Belief
Religion & folk belief
Religious sites, historic sacred architecture, folk belief and ritual traditions.
Buddhist temples
Feilai Temple
An old monastery on the north bank of Feilai Gorge, founded in the Liang and moved without leaving the gorge axis — one of Lingnan’s old temples. Su Shi’s gorge crossing is closely tied to it.
Qingcheng
Jinxia Chan Monastery
The Buddhist courtyard in the Feixia Mountain cluster, with Feilai Temple, Feixia and Cangxia forming the gorge incense belt.
Qingcheng
Zizhulin Nunnery
A women’s Buddhist monastery on the south bank of Feilai Gorge, facing Feilai Temple across the river. Qingcheng government pages list it with Feilai Temple among Feixia Mountain’s Buddhist houses; the scenic area has a “Purple-bamboo bells” sector.
Qingcheng
Xinglong Ancient Temple
A monastery at the foot of Damao Mountain, Dongcheng, Qingcheng — also Xinglong Temple or Xingfulong Ancient Temple. In Daoguang 22 Xinglong and Fulong were merged; in 1985 Feilai Temple’s abbot Shi Youcan led a rebuild on the old site. The county gazetteer notes Xinglong Temple at Longchuan Pit.
Qingcheng
Nanshan Shengshou Temple
An old monastery at Yingde Nanshan, founded in Liang 533, on the same hill as the Nanshan cliff inscriptions. Yingde allocated religious land to it in 2022. Standing halls are a contemporary rebuild.
Yingde
Beishan Ancient Temple
A temple at the foot of Xianling Mountain, Yangshan, founded in Ming Jiajing. Same hill as the Han Yu memorial landscape, listed apart.
Yangshan
Huiguang Temple
The living monastery beside Lianzhou’s Huiguang Pagoda, approved in 2007. The pagoda is national key heritage; the temple is a living house — listed apart.
Lianzhou
Guanyinshan Wangshan Temple
A monastery on Guanyin Mountain, Shijiao, Fogang, by the Ying–Fo road — a public worship stop on Fogang tourism pages.
Fogang
Zhen’an Ancient Temple
Qingxin’s public Buddhist house. On Guangdong’s 2016 fifth harmonious temple–church list it was Qingyuan’s only Buddhist site in that batch.
Qingxin
Guhua Temple
A Buddhist temple in Xiaolishui Village, Dalubian Town, Lianzhou, on the Xiaolishui–Guhua Temple green-development corridor.
Lianzhou
Fengsheng Ancient Temple
A Buddhist religious site in Lixi Town, Yingde, in the Fengsheng Ancient Temple area.
Yingde
Guanyinyan Temple
A Buddhist temple north of Guanyinyan Avenue in Yingde.
Yingde
Jinquan Temple
A Buddhist site near Jinzi Mountain north of Yingde, about 200 metres east of Township Road 772.
Yingde
Three-teachings grottoes
Daoist grottoes
Cangxia Grotto
A Daoist temple west of Feixia, founded in Tongzhi 2, earlier than Feixia Grotto. Guangdong 5th-batch provincial heritage site.
Qingcheng
Taihe Grotto
A Qingxin highland grotto and old Daoist cluster — both a climb and a belief space. The legend is a separate municipal folk-literature item.
Qingxin
Jingfu Mountain / Fushan Temple
Jingfu Mountain at Bao’an, Lianzhou — a gazetteer scenic site and mixed Daoist–Buddhist mountain temple. Huang Sun read here; prefect Jiang Fang rebuilt it and wrote the stele.
Lianzhou
Pagodas
Lianzhou Huiguang Pagoda
A brick pagoda by the Lianzhou river, recorded from Liu-Song Taishi 4. A national key heritage site — the apex of Qingyuan’s Buddhist pagoda remains.
Lianzhou
Penglai Temple Pagoda
A Song brick pagoda northeast of Hangguang Town, Yingde. Guangdong provincial heritage, 2nd batch. Listed apart from Lianzhou’s Huiguang Pagoda: this is Yingde’s pagoda layer.
Yingde
Folk belief and ritual
Lady Caozhu temples
Temples and calendar sites of the Yingde Lady Caozhu cult, provincial ICH.
Yingde
Bao’an Great God Assembly
A god-carrying procession around Bao’an, Lianzhou. Provincial ICH — the public ritual face of Huangchuan folk belief.
Lianzhou
Shafang Buddha-Bathing Festival
The Buddha-bathing year-rite at Shafang, Lianzhou. Provincial ICH, a Buddhist feast overlapping village public life.
Lianzhou
Ox King Birthday rites
Lianshan Zhuang cattle-honouring on the 8th of the 4th lunar month. Provincial ICH. Agrarian belief sites follow the villages.
Lianshan
Sanhedong Fude shrine
The shrine for the Lantern Festival newborn-son lantern rite at Sanhedong Village, Taiping, Yangshan. Lanterns hang in the Fude shrine. The village is a Chinese Traditional Village.
Yangshan
Water-deity folk belief
Daoist temples
Folk deity temples
Christian sites
Qingyuan Catholic Church
Qingcheng’s public Catholic church. Listed in 2012 among Guangdong’s harmonious temple–church sites as Qingyuan Catholic Church.
Qingcheng
Lianzhou Catholic Church
Lianzhou Catholic Church was rebuilt on a new site and dedicated on 24 May 2025, with the Bishop of Guangzhou presiding and Qingyuan’s ethnic-and-religion bureau sending congratulations.
Lianzhou
Yuantan Gospel Hall
Qingcheng Yuantan Town’s public Protestant church. Named on Guangdong’s 2016 fourth harmonious temple–church list as Qingcheng Christian Yuantan Gospel Hall.
Qingcheng