Haizang Buddhist Temple is located in the area between Redwood Bridge and Chicken-Geese Bridge in the Xiatang Street, Dongshi District, Luzhi. Haizang Buddhist Temple was initially built as a part of the famous private garden of Plum Villa in the Wanli years of the Ming Dynasty. The Plum Villa with features of large scales and numerous scenics, which were all taken into account the features of Luzhi Town, applied the garden water skillfully to be partly hidden and partly visible, and made differences between between the inside and outside, between the bent and the straight, between the virtual and the real. These comparative but complementary features display the unique and boutique design of the garden of the southern Yangtze River, providing the adequate advantages to be comparable with Suzhou Gardens and Hangzhou West Lake.

　　Plum Villa was built by, Zichang Xu, the son of the richest man in the town, Chaoyang Xu. Zichang Xu had strong literary skills, aesthetic sense. Every tree and bush in the Plum Villa displayed the art while each of bricks and stones revealed the literary knowledge. Moreover, he usually wrote, directed, and acted in various theaters in the Leisure Hall of Plum Villa. Hence, Zichang Xu became an excellent dramatist in the Ming Dynasty.dd�&b��9x�2 was initially built as a part of the famous private garden of Plum Villa in the Wanli years of the Ming Dynasty. The Plum Villa with features of large scales and numerous scenics, which were all taken into account the features of Luzhi Town, applied the garden water skillfully to be partly hidden and partly visible, and made differences between between the inside and outside, between the bent and the straight, between the virtual and the real. These comparative but complementary features display the unique and boutique design of the garden of the southern Yangtze River, providing the adequate advantages to be comparable with Suzhou Gardens and Hangzhou West Lake.

　　After the death of Zichang Xu, due to the alternating dynasties of Ming-Qing and social unrest, his son was poor in management and unable to support the huge family business, thus most of the Plum Villa was divided and split out to be a temple. Eventually the Plum Villa was re-named as Haicang Temple, latter purchased by Mr. Cao, who donated to build the bell tower and the main hall, with a new name of “Haicang Buddhist Temple”. All of the plum were submerged by a Fuli flood in 1849, and gradually the park was desolate and the inside houses were collapsed. So far only the lotus pond and several places of rubble left.