What are the cultural heritage of Guangzhou?

There are many beautiful scenic routes in the famous city of Guangzhou, in which the main famous natural and cultural heritage of Guangzhou is concentrated, which are the natural scenic routes, the cultural scenic routes, and the main scenic routes for Guangzhou tourism.

Guangzhou's Zhenhai of the building and Zhencheng of the stone

Being known as the main mountain of Guangzhou, Yuexiu Mountain has a majestic Zhenhai Building, also known as Wanghai Building, because the building is five stories high, the Valley called five-story building, 28 meters high, the largest Zhenhai Building in the country. The Ming dynasty guarding Guangzhou Yongjia Hou Zhu Liangzu for "pressure purple cloud yellow gas of the different", asked the court for approval, in 1380 (Ming Hongwu thirteen years) to extend the Guangzhou city wall to the Yuexiu Mountain, the construction of the Zhen Hai Building, that is, "the male town of the sea border", but also can be "the view of the three cities". Therefore, it is both the city defense building, but also feng shui building. Before the Ming Dynasty, Guangzhou appeared three dynasties and ten emperors, since the construction of the Zhenhai Building, there has never been a local emperor and dissident rebels. "The Southeast dominance dispersed like smoke", "outside the building of the Guanhe River all Han Feng". As Hu Hanmin said, "Layers of the evening look, white clouds are still Han when the fall."

Because of natural and man-made reasons, Zhenhai Building has been destroyed many times in history, and many times rebuilt and reconstructed, no less than ten times. It is said that every repair, Guangzhou will develop once. People say that it is "the building that crowns the whole city". Qu Dajun, a Qing dynasty scholar, said, "Although Huanghe and Yueyang could not surpass it." The "Ancient Notes of Yangcheng" said that it was "splendid and magnificent, the first scenic spot in Lingnan". Guangdong General Records" and "Nanhai County" that "Lingnan wonders, this is the most natural", "is the first building south of the Five Ridges also." Since history, until today are held in high esteem. Historically, the ancient records do not miss, and left a lot of poems and articles, for domestic and foreign travelers to Guangzhou must see the attractions.

From the point of view of scenic beauty, Yuexiu Mountain is the main mountain of Guangzhou, and Zhenhai Building is the first scene of Guangzhou, 600 years of Wei Zhen Lingnan, its position is irreplaceable. Because it is "perched on the top of the immortal city" (Qiu Fengjia's words), can "wind and clouds flying over the nine states" (Kang Youwei's words), "Flying tower heavy strong south of the clan, under the view of the group of peaks to control the northern gate. The river and the sea around the appendage of the sky potential end, the stream and the mountain as the palm of the hegemony of the existence of", not only can savor the hegemony of the ancient kings, but also can be seen in the landscape city of Guangzhou's scenic beauty, happy to taste the beautiful scenery of "a vast Pearl River holding the city flow".

The Zhenhai Building is now the Guangzhou Museum, where you can visit the exhibition of historical relics of Guangzhou's history of more than 2,000 years. Penthouse front hangs the Governor Peng Yulin composed couplets: "thousands of robbed dangerous building still exists, ask who pick the head of the sky, the eyes of the ancient and modern; five hundred years of the old marquis, make me rely on the columns to see the sword, tears spilled heroes." A few points of hegemony, a few sad, very popular.

Zhenhai building history has been successively "Zhenhai layer building" and "Yuexiu layer building" listed as the Qing Dynasty and modern "eight scenic spots in Yangcheng" and famous at home and abroad.

Guangzhou not only has the building of Zhenhai, but also the stone of the city, which is the Hai Zhu Stone.

Anciently, the Pearl River was 3,000 meters wide (today, the narrowest point is only 100 meters), and the smoke and waves were so vast that it was called a small sea, so it had the name of Zhenhai Building. Guangzhou also has the stone of the town, is the ancient Pearl River in the sea pearl stone. By the river sand alluvial, siltation of the riverbed, to the beginning of this century, has been connected with the north bank, the 20th century 30's construction of the long causeway road has been completely buried in the ground, the construction of high-rise buildings. Earlier this year when the excavation of municipal works, was dug out, to see the light of day. Experts are urgently calling for the preservation of the Haizhu Stone! The city government has decided to protect the revealed part (30-60 meters) for the public and tourists to visit.

