The number of monks who can be poets is the largest, but since the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the monk who has the highest poetic realm and the greatest reputation is the first monk who issued the Eight Fingers Zen.

The monk surnamed Huang, a famous mountain, was born in Xiangtan County, Hunan Province. On the third day of the twelfth lunar month (1852 1 23rd of the first year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty), he was born in a poor peasant family in Shitan Town, Xiangtan County, Hunan Province. His father's name is Yixing, and he works in the fields. His mother Hu Shi burned incense and worshipped Buddha. Jing 'an abandoned the fishy smell at an early age and followed his mother Yue Bai, hoping that her mother would tell him the story of the immortal Buddha. He lost his mother at the age of seven and his father at the age of eleven. At this time, he went to school in a private school, read The Analects of Confucius, abandoned school at home, and herded cattle for his neighbors. He also has a younger brother, helpless and in foster care at his father's house.