"Xinglin" refers to doctors and is also the name of the Chinese medicine community.

The former sites are located in today's Lushan City, Jiangxi Province and Fengyang, Anhui Province. It is a reference to Dong Feng, a Taoist doctor of Fujian origin during the Three Kingdoms period. According to the "Biography of Immortals": "You lived in the mountains, cured people's diseases, and did not take any medicine." With money and materials, if a person is recovering from a serious illness, he will plant five apricot trees and one for a mild illness. In this way, over a few years, more than 100,000 apricot trees will be planted, forming a lush forest... "

According to the legend of Dong Feng, people use "Xinglin" to praise doctors. Doctors often regard themselves as "people in the apricot forest". Later generations used the words "spring warmth in the apricot forest" and "famous apricot forest" to praise the doctors' noble quality and excellent medical skills.

Dong Feng, courtesy name Junyi, was born in Houguan, Fujian (now Fuzhou). He was as famous as Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo at that time and was known as one of the "Three Miracle Doctors of Jian'an". Among the many legendary deeds about Dong Feng, the most influential is the story of his practice of medicine in Lushan Mountain to help the world.

Dong Feng once lived in seclusion at the southern foot of Lushan Mountain in Jiangxi Province for a long time, and devoted himself to diagnosing and treating diseases for the mountain people. He never asked for remuneration when practicing medicine. Whenever he cured a seriously ill patient, he asked the patient to plant five apricot trees on the hillside; if he treated a minor illness, he only needed to plant one apricot tree. So after hearing the news, patients from all over the country came to seek treatment, and Dong Feng all paid for his treatment by planting apricots.

A few years later, there were as many as 100,000 apricot trees in the Lushan area. After the apricots matured, Dong Feng sold the apricots into grain to help the poor people in Lushan Mountain and the hungry people traveling from north to south. The amount of grain distributed in one year amounted to hundreds of thousands of bushels. It is precisely because Dong Feng practiced medicine to help the world that he won the respect of the people. After Dong Feng became a human being, the people in the Lushan area set up altars in the apricot grove to worship the benevolent Taoist doctor.