Cai Xitao led the first batch of pioneers to founding the Garden on this peninsula, here was a desolated island, with only a Dai ethnic village of 6 households on the riverside.

• 50年前，当蔡老率领首批创业者在岛上开始创建植物园的时候，这里还是面目荒夷的一个半岛，只在江边有一6户人家名为“曼摆乃”的傣族村寨；