About this place

Lingnan Impression Garden is located in the Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre, the Lingnan Impression Garden（岭南印象园）embodies the essence of local culture. Covering an area of 16.5 hectares, it’s a tourist attraction integrating sight-seeing, leisure, entertainment, catering and shopping service.
Inside the garden, there are lanes, ancestral hall, residences and shops with distinct Lingnan characteristics. The garden highlights the original Lingnan culture and customs by shaping Lingnan landscape and displaying the real living scenes of common people. Just spending one day there, tourists can get a comprehensive view of ancient Lingnan folkways.

Lingnan Impression Garden houses many traditional Lingnan architectural groups. The residences are built beside river. Long lanes, primitive gates, spectacular oyster shell walls, exquisite windows, winding streams and clear ponds are all elements of typical Lingnan water towns.

The garden gathers a great deal of intangible cultural heritage such as Guangdong embroidery, pearl embroidery, painted porcelain, wood carvings, ash carvings, stone carvings and brick carvings, etc. Besides appreciating these wonderful crafts, you can also learn from the master craftsman, who will teach you to make some simple crafts hand by hand.

Lingnan Impression Garden is also a good place to look back upon the past of Guangzhou. The iron toys, comic books and games like rolling hoops and throwing sandbags are prone to arouse local people’s nostalgia for the childhood. Besides, you can see the police station, county government, newspaper office, bank and cinema in the old times. If you like adventures, the garden won’t let you down. You can find sloping house, upside-down house and Pandora house here.