In ancient times, the Haizhu Stone, also known as Haizhu Island, which stood in the river, was famous for being the stone of the town. "The godman drove the stone to stand and gushed out crystals" (Ming Dynasty - Lun Yi-诜). The poem "Haizhu Stone" by Liang Dupu in Ming Dynasty reads, "Who drove the stone to the center of the river, and the sky was the ancient meeting of the town of Yangzi." It says that this is the stone of Guangzhou's town. The island has Cidu Temple (also known as Haizhu Cidu Temple, built in the Southern Han Dynasty), Wenxi Shrine, Haizhu Battery, and in the early years of the Republic of China was opened as the Haizhu Park, which is a famous tourist mecca in history and a place for dragon boat racing.

Legend has it that the Haizhu Stone was transformed by the beads left by exotic merchants, so it is also called the Walking Pearl Stone. The Qing Dynasty Zheng Huinan has a poem "Sea Pearl Stone", which says: "Jahu holds the Mani Pearl, and lost his hand and flew the pearl into the East China Sea. Treasure psychic can not be secret, Lu Li night and day spit color. Rolling white floating out of the pearl garden, beads female beads children do not dare to pick." The real is a huge cretaceous red gravel composed of large reef, its location in the present day along the river west road Yongan Hall to love group building area, more than 130 meters long, more than 50 meters wide, because of the long-term river scouring and rounded as a bead, the water light wave reflecting, glittering. Sea Harbor in the tour of the Sea Pearl Temple made an excursion oral cloud: "South China Sea Lilong do not love beads, the heart of the water out of the night bright lonely," said the Sea Pearl stone at night will also shine. And because of the Pearl River tidal changes and seems to float in the sea, very beautiful. Liang Qiaosheng, a poet of the Ming Dynasty, said, "A stone floats in the center of the river, crashing through the red tide of two streams." What a dynamic off scene!

Hai Zhu Shi is also famous for the famous poet Li Plei Yue (also known as Wen Xi) who studied here in the Southern Song Dynasty. There is a Wenxi Ancestral Hall on the island, and he is the author of "Wenxi Cunzhu". He was the first scholar in the history of Guangzhou, and served as a doctor of the university, a school scholar, and a minister of the Ministry of Revenue. Therefore, it is said that you can get a scholarship by studying at the Wenxi Shrine.

Hai Zhu Shi (island) is the core attraction of the eight scenic spots of Yangcheng in the Song and Ming Dynasties, "Zhujiang Autumn Moon" and "Zhujiang Jinglan", and there are more than 50 poems and chants about it through the ages.

Traditional Axis of the Ancient City

The traditional axis of the Ancient City is about 5 kilometers long, from the Zhenhai Tower on Yuexiu Mountain, the Zhongshan Monument, the Zhongshan Memorial Hall, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the Municipal Government Building, the People's Park, the Hai Zhu Plaza, to the Hai Zhu Bridge. From the South Vietnam Zhao Tuo built Yue Wang Terrace, Yue Wang Palace, Yue Wang Wells began, the Southern Han Dynasty, there are Huluan Road, tour platform, the Ming Dynasty, there is the Guanyin Pavilion, Zhenhai Building, from Yuexiu Mountain to the People's Park, Uprising Road area, the Yuan, Ming, Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China until the liberation of the official government offices are important, after more than 2,000 years of gradual formation of the Republic of China in the period of the building of the Monument to Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, the Municipal People's Government Office building, the Haizhu Bridge, the four markers After the construction of the basic stereotypes.

Chen Gongyin, a Qing dynasty scholar, described the mountains and rivers of Guangzhou with the phrase "the peaks of the Five Ridges come from the north, and the water floats in the sky at the end of the southern part of Kyushu", and the "peaks in the ground" he referred to was Mount Yuexiu, and the "water floats in the sky" was the Pearl River (the ancient capital of the Pearl River). "is the Pearl River (called the sea in ancient times, before the Cultural Revolution, Guangzhou citizens from Hebei to Henan transition is also called the sea). Some experts describe this axis as "a flat burden to pick up the mountains and water", fully explaining the historical weight of this axis.

Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall is China's largest memorial hall (with 5,000 seats), but also the world-famous East-meets-West traditional big-roofed building, the former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and India's former Prime Minister Nehru wanted to build a similar, but did not make it. Memorial Hall for the red columns, yellow walls, blue glazed tiles, heavy eaves hysterical roof, octagonal pavilion-style roof. Hall roof for the glass inlaid garden-shaped ceiling, dozens of meters span not see a column, ventilation sound first-class. The top of the gold tripod up to 4 meters high, 36166 sheets of gold, weighing 1.8 kilograms. The entire appearance of solemn and majestic, known as the masterpiece of architectural art.

