Hengyang is of a long religious history. Hengshan Mountain, characteristic of Buddhists and Taoists living in the same mountain and sharing the same temple, is worth special mention. This religious characteristic holds a very important position in Chinese religious history and is a much-hold story both at home and abroad. The majestic Nanyue (an alias of Hengshan) Temple is the most important one in the south of the lower reaches of Changjiang River and Zhushen Temple one of the temples of longest Buddhism history. Fuyan Temple is considered as an aged temple dated back to the six dynasties of Eastern Jin, Wu, Song, Qi, Liang and Chen and inherited from the seventh-generation Buddhist descendant Huairang. Nantai Temple is looked upon as the ancestor's Temple Caodong school by the Japanese Buddhists. Hengshan Mountain, as the birthplace of southern school of Buddhism, has gained a widespread reputation in Japan, South-East Asia, and the other parts of the world for the flourish of the five branches of this school.