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Listed sites in Fujian 福建
250 scenic areas and heritage sites from the official lists, by city. 57 have a page of their own; the rest open as cards on the map.
The A-level rating is the national grading of scenic areas, 5A being the top tier; national heritage sites are the buildings, ruins, tombs and carvings protected by the State Council. Both lists are on the lists page.
5A scenic areas in Fujian
- Baishuiyang and Yuanyang Stream 白水洋·鸳鸯溪 5A scenic area
A crescent-shaped scenic area of about 66 km² in Pingnan county, built around volcanic-rock gorges and the Baishuiyang 'shallow-water square', a flat bedrock riverbed across which the stream spreads in an even sheet that visitors can wade through. - Dajin Lake and Taining Geopark 泰宁大金湖 5A scenic area · on the map
Taining's 5A scenic area covers the Taining UNESCO Global Geopark, about 490 km² of mainly Danxia red-sandstone landscape, part of which is inscribed in the China Danxia World Heritage Site. - Guanzhai Mountain 冠豸山 5A scenic area
A cluster of sheer cliffs and rock pillars rising straight out of the plain just east of Liancheng town, named after a boulder said to resemble the head of the xiezhi, a mythical horned beast. - Gutian Congress Site 古田会议会址 5A scenic area · National heritage site
The Liao clan ancestral hall in Gutian town, built in 1848 and later used as a school, where the Fourth Red Army held its ninth party congress on 28–29 December 1929 and adopted a resolution drafted by Mao Zedong that set the principle of party control over the army. - Meizhou Mazu Temple 湄洲妈祖祖庙 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Meizhou Island, off the coast of Putian, is revered as the birthplace of Mazu, the sea goddess whose worship spread along the Chinese coast, to Taiwan and across South-East Asia. - Mount Qingyuan 清源山 5A scenic area
A granite hill range on the northern edge of Quanzhou, protected as a national scenic area and scattered with shrines, hundreds of cliff inscriptions and Song–Yuan stone statues. - Mount Taimu 太姥山 5A scenic area
A granite mountain rising above the sea south of Fuding, long the sanctuary of the local goddess Taimu Niangniang and, from the Tang dynasty on, a centre of Buddhism with many temples on and around it. - Sanfang Qixiang 三坊七巷 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Fuzhou's best-preserved old quarter, a grid of three lanes and seven alleys either side of pedestrianised Nanhou Street that keeps the walled-ward street plan laid out when the city walls were built in the late Tang. - Xiamen Botanical Gardens 厦门园林植物园 5A scenic area
A large botanical garden founded in 1960 on Wanshi Hill, close to central Xiamen, covering 4.91 km² and holding more than 9,000 plant species.
By city
Fuzhou (38) · Longyan (22) · Nanping (26) · Ningde (18) · Putian (18) · Quanzhou (53) · Sanming (29) · Xiamen (15) · Zhangzhou (31)
Fuzhou 38 sites
- Sanfang Qixiang 三坊七巷 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Fuzhou's best-preserved old quarter, a grid of three lanes and seven alleys either side of pedestrianised Nanhou Street that keeps the walled-ward street plan laid out when the city walls were built in the late Tang. - 68 Nautical Miles Scenic Area 68海里 4A scenic area · on the map
A coastal scenic area at Dong'ao village on Pingtan Island, named for the 68 nautical miles (about 126 km) of sea that separate Pingtan, the closest point of mainland China to Taiwan Island, from Hsinchu on the other side of the strait. - Baijigou Waterfalls 百漈沟 4A scenic area · on the map
A gorge just over 1 km long in Wutong town, western Yongtai, named for the scores of waterfalls large and small that pour into it, with walkways cut along the cliffs through a sinkhole-like canyon. - Fuzhou National Forest Park 福州国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A forest park of about 860 hectares in the hills on Fuzhou's northern edge, founded in 1960 as the city arboretum, also run as Fuzhou Botanical Garden and the first national forest park in Fujian. - Gui'an Xintiandi Resort 贵安新天地 4A scenic area · on the map
A large resort and residential development built from 2011 by a property group in the Gui'an hot-spring area of Lianjiang county and rated 4A in 2014. - Gushan (Drum Mountain) 鼓山 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A forested mountain on Fuzhou's eastern edge, rising to 919 m, whose slopes hold Yongquan Temple, founded in 783, and more than 300 inscriptions carved into the rock from the Song dynasty onwards, among them calligraphy by Cai Xiang and Zhu Xi. - Luoyuan Bay Ocean World 罗源湾海洋世界 4A scenic area · on the map
A marine park in the Luoyuan Bay waterfront new town, built by a property group as part of a large resort and residential development and opened in 2015. - Mawei Shipyard Heritage Area (Foochow Arsenal) 船政文化景区 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The site of the Foochow Arsenal, the Qing navy yard and naval school founded at Mawei in 1866 with French engineers, which built steam transports and gunboats and trained many of the officers of the late-Qing Beiyang Fleet. - Minjiang Estuary National Wetland Park 闽江河口国家湿地公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A 282-hectare wetland park of tidal flats and restored fish ponds at the mouth of the Min River in north-east Changle, part of an estuary wetland that joined China's World Heritage tentative list in 2022 and became a Ramsar site in 2023. - Minyue Water Town 闽越水镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A modern themed water town on the Min River at Zhuqi in Minhou, whose first phase opened in 2021 and which was rated 4A in 2024. - Oulebao Ocean World, Yongtai 欧乐堡海洋世界 4A scenic area · on the map
A marine theme park in Geling town with aquarium halls of sea and polar animals, several theatres for staged marine-animal shows, and a water park next door. - Qingyun Mountain 青云山 4A scenic area · on the map
A national key scenic area of deep gorges cut into volcanic rock in Linglu township, south of Yongtai town, made up of sections such as the Yuntian stone corridor, Baima Gorge, Shuilian Palace and Qinglong Waterfall, each with trails past cascades, pools and cliffs. - Ruiyan Mountain and Maitreya Statue 瑞岩山 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A hill at Haikou town east of Fuqing whose eastern foot holds a laughing, pot-bellied Maitreya Buddha about 9 m tall, carved into the rock between 1341 and 1368 and described as the largest Yuan-dynasty Maitreya in China. - Shangxiahang Historic District 上下杭 4A scenic area
Two parallel streets near the Min River in Taijiang district, Shanghang and Xiahang, that grew from riverside landing places into Fuzhou's main trading quarter after the city was opened as a treaty port in the 1840s. - Shizhu Mountain 石竹山 4A scenic area · on the map
A Taoist holy mountain west of Fuqing known for its long-standing custom of dream-seeking, in which pilgrims sleep overnight in a cave shrine hoping for a dream that answers their prayers. - Tannan Bay and Haitan Ancient City 坛南湾、海坛古城 4A scenic area · on the map
A combined scenic area in south-east Pingtan made up of Tannan Bay, a sweep of fine white sand with more than 25 km of sandy shore running south to Jiangjun Hill, and Haitan Ancient City, a commercial complex of shops and restaurants built in the style of an old walled town. - Xishan Hot Spring Resort 溪山温泉度假村 4A scenic area · on the map
A hot-spring resort in the Gui'an hot-spring area of Lianjiang county, with a hotel, thermal pools and leisure facilities. - Yunding Scenic Area 永泰云顶 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain-top scenic area on the summit plateau of Qingyun Mountain in Linglu township, most of it above 1,100 m, opened in 2010. - Black Pagoda (Wuta) 乌塔 National heritage site
A seven-storey octagonal granite pagoda at the eastern foot of Wushan Hill, begun in 941 by Wang Yanxi, ruler of the Min kingdom, and left at seven of its nine planned storeys when he was assassinated in 944. - Chen Taiwei Palace 陈太尉宫 National heritage site
