According to legend, as early as the Tang and Song Dynasties, Buddhists came to Nandan Mountain, where Nandan Mountain is located, and a large number of Taoist alchemists came to practice health and longevity. Health practitioners in different places have brought different health skills, formed a self-contained health culture and customs in Sanshui Nanshan, and left a large number of health relics and widely circulated health secrets in Nandan Mountain. The unique Buddhist and Taoist cultures here have developed theories and methods adapted to nature.
In addition to the profound cultural accumulation of health care, Nandan Mountain also has a large number of primitive ecological rainforests. The dense trees in Nanshan Rainforest can absorb carbon dioxide, release a lot of oxygen, and secrete a highly lethal fungicide to kill germs and microorganisms in the air, which has a great positive effect on human longevity and health care. With the improvement of people's quality of life, people pay more and more attention to the traditional Chinese medicine culture which has been passed down for thousands of years because of its health preserving function. Nanshan Rainforest is also a natural pharmaceutical factory, where there are a lot of Chinese medicine raw materials.
Successive generations of health practitioners have also brought a large number of Chinese herbal medicines from all over the country. According to the preliminary investigation and statistics of Chinese herbal medicine experts, there are more than 700 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines in Nandan Mountain, which is the highest in Lingnan.