Nanhua Temple is located in Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province, 7 kilometers southeast of Maba, Qujiang County, on the Bank of Cao River, about 22 kilometers south of Shaoguan City, where the mountains and rivers are beautiful. Nanhua Temple is one of the famous Buddhist temples in China. It is the birthplace of Huineng, the sixth ancestor of Zen, to carry forward the "Southern Zen Dharma". Nanhua Temple was built in 502 AD, the first year of Emperor Liang Wudi's Tianjian in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. According to historical records, it was the Indian monk Zhile Sanzang who traveled north of Guangzhou through Caoxi, "drinking water with unusual fragrance", "looking around mountains, beautiful peaks", "just like the Western Tianbaolin Mountains" and proposed to build a temple here. Three years after Tianjian, the temple was built, and Emperor Liang Wudi gave the name of Baolin Temple. Then it was renamed Zhongxing Temple and Faquan Temple. In 968, the first year of Kaibao in the Song Dynasty, the name of Nanhua Zen Temple was given by Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty.