Cultural sites within the zone include the original cultivation ground of the Da Hong Pao tea variety, and a villa retreat used by Zhu Xi, a Confucian revivalist scholar-official of the rump or Southern Song Empire.

South of the zone, just short of the City's border with Jianyang District, is a major archaeological excavation of the vanished State of Yue (越).

Not far from Wuyishan, the Jiyufang Laolong kiln (吉玉坊老龍窯), located in a village near the town of Shuiji, has been able to restart production of Jian ware using original clay.

[8] Due to wars, the early dominant ethnic groups in Wuyishan gradually declined and were assimilated by the Han Chinese.

According to the 6th National Census, there were 1,941 people from minority ethnic groups in Wuyishan, accounting for 0.83% of the total population.