South China Historical Trail Project is to develop and reuse the existing ancient routes of Guangdong into featured tourist routes based on the modern traffic network, with the aim to connect urban and rural areas, the economically developed and underdeveloped regions.

The Historical Trail, with Guangzhou as the center and gearing toward the broad South China Sea, served as the cultural interaction medium in Lingnan in the history.

The lower section of Chaohui where the project is located was a section leading from Guangzhou to eastern Guangdong in ancient time. The Project focuses on the conservation and reuse design of several sites in South China Historical Trail, including Posts, Passes, Pavilions, Temples and Carvings, etc.

The Cultural Route Charter of International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) puts forward that cultural route heritage reflects the value of the interaction between different regions, different ethnic groups and different cultures in history, and emphasizes the protection of the relation of diverse topography, surroundings, culture, landscape in different routes between historical sites.

The design strategy is to focus on the diachronic nature and synchronic nature of the target to reemphasize the trafficability experience and iconic posts in the historical routes of the “linear cultural heritage” by design techniques that restore historical landscape.

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