Yuexiu Park is the largest comprehensive park in Guangzhou city, which is considered one of eight sights since the Yuan dynasty. The park features the style of the Lingnan area, the natural landscapes and cultural heritage perfectly coexist. A lot of visitors will come to the park to exercise daily, have a leisurely walk in the verdant forest, or join the hilarious flower show held in each spring and autumn.

What’s to see

Five Rams Statue

In the legendary story, five Fairies riding the rams to Guangzhou and give grain to starved people to plant, however, the five rams turned into stones. Five Rams Statue is the symbol of Guangzhou city. It was built in 1959 and carved by over 130 pieces of granite with 11 meters high, showing different expressions on the face. In the middle, the goat looks forward and holds the grain in the mouth, surrounded by two small goats snuggled up to two mature goats, reflecting love and peace and making people touched by the statue. Now we called Guangzhou as Ram City because of this beautiful legend.

Zhenhai Tower

Zhenhai Tower, also called Five Storey Tower, was praised at No. 1 beautiful landscapes in the Lingnan area. Built in 1380 during the Ming dynasty, it’s 28 meters high and 31 meters wide, boasting as the imposing and ethnic ancient building. You can climb to the top of Zhenhai Tower to have a bird’s view of the whole Guangzhou city and Pearl River. Now it changed its name to Guangzhou Museum which uses for storing historical relics and holding exhibitions.

Sun Yat-sen Monument

Located on the top of Guanyin Mountain, Sun Yat-sen Monument is built in 1929 by famous architect Lv Yanzhi, in honor of democratic revolutionist Mr. Sun. You need to climb 498 steps to reach the top to enjoy the monument which is made by granite, with 37 meters high, carving the last will of Sun Yat-sen, encouraging Chinese people to fight for the right of freedom and equality. On the base, it carved 26 stone rams to represent the Ram City-Guangzhou.

Ancient City Wall of Ming Dynasty

On the back of Sun Yat-sen Monument, there is an 1100-meter-long ancient city wall hiding in the forest, the only city wall section of Ming dynasty in Guangzhou. It is considered as one of three ground monuments in the early Ming dynasty with a history for more than 600 years, as well as Zhenhai Tower and Bell Tower.