Wuyuan, known as the “most beautiful countryside in China,” is home to at least 50 old villages.
Walking through these old villages in Spring offers refreshing views of hills covered in yellow rape, of green farmland and luxuriant camphor trees, of creeks and small rapids. Villages lie along small rivers, trees stand on riverbanks, and old farmers leisurely drive ducks towards a pond, all coming together to form a typical Chinese countryside scene.
Wuyuan is known not only for its natural scenery, but also for its glorious past. The remote county was home to some of China’s top scholars, including Zhu Xi, a Confucian master in the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), and Zhan Tianyou, China’s first railway engineer. Thousands of Wuyuan people passed the civil imperial examinations — examinations for selecting government officials in feudal dynasties — and climbed high on the official ladder. The county also produced some of the country’s richest merchants.
How to get there: (Map of Wuyuan)
Wuyuan lies in the center of the “tourist golden triangle” formed by the Yellow Mountain (Anhui Province), Mt. Lushan, and Jingdezhen, China’s “Porcelain Capital.” (Jiangxi Province). The distance from the above 3 places to Wuyuan is basically the same, all within 150km. Tourists coming from Beijing and Nanjing can take train and get off at Yellow Mountain, then find a local tour bus heading to Wuyuan. Tourists coming from Shanghai and Zhejiang can take a train to Jingdezhen, and then take a tour bus to Wuyuan, the distance is about 85km.
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"Photo Gallery of Wuyuan" was posted on Thursday, March 29th, 2007 at 9:40 pm.
