Wuyuan Stone City Travel Guide

Scenic spot introduction:

Wuyuan Stone City is a popular place for flower viewing and red leaves, and it is also an ancient village with a long history. As the birthplace of Ganjiang River, Shicheng is a place of natural treasures, beautiful scenery, and numerous places of interest. It is a place with "clear waters, mountains, and a gathering of humanities." Especially in autumn, the maple forests and villages amid the clouds and smoke are as beautiful as a fairyland and dreamlike, attracting a large number of photography enthusiasts and becoming a scenic spot on the hillside of Shicheng.

Attractions distribution:

Shicheng is located in Gutan Township in the northwest of Wuyuan County. It has rich cultural landscapes such as the Baofuyuan Tower, the Wulong Rock Carvings, the Yangfang Village Pavilion, the Yanling Yongning Bridge, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Young King Hongtian Guifu's Prison, and the Ancient Post Road. There are beautiful natural scenery such as Xihua Mountain, Ruri Mountain, Donghua Mountain, Tongtian Village, and Jigongdong. In addition to enjoying the scenery, tourists can also experience rafting at the source of the Ganjiang River and enjoy hot springs. It is a good choice for an original short trip.

Scenic spot features:

Leisure, vacation, sightseeing, photography, mountain climbing, hiking, worshiping Buddha, ancient towns, ancient buildings, historic sites, religion, mountains, forests, streams

Attraction Address

Tsinghua Town

Travel Guide

Travel Notes of Travellers:

Travel tips: Top 10 places to enjoy red leaves in late autumn in China
Travel Guide: Wuyuan Three-Day Travel Guide 2018

travelling guideline:

1. Appreciating rapeseed flowers before and after the Qingming Festival and admiring red leaves in autumn are the most beautiful seasons of the year.

2. Autumn photography guide:

(1) Best shooting time: from early November to early December every year, from 6:00 to 8:30 in the morning.

(2) Best shooting location: Generally choose to shoot on the hillside behind the village, with backlighting or side backlighting. When photographing Dai Village, you can choose to take aerial shots from the top of the hillside between the two villages. The smoke coming from Cheng Village floats to Dai Village in bursts, making it picturesque.

(3) Note: At this time of year, there are so many photographers that it is difficult to get a good spot if you don’t go early.

3. Every year on the 23rd and 24th of the seventh lunar month, people from all over the county will go to Baofuyuan Pagoda to worship the pagoda and temple.

Tour route:

1. Hiking route:

Shicheng → Changxi, the whole journey takes about four hours. Along the way, you can enjoy the original and peaceful village scenery, as well as maple trees, post roads, reservoirs, wooden bridges, etc.

More professional trekkers can hike from Changxi to Shicheng, which is more intense and challenging. Most of the travel friends who have passed by said that the trip was worthwhile.

2. Tongtian Village route:

(1) Water-friendly leisure tour route: Ailian Villa Fishing Area-Nangeng Reservoir Waterway → Dragonfly Spot Water Jungle-Longtan Waterfall- Acacia Forest → Cape of Good Hope → Dianjiang Terrace → Lotus Pond Strolling Plank Road - Farmhouse Experience Area

(2) Geological Research Tour Route: South Gate Entrance Square Yellow Powder Stone - Geological Museum - Danxia Geopark (Gateway of Life - Immortals plowing fields - stalagmites in the sky - turtles and longevity stones, etc.) - Lotus Research Institute

(3) Sports and leisure tour route: South Gate of Tongtian Village → Tortoise and Hare Playing - Thousands of Swords - Magpie Bridge - Dizang Rock - The turtle asks the sky - the river clam stone - the Buddha's palm rock - the lioness looks up to the sky - the boy worships Guanyin - the Bodhisattva sits in meditation - the fairy rock - the fairy's residence - the Tianlong Gorge - the eight parts of the Tianlong - the double coffin stone - the Eagle's Mouth Rock - the Luohao Peak - Thousand Buddha Danxia - Yumen Temple - Tongtian Rock - Immortal Plowing Fields - Sun of the Earth - Twelve Zodiac Wall → Beishan Gate

(4) Hakka Folklore Tour: Daye Hundred Acres Lotus Garden - Qing Dynasty Dai Hakka residence "Nanlu House" - Huang's Ancestral Hall - Yin's Ancestral Hall - Fengshui Forest → Changgengmen Ancient Battlefield Site - Yuyu Temple, an ancient temple in the Ming Dynasty - Qing Dynasty Tribute Tea Plantation - Wuxian Rock → Sword Testing Stone

Best time to visit:

Spring and Autumn

Shopping recommendations:

(Local specialties) green tea, Longwei inkstone, Jiangwan pear, Tsinghua Wu wine, Wuyuan wood carvings, and Jialu paper umbrella.

(Special delicacies) Red carp in purse, sweet and sour goose neck, fish with distiller's grains, paste tofu, Wuyuan steam cake, gray juice fruit.

(Hakka specialties) rice, sweet potatoes; chess pieces (Dongpo meat), meatballs and fishballs (a mixture of animal boneless meat and starch minced), fried fish, molded tofu (fermented bean curd) ), pickled beans, dried radish, pickles and various vegetables; Leicha, rice tea, rice wine, potato starch dumplings, rice noodles, etc.

Tourist Transportation

Scenic spot location:

China>Jiangxi Province>Shangrao City>Wuyuan County>Qinghua Town

How to get there:

Bus route: You can take a long-distance bus from Shangrao to Wuyuan, and then take a minibus from Wuyuan to Gutan at Wuyuan North Bus Station; or take a bus from Wuyuan to Qinghua Town or Zhangshan Township, and then charter a car to go there.

Self-driving route:

1. Depart from Jingdezhen, drive along the Hangrui Expressway, exit from Fuchun/Zhentou/S308, and head towards Fuchun/Zhentou/Yuanyang Lake/S308 Turn right; drive along S304, pass Wangkeng → Huangjia → Huangtian.

2. Depart from Shangrao, enter Dechang Expressway via S201, turn left toward Wuyuan/Huangshan/G56 and enter Dewu Expressway; turn right toward Jiangwan/Huangshan/G56 and enter Hangrui Expressway , leave from the Wuyuan/Tsinghua/Dazhangshan exit; pass through Sikou Village → Qinghua Bridge → Huangjia → Huangtian.