Tradition in Maoming holds that lychees picked from an orchard in Genzi township once travelled north by relay horse to please a Tang-dynasty emperor's favourite concubine; today the city grows roughly one in five of the world's lychees.
茂名有个说法，根子镇一处果园所产的荔枝，曾经由驿马接力向北送去，只为博得一位唐代皇帝宠妃一笑；如今，这座城市出产的荔枝约占全世界产量的五分之一。
The orchard,...
Two Italian Jesuits put on Buddhist monks' robes and settled beside the West River in Zhaoqing in 1583; above the entrance to their residence hung a plaque calling it Xianhua Temple, written by the local prefect himself.
一五八三年，两名意大利耶稣会士身穿佛门僧袍，在肇庆西江边定居；他们的住所门上悬着一块匾额，题为"仙花寺"，出自当地知府亲笔。
In the early...
Song dynasty court rivals had the poet Su Shi banished to Huizhou in 1094 after years of factional infighting at court; over the nearly three years that followed, he helped finance two bridges by donating an imperial rhinoceros-horn belt,...
Two European missionaries introduced football to a mountain valley in Wuhua county in 1873, cutting goalposts from timber for the schoolboys they taught; more than a century later, the spot they chose is officially recognised as where modern football...
Guangdong officials in 2011 created a special cooperation zone from four towns in Shanwei's Haifeng county. Shenzhen subsequently planned to relocate some 4,000 lower-end industrial projects there as it cleared polluting, energy-intensive and other lower-end industry from its own...
Construction workers repairing a road through the middle of Heyuan in 2015 stopped their machinery halfway through the job after uncovering 43 fossilised dinosaur eggs buried beneath the road, 19 of them still completely intact.
二零一五年,一队正在河源市中心修路的工人,在施工过程中意外挖出四十三枚恐龙蛋化石,不得不停下机械设备;其中十九枚保存完整。
Even the museum built to...
A Sino-British salvage team searching for a completely different, Dutch East India Company wreck stumbled instead in 1987 upon a Song dynasty merchant ship that had lain buried beneath the seabed off Yangjiang for more than 800 years.
一九八七年,一支本欲寻找荷兰东印度公司沉船的中英联合打捞队伍,却意外发现了一艘在阳江外海海床下埋藏逾八百年的宋代商船。
Archaeologists ultimately...
Historical tradition in Qingyuan links a single riverside gorge to four of the most consequential figures in the history of Chinese Buddhism, whose lives spanned more than two centuries of the religion's development in China and beyond.
清远当地的历史传说,将一处江畔峡谷,与中国佛教史上四位举足轻重的人物联系在一起,他们的一生,跨越了佛教在中国及其以外地区发展的两百余年。
Bodhidharma, traditionally regarded...
