Xihua Platform, also known as Xihua Pagoda, is one of the three famous pagodas in Sanqingshan together with Feixiantai and Fenglei Pagoda. It is in the pine forest in Sanqingshan, right on the Wangjia Rock in the east of Fenshui Village. It is opposite to the Laotzu Reads Scripture Peak. Built in Song Dynasty, Xihua Platform was one of the buildings at the early stage of Sanqingshan’s development by Wang Family. The stone structure has two layers of bases. The lower base is a square table and the upper base is a hexagonal Xumi base with six facades and four layers against which a stone ball is supported. The base diameter of the ball reaches 2m. On the square tablet is inscribed “Xihua Platform”. The unique outline makes it both like a platform and a transformed pagoda, especially the top of the platform extremely resembles a pagoda spire. Not a little binding material was applied during its construction, which is quite rare in construction history. The building style of the pagoda is unbridled and unconstrained. During a survey trip here in 1981, Wang Zhili, a famous domestic ancient architecture scholar spoke quite highly of its plain and binding material-free construction feature.

Beside the stone ancient paths underneath Xihua Platform also lie Qingyuji and Wangjiayan inscriptions on cliffs. Qingyuji is a giant waterfall originated from Qingyun Peak. The waterfall, as high as ten-odd meters, plunges down in a magnificent momentum. Ten meters above Xihua Platform stands a vast cliff with its width of forty meters and height of 20-odd meters. The cliff is almost straightly vertical to the ground. When it’s raining cats and dogs in Spring and Summer, the torrential flood pours down like a cascade. Therefore, the cliff is called the cascade cliff. Xihua Platform can be accessed from seldom-treaded ancient paths surrounded by thriving pines, precipitous cliffs and waterfall.