In 916, in the 2nd year of Zhenming period (915-921) of the Later Liang dynasty (907-923), when Japanese monk Hui'e took a statue of Guanyin he invited from Mount Wutai in Shanxi, he was blocked by windstorm in Mount Putuo, which made him think of that Guanyin didn't want to go to the east. Hui'e gone ashore and left the statue to a resident surnamed Zhang to enshrine. He also built the Unwilling Guanyin Temple ().