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With a history of more than 2,200 years, the city has been the cultural and economic center of South China since ancient times.
Historic sights include the Museum of Nanyue King Mausoleum, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall and Whampoa Military Academy.
With an area of 14,000 square meters, the Museum of the Nanyue King Mausoleum is the oldest and largest Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) tomb with the most funerary antiquity, as well as elegant architecture.
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Memorial swirls with the forces of China's history
It is somewhat difficult to define the Chen Family Temple. It has been called a school or a clan temple, and at various times it had housed a museum and a printing shop.
Now, it stands in the western part of Guangzhou as the biggest compound of historical architecture.
Some of the 19 halls serve as galleries for a wide range of local arts and crafts, from Cantonese embroidery to pottery and porcelain, and even to Cantonese Opera.
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A place where billboards create landscapes
The very first impression I had of Guangzhou was of the chockablock billboards that lined up the road leading from the old railway station.
At a time when most of urban China was blanketed in drabness, the density of advertising here must have been a huge shock.
"It looked just a Western metropolis," I, who had never been out of my own province, told my classmates, in 1982, after my first trip to Guangzhou for the interview for my graduate exam.
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The guardian city on the Pearl River nurtures both classics and new-age marvels.
How beautiful the day is when you are allowed to sleep as long as you like and then wake up to a feast of dim sum. That was how my first day started in Guangzhou, the southern city just 75 miles up the Pearl River from Hong Kong.
Our guide from the Shangri-La Hotel, Guangzhou, took us to Panxi Jiujia, a restaurant where her grandfather used to bring her when she was a little girl.
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