its four floors, including printing presses, Tang Dynasty porcelains, wooden rifles, assorted gifts from sister cities around the world, and photographs of the island’s dazzling colonial architecture.


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