Maoyuan is located at No. 2 Jiangnan South Road, Dongshan Subdistrict, Yuexiu District. It is an important modern historical site and representative building. It is listed as one of the ninth batch of Guangzhou Municipal Cultural Relics Protection Units. …
The Guangdong Overseas Chinese Museum is a public welfare category I institution directly under the Guangdong Provincial Overseas Chinese Affairs Office. It is the only provincial-level professional overseas Chinese museum in China. The foundation stone was laid in 1995, construction was completed in 2002, and the museum opened to the public in November 2009. It currently houses a collection of over 4,000 items (sets). In 2010, it was designated as a Guangdong Provincial Base for the Inheritance of Chinese Culture...
Ersha Island is an island in the middle of the Pearl River, located between the Guangzhou Bridge and the Haiyin Bridge. Surrounded by water on all sides, the island boasts beautiful scenery and a pleasant environment. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, it has been a sports training base for Guangdong Province, nurturing numerous world champions such as He Guoqiang and Chen Jingkai. It has now been developed into an elegant cultural, artistic, sports, and entertainment hub characterized by “greenery, tranquility, and beauty”…
The Bell Tower Auditorium is located at No. 215 Wenming Road. Originally the auditorium of the National Guangdong Higher Normal School, it covers an area of over 300 square meters. This was the birthplace of the First United Front between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and also an important site where Lu Xun carried out revolutionary activities while teaching at Sun Yat-sen University in 1927. On the first floor of the Bell Tower, there is a small, often overlooked...
Guangzhou Lin Zexu Memorial Park is located on the west side of Haiyin Bridge along Yuexiu District’s Yanjiang East Road. The entire memorial park covers an area of 25,000 square meters, and together with Dongshan Lake South Square (7,000 square meters) and the green space on the east side of Haiyin Bridge’s approach ramp (4,800 square meters), it forms the Yanjiang East Road Greening Plaza, which spans a total of 36,800 square meters. …
The Tomb of Ren Xiao is a small earthen mound about 6 to 7 meters high, surrounded by ancient banyan trees, located within the scenic Garden Hotel in the bustling downtown area of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. This mound is the tomb of Ren Xiao. During the Republican era, Huang Linshu, then Director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education, conducted research and concluded that Ren Xiao served as the Commandant of Nanhai Commandery for many years and achieved remarkable accomplishments...
The Former Site of the Guangdong Advisory Bureau in Guangzhou is located on Zhongshan 3rd Road, Guangzhou. It was built in the first year of the Xuantong era (1909). The site consists of a group of buildings that blend Chinese and Western architectural styles. The complex faces south and is arranged from south to north as follows: the main gate (a hall-style building, now destroyed), a stone arch bridge over a lotus pond, the main building modeled after the ancient Roman parliamentary style in the West, and a two-story brick-and-wood rear building...
The Six Banyan Temple Pagoda is located within the Six Banyan Temple in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. The temple pagoda was first built during the Liu Song Dynasty of the Southern Dynasties (420–479 AD). In the third year of the Datong era under Emperor Wu of Liang (537 AD), an edict permitted Master Tan Yu to construct a magnificent wooden pagoda here to enshrine Buddhist relics brought back from overseas. It was bestowed the name “Baozhuangyan Temple Relic Pagoda.” In the early Northern Song Dynasty,…
The Tomb of Shi Jianru, a cultural relic protection unit of Guangzhou City, was designated in March 1963. The tomb is located within Huanghuagang Park. The original burial site was at Qingcaigang on Xianlie Road, built in 1913, and was relocated to its current site in 1978 due to construction needs. The stone plaque above the current tomb’s gatehouse is the original, inscribed with “Shi Jianru Memorial Hall,” with the upper inscription reading “...