A village temple at Qianxi in Zhongfang town that began in 909 as the ancestral hall of Chen Su, who had come to Fujian with Wang Shenzhi's army, and later became a shrine to him and to a descendant honoured for fighting the Mongols. - Fuzhou Confucian Temple 福州文庙 National heritage site
The city's temple to Confucius, on a site that has held Fuzhou's government school since the Tang and its Confucian temple since the Song, rebuilt after a fire in 1851–52 and restored in the 2000s after decades as a school, a shopping arcade and a children's palace. - Haitan Strait Underwater Sites 海坛海峡水下遗址 National heritage site · on the map
The Haitan Strait between Pingtan Island and the mainland holds shipwrecks and lost cargo from the Five Dynasties to the Qing, among them the Wanjiao No. 1 wreck, whose excavation is described as the first large-scale underwater excavation China carried out entirely on its own. - Hualin Temple 华林寺 National heritage site
A small temple compound at the foot of Pingshan Hill whose main hall, built in 964 when Fuzhou was ruled by the Wuyue kingdom, is regarded as the oldest surviving timber building south of the Yangtze. - Jiutouma Residences 九头马民居 National heritage site
A walled Qing-dynasty residential complex in Qiyang village, Heshang town, built by Chen Lihuan and his son from the Jiaqing era until about 1872 and named after nine large boulders scattered through it. - Keqiutou Site Museum 壳丘头遗址 National heritage site · on the map
A group of Neolithic to Shang-period settlement sites in northern Pingtan Island, about 7,500 to 3,000 years old, studied as possible early links in the spread of Austronesian-speaking peoples to Taiwan and across the Pacific. - Lin Zexu Memorial Hall 林则徐纪念馆 National heritage site · on the map
The ancestral shrine of Lin Zexu, the Qing commissioner who forced foreign merchants to hand over their opium and destroyed it at Humen in 1839, an act that led to the First Opium War. - Lingji Palace Stele 灵济宫碑 National heritage site · on the map
A Ming imperial stele 6.2 m tall on a tortoise base inside Lingji Palace at Qingpu village, a temple to the Southern Tang princes Xu Zhizheng and Xu Zhi'e said to date from 945. - Longjiang Bridge, Fuqing 龙江桥 National heritage site · on the map
A Song-dynasty stone beam bridge at Haikou, built between 1113 and 1124 by monks of Taiping Temple, that spans 476 m across the Longjiang estuary on 39 boat-shaped piers. - Luoxing Pagoda 罗星塔 National heritage site
A seven-storey octagonal stone pagoda on Luoxing Hill above the Min River at Mawei, rebuilt in the 1620s on the site of a Song-dynasty tower and long used as a landmark by ships. - Mingshan Shi Cave Temple 名山室 National heritage site · on the map
A Buddhist cave temple on Gaogai Mountain in Dayang town, founded in 888 and given its name by the Min king in the late 920s, with timber halls built into a series of rock caves. - Shengshou Pagoda 圣寿宝塔 National heritage site
A 27.4 m seven-storey octagonal stone pagoda imitating timber construction, built between 1096 and 1117 on Taping Hill in what is now Zheng He Park, Changle. - Tanshishan Site Museum 昙石山遗址 National heritage site · on the map
A Neolithic to Bronze Age settlement mound on the north bank of the lower Min River, about 5,500 to 2,700 years old, that gave its name to the Tanshishan culture, the first archaeological culture identified in Fujian. - Tingjiang Fort 亭江炮台 National heritage site · on the map
The remains of a Qing-dynasty gun battery at Nanban village in Tingjiang town, on the Min River downstream of Mawei, part of the defences along the river route to Fuzhou. - Tomb of Lin Zexu 林则徐墓 National heritage site · on the map
The family tomb at the foot of Jinshi Hill, on Fuzhou's northern outskirts, where Lin Zexu, the official remembered for destroying opium at Humen in 1839, lies with his parents, wife, brother and sister-in-law. - Tombs of Qing Soldiers Who Served in Taiwan, Min'an 闽安戍台将士墓群 National heritage site · on the map
A hillside cemetery on Hutou Hill at Min'an, the old garrison town on the lower Min River, where 135 men of the Qing navy's Min'an garrison are buried, each under a headstone giving his name and home town. - Wushan and Yushan Hills 乌山、于山 National heritage site · on the map
Two small hills in the old city centre that, with Pingshan, make up Fuzhou's traditional 'Three Hills', their rocks covered with inscriptions carved from the Tang dynasty to modern times. - Xianying Palace Clay Sculptures 显应宫 National heritage site · on the map
A Mazu temple in Xianqi village, Zhanggang, founded in 1138 and buried by drifting sand in the late Qing, then found again in 1992 when villagers dug house foundations. - Yongtai Fortified Manors (Zhuangzhai) 永泰庄寨 National heritage site · on the map
Five Qing-dynasty fortified family compounds, known locally as zhuangzhai, in Yongtai's mountain villages, each a large timber-built residence covering roughly 3,000 to 10,000 m².
Longyan 22 sites
- Guanzhai Mountain 冠豸山 5A scenic area
A cluster of sheer cliffs and rock pillars rising straight out of the plain just east of Liancheng town, named after a boulder said to resemble the head of the xiezhi, a mythical horned beast. - Gutian Congress Site 古田会议会址 5A scenic area · National heritage site
The Liao clan ancestral hall in Gutian town, built in 1848 and later used as a school, where the Fourth Red Army held its ninth party congress on 28–29 December 1929 and adopted a resolution drafted by Mao Zedong that set the principle of party control over the army. - Changting Revolutionary Sites 长汀革命旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Six buildings in Changting's old town used by the Communist movement in 1929–33, when Changting was a key part of the Central Soviet Area. - Liangye Mountain 梁野山 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested mountain near Wuping county town, protected as a national nature reserve, with gorges, cliffs, deep pools and a chain of waterfalls. - Longkong Cave 龙硿洞 4A scenic area · on the map
A limestone show cave in Longkang village, Yanshi town, with passages on three levels, large chambers full of stalactites and other formations, and an underground river. - Mao Zedong's Caixi Investigation Sites 毛泽东才溪乡调查旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Buildings in Xiacai village, Caixi town, linked with Mao Zedong's third visit to Caixi in 1933, when he carried out a social survey of the township and wrote it up as 'The Caixi Township Investigation'. - Meihuashan South China Tiger Park 梅花山华南虎园 4A scenic area · on the map
A breeding and rewilding centre for the South China tiger, a critically endangered subspecies found only in China, on the southern slopes of the Meihuashan National Nature Reserve near Gutian. - Peitian Ancient Village 培田古村 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A Hakka village of the Wu clan in Xuanhe, Liancheng, founded in the late Yuan and early Ming, whose present buildings date from the Ming and Qing, many of them rebuilt in the late Qing. - Qianlu Lake Wetland 千鹭湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A wetland of hill ponds, small lakes and marshes among wooded valleys in Chengxiang town, just outside Wuping county town, forming part of the Zhongshan River National Wetland Park. - Shiyan Cave and Junqing Temple 狮岩 4A scenic area · on the map
A limestone cave whose mouth looks like the open jaws of a lion, joined to Junqing Temple, the founding temple of Dingguang Buddha, the deified monk Zheng Ziyan from Tong'an whom Hakka communities honour as their protector. - Tianzi Hot Spring Resort 天子温泉 4A scenic area · on the map
