Taohua Island

Taohua island is known as "marine botanical garden" for its dense hills, undulating mountains and lush trees. The whole island is composed of six scenic spots: tawan Jinsha, anqifeng, dafoyan, taohuagang, wagu gate and wushishishitan. There are also more than 60 scenic spots, such as Longnv peak, donghaimingzhu, Baique temple, Shengyan temple, mimingguanyin, Xianrenqiao, huangyaoshi's room and Qingyin cave. Taohua island also attracts tourists with its unique stones: some are like lions going down the mountain, some are like seals heading the ball, and some are like fairies worshiping Buddha. Standing on the top of the mountain, the "Big Buddha head" stone group, such as giant sculptures, is towering and spectacular. Especially on the top of the mountain, there is a big stone block, which is shaped like a Buddha's head. No matter it is a hundred miles away or close to it, its size is always the same from any angle. It's said that an immortal came down to visit the East China Sea. He was attracted by the beautiful scenery of Taohua island. He didn't want to return to Tianfu and lived here as a stone.

Taohua Island

Taohua island is an island under the jurisdiction of Putuo District, Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province. It covers an area of 41.7 square kilometers and has a population of about 11500 people. It has the beautiful peach garden of Huaguo Mountain in tuerling and is known as a fairyland in the world. Pharmacist Huang, the "Eastern evil" in Mr. Jin Yong's famous works "biography of archery heroes" and "heroes of divine carving", lives on this island.

Located in the southeast of Zhoushan archipelago in Zhejiang Province, it is located in 122 ° 13 ′ ~ 122 ° 19 ′ E and 29 ° 46 ′ ~ 29 ° 52 ′ n, with Qiandao Lake scenic spot in the north and rabbit ear ridge scenic spot in the south, forming a tourist route. The scenic spot is the seventh largest island in Zhoushan Archipelago. Taohua island is 7.8 nautical miles away from Shenjiamen, the seat of Putuo District Government of Zhoushan City in the north, facing Putuo Mountain, the "sea heaven Buddha kingdom" and Zhujiajian, the "sea mountain Yandang" across the harbor, 12 kilometers away from Ningbo City in the west, Taohua Port International deepwater channel in the south, and the famous East China Sea fishing ground in the East. The island covers an area of 41.7 square kilometers with a total population of 11500.

Taohua island was called "Baiyun Mountain" in ancient times. In the Qin Dynasty, an Qisheng fled to Taohua island to live in seclusion. He practiced Taoism and alchemy. He sprinkled his drunken ink on the rocks to form peach patterns. Therefore, the stone is called "Taohua stone", the mountain is called "Taohua Mountain", and the island is called "Taohua island". Taohua island belongs to Anqi township of Changguo County in the 19th year of Hongwu from Song Dynasty to Ming Dynasty, Taohua village in the early years of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, Dinghai Anqi Township in the reign of Guangxu, and Taohua Township in the Republic of China. After several times of construction, it was merged with the township and withdrawn from the district until today's Taohua town.

The scenic tourism resources on the island are rich and diverse, with complete categories and high grade. It integrates sea, mountain, stone, reef, rock, cave, temple, temple, nunnery, flower, forest, bird, military relics, historical monuments, cliff stone carvings and myths and legends. The natural landscape and cultural landscape are approved as provincial scenic spots in 1993.

On October 9, 2019, Taohua Island Scenic Spot was warned by Zhejiang Provincial Department of culture and tourism, and the rectification period was three months.

Scenic events

In October 2019, Zhejiang Provincial Department of culture and tourism decided to deal with the scenic spots with serious problems, and give warning to 10 scenic spots, such as Putuo Taohua Island Scenic Spot, for rectification within 3 months.

There are many management bodies in Putuo Taohua Island Scenic Spot, four scenic spots become four scenic spots, which are open to the outside world, and each of them is in its own way, lacking integrity and unity.

There was overload on the tour bus between the scenic spots, and the conductor and driver did not remind passengers to fasten their seat belts during the whole journey. The up and down transfer of tourist bus is disordered, and the ticket office of tourist bus is basically closed.

There are not enough rest facilities along the way in the scenic spots, and the gate of the mother and baby room is closed. The development level of resources in the scenic spots of shooting heroes biography is low, and the surrounding environment is dirty and poor. During the secret visit to tawan Jinsha, the rescue workers were not on duty (lookout). During the on-site inspection, the staff of the scenic spot beat the tourists, and the service attitude was extremely bad.

geographical environment

Taohua Island, with the highest peak of Zhoushan archipelago - anqifeng; the first deep port of Zhoushan - Taohua port; the largest stone in Southeast Coast - dafoyan; is the main producing area of Putuo Narcissus, one of the three famous Narcissus products in China, and Putuo Buddha tea, a famous tea in Zhejiang Province. It is also the island with the most species of forest along the coast of Zhejiang Province, and has the reputation of "Island Botanical Garden". Its rich natural landscape, cultural landscape and myths and legends are organically integrated to form six scenic spots, namely: taohuayu scenic spot, tawan Jinsha scenic spot, anqifeng scenic spot, dafoyan scenic spot, xuanlugu Island Scenic Spot and taohuagang scenic spot, which form three tourism special lines of martial arts, Buddhism and Taoism culture. It has 12 landscapes, such as sunrise in Jinsha, Golden Dragon spitting beads, Anxi cloud, high mountain smelling bell, hundred pilgrimage, mountain stone peach blossom, strange cave exploration, majestic appearance of taogang, gravel beach tidal bore, forest belt smoke tree, Longtan curtain bead, Great Buddha sunset, and more than 30 major scenic spots, such as dafuyan, tanzhifeng, Donghai Shenzhu, Qingyin cave, Baique temple, Xianren bridge, Mimosa Guanyin, Longya Qingtian, Dinghai ancient city, Anxi Liandan cave, etc scenic spot.

