The first places to plant plums in Jintang Island are Jinjia Yanyuan, Yaomeishan Xuyuan and Temple Lane Yaoyuan.

According to legend, in the fourth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1854), the scholar Xia Jinpei and others went to Hangzhou for a rural examination, picked back plum tree branches and grafted 4 plants, which were called "Hangzhou plums". In the twenty-eighth year of Guangxu (1902), it was renamed "Jintang Li". In the 29th year of the Republic of China (1940), only two villages, Xihou and Shunong, produced 1,350 tons of plums. Later, due to lack of food security for farmers and farmers, forests were destroyed to grow food, and by 1949, only about 3,000 plum trees were left. After liberation, it was destroyed and replanted, and its development was slow. After the reform of the forestry system in 1979, it developed rapidly, with an annual output of more than 2,000 tons, and its fresh fruits sell well in Shanghai, Hangzhou and Ningbo. Now it is processed into 20 kinds of candied fruits such as "Hua He Jia Ying Zi", 80% of which are sold to Hong Kong, Singapore and other places. In 1987, it entered the Taiwan market.

In 1999, it was registered as the "Jintang" trademark.