The sea that looks out from Humen was once called "Lingding Ocean". Wen Tianxiang's poem "I am afraid of the beach and say fear, and I sigh in the Lingding Ocean." This is where Wen Tianxiang's poem refers. This place was also called "Jingkanghai". According to legend, there used to be a market here on the sea where people were coming and going, buying and selling, walking, carrying people, and pushing carts. It seemed very lively. People at that time said that this was a ghost market, and those ghosts came to take advantage of the market. Therefore, there is a saying that "the dead in Jingkanghai City take advantage of it". That should be a "mirage" phenomenon.
Among the descriptions of mirages in the past, there are only descriptions of images. Only Jingkanghai City can hear various sounds while the mirage appears. What is also strange and unique about Jingkanghai City is: "Jingkanghai City is different from Qingzhou. Jingkanghai City can be seen at night, while Qingzhou can be seen during the day." (Note: Qingzhou mentioned in the chronicle is suspected to be Qingzhou, Shandong Province)
The ancients could not explain the cause of mirages, so they attached the theory of ghosts and gods. They believed that the coral market was conducted by gods on the sea. They also thought that there was a sunken land there in the past, and when the moon rose, ghosts would form a market in the sea. Therefore, Jingkanghai City is also known as "Coral Night Market" and "Shenzhou Night Market".
It was once rated as one of the eight scenic spots in Dongguan. It is now located in the Kaida Toy Factory in Zhongtang, on the original Guanghu Highway, next to the section from Zhongtang to Doulang. This scene no longer exists. It is said that more than a thousand years ago, a fairy goose flew away from Luofu Mountain. A monk in Juehua Temple went through all kinds of hardships and tracked it to a place near the Poyang Sea. He saw the fairy goose stopped and in a blink of an eye. Just disappeared. At that time, the area around Boyang Village was still an ocean. From then on, a boat of rice sank in the Boyang Sea every year, and the owner of the boat that sank in the valley quickly became rich. The place where this fairy goose settled was a blessed land, where Juehua Temple was built.
Juehua Temple is located fifteen miles west of the city (i.e. the middle hall). In the early years of Shaoxing in the Song Dynasty (1131), Xu Bangyan obtained a statue of Guanyin and enshrined her in Jiangliu Hall. The county magistrate Zhang Xun asked monk Song Jian to get it for him and store it in Juehua Temple. Monk Miaoxian built a pavilion for which Li Tao He testified. In the second year of Xianchun (1266), Xu Yuan, the minister, instructed He Hantao to donate 80 acres of land to Juehua Temple. At that time, the pagoda of the temple went straight up to the night sky. Viewed from a distance, it looked faint, as if in smoke, so it was named Juehua. misty rain. In the fifth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty (1510), the land in the temple was robbed. In the early years of Jiajing (1522), the temple was abandoned.