The beauty of peach blossom used to be unknown to tourists. The island is known as "Island Botanical Garden" for its long mountains, strange rocks and reefs, blue sea and sands, secluded streams and caves, brilliant flowers, dense hills, undulating mountains, lush trees, beautiful scenery and more than 75% vegetation coverage. Trees and flowers are very rich in resources, known as the "marine botanical garden" reputation. There are 73 species and 356 varieties of trees, among which there are dozens of rare tree species belonging to the scope of national nature protection, such as Toona ciliata, Cinnamomum camphora, Ilex latifolia, Narcissus, Rhododendron, Euonymus japonicus, orchid and other precious flowers. Narcissus and orchids on Taohua island are the "local specialties" on the island, especially Narcissus, which is one of the three largest Narcissus in China and sold overseas.

The whole island is composed of six scenic spots: tawan Jinsha, anqifeng, dafoyan, taohuagang, wagu gate and wushishishitan; there are more than 60 scenic spots, such as Longnv peak, donghaimingzhu, Baique temple, Shengyan temple, mimingguanyin, Xianrenqiao, huangyaoshi room, Qingyin cave, etc. Taohua island also attracts tourists with its unique stones. Some of the boulders go down the mountain like a lion, some head the ball like a seal, and some worship Buddha like a fairy. Standing on the top of the mountain, the "Big Buddha head" stone group, such as giant sculptures, is towering and spectacular. Especially on the top of the mountain, there is a big stone block, which is shaped like a Buddha's head. No matter from a distance of 100 Li or from a place close to it, its size is always the same from any angle. It's said that an immortal came down to visit the East China Sea. He was fascinated by the beautiful scenery of Taohua island. He didn't want to return to Tianfu. He turned into a stone and lived here for a long time.

Taohua island is located 11.6 kilometers south of Shenjiamen Town, between Dengbu island and Xiazhi island. Covering an area of 40.37 square kilometers, it is located in the confrontation mountain in the central and southern part of the island, with flowers and trees growing all over the island. At an altitude of 544.4 meters, it is the highest peak of Zhoushan Archipelago. The direction of the mountain ranges is to take the confrontation mountain as the main peak and extend to all sides. According to song Qiandao's Siming tujing: "Taohua mountain It's said that an Qisheng learned the way of alchemy here. He tasted it and sprinkled it on the rocks with drunken ink. As a result, it became a peach blossom pattern. It's strange and natural. Most people take it as a treasure, so it's called peach blossom. " However, since then, the existing historical sites are limited to the Qing Dynasty.

There are about 20000 people living on the island, most of whom are descendants of immigrants from Ningbo, Zhoushan and Jintang Island after Kangxi (1662-1722). Taohua town and duizhi Township were originally set up. The central and southeast of the island were under Duizhi township area, mainly fishery; the northwest was under Taohua township area, mainly planting. The town government was stationed in Gongqian village, and Duizhi township was merged into Taohua town. Nowadays, the local development of marine economy, opening up a "Putuo Buddha tea" production base, shallow beach aquaculture and aquatic products deep processing industry is developing rapidly, tourism is booming. Every year in the golden season of tourism, the upper reaches of the island are crowded with tourists.

If you climb on the mountain and look far away, you can't help sighing as if you are in a fairyland. The beauty and mystery of Taohua island have attracted many literati and scholars to visit and explore here. After he was first born in Qin'an period, Li Shaochun, a minister in Han Dynasty, Su Shi, a writer in Song Dynasty, Wu Lai, a writer in Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Wan, a military strategist in Ming Dynasty, Zhu Xu, Miao Sui, a master of martial arts culture in Qing Dynasty, Jin Yong, and Fang Mu, a poet, have left many well-known works, which constantly supplement and deepen the cultural landscape and marine culture of Taohua island Praising the natural scenery of Taohua Island, the poem said: "the ink mark is drunk, the peach blossom is sprinkled, and the coco on the stone is rotten like the rosy clouds. Wave said Wuling spring is good, never came here pan Xiancha

In recent years, with the development and construction of tourism facilities, Taohua Island, a paradise on the sea, is more and more respected by tourists at home and abroad.

Main scenic spots

Taohua Island Scenic Spot

Taohua island is a wonderful and magical island in the East China Sea described by Jin Yong's biography of arched heroes and sister story of heroes of the divine eagle

. The scenic tourism resources on the island are rich and diverse, with complete categories and high grade. It integrates sea, mountain, stone, reef, rock, cave temple, temple, nunnery, flower, forest, bird, military relics, historical monuments, cliff inscriptions, myths and legends. The natural landscape and cultural landscape are well-developed. It was approved as a provincial scenic spot in 1993.

Taohua island has the highest peak of Zhoushan archipelago - anqifeng; the first deep port of Zhoushan - Taohua port; the largest stone of southeast coast - dafoyan; known as "Island Botanical Garden". The rich natural landscape, cultural landscape and myths and legends are organically integrated to form six scenic spots of Taohua island,

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