Taojiang Thirteen Islets Scenic Area integrates resources such as pastoral scenery on the islets, volcanic relics, and stands out with its grotesque peaks and rocks, caves, and forests, making it a primary component of Linhai National Geopark and Taozhu Provincial Scenic Area. Comprising ten sub-areas including Taojiang Charm, Peacock Pecking Green, Volcanic Relics, Coiling Dragon by the Sea, General’s Legacy, Green Guest’s Feast, Great Wall Peak Forest, Stone Pillar Ascending to Heaven, Taojiang Picture Islet, and Orange Ridge Fragrance, the area showcases the beautiful landscapes shaped by volcanic activities 80 million years ago, such as rhyolite platforms, peak walls, peak forests, caves, and natural bridges. Taojiang River divides and surrounds the fields into thirteen islets of varying sizes and shapes, covering an area of more than mu, with a typical wetland landscape. Originally, a large number of peach trees were planted on the islets, hence the name Taozhu. With its clear waters, green fields, red mountains, and dark shadows, the scenery on Taojiang Thirteen Islets changes with the seasons and the crops, earning the reputation of ‘China’s Beautiful Pastoral Scenery’. The islets feature a combination of land and water, and from the Stone Pillar Peak, one can see the volcanic peaks, the winding mountain ranges, the river ports below like a ribbon, and the green fields, forming a natural picture. Taojiang Thirteen Islets: What are the Taojiang Thirteen Islets, and why are they called Taozhu? Many peach trees were originally planted here, so it is naturally called Taozhu. The river refers to a river, and ‘zhu’ means ‘land in the water’, dividing and surrounding the fields into various sizes and shapes of islets, the largest being over 80 mu and the smallest just half a mu, hence the name Taojiang Thirteen Islets. Why is there a statue at the entrance of the Thirteen Islets? This is the statue of the Southern Song Dynasty poet Wen Tianxiang. Wen Tianxiang once passed through Taozhu by sea during his hardships and was inspired by the beautiful mountains and waters of Taozhu, leaving behind a poem: ‘A fairyland of sea and mountains, by chance I lodge in solitude’. ‘In the myriad of paintings, amidst a thousand rocks of jade’. Therefore, there is a statue of him here.
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