【正文】 t of Guangzhou about 20 kilometers away from the the mountain area, there is a wellpreserved ancient quarry dating back 2000 years, a pagoda built during the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty, an old castle constructed during the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty and a newly setup Guanyin Statue which is the tallest of its kind in the Lotus Mountain prises 48 redrock red sandstone here,with its high density and fine grains,is a kind of good , as far back as the 2nd century BC during the Western Han Dynasty,people had started quarrying stones here for Lotus Pagoda is 50 meters high and was built at the highest point of the main ,in the past, it often served as a navigation mark for the ships that sailed upstream from the Lingding Ocean along the Pearl River to Chinese Buddhism, Guanyin has 36 the Tang Dynasty, it used to appear as a male and was gradually changed into female looks sedate and a magic vase and a willow branch in her hands,she has supernatural power to bring the dead back to the side of the statue is the Guanyin was pleted on , that is , in Chinese lunar calendar,the birthday of the Pavilion, there are 1000 small Guanyin statues of and coloured porcelain—a fact that makes it worthy of the name Thousand Buddha the northeast end of theLotus Mountain stands an old castle,built at the third year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty(AD1664).It was a barracks for the Qing army and was a supplementary part of the defense system at the Pearl River estuary set up by the Qing government during the Opium the 19th century, China was in an era when its feudal social system was on the wane while the Western capitalist countries(especially Britain)were at the best of times when they enjoyed a rapid industrial Chen Family Temple, also called Chen Clan Academy, was also a school for children of the Chen 1959,it was converted into the Guangzhou Folk Art Museum,for the temple structure itself is a prehensive expression of the exquisite Guangdong folk arts and a ground space of 15,000 square meters, with a floor space of 6,400 square meters, the Chen Family Temple was built in the traditional Chinese architectural the wall on the either side of the main entrance is a picture carved on bricks,depicting different stories from Chinese historical are regarded as representative works of the exquisite Guangdong ,The stone drums at the main entrance are a symbol of social status of the Chen the feudal society ofthe Qing Dynasty,people could place a pair of drums in front of their house only when someone in their family had been conferred an academic degree of(or higher than)“jinshi’,a title given to successful candidates in the imperial two portraits on the doorleaves are doorgods were two legendary gods,Shentu and Yulei, who, it is said, were able to catch ghosts and protect a house from evil at this hen and some chicks are walking leisurely looking for food under the shade of the big leaves of a banana chickens here are not portrayed just for chickens’sake but are likened to the present generations of the , the big leaves of the banana tree are pared to the great property or great wealth created by past generations, because the Chinese words for “big leaf” and the words for “great property” or “great wealth”are homophones of each the tops of the balusters are carved several kinds of fruit that abound in South China:peach,starfruit,papaya and so are symbolic offerings to the Chen family’s is the rear hall of the temple and was the place where the Chen people worshiped their the shrine there used to be tablets of their ancestors,which were arranged in the order of seniority in the one at the top was “Emperor Shun”,who was believed to be the remote ancestor of the Chen covers an area of about 30,000 square exhibits include physical objects,historical pictures,diagrams and three grand people’s fighting against opium over 150 years ago is played here again site reminds people of the war which shocked the world at that great efforts, 1,150,000 kilograms of opium was seized from British people on the sea in this June 3rd to 25th,1839, Lin Zexu destroyed all the confiscated opium here in worldwideastonishing event is called Destruction of Opium in marks the beginning of the modern history of took 20 days to destroy all of the forfeited action gave a message to the world that Chinese had the determination to ban opium and opium trade, to fightagainst foreign construction area of this exhibition building is 2,400 square the first floor is the theme about Lin Zexu’s ban on opium and some historical facts related to the Opium theme is subdivided into eight exhibits on the 2nd floor tell us a plete story of the Opium War in an accessible use not only pictures and physical objects,but also war settings,terrain models on sand and ’s more, acoustic, opticand electronc techniques are employed to bring vividness to the Horse Monument is an important antique in this exhibition touching story about it is what I am eager to share with War Museum has a collection of more than 3000 pieces of them, 13 pieces including “Cannons Used in the War” are listed as national Alevel cultural the exhibits on display witness the Chinese resistance to foreign insults and invasions during that celebrating his birthday at the 26th year ofKaiyuan in Tang Dynasty, emperor Xuanzong ordered that each of the 81 states and counties in the country should choose a big temple to be named after reign title, Kaiyuan, so Lifeng Temple in Chaozhou was renamed Kaiyuan Temple is a quadrangle in palace style,currently covering an area of 17,000 square one of the four most famous temples in Guangdong Province and thee largest of its kind in east Guangdong Temple was listed as the key cultural relic protection units by the State Council in July, Hall was built in Ming are two Jingangs in the hall and they are it’s guardian are called as “Heng” and “Ha” generals by the in Song Dynasty, the hall of Heavenly King is the only existing 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