The heavy-industry town of the Ming-Qing era — a dense cluster of private iron-smelting, casting, and textile workshops, the most famous civilian industrial antenna of medieval China powering ironware exports to Southeast Asia.

Foshan Guangdong

The historic Zumiao (Ancestral Temple) of Foshan displaying green-brick walls and ornate clay-sculpted roof ridges, with ancient banyan trees in the stone courtyard