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Yunfu 云浮Yúnfú
The Sixth Patriarch's birthplace and Guangdong's oldest cliff inscription
About Yunfu
Yunfu is a hilly, largely rural city south of the West River, known for working marble and granite brought in from across China and abroad. Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, was born in what is now Xinxing County, and Guo'en Temple, founded there in 683, is where he died in 713. Near Luoding, the Longkan Cave Inscriptions of 699 are the oldest surviving cliff inscription in Guangdong, written with characters created under Empress Wu Zetian.
What to eat in Yunfu
- Luoding crinkled fish puffs (罗定皱纱鱼腐)
Listed sites in Yunfu
6 sites in Yunfu are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Guo'en Temple, the Sixth Patriarch's Hometown 国恩寺 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Founded in 683 on Longshan hill in Liuzu town, Guo'en Temple is where Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, died in 713; it is counted with Guangxiao and Nanhua temples as one of his three ancestral seats, and the Platform Sutra is said to have been compiled here. - Jinshuitai Hot Spring Town 金水台温泉小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A modern hot-spring resort town in Shuitai, Xinxing county, run by the Xiangshun group and known for having three different types of natural hot spring in one area, with outdoor bathing pools, hotels and conference facilities. - Tianlu Mountain Resort 天露山 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain resort in Lidong town on the slopes of Tianlu Mountain, which at about 1,250 m is the highest peak in south-central Guangdong. - Changgangpo Aqueduct 长岗坡渡槽 National heritage site · on the map
An irrigation aqueduct striding across the farmland of the Luoping basin, built from 1976 to 1981 by more than 10,000 volunteer labourers from across Luoding county to end the frequent droughts around the county town. - Dawan Historic Buildings 大湾古建筑群 National heritage site
A group of late-Qing and early-Republican clan halls, family schools and large courtyard houses of the Li lineage spread through the villages of Dawan town, fourteen of which were listed together as a national heritage site in 2013. - Longkan Cave Inscriptions 龙龛岩摩崖石刻 National heritage site · on the map
A limestone cave beneath an isolated karst hill near Tanli village, where a text recording the religious retreat founded here in 621 by the Yongning county magistrate Chen Puguang was carved on the wall in 699.
On the map
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