The history of daming temple is full of anecdotes. The towering archway in front of the temple is engraved with four characters: the site of Qiling. The source of the word Kirin is that Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty once built a nine-level Kirin Tower here. Li Bai once climbed the tower and wrote a poem about climbing four wastes. Liu Yuxi once joined hands with Bai Juyi, leaving a famous sentence that has been listened to for a long time and looked up to by countless tourists. The tower was later destroyed by fire. The important person who made daming temple famous overseas was the Jian Zhen monk in the Tang Dynasty. Jian Zhen, a native of Yangzhou, became a monk and traveled everywhere. He gave lectures and taught law in daming temple. In the first year of Tang Tianbao (742), he set out from daming temple for Japan at the invitation of Japanese monks Rong Rui and Pu Zhao. After many twists and turns, Yu Tianbao traveled eastward for the sixth time in the 12th year of Tianbao (753) before arriving at Qiu's wife's house in the south of Kyushu, Japan. The following year, he built a ring altar in Toda Temple in Nara and taught the ring method, which was the beginning of the emergence of Japanese Buddhism. In 759, Jian Zhen built the Tang and Zhao Temple in Nara, spread the Dharma, and became the founder of Japanese Buddhism. In addition to teaching Buddhism, he also introduced China's architecture, sculpture and medicine to Japan, which wrote a glorious page for the history of Sino-Japanese cultural exchange. There is a couplet in the Jian Zhen Memorial Hall: Mountains and rivers lead to fields, and the wind and the moon share the same sky. It better summarizes the achievements of the master. There is an inscription by Guo Moruo on the front and Zhao Puchu on the back in the memorial pavilion.