Situated at the 12 km spot southeastern of Mountain Wuyi City, the ancient Xiamei Village was the key distributing center for tea industry during the glorious period of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty.

There is an artificial canal over 900 m flowing across the village, which carried 300 boats daily without cease in the Qing Dynasty (in Cong'an County Records). As a result of the booming tea trade, local residents became rich and they built-up alcoves, railings, beauty's supports, the ancient streets, wells, docks, buildings, villages, bazaars as well as the harmony folk custom made Xiamei Village a typical water-town sight-seeing site in south China. Besides, those ancient buildings combined brick-carving, stone-carving and wooden-carving together, making it primitive simple and full of local custom atmosphere.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Xiamei went into its peak period for development. Four brothers of Family Zhou in Xiamei Village were the richest at that time, so they built up more than 70 luxury houses. By and then, other families such as Fan, Chen, Yue and Chen also constructed their own buildings, thus creating the large building groups in the village. It is true that the main function of buildings was for living, but they also considered other functional areas for education, meeting, recreation and so on. The significant Ming & Qing Dynasties style of buildings proves that there was a developed economy in the glorious period of Kang-Qian in the Qing Dynasty.

Xiamei Village is the well-known cultural village in the history of China and one of the fifth-batch key cultural reserves in Fujian province, as well as the important part of Cultural Heritages of the World in Mountain Wuyi.

Mountain Mangdang is a provincial scenic spot and historical site as well as a science research and exploration base for Chinese teenagers. Located in the northwestern part of Nanping City, 15 kilometers away from downtown of Nanping, it is a natural scenic area consisted mainly of geographical cultural landscapes.

The scenic area, covering a total area of 117 square kilometers, consists of Xiyuan Canyon, Mountain Shifo, ancient road with 3800-ridge, Mountain Lotus, Mengtongyang, Heaven Lake, and Baozhu Scenic Spot. The highest peak has an altitude of 1,363 meters, which is a part of Wuyi Range. The forest coverage rate of Mountain Mangdang reaches 87.3%. There are more than 2,000 types of higher plants and the amount of tree species is two times than that of Europe. It is a well-known place for collecting specimens for many kinds of animals and plants under special state protection.

Tiancheng Rock Scenic Area is a national forest park located in Shangjiafang Town in the southwest of Shaowu City, covering an area of 1.2 square kilometers.

The scenic area is of Danxia landform, dotted with thousands of unique peaks and strange stones, such as Crest Mountain, Snail Peak, Lion Peak, Turtle Rock, A Ray of Sunlight, Immortal Bathing Pond, etc. There is an 8-kilometer long stream with irregular width and depth. It is as low as ten-plus centimeters somewhere and as high as six meters elsewhere. The banks are covered with lush plants and the ecological environment there is extremely good.

Chengcun Ancient City in Han Dynasty Scenic Area is a national key cultural relics protection unit located 1 kilometers away from Chengcun Village, Xingtian Town, Mountain Wuyi City.

The Ruins of Ancient City in Han Dynasty is in the shape of a rectangle, 860 meters long from the south to the north and 550 meters wide from the east to the west, covering a total area of 480,000 square meters. The walls, built along the mountain, are 4-8 meters high. Three accesses can be found in the eastern wall and western wall, which were city gates in ancient times. Outside the city wall, there is a trench protecting the city. Quite many ruins for imperial palaces, buildings, battalions, residential areas, places for iron smelting and pottery making and tombs have been excavated. The ruins for imperial palaces on high platform in the center include gate, courtyard, main palace, side palace, rooms, skylight, drainage pipes, etc. The buildings are facing the south, bilaterally symmetric and precisely laid out. They are “pillared style architecture” which is unique in the south of the Yangtze River, totally different from the layout of the cities in other plain areas. The drainage system in the ancient city took advantage of natural slopes and ditches, and rain and sewage were drained separately. The unearthed 40,000 cultural relics are in strong Han Dynasty style, which proves that more than 2,000 years ago, Fujian boasted high level smelting, founding and pottery making skill.

Wan Mu Lin is one of the earliest nature reserves established in 1957 in China. It has a good name of “the museum of subtropical forest” and is a model for forest and environment protection in the world. It is called “a precious natural heritage left by ancestors” by UNESCO officers and professors. Since the ancient times, Wan Mu Lin has been enclosed and protected for 600 years. It has naturally evolved into subtropical evergreen forest with unique features. According to statistics, there are 161 families of vascular plants belonged to 581 genuses and 1,271 species, accounting for up to 94.2% of all the plants in the nature reserve, 24 types of 2nd grade plants under state protection and 16 under special protection of Fujian Province, 22 types of wild animals under special state protection and 11 under special protection of Fujian Province, 207 under general protection and as well as 141 types of birds.