A hot-spring resort in Dongxi village just outside Yongding town, with a large number of open-air thermal pools set in gardens styled after South-East Asia and a children's water play area. - Tingjiang National Wetland Park 汀江国家湿地公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A river wetland park on the Ting River at Sanzhou, in a part of Changting that was once among the worst-eroded red-soil areas of southern China, its bare hills nicknamed the 'Flaming Mountain'. - Caigai Ancestral Hall 采陔公祠 National heritage site · on the map
A large late-Qing Hakka ancestral hall in Miaoshang village, Miaoqian town, dedicated to Jiang Caigai, a 14th-generation ancestor of the local Jiang clan. - Central Red Communication Line Sites 中央红色交通线旧址 National heritage site · on the map
Relay stations on the secret route that in the early 1930s linked the Communist Party's underground headquarters in Shanghai with the Central Soviet Area, running via Hong Kong, Shantou and Dabu into western Fujian and on to Ruijin. - Former Minxi Workers' and Peasants' Bank 闽西工农银行旧址 National heritage site · on the map
The building on Xiajing Lane in central Longyan where the West Fujian (Minxi) Soviet Government opened the Minxi Workers' and Peasants' Bank in September 1930 to counter the Nationalist economic blockade of the base area. - Guantian Li Ancestral Hall 官田李氏大宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
The ancestral temple of Li Huode, regarded as the first of the Li clan to settle in Fujian, built in 1836 in Guantian village, Rentian town, and restored in 1909 and 1984. - Linjiang Lou 临江楼 National heritage site · on the map
A late-Qing brick and timber house on the north bank of the Ting River in Shanghang town, built as a paper merchant's warehouse and villa, with arched stone verandas on its ground and top floors. - Long March Starting Point of the Red Ninth Corps 红九军团长征出发地 National heritage site · on the map
Guanshou Hall, an early-Qing ancestral hall in Zhongwu village, Nanshan town, served in September 1934 as the headquarters of the Red Army's Ninth Corps, which with the 24th Division and local forces covered the main Red Army's withdrawal after the Nationalist attack on Songmaoling. - Sibao Woodblock Printing Buildings 四堡书坊建筑 National heritage site · on the map
Sibao, in the hills of northern Liancheng, was one of China's four main centres of woodblock printing in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and many of its family printing and bookselling workshops survive in the villages of Wuge, Zhongnan, Siqiao and Tiancha. - Tingzhou City Wall 汀州城墙 National heritage site · on the map
The wall of the old Tingzhou prefectural city was first built of rammed earth in 769, faced with brick and stone in 1371 and partly rebuilt in modern times, and long stretches survive along the Ting River. - Xibei Tianhou Palace 西陂天后宫 National heritage site
A temple to the sea goddess Mazu in Xibei village, Gaobei town, begun in 1542 and completed in 1662 by the local Lin clan, many of whose members had emigrated to South-East Asia. - Zhixi Ancestral Halls 芷溪宗祠建筑 National heritage site
Zhixi village in Miaoqian town is packed with Qing-dynasty Hakka ancestral halls, most of them combined halls and family homes built on the 'nine halls and eighteen courtyards' plan and fronted by finely made gatehouses.
Nanping 26 sites
- 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.
Ningde 18 sites
- Baishuiyang and Yuanyang Stream 白水洋·鸳鸯溪 5A scenic area
A crescent-shaped scenic area of about 66 km² in Pingnan county, built around volcanic-rock gorges and the Baishuiyang 'shallow-water square', a flat bedrock riverbed across which the stream spreads in an even sheet that visitors can wade through. - Mount Taimu 太姥山 5A scenic area
A granite mountain rising above the sea south of Fuding, long the sanctuary of the local goddess Taimu Niangniang and, from the Tang dynasty on, a centre of Buddhism with many temples on and around it. - Baiyun Mountain, Fu'an 福安白云山 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain scenic area of about 67 km² north-west of Fu'an and part of the Ningde UNESCO Global Geopark, known for its volcanic-rock mountain scenery. - Cuiping Lake 翠屏湖 4A scenic area · on the map
The reservoir of the Gutian River hydropower scheme, formed when the dam's sluices closed in June 1959, drowning the old county town of Gutian, which had been the county seat for more than a thousand years, and displacing more than 36,000 people. - Jiulongji Waterfalls and Carp Stream 鲤鱼溪·九龙漈 4A scenic area · on the map
This 4A area joins two places near Zhouning town that together form a 13.5 km² national scenic area within the Ningde UNESCO Global Geopark. - Niulanggang Coast 牛郎岗 4A scenic area · on the map
A seaside scenic area on the Fuding coast south-east of Mount Taimu, with a flat, clean sandy beach backed by green hills and sea-worn rocks given names such as Mandarin Duck Reef, the Weaving Maid's Cave and a narrow sea cleft. - Yuanyang Meadow 鸳鸯草场 4A scenic area · on the map
An upland grassland on the hills of Dongyuan township, Zherong, promoted as 'the Hulunbuir of the south' for its rolling open meadows, and rated 4A in 2022. - Baiheling Ancient Road 白鹤岭古道 National heritage site · on the map
A stone-stepped official road built in 1225–27 under Ding Daquan, then registrar of Ningde county, as part of the overland route between Fuzhou and Wenzhou; it climbs from the old west gate of Ningde over the hills towards Luoyuan. - Baofeng Silver Mine Site 宝丰银矿遗址 National heritage site · on the map
Remains of a state silver mine worked from the 1080s until it was finally closed in 1510, at its height among the largest silver mines of Song China, around Shengyinlou Mountain in south-western Zhouning. - Fengqi Wu Family Mansion 凤岐吴氏大宅 National heritage site · on the map
The largest old house in Zherong county and the only building in the hamlet of Fengqi in Zhayang township, so that the house and the village are one: a Wu family mansion of the Qianlong and Jiaqing reigns (1736–1820) whose walled core, outbuildings and terraces cover some 14,000 m². - Guanyinting Fort 观音亭寨 National heritage site
A Buddhist shrine on the old post road at Banling, a She ethnic village in Shuimen township, first built in 1369, restored in 1791 and enclosed by a wall in 1863 against the Golden Coin Society uprising, which turned it into a small fort whose gate examination candidates bound for the capital passed through. - Huang Ancestral Hall, Fu'an 福安黄氏祠堂 National heritage site · on the map
The ancestral hall of the Huang clan in Huangcuo Lane, Yangxia village, now on the edge of Fu'an city, founded in the late Song and rebuilt in 1694 on a plot of about 2,500 m². - Huotong (Huang Ju) Irrigation System 霍童灌溉工程 National heritage site
An irrigation system on both banks of the Huotong Stream at Huotong town, begun by the Sui official Huang Ju around 618 and still watering farmland today. - Jixia Village 漈下村 National heritage site · on the map
An old village in a mountain basin in Gantang township, Pingnan, where two streams meet below rows of timber houses built along the water; it is the ancestral home of the Qing general Gan Guobao and a national historic and cultural village. - Lingong Zhongping Wang Ancestral Temple 林公忠平王祖殿 National heritage site
The ancestral temple of Lin Gong (Lin Zugen), a Song-dynasty healer from Fu'an who was deified after ridding the district of wild animals and epidemics, in Shanyang village, Makeng township. - Linshui Palace, Gutian 古田临水宫 National heritage site
The founding temple of Chen Jinggu, Lady Linshui, a protective goddess of women, children and childbirth worshipped across Fujian, Taiwan and South-East Asia, in Daqiao town, Gutian. - Shifeng Temple 狮峰寺 National heritage site · on the map
A Buddhist temple at the foot of Lion Peak in Baizhuyang village, Xibing town, founded in 892 and moved down from the summit in the Yongle reign of the Ming. - Wan'an Bridge 万安桥 National heritage site · on the map
Pingnan's Wan'an Bridge, 98.2 m long and described as the longest timber-arch covered bridge in China, is the best known of the covered bridges of north-eastern Fujian listed together as a national heritage unit.
