Zhang Dai was born in 1597 and died in 1679. An essayist in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, the word Zongzi, also a famous teacher, was named Taoan, nicknamed Diean lay man, and named Yin Shan.
Dream of the West Lake describes the important landscape, Buddhist temples and ancestral halls in Hangzhou in an all-round way. According to the master record, North Road, West Road, Middle Road, South Road, and spatial order in the position, it shows the readers the ancient and modern Hangzhou. More importantly, the author selected several poems of sages after each chronicle to add luster to the landscape. Together, these poems are the West Lake Poetry Collection. There are many things about the rise and fall of temples in the seventy-two changes, which can provide rich information for the study of Buddhism.