Peach Blossom Island

[Swordwiz]

Can someone explain the layout, or geography of Peach Blossom Island? I think that this is a very interesting setting and would like to learn more about it. Information on the different layers of traps and the different houses on the island would be great.

[JamesG]

Can someone explain the layout, or geography of Peach Blossom Island? I think that this is a very interesting setting and would like to learn more about it. Information on the different layers of traps and the different houses on the island would be great.

For your information: " bronze statue of Louis Cha, or Jin Yong in Chinese, a Hong Kong martial art novel writer, is soon to be set up in the Peach Blossom Island in eastern Zhejiang Province, where Louis Cha has described in several of his most popular martial art novels. Local officials say this is to further stimulate tourism spurred by recent martial art TV series based on Louis' novels.

Over the years, visitors to the small island have increased substantially as the craze for Louis Cha's martial art novels have been again ignited.


The small island has been the venue where several TV series adapted from Louis Cha's novels were shot. Its magic beauty with numerous peach trees in blossom had stunned Louis Cha when he visited the island in his early years.


The statue to be set up around 15th this month will cost some 2,000,000 yuan or some 250,000 US dollars."

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[Swordwiz]

Thanks for posting that information, I remember reading about it in the past, that is indeed interesting. Based on the novel, what were some unique/interesting facts about the island?

[JamesG]

It's part of an archipelago of islands and has the highest small mountain of any of the islands at 540 meters. It's becoming quite a tourist destination. In the books the main feature other than Huang Yaoshi's home and his wife's tomb is the path maze that Huang Yaoshi could change at will and was used to trap Guo Jing when he and Huang Rong visited her father. Good thing too since it leads to the meeting of Guo Jing and Zhou Botong. Also it is the burial place of 5 of the Jiangnan 7 Freaks.

[Swordwiz]

Was there anything special to Huang YaoShi's home? Also, was there multiple layers of mazes and traps? Or just one? Thanks so much.

[Ken Cheng]

They could convert this "Peach Blossom Island" into Jin Yong theme park. The world doesn't have a wuxia-themed amusement park yet.

[junzi]

Can someone explain how those mazes work? I've just finished LoCH and now reading RoCH. The descriptions go 'X gives rise to Y gives rise to Z', but how exactly do they work?

[Extremer88]

They could convert this "Peach Blossom Island" into Jin Yong theme park. The world doesn't have a wuxia-themed amusement park yet.

That would surely boost the tourism there. Then we could have a large-size peach blossom flower as rollercoaster..

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[So Yen]

They could convert this "Peach Blossom Island" into Jin Yong theme park. The world doesn't have a wuxia-themed amusement park yet.

I might actually want to go to such theme park. : )