Relic of Yaozhou, Lingnan garden and protected relic in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, China

The Relic of Yaozhou, also called Jiuyiao Garden, is a walled garden on Jiaoyu Road in Yuexiu, Guangzhou. Its centre is a small pond holding about 440 square metres of water, in which stand eight Taihu rocks; nine were originally named the Nine Luminous Stones. A gatehouse in Five Dynasties style, three bays wide and 7 metres across, and a stele corridor were built in 1993.

During the Southern Han Dynasty, this area was developed into a royal garden featuring artificial water features and islands for growing medicinal plants. Later, during the Song period, scholars and artists added their inscriptions to the site, leaving behind a record of their presence.

The nine strange rocks in the lake were called the Nine Luminous Stones (Jiuyue Shi), and the garden itself is also known as Jiuyue Yuan, the Nine Luminous Garden. The site preserves a set of Taihu lake stones, eight of which survive today; the buried landscape rocks were raised during the restoration begun in 1988.

The site is open to visitors and has seating areas with educational displays explaining how the location changed over time. Comfortable shoes are recommended since exploring the grounds involves walking through a garden layout.

The lake was dug around 919 under Liu Yan, founder of the Southern Han, and measured some 1,600 metres from north to south. Nine strange rocks in the water were called the Nine Luminous Stones. By 1949 only eight remained, and restoration from 1988 raised buried rocks and extended the lake westward.