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Where is Nanhua Temple?

On the bank of Caoxi, 7 kilometers southeast of Maba, Qujiang County, Guangdong Province. Nanhua Temple Songzi Guanyin is located on the bank of Caoxi, 7 kilometers southeast of Maba, Qujiang County, Guangdong Province, and 24 kilometers away from Shaoguan City. Seeing Guanyin off at Nanhua Temple is one of the famous ancient Buddhist temples in China, and it is the birthplace of Huineng, the sixth ancestor of Zen Buddhism, who promoted Nanzong Zen. The South Birthday Temple Fair, also known as the Six Ancestors' Birthday Temple Fair, began in the Tang Dynasty (7 14 AD) and was held by the abbot of Baolin Temple (later renamed Zhongxing Temple and Fashen Temple) on the eighth day of February and the third day of August in the lunar calendar every year to worship the six ancestors of Zen. "South Birthday" temple fair has a long history, rich content, large scale and important value. The activities of the South China Birthday Temple Fair include "praying for ancestors", "morning prayers", "ancestor worship", "believing in the people at noon", "releasing people" and "passing the lights". The annual "South Birthday" temple fair covers Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea and other countries in the world, which has played an important role in spreading the Buddhist Zen thoughts of Huineng, the sixth ancestor, and further strengthening the religious status of Nanhua Temple as the ancestral home of Buddhist Zen in China.