Guangxiao Temple

Built at early Western Han, Guangxiao Temple is the biggest and also the oldest Buddhist temple in Guangzhou, and one of the four gardens here. It enjoys the saying Guangxiao Temple before Guangzhou City.Hui Neng, the sixth Zen Patriarch, had his hair cut here and became the founder of the Southern School of Chinese Buddhism. The east and west iron towers in the Temple are the biggest ones existing in China.