Lingshui Li Autonomous County.

Lingshui’s lagoon and island stories meet at Xincun Bay, where a protected seagrass meadow, working fishing boats and Danjia life share one water system.

A dense waterside settlement and rows of fish-raft structures at Xincun Harbour, seen from a hillside. — Xincun Harbour and its waterside settlement, photographed in 2014; the scene is a setting view, not a portrait of the article’s households.

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The Tea Table Facing the Fish Cages

Inside Xincun’s floating homes, a tea table faces the fish cages; families tend 42 nets, return to old boat homes and teach songs once carried by water work.

The green island of Fenjiezhou rises across the bay, with palms and shoreline in the foreground.

The Coral Garden That Lost Its Number Tags

Diver Tian Sihui returned with her daughter to coral planted the year before; the seedlings had grown enough to push away the number tags they had left.

Underwater seagrass leaves in Xincun Bay Lagoon, in the reference-site photograph published as Figure 1D.

The Meadow Beneath the Lagoon

A Danjia fisher took reporters by fishing boat into Xincun Lagoon to see seagrass; the protected bay’s story now runs through observation, zoning and restoration.

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Xincun Harbour and its waterside settlement, photographed in 2014; the scene is a setting view, not a portrait of the article’s households.song songroov · CC BY 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Retained source: Wikimedia standard 1280-pixel thumbnail; upstream full-size original was not downloaded. WebP copies were scaled without enlargement.
Fenjiezhou Island viewed across the bay in a photograph dated 12 February 2013; this view does not document underwater coral conditions.Zhangmoon618 · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Retained source: Wikimedia standard 1280-pixel thumbnail; upstream full-size original was not downloaded. WebP copies were scaled without enlargement.
A reference-site seagrass scene in Xincun Bay Lagoon, shown in Figure 1D of Chen et al. (2022); cropped from the published figure.Chen et al. · CC BY 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Retained source: the published article figure in WebP; display is a crop of panel D only. Map panels A/B were excluded; display is not enlarged.