The Website Of Wuyishan City

　　Wuyi Mountain is an example of natural landscapes and historical figures and cultural landscapes in perfect harmony.

　　The excavation of the ruins of Min Yue Royal Cepital City opens a glorious page of Wuyi Mountain's history. The ruins cover an area of 480000 square meters. It is the best preserved and intact ancient city ruins in the Western Han Dynasty with most historical relics ever found in south of the Yangtze River. As early as more than 4000years ago, the ancient Min Yue people laboured and lived here. Gradually, the "ancient Min Yue" culture in the remote southeastern China and the subsequent culture of the "Min yue Nationality" is formed. The remained boat-shaped coffins suspended from cliffs reveal the peculiar funeral customs of the ancient Min Yue people. The suspended coffins with the longest history ever found at home and abroad –- Wuyi boat – shaped coffins – are the most valuable materials for the study of the history in the pre-Qin period and the vanished ancient Min Yue Nationality's culture. Wuyi Mountain is another famous mountain rich in ideological culture after Mount Taishan in China. "The Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-256 B.C) produces Confucius and there is Zhu Xi in the southern Song Dynasty (1127—1279). The ancient Chinese culture was born in Mount Taishan and Wuyi Mountain." The remarks of Cai Shangsi, the well-known scholar, reveal the origin and status of Wuyi Mountain's history and culture. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the famous Chinese philosopher, thinker and educationist Zhu Xi once lived, wrote books, gave lectures here for more than 50 years and created the Confucian school of idealist philosophy in the Song Dynasty, which constituted half of the ancient Chinese culture and made Wuyi become the cultural center in Southeastern China at that time. In addition, other historical figures such as Li Shangyun, Yang Shi, Fan Zhongyan, Lu You, Xin Qiji, Liu Yong, Xu Xiake and Qi Jiguang,all left treasured pieces of calligraphy or painting in praise of Wuyi Mountain. There are still over 400 identifiable historical inscriptions on precipices in Wuyi Mountain.
　　Wuyi Mountain is also famous for its religious culture incorporating Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, Wuyi Mountain has been granted by the imperial courts the title of famous Mountain and River in China and it has become a place yearned for and visited by celebrities and Buddhist monks from all over the country. More than 300 Buddhist and Taoist temples, palaces, academies of classical learning , pavilions, terraces and open halls have been built, which witness the historical glories and vicissitudes of Wuyi Mountain.
　　"Grown by the celestial being in the ancient time, the precious tea-plant by the streamside is the best in the world." The Wuyi Rock Tea has enjoyed a long history and a worldwide reputation for its unique rock tea flavor and traditional tea culture. The rock tea is the primordium of the Oolong tea, one of the top ten famous teas in China. It is the landmark in the development of tea industry, and Wuyi Mountain is entitled "The Hometown of Chinese Tea Culture."
The combination of rich folklore culture and abundant tourist resources in Wuyi Mountain, full of life and extraordinary splendor, creates a wonderful picture of regional culture.

The History of Zhuxi's Neo-Confucianism
　　Wuyi Mountains was the cradle of Zhuxi's Neo-Confucianism, and it's popularly known as "the hub of Neo-Confucianism in the South China". Zhuxi was thought as a greatest adeologist, philosopher and educator after Confucius and he himself was also the representative of Confucianism. Zhuxi set up academies and he had lived, written and taught here for over 50 years, thus making Wuyi Mount the "center for Neo-Confucianism for three Dynasties of Song, Yuan, Ming". From Zhiyan Academy in Wufu to Wuyi Academy under the Hidden Screen Peak, Wuyi Mountains saw remains of the culture of Neo-Confucianism all over the place.
　　Since its formation in Chunxi Reign in Song Dynasty, Neo-Confucianism had been lasting over 700 years to thirty-first year of Guanxu Reign in Qing Dynasty. During his life time Zhuxi wrote a great many of poems and essays. Some of them are quite famous and influential even nowadays. Among them are "The Collection of Works By Zhuxi" and "Notes from Zhuxi ". The famous historian CaiShansi once said; "There was a Confucius in East—Zhou Dynasty, while in South-Song Dynasty there was Zhuxi. The ancient Chinese culture found the origin both in Taishan Mount and Wuyi Mount."

Liu Yong—the master of "Romantic School" Ci-poems in Song Dynasty
　　Liu Yong, first named as "San Bian", with another name of "Jiqing"' later changed to "Yong". As he was the seventh son in the family, he had also been called as Liu Qi.(Seven).He was born in about 98 A.D during North Song Dynasty in Wufuli in WuyiShan in Fujian (Now in Shanmei County in Wuyishan City). He once served as the royal officer of Tuntian, thus people sometimes called him Liu Tutian.
　　He devoted all his life to Ci-poem writing, themed on the city views and women singers' life. He was especially good at describing traveling life and its fellings. He was well learned and informed and was also popularly thought as the Master of The "Romantis School". His works, The Collection of Poems includes about 200 poems. But he died depressed in 1053 A.D during Huanyou Reign in North_Song Dynasty. At that time he was about 74 years old.
　　Liu Yong spent his childhood in Wuyi Mountains. He studied very hard. He often burned candles late into the night for his reading and writing. The villagers named the place where he studied as the "Candle Mount" and "Brush Crate Mount". He like to visit Wuyi Mountains together with his friends. He once went to Chongyou Temple, writing a poem about its scenery, which was inscribed in the Curtain Pavilion Peak in Wuyi Mount. His poems spoke highly of wuyi's wonders and its majestic mountains and water. Liu Yong wrote the magnificent scenery into his beautiful fairy tales. The poems well express the young poet's knowledge, imaginations, and the deep love for his homeland. Even now people in his hometown still regard him as "a magic poet under the Goose Peak".

The Ancient Minyue Royal City
　　The Minyue Royal City is also popularly known as "the Ancient Han city", "the Min Royal city". It is situate at the 24 km away from the south of Wuyi Gong. The city was first built in 202 B.C when Wuzhu, the King of Minyue Kindom was bestowed with the land by Liu Ban,the first Emperor of Han Dynasty. The total area of the royal city covered 480000 km2. It was built on the mountains surrounded by waters. The city wall was 2896meters long, even now the outline of the city wall can be recognized easily. On the wall there were built city towers,beacon towers, and observation towers,and outside there were official buildings, houses, malls and graves.The "Royal palace site" in the city center was found to be featured by the enclosed complex palaces with the compact layout and good patterns. Its architectural style resembled that of Qin and Han Dynasties. But its patterns of houses were unique with the typical local style and culture. The Minyue Royal city is the best preserved Han Dynasty city in China, and it is also an important component of the world's cultural heritage in Wuyi Mountains. It serves as a window to the lost ancient civilization in Fujian.

The Mystery of "Boat-coffin" in Wuyi Mountains
　　The "Boat-coffins" in Wuyi mountains can be dated back to about 3800---4000 years ago. It is the originating place of the "Boat-coffins" because of its special geographic environment and cultural history. Geographically, Wuyi mountains enjoy many high peaks, winding water, deep valleys and steep cliffs, thus forming different sizes of caves. Some are wide and round like bee cells, some like cracks are long and narrow and still others with irregular sizes of rectangles, triangles and so on. Some are deep while some shallw. These different sizes and shapes of caves not only make them mysterious but also make them the good place for "Boat-coffins".
The Boat-coffin culture is the living fossil of Wuyi history. Drifting down the Nine-bend River you'll find the "fairy boats" in the crevice high up on the cliffs on the banks. They are the cultural heritage sites and play a great role in the research of ethnics, history and archeology.