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Yueyin Wanchuan Yinping in Wuyishan is a 7,000-square-metre residential demonstration landscape developed by Yango Group's Fujian region and designed by Chongqing Woya Landscape Planning, built by Fujian Sen tailan. The site lies at the foot of Wuyi Mountain, beside the Chongyang Stream. Wuyi is one of China's three famous mountains of religion, historically a retreat for Daoists, Buddhists and Confucian scholars, and Fujian's most famous peak and tea country; tea and tourism are the city's two calling cards. The project, about five kilometres from Wuyishan city centre near the airport and East Railway Station, hopes to recover within Wuyi's scenery the natural and Zen calm that a modern city cannot offer. The design aspires to break the red-line boundary and connect emotionally with the wider Wuyi landscape, rebuilding a restrained, layered Zen-tea retreat where entry, walking, viewing and dwelling immerse visitors in the beauty of the mountains. The entry extends to the municipal road as an open, orderly forecourt; a gatehouse of spare lines frames a Zen grove in which the moon rises and sets among the trees. Between gate and sales pavilion, the Nine-Bend Stream of Wuyi is abstracted into a winding bamboo path that narrows the view and creates curiosity, with warm candlelight among the bamboo and a glimpse of roof at the end. Beyond the corridor lies a clear water courtyard, its square pool reflecting lit trees while the Wuyi range rolls in the distance; a pot of rock tea and a cup of moonlight make the autumn evening an ideal place for meditation. From the sales pavilion platform, visitors look out over the peaks, and the mountain-and-moonlight calm washes away the noise of the city. The back yard opens as a quiet lawn and stepping-stone path, with a model courtyard that continues the Zen-tea theme: fireflies, a moon, half a pot of tea. The whole scheme returns to local cultural roots, fusing surrounding environment with the site and using spatial contraction and expansion to carry emotion through an exploratory sequence.