The Temple of Medicine King is located on the right of the Hualong Mountain, and the time of its first construction cannot be verified. Originally it was beside the Wumu Bridge, and finally destroyed in turmoil caused by war in the late Ming Dynasty. Then the temple was repaired. However, in the 17th year of Emperor Kangxi’s reign (August 1679), it was washed out by flooding. In the 24th year of Emperor Jiaqing’s reign (1820), the temple was repaired again. The main hall is well preserved and houses Sun Simiao, the King of Chinese Medicine. There are wing rooms on both sides, the outer walls still exist, but cornerstones and gray bricks of gable walls are badly weathered.

Legend has it that, Li Hanzhang, a Confucian school instructor in Anju, was once bitten by a venomous snake. He then went to a herbal medicine shop for treatment, but the wound gradually swelled and the pain increased. At that night, the swelling spread from the hand to the neck. In his sleep, he dreamed that a man in an fairy robe said to him, “Go and pick a handful of mugwort, boil half of it in water to clean the wound, and drink a bowl of mugwort soup at the same time. Then mash the other half of the mugwort and put it on the wound.” After saying that, the man was just gone. When he woke up the next morning, Li Hanzhang shared the dream with his neighbors, and they thought it was the Bodhisattva of Medicine who had made his presence felt. Then Li Hanzhang followed the Bodhisattva’s instructions. On the 3rd day, the swelling indeed varnished gradually, and the pain was gone, and it took only a few days for Li to heal. To thank the Bodhisattva of Medicine, Li Hanzhang decided to reconstruct the Temple of Medicine King next to the Confucianism Education Office in order to repay him for saving his life.