Wuyi Mountain Tea Region

The soul of Mount Wuyi's Danxia scenery, the clear jade-green Nine-Bend Stream winds past thirty-six peaks and ninety-nine crags.

On a sheer cliff grow the six mother trees of Da Hong Pao, king of Chinese teas, at the heart of Wuyi rock-tea heritage and its traditional craft.

Regarded as the birthplace of Lapsang Souchong, the first black tea, Tongmuguan keeps highland gardens where old wild tea bushes grow among bamboo.

Called the roof of mainland East China, Huanggangshan protects one of the largest and best-preserved mid-subtropical native forests at its latitude.

Part of Wuyi Mountain Tea Region's history: Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism. Southern Song Neo-Confucian whose Collected Commentaries on the Four Books became the set text of the civil examinations from the Yuan onward

Part of Wuyi Mountain Tea Region's history: Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism. Southern Song Confucian teacher known as Master Xiangshan, who held that the mind is principle and argued with Zhu Xi at Goose Lake in 1175

Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism

The official ideology that shaped East Asian intellectual elite's spiritual world for seven centuries.

In 1183 Zhu Xi established Wuyi Jingshe at Mount Wuyi, teaching and writing there and making the academy a physical center of his Neo-Confucian learning.

During the Ming period, Tongmuguan developed the pine-smoked Zhengshan Xiaozhong tradition, an important source in black-tea history.