Introduction to Huitong Temple: Huitong Temple is located on a small island in the northwest of the West Sea of ​​Shichahai. It was built in the Yuan Dynasty and was originally named Zhenshui Guanyin Temple. It was rebuilt and renamed Huitong Temple in the 26th year of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1761). The ancestral temple faces south and has 1 mountain gate, 3 front halls, 3 east and west auxiliary rooms, 3 back buildings, and a two-story front pavilion. There is a huge stone in the temple, with a pattern like a chicken and a lion, which is called the Chicken Lion Stone. There is a water pass nearby, and on the south bank there is a 1.9-meter-long stone sculpture of a water beast.

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