Xuedou Temple is near the Qianzhangya Waterfalls and in the valley of Xuedou Mountain. The Temple, so to speak, is “Embraced by green mountains on all four sides and girded by singing springs all round”. According to the Annals of Xuedou Temple compiled in the Qing Dynasty, Xuedou Temple was first built in the Jin Dynasty (265-420) and relocated at the present site in the Tang (841), and for a time it was known as “Pubu Guanyin Temple” or literally “Bodhisattva Temple near Waterfalls.” The temple was the favorite of several generations of emperors of the Song Dynasty, who issued successively some 40 imperial edicts to the temple to its great honor. In 999 in the Northern Song Dynasty, Emperor Zhao Heng named it “Xuedou Holy Temple”. Story has it that in 1037, Emperor Ren Zong of the Song once had a dream in which he was touring Xuedou Temple and thanks to his dream, the temple was named “the Temple in the Dream”. Since then the mountain has known as one of the five most famous mountains and the temple one of The Ten most famous temples of China. Since its establishment, the temple has undergone several destructions and reconstructions. In 1651 AD, for example, Monk Shiqi took the lead to rebuild the temple.
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