Wuyi mountains, Fujian, China
Bamboo Rafting on Nine Bend River, Mount Wuyi China 上九湾河武夷山，中国竹筏漂流
We traveled down the beautiful Nine Bend River on a traditional bamboo raft towards Tian You Peak in the Wuyi Mountain range in Fuzhou China.
Nine Bend River is a major scenic site of Mount Wuyi and famous for bamboo rafting through some of the most spectacular scenery in southeast China.
Human settlement on the slopes of Mount Wuyi can be traced back 4,000 years by archeological remains. During the Western Han Dynasty, the ancient city of Chengcun was the capital of the Minyue kingdom. In the 7th century, the Wuyi Palace was built for emperors to conduct sacrificial activities, a site that tourists can still visit today.
The mountains were an important center of Taoism and later Buddhism. Remains of 35 academies erected from the era of the Northern Song to the Qin Dynasty and more than 60 Taoist temples and monasteries have been located. However, most of these remains are very incomplete. Some of the exceptions for which authentic remains are preserved are the Taoyuan Temple, the Wannian Palace, the Sanqing Hall, the Tiancheng Temple, the Baiyun temple, and the Tianxin temple. The area is the cradle of Neo-Confucianism, a current that became very influential since the 11th century.
The river originates from the deep forest of western Mount Wuyi. Nine Bend River resembles a flowing ribbon which strings 36 peaks, 99 rock cliffs and 9 abrupt turns along its course.
Though with average altitude of the mountains is around 400m, peak clusters are steep, diversified and visually stunning. Due to the subtropical weather, the stone peaks are covered in lush vegetation.
The area is marked by mountains rivers, waterfalls and streams that evoke the poetic beauty and aesthetic advocated by traditional Chinese culture.
For centuries the natural scenery of the area has inspired scholars, poets, painters and calligraphers.
Along the route you will catch a glimpse of cultural relics like 18 suspension coffins, 35 Academic Relics of famous scholars include Zhuxi 450 m2 stone inscriptions. In 1982, Mount Wuyi was listed as the first batch of National Scenic Site. In 2007, it was authorized as the 5A Tourism Site by National Tourism Bureau.
The Wuyi Mountains has a long history of tea cultivation. The four most widely known varieties of Wuyi tea are referred to as the Four Famous Bushes: Big Red Robe, Iron Arhat, White Cockscomb, and Golden Turtle. Lapsang souchong also originates from the area.
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Wuyishan Mountain 武夷山
Early morning on a beautiful spring day we climb to the top of Wuyishan Mountain in Fujian province China.
在一个美丽的春日Ë清晨攀登到武夷山的福建省在中国南方的顶部。
The Wuyi Mountains 武夷山; is a mountain range located in the prefecture of Nanping, in northern Fujian province near the border with Jiangxi province, China.
The highest peak in the area is Mount Huanggang at 2,158 metres on the border of Fujian and Jiangxi, making it the highest point of both provinces.
The mountains have been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, for cultural, scenic, and biodiversity values since 1999.
The world heritage site has a total area of 99,975 hectares that is divided into four core parts: the Nine-Bend Stream Ecological Protection Area (36,400 ha) in the center, flanked by the Wuyishan National Nature Reserve (56,527 ha) to the west and the Wuyishan National Scenic Area (7,000 ha) to the east.
The fourth part, the Protection Area for the Remains of Ancient Han Dynasty (48 ha) is located in a separate area about 15 km to the south-east of the others. The core parts are surrounded by an additional buffer zone of 27,888 ha.
The region is part of the Cathaysian fold system and has experienced high volcanic activity and the formation of large fault structures, which were subsequently subject to erosion by water and weathering. The landscape is characterized by beautiful winding river valleys flanked by columnar or dome-shaped cliffs as well as cave systems. Peaks in the western portion of the Wuyi Mountains typically consist of volcanic or plutonic rocks, whereas peaks and hills in the eastern area are made up of red sandstone with very steep slopes but flat tops (Danxia landform). The Nine-bend River (Jiuqu Xi), about 60 kilometers in length, meanders in a deep gorge among these hills.
The Wuyi Mountains act as a protective barrier against the inflow of cold air from the northwest and retain warm moist air originating from the sea. As a result, the area has a humid climate (humidity 80 to 85%) with high rainfall (annual average 2,200 millimeters in the south-west and 3,200 millimeters in the north) and common fogs. Lower altitudes experience annual temperatures in the range from 12 °C to 18 °C.
The area is relatively pollution free. The Chinese government set up its first air quality monitoring station in the area on January 31, 2005.
