Heng County has a long history of planting jasmine, which is said to have a history of six to seven hundred years. Among the people in Hengxian County, the beautiful legend about the Jasmine Fairy has been passed down from generation to generation, but the actual written text began in the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Ji, the magistrate of Hengzhou Prefecture in the Ming Dynasty, wrote in "Junzitang Daily Inquiry into the Hand Mirror": "(Heng County) jasmine flowers are very wide, and some people use them to weave fences, and they bloom all the time." In the Ming Dynasty, Similar records can also be found in the "Hengzhou Chronicles·Products". Chen Kui, a poet of the Ming Dynasty, wrote a poem like this: "It's worth praising the seeds brought from a foreign land. The love is so beautiful that the clouds on the temples are so beautiful. There are several flowers in the secluded apartment that are fragrant, and the flowers change wonderfully in literary thoughts and poems." What he is chanting is jasmine.