Putian 18 sites
- Meizhou Mazu Temple 湄洲妈祖祖庙 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Meizhou Island, off the coast of Putian, is revered as the birthplace of Mazu, the sea goddess whose worship spread along the Chinese coast, to Taiwan and across South-East Asia. - Jiuli Lake 九鲤湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain scenic area in Zhongshan town, Xianyou, named after the legend of nine immortals who rode carp up to heaven. - Jiulonggu National Forest Park 九龙谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park of about 1,090 hectares in Xinan village, Changtai town, with forest cover of over 95 per cent. - Putian Arts and Crafts City 莆田工艺美术城 4A scenic area · on the map
A trade and exhibition complex for Putian's craft industries, above all woodcarving and classical hardwood furniture, which with oil painting and gold and silver jewellery are among the city's traditional mainstays. - Ruiyun Mountain Forest Park 瑞云山 4A scenic area · on the map
A forest park in Dayang township, in the hills of northern Hanjiang District, whose peaks rise to over 1,000 m and are known for oddly shaped rocks, among them formations named the Heavenly Dog and the Sleeping Lion of the East. - Shouxi Park 绶溪公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Shouxi Park follows the Shouxi, as the Yanshou stream, the largest tributary of the Mulan River, is called where it flows through central Putian. - Xianshuiyang 仙水洋 4A scenic area · on the map
At about 870 m in Fengshan village, Xiyuan township, a mountain stream spreads ankle-deep for more than 600 m over a single, almost flat bed of brown rock. - Bao'en Temple Pagoda, Putian 荔城报恩寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A three-storey octagonal stone pagoda, 13 m tall, on the central axis of Bao'en Temple on Dongyan Hill in Putian, between the Mahavira Hall and the Guanyin Hall. - Longhua Twin Pagodas 龙华双塔 National heritage site · on the map
A pair of old pagodas beside Longhua Temple in Dengta village, Longhua town, a few kilometres south-west of Xianyou county town; the national listing dates them to the Song and Qing dynasties. - Mulan Weir 木兰陂 National heritage site
An irrigation weir across the Mulan River below Mulan Hill, completed in 1083 by Li Hong after two earlier attempts, the first led by a woman named Qian Siniang in 1064, were swept away. - Ninghai Bridge 宁海桥 National heritage site · on the map
An old bridge across the mouth of the Mulan River at Qiaodou village, Huangshi, dated by the national listing to the Yuan dynasty and more than 700 years old; 'Sunrise at Ninghai' is one of Putian's traditional twenty-four views. - Pinghai Tianhou Palace 平海天后宫 National heritage site · on the map
A Qing-dynasty temple to Mazu in Pinghai village, on the coast of Xiuyu District south-east of Putian. - Shijia Wenfo Pagoda, Guanghua Temple 释迦文佛塔 National heritage site
A five-storey octagonal stone pagoda about 30.6 m tall on the east side of Guanghua Temple, at the foot of Phoenix Hill in southern Putian; its earliest inscription shows it was standing by 1165. - Tianzhong Wanshou Pagoda 天中万寿塔 National heritage site
A solid granite pagoda of the casket-stupa (baoqieyin) type on Tadou Hill in Fengting town, built in 1059 and also known as the Green Conch Pagoda. - Wuchen Pagoda 无尘塔 National heritage site · on the map
A five-storey octagonal stone pagoda in Fengding village, Xiyuan township, high in the hills of north-western Xianyou. - Xianyou Confucian Temple 仙游文庙 National heritage site
Founded in the Tang and moved to this site in 1002, Xianyou's Confucian temple was rebuilt after storm damage in 1678 and 1780 and restored again in 2006–09. - Yuanmiao Temple 元妙观 National heritage site
Yuanmiao Guan in the old centre of Putian is a Taoist temple founded in 628 and rebuilt in 1015, whose Hall of the Three Purities is one of the rare Song-dynasty timber halls in southern China. - Zhenhai Seawall 镇海堤 National heritage site · on the map
A stone seawall along the shore of Huangshi town east of Putian, first built in the Tang dynasty's Yuanhe era (806–820) on the initiative of the Fujian regional commissioner Pei Ciyuan.
Quanzhou 53 sites
- Mount Qingyuan 清源山 5A scenic area
A granite hill range on the northern edge of Quanzhou, protected as a national scenic area and scattered with shrines, hundreds of cliff inscriptions and Song–Yuan stone statues. - Anping Bridge 安平桥 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A granite beam bridge more than 2 km long across a tidal inlet between Anhai and Shuitou, completed in 1151 after 13 years' work and regarded as the longest ancient stone bridge surviving in China; its length gave it its other name, the Five-Li Bridge. - Baogai Mountain 宝盖山 4A scenic area · on the map
A granite hill about 209 m high on the eastern edge of Shishi, the highest in the city, crowned by Wanshou Pagoda, popularly the Gusao (Sisters-in-Law) Pagoda: a hollow five-storey octagonal stone pagoda about 22 m high, built in the Shaoxing era (1131–1162) as a landmark for ships, with stairs inside its walls. - Beixi Wenyuan Eco-Tourism Area 北溪文苑 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural eco-tourism area in Beixi village, Hushan town, set in a wooded valley with streams and waterfalls. - China Museum for Fujian-Taiwan Kinship 中国闽台缘博物馆 4A scenic area
A large state museum opened in 2006 on the historical ties between Fujian and Taiwan, in a red-brick and white-stone building whose four long flights of steps climb to a roof terrace over the city. - Chongwu Ancient City 崇武古城 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A granite-walled coastal garrison town built from 1387 to defend the coast against wokou pirates, regarded as the most complete stone sea-wall town surviving in China. - Jiuxian Mountain, Dehua 九仙山 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain of about 1,650 m in northern Dehua, on the meeting point of Chishui, Shangyong and Daming townships, with a scenic area of about 35 km² known for rime ice on its trees in winter. - Kaiyuan Temple (Quanzhou) 开元寺 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Quanzhou's principal Buddhist temple, founded in 686 on West Street in the old city and covering some 7.8 hectares, is one of the components of the Quanzhou World Heritage site. - Niumulin Eco-Tourism Area 牛姆林 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested mountain eco-tourism area in Xiayang town in the far west of Yongchun, described by the county as one of the best-preserved native forests in Fujian, with several waterfalls along its paths. - Qingshuiyan Temple 清水岩 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A mountain temple in Penglai town, Anxi, where the Northern Song monk Qingshui Zushi practised, and the mother temple of his cult, which spread with emigrants to Taiwan and South-East Asia. - Quanzhou Museum 泉州博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The city museum, opened in 2005 in a large building in southern Fujian style at the foot of Mount Qingyuan, north of West Lake Park. - Quanzhou Oulebao Ocean Kingdom 泉州欧乐堡海洋王国 4A scenic area · on the map
A seaside theme-park complex at Zhangban on the northern shore of Quanzhou Bay, made up of three parks: a water park, an ocean park with marine-life exhibits and staged shows, and a fairy-tale park with rides. - Shiniu Mountain 石牛山 4A scenic area · on the map
A granite mountain in Shuikou town, north-eastern Dehua, named after a great rock on it that looks like a bull, and protected as a national forest park and national geopark. - Wudianshi Historic Quarter 五店市 4A scenic area · on the map
A restored historic quarter in central Jinjiang, said to be named after five shops opened here by the Cai clan in the Tang dynasty, with more than 130 Ming, Qing and early modern buildings: red-brick houses, Western-influenced 'fanzai' houses, ancestral halls and temples. - Wulin Traditional Village 梧林传统村落 4A scenic area · on the map
A 600-year-old home village of emigrants to the Philippines and South-East Asia in Xintang, Jinjiang, with 132 historic buildings: red-brick southern Fujian mansions next to Gothic and Roman-style villas and hybrid 'fanzai' houses that returning emigrants built mainly in the 1930s. - Xiheshan Tieguanyin Culture Park 溪禾山铁观音文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
A tea-themed leisure park on the edge of Anxi town built around Tieguanyin, the oolong tea for which Anxi is famous, and rated 4A in 2022. - Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum 英良石材自然历史博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A museum founded by a local stone merchant near Shuitou, the stone-trading town of Nan'an, in a modern building conceived like a book of stone pages. - Yuanhe 1916 Creative Industry Park 源和1916创意产业园 4A scenic area · on the map
