Kǔzhúpài

Kuzhupai was an East River settlement in the Huizhou region of eastern Guangdong, associated with present-day Guzhu. The river linked inland communities with Huizhou and the coast, while cultivated valleys and wooded slopes supplied local households. A station existed here under the Yuan, and a water-post was established at Kuzhupai market in the early Ming.

The settlement remained a point of transfer between water and land routes. In 1687 the scholar Qu Dajun travelled upriver from Huizhou to Kuzhupai before continuing inland. Its history shows the importance of river transport to local markets and to journeys across the hills of eastern Guangdong.