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Wuyuan County: One of China’s Most Beautiful Countrysides
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Transtlate Wuyuan, China's one of the most beautiful countrysides, is located in Shangrao city, northeast of Jiangxi Province. It came into being in 740 AD in the Tang Dynasty. It covers an area of 2947 square kilometers, with 18 towns and a population of about 330,000. It resembles a bright pearl embedded in the Huangshan-Wuyuan-Lushan golden tour line. Wuyuan is rich in natural recources, such as tea, forests, water, cultural and ecological-travel. Its local specialties abound in poached red carps, green tea, black dragon-tailed inkstones and Jiangwan snow-white pears.
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Its ancient Architectural complexes, trees, caves and culture add radiance and beauty to its green mountain, blue water and rural sceneries. Wuyuan has become a cultural, ecological and tourist center of the state and is famous for its beautiful scenery. The climate waries apparently from season to season. Thus the eco-environment in local is excellent. Forests take 82 percent of its area and the amount of living trees reaches 10 million cubic meters.
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Wuyuan is one of the sixteen most ecologically advanced agriculture counties is China. Like a large park, the county is praised as the "Last Shangri La". Wengong Hill, Yuanyan Lake (the Mandarin Duck Lake) and Linyan Cave are known as ecological wonders. There are also many well-preserved ancient villages like Jiangwan,likeng, Wangkou, Yan village, Sixi and Likeng. The Hui-style ancient Buildings with pink walls and black tiles, which are faintly visible amid the green hills and blue waters, make up a picturesque landscape depicting the symbiosis of man and nature.
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Wuyuan is the home village of 2,600 officials with over 2000 works of the Song to Qing dynasties, and is also famous as the homeland of scholars, two of whom are Zhu Xi, a reputed philospher in the South Song Dynasty and Zhan Tianyou, the Father of Railroads in China. There were 550 successful candidates all together from Wuyuan who had taken the highest imperial examinations in the past Hui Opera, the origin of Beijing Opera, the Luo Dance known as the "Dance Live Fossil", the folk garret-lifting art reputed for "A Unique in China"and the charming tea performance all make Wuyuan an attractive scenic spot.
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