Built at early Western Han Dynasty, the Guangxiao Temple is the biggest and oldest Buddhist temple in Guangzhou City, and one of the four gardens here. It enjoys the saying Guangxiao Temple before Guangzhou City. Hui Neng, the sixth Zen Patriarch, had his hair cut here and became the founder of the Southern School of chinese Buddhism. The east and west iron towers in the Temple are the biggest ones existing in China.

Admission fee: RMB ￥ 4 per person
Opening hour: 6:00—17:00
Traffic: Buses No.4, 31, 36, 102

The Guangdong Folk Arts Museum (Chen Clan's Academy), commonly known as the Chen Clan's Temple, is a national-level protected cultural heritage site, and houses the Guangdong Museum of Folk Arts. Construction of the Chen Clan's Temple started in the 14th year of the reign of Emperor Guang Xu of the Qing Dynasty (1888) and was completed in the 20th year of the reign (1894). Located beyond the western gate of the town of Guangzhou in the Qing Dynasty, it was a shared clan temple built with donations from Chen clan members in 72 counties in Guangdong Province. The Chen Clan's Academy features an architectural style typical of ancestral halls in Lingnan. It's the largest, most sumptuously decorated and best preserved traditional structure in Guangdong Province, dubbed the gem of Lingnan artistic architecture.

The Chen Clan's Academy is a conglomeration of Guangdong's folk architectural styles and features an ingenious application of decorative arts, such as wood, brick and stone carvings, lime-clay mixtures, pottery sculptures, iron castings, and paintings, all of which are masterpieces of folk arts with different themes, vivid designs, rich colors, and consummate workmanship.

In 1959, the People's Government converted the Chen Clan's
Academy into the Guangdong Folk Arts Museum, which collects, studies and displays folk handicrafts made in Guangdong and the rest of the country during the bygone dynasties. The museum showcases scores of different types of valuable artifacts and handicrafts, such as pottery, embroidery and sculptures, which reflect Lingnan's folk customs. These exhibits contain a high value for research and appreciation.

Admission fee: RMB ￥ 10 per person
Traffic: Take Bus No.104, 107, 109, 85, 88, 114, 128, 133, 181, 193, 204, 233, 250, 251, 260, 268 or 286 or Metro Line 1 and get off at the Chen Clan's Temple station.

Located on the previous site of Sun Yet-sen University on Wenming Road in Guangzhou, the Guangdong Museum is a provincial-class integrated museum, consisting of the Museum Exhibition Hall, the site of the First National Congress of Kuomintang, and the Luxun Museum. Construction of the museum began in 1957 and was completed 1959.

The museum features a huge collection of 124,000 regional artifacts, including pottery, calligraphic and painting works, ink slabs, golden wood carvings and many other excavated artifacts. The collection includes 300 Grade 1 artifacts and a few national treasures, such as the Ink Dragon Drawing by Chen Long in the Song Dynasty, a Monkey King ink slab from the Qing Dynasty, and a white glaze Sakyamuni figurine dating back to the first year of the reign of Emperor Xi Ning of the Northern Song Dynasty (1068 A.D.), all of which are the only ones in China.

Address: No.215 Wenming Road, Guangzhou City
Opening Hour: 9:00-17:00
Traffic: Take Bus No.543, 236, 184, 80, 54, 40, 11 or 50 and get off at the Central Yuexiu station, or take Bus No.541, 125, 12, 65, 101, 104, 106, 183, 215 or 227 and get off the Wenming Road station; alternatively, take Metro Line 1 and get off at the Peasant Movement Institute station.

Occupying an area of over 100 mu (66,666 square meters) and hosting a total population of 630, Gualing Village of Xintang Town in the city of Zengcheng is known as an emigrant village, with over 3,000 of its residents living abroad. The village has been listed as historical culture protection site by Guangzhou City.

Established in the early days of the Chenghua Period of the Ming Dynasty (1465), the village boasts a history of 539 years. The land used to be enclosed by water and all the local-style dwelling houses are built up above the water-surrounded land. A late resident Huang Guomin, who was a loyal supporter of Sun Yat-sen and who acted as the head of Zengcheng county, named the village “Guazhou” in the hopes that his descendants would thrive and prosper on the land. Later, the village was renamed “Gualing”.

With the passage of time, the water areas in the west, south and north have been filled and leveled off, leaving only the 20-meter-wide river in the east. However, with the lush foliage and shimmering waves, the village gives the impression of “a land of rice and fish”. The ancient buildings in the village are kept in good shape, setting off the modern western-style ones and providing delightful contrasts. Watchtowers, at a height of over 20 meters, rise high against the land, looking refreshingly beautiful.

Water-encircled architectural complexes of the Qing Dynasty
More than 200 ancestral temples and residential houses, which were built above the water, can be found in the village, they are well laid out with 11 stone lanes extending among them. Gualing Village is said to have been detected during the fourth general survey of cultural relics in Guangzhou in 2002, since then it has been listed as a historical culture protection site. The ancient buildings found here are said to be the first and only batch of Qing residential houses to be build over an expanse of water.

The Guangdong Art Museum is a major cultural establishment in the province and the largest of its kind in China. Equipped with modern facilities, this museum, like the best art museums in advanced countries, is a place where works of art are preserved, studied and displayed. The museum also promotes education and cultural exchange. With a total area of 20,000 square meters and a display area of over 8,000 square meters, the Guangdong Art Museum consists of twelve exhibition halls, in which exhibitions of both large and small-scale work may be shown.

Every year, the museum displays a large exhibition of the museum's permanent collection of sculpture, painting, and ceramic work. The permanent collection includes contemporary artistic works of the coastal areas of China and Guangdong Province as well as work by overseas Chinese artists. In addition, the institution hosts exhibitions of artwork from various cultures within and without Asia as well as invitational exhibitions. The Guangdong Art Museum also holds great importance to exhibiting work at artists' requests every year.