A creative park in former factory buildings on Xinmen Street at the western edge of Quanzhou's old city, centred on the Yuanhe Tang candied-fruit works founded in 1916 and later joined by neighbouring flour, television and jute mills. - Yunlonggu Gorge 云龙谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A gorge scenic area in Foling village, Guobao township, on the southern slopes of the Daiyun Mountains near Jiuxian Mountain, named after its long winding valley and a small temple, Yunlong Palace. - Anxi Confucian Temple 安溪文庙 National heritage site
A county Confucian temple founded in 1001 and rebuilt in 1686, set against Feng Hill in the centre of Anxi town and covering about 1.3 hectares. - Anxi Tulou (Xiping) 安溪土楼 National heritage site · on the map
Three earthen fortified houses in the tea country of Xiping in south-western Anxi, separate from the better-known Fujian tulou of Yongding and Nanjing about 90 km to the south-west. - Banpu Old Houses 坂埔古厝 National heritage site · on the map
A hamlet of 13 large red-brick houses and two wells built by the Hong clan of Wengshan from the Qianlong reign of the Qing onwards, covering more than 6,000 m² in Liangshan village, Yingdu town. - Cai Family Old Residences 蔡氏古民居 National heritage site · on the map
A village of Qing-dynasty mansions in Zhangli, Guanqiao town, built from 1865 to 1911 by Cai Qichang, who had returned from the Philippines, and his son Cai Zishen. - Cao'an 草庵 National heritage site
A small granite shrine in Luoshan, Jinjiang, long regarded as the only intact Manichaean temple in the world, with a relief of Mani as the 'Buddha of Light' carved into the rock face behind it in 1339. - Chongfu Temple, Quanzhou 崇福寺 National heritage site · on the map
A Buddhist temple founded around 960 in the north-east of Quanzhou's old city, whose national listing is for the Yinggeng Pagoda: a seven-storey octagonal stone pagoda about 11 m high from the early Song, older than the rebuilt stone pagodas of Kaiyuan Temple and regarded as the oldest in the city. - Cizao Kiln Sites (Jinjiaoyi Hill) 磁灶窑址 National heritage site · on the map
The remains of Song–Yuan dragon kilns on Jinjiaoyi Hill in Cizao town, among more than two dozen kiln sites along the Meixi River that made pottery for export to Japan and South-East Asia from the 6th to the early 20th century. - Deji Gate Site 德济门遗址 National heritage site
The excavated foundations of Deji Gate, the southern gate of Song–Yuan Quanzhou through which goods passed to and from the riverside port, lie open beside Tianhou Temple. - Dharani Pillar of Taoyuan Palace 桃源宫陀罗尼经幢 National heritage site · on the map
A Northern Song stone pillar carved with Buddhist dharani texts, standing in Taoyuan Palace, a village temple in Taoyuan, Fengzhou town. - Ding Family Ancestral Hall, Chendai 陈埭丁氏宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
The ancestral hall of the Ding clan of Chendai, a Hui community whose forebears were Arabs who settled here in the early Ming. - Fuxing Hall, Hushan 福兴堂 National heritage site · on the map
A southern Fujian-style family house completed in 1947 in Tangxi village, Hushan town, five bays wide and two courtyards deep with flanking side wings. - Jingsheng Villa 景胜别墅 National heritage site · on the map
A four-storey villa completed in 1948 in Longxue village, Baogai town, that blends a European verandah house with southern Fujian building traditions. - Jiuri Mountain Inscriptions 九日山 National heritage site
A low hill at Fengzhou in Nan'an whose eastern and western peaks carry more than 70 cliff inscriptions from the Northern Song to the Qing, most of them Song. - Kuixing Rock Cliff Carvings 魁星岩摩崖造像 National heritage site · on the map
A Southern Song relief of the 'Three Sages of Huayan' — Shakyamuni flanked by the bodhisattvas Manjushri and Samantabhadra — carved on a rock face at the Kuixing Rock temple in Taochang, Shigu town, on the edge of Yongchun town. - Laozi Statue (Laojun Rock) 老君岩 National heritage site · on the map
A seated figure of the philosopher Laozi carved from a single natural granite boulder at the foot of Mount Qingyuan's western peak, over 5 m high and about 7 m wide and made no later than the Song dynasty. - Li Family Residences, Guanshan 观山李氏民居 National heritage site · on the map
Three houses built between 1890 and 1936 in Guanshan village, Meishan township, by Li Gongcang, an overseas Chinese from Indonesia, and his eldest son Li Chengqi. - Lin Family Residence, Nan'an 南安林氏民居 National heritage site · on the map
Four side-by-side buildings — an ancestral hall, living quarters and a study — that the overseas Chinese builder Lin Lu designed for his home village of Manshanhong and completed in 1908. - Lingshan Islamic Cemetery 灵山伊斯兰教圣墓 National heritage site
Two tombs on the southern slope of Ling Hill, revered by Chinese Muslims as the graves of two early missionaries whom Ming sources say came to Quanzhou in the Tang dynasty, lie under a stone pavilion rebuilt in 1962. - Liusheng Pagoda and Old Quanzhou Port Sites 六胜塔 National heritage site
An octagonal five-storey granite pagoda 36 m high on the southern shore of Quanzhou Bay at Shihu, first built in 1111 and rebuilt in 1285 as a landmark for ships, its storeys carved with guardian figures and bodhisattvas. - Longshan Temple, Anhai 安海龙山寺 National heritage site · on the map
A Guanyin temple in Anhai town traditionally dated to 618, whose main image is a thousand-armed Guanyin that legend says was carved from a single camphor tree. - Luoyang Bridge 洛阳桥 National heritage site
A stone beam bridge across the tidal mouth of the Luoyang River, built in 1053–1059 under the prefect Cai Xiang, whose builders strengthened its foundations by cultivating oysters on the stones. - Nantian Temple Stone Buddhas 南天寺 National heritage site · on the map
A hillside Buddhist temple on Daifeng Hill in Dongshi town, Jinjiang, known for its stone Buddha statues and cliff inscriptions of the Song and Ming dynasties. - Qingjing Mosque 清净寺 National heritage site
Founded in 1009 on Tumen Street in the old city, Qingjing is regarded as the oldest surviving mosque in China built in the Arab style, and it is one of the components of the Quanzhou World Heritage site. - Qingshan Palace, Hui'an 青山宫 National heritage site · on the map
A folk-religion temple in Qingshan village, Shanxia town, Hui'an, dedicated to Qingshan Ling'an Zunwang, a mountain deity worshipped across the three old counties of Quanzhou. - Quanzhou Confucian Temple 泉州府文庙 National heritage site
The prefectural Confucian temple and school of Quanzhou, on this site since the late 10th century and rebuilt in 1137, is one of the components of the Quanzhou World Heritage site. - Qudougong Kiln Site (Dehua Kilns) 屈斗宫窑址 National heritage site · on the map
The excavated remains of a Song–Yuan kiln on the southern slope of Pozhai Hill at Dehua, the porcelain-making town of inland Quanzhou: a dragon kiln divided into chambers, a step towards the later stepped kiln. - Stone Buddha of Xizi Temple 西资寺石佛 National heritage site · on the map
Song-dynasty stone Buddha carvings on Zhuowang Hill in Yanfeng village, Jinjing town, on the south-eastern coast of Jinjiang, kept at the hillside Xizi Temple. - Tianhou Temple, Quanzhou 泉州天后宫 National heritage site
A temple to the sea goddess Mazu founded in 1196 near the old southern gate and river port, and regarded as one of the oldest and highest-ranking Mazu temples in China; many Mazu temples in Taiwan and South-East Asia trace their origin to it. - Tomb of Koxinga (Zheng Chenggong) 郑成功墓 National heritage site
The hillside family tomb of Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga), the Ming loyalist commander who defeated the Dutch East India Company on Taiwan at the siege of Fort Zeelandia in 1662 and died suddenly the same year. - Tukeng Village 土坑村 National heritage site · on the map
A former harbour village on the southern shore of Meizhou Bay in Houlong town, whose merchants prospered in the Ming and Qing from seaborne trade and from pawnshops, pharmacies, cloth shops and timber yards. - Wutayan Stone Pagodas 五塔岩石塔 National heritage site · on the map
Song-dynasty stone pagodas at Wutayan ('Five Pagodas Rock'), a hillside temple on Longshui Hill near Zhukou village, Guanqiao town, Nan'an. - Yang Amiao Residence 杨阿苗故居 National heritage site · on the map
The house of Yang Amiao, a late-Qing overseas Chinese, built over 18 years from 1894 to 1911 in Tingdian on the southern side of the Jin River. - Yongchun Confucian Temple 永春文庙 National heritage site · on the map
The county Confucian temple of Yongchun, founded in the 1040s and rebuilt in 1785, on Taocheng Road in the county town. - Zhongxiandi Mansion, Shijing 中宪第 National heritage site · on the map
A large Qing-dynasty courtyard mansion on Yanping East Road in Shijing town, Nan'an, built for the family of Zheng Yunjin and known locally as the 'Ninety-Nine Rooms'.
