Going to Penghu to see the sea in summer is the most pleasant.
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usage
Variant spelling of 澎湖 (also Pénghú), the standard form. 彭湖 appears in older texts and CC-CEDICT records it as a recognized variant. The 澎 form (with water radical) is what you'll see on modern maps.
history
The Penghu Islands have been a strategic Taiwan Strait outpost since the Yuan dynasty. The 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki ceded both Taiwan and Penghu to Japan; they were returned to China in 1945.
