To the Tang Dynasty, due to the Daxing Buddhism, according to the legend: Start from the mountains of Yunnan chicken came a monk, his back to the two incense cedar seedlings and saplings two Zhen Nan, go towards the South China Sea Bodhisattva, passing through here, in three clear view before personally planted on two strains of incense cedar and two Machilus tree, moving in Emeishan turn to after seeing the planting of fragrant cedar whole live, Zhen Nan also very lush tree that Buddha destined, do not come back Yunnan chicken mountains, he chose a piece of deserted temples, settled place of refuge for old age. He did not burn shangqinggong trimmed, Yu Qing two temple, the Buddha did not burn up from the grassland soil, but also in the newly built temple base have a lot of temples, (commonly known as sacred trees) with white fruit carving up a large number of Buddhist bodhisattva. To prevent fire and corrosion in a long time, but also began to use stone Buddha. Then because the mountain has long been customary Yunwushan called Cloud Mountain, so it will be on the basis of the three Qing Miaozi built up again renamed Yunfeng Temple. Since then, becomes a Taoist temples, Taoist monks lived change. Shoutu many monks, Yunfeng Temple soon flourished. To the period of the Tang Sheng, Yunfeng Temple incense also heyday of land apprentice, called "Four." Monk reaches up to eighty people, plus lay, long (workers), etc., there are hundreds of people every day meals.
Rumor Yunnan Zhen Nan monks planted sapling is now known to everyone, "Zhen Nan King."
Red Army stationed in the Republic of China in the Taihu Lake Temple fourteen years (1936), and the establishment of Yingjing Soviet government, due to the weakness of the Red Army only strategic shift. KMT Central Army was stationed into Taihu sihou a catastrophe. What happened was: Millennium trees already growing on empty, piles of wood chips to flow out from the hollow tree where the feet, when the Central Army sentry standing guard accidentally discovered the "Zhen Nan King" trunk there is a python, he would with fragrant wood chips to the point, who knows first touch wood burning incense by quickly burning down the tree empty inside, like an empty tree like a chimney, straining upward pumping, the fire burned more prosperous, and later the entire top of the tree are burn up, but the following people do not know, just waiting for the tree to be smoked sized thick snake fireworks, climb out of the room when Ilex full feicuan found that people around the temple to see the tree lit up the sky fires sub-, but also that the central army burned the temple in a child. Because the tree is too high, a fire burning on top again, went to great lengths also flutter immortal, Central Army also afraid ancestry disaster, put the ignition Sentinels hung up beaten half to death. Later, someone thought of a way to put the following tree holes plugged with soil, the fire was slowly extinguished. Sinking burnt "Zhen Nan Wang" So he died.
Twenty Fourth Army commander after the KMT Wenhui know, very shocked, later that day personally writing "Heart Sutra" and ordered engraved on the front of the Taihu Lake Temple on "Jerneh rock", expressing repentance. The following spring, a miracle happened, "Zhen Nan King" began suddenly soared, growing bigger and bigger, longer straight, and finally replaced the kindred charred trunk. Original sinking charred trunk, and now has 1989, and also tenacious standing, did not go down, as if the years and years to the people to talk with its sad history of that tragic catastrophe.