GUANGZHOU
Guangzhou, the "City of Lambs", is capital of Guangdong Province, a well known historical and cultural city and south China's leading industrial and commercial city and trade port. Vegetation is evergreen, and flowers bloom all the year round thanks to a moist subtropical climate. There are more than 150 famed scenes and sights in Guangzhou, and a good variety of modern facilities for recreation and entertainment. China Guangdong Export Commodities Fair takes place twice a year in Guangzhou. Major attractions: Chens' Ancestral Temple, Baiyun Mountain, Zhenhai Tower, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Tomb of King of Nanyue Kingdom, and Yuexiu Park. Chens' Ancestral Temple, also known as Academy of the Chen Clan, was built with money pooled by all those surnamed Chen residing in the 72 counties of Guangdong. A typical example of classical Lingnan architecture, the temple is marked for its elaborate and ingenious ornamentations.
Today the temple is the site of Guangdong Museum of Folk Arts and Crafts. Liurong (Six Banyan Tree) Monastery, a legacy of Buddhism, is the site of an ancient bronze Buddhist statue and Flower Pagoda, the tallest ancient structure in Guangzhou. Baiyun Mountain is the most popular scenic resort in the suburbs of Guangzhou. The Moxingling, the major peak, is forever enshrouded in clouds. In the mountain there are such attractions as South China Tropical Botanical Garden, Mingzhu Pavilion, Nengren Temple and Nine-Dragon Spring. Yuexiu Park Is located at the elegant-looking Yuexiu Mountain. Zhenhai Pavilion atop Yuexiu Mountain is a 600year structure with five floors, with a rustic old fort right beside it. Mount the pavilion and one can feast his eyes on the landscape of the City of Flowers. The octagonal memorial hall for Sun Yat-sen was built with money donated by overseas Chinese and Guangzhou residents. The Tomb of the King of Nanyue, dating back to 2,600 years ago, is by far the largest stone sepulchre found in the Lingnan area. A museum has been built at the site with more than 1,000 burial objects on display. Nanhu, a 15-square-km affair that includes Dongfang Amusement Park, Nanhu Amusement Park, and DaJinzhong Reservoir, is one of 12 national tourist and holiday resorts in China. The resort is divided into three sections for leisure, holidaymaking and recreation respectively, and among the 30 or so facilities are luxury villas, China Taijie City, Oriental Amusement Centre, and a golf course. Dongfang Amusement Park is the largest and most comprehensive of its kind in China. The park's unmistakable local and ethnic characteristics are marked by the creative integration of modern structures and recreational facilities with the landscape. The world's miscellaneous scenes, architecture, sculpture, folklore and recreations are recaptured in World Park, which turns out to be an assemblage of 1:1 replicas of folk buildings from around the globe.