Sanming 29 sites
- Dajin Lake and Taining Geopark 泰宁大金湖 5A scenic area · on the map
Taining's 5A scenic area covers the Taining UNESCO Global Geopark, about 490 km² of mainly Danxia red-sandstone landscape, part of which is inscribed in the China Danxia World Heritage Site. - Anzhen Fort 安贞堡 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A huge fortified earthen house in Huainan town, Yong'an, built in 1885–99 by the local gentleman Chi Zhanrui and his son to protect their family from bandits, which it did through three sieges. - Central Soviet Area Anti-Encirclement Memorial Park, Jianning 中央苏区反“围剿”纪念园 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A memorial park in the north of Jianning town on the county's role in the Red Army's campaigns against the Nationalist government's encirclement offensives of 1930–34; Red Army units took Jianning on 31 May 1931 in the last battle of the second campaign. - Daxianfeng 'Tea Beauty' Scenic Area 大仙峰·茶美人 4A scenic area · on the map
A tea-themed scenic area around Daxian Peak in Pingshan township, Datian, whose terraced tea gardens have been named among China's 30 most beautiful and whose cherry trees blossom in late winter. - Dishuiyan Red Army Field Hospital Site 滴水岩 4A scenic area · on the map
A karst cave about 2.5 km from Mingxi town where the Red Army ran a field hospital from 1931 to 1934, treating more than 250 of its own wounded and some 540 wounded prisoners; the cave had water and gave cover from air attack. - Gexikao National Forest Park 格氏栲国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park at Louyuan in Xinkou town, south-west of Sanming, protecting a natural forest of Castanopsis kawakamii (gexikao), a tall evergreen of the beech family listed as near-threatened. - Guifeng Village 桂峰村 4A scenic area · on the map
A hillside village in Yangzhong town, north-eastern Youxi, where 39 Ming and Qing buildings with yellow walls and dark tiles are stacked up three slopes around a valley; it is a national historic and cultural village, described as one of the best-preserved old villages in Fujian. - Guxi Xinghe Resort 古溪星河 4A scenic area · on the map
A leisure resort in the hills of Tangchuan township, eastern Youxi, at about 870 m above sea level, developed since 2016 in what had been an empty mountain valley. - Jinnao Mountain (Minjiang Source Eco-tourism Area) 闽江源·金铙山 4A scenic area · on the map
The eco-tourism area of Jinnao Mountain in south-eastern Jianning, inside the Minjiang Source national nature reserve; the range's main peak, Baishiding, reaches 1,858 m, and its spur Yanfeng Mountain is taken as the true source of the Min River. - Jiufu Mountain 九阜山 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested mountain area in Xicheng town, south-west of Youxi town, lying within the Jiufushan provincial nature reserve. - Jiulongtan, Taining 九龙潭 4A scenic area · on the map
A Danxia gorge north of Taining town where visitors drift on bamboo rafts between red cliffs and deep green pools. - Mingqing Garden, Taining 明清园 4A scenic area · on the map
A museum park on the Jinxi River just east of Taining town, made up of dozens of old Ming- and Qing-style buildings collected from elsewhere; the first phase has nine buildings on different themes and a large collection of carved woodwork. - Ruiyun Mountain 瑞云山 4A scenic area · on the map
A small hill scenic area of about 3 km² in Chenda town on the northern edge of Sanming city, combining forest with temple buildings and old rock inscriptions. - Sansteel Industrial Tourism Area 三钢工业旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
Industrial tours inside the works of Fujian Sansteel, the steel producer in the Liexi area of Sanming. - Shaxian Snack Culture City 沙县小吃文化城 4A scenic area · on the map
A food-themed quarter built from the late 2000s at the foot of Taojin Mountain on the north-west side of Shaxian town, laid out in the style of the mansions of the area's wealthy Ming and Qing families. - Shibi Hakka Ancestral Land 石壁客家祖地 4A scenic area · on the map
Shibi in Ninghua county is revered as the cradle of the Hakka people, the place where Hakka forebears settled before spreading south and overseas. - Shuiwei Red Army Village 水尾红军小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain village in Kefang township on the Fujian–Jiangxi border which was a rear base of the Red Army and seat of the Jianning county Soviet government in the early 1930s. - Taoyuan Cave and Linyin Stone Forest 桃源洞·鳞隐石林 4A scenic area · on the map
A Danxia landscape scenic area of about 29 km² north-east of Yong'an city, made up of Taoyuan Cave, Baizhang Rock and three other zones; its best-known sight is Yixiantian, a cleft 90 m high and 127 m long that narrows to 0.4 m and is climbed by 206 steps. - Tian'e Cave, Ninghua 天鹅洞 4A scenic area · on the map
A group of limestone caves east of Ninghua town, the core of a 143 km² national geopark of karst landscapes. - Tianfang Yuetan Hot Springs 天芳悦潭 4A scenic area · on the map
A hot-spring and forest-wellness resort at Gaolai near Songkou in eastern Qingliu, in what the county describes as Fujian's densest belt of hot springs. - Wanshouyan Site 万寿岩遗址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A small, isolated limestone hill at Yanqian, west of Sanming, whose caves hold the oldest known traces of people in Fujian: stone tools from Lingfeng Cave have been dated to about 185,000 years ago, and Chuanfan Cave preserves a stone-paved floor and drainage channel some 30,000–20,000 years old. - Xiatianxia Scenic Area 侠天下 4A scenic area · on the map
A martial-arts (wuxia) themed adventure area in Tangchuan township, eastern Youxi, which opened in 2015 as the county's first A-rated attraction. - Yuhua Cave 玉华洞 4A scenic area · on the map
A limestone cave often described as the largest in Fujian, at the foot of Tianjie Mountain south-east of Jiangle town, with about 6 km of passages through six chambers and three underground streams thick with stalactites and stalagmites. - Zhu Xi Cultural Park 朱子文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
A park at the birthplace of the Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhu Xi, born here in 1130, on Gongshan hill on the south side of Youxi town. - Datian Earthen Forts 大田土堡群 National heritage site
Five fortified earthen houses (tubao) in Datian county make up this national heritage group: Pipa Fort in Jianshe town, Fanglian Fort in Junxi town, Anliang Fort in Taoyuan town, and Tai'an Fort and Guangchong Hall in Xiaohua village, Taihua town, built between the Qianlong reign (1736–95) and 1857. - Shangshu Di, Taining 尚书第 National heritage site · on the map
A Ming mansion on Shangshu Street in Taining's old town, built in the late Wanli and Tianqi reigns (early 1600s) for Li Chunye, Minister of War: five houses side by side, each with three courtyards, on a plot about 80 m by 50 m. - Shuimei Earthen Forts 水美土堡群 National heritage site · on the map
Three fortified earthen houses built by the Zhang family of Shuimei village, Shaxian, between the Daoguang and Tongzhi reigns (1821–74): Shuangji, Shuangxing and the largest, Shuangyuan, which covers about 6,000 m² and climbs the hillside in tiers. - Yong'an Wartime Provincial Capital Sites 永安抗战旧址群 National heritage site · on the map
From 1938 to 1945 Yong'an was Fujian's wartime provincial capital, and twelve buildings used by the provincial government and its offices form this heritage group, listed among the national memorial sites of the War of Resistance against Japan in 2015. - Zhengshun Temple 正顺庙 National heritage site · on the map
A temple to the local deity Xie You in the Liexi area of central Sanming, founded in 1233 and regarded as the oldest and best-preserved timber building in the city.
