It has always been "the hometown of beautiful women in the south of the Yangtze River and the country with prosperous cultural relics".
The Preface to Wang Tengting written by Wang Bo, a great writer in the Tang Dynasty, contains two sentences: "The extremes of things must be reversed" and "outstanding people", whose people, things and things all come from Yichun.
When Han Yu was the secretariat of Yichun, he once wrote a poem praising Yichun, "Don't travel far to Yichun, there are many mountains and rivers."
Yichun has been rich in humanities since ancient times, and talented people have come forth in large numbers.
Historical celebrities include Xu Ruzi, an aristocratic scholar in the Han Dynasty, Tao Yuanming, a writer in the Jin Dynasty, Liu Shenxu and Zheng Gu, poets in the Tang Dynasty, Liu Shu and Du Ben, poets in the Yuan Dynasty, Xie Xisi and Fan, historians in the Ming Dynasty, Chen Bangzhan, scientist Song, famous anti-Japanese star Deng Zilong, famous ministers in the Qing Dynasty, Xin and Yang Ximao, and honest officials.
Modern celebrities include revolutionaries, democratic fighters, dramatists Xiong Foxi, physicists Wu, Zhang Xun and others.
Yichun has a long history of religious culture and is the birthplace of Buddhism in China.
In Yichun, a magical land, there are many ancestral temples of Zen Buddhism. It is said that countless famenlong have been opened among the mountains of Yichun, such as Yangshan Yin Qi Temple, Jing 'an Baofeng Temple Temple, Fengxin Baizhang Temple, Yifeng Dongshan Puli Temple and Huangbai Temple in Yuanzhou District.
Among the five schools of Zen, Lin Ji School sprouted from Berberis in Yifeng, Cao Dongzong School sprouted from Dongshan in Yifeng, and Huiyang School came to Yangshan in Yuanzhou.
Mazu Yi Dao, Baizhang Huaihai, Huang Baiyun Xi, Yangshan Huiji, Dongshan Liangjia and other eminent monks gathered in Yichun, making Yichun's Zen culture rich and colorful.
Many proverbs, idioms, words and major political events in history were formed or linked to Yichun because of Zen.
At present, as far away as Japan, South Korea, Europe and America, most Zen methods can be directly or indirectly traced back to Yichun.
Master Yi Cheng, member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, is still the abbot of Baofeng Temple in Jing 'an, Yichun.