What tourist places are there near Guangzhou East Railway Station?

1. Guangzhou Zoo

4A Scenic Spot | Zoo address: No. 120, Xianlie Middle Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou

Overview of the scenic spot: Recommended to visit for 0.5 days? Best season October to December

Business hours: 08:00-16:30 in peak season, 08:00-16:00 in off-season

2. Huanghuagang Park 4A Scenic Area | Park address: Guangzhou No. 79, Xianlie Middle Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou

Overview of the scenic spot: Huanghuagang Park is located on Xianlie Road, Guangzhou. On March 29, 1911 (April 27, 1911), the Tongmenhui led by Sun Yat-sen launched an armed uprising in Guangzhou and attacked the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. After a day and night of bloody fighting, they finally failed due to being outnumbered. More than 100 people, including Yu Peilun, died. Pan Dawei, a member of the alliance, took the risk and traveled far and wide, and charity organizations came forward to collect the bodies. 72 bodies were collected and buried together here. After Pan's death, he was also buried here.

The cemetery was built in 1918. It has a solemn and majestic layout and covers an area of ??30,000 square meters. The banner on the tomb door is a large gilt character inscribed by Sun Wen, "The majesty lasts forever".

Both sides of the tomb passage are covered with flowers, trees and inscriptions. There are pine trees planted by Sun Yat-sen himself, seal script inscriptions inscribed by Zhang Taiyan, and a giant inscription "Record of the Revolution of March 29, 1911 in Guangzhou" erected in 1934. monument.

According to the inscription, there were 86 Communists who sacrificed their lives in the uprising battles or who were unyielding and generous in their execution, including 27 overseas Chinese, all of whom were from Guangdong. Although the Guangzhou Uprising failed, it inspired the people across the country and became a prelude to the victory of the Wuchang Uprising. Sun Yat-sen therefore said that the "Guangzhou Uprising" can live as long as the Wuchang Revolution.

It is recommended to play for 1-2 hours, the best season is suitable for all seasons

Business hours 06:00-18:30

3. The Seventy-two Martyrs of Huanghuagang Tomb

4A Scenic Spot | Cultural Relics and Historic Sites Huanghuagang Park, No. 79 Xianlie Middle Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou

Overview of the scenic spot: It is recommended to visit for 3 hours

4. Yuntai Garden

No. 801, Guangyuan Middle Road, Baiyun District, Guangzhou

Overview of the scenic spot: Guangzhou Yuntai Garden is located at the entrance of the scenic Baiyun Mountain, facing Guangyuan Road to the south and Baiyun Cableway to the east. , named after the Yuntai Ridge with Baiyun Mountain at its back and the rare Chinese and foreign flowers of all seasons in the garden.

It was completed and opened in September 1995. The structure of Yuntai Garden is quite artistic. It combines Eastern and Western architectural art and ancient and modern culture, showing a unique garden style.

The overall layout of the garden is centered on the wide steps facing the gate, with special glass paving in the middle. Under the glass, lights of various colors are installed. At the top of the glass steps is a small lake. There is also a ring of lights at the bottom of the lake, named Yanhu Lake.

At night, the lake, dyed colorful by the lights, slowly flows down the glass steps and turns into a colorful river, overflowing with light and dreamlike.

The overall layout of the garden is centered on the wide steps facing the gate. The steps are divided into three parts. There are symmetrical marble steps on the left and right sides, and a special glass pavement in the middle.

Under the glass, lights of various colors are installed. At the top of the glass steps is a small lake, and there is a ring of lights at the bottom of the lake, named Yanhu Lake. It is located in Santailing, south of Baiyun Mountain Scenic Area, with a total area of ??12 hectares. It borders Guangyuan Road to the south and Baiyun Cableway to the east.

Yuntai Garden is a new type of garden that is mainly decorated with flowers, trees and greening, with flowers blooming in all seasons and highly ornamental. The garden has been officially opened since the National Day in 1995. With high standards, high taste and high quality management, the garden has become an important window for Guangzhou to face the country and the world. It has attracted countless tourists at home and abroad and has received praise from all walks of life. . It is recommended to visit for 4 hours. The best season is suitable for all seasons.

