Formerly known as "Wenchang Tower", it is also called "Lion Tower". The tower is 50 meters high, with 9 floors outside and 1 1 floor inside. Red columns and white walls, doors and windows or eight-sided niches. With simple modeling and exquisite craftsmanship, it is a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit in Guangdong. There is a statue of Confucius on the top of the tower, which is dedicated to a teacher of past dynasties.
"Guangdong New Language" contains: thousands of people are among them, hammering and chiseling day and night. Down to the three springs, there are thousands of caves in the middle, the ground veins are absolutely in the middle, and the mountain gas does not flow. The skin of a peak has peeled off, the bone marrow of a hole has become barren, the soil has decayed, the fire has died, and the spring has gradually withered. It is impossible to develop the people by nourishing the clouds and spitting rain and nourishing everything.
According to the records in Panyu County Records (Tongzhi of Qing Dynasty), Fu in Guangzhou repeatedly banned it in the Ming Dynasty, but he still repeatedly prohibited privately opening mountains and quarrying stones. Taigong Cui and others have repeatedly claimed that "at the foot of Shili Mountain, Humen is guarded, while at the top of the mountain, Yangcheng is guarded, saving Feng Shui, leaning on it as an important town, and hurting Feng Shui, and begging for permission is strictly prohibited".
At that time, the plague was rampant in southern Guangdong and the people were poor, so a tower was built on the main peak to thicken, strengthen the pulse and eliminate the epidemic.
So the Lotus Pagoda is a Feng Shui Pagoda.
1938, the Lotus Pagoda was shelled by the Japanese army, and the southeast pagodas on the second, third, fourth and seventh floors were smashed, but they were never knocked down. In A.D. 198 1 year, the Lotus Pagoda was restored with the donation of brothers He Tian and He Xian, famous Panyu people in Macau.