Mountain Yuyin House, located in Nancun Town, Panyu, is also called “Yuyin Garden”, which was built in the 6th year of Tongzhi period in Qing Dynasty (1867), with a history of more than 130 years. With its own characteristics, Yuyin Garden is regarded as one of the four famous gardens in Guangdong, with the others of Liangyuan Garden in Foshan, Keyuan Garden in Dongwan and Qinghui Garden in Shunde. The first characteristic is “hiding dragon in inches”. Although the total floor area is just 1,500㎡, less than that of a half football court, the architectural layout of the Garden is very subtle. It seems like a big common folk house, when you look at it from the outside, but when you come in it, you will be surprised it. In this small garden, you can fine pavilion, terrance, tower, house, hall, windowed veranda, bridge, corridor, stone hill and jada green water in the garden architecture. And the artful arrangement of corridors, ornamental windows and screen wall lets you can find scenery everywhere. So Mountain Yuyin House always enjoys the good fame of “hiding dragon in inches” and “being small and exquisite”. The second characteristic is “being intellectual and elegant”. Every scene in Mountain Yuyin House has been created by the artisans with the original design of deep meanings. And the excellent poems and couplets make the house very intellectual. Therefore Mountain Yuyin House is a refined artistic work in Lingnan garden architecture, and a top representative work in the garden architecture, owing to its artful design.

Mountain Yuyin House has an irregular plane, and is divided into the eastern and western scenic spots by “Wanhong Kualv” Corridor Bridge, which named by the inscriptions of “Wanhong” and “Kualv”. The Corridor Bridge is the one of the most distinctive architecture in the Garden, with five stone steps at the two ends, and a stone arch under the bridge. The bridge pavilion is covered by the hip and gable roof with round ridge. There are railings on the bridge, and Gualuo under the pavilion, the connecting wind & rain corridor at the two ends, and the settees on the two sides of the corridor. In the western scenic spot, the main architecture is the Deep Willow Hall, accompanied with the Pool Side Villa. The woodcarvings in the Deep Willow Hall are the elaborate works of the Garden, with the woodcarvings in the east living room being the inscriptions of Weng Fanggang and Liu Yong. In the courtyard in front of the Hall, there are two old Paozhang flower, colorful and beautiful at the blooming season. The eastern scenic spot has a larger area, with the main architecture of the Waterside Exquisite Pavilion. It is located in the center of a corneous pool and in the shape of octagon, so it is also called Octagon Pavilion. There is the Willow Tower in the Southeast corner, and Peacock Pavilion, Laixun Pavilion and Olive Branch Hall in the Northeast corner, accompanied by the precious ancient trees of pineapple tree, calyx canthus and araucaria.

The gate lies in the southwest corner, on the sides of which there is a couplet “A little away from the ground is red rain, the green cloud in the sky corner is quite deep”. The couplet illustrates the name of “Yuying” and the garden features of “red rain” and “green cloud”.

Linchi Annexe faces Liusheng Hall across the pond, with a couplet on the pillow, “Annexe is near the pond, with gulls when washing ink-stone; while walking down the corridor, crane accompanies poem seeking”. There are 3 wide rooms and 3 deep rooms. There's also a couplet hung on the column that reads “Who are people busy for to abandon the old surrounding. With seasons change, flowers bloom and wilt. Living in a shabby house, I hope to make friends with celebrities. Comes and goes with old and now rains”.

There were a great amount of couplets and steles because the owner often met scholars and celebrities, which were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. The remaining steles were written by current scholars. In 1974, government allocated funds to restore the original appearance of the garden.

Of all the counties in Guangdong Province, Panyu has the longest history. The over 2000-year-old Panyu has too many sites of historical interest to count, while the old traditional houses in Panyu have been preserved so well that they have formed a unique scene depicting the Lingnan style of architectural art.

The Mountain Yuyin Villa is a good example of the very best to Panyu's old houses. It's located in Nancun, not far from Shiqiao. Dating back to the reign of Emperor Tongzhi (1862-1874) of the Qing Dynasty, the villa covers an area of more than 2,000 square metres. It is complete with pavilions, terraces, towers, waterside buildings, corridors, arched bridges, flower-beds and lotus ponds that are separated by bamboo plants, trees and flowers. In addition, all the buildings are decorated with sophisticated carvings of exceptional workmanship. The meticulous overall design and use of space makes the villa the best of the four famous ancient gardens in the province.

Throughout history, Shawan has had a reputation for being a town of culture. Indeed, if you go to Shawan, you can't miss the beauty of the delicate old houses. Here you need to walk the streets and gardens to get a feel of the rich workmanship.

Situated on the Shore of Shizi Lake that is at the entrance of the Pearl River, Mountain Lianhua are composed of 48 red rocky hills. This famous tourist resort in Guangzhou covers an area of 2.54 square kilometers, with the highest altitude of 108 meters above the sea level. More than 2,000 years ago, Mountain Lianhua was an ancient stone pit, which has been kept until the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Years of quarrying has not only made the mountains to be more majestic and straight, but also created many unique landscapes blended with the “man-made” and the “natural”, including Lianhua Rock, Yanzi Cliff, Baxian Rock, Shizi Rock, Guanyin Rock, Feiying Rock, Nantianmen Archway, and Shenxian Bridge etc. The historic sites on the mountains are the Lianhua Tower built in 1612 (the fortieth year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty), the Lianhua City built in 1664 (the third year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty), a 40.88-meter-height Golden Guanyin Statue completed in Oct. 1994, and a large imitation of an ancient pavilion fro Guanyin which holds one thousand Guanyin statues of various sizes and receives over 1.6 million people each year. Ascending the peak, you can command a panoramic view of the distance: all around is a vast expanse of fields stretching to meet the distant metropolis, and the mighty Pearl River far away is flowing to blend with the blue sky. In 1996, it was elected to be one of the Guangzhou's ten scenic spots of Guangzhou, named “Wonderful Views at Mountain Lianhua”. In July 2002, it was again evaluated as one of the Host and scenic spots of Guangzhou in the New Century, named “Watching Sea at Mountain Lianhua”.

Mountain Wangzi Forest Park lies about 26 km north to Xinhua Town, Huadu City and 10 km northwest of Timian Town. Legend goes that whoever was able to find the cave in the mountain would have a prince out of his/her future generations, thus the mountain was named. Mountain Wangzi is lofty and full of green trees, 516 meters above sea level. It measures 1,000 meters in length from south to north, and around 800 meters in width from east to west, with an area of 0.2 sq. meter. The mountain is of plate structure, with steep slope, deep and thick weathered rock stratum that developed to crimson soil.

Hunting, camping, adventuring can be conducted in Mountain Wangzi Forest Park, which is encircled by mountains, with fragrant litchi fruits and picturesque landscape. Now it has been linked up by land and waterway with Furongzhang Holiday Resort, being a key project under the tourism development plan of Huadu City. It is going to be built into a large-scale entertainment complex of 60 sq. meters, integrating tourism and vacationing.

Located in Luogang Town, Baiyun District, it is well-known for its historical relics and plum forest. With piles of mountains and ridges stretching for several-tens of li within the area, it boasts beautiful scenery, with flowers and fruits all over the park, being a renowned tourist attraction in Guangzhou suburbs. It was already known as Mountain Little Luofu in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

There are such historical relics as Yuyan Classical Learning Academy, built in the Northern Song period, and Luofeng Temple, Tomb of Zhong Yuyan, the Thousand-year-old Litchi Tree, Ancient Pavilion, Cuishi Rock, Wenchang Temple, Jinhua Temple, Wanghai Pavilion, etc. Collection includes inscriptions and carved scripts of celebrities since the Song Dynasty, major ones being Songru and Zhuxi's inscriptions of “Loyalty, Filial Obedience, Honesty and Chastity”, the wood carvings of the four famous jueju-style poems allegedly composed by Wen Tianxiang, the national hero, and bamboo carving version of the Four Seasons, the famous painting of Zheng Bangqiao in the Qing Dynasty, etc.

The most prestigious attraction in Luogang Scenic Spot is the “Fragrant Snow at Luogang”, one of the Eight Sights of Guangzhou selected in 1963. When the season of deep winter comes, the plum blossoms look like snow, the scene being so pleasant that visitors come in endless numbers.

Luofeng Temple was selected in August 1983 as a key protected relic of the city.