The traditional central axis has four more: more cultural relics and monuments, more famous buildings, more ancient trees, more professional shopping street, cultural content is very high, is the famous city of Guangzhou a thousand years of cultural axis. She is both a line of natural scenery with mountains and water, as well as a majestic landscape axis, is the preferred tourist scenic route in Guangzhou.

Article 16 of the Regulations for the Protection of Famous Historical and Cultural Cities of Guangzhou stipulates that within the landscape zone of the city's traditional central axis, "the architectural forms, volumes, heights and styles of newly constructed, expanded and remodeled buildings (structures) must be coordinated with the natural and humanistic landscapes." The city planning bureau is working on a protective control plan.

Tianhe new city axis

The new city axis is the axis of the new development area planned and built after the construction of Tianhe new city and Pearl River New City, north of the thin dog ridge, through the East Railway Station (Plaza), CITIC Tower (80 floors), Tianhe Sports Center, the Haixinsha Island, across the Pearl River to the Pazhou Tower, Luoxi New Passenger Port of the new city axis. Tianhe Road to the north of the CITIC Plaza and China Mayor's Building, Metropolis Plaza as the symbol of the architectural, green landscape, has been formed, this area of modern high-rise building clusters and green plazas show the new city center of Guangzhou's modern urban style. She is a different style and characteristic landscape compared with the traditional central axis of the old city center, reflecting the modern and beautiful prospect of Guangzhou's urban development, and is the most attractive and beautiful landscape for the development of urban tourism in Guangzhou to attract tourists. At present, the nearby Tianhe Road area of Tianhe City, Hongcheng Plaza and Guangzhou Book Buying Center has formed a popular shopping and tourism area, and the nearby Line 1 subway station is one of the most prosperous subway stations.

Baiyun Mountain and Yuexiu Mountain Green Scenic Route

Baiyun Mountain, known as the "green lung" of Guangzhou, is a famous provincial scenic spot. With an area of 21 square kilometers, beautiful scenery, ancient trees and convenient transportation, the scenic area is a famous tourist mecca. Consisting of more than 30 peaks, the main peak of Moxingling is 382.3 meters above sea level, the highest point of the whole mountain, which is the hot spot for the public to climb up every year during the Chung Yeung Festival. The area overlooks the panoramic view of Guangzhou, with a panoramic view of the new city, the old city, the Pearl River in the south, and the Baiyun Airport in the north.

Yuexiu Mountain has been opened as a park in the 1950s, and is the largest comprehensive cultural rest park in Guangzhou, covering an area of 820,000 square meters, of which three artificial lakes have a water area of 6.69 million square meters.

Baiyun Mountain, Yuexiu Mountain in the city center of the northern silhouette, stretching east and west for dozens of miles, the ancients called "green hills half into the city", is a very beautiful green landscape. It is not only the natural landscape is beautiful, but also plays a role in regulating the climate of Guangzhou city, the environment is quiet and elegant, the air is fresh, is a good place for the public to visit for leisure, but also the largest and best tourist attractions in Guangzhou, the annual reception of domestic tourists amounted to more than 10 million people.

This green scenic route has a high cultural taste and is unique.

One is a long history. Historically, it is a famous scenic spot, with a history of more than 2,000 years since the Qin and Han dynasties.

The second is that there are many legends and stories. Such as the legend of Qin Shi Huang and An Xisheng.

Third, there are many cultural relics and monuments. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the well of Yue Wang, Huluan Road, Zhenhai Building, the ancient Chu Pavilion, Baiyun Xiankan, Nine Dragons Springs, the first peak of Tiannan pagoda, as well as a large number of ancient tombs and relics of celebrities, ruins and so on.

Fourth, more religious temples. Such as Sanyuan Palace, Jingtai Temple, Mingzhulou, Nengren Temple, Shuangxi Temple and so on. Historically, there are 13 temples in Baiyun Mountain alone.

Fifth, there are a lot of parks and tourist spots with their own characteristics. Such as Yuexiu Park, Luhu Park, Sculpture Park, Yuntai Garden, Peak Park, Shanbei Gongguo and so on.

Sixth, there are more than eight scenic spots of Yangcheng in the past dynasties, **** there are 11 scenic spots.

Pearl River Scenery Tourist Line

The Pearl River is the mother river of the Guangzhou people, where the ancestors have flourished for thousands of years, building the beautiful Guangzhou City and creating the brilliant Lingnan culture.

