Nanshe of Dongguan is a rare ancient village of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the Lingnan region. It has won 13 national and 15 provincial honorary titles, such as "China's Historic and Cultural Villages" and "Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level". In the ancient village, the layout of residential houses, ancestral halls, academies, family temples, banyan trees, pavilions, archways, and so on are orderly distributed, forming a unique landscape of farming civilization, with distinctive Guang Fu(Cantonese) cultural characteristics in Lingnan region.

Most of the dwellings were built along both sides of the pond, taking advantage of the natural hills. Carved red stone door frames and green grinding brick walls are almost everywhere. Watching the fresh willows, small bridges, flowing water, and households, you can sense the ancient rhymes of the Ming and Qing dynasties and have a feeling of traveling through time and space.

东莞南社古村，是岭南地区不可多得的明清古村落，先后获得“中国历史文化名村”“全国重点文物保护单位”等13项国字号荣誉称号和15项省级荣誉称号。

走进古村，民居、祠堂、书院、家庙、古榕、楼阁、牌楼等布局有序分布，构成了独具一格的农耕文明景观，具有鲜明的岭南广府文化特色。

这里民居大多沿池塘两边而建，并利用自然山势错落布列。目之所及，几乎一律的雕花红石门框，豆青色的水磨青砖墙。杨柳依依，小桥流水人家，明清的古韵几乎让人有一种穿越时空的感觉。