Tianchi Floating Lotus Introduction: A large stone shaped like a lotus is covered on top of a small pool. This is another wonder in the Zangyun River Scenic Area. This small pool is called Xiaotianchi, and it turns out to be a sky drain. What is a sky leak? It is said that after Pangu created the world, the world was divided into day and night, but there was no such difference in the underworld. There used to be a Palace of Hell in Shiqiutou at the foot of Wulei Mountain, where was the underworld. In order to tell the time in this underground world, someone dug a hole under Tianchi, connected a basin below, and filled the basin with water every hour to keep time. Since Venerable Narayana came to Wulei Mountain, he found that the Tianchi water had been stolen, so he came here on a cloud. He sat on the lotus platform and blocked the hole below with an agarwood stone. But after he left, the stone disappeared again. After repeating this process several times, Naluoyan knew that it was a mountain ghost causing trouble, so he simply covered his lotus seat on it, so that the mountain ghost could not move away from the lotus seat, and the sky leak was blocked. From then on, this stone lotus flower stayed on top of Tianchi forever.

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