Qimei People Mound Introduction
According to legend, during the Ming Dynasty, a group of pirates landed on the southern coast of Qimei while the men on the island were out fishing, leaving only the elderly, weak, and women. Seven women were tending to their farms nearby (or washing clothes by a well, according to some accounts) when they unfortunately encountered an invasion by Japanese pirates. Unwilling to suffer humiliation, they chose to jump into a well together. Afterwards, the villagers filled the well with earth, and eventually, seven lush camphor trees grew in its place. In 1949, County Magistrate Liu Yanfu and General He Zhihao came to pay their respects. Moved by the event, General He wrote a poem titled "The Song of the Seven Beauties," which was engraved on a rock. The poem goes: “The seven beauties, graceful as white jade, embrace their integrity and resist the thieves; their heroic souls forever reside in the solitary fragrant trees, and in the spring above the well, blossoms fill the branches.” The story of the seven beauties' integrity was later expanded and constructed as the "Seven Beauties Chastity Park," which attracts countless visitors each year for sightseeing and remembrance.
