WudangshanTravel Budget Guide

A highland tea of northwestern Hubei steeped in Wudang's Daoist culture, once a Ming-dynasty tribute tea, a regional brand uniting Taiji wellness with Daoist tea craft.

A Daoist vegetarian banquet made from Wudang's wild mountain produce, famed for its "vegetarian made as meat" craft and rooted in Daoist ideas of natural simplicity and food-as-medicine.

A century-old noodle-soup snack of Yunyang in Shiyan, uniting sweet-potato vermicelli, sliced beef and beef dumplings in a robust ox-bone broth.

A traditional flatbread of the Shiyan area in northwestern Hubei, baked in a wood-fired oven until crisp outside and soft within, a daily staple of the region.

A fine citrus grown in the Danjiangkou reservoir area around Mount Wudang, thin-skinned and juicy with a balanced sweet-acid taste, a famed local fruit of the Wudang region.

One of China's two great martial-arts traditions, said to be founded by the late-Yuan Wudang Daoist Zhang Sanfeng, using softness to overcome hardness and training body and spirit together; a first-batch national ICH item from 2006.

The old Daoist tea-firing craft handed down on Wudangshan, which once produced Ming-dynasty tribute tea; a Hubei provincial ICH item in traditional skills.

The Daoist temple music handed down through Wudang's monasteries for centuries, uniting song, dance and instruments; a national ICH treasure of traditional music.

A traditional folk gathering at Wudangshan that grew from pilgrims' incense-offering journeys, held twice a year with the lunar-third-month-third fair the grandest; a national ICH item.

A thousand-year Daoist medical tradition of Wudang, rising in the Qin-Han and flowering in the Ming, with its unique "four ones" therapy; a Hubei provincial ICH item.