Tai Shi Jiang Chao, a former eminent monk of Mount Emei in his previous life, often dreamed, as he slept at night, of returning to his ancestral home on Emei, washing his feet by the temple pond.

He was deeply devoted to Buddhist scriptures, constantly yearning to take monastic vows. Though entrenched in officialdom, he harbored a heart yearning for detachment from the mundane world. Later, he took leave and returned to Jiangnan. Upon reaching Gaoyou, he found he had no desire to go home. He traveled alone to Sichuan, staying at the Jinsha Temple in Chengdu, before moving on to Emei, where he lodged temporarily at the Fuhu Temple, eventually passing away due to illness. Before his death, he composed a Buddhist verse, which read: "Casually, the gibbons and cranes came to befriend me; this old monk inexplicably fell into the dust of karma. Falsely, I sought to escape the heat in the scalding pot, yet never turned to rise from the vast ocean. Fame and fortune are but trinkets in the puppet theater; wife and children are mere figures in the skeleton crew. Only my parents’ kindness remains unrequited; through endless rebirths, I shall eternally pray for the Benevolent One."