Shaoguan

Shaoguan is a prefecture level city in northern Guangdong province, China, bordering Hunan and Jiangxi, where the Wu and Zhen rivers meet to form the North River. It served as the temporary capital of Guangdong during the Second World War after Guangzhou fell to Japanese forces, and in 1589 it hosted the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci's first mission on the Chinese mainland. The city is home to Nanhua Temple, which holds the mummified remains of Huineng, the sixth patriarch of Zen Buddhism, and to Mount Danxia, a UNESCO World Heritage site; its metropolitan population was about 1.03 million at the 2020 census. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/