Introduction to Yuantong Palace: Yuantong Palace is located behind Cuijing Tower. In the center of the hall is a 4.5-meter-high statue of Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva, with eighteen Arhats on both sides. The Yuantong Hall used to be the Sangha Hall. In the seventh year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, Liu Liu and Liu Qi rebels were trapped here. The palace was destroyed by fire by the officers and soldiers. The government thought that they had received the help of the River God for this battle, so they moved the original statue of the Great Sage Bodhisattva in the hall to Zhiyun. It is worshiped in the back hall of the pagoda. After the temple was rebuilt in the ninth year of Zhengde, it was changed into the "Jianghai Shrine" to worship the River God. On July 19th every year, the Nantong local governor came here to worship the River God on behalf of the emperor. In the 38th year of Jiajing period, the Jianghai Temple suffered a disaster and was rebuilt in Yimao, Wanli. In the early Qing Dynasty, it was changed to honor Guanyin Bodhisattva, and later it was renamed King Yu Hall. Now it is the shape of Mahasthamaprapta that reaches the Bodhisattva Yuantong Hall.