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Nanping 南平Nánpíng
Tea hills of the north, from cliff-grown oolong to pine-smoked lapsang souchong
About Nanping
Nanping fills the mountainous north of Fujian, and its great draw is the Wuyi Mountains, where bamboo rafts drift down the Nine Bend River and rock tea such as Da Hong Pao grows among red cliffs. Lapsang souchong, smoked over pinewood, comes from the same hills, and black-glazed Jian ware tea bowls were fired at Jianyang under the Song. Jian'ou was the seat of old Jianzhou, which gave Fujian the 'jian' in its name, and Shaowu keeps the walled Heping Ancient Town.
What to eat in Nanping
- Da Hong Pao rock oolong (大红袍)
- Lapsang souchong (正山小种)
Featured places in Nanping
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Wuyi Mountains 武夷山
Bamboo rafts, red sandstone cliffs and the birthplace of Da Hong Pao tea
Listed sites in Nanping
26 sites in Nanping are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- China Baojiu Culture Park, Pucheng 中国包酒文化博览园 4A scenic area · on the map
A visitor park opened in 2015 by a Pucheng drinks maker and also called 'Impression Xiaomi', in the Ronghuashan industrial zone north of Pucheng, built around baojiu, a traditional local rice wine. - Da'anyuan Scenic Area 大安源 4A scenic area · on the map
Da'anyuan lies in Da'an village, Yangzhuang township, in the north of Wuyishan city on the north-western edge of the Wuyishan national nature reserve. - Heping Ancient Town 和平古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
Heping, in the south-west of Shaowu, grew up in the Tang and Song and flourished in the Ming and Qing as a rare walled market town, and is now a national historic and cultural town. - Jianzhou Ancient City, Jian'ou 建州古城 4A scenic area · on the map
Jian'ou was the seat of old Jianzhou, whose first character supplied the 'Jian' in Fujian's name. - Jinkeng Red Tourism Area 金坑红色旅游景区 4A scenic area · on the map
Jinkeng is a township in the hills of western Shaowu, close to the Jiangxi border, that lay within the Communist Min–Gan (Fujian–Jiangxi) soviet area of 1933–35. - Meikou Old Wharf, Songxi 梅口埠 4A scenic area · on the map
Meikou is a village on the Songxi River in Zhengdun town whose old landing, dated by the county to the Song dynasty, was a river port on the trade routes that carried tea north. - Shizhen Bay White Tea Town, Zhenghe 白茶小镇·石圳湾 4A scenic area · on the map
Shizhen is a village almost encircled by water just west of Zhenghe town, which served as the county's river landing and goods depot in the Ming and Qing dynasties. - Tiancheng Gorge 天成奇峡 4A scenic area · on the map
A privately run scenic area in the Jiangshi nature reserve, Xiaojiafang town, in the far south-west of Shaowu, counted as part of the Taining UNESCO Global Geopark. - Wuyi Huahua World 武夷花花世界 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural leisure park of about 40 hectares in Kaoting village on the edge of Jianyang, which began in 2011 as a family farm. - Wuyi Tea Expo Park 中华武夷茶博园 4A scenic area · on the map
This 7.8-hectare park in the Sangu resort area beside the Wuyi Mountains scenic area is devoted to Wuyi tea. - Xiangjiang Tea Garden, Wuyishan 香江茗苑 4A scenic area · on the map
A tea company's visitor estate in Wuyishan's eco-enterprise park, rated a 4A scenic area in 2016 and listed by the province as a 'tourist factory' and a study-tour base. - Xiyuan Canyon 溪源峡谷 4A scenic area · on the map
Xiyuan Canyon is the core scenic area of the Mangdangshan national nature reserve, in Shangyang village on the western side of Nanping's Yanping district. - Yangkou Red Tourism Town 洋口红色旅游小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
Yangkou, on the Futun stream 12 km from Shunchang county town, was long a river port and market for north-western Fujian and in the 1930s was counted among the province's four best-known towns. - Yunling Mountain 云灵山 4A scenic area · on the map
A privately run mountain scenic area beside National Road 316 in Longdou village, Shuibei town, north-west of Shaowu city. - Ziyou Town Car Theme Park, Wuyishan 自遊小镇汽车主题乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
A privately run, car-themed leisure park near the Wuyishan resort area, rated a 4A scenic area in 2015 and aimed at self-drive visitors. - Beiyuan Imperial Tea Works Site 北苑御焙遗址 National heritage site · on the map
The site of the imperial tea works at Beiyuan, which sent tribute tea to the court from the 10th century until the early Ming dynasty and is best known for the pressed 'dragon and phoenix' tea cakes of the Song. - Chengcun Han City Site (Minyue King City) 城村汉城遗址 National heritage site
On the hills south-west of Chengcun village lie the ruins of an early Han-dynasty walled city, regarded as the largest and best-preserved of its period in southern China and often attributed to the Minyue kingdom that the Han conquered in 110 BC. - Dongyue Temple, Jian'ou 建瓯东岳庙 National heritage site
A temple to the god of the Eastern Peak (Mount Tai) outside the old east gate of Jian'ou, facing the Jian River with Baihe Hill behind it. - Jian'ou Confucian Temple 建瓯文庙 National heritage site
The former Confucian temple of Jianning prefecture, moved to this site in 1405 and rebuilt in its present form between 1869 and 1879. - Main Hall of Baoshan Temple, Shunchang 宝山寺大殿 National heritage site · on the map
On the summit of Baoshan, at 1,304 m the highest peak in north-western Shunchang, stands a temple whose main hall was built in 1363, at the end of the Yuan dynasty, entirely of stone carved to imitate timber framing. - Main Hall of Baoyan Temple, Shaowu 宝严寺大殿 National heritage site · on the map
The only surviving building of Baoyan Temple, a Tang foundation in the centre of Shaowu that took this name in 1023. - Min–Gan Ancient Post Road, Wuyishan 武夷山闽赣古驿道 National heritage site · on the map
A paved mountain road across the Fujian–Jiangxi border, first built in the Tang and Five Dynasties period, that climbs from Lingyang village in Langu township to the pass at Guanding on the provincial boundary. - Tomb of Zhu Xi 朱熹墓 National heritage site · on the map
The grave of Zhu Xi (1130–1200), the Southern Song philosopher whose commentaries on the Confucian classics shaped Neo-Confucianism and the imperial examinations for six centuries. - Yunfeng Temple, Pucheng 云峰寺 National heritage site · on the map
A temple in a fold of the hills about 2 km north-west of Cao village, Shuibeijie town, founded in the Zhenguan era of the Tang dynasty. - Zhangshantou Red Army Cemetery 张山头红军墓群 National heritage site · on the map
Across about 19 hectares of low hills east of Zhangshantou hamlet lie more than 1,300 graves of Red Army soldiers and cadres from 22 counties of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi who died here between 1928 and 1935. - Zhiqing Bridge, Jian'ou 值庆桥 National heritage site · on the map
A timber covered bridge at the water-mouth of Huang village in Dikou town, first built in the Hongzhi reign of the Ming dynasty (1488–1505) and heavily repaired in 1706 and 1787.
Getting to Nanping
Train, flight and driving times from the cities most visitors come from, with stations, fares and how many run a day; each opens the full comparison.
- Xiamen 厦门 to Wuyishan · high-speed train 2 h 41 min, 17 a day, from ¥255; one nonstop flight a day, 1 h 10 min in the air
On the map
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