Xiamen 15 sites
- Xiamen Botanical Gardens 厦门园林植物园 5A scenic area
A large botanical garden founded in 1960 on Wanshi Hill, close to central Xiamen, covering 4.91 km² and holding more than 9,000 plant species. - Aoyuan and the Tomb of Tan Kah Kee 鳌园 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A walled memorial garden on the Jimei waterfront holding the tomb of Tan Kah Kee (1874–1961), the Singapore-based businessman and philanthropist who founded the Jimei schools and Xiamen University; he began building the tomb in 1955 and was buried here in 1961. - Beichen Mountain 北辰山 4A scenic area · on the map
A hill park of about 12 km² in Wuxian town, Tong'an, best known for the Twelve Dragon Pools, a chain of waterfalls and clear pools of different sizes running down a valley from near the top of the hill. - Fantawild Dreamland Xiamen 厦门方特梦幻王国 4A scenic area · on the map
A theme park in Tong'an District opened in 2013 by the Huaqiang Fantawild group, covering about 40 hectares. - Huihe Stone Culture Park 惠和石文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
A park in Huli District devoted to stone carving, with a stone-culture gallery, a stone carving museum, a treasure gallery and a hall of 'stone shadow carving', a southern Fujian craft listed as intangible heritage, plus space for workshops and folk performances. - Hulishan Fort 胡里山炮台 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A coastal fort on the south-eastern tip of Xiamen Island, completed in 1896 in a mix of European and Chinese styles, with granite ramparts, underground passages, barracks, magazines, lookout posts and a moat. - Laoyuanzi Folk Culture Park 老院子民俗文化风情园 4A scenic area · on the map
A commercial culture park opened in 2015 near Xiamen North Railway Station, with a folk-culture area built in southern Fujian style. - Riyue Valley Hot Spring Resort 日月谷温泉 4A scenic area · on the map
A hot-spring resort at the foot of Tianzhu Mountain in Haicang, with indoor and outdoor thermal pools in gardens styled after South-East Asia, leisure facilities and a hotel. - Tianzhu Mountain Forest Park 天竺山森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Forested hills in Dongfu, Haicang, on Xiamen's western mainland edge, with lakes and valleys, a bamboo garden of more than 200 kinds of bamboo and around 60 cultural spots, including small Buddhist and Taoist temples such as Longmen Temple and Zhenji Temple. - Xiamen Chengyi Nature Exploration Museum 厦门诚毅自然探索馆 4A scenic area · on the map
An indoor family museum in Jimei, opened as the Chengyi Discovery Center with exhibits on space, aviation and navigation, which reopened on 3 July 2026 after a refit as a natural-history centre. - Xiamen Garden Expo Park 厦门园林博览苑 4A scenic area · on the map
The site of the 6th China International Garden and Flower Expo in 2007, built on Xinglin Bay in Jimei by cutting channels through the bay's central islands to form nine islands joined by 16 bridges. - Xiamen Lingling International Circus City 灵玲国际马戏城 4A scenic area · on the map
A circus-themed resort in Xinglin, Jimei, with a large circus theatre seating about 10,000, an 'animal kingdom' zoo area, a hotel and play areas for children. - Early Buildings of Jimei School Village and Xiamen University 集美学村和厦门大学早期建筑 National heritage site · on the map
Thirty-one school and university buildings put up between the 1920s and the 1950s with money from Tan Kah Kee, in the 'Jiageng style' that combines Western and Chinese elements. - Qingjiao and Baijiao Ciji Palaces 青、白礁慈济宫 National heritage site
Twin founding temples of Baosheng Dadi, the deified Song-dynasty physician Wu Tao, about 3 km apart on either side of the Xiamen–Zhangzhou boundary: the 'east palace' in Qingjiao village, Haicang District, Xiamen, and the 'west palace' in Baijiao village, Jiaomei town, Longhai District, Zhangzhou. - Site of the Xiamen Prison Break 厦门破狱斗争旧址 National heritage site · on the map
The former Siming county jail on Siming South Road, where on 25 May 1930 an armed Communist team led by Tao Zhu broke in and freed more than 40 imprisoned party members and supporters without loss.
