Muyu (; literally, "

Wooden fish A wooden fish, also known as a Chinese temple block, wooden bell, or ''muyu'', is a type of woodblock that originated from East Asia that is used by monks and lay people in the Mahayana tradition of Buddhism. They are used by Buddhist ceremonie ...

"; sometimes also , Muyuping) is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

Shennongjia Shennongjia Forestry District () is a county-level administrative unit (a "forestry district") in northwestern Hubei province, People's Republic of China, directly subordinated to the provincial government. It occupies in western Hubei, and, as of ...

Forestry District, in the west of

Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The prov ...

province, People's Republic of China. Located on

China National Highway 209 China National Highway 209 (G209) runs from Sonid Left Banner, Inner Mongolia to Beihai, Guangxi province. It is 3,435 kilometres in length and runs south from Huhhot towards Shanxi province, Henan province, Hubei province, Hunan province, and ...

, it is the main population and services center of the southern part of the district. The town is stretched along the upper course of Xiang Stream (Xiang Xi) (or perhaps one of its tributaries), which flows from Shennongjia mountains southeast toward the

Yangtze The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest river in Asia, the third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains (Tibetan Plateau) and flows ...

. The river valley is paralleled by

. Serving as the natural "gateway" to Shennongjia National Nature ReserveShennongjia, Home to the Wild Men?
2007-06-15. Retrieved 2009-10-04. (the entry to which is at Yazikou Junction, some north of Muyu), Muyu and its vicinity is the location of most of the hotels and tourist services in the southern part of Shennongjia. Regular minibus service connects it to

Yichang Yichang (), alternatively romanized as Ichang, is a prefecture-level city located in western Hubei province, China. It is the third largest city in the province after the capital, Wuhan and the prefecture-level city Xiangyang, by urban populati ...

and Maoping (

Zigui County Zigui County () is a county of western Hubei province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Yichang and encompasses the easternmost portion of the Yangtze River Gorges, including the Xiling Gor ...

). There is also less-regular shuttle van service north, to Songbai town (the seat of government of Shennongjia District) and

Shiyan Shiyan () is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hubei, China, bordering Henan to the northeast, Chongqing to the southwest, and Shaanxi to the north and west. At the 2020 census, its population was 3,209,004 of whom 1,033,407 lived in the b ...

; but the road north (beyond Yazikou Junction) is still "unimproved" (as of 2009), and, moreover, that part of Shennongjia is closed to foreigners.

Administrative Divisions

Residential communities: * Muyuping (), Honghuaping (), Xiangxiyuan () Villages: * Honghuaping (), Sanduihe (), Laojunshan (), Chaoshuihe (),

Qingfeng Qingfeng County is a county located in the northeast of Henan province, bordering the provinces of Hebei to the northwest and Shandong to the east. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Puyang. In the Han Dynasty, Dunqiu ...

(), Shennongtan (),

Muyu Muyu may refer to: * Muyu people, an indigenous ethnic group of Western New Guinea **Muyu language Muyu, Moyu,Zahrer, Alexander. 2019. ''First data of Moyu, a lowland Ok language of New Guinea''. 11th International Austronesian and Papuan Langua ...

(),

Qingtian Qingtian (), is a county in southeastern Zhejiang Province, on the middle-lower reaches of the Ou River which flows 388 kilometers (241 mi) before finally reaching the city of Wenzhou and emptying into the East China Sea. The county is known ...

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Gallery

File:Muyu-main-street-evening-5236.jpg, In the evening in Muyu's main street File:VM 5276 Muyu hills tea fields.jpg, The town nestles in a mountain valley whose slopes are covered with forests and tea plantations File:VM 5242 Muyu tea fields.jpg, Harvesting tea leaves, on a slope right above the hotel area File:VM 5299 Muyu slopes.jpg, A small farmstead on the hill slopes just outside the town

References

Shennongjia Township-level divisions of Hubei {{Hubei-geo-stub