On Xishan Island of Taihu Lake, stands an imposing plum garden of nearly 10 hundred acres. During the blooming period, the whole island will be covered with white. In particular, there are more than 100 thousand fruit plum trees around Linwudong Around Feb of the lunar year, when plums are in bloom, there will be "a Sea of Fragrant Snow" with an unlimited space of white. In order to ensure that tourists feast their eyes on this grand scene, the host specially builds a Plum-Sighting Pavilion on top of Linwu Mountain for tourists to climb up to have a bird-eye view over the sea of plum.
Suzhou has for a long time the custom to offer a sacrifice to Flower God and celebrate the Birthday of All Flowers. Among the 12-month Flower Gods, Plum God is on the top. Through plum, Taihu Lake Plum-Appreciating Tour makes friends via flowers, hosts entertainment activities, calligraphy and painting contests and photos exhibitions. Tourists can make and chant poems or make paintings and take photos on plum, thus to express their sentiments.
Taihu Lake Plum-Appreciating Tour is supplied on Taihu Lake West Hill Island from Feb 15 to Mar 3 every year, and each international and dome site travel agency in Suzhou may sign up for participation.