Tong Pi, the medicine king who sacrificed in the temple, was a native of Xindu in the Western Han Dynasty (now Jizhou, Hebei Province), one of the twenty-eight generals under Liu Xiu, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and once served as the magistrate of Quyang (now Jinzhou, Hebei Province). Tong Pi helped Liu Xiu conquer the world. He is brave, good at fighting, loyal and resourceful. He made immortal contributions to the establishment and defense of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with an ordinary rank and few official positions (equivalent to prime minister). Tong Pi loves medicine very much, and is very popular with the military and civilians. After his death, he was buried outside the south gate of qi zhou.
There is a myth about the origin of Anguo Wang Yao Temple. According to legend, the King of Song and Qin was ill and could not be cured for a long time. Tong Pi seems to have been cured. The King of Song and Qin asked his name and told him that he was "an outsider in the south gate" and that "the envoy is a land and knows him as a god", so he sealed the Wang Jian Temple for worship. In the Yuan Dynasty, Tong Pi was made a Hou and later an official. In the sixth year of Xianchun in the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 1270), he was named "Ming Hui". With the continuous knighthood of Tong Pi by the emperor, the influence of the "King of Medicine" is growing. The establishment of Wang Yao Temple reflects people's nostalgia for Tong Pi, a man with lofty ideals. Since the temple was established in Tong Pi, the general public will turn to the medicine king for help when they are sick. Good men and good women always come to make incense. Drug dealers took the opportunity to sell drugs, and gradually formed a temple fair of medicinal materials on April 28 of the lunar calendar, which lasted for hundreds of years. There was even a saying that "the grass didn't become medicine until Anguo, and the medicine didn't become incense until Zhou Qi".
In the second year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1404), the Wang Yao Temple was expanded centering on Tong Pi's tomb, imitating the Wang Yao Temple in Lin 'an (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang) in the Song Dynasty. After successive repairs in Ming and Qing dynasties, it reached the scale. Wang Yao Temple Group covers an area of more than 3,200 square meters, with east-west direction and neat structure. It consists of memorial archway, horse hall, bell and drum tower, Wang Yao tomb pavilion, memorial archway, ten famous medical halls, Wang Yao main hall and back hall.