The appearance of Cihang’s mummy (1959) was preceded in Taiwan by two famous cases of body-relics, both dated 1957: Shi Zhangjia, who left more than 6,000 relics, and Shi Hongyi, who left more 400 relics.

Being the first case of Buddhist mummy discovered on the island, Cihang's remains attracted the attention of not the only Taiwanese. There is a long list of foreign (i.e., neither Chinese nor Taiwanese) documents that report and describe Cihang's flesh-body.