Lying on the flat ground in the north of Yiting Town, 15 kilometers off the city, the 50-metre long and 13-metre tall Tongshan Cliff resembles a squatting lion facing the north.

The lion’s mouth, 30 meters wide, stretches down inwardly for as long as 18 meters. In the Southern Song Dynasty, people built three temples in the front, middle and back by using the cliff entrance and the platform. Unfortunately, the Tongshan Cliff, due to repeated damages, had become practically a shadow of its former self, or a sleeping lion, so to speak..

To develop the local tourism, in the 1980s, people built the main hall and the Hugong Hall inside the lion mouth of the Tongshan Cliff as well as the hexagonal pavilion and the Tianwang Hall on the Cliff. Moreover, the Jade Buddha Hall, built in 1996, displays a 1.6-meter-high and 400-kilometer-heavy jade Buddha Statue given by Burma.

At the Double Ninth Festival, the Tongshan Cliff is crowded with tourists and worshippers from the neighborhood, with 20,000 to 30,000 people at its peak.