Wuyuan 婺源

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A cliff-hung ancient village on Wuyuan's eastern route: settled by the Cao clan for over 600 years, the entire village clings to the cliff face, with Tianjie (Sky Street) and old lanes winding along the rock

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A national 5A-level scenic area and gateway to Wuyuan's eastern route, and a settlement of the Jiang clan: the Xiaojiang Ancestral Hall is grand in scale with carved beams and painted rafters, known as "the No. 1 Ancestral Hall of Jiangnan"; Sansheng Hall is the Jiang clan's ancestral residence; the Tengjia Lane old street preserves tea firms and old houses

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A water village famed for its "small bridges, flowing water, and homes": the Li clan has lived here for over a thousand years, a stream runs through the village, flanked on both banks by Hui-style houses

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A thousand-year-old village settled by the Yu clan: the Yu Clan Ancestral Hall at its center, built during the Qianlong reign of the Qing dynasty, is hailed as the "First Ancestral Hall of Jiangnan," with over a hundred carved wooden components across beams, crossbeams, and Dougong brackets — a pinnacle of Hui-style woodcarving

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A collective name for the two villages of Sixi and Yancun: over a hundred Qing-dynasty Hui-merchant mansions stand in contiguous clusters, earning it the title "First Village of Confucian Merchants"

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A Southern Song dynasty covered bridge in Qinghua Town, built in 1137, 140 meters long with four piers and five spans, hailed as "China's most beautiful covered bridge" and one of the longest-surviving covered bridges in China

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An ancient village famed for its shuikou (village water-entrance) culture: the giant camphor in the shuikou grove at the village entrance is about 1,500 years old, requiring more than ten people with linked arms to encircle it — known as the "Foremost Camphor Tree Under Heaven"

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Site of Zhu Xi's ancestral tombs: Zhu Xi once returned home to visit family and personally planted 24 fir trees around the tombs; the ancient firs known as "Wengong firs" that survived 800 years are a wonder

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A karst cave cluster in northwest Wuyuan: Hanxu Cave and Lianhua Cave feature a myriad of formations, and the cave walls preserve more than 1,700 visitor inscriptions dating from the Tang and Song dynasties onward, earning it the name "a history of calligraphy inside caves."

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Wuyuan's premier rapeseed flower spectacle: vast terraced flower fields cascade down to the foot of the hills, and Viewing Platforms No. 1 and No. 2 overlook white-walled, dark-tiled houses floating on a golden sea of flowers.

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An ancient village of the Zhan clan deep in a mountain gorge: flanked by two streams and shaded by old trees, it was formerly known as "Little Peach Blossom Land."

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The stone arch bridge, ancient water-mouth trees, and herding-boy-with-water-buffalo tableau of Chaguan Village are famous scenes in national photography contests—especially photogenic in the morning mist.

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A cluster of shaiqiu (autumn crop-drying) guesthouses on Huangling's hilltop and beside Jiangling's terraces—open a window onto drying trays and terraced flower seas.

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Wuyuan green tea (Wulü) is a tribute tea with a thousand-year history, recorded in tea catalogs since the Tang and Song dynasties and shipped as far as Europe by Hui merchants in the Ming and Qing.