According to legend, a master blacksmith named Deng had tried unsuccessfully for over a year to cast the huge bell comissioned from him and was fast running out of time. On the eve of his last attempt, his daughter, fearing that a further delay would bring blame on her father, decided to sacrifice her life in order to move the gods to bring about a perfect casting, and she suddenly threw herself into the molten bronze.

The casting was a success and the emperor, moved by the young girl's spirit of sacrifice, named her as 'Goddess of the Golden Furnace' and built a temple in her honor near to the foundry. To the ordinary people, she is remembered as the 'Goddess Who Cast the Bell'.