foshan to guangzhou Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/foshan-to-guangzhou Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Foshan Map http://travelsfinders.com/foshan-map.html http://travelsfinders.com/foshan-map.html#respond Sun, 05 Feb 2017 13:18:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=230624 Chinese equivalent Situation History To Guangzhou 26 km Province: Guangdong Altitude: 5m/16ft. Area: 77sq.km/30sq. miles Population: 333,000 (conurbation 2,630,000) Foshan lies in the centre of the south of Guangdong province, about 20km/12’/2 miles south-west of Canton, at 113°10’E and 23°04’N. Archaeological finds in Foshan prove that the region was inhabited 2000 years ago. In 628 three bronze Buddha statues were discovered, and these gave the town its name – Foshan literally means “Buddha Mountain”. It became an important Buddhist site. Under the Song dynasty (960-1279) Ancestors (Foshan Zumiao) Foshan was known as a centre ofthe porcelain industry (Shiwan porcelain), metalworking

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