The boat hall
On the water.
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One of the «Four Great Gardens of Guangdong» and a model of the Lingnan style of southern Chinese garden design; its name means «Garden of Pure Splendour». It was built in the Jiaqing reign of the Qing on land that had been the garden of Huang Shijun, top scholar in the imperial examinations of 1607, and passed to the Long family, whose sons built its present parts; it has been a protected national monument since 2013. In a small space the garden brings together ponds full of colourful fish, little waterfalls among the rocks, pavilions and timber halls with stained-glass windows and fine carving, and round doorways and decorated walls dividing its sections; its best-known building is a hall shaped like a boat looking out over the water. Tickets cost just CNY 15, and it is open from 9 am to 5.30 pm with last entry at 5 pm, per visitor guides. Shunde itself is southern China's food town, named a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy in 2014.
On the water.
In the windows.
Among the rocks.
23 Qinghui Road, Daliang, Shunde District, Foshan, Guangdong
Shunde is famous for Cantonese cooking that uses a lot of pork, so choose vegetable and fish dishes and ask about ingredients, and look for restaurants run by Muslims under the halal sign in Foshan or nearby Guangzhou.