Taohua Island is one of the islands of the

Zhoushan Archipelago Zhoushan , formerly romanized as Chusan, is an urbanized archipelago with the administrative status of a prefecture-level city in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. It consists of an archipelago of islands at the southern mouth of H ...

. The island is under the administration of

Putuo District, Zhoushan Putuo District is a district of Zhoushan City, Zhejiang, China with a population of 378,805. The district used to be a county. In 1987, it was combined with the neighbouring county of Dinghai to form the city of Zhoushan. Basic Information ...

Zhejiang Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiang ...

, China. The island is mentioned many times in

Louis Cha Louis Cha Leung-yung (; 10 March 1924 – 30 October 2018), better known by his pen name Jin Yong (), pronounced "Gum Yoong" in Cantonese, was a Chinese wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") novelist and essayist who co-founded the Hong Kong dail ...

's ''

Condor Trilogy The ''Condor Trilogy'' (射鵰三部曲) is a series of three wuxia novels written by Hong Kong-based Chinese writer Jin Yong (Louis Cha). The series is amongst the most popular of Jin Yong's works. The novels in the trilogy are: * ''The Legend ...

,'' therefore gaining its popularity.

Tourist attraction

* The statue of Louis Cha, built in 2001 * Shengyan Monastery (at highest peak of the island; Anqi Mountain. Reachable by car from south side or by foot via a pretty tough path starting in the AAAA tourist attraction park) * Jilin Pagoda (7 floors, 38 meters high; part of the AAAA tourist attraction park)

External links

Official website for Taohua District

Taohua Island Tourist Information

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