In 1667, two nuns named Haidu and Haiyu secured funds from a local gentleman surnamed Wu to purchase three tile-roofed houses in Chaozhou's Fangjin Alley. They sculpted Buddha statues by hand, naming their modest sanctuary the Huiqing Room. Today, a weathered stone stele from the Kangxi reign anchors the courtyard, its chiseled characters preserving the memory of a 1699 expansion. Officials donated farmland to ensure a steady supply of burning incense and grain, transforming the site into the Huiqing Nunnery.

The complex now covers 1,149 square meters, rising vertically to maximize its urban footprint. Visitors pass through the front gate into a layered architectural space. The middle section features a two-story building where the ground-floor Reception Room supports the elevated main Buddha Hall. In the rear, a three-story structure houses the Cundi Hall and the Sutra Depository, holding the quiet weight of preserved texts. The left wing accommodates the Ancestral Hall, the Dining Hall, and the quiet dormitories of the resident monastics.

This vertical sanctuary bears the heavy marks of the twentieth century. In 1980, Abbot Shi Zhengyu began the arduous process of reclaiming the space. She poured her life savings into the site, initiating seven major renovations between 1982 and 1999.

Her labor rebuilt the largest Buddhist nunnery in northern Chaozhou. The restored halls soon echoed with the voices of female monastics attending a specialized training program hosted by the Shantou Buddhist Association in 1988. By 1996, the nunnery's reputation drew Master Miaoyuan from Taiwan across the strait to share teachings. The Huiqing Nunnery stands as a continuous space of devotion, where the scent of modern incense mingles with the cold surface of the seventeenth-century stone stele.