Muyu (; literally, " Wooden fish"; sometimes also , Muyuping) is a

town A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...

Shennongjia Shennongjia Forestry District ( zh, s=神农架林区, p=Shénnóngjià Línqū) is a county-level administrative unit (a "forestry district") in northwestern Hubei province, People's Republic of China, directly subordinated to the provincial gover ...

Forestry District, in the west of

Hubei Hubei is a province of China, province in Central China. It has the List of Chinese provincial-level divisions by GDP, seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland ...

province, People's Republic of China. Located on China National Highway 209, 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 Eurasia and the third-longest in the world. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and flows including Dam Qu River the longest source of the Yangtze, i ...

. The river valley is paralleled by China National Highway 209. 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 ( zh, s= ), Postal Map Romanization, alternatively romanized as Ichang, is a prefecture-level city located in western Hubei province, China. Yichang had a population of 3.92 million people at the 2022 census, making it the third most pop ...

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

Muyu Muyu may refer to: * Muyu people, an indigenous ethnic group of Western New Guinea ** Muyu language * Wooden fish (), an Asian percussion instrument usually associated with Buddhist monks * Muyu, Hubei (), a town of Shennongjia, Hubei, China * Muyu ...

(), Qingtian ()

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