Actress Tao Huimin (center), who has played the Guanyin Bodhisattva in drama Legend of Guanyi, gave a special performance at a concert during the 15th South Sea Guanyin Cultural Festival. The concert on Buddhism music and songs to praise the Guanyin Bodhisattva was held at the Putuo Theater on Putuo Mountain, Nov 16, 2017. [Photo by Wu Bo/provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Weather in Putuo is humid year-round, with clear air that ranked second best in the Chinese mainland in the first half of this year. When residents in North China suffer from smog and haze they often go to Putuo to escape the pollution.

Putuo Mountain, owning to its fame as a "Buddhist Kingdom between Sea and Sky", is one of the four sacred Buddhist mountains in China, the others being Wutai Mountain in North China's Shanxi province, Jiuhua Mountain in East China's Anhui province and Emei Mountain in Southwest China's Sichuan province. But Putuo Mountain is the only Buddhist mountain on an island.