The Wuyi Mountains are the largest and most representative example of Chinese subtropical forests and South Chinese rain forests' biodiversity. Its ecology has survived from before the Ice Age around 3 million years ago. Biologists have been conducting field research in the area since 1873.
Human settlement on the slopes of Mount Wuyi can be traced back 4,000 years by archeological remains. During the Western Han Dynasty, the ancient city of Chengcun was the capital of the Minyue kingdom. In the 7th century, the Wuyi Palace was built for emperors to conduct sacrificial activities, a site that tourists can still visit today. The mountains were an important center of Taoism and later Buddhism. Remains of 35 academies erected from the era of the Northern Song to the Qin Dynasty and more than 60 Taoist temples and monasteries have been located. However, most of these remains are very incomplete. Some of the exceptions for which authentic remains are preserved are the Taoyuan Temple, the Wannian Palace, the Sanqing Hall, the Tiancheng Temple, the Baiyun temple, and the Tianxin temple. The area is the cradle of Neo-Confucianism, a current that became very influential since the 11th century.
The Wuyi Mountains has a long history of tea cultivation. The four most widely known varieties of Wuyi tea are referred to as the Four Famous Bushes: Big Red Robe, Iron Arhat, White Cockscomb, and Golden Turtle. Lapsang souchong also originates from the area.
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Wuyi Mountain Jingmin Golf Hotel - China Wuyishan
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Boasting an extensive and beautiful golf course, Wuyi Mountain Jingmin Golf Hotel provides 5-star accommodation with free wired internet. A seasonal indoor and outdoor pool, tennis courts and a well-equipped gym are also available. The hotel provides free airport transfers.
Spacious and air-conditioned, all rooms are equipped with a flat-screen TV, ironing facilities and a personal safe. Some rooms come with a sofa and a private balcony. En suite bathrooms are fitted with a bathtub and free toiletries.
Wuyi Mountain Jingmin Golf Hotel is a 5-minute drive from Wuyishan Tourism Area and 2 km from Wuyi Plaza. It is 8 km from Wuyishan Airport and 11 km from Wuyishan Train Station. Huandao Plaza in the city centre is 23 km away.
Relax with a massage, or with a soak in the hot tub. Day trips, car rentals and bicycle rentals can be arranged at the tour desk. The hotel also provides a business centre and laundry services.
At the 3 on-site restaurants, guests can enjoy Chinese, Western and Asian dishes. Relaxing afternoons can be spent at the hotel's tea house. In-room dining is also possible with room service. Wuyishan National Tourism Resort, 354302 Wuyishan, China
Charming tea farm at Wuyishan, Fujian, China
Love this charming organic tea plantation at Wuyishan.
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Consisting of rolling peaks and numerous valleys, the Wuyi Mountains are home to different types of vegetation, which offer special scenery with multiple landscapes.
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Tea Travels ep2: The Old Village of Xiamei in the Wuyi Mountains, Fujian China
Xiamei is an old village at the foot of the Wuyi Mountains, which was a key centre of tea trade in old China. I traveled to the village to learn more.
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Among the Clouds in Wuyishan China - One of Sam's Exotic Tra
The Wuyi Mountain Scenic Area is located near Wuyishan City and stretches along Fujian's northernmost border with Jiangxi Province. Wuyi's 36 graceful peaks, most under 600 metres high, are skirted by a zigzagging river called Nine Bend Creek. This naturally endowed landscape of water and hills has given the area the reputation of being one of the most scenic wonder in Southeast China.
China: In The Shadow Of The Great Red Robe
China: In The Shadow Of The Great Red Robe
This documentary presents the history of three legendary brands of tea as a backdrop for introducing it's viewers to the unique cultural and natural values of the Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, located in south-eastern China.
The Wuyi mountains are home to the growing and manufacturing of over 800 different varieties of tea . Among those is the rock-growing shrub of Da Hong Pao, a tea more precious than gold. The six, mother trees, of this tea variety, are over 2 centuries old and can be found growing on the rocky cliff in Jiu Long Ke. At the feet of the mountains lie some magnificent plantations, home to many local families that have worked in the tea plantations for generations, their history and future fate entwined with the green bush. This is one of the cleanest and most natural areas of China.
One of those families, the Liangs, also manufactures the Lapsang Souchong brand renowned for a taste reminisent of Scotch whiskey and Cuban cigars. The village of Longjing (Dragon Well) is home to some of the most charming tea gardens that have a striking resemblance to those found in Hangzhou, the ancient Chinese capital.
During the March-April harvest the leaves of Longjing, one of the noblest brands of Chinese teas, are collected. The history of teas also serve as an unconventional tool to show the past and sociological portrait of the Middle Kingdom. All those stories and ingredients are intertwined with recordings of ceremonies and celebrations connected with the Chinese tea culture.
