Shaoguan
Sign in to saveShaoguan is a prefecture-level city in northern Guangdong Province (Yuebei), South China, bordering Hunan to the northwest and Jiangxi to the northeast. It is home to the mummified remains of the sixth Zen Buddhist patriarch Huineng. Its built-up (or metro) area made up of Zhenjiang, Wujiang and Qujiang urban districts was home to 1,028,460 inhabitants as of the 2020 census.
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Shaoguan is a prefecture-level city in northern Guangdong Province in South China that borders Hunan and Jiangxi provinces. It is historically significant as the home of the mummified remains of Huineng, the sixth patriarch of Zen Buddhism, and had a metropolitan population of over 1 million people as of 2020.
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Shaoguan is a prefecture-level city in northern Guangdong Province (Yuebei), South China, bordering Hunan to the northwest and Jiangxi to the northeast. It is home to the mummified remains of the sixth Zen Buddhist patriarch Huineng. Its built-up (or metro) area made up of Zhenjiang, Wujiang and Qujiang urban districts was home to 1,028,460 inhabitants as of the 2020 census.
==History== Shaozhou or Seochew was a prefecture under the Tang and Song.