As for fairy mountains on the sea, the name of one, Fusang, became another name for Japan, and Penghu, the name of the island group in the Taiwan Strait, is a corruption of Penglai, the most famous fairy mountain. Before Taiwan became famous as a pigsty studded with mountains of garbage, it too was once considered to be the fairy island of Penglai.
海上仙山，扶桑成為日本別名；澎湖來自「蓬壺」，是三山之一蓬萊名字的轉化；台灣在以「垃圾島」、「豬舍」聞名之前，也曾是「蓬萊仙島」。