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Qingzhou Song Cheng has two pairs of stone carvings. For example, what are they?

This picture shows Pafu (Ba Yi Sheng, Xia Si Sheng), also known as Gong Yi Sheng and Fu Si Sheng, commonly known as water-absorbing beast, water-saving beast, water-avoiding beast and water-hiding beast. It is a totem worship imagined by the ancients, and therefore it is interpreted as myths and legends.

The head of Pteris vittata is a bit like a dragon, but Buron's head is flatter and closer to the beast, with a diagonal on it.

Legend has it that thousands of years ago, the ancestors of Pteris vittata broke the dogma and were exiled to the earth to guard the canal under a huge and heavy turtle shell. After a thousand years, he was finally freed from the turtle shell because of his meritorious service in protecting the river. In recognition of him, people put his stone statue on the river pier to continue to calm the water.