Introduction to Ci'en Rock: Ci'en Rock was a fiefdom granted to the governor Xu Ji by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the mountain was named Ci'en Mountain, and the temple built there was also named Ci'en Temple. The stone statue of Guanyin in white in the Song Dynasty in Ci'en Temple was carved from natural rock during the Yuanyou period of the Song Dynasty. The Buddha statue is solemn and exquisitely carved; the couplet in the main hall of the temple is Li Zhi (1527-1602), an outstanding progressive thinker, writer, and historian in the late Ming Dynasty. He wrote "You don't need to be called a great scholar in the article, even if there are no bells and drums, you are still Guanyin"; in front of the temple, there is a thousand-year-old camphor tree, with green shade like a canopy, full of vitality.

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