PL: Chiny: W Cieniu Wielkiej Czerwonej Szaty - Historia trzech legendarnych herbat jest kanwą do pokazania unikatowych wartości kulturowych i przyrodniczych prowincji Fujian i Zhejiang, w południowo – wschodnich Chinach.
Góry Wuyi są obszarem na którym rośnie i wyrabia się ponad 800 różnorodnych odmian herbaty. Wśród nich znajduje się m.in. skalna Da Hong Pao, herbata cenniejsza od złota. Sześć, kilkusetletnich krzewów – matek tej odmiany rośnie nadal na kamiennym urwisku w miejscowości Jiulong Ke.
U podnóża gór rozciągają się wspaniałe plantacje. Wiele rodzin od pokoleń pracuje w tym nieskazitelnie czystym środowisku naturalnym, wiążąc swój los z liśćmi zielonego krzewu. Należy do nich również rodzina Liang, która zajmuje się wyrobem herbaty Lapsang Souchong. Herbaty, której smak przypomina mieszankę szkockiej whisky i kubańskiego cygara.
W miejscowości Longjing – Studnia Smoka, urzekają z kolei – podobnie jak w starożytnej stolicy Chin Hangzhou – wspaniałe herbaciane ogrody. Podczas marcowo – kwietniowych zbiorów do koszyków trafiają liście herbaty Longjing, najszlachetniejszej z chińskich herbat.
Przybliżając historię herbat autor w niekonwencjonalny sposób pokazuje także dzieje i portret socjologiczny społeczeństwa Państwa Środka. Całość uzupełniają ceremoniały związane z chińską kulturą herbaty.
Longhushan Geopark of China
Longhushan (Dragon-Tiger Mountain) Geopark is located in both Yingtan City and Yiyang County of the northeast Jiangxi Province, China.
As a comprehensive geopark, Longhushan Geopark is composed of mainly Danxia landforms, and partially volcanic rock as well as tectonic landscapes. Rock forming Danxia landscapes is red clastic rock formed in the Late Cretaceous Epoch dated back to 65 million years ago. Under long-term fracturing, water current erosion and weathering, among the rocks, the strong turned to be peaks and the weak valleys so that it successively brought about Danxia beautiful sceneries such as mesas, peak clusters and peak forests with flat tops and steep faces, peak clusters and peak forests with round tops, and isolated peaks and remnant hills seen at present in the geopark. It developed a complete series of Danxia landforms including the young, the mature and the aged landscapes, of which especially the mature is the most principal and the late mature is the most typical.
Meet Fuzhou, Meet Happiness
Here is Fuzhou, a coastal city with a history of more than 2200years, which is one of China’s gateways to outside world, connecting inland culture and oceanic culture. People in Fuzhou have a broad ocean mind, vigorous vitality like banyan tree, and natural style like jasmine scented tea. We are looking forward to meeting overseas friends in Fuzhou happily.
Mother Trees of Da Hong Pao Oolong Tea
Da Hong Pao Oolong Tea's Cultivars origin from Wuyi Shan. Only 6 mother trees have survived.
In 2006, the Wuyishan Government prohibited the picking of leaves from the trees to protect the 6 mother trees from extinction. From the 6 mother trees, three different cultivars have been developed. They are Bei Dou, Qi Dan, and Que She separately.
All About Wulong (Oolong, 烏龍茶)
Diverse in flavor, steeped in history, 烏龍茶 wūlóngchá (wulong or oolong tea) is some of world’s most fascinating and exciting teas to come from China. Whether brewed strong and robust or light and floral, these teas offer up flavors found in no other beverage.
Join us, virtually, at Floating Mountain Tea House in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, for a special tasting of a wide variety of wulong teas, directly-sourced from Chaozhou, Wuyishan, Anxi, and Taiwan.
For video notes and additional insights into wulong tea, please visit my blog, Scotttea, at scotttea.wordpress.com.
For additional information on the specific teas tasted, refer to the notes below:
1st: 阿里山高山烏龍茶 Ālǐshān gāoshān wūlóngchá (Alishan High Mountain wulong), Spring 2018 from Alishan, Taiwan (elevation 1300m). Sourced from Tillerman Tea, Napa, California.
2nd: 鐵觀音烏龍茶 Tiěguānyīn wūlóngchá (“Iron Bodhisattva” wulong tea), Winter 2017 from Muzha, Taiwan (elevation 600m). Sourced from Tillerman Tea, Napa, California.
