After the failure of the Hundred-Day Reform, Empress Dowager Cixi once ordered the temple to be banned from opening, but the threat to Buddhist temples has never been removed. In August of the twenty-seventh year of Guangxu, the Manchu government ordered all provinces and counties to set up schools; On April 22, the thirty-second year of Guangxu, the "Regulations on Persuasion of Learning" was approved, instructing the school directors of villages to find out that local temples and towns are not in the temple sacrifice area and can be rented for school use. As a result, local tyrants and evil gentry in various provinces openly annexed temple fields in the name of promoting knowledge. This wave of disguised encroachment on temple property spread all over the country. In addition to the school using the temple as a classroom, even the police, local troops and various groups have openly occupied the temple, forming an unprecedented strange phenomenon. At that time, the Buddhist community lacked a strong leadership and could not safeguard its own rights and interests. However, Buddhism has become a part of China's history and culture, attracting the attention of celebrities and scholars. Among them, Zhang Taiyan's Book of Telling Buddhism, which was first published in the 31st year of Guangxu, aims to arouse monks to know the times, and should set up another school to catch up with them, and advise the world that Buddhism should not be so absurd, but should be protected and carried forward.
As early as the early years of Guangxu, Japanese Pure Land Sect set up Hong 'an Temple in Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou and Suzhou. In the 25th year of Guangxu, Hong Anji, a Japanese pure land Sect in Jinling, set up the East Literature Hall to teach Chinese. During the temple industry agitation, Japanese monks, such as Xiao Mei Mizuno and Ito Kendo, saw that the Manchu government oppressed Buddhism, so they took the opportunity to lure more than 30 temples in Hangzhou to Zhenzong and let China monks accept the protection of Japanese consuls. After Sino-Japanese negotiations, it was agreed that Japanese Shinrika would cancel the protection of China temples, and the Manchu government immediately sent a letter to protect Buddhism. All provinces and counties in China have organized Sangha education associations to protect the temple industry by automatically promoting learning.