The Guangzhou section of the Pearl River has a beautiful scenery, and there are many cultural relics and characteristic buildings on both sides of the river. Such as the Shimen Scenic Area, Shamian Scenic Area of European-style architectural complex, Guangdong Customs Bell Tower, Post Office Building, Southern Building, Aiqun Building, Yongan Hall, Jiangwan New Town Complex, Sun Yat-sen Marshal's Mansion, Pazhou Pagoda, Chigang Pagoda, Whampoa Military Academy, Cheung Chau Fortress, Cheung Chau Cultural and Tourism Scenic Area, Polo Temple, Lotus Pagoda, Lower Hengshang Island, Humen Fortress, Nansha Fortress, Longtan Island Scenery, and so on.

The area from Nanfang Mansion, Aiqun Mansion to Yong'an Hall is known as the "Bund" of Guangzhou, which has always been the symbol of Guangzhou. Guangzhou's several major bank headquarters and hotels, restaurants, theaters, department stores are quite numerous, the city authorities intend to build this place into a leisure pedestrian street.

Pearl River, Guangzhou, more than 70 kilometers of the river, there are 11 distinctive cross-river bridges, there are many river islands, the largest of which is more than 90 square kilometers of Henan Island, where the river forks across the river, fruit forests. The 10,000-acre orchard in Xinjiao is known as Guangzhou's "southern lung".

Now, the former channel has been opened as a tourist channel. In recent years, the municipal government has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to improve the Pearl River bank, set up lights, greening and landscape construction, has initially shown the new beauty of the two sides of the river, which will be built in Guangzhou's "Seine River". Land builders on both sides of the river are advertising river view properties, and real estate prices are rising. The Pearl River night tour is one of Guangzhou's hot tourist routes.

Scenic Route of the Ancient Capital of the South Vietnamese State

Since the 1980s, Guangzhou has discovered the Tomb of the King of the South Vietnamese in the Western Han Dynasty, the underground stone buildings at the ruins of the Palace Office of the King of the South Vietnamese, the Royal Garden of the State of the South Vietnamese, and the ruins of the Palace of the State of the South Vietnamese, which are major archaeological discoveries in the Lingnan area and have been ranked as one of the nation's top five and top ten archaeological discoveries, respectively.

These cultural relics from the South Vietnam period, more than 2,000 years ago, are very rich in content, many of which are found for the first time in Guangzhou and China, and are of very precious value.

In 1983, the mausoleum of Zhao Mai, the second king of the South Vietnamese State, "Emperor Wen", discovered in Xianggang Mountain on Jiefang North Road, with a history of more than 2,100 years, was the earliest, largest and largest stone tomb with painted murals in the pre-Western Han Dynasty in Lingnan area, and was designated as one of the top five archaeological discoveries of China in the year of the Annals of Archaeology. The Yearbook of Archaeology designated it as one of the five major new archaeological discoveries in China that year. More than 1,000 pieces (sets) of artifacts have been unearthed, such as the gold seal of "Emperor Wen's Seal of Execution" and the silk and jade clothes, as well as 15 martyrs. For the study of the Qin and Han Dynasties Lingnan region development, urban material and cultural development, the history of South Vietnam have important value, the cemetery has been built as the "Western Han Dynasty South Vietnam King's Tomb Museum".

Since 1995 in Zhongshan Road Zhongyou Street to Children's Park found in the South Vietnam Palace site, the water, the Royal Garden and palace ruins, reflecting the material life of the Palace and social and cultural conditions, especially underground stone buildings in China is unique, comparable to the ancient city of Rome. The imperial garden is the first example of the palace in China. Can be said to be valuable. At present, Chungwoo Street to Beijing Road, the area of 48,000 square meters in front of the Finance Department has been listed as a cultural protection zone, Children's Park will be relocated to continue underground excavation. The city government has decided to establish the South Vietnam Museum here. Experts predict another surprise for the public in the near future!

Special mention should be made of the overseas moorings of cultural relics unearthed in recent years, such as silver boxes, glass bowls, ivory, onyx, copper fumigators, silver coins and so on, which are physical evidence of the birthplace of Guangzhou's Maritime Silk Road, indicating that Guangzhou had already been engaged in commerce with overseas countries during the Qin and Han Dynasties, and proof that the Maritime Silk Road preceded the overland Silk Road.

