Butterfly Island is a small island on Nanhu Lake, covering an area of 12 mu. It was piled up in memory of Hu Die, a movie queen in Shanghai in the 1930s, who came to Nanbei Lake to shoot ‘Salt Tide’. It is shaped like a butterfly. There is a Shanhai Pavilion on the island, octagonal in shape, with 3 floors above ground and 1 floor underground. The pavilion is 18.18 meters high. From the bottom to the top of the pavilion, it is open layer by layer and transparent on all sides. Although the pavilion is small, it contains the lake, mountain and sea views. The Listening to Spring Tea Room is located on the southeast side of the island and is adjacent to the water. There are two pavilions named Shuangfei Pavilion respectively. The two pavilions are connected by a more than 10-meter-long winding corridor. It is a good place for tourists to have tea, rest and enjoy the scenery. There are also architectural sketches such as Lianli Pavilion and Liangyi Pavilion on the island. The walls, revetments, balusters and paths on the island are all made of pebbles, giving people a peach blossom paradise artistic conception with leisure and elegance and a sense of returning to nature. Butterfly Island has become a garden-style exhibition platform integrating multiple functions such as tourist sightseeing, interactive experience and organized visits. In 2008, in order to commemorate reform and opening up and enrich the cultural connotation of Butterfly Island, the ‘Exhibition of Bu Xinsheng’s Reform Deeds’ was arranged in the pavilion. Through the form of stories, it vividly shows Bu Xinsheng’s deeds of ‘opening the prelude to China’s urban enterprise reform with a pair of scissors’. Opening hours: open all year round from 08:00 to 17:00. The specific business status is subject to the opening situation on that day.
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