Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2140 Flower War (forty-eight)

   In the twenty-fourth year of Qianlong's reign, Ji Xiaolan presided over the township examination in Shanxi.

At that time, there were two qualified papers, one was named Fan Xuefu and the other was named Li Tengjiao. Fan Xuefu was 48 and Li Tengjiao was 53. However, when Ji Yun was writing the draft list, a gust of wind suddenly blew the candle out. I think this is bizarre, because it's okay to change someone else's name.

   Later, he investigated and found that Fan Xuefu's paper was missing, and it took him a long time to find it in the examiner's trunk. From this, Ji Xiaolan felt that the success of the imperial examination has its own fixed number, why should the world be so devoted to fame and wealth?

Immediately after Nick returned to Guangzhou, he went to the ruined house where Juren lived and was hanged to death. However, the building was already empty, and he only left a letter on the desk without a signature on the envelope. .

Nick opened it. The letter said that Juren had gone to the Faxing Temple to temporarily live. He would wait until April 1st. If Nick didn't go to him, he would leave Guangzhou, so Nick immediately asked where the Faxing Temple was. .

  Guangzhou Faxing Temple is located in the northwest of Guangzhou, where Huineng, the sixth patriarch of Zen Buddhism, was ordained. This temple was founded in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and was very prosperous during the Tang Dynasty. It used to be a place for translation of scriptures. After the monk Jianzhen went to Japan to preach the Dharma, he returned to the country by boat, drifted to this place, and lived there, so there are many Tang-style buildings in the temple. It was not until the fifteenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty that the temple was rebuilt, retaining the style of the Tang and Song Dynasties. Whether it is the size of the temple or the history of Buddhism, it is the crown of Lingnan.

   It is not difficult to find such a temple, but one of Juren's "contemporaries" once lived in a monastery in Shichahai, and he encountered strange things there. Nick originally thought that Juren would not live in a monastery.

  In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