The Fuyan Temple Scenic Area is located in the west of Fengming Subdistrict, about twelve kilometers away from the downtown, and the scenic area covers nearly one hundred thousand square meters. The Buddhist Culture Gardens, which covers an area of more than 40000 square meters, takes the Buddhist culture as its connotation, and features Jiangnan garden and strange- looking stones. It is designed by Mr. He Siyuan,a Buddhist culture expert of Zhejiang Provincial Toursm Bureau. The riverine garden is one with Buddhist philosophy.

Fuyan Buddhist Culture Gardens is connected with Fuyan Temple in the scenic area, and they complement each other. Therefore, we can not only see the beautiful scenery of the cultural garden, but also fill the eyes with the thousand-year-old temple. Fuyan temple has a long was a prosperous temple of a big scale in history. It was one of the 480 temples in the Southem Dynasties. It was founded 1500 years ago by Monk

Dongxi In 876 (Taang Dynasty), Emperor Xizong entitled it"Temple of Thousand Buddhas", and in 1008(Northern Song Dynasty) it was renamed as Fuyan Buddhist Temple.