Wuyishan 武夷山

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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"

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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'

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Six mother trees of Da Hong Pao on the cliffs of Jiulongke Gorge are the totem of Wuyi rock tea; the red stone-carved characters 'Da Hong Pao' on the cliff gaze across at the mother trees

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A tea-trading village that rose in the early Qing dynasty on Meixi River water transport: the Chang family of Shanxi merchants set up trading posts here to buy Wuyi tea, carried by waterway and camel caravan over ten thousand li to Kyakhta—the starting village of the 'Ten-Thousand-Li Tea Road'

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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

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The seventh work of Zhang Yimou's 'Impression' series, premiered in 2010

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A tea-tourism complex in the Wuyishan resort area: at the rock-tea workshop visitors can watch the full craft process of yaoqing (leaf shaking), zuoqing (bruising and oxidation), and roasting; a tea-battle experience lets guests blind-taste teas to distinguish growing terroir and roast level; the venue also houses tea-history exhibits and chabaixi (tea-whisking art) performances

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The centerpiece of the waterfall cluster on the Tongmuguan route, with a drop of about 200 meters, hailed as the "No. 1 Waterfall in East China"

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Ruins of the capital of the Western Han–era Minyue Kingdom at Chengcun Village, Xingtian Town, Wuyishan; the 480,000-square-meter site is the best-preserved Han-dynasty ancient city south of the Yangtze River and a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit

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A thousand-year-old town in Shaowu City with a castle-style large-town layout rarely seen in China: a bluestone-paved old street runs north to south, flanked by an unbroken line of watchtowers, academies, and mansions