Originally named "the Huangling Temple (the Yellow Ox Temple)" in order to memorize the yellow ox that has ever-helped King Dayu excavate the gorges, it was built during Chunqiu Period in about thousands years ago. In the Three Kingdoms period, when Zhuge Liang reached here with his army, he found the temple was old and broken. He raised the fund and rebuilt the temple and even wrote a poem for it. In the Song Dynasty, the great literator Ouyang Xiu came here and renamed the temple "the Huangling Temple" because he thought all the achievements of excavating the gorges was only done by the King Dayu, but not the yellow ox. In the past several thousand years, many celebrities visited the temple and left their beautiful poems for it.

In the Huangling Temple, you can also taste the sweet water flew out from a stone spring well. Out of the temple, thousands of orange trees make the mountain green and beautiful.