Northeast Jiangxi

A classic tourism region in northeastern Jiangxi: Wuyuan's flower fields and ancient villages, Mount Sanqing's peaks, the porcelain capital of Jingdezhen and the Danxia landforms of Mount Longhu.

Northeast Jiangxi includes the three cities of Shangrao, Jingdezhen and Yingtan, and is known as Jiangxi's “golden tourism circle”. Wuyuan is “China's most beautiful countryside”: in spring, rapeseed blossoms at Jiangling and Huangling set off the whitewashed, gray-tiled houses, and in autumn the harvest-drying scenes at Huangling are the signature view. Mount Sanqing is a UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site, famous for its granite peak forest, including “Goddess of Spring” and “Giant Python Emerging from the Mountain”. Jingdezhen is the thousand-year-old porcelain capital, where Taoxichuan, the Imperial Kiln Museum and Sanbao International Ceramics Valley draw many young people to try pottery. Mount Longhu in Yingtan is the ancestral home of the Zhengyi school of Daoism and a World Heritage Danxia landform, where you can take a bamboo raft along the Luxi River. Newer attractions in Shangrao, such as Wangxian Valley and Gexian Village, are also very popular. A classic 5–6-day itinerary: Wuyuan (2 days) – Mount Sanqing (1–2 days) – Jingdezhen (1 day) – Mount Longhu (1 day). The Hefei–Fuzhou and Nanchang–Jingdezhen–Huangshan high-speed railways have stations at Wuyuan, Jingdezhen North and Shangrao. Weekends in rapeseed season are crowded, so book accommodation in advance. Northeast Jiangxi's cuisine is mainly Jiangxi style: Wuyuan's stuffed red carp, Jingdezhen's cold rice noodles and jiaozi cakes, and Shangrao's chicken-drumstick cakes are all worth trying. Combining ceramics workshops, sketching in ancient villages and mountain hiking has made this a popular weekend destination for visitors from the Yangtze River Delta.

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