# Rain-coming Pavilion by the Stone Bridge at Mt. Tiantai

- By: Dai Xi (Chinese, 1801–1860)
- Date: 1848
- Medium: handscroll; ink on paper
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Image: 34.5 x 142.6 cm (13 9/16 x 56 1/8 in.)
- Culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- Credit line: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.54)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1979.54/1979.54_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The subject is not just Mount Tiantai in Zhejiang Province, the ancient seat of the most powerful Buddhist sect of Sui and Tang dynasties, but records a specific occasion in 1838 when an official visited Tiantai and began the reconstruction of a historic pavilion. As this coincided with the end of a long drought, the building was auspiciously renamed the Yulai (Rain-Coming 雨來) Pavilion. Ten years later, Dai Xi painted this handscroll to commemorate the occasion.