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About Tianheng Island
Tianheng Island (田横岛) lies off the south of Tianheng town (田横镇) in Qingdao's Jimo District (即墨区), a Yellow Sea islet inside Hengmen Bay (横门湾) and the Tianheng Island provincial tourist resort.
The island covers 1.46 km² and has about 8 km of coastline. The resort around it, approved by the Shandong provincial government in May 1998, takes in a mainland peninsula, sea and islands; its hills, among them Donggao Mountain (东高山) and Wohu Mountain (卧虎山), belong to the Laoshan (崂山) range, and it faces the Laoshan scenic area across the water.
The island is named after Tian Heng (田横), who ruled as king of Qi while the Qin dynasty was collapsing. After being defeated by Han Xin (韩信), a general of the future Han founder Liu Bang (刘邦), he fled to the island with five hundred followers; the Qingdao government's account says that after he died they chose death over surrender and killed themselves there. Sima Qian (司马迁) praised Tian Heng's integrity in the Records of the Grand Historian (史记), and the painter Xu Beihong (徐悲鸿) made the island widely known with his large oil painting "Tian Heng and His Five Hundred Followers" (田横五百士).
Qingdao listed the followers' tomb as a municipal protected site in 1982, and it is now a Shandong provincial protected site. Development began in 1992, a resort village opened in 1997, and the National Tourism Administration rated the island a national AAA scenic area in September 2001. Besides the tomb and a statue of Tian Heng, the island's sights include named natural features such as Divine Turtle Rock and Old Immortal Cave, and a Sea God Temple.
What to look for
- Tomb of Tian Heng's Five Hundred Followers (田横五百义士墓), a Shandong provincial protected site
- Statue of Tian Heng (田横雕像) and the King of Qi Hall (齐王殿)
- Divine Turtle Rock (神龟石), one of the island's named natural features
- Old Immortal Cave (老仙洞)
- Sphinx Rock (狮身人面石), whose Chinese name reads "lion-bodied, human-faced stone"
- Dragon Playing in the Water (龙戏水), another named natural sight
- Sea God Temple (海神庙)
Location & getting there
Getting to Tianheng Island
- Search for 田横岛 with 青岛市 and 即墨区.
Find Tianheng Island
田横岛 · 即墨区
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Sources & visit information
Written from the linked sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer on 2026-09-23. Opening hours, admission and access arrangements are not covered; confirm current visitor information with the site.
Some facts checked against Wikipedia contributors, "田横岛" · CC BY-SA 4.0.
Some facts checked against Wikipedia contributors, "田横五百义士冢" · CC BY-SA 4.0.