Zhangzhou 31 sites
- Baitang Bay 白塘湾 4A scenic area · on the map
Baitang Bay, on the coast of Longjiao She Ethnic Township facing Xiamen across the water, has a 3.2-km crescent of sandy beach and the ancient volcanic crater at Niutou Shan, whose rows of basalt columns are nicknamed the 'terracotta warriors of the sea'. - Gaofeng Valley 高峰谷 4A scenic area · on the map
Gaofeng Valley is a mountain tea-garden resort near Guanfeng village in Xiazhai town, western Pinghe, run by a Zhangzhou state-owned group around some 1,000 mu (about 67 hectares) of tea gardens. - Guanshe She Village 官畲 4A scenic area · on the map
Guanshe is a She ethnic village in the hills of Xinxu town, Hua'an County, promoted as 'Colourful Guanshe' for its brightly painted houses. - Hua'an Tulou (Dadi Cluster) 华安土楼 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The Hua'an tulou tourist area centres on the Dadi cluster in Xiandu town: three large earthen houses, Eryi Lou, Nanyang Lou and Dongyang Lou, built by the Jiang family in the Qing dynasty and inscribed in 2008 as part of the Fujian Tulou World Heritage Site. - Jintang Bay 金汤湾 4A scenic area · on the map
Jintang Bay is a seaside hot-spring resort at Chendai town on the coast of Yunxiao County, built around a natural seawater hot spring with a high mineral content. - Lukai Eco-Manor 鹭凯生态庄园 4A scenic area · on the map
Lukai Eco-Manor is a farm resort at Zhouzai village in the Shuangdi Overseas Chinese Farm, a state farm founded in 1960 to resettle Chinese returnees from Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Malaysia and other South-East Asian countries. - Malan Bay 马銮湾 4A scenic area · on the map
Malan Bay is a broad sandy bay in Kangmei town on the east coast of Dongshan Island, run as a public beach resort area. - Sanping Temple 三平寺 4A scenic area · on the map
Sanping Temple, in the hills of Wenfeng town in eastern Pinghe, grew from the retreat where the Tang Chan monk Yizhong (781–872), revered as the Sanping Patriarch, preached from the 820s. - Shili Lanshan 十里蓝山 4A scenic area · on the map
Shili Lanshan is a hillside leisure park in the Mayangxi Eco-Tourism Zone of Changtai, on the boundary with Xiamen, with flower fields, walking trails and a campsite that looks out over the lights of Xiamen after dark. - Southeast Flower Capital Expo Park 东南花都 4A scenic area · on the map
This flower park at Xiban village in Zhangpu's Guanxun town is the showground of Zhangzhou's annual flower expo, held here since 1999 and long known as the Cross-Strait Flower Expo; in 2025 it took place as the Southeast Modern Agriculture Expo and Flower Expo. - Tianfu 'Crossing to Taiwan' Stone Carving Park 天福“唐山过台湾”石雕园 4A scenic area · on the map
Opened in 2003 beside the Tianfu service area on the coastal expressway, this sculpture park was paid for by Li Ruihe, the Taiwan-born founder of the Tianfu tea group, whose ancestors sailed to Taiwan from Zhangpu. - Tianfu Tea Museum 天福茶博物院 4A scenic area · on the map
Built by the Tianfu tea group as a non-profit cultural project, this museum complex at the company's tea estate covers about 130 mu (8.7 ha). - Tianzhushan Happy World 天柱山欢乐大世界 4A scenic area · on the map
This theme park and resort inside the Tianzhu Mountain National Forest Park in Changtai was developed from 2011 and opened in 2017–18. - Wind-Moved Rock and Guandi Temple, Dongshan 东山风动石 4A scenic area · National heritage site
On the seaside rocks by the east gate of Tongshan, the stone-walled town built in 1387 to guard the coast against pirates, the Wind-Moved Rock is a huge boulder resting on a tiny base that seems to rock in the wind. - Yundongyan 云洞岩 4A scenic area · on the map
Yundongyan ('Cloud Cave Rock') is a hill of small caves and boulders on the eastern edge of Zhangzhou city whose rocks carry more than 200 inscriptions from the Five Dynasties to the Qing, among them the characters 'Xishan Diyi' ('first among streams and hills') attributed to the Song philosopher Zhu Xi, who lectured here. - Zhangzhou Coastal Volcano National Geopark 漳州滨海火山国家地质公园 4A scenic area · on the map
This national geopark protects the volcanic coast of southern Zhangzhou, shaped by eruptions millions of years ago; this scenic area covers its Zhangpu section between Qianting and Fotan. - Former Tianyi Remittance Bureau 天一总局旧址 National heritage site · on the map
The Tianyi bureau was founded in 1880 by Guo Youpin, an Overseas Chinese merchant in the Philippines, in his home village of Liuchuan to carry letters and money ('qiaopi') between emigrants and their families. - Jiangdong Bridge 江东桥 National heritage site
Also known as the Hudu ('Tiger Crossing') Bridge, this crossing of the North Jiulong River began as a pontoon bridge in 1190, became a timber bridge on stone piers in 1210 and was rebuilt in stone after a fire in 1237. - Lin Ancestral Hall (Bigan Temple), Zhangzhou 漳州林氏宗祠 National heritage site
Built jointly by the Lin clans of Zhangzhou's seven counties, this ancestral hall on Zhencheng Lane is also called the Bigan Temple, because the Lins honour the ancient Shang-dynasty noble Bigan as their founding ancestor. - Lin Family Charitable Estate 林氏义庄 National heritage site · on the map
This charitable estate was built in 1819–21 by Lin Pinghou, a native of the old Longxi County who made his fortune in Taiwan and founded the Lin Ben Yuan family of Banqiao, to support his clansmen at home. - Nanshan Palace, Hua'an 南山宫 National heritage site · on the map
Nanshan Palace, on the eastern slope of Nanshan at Qinling village just south of Hua'an town, is a folk temple to the deities Shengzu Daxian and Dutong Sheren, founded in 1275 and rebuilt in 1505. - Pinghe City God Temple, Jiufeng 平和城隍庙 National heritage site · on the map
This Qing-dynasty City God temple stands in Jiufeng, which was the seat of Pinghe County from its founding in 1518 until 1949 and is now listed as a national historic and cultural town. - Wugengliao Backyard Blast Furnaces 五更寮土高炉群 National heritage site · on the map
Eight cylindrical red-brick blast furnaces, each about 5 m tall, stand in a north–south row at Wugengliao in Shangtian village, the remains of an ironworks set up during the 1958 Great Leap Forward steel campaign. - Xianzitan Rock Carvings 仙字潭摩崖石刻 National heritage site · on the map
Xianzitan, the 'Pool of the Immortals' Writing', at Tainei village near Shajian in southern Hua'an, is named after the ancient carved marks on its cliff face, rock art that the national heritage listing dates to between the Neolithic and the Zhou dynasty. - Zeng Family 'Fanzai Lou', Dongmei 东美曾氏番仔楼 National heritage site · on the map
Completed in 1911 for the Zeng family of Dongmei, this compound of 13 buildings and 99 rooms mixes Chinese and Western styles: a front row of traditional southern Fujian houses, a central block in 'Nanyang Gothic' style and a rear row of red-brick arcaded buildings. - Zhangpu Confucian Temple 漳浦文庙 National heritage site · on the map
Zhangpu's Confucian temple was founded in the Song dynasty and rebuilt in 1369, at the start of the Ming; only its Dacheng Hall survives. - Zhangzhou Confucian Temple 漳州府文庙 National heritage site · on the map
Founded in 1139 and rebuilt in 1482, Zhangzhou's prefectural Confucian temple keeps its ceremonial gate, Dacheng Gate, side halls, terrace and Dacheng Hall in a south-facing compound of about 2,600 m². - Zhangzhou Stone Memorial Arches 漳州石牌坊 National heritage site
Four carved stone memorial archways stand in Zhangzhou's old town: two from the Ming Wanli reign (1605 and 1619) at Shuangmending on Hong Kong Road, honouring the officials Lin Shizhang and Jiang Mengyu, and two from the Qing Kangxi reign on Xinhua East Road, raised for the generals Lan Li (1707) and Xu Feng (1722). - Zhaojiabao and Yi'anbao Fortified Villages 赵家堡—诒安堡 National heritage site · on the map
Zhaojiabao is a walled village built from 1600 by Zhao Fan, a Ming official descended from the Southern Song imperial prince Zhao Ruohe, and enlarged by his son in 1634; its layout and features such as the Bianpai Bridge are said to imitate the Song capital Bianjing (Kaifeng), and Zhao descendants still live inside. - Zhenhai Wei Garrison Town 镇海卫城 National heritage site · on the map
Zhenhai Wei was a Ming coastal garrison town founded in 1387; abandoned during the early Qing coastal evacuation, it was restored in 1681 as a garrison fort. - Zhishan Red Building (Former Headquarters of the East Route Red Army) 芝山红楼 National heritage site · on the map
This three-storey Western-style brick building on the southern slope of Zhishan hill was built as the American trustees' house of the Xunyuan Middle School, a Reformed Church in America school that moved here from Gulangyu in 1925.