No. 1 most beautiful ancient village in Guangdong

The number one most beautiful ancient village in Guangdong is Huangpu Village in Guangzhou City.

Huangpu Village, a natural village under the jurisdiction of Pazhou Street, Haizhu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, is a traditional Chinese village located on Pazhou Island, north of Huangpu Yong, with an area of ??2.5 square kilometers. Huangpu Village was born from water and prospered from the port. It is a typical representative of Guangzhou's thousand-year commercial port character and is one of the birthplaces of China's "Maritime Silk Road".

A famous foreign trade port for trade, it is also the anchorage for important witnesses of China’s foreign exchanges and trade, such as the beginning of Sino-US trade. Huangpu Village retains a relatively complete village layout, highlighting the characteristics of a typical Guangfu clan village with multiple surnames. There are characteristic buildings in the village such as the Japanese House, the aunt's house, and the Shequ Garden used by merchants in the Qing Dynasty to entertain guests. It also retains the characteristics of the dragon dance. There are many unique customs such as lion dance, eating fish without flipping over, tail first and then head.

Geographical environment of Guangdong

Guangdong Province is located in the southernmost part of mainland China, bordering Fujian to the east, Jiangxi and Hunan to the north, Guangxi to the west, the South China Sea to the south, and the Pearl River Estuary to the east and west. It borders the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, and the Leizhou Peninsula in the southwest faces Hainan Province across the Qiongzhou Strait. The entire territory is located between 20°09′～25°31′ north latitude and 109°45′～117°20′ east longitude.

It starts from Chizi Island in Nanpeng Islands in Nan'ao County in the east to Liangpo Village in Jijia Town, Leizhou City in the west, with an east-to-west span of about 800 kilometers. It stretches from Shang'ao Village, Baishi Township, Lechang County in the north to Dengloujiao, Jiaowei Township, Xuwen County, with a span of about 600 kilometers. The Tropic of Cancer runs across Guangdong from Nan'ao to Conghua to Fengkai. The province's land area is 179,800 square kilometers, accounting for approximately 1.87% of the country's land area.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia—Guangdong