Introduction to the Hidden Buddha Pit: It is said that on the third day of the eighth lunar month in the second year of Xiantian of the Tang Dynasty (713 AD), the Sixth Patriarch Huineng summoned all his disciples at Guoen Temple to preach the Dharma and say farewell. , he said to his disciples: "I'm going." After saying that, he saw a ray of light rising into the sky and going straight to the south. After the white light passed, the body of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng disappeared, and the disciples were shocked. , hurriedly walked out of Guoen Temple and searched in the direction where the white light disappeared. When they arrived at Sitian Village, they found in a pit the Sixth Patriarch sitting on a big stone with a peaceful expression. Later people called this pit the "Hidden Buddha Pit".

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