Liusan Temple of Qidong is situated in the former Wujiawei Township, 44 kilometers southeast of the county seat. According to legend, Liu San, a distinguished minister of the Song Dynasty, was ordered by the imperial court to take up his official post in Liuzhou. He traveled there by boat through wind and dust. When his vessel reached Decai Village in Hezhou Town, Minister Liu San asked sailors from passing boats where they were. They replied, “Jiuzhou” (today’s Jiuzhou Village of Qiyang). Mishearing it as “Liuzhou”, Liu San immediately went ashore to make inquiries.

He was appalled by the dilapidated, wretched surroundings. After stepping onto land, he stamped his foot hard on a stone horse head, leaving a permanent footprint on the stone. Overwhelmed by grief and rage, Liu San passed away on the spot. Local villagers, shocked that such a high-ranking official had died there, chose a quiet spot on a hill 500 meters away and dug a tomb to bury him. On the burial day, the villagers burned paper offerings at the landing site where Liu San had come ashore, yet smoke rose out of the tomb instead. They then built a small shrine in his memory.

After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, a poor local laborer working for a landlord in Jiuzhou stole some of the landlord’s belongings. Upon discovering the theft, the landlord resolved to put the man to death. Learning of his fate, the laborer fled to the small shrine overnight and made a vow: if he survived this ordeal, he would repay the shrine’s protection handsomely in the future. He escaped alive and later struck it rich. Returning years later, he donated money to renovate the temple voluntarily. Word of this miracle spread far and wide, and the temple has since seen constant incense offerings. Every year around the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, more than ten thousand pilgrims travel here from Guangxi, Liuzhou, Changning, Hengyang, Qiyang, Qidong and other regions to burn incense and pay homage to the deity enshrined here.