Introduction to Yunding Zen Temple: The construction date of Yunding Zen Temple is unknown. According to China's "Dengzhou Prefecture Chronicles", there is an ancient Zen (temple) in Dasongwei (now in Haiyang, Yantai). Entering a post station in Chang'an. Legend has it that during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, when monks from Japan and Korea went west to seek Buddha, they had to stay in the "Yunding Zen Temple" first and wait for the imperial edict from the Chinese emperor before going west to Chang'an, the capital at that time. The pomegranate trees, five-pointed maples, and wolfberry trees growing in the temple are all thousands of years old, testifying to the temple's antiquity.