Wuyuan Ancient Town

Hanging on a cliffside, this Huizhou-style village spreads round trays of drying harvest across its roofs, above terraces of golden rapeseed blossom.

Streams run past every home in Likeng, where bluestone paths link dozens of timber and stone bridges with Ming and Qing houses in a picture-perfect village.

Raised under Emperor Qianlong, the Yu clan shrine has beams and brackets covered in openwork carvings of figures, birds and flowers, earning fame as the finest shrine in Jiangnan.

Within a national 5A scenic area, Jiangwan produced many jinshi and Hanlin scholars, and its imposing Sanxing Hall and clan shrine reflect that learned heritage.

In 1176, Zhu Xi returned to ancestral Wuyuan to visit family and tend ancestral graves, with a tradition associating him with fir planting at Wengong Mountain.

The Wangkou Yu Ancestral Shrine is a Qing-era ancestral hall within Wuyuan's protected shrine group and a national-level heritage site.