page_title: Xunliao Bay
section_title: Scenic spots
hierarchical_section_title: Xunliao Bay / Scenic spots
caption_attribution_description: English: Rock Garden of Xunliao Bay, Guangdong, China
context_page_description: Xunliao Bay, located in the east of the Daya Bay, the eastern part of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong, falling into the humid subtropical climate, is a tourist resort characterized by a total jurisdiction of 105 square kilometers and spring all year round with an average temperature of 21.7 degrees Celsius. Xunliao Bay is honored as a dazzling pearl among Guangdong coastal areas.
context_section_description: Queen of Heaven Palace (Chinese: 天后宫) – Lingnan Folk Cultural Commercial Street
  Queen of Heaven Palace is a leisure cultural scenic spot that combines sightseeing, catering, shopping and folk customs experiencing. Covering a floor space of about 55,120 square meters, of which about 28,882 square meters is used for the facilities such as palaces, catering and shopping services, bar street, and performance center, etc. 
  The overall architectural style is based on the Lingnan Customs, such as the 9.9-meter-high honorific arch at the entrance of the commercial street, Lingnan cuisine restaurants, Lingnan craft shops and other stores on both sides of the street. A major reflection of Mazu (Chinese: 妈祖), Hakka and marine cultures lies in the construction of the Queen of Heaven Palace, which is located in the heart of the street. Inside the building, the largest Mazu statue of 5.3-meter height in Guangdong can be found, so does the bronze embossments of Hakka people's migration map. The first Mazu Culture Festival in Xunliao was held there in the year of 2012.
  Rocks Garden – Natural Rock Formations (Chinese: 奇石群)
  The Natural Rock Formations distribute on the coast. Exposed to the wind and waves, the rocks of various forms gradually appear for a thousand-year erosion. In the distance, these rocks look like animals playing on the beach, and thus some literati named them with poetic beauty, for example, “a seal turning the mill” (Chinese: 海狗推磨), “a sheep playing in the sea” (Chinese: 绵羊戏海), and “a steed exploring the sea” (Chinese: 骏马探海), etc.
caption: Rock Garden, Guangdong, China.
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