Modern Revolutionary Scenic Route

Guangzhou, China's modern revolution, Hong Xiuquan led the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Revolutionary Movement here; Kang Youwei organized the "Wanmu Cao Tang" in Guangzhou to cultivate a number of revolutionary backbone of the new movement; Whampoa Military Academy teachers and students held the Eastern Expedition and the Northern Expedition here; Dr. Sun Yat-sen led the uprising to overthrow the feudal rule of the Qing Dynasty in Guangzhou, and established the revolutionary regime here three times; **** the leadership of the Communist Party of China in Guangzhou Uprising. A series of singable revolutionary struggles, shocking revolutionary events at home and abroad, produced a number of revolutionary heroes and figures, leaving a number of revolutionary monumental buildings and sites, of which the most concentrated in the ancestral martyrdom road, there are more than 10 modern and revolutionary cultural relics protection units, is a good classroom for revolutionary heroism and patriotism education. The most famous of them are the Mausoleum of the 72 Martyrs of Huanghuagang, the Mausoleum of the Fallen Martyrs of the 19th Route Army Against Japan and the Mausoleum of the Martyrs of the Guangzhou Uprising.

When I went to Sun Yat-sen University in 1959, the first place I had to see in Guangzhou was the Mausoleum of the Seventy-two Martyrs of Huanghuagang, because I had studied it when I was in elementary school. This place has been opened as Huanghuagang Park, which is a holy place of the revolution and a major tourist spot in Guangzhou. Every year, it receives a lot of tourists, with more than 300,000 foreign tourists alone, especially overseas compatriots who come to Guangzhou to visit the tombs of the martyrs at Huanghuagang and to lay wreaths.

Huanghuagang 72 Martyrs' Tomb is located in the middle of Xianlie Road, covering an area of 160,000 square meters. Sun Yat-sen's leadership of the United League in 1911 to overthrow the feudal rule of the Qing Dynasty, launched an uprising in Guangzhou, attacked the Governor's Office and the seventy-two martyrs died. 1912 Guangdong military government funding to build in 1919, overseas Chinese raised funds to build the Tomb Pavilion, Jigongfang, platforms, four-square ponds, and other buildings, and later added the Huanghuatian Pavilion, the West Pavilion, the main gate. 1954 and another expansion, forming today's grand scale, and the memorial hall. Formed today's large-scale, spectacular, solemn, green trees into buds, full of yellow flowers of the memorial park. The main gate is a triumphal style gatehouse, the forehead is engraved with Sun Yat-sen's handwritten "Vast Vitality" in golden letters. Inside, there is a 230-meter grave path, pam pond, stone arch bridge, seventy-two martyrs gravestones, "conclusion of the Republic of China seventy-two martyrs memorial Square". There are also Sun Yat-sen planted pines and a stone statue of Liberty holding a torch. 1961, the State Council announced as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. 1986 was named one of the eight scenic spots in Yangcheng - Huanghua Haoqi.

The Nineteenth Route Army Mausoleum covers an area of 52,000 square meters. Built in 1928, the main buildings are granite triumphal arch, Roman garden column-shaped monument and semi-garden-shaped colonnade, gate pavilion, heroes' title monument, anti-Japanese Pavilion, Cai Tingkai, Jiang Guang'nai's tomb, generals' graves, warriors' graves, martyrs' memorial hall, relief walls and exhibition halls, and so on.

Guangzhou Uprising Martyrs' Mausoleum, located at the junction of South Xianlie Road and Dongfeng Road. The main gate is engraved with eight big characters of "Martyrs' Mausoleum of Guangzhou Uprising" handwritten by Zhou Enlai. The Guangzhou Uprising Memorial Monument is inscribed with the name of the monument in gold lacquer handwritten by Deng Xiaoping. The center of the mausoleum is the Martyrs' Tomb, the parapet wall is engraved with Zhu De's inscription: "The Tomb of the Martyrs of the Guangzhou Commune", and there are also the "Pavilion of Sino-Korean People's Blood Friendship", "Pavilion of Sino-Soviet People's Blood Friendship", and the Tomb of the Four Martyrs, Ye Jianying Monument, Guangdong Revolutionary History Memorial Hall and Guangzhou Modern History Museum. The "red mausoleum rising sun" for the Yangcheng eight scenes of the martyrs one.

There are also Deng Yinnan's Tomb, Xingzhonghui Cemetery, Zhang Minda's Tomb, Deng Zhongyuan's Tomb, Zhu Jixin's Tomb and Shi Jianru's Tomb on Xianlie Road.

