Is Wuyuan part of Huizhou?

Historically yes — it was one of the six counties of Huizhou prefecture and shares its architecture and culture. Administratively it has been part of Jiangxi since 1949.

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Shangrao

上饶 (Shàngráo)

Sanqingshan, Wuyuan villages and the northern Wuyi

Shangrao is a prefecture-level city in north-eastern Jiangxi bordering Zhejiang, Fujian and Anhui. Its territory holds the World Heritage granite peaks of Sanqingshan, the northern Wuyi range added to the Mount Wuyi World Heritage site in 2017, the Danxia landscape of Guifeng, and the Huizhou-style villages of Wuyuan.

ProvinceJiangxi

Key facts

Province: Jiangxi
Administrative level: Prefecture-level city
Area: about 22,791 km²[1]
Resident population: 6.49 million(as of 2020 census)[2]
UNESCO World Heritage: Sanqingshan (2008); China Danxia – Guifeng (2010); Mount Wuyi extension (2017)[3]

Overview

Shangrao sits in the Xin River valley between the Huaiyu Mountains to the north and the Wuyi Mountains to the south, on the natural route from Zhejiang into Jiangxi. The Song poet Xin Qiji spent many years in retirement near the city.

Its counties hold some of Jiangxi's best-known landscapes and villages: Sanqingshan in Yushan and Dexing, the Huizhou-style villages of Wuyuan, which belonged to Anhui's Huizhou until 1934 and again briefly in 1947–1949, and the red cliffs of Guifeng in Yiyang.

Names and nicknames

信州 (Xìnzhōu)
Name of the Tang–Song prefecture on the Xin River; now the central district.
上乘富饶 (shàngchéng fùráo)
“supremely rich”
The popular explanation of the city's name.

History

Xinzhou prefecture was established in 758. Xin Qiji lived at Daihu near the city from 1181. Zhu Xi's ancestral home was Wuyuan. In the Ming the region's Guangxin prefecture produced paper and was a centre of the book trade. Wuyuan was transferred to Jiangxi in 1934 and definitively in 1949.

758
Xinzhou prefecture
Established by the Tang on the Xin River.
1181
Xin Qiji retires to Daihu
The poet wrote many of his rural ci poems during two decades near Shangrao.
1934 and 1949
Wuyuan joins Jiangxi
The former Huizhou county was placed under Jiangxi, returned briefly to Anhui, and rejoined Jiangxi in 1949.
2008
Sanqingshan inscribed
Mount Sanqingshan National Park became a natural World Heritage site.

Landmarks

Nature
Sanqingshan
三清山 (Sānqīng Shān)
Granite pillars such as the Goddess Peak and the Python Rock, reached by cliff-side walkways, with a Daoist temple complex.
Nature
Guifeng
龟峰 (Guīfēng)
Red sandstone hills shaped like turtles, part of the China Danxia World Heritage site.
Historic site
Likeng
李坑 (Lǐkēng)
Wuyuan village of the Li clan along a stream.
Historic site
Huangling
篁岭 (Huánglǐng)
Hillside village known for sun-drying crops on its rooftops in autumn.

Neighbourhoods

Wuyuan
婺源 (Wùyuán)
County of white-walled villages, tea gardens and spring rapeseed fields.

Food

Wuyuan tofu paste
婺源糊豆腐 (Wùyuán hú dòufu)
Diced tofu cooked into a thick soup with rice flour and vegetables.
Poyang crab
鄱阳湖大闸蟹 (Póyáng Hú dàzháxiè)
Mitten crab from the eastern shore of the lake in Poyang county.
Wuyuan green tea
婺源绿茶 (Wùyuán lǜchá)
Green tea from the misty hills of Wuyuan.

Culture

Shangrao straddles cultural borders: Wuyuan belongs to the Huizhou world of clan villages and carved houses, the east to the Wu-speaking borderlands with Zhejiang, and the rest to Gan culture. Gan opera and the Yiyang singing style (弋阳腔), one of the four great singing styles of Ming drama, originated in its counties.

Getting around

Shangrao station is a junction of the Shanghai–Kunming and Hefei–Fuzhou high-speed lines; Wuyuan and Sanqingshan also have stations or bus links.
Shangrao Sanqingshan Airport serves domestic routes.

Day trips

Longhushan
龙虎山 (Lónghǔ Shān)
Danxia mountain in neighbouring Yingtan, seat of the Celestial Masters of Daoism, with hanging coffins in the cliffs.
Northern Wuyi (Yanshan)
武夷山 (Wǔyí Shān)
Forested range around Huanggang Shan, part of the Mount Wuyi World Heritage site since 2017.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

Shangrao Municipal People's Government — Shangrao Municipal People's Government (retrieved 27 September 2026)
Seventh National Population Census communiqués — National Bureau of Statistics of China (retrieved 27 September 2026)
Mount Sanqingshan National Park — UNESCO World Heritage Centre (retrieved 27 September 2026)

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