Introduction to the Buddha statue: In the first year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty (1506), in the spring of praying for rain on the top of the stone lotus, the villagers cut down stones and built a pavilion at the foot of the stone lotus. The beams, columns and roof were all made of granite. It is composed of strips of stone and is commonly known as Shiting. The pavilion is 1.4 meters high, 1.6 meters wide and 1.6 meters deep, and has a gabled roof with half-mountain eaves. The name of the pavilion is taken from the "not old" in the sentence "A lotus is not old" in the poem "Lotus Stone" written by Dai Chen of the Northern Song Dynasty. In the pavilion, there is a stone statue of Guanyin carved in the 33rd year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1605), and there are ten couplets carved on the beams and pillars of the pavilion.

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