Huizhou villages inside Jiangxi
Wuyuan belongs to Jiangxi and to the Huizhou culture at once, and saying which is which is the first job of a reader.
Shangrao.
Shangrao covers the east of Jiangxi, where the Xin and the Rao rivers run west to Poyang Lake, and where the ranges of Zhanggong in the north, Huaiyu in the middle and Wuyi in the south-east meet, the last of them carrying the province's highest peak. The prefecture holds three very different Jiangxi places: the granite sanctuary of Sanqingshan, the Huizhou villages of Wuyuan, and the Ehu Academy where Zhu Xi argued with his opponents. The border with Zhejiang and Fujian is close enough to feel.
Shangrao
Granite, and two hundred buildings with no walls
Sanqingshan is a granite massif with three named peaks, and a Daoist settlement that runs along its upper path in the open air.
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The argument at Ehu
In 1175, Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan met at Ehu for a philosophical debate about how people come to know things.
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Wuyuan
A county in Jiangxi that belongs to the Huizhou culture, with white walls, black tiles and bridges over water.
Sanqingshan
A granite mountain of three peaks that is also an open-air museum of Daoist building.
Ehu Academy
A Southern Song academy where Zhu Xi, Lü Zuqian, Lu Jiuling and Lu Jiuyuan met to argue in 1175.
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A canal lined with whitewashed Huizhou houses in Hongcun, Wuyuan County, Shangrao.Siyuwj / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗
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Granite pillars and forested slopes at Sanqingshan, Shangrao, with the visitor path in the foreground.xiquinhosilva / CC BY 2.0 · CC BY 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗
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Ehu Academy's lecture hall in Yanshan, with an open front, stone courtyard and calligraphy plaques.Doctoroftcm — Ehu shuyuan 0241.jpg / CC BY-SA 3.0 · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Converted proportionally to WebP for display and thumbnail; no cropping, retouching or upscaling. The image retains the source license.