3rd: 老柚花香鳳凰單樅烏龍茶 Lǎo yòu huāxiāng fènghuáng dān cōng wūlóngchá (“Old Pomelo Flower Fragrance” Phoenix single bush wulong tea) from 350 year-old bushes, Chaozhou, Guangdong province, China. Sourced from Floating Mountain Tea House, New York, New York.
4th: 鐵羅漢武夷山岩茶 Tiě luóhàn Wǔyíshān yánchá (“Iron Arhat” Wuyi Mountain “rock/cliff tea”), Wuyishan, Fujian province, China. Sourced from Floating Mountain Tea House, New York, New York.
5th: 1980年 凍頂烏龍茶 Dòng Dǐng wūlóngchá (1980 “Frozen Summit” wulong tea), Nantou county, Taiwan. Personally sourced.
The story of Wu Yi Rock tea
Do you know how the Wu Yi Rock Tea is come?Why can it smell so comfortable?The video is about it ,around the rock tea .
making a tea basket wuyishan china 2
Tea always seems to feature on our bike trips. There's a wonderful loop ride in Wuyishan, that surrounds the National Park - oldest in China apparently. Wuyishan is all about tea - that grows in between the rock formations. The tea farmers are now rich as this tea is so revered. This old man splitting bamboo and tearing it apart with his teeth, was in a tiny little lane way that looked very ripe for redevelopment. I hope he is still there when we go back.
We don't run many trips in Wuyishan, but do occasionally add it on to our Fujian tea and tulou ride -
131 Ancient Chinese Hanging Coffins Found on Cliffside
Archaeologists say coffins, placed in caves carved into the rock face in remote area of Hubei province, were built 1,200 years ago during Tang dynasty (618-907).
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Quanzhou, Fujian, China 2018 Trip Vlog
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Quanzhou is a city in Fujian, Southern China. I went there on October 27 - November 4, 2018 with family to visit relatives. I compiled the photos and a few video clips I took during the trip into a vlog. Hope you enjoy this video.
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TIMESTAMPS:
Day 1: 00:00 Intro
flew to Quanzhou, Fujian, China, from Manila, Philippines
00:50 Trip log begins
Day 2: 01:18
Qingyuan Mountains Scenic Area (01:27), ginger duck lunch (02:06),
cashless transactions (02:19), West lake Park(02:30),
sugarcane peeling/ juicing contraption (02:39), Kaiyuan Monastery (02:44), West Street (03:17)
Day 3: 03:40 - Quanzhou Railway Station → Wu Yi Shan
lunch (03:49), Wu Yi Shan park (03:54), Yi Xian Tian attraction (03:59),
local market and dinner (04:13),
Impressions Da Hong Pao musical about tea, directed by Zhang Yi Mou (04:22),
Day 4: 05:27, bamboo raft tour of Wu Yi Shan (05:36)
hotel lunch (07:27), TianYou Peak (07:32),
Yun Wo- attraction with Chinese writing carved on rock (07:58),
Day 5: 08:23 - train ride back to Quanzhou
Day 6: 08:37 - freaky pumpkins
Quanzhou skyline from my window (08:43), Local Fish Cafe (05:55)
Day 7: 09:11 - Wu Dian Shi historical replica town, Jinjiang
vintage Southern Chinese/ Fujianese house replicas (10:19),
Fujian/ Minnan style lunch at a vintage themed restaurant (10:32),
regular Chinese food seafood dinner (10:58),
Day 8: 11:05 - more Quanzhou City sights
Confucius Temple (11:08), park with a lake (11:39),
street scenes, weekend flea market (11:40), traditional tea house (11:56),
more street scenes (12:08), Qingjing Mosque (Masjid al-Ashab) (12:11),
etymology of Quanzhou's old nickname Zayton (12:26),
mosque dumpling makers (13:04), another sugarcane peeler gadget (13:21),
Mind Museum (13:43), Yuanhe 1916 (13:51), hypebeast cat (14:02),
Quanzhou City Hall (14:07), seafood dinner (14:10), night stills (14:16)
Day 9: 14:19
flew back home to Manila, Philippines (14:22)
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Mount Wuyi / Tourist Destination China
Is the most outstanding area for biodiversity conservation in south-east China and a refuge for a large number of ancient, relict species, many of them endemic to China. The serene beauty of the dramatic gorges of the Nine Bend River, with its numerous temples and monasteries, many now in ruins, provided the setting for the development and spread of neo-Confucianism, which has been influential in the cultures of East Asia since the 11th century. In the 1st century B.C. a large administrative capital was built at nearby Chengcun by the Han dynasty rulers. Its massive walls enclose an archaeological site of great significance.