The Guangzhou Museum of the History of the Modern Period is located within the Guangzhou Martyrs' Cemetery. The site was originally the Advisory Bureau from the late Qing Dynasty, built in 1909. It is a Western-style Romanesque parliamentary building—tall, grand, and imposing. Surrounded by tall pine and cypress trees, lush green lawns, and a pleasant landscape, the environment is elegant. In May 1921, Sun Yat-sen swore his oath of office here to assume the position of…
The Tomb of Feng Ru is located within Huanghuagang Park. Feng Ru, a native of Enping, was China’s first aviator. On September 21, 1909, he successfully developed China’s first airplane, which he test-flew in Oakland, USA, reaching an altitude of 15 feet and covering a distance of 2,640 feet, marking the first page in the history of Chinese aviation. Unfortunately, in August 1912…
The Qing Dynasty pawnshop watchtower of Dongping Pawnshop is located at No. 1 Zhongshan 4th Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, right next to the gate tower of the Ming Dynasty East City Gate. This watchtower-style former pawnshop was built during the Qing Dynasty and is commonly known as the "Dongda Gate Pawnshop," which was the second largest pawnshop in the city at the time. It stands in contrast to another former pawnshop site on Zhongshan 7th Road at Ximenkou — Baosheng Pawnshop...
The Guangdong Revolutionary History Museum and the Guangzhou Modern History Museum are located within the Martyrs' Cemetery at No. 2 Lingyuan West Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou. The museum site was originally the Guangdong Advisory Bureau, established in 1909 and situated outside the Dadao Gate. It first opened to the public on October 1, 1959. The Guangzhou Modern History Museum is part of the Guangdong Revolutionary History Museum…
Xinhépǔ is an area located in Dongshan, Guangzhou, China, renowned for its "Dongshan Western-style villas" and known as the city’s former luxury residential district. The boundaries of Xinhépǔ roughly extend from Dàlù Road in the east to Jūnyì Road in the west, from Miàoqián Xījiē, Miàoqián Zhíjiē, Sìbèi Tōngjīn, and the land occupied by the Guangzhou Railway Bureau in the north, to Dōnghuá Dōnglù, Xinhépǔ Chōng, and... in the south.
Tianzi Wharf, commonly known as "Guangzhou’s No. 1 Wharf," is located at the intersection of Yanjiang Middle Road and Beijing Road in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou. Ferries cross the Pearl River to the opposite side, reaching the Textile Wharf and Sun Yat-sen University Wharf in Haizhu District. Nowadays, besides its role in river crossings, its primary use is for tourism, with most Pearl River night cruise boats departing from here. In…
Gloria 225 Concept Club is located in a small 1948 building on Beijing Road. Its striking orange-red exterior is eye-catching, while the interior has been meticulously designed by professionals to create a nostalgic yet design-forward space. The large glass greenhouse sun garden on the first floor brings a touch of warmth to the cold winter. The second floor houses an elegantly French-style flower shop and souvenir store, the third floor…
Liang Guoyi (1892–1923), from Wenchang, Hainan, was a modern Chinese democratic revolutionary. He graduated successively from the Army Primary School and the Army Accelerated School. In 1915, when Yuan Shikai usurped the republic and instigated the Guangdong Military Governor Long Jiguang to kill revolutionaries, the revolutionary party in Guangdong organized the Chinese Revolutionary Army. Chen Xianong, a revolutionary from Wenchang, served as...
It enshrines Liu Yan, Hai Rui, and Yang Jiaoshan. The lacquer murals in the main hall are worth seeing, and the Guangfu Temple Fair is also held here. Also known as the Provincial City God Temple, Guangzhou City God Temple is located next to the Museum of the Nanyue King’s Palace. Originally built in the third year of the Hongwu era during the Ming Dynasty (1370), it was the largest city god temple in Lingnan during the Ming and Qing periods. Currently…
The Tomb of the King of Nanyue is the largest and richest Han Dynasty stone-chamber painted tomb discovered so far in the Lingnan region. Together with later discoveries such as the ruins of the Nanyue Kingdom palace complex and the Nanyue wooden sluice gate, it forms the most significant archaeological remains from the Nanyue Kingdom period. It was designated as a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit in 1996, and in 201…
Guangdong Provincial Library of Sun Yat-sen is a provincial-level comprehensive public library in Guangdong, a national first-class library, and also the site of the Guangdong Branch of the National Cultural Information Resources Sharing Project, the Guangdong Ancient Books Preservation Center, and the Guangdong Branch of the National Union Catalog Center. With a long history and rich collections, it enjoys a high reputation both at home and abroad...