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Lingnan Impression Park

Lingnan Impression Garden is located in the Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre, the Lingnan Impression Garden(岭南印象园)embodies the essence of local culture. Covering an area of 16.5 hectares, it’s a tourist attraction integrating sight-seeing, leisure, entertainment, catering and shopping servi...

Lingnan Impression Garden is located in the Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre, the Lingnan Impression Garden(岭南印象园)embodies the essence of local culture. Covering an area of 16.5 hectares, it’s a tourist attraction integrating sight-seeing, leisure, entertainment, catering and shopping service.
Inside the garden, there are lanes, ancestral hall, residences and shops with distinct Lingnan characteristics. The garden highlights the original Lingnan culture and customs by shaping Lingnan landscape and displaying the real living scenes of common people. Just spending one day there, tourists can get a comprehensive view of ancient Lingnan folkways.

Lingnan Impression Garden houses many traditional Lingnan architectural groups. The residences are built beside river. Long lanes, primitive gates, spectacular oyster shell walls, exquisite windows, winding streams and clear ponds are all elements of typical Lingnan water towns.

The garden gathers a great deal of intangible cultural heritage such as Guangdong embroidery, pearl embroidery, painted porcelain, wood carvings, ash carvings, stone carvings and brick carvings, etc. Besides appreciating these wonderful crafts, you can also learn from the master craftsman, who will teach you to make some simple crafts hand by hand.

Lingnan Impression Garden is also a good place to look back upon the past of Guangzhou. The iron toys, comic books and games like rolling hoops and throwing sandbags are prone to arouse local people’s nostalgia for the childhood. Besides, you can see the police station, county government, newspaper office, bank and cinema in the old times. If you like adventures, the garden won’t let you down. You can find sloping house, upside-down house and Pandora house here. 

The Sun Yant-Sen Memorial Hall

Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, a key historical relic protected by Guangdong province, is a memorial building built with the funds raised by the Guangzhou people and overseas Chinese in memory of Sun Yat-sen, the great revolutionary forerunner. Located in the original site of the the...

Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, a key historical relic protected by Guangdong province, is a memorial building built with the funds raised by the Guangzhou people and overseas Chinese in memory of Sun Yat-sen, the great revolutionary forerunner. Located in the original site of the then Sun Yat-sen's Presidential Office, it was designed by Mr. Lu Yanzhi, the great architect of the country. Construction work started in 1929 and finished in 1931.

Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall is a gorgeous octagonal structure, with solemn and magnificent looks, and strong national features. The designer smartly applied the structural theory of architectural mechanics and adopted the mixed structure of reinforced concrete. The construction space with the span of up to 71 meters is pillar-less, much to its grandeur. The memorial hall and the courtyard cover a land area of six hectares. The principal building occupies an area of 12,000 sq. meters, and 47 meters high. The stage measures 15 meters at the front and 20 meters in depth, together with 3,238 seats. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall is the most symbolized building of Guangzhou, and a key venue for the city's large-scale meetings and performances as well.

Shortly before Liberation, the memorial hall was severely damaged as it had long been out of repair. After Liberation, the people's government had all its facilities repaired and improved for seven times from the '50s to 1988. 1998 saw 60 million yuan allocated for the comprehensive overhaul of the memorial hall, replacing the central air-conditioning system, lights, acoustic equipment, seats, remodeling the VIP room, makeup rooms and the stage, adding fire-spray system and security controlling system. The statue of Sun Yat-sen in front of the hall was cast with bronze for a change. The square and the surroundings have also been further beautified. All these have made this time-honored building shine with vitality and a famous scenic spot loved by visitors from home and abroad.