Jiaozuo.

Jiaozuo lies at the southern foot of the Taihang Mountains, and its two best-known exports come from the same ridges. The first is water cut through quartz sandstone: the Yuntaishan UNESCO Global Geopark records a valley whose zigzag shape was carved over 2.6 million years, and whose red cliffs stand against a green river in Hongshixia. The second is movement: the UNESCO Representative List inscribed taijiquan in 2020, crediting a practice that took shape in the mid-seventeenth century in Wenxian County's Chenjiagou village, where the municipal government now keeps a temple, an ancestral grove, a boxing ground and a museum of the art within one scenic area. A third mountain, Shennongshan in Qinyang, carries the legend of the Divine Farmer who is said to have tasted herbs there. Together they make a city where geology, cultivation and ritual practice are written on the same short distances of road.