After the Five Dynasties, Zhou Shizong and Chai Rong adopted a series of policies to suppress and exclude Buddhism. After Zhou Shizong, Chai Rong hated Buddhism by nature, and soon after he acceded to the throne, he ordered the removal of Buddhism, forbidding him from becoming a monk without permission, abolishing more than 30,000 monasteries, buying Buddha statues to make money, and most of the Buddhist scriptures were scattered.

As we all know, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period is the continuation and expansion of the separatist regime of the buffer region after the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, there were years of war, barren land, disrepair of water conservancy and depression of the national economy, so that "the people were in poverty and Jing Ke built wild." A prominent consequence of this is that social unrest has led many people to escape into an empty door, leading to the rapid development of Buddhism. On the one hand, successive years of conquest led to a sharp decline in population, on the other hand, more and more Buddhist children were not trained, which greatly affected the country's fiscal revenue and military service, and the contradiction between state power and religious forces became quite acute.