Wuyi Mountains
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How it came to be
People were living on the slopes of the Wuyi Mountains in Fujian some 4,000 years ago. In the 1st century BCE, under the Western Han, a large walled city was built at Chengcun as capital of the Minyue kingdom, and its massive walls still enclose the archaeological site. Wooden boat-shaped coffins survive in rock shelters on the cliffs.
In the 7th century the Wuyi Palace was built for imperial sacrifices, and the mountains became a centre of Taoism and later Buddhism. In 1183 the philosopher Zhu Xi founded the Ziyang Academy here. The remains of 35 academies from the Northern Song to the Qing and more than 60 Taoist temples survive, and UNESCO calls Wuyi the cradle of Neo-Confucianism.
From the 13th to the 17th century the government kept offices here to control tea production. The area is the home of rock teas such as Da Hong Pao and of Lapsang souchong, and early Western documents call it the Bohea Hills. Strictly protected since 1979, it was inscribed in 1999 for both culture and nature.
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