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A ten-minute walk south from the Huaisheng Mosque is Huifu Xi Lu, where you'll find the well-concealed entrance of Wuxian Guan , the Five Immortals' Temple (9am-noon & 1.30-5pm; Y2). Dating from 1377, the original wooden building is nonfunctional and dusty, but some obviously ancient statues pop up around the place: weathered guardian lions flank the way in, and there are some stylized Ming sculptures out the back, looking like giant chess pieces. The Five Immortals - three men and two women - are depicted too, riding their goatly steeds as they descend through the clouds to found Guangzhou. More impressive, however, is a fourteenth-century bell tower behind the temple, in which hangs a colossal three-metre-high, five-tonne bronze bell, silent since receiving the blame for a plague which broke out shortly after its installation in 1378. It has been called the "Forbidden Bell" ever since.
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