Popular Guangzhou Attractions
Can't decide how to spend your time in Guangzhou, the Capital city of Guangdong Province? Start with this list of Guangzhou City's most popular attractions to get started planning your trip to Guangzhou, China.
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Chen Family Temple
The Chen Family Temple was an ancestral temple of the Chen families in Guangdong Province. As a Chinese saying goes, "people of the same surname were in the same family 500 years ago." This adage is known to all in China and is certainly true as applied to the fact that people of the Chen families in the 72 counties of Guangdong Province jointly built this temple, in 1894 in the present-day Zhongshan Qi Road...
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Bright Filial Piety Temple
Among the historical sights in Guangzhou, Bright Filial Piety Temple (aka Guangxiao Temple) enjoys the longest history (more than 1500 years) and is the richest in cultural relics. Kaiyuan Temple in Chaozhou, Nanhua Temple in Shaoguan, and Qingyun Temple in Zhaoqing and Guangxiao Temple in Guangzhou are well known as the four most famous temples in Guangdong Province. As Cantonese put it, Guangxiao Temple comes befor...
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Temple of the Six Banyan Trees
The Temple of the Six Banyan Trees (aka Liurong Temple) in Guangzhou is a 1400－year－old Buddhist monastery, dating from 537AD during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, when Buddhism in China was in its prime. Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty in South China was the most zealous devotee of Buddhism among all the emperors throughout the history of China. At that time, a Buddhist priest called Tanyu, who was a maternal...
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Baomo Garden
Baomo Garden is located at Zini Village, Panyu District, Guangzhou City. It was first built in the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), ruined in 1957, and reconstructed in 1995. Now it covers an area of more than 66,600 square meters, and is a masterpiece of South China gardens and architectures. The garden, laid out properly, is crisscrossed with streams and more than 30 stone bridges. Finely made artistic works including...
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Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall
Situated in the original site of Sun Yat-sen's Presidential Office on the southern slope of Yuexiu Hill in Guangzhou, the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall is a memorial building completed in 1931 with the funds raised by the local people and overseas Chinese in memory of Sun Yat-sen, the pioneer of China's democratic revolution. Here was the original place where the governor's house of Guangdong and Guangxi provinc...
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Yuexiu Park
As the largest park in Guangzhou, Yuexiu Park covers 93 hectares including some well-known attractions like the Sculpture of the Five Rams, the Zhenhai Tower. More than one million trees have been planted over the Yuexiu Hill including cypresses, pines, kapoks, manoglias and some other 600 varieties of trees. The park also puts on chrysanthemum shows and flower exhibitions every spring and autumn.The Sculpture of...
