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Building pavilions with stones is also quite common in China, and the earliest existing pavilions are stone pavilions. Most of the early stone pavilions were modeled after wood structures. arch of wooden architecture, Yueliang, Ming, Queti, and Jiaoliang were carved from stone. For example, the Luban Pavilion on Po'e Mountain in Huangmei, Hubei, built in the early Tang Dynasty, was all made of stone, imitating the arch of wooden architecture beam frame with a wooden structure. The two stone pavilions built in the Song and Yuan dynasties in front of the Xiufeng Peak in Hushan are also like this. After the Ming and Qing dynasties, stone pavilions gradually moved away from the form of imitation wood structures. The characteristics of stone became prominent, and the construction methods were correspondingly simplified. The shapes were simple and heavy, with flat and short eaves and simple details. Some stone pavilions are even as simple as using only four stone pillars to lift up a stone pavilion cover. This stone built pavilion is simple and rustic, expressing a solid and rugged style. However, some stone pavilions, in order to pursue the colorful and gold engraving, exquisite and gorgeous effect, still use stone imitation wood to carve arch of wooden architecture and hang it, and the roof is made of stone slabs to make Xieshan, Fangnenenebb Cunjian and hexagonal pyramidal roof, etc.
Some stone pavilions in the south are also made with double eaves, even reaching four layers of double eaves, intricately carved, and rich in the characteristics of being light and not heavy in Jiangnan.