Tourist attraction
Panyu Xuegong
42 Zhong Shan Si Lu, Yue Xiu Qu, Guang Zhou Shi, Guang Dong Sheng, 510055
Ming-era exam school and Confucian temple where scholars once trained in martial arts too.
This guide to Panyu Xuegong in Guangzhou opens with a puzzle: why would an academy training at most forty scholars, founded in 1370, also require Confucian students to practice martial arts? It follows over fourteen hundred students who passed through toward imperial exam degrees, and a different crowd who filled these halls in 1926 to train as organizers. Walk through the stone Lingxing Gate and look up at its lion-topped pillars before reaching Dacheng Hall.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.