There are so many mausoleums, heroes' graves and memorial buildings on a road of a few kilometers, which is rare in the country, and it is a revolutionary cultural landscape very rich in connotation.

Religious Cultural Scenic Route

There is a religious cultural scenic route on the west side of the city's traditional central axis, which runs from Jiefang North Road--Liuyong Road--Liuyong Road--Guangxiao Road--Guangtaji Road--Yide Road, where there are the Sanyuan Palace, Liurong Temple, Guangxiao Temple, Guangxiao Tang, Huaisheng Temple, Huisheng Temple, and the Sanyuan Temple. Xiaoxiao Hall,, Huai Sheng Temple, Wuxian Guan,, Shilu Sacred Heart Church and other five religions of the seven temples and eight religious and cultural tourism sites such as the ancient tomb of the Qing Zhenxian, is a unique scenic route, especially Buddhism, Taoism, a lot of tourists, the popularity of the thriving.

The Ancient Tomb of the Sage of Halal is located on the west side of the Orchid Garden on Jiefang North Road, which is the burial ground for the famous Islamic missionary Abu Wanguangesu who came to China to preach in Guangzhou in the Tang Dynasty and died in Guangzhou, and it is a typical Arabian tomb, which is regarded as a holy place by the international Muslims. The cemetery is surrounded by a high brick wall with a garden layout, including an open hall and a hall of worship. Nearby are the cemeteries of well-known Ismailis of all times. Every year, the Arab merchants who come to Guangzhou to participate in the China Export Commodities Fair and other visiting Arab friends have to go to the pilgrimage.

Sanyuan Palace. Located in Yingyuan Road, its predecessor was the Zhao Gang Yuan built by Bao Liang, a governor of Nanhai in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, renamed Wushu Temple in the Tang Dynasty, and renamed Sanyuan Palace (Taoism uses heaven, pool and water as the three elements) during the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty, making it the longest surviving and larger-scale Taoist temple in Guangzhou. Ge Hong, a religious and philosophical thinker and scientist, once practiced here. The architectural style of Sanyuan Palace is unique. It is very popular on the first and fifteenth days of the lunar calendar.

Liuyong Temple. Located on Liurong Road. It was founded in the Southern Dynasty during the reign of Liu Song, initially known as Po Chuang Yen Temple, and was renamed Jing Hui Temple in the Northern Song Dynasty. Su Dongpo visited the temple and saw six banyan trees in the temple, so he wrote the inscription "Six Banyan", and later people called the Six Banyan Temple. Inside is the Six Banyan Pagoda built during the reign of Liang Datong, with nine octagonal levels (17 floors inside), a height of 57.6 meters, bead railings and blue tiles, and red walls of danzhu. Inside is a collection of Buddha's relics brought back from overseas by Venerable Master Tanyu. There is a monument gallery in the south with a number of precious relics. The Six Banyan Pagoda is one of the iconic tourist landscapes of Guangzhou.

Guangxiao Temple. Located in Guangxiao Road, covers an area of 31,000 square meters. Temple site for the first time for the South Vietnamese King Zhao Jiande Wang Fu, later built to stop the temple, after the Southern Song Dynasty, known as the Guangxiao Temple. There is a social rumor that "there is no Yangcheng, first there is Guangxiao", which shows the long history of Guangxiao Temple. The Sixth Patriarch of Zen, Huineng, took the precepts here in 676 A.D. (the first year of the Tang Dynasty), and the Dizi Pagoda and the Sixth Patriarch's Hall were built to commemorate his death. Inside the temple, there are the earliest East and West Tie Pagodas (cast in the Southern Han Dynasty, also known as the Thousand Buddha Pagodas) and the Horsetail Tree, which are famous both at home and abroad. Guangxiao Bodhi is one of the eight scenic spots of Yangcheng in the Song Dynasty.

Guangxiao Road also has the Christian Guangxiao Church.

There is the Five Immortals' Guan on Huifu West Road, built in the Ming Dynasty, which is a temple of the Valley God worshipping the Five Immortals. Inside there are five immortals and five sheep statues, Guangzhou's nickname for the origin of the city of sheep. There is also the first building in Lingnan built in the Ming Dynasty. Ming and Qing Dynasties, respectively, with "Sui Shi Cave Heaven" and "five immortal Xia hole" included in the eight scenic spots in the city of sheep.

Yide Road, there is the Sacred Heart Church (commonly known as the stone room), is the largest Catholic Church in Guangzhou, but also the country's largest Gothic stone building, 58.5 meters high, took 25 years to complete.