Wufu Town (Hometown of Zhu Xi)
Zhu Xi's hometown: Zhu Xi lived, wrote and lectured here for nearly fifty years; Ziyang House is his former residence, Xingxian Academy was where he lectured, and legend says Zhu Xi walked Zhuzi Lane's stone slabs every day
Visitor info
- Opening hours
- 08:30-17:00
- Ticket
- Ziyang House approx. CNY 30
Price is indicative — final quote on inquiry.
Zhu Xi's hometown: Zhu Xi lived, wrote and lectured here for nearly fifty years—Ziyang House is his former residence, Xingxian Academy was where he gave his lectures, and legend says Zhu Xi passed daily along the stone slabs of Zhuzi Lane. An old camphor tree planted by Zhu Xi himself still stands lush in town, and Wufu white lotus earned the name 'Wengong Lotus' after Zhu Xi's honorific 'Wengong'. A cradle of Neo-Confucianism sharing a town with lotus fields and lotus-scented breezes—the deep-dive stop on Wuyi Mountain's cultural route.
Getting there: Self-drive from Wuyishan City (approx. 45 km)
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More in Wuyishan
- Mount Wuyi Main Scenic Area
A World Cultural and Natural Dual Heritage site (1999); Danxia landforms and the Nine-Bend Stream together form the model of "green waters and red mountains"; traveler Xu Xiake called it "the most marvelous and beautiful in the southeast"
- Nine-Bend Stream Bamboo Rafting
The highlight of Mount Wuyi: board a bamboo raft at Xingcun Wharf and drift 9.5 km downstream, taking about 90 minutes through the nine bends
- Tianyou Peak
The foremost scenic spot of Mount Wuyi; the whole mountain rises as a single mass of rock, with a climbing path of 848 stone steps hugging the cliff face
- Wuyi Palace · Song Street
The oldest Taoist temple complex on Mount Wuyi, originally the Tang Dynasty's Huixian Temple; a center of Wuyi Taoism through the dynasties, with Zhizhi Nunnery, Sanqing Hall and more still standing
- Yixiantian (A Thread of Sky)
One of the narrowest 'thread of sky' fissures in China, set between the Lingyan cliffs south of the Second Bend: the crevice from Fuxi Cave to Ling Cave runs 176 m, only 30 cm wide at its narrowest—squeeze through sideways and look up to see a single thread of sky
- Shuilian Cave (Water Curtain Cave)
Wuyi Mountain's largest rock cave: two flying springs plunge more than a hundred meters from the cave roof, turning into a water curtain when the wind rises—praised by Xu Xiake as 'the most superb spot in the mountains'