Get to know Huize County
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- Administrative area
- County · 县
- Part of
- Qujing
- Chinese name
- 会泽县
- Local areas
- County guide
Area & population
- Area in the source
- 5,093.00 km²
Source: cited geographic source, as of the dates shown.
History
The county government credits Huize with the white copper (baitong) exported along the Silk Road in the Three Kingdoms and Jin periods. Under the Ming, Dongchuan prefecture (东川府) cast the square-holed Jiajing Tongbao (嘉靖通宝) to mark the lighting of a furnace; the county government describes it as the world's largest, heaviest and thickest old coin. Under the Qing, 6.3314 million jin of copper a year was set for shipment to Beijing, 64 percent of the national total.
What to see
Huize Old Town (会泽古城), a 3A scenic area, keeps 36 of the 108 guild halls, temples and ancestral halls that merchant associations from other provinces built here in the Ming and Qing; the county government calls it the county town with the most guild halls in China. Its flagstone streets carry deep hoof prints that recall the copper caravans.
Dahai Grass Mountain (大海草山), a 4A scenic area 42 km south-west of the county town in Dahai township (大海乡), is high grassland at 3,500–4,017 m on the Wumeng Mountains (乌蒙山), grazed by sheep, with an outdoor ski field. The Yulu earth crack (雨碌大地缝), a 4A scenic area 61 km south-east in Yulu township (雨碌乡), is a slot gorge formed by the rise and fall of the earth's crust. Inside a crack more than 10 km long, light enters only as a strip from several hundred metres above, with karst caves and waterfalls along the way. The county government lists it as China's longest and narrowest. Baiwu village (白雾村) in Nagu town (娜姑镇), 19 km north-west, was a post station on the copper route and has more than 2,000 traditional houses and 24 Ming and Qing sites including guild halls, temples, old bridges and caravan inns; it became a national historic and cultural village in 2005.
Food and local products
Huize mottled copper (会泽斑铜) craft, with more than 300 years of history, was put on the national intangible heritage list in 2008. Local produce named by the county government includes Yanshui pomegranates (盐水石榴), Daibu strawberries (待补草莓), Shuicheng baozhu pears (水城宝珠梨) and Leye chillies (乐业辣椒); banquets include the pork "old eight bowls" (猪肉老八碗), and snacks include buckwheat cakes, xidoufen pea porridge (稀豆粉) and Baiwu jelly (白雾凉粉).
Highlights
- Huize Old Town 会泽古城: 36 surviving Ming and Qing guild halls, temples and ancestral halls of the copper trade.
- Dahai Grass Mountain 大海草山: 4A grassland at 3,500-4,017 m on the Wumeng Mountains, with a ski field.
- Yulu earth crack 雨碌大地缝: 4A slot gorge more than 10 km long, formed by crustal movement.
- Baiwu village 白雾村: Copper-route post station with Ming and Qing buildings; national historic village since 2005.
- Huize mottled copper 会泽斑铜: Craft on the national intangible heritage list since 2008.
Sources for this guide
会泽风光-会泽县人民政府门户网站 · Huize County People's Government
会泽风光-会泽县人民政府门户网站 · Huize County People's Government
会泽风光-会泽县人民政府门户网站 · Huize County People's Government
会泽风光-会泽县人民政府门户网站 · Huize County People's Government
会泽县 - 维基百科，自由的百科全书 · Chinese Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
Original English written from the listed sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer. Updated 2026-09-25.
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Places to explore around Huize County
A dusk view over the tiled roofscape of Huize Old Town, Huize County · 会泽古城黄昏俯瞰，会泽县 Source-recorded photograph date: 2004-05-05.Huize Ancient City会泽古城
Huize's old town is a national historic-cultural city in Huize County, Qujing, its guild halls raised by merchants and prefectures from other provinces during the Ming and Qing, when Huize was the central government's main supplier of coinage copper.
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An aerial view of a snow-covered mountain massif: white ridges and dark rock running across the middle of the frame, wooded slopes and a valley with villages and fields below, cloud lying in the valleys and a clear deep blue sky above.Dahai Grass Mountain大海草山
Dahai Grass Mountain spreads across high slopes in the Wumeng range near Huize. Rounded meadow hills, grazing animals and small streams give it a pastoral character, while the distant Guniuzhai peak marks the higher mountain…
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Yulu Grand Fissure · 雨碌大地缝Yulu Grand Fissure雨碌大地缝
Yulu Grand Fissure is a 10-kilometre rock fissure in Yulu township, Huize County, Qujing, formed over more than 100 million years of crustal movement, now a national AAAA-grade scenic area.
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Getting there
Huize County is about 115 km in a straight line from central Qujing. Search for 会泽县 in a map app to find stations and your accommodation.
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Sources & geographic information
Administrative names and parent areas: Official geographic directory · Reference date 2026-09-06.
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