Business hours: 08:00-22:00

5. Baiyun Mountain Cableway

Baiyun Mountain 3, Baiyun Avenue Qifeng Tower at the southern foot of Tailing

Overview of the scenic spot: It is recommended to visit for one day

The best season is autumn

Business hours: Monday to Friday 09:00-17 :00

Weekend? 09:00-20:00

6. Universal Magic World

Huachenghui, No. 74 Huangpu Avenue West, Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province B1 Floor

Overview of the scenic spot: MAG Global Magic World is located in Zhujiang New Town, CBD of Guangzhou, in the north area of ??Huachenghui Shopping Center, covering an area of ??about 20,000 square meters.

It brings together the world's top high-tech multimedia interactive entertainment projects, thrilling experiential games, creative cultural theme parks, high-end catering, entertainment and leisure, and is the first comprehensive large-scale indoor park in China.

MAG Global Magic World is a new force in the high-tech fantasy world. It consists of the most advanced foreign multimedia mobile games, thrilling experiential games, and creative cultural theme parks.

Extended information:

Guangzhou has been the political, economic and cultural center of Guangdong and even Lingnan since ancient times. In various cultural fields such as architecture, art, religion, drama, music, literature, painting, crafts, food, gardens, customs, etc., it shows its long historical origins and distinctive personality everywhere.

Three historical sites of the Nanyue Kingdom in Guangzhou, including the Nanyue Kingdom Palace Administration Site, the Nanyue King’s Tomb, and the Nanyue Kingdom Watergate Site, are jointly applying for the United Nations World Cultural Heritage.

School

During the Southern Song Dynasty, the famous Southern Song Dynasty official Cui Yuyu and his disciple Li Pleiying founded the first academic school in Lingnan history - Jupo School in Guangzhou, which was the leading academic school in Lingnan at that time. The mainstream school of thought emphasizes practical knowledge.

Li Piaoying is the first person to win the third prize in the history of Lingnan. His important students include Zhang Zhensun, Chen Dazhen, Li Chunsou, He Wenji, etc. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhan Ruoshui founded the "Ganquan School" on the basis of inheriting Chen Baisha's teachings, and founded nearly 40 academies across the country with thousands of disciples spread all over the country. It became a major sect of Neo-Confucianism and promoted the development of Neo-Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty. The development and prosperity of mind science.

In the Qing Dynasty, the "Dongshu School" represented by Chen Li was formed in Guangzhou. His book "Han Confucianism Tongyi" demonstrated that the sectarian views of Sinology and Song Dynasty were groundless, and advocated breaking the sectarian views;

"Dongjuku Reading Notes" has even spread to Japan and has become a must-read for Sinology majors in Japanese universities. After the Opium War, Kang Youwei founded the "Wanmu Thatched Cottage" in Guangzhou to cultivate reform talents to strengthen the country through reform. Important students include Liang Qichao, Mai Menghua, Xu Qin, etc.;

He Ziyuan, Qiu Fengjia, etc. actively founded and promoted it The new-style schools cultivated a large number of social elites with progressive ideas and determination to innovate, and accumulated huge energy for the Revolution of 1911.

Literature

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yang Fu, a Han Yilang scholar in Guangzhou, wrote my country's first regional monograph on products, "Foreign Objects Chronicles", and was the first scholar in Guangdong to write a book. .

In the Song Dynasty, the Pearl River Delta became the center of Lingnan literature. Cui Yu and Li Pleiying of Guangzhou were figures with national influence. Cui Yu was the founder of Lingnan Song poetry.

In the Ming Dynasty, literary societies represented by Nanyuan Qianwuzi and Nanyuan Houwuzi Poetry Society were popular in Guangzhou. Representative figures include Sun_, Huang Zhe, Ou Daren, Liang Youyu, Li Minbiao, Wu Dan, and Li Shixing. , Kuang Lu, Chen Zizhuang, Li Suiqiu, etc.

In the Qing Dynasty, a group of poets represented by the "Three Lingnan Masters" and the "Seven Lingnan Masters" appeared in Guangzhou, including Qu Dajun, Chen Gongyin, Liang Peilan, Cheng Keze, Wang Bangji, Fang Dianyuan, Fang Huan, Fang Chao, Zhang Weiping, Liang Dingfen, etc.

Making the Lingnan poetry circle a tripartite stand-alone with the Central Plains, Jiangsu and Zhejiang poetry circles. The poems of the "Three Lingnan Masters" enjoyed a high reputation in the Qing Dynasty poetry circle and also occupied an important position in the history of Chinese literature.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia--Guangzhou