Experience the best of Foshan

Foshan lies in the Pearl River Delta south-west of Guangzhou, so close that the two cities share a metro line, and it has been a manufacturing town for centuries. The Ancestral Temple, a Taoist temple founded in the Song era and rebuilt in the Ming, has ornate roof ridges of ceramic figures, and the martial artists Wong Fei-hung and Ip Man both came from Foshan.

Shiwan, the ceramics district, produces glazed figurines, and the Nanfeng Ancient Kiln, a dragon kiln centuries old, is still fired. Xiqiao Mountain, a scenic hill park with lakes and a giant Guanyin statue, rises to the south-west of the city, and the lion-dance tradition of Foshan is known across the Cantonese world.

Shunde, a district of Foshan, is celebrated across China for Cantonese cooking, with river fish prepared raw or steamed and double-skin milk pudding, and has been named a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy. The climate is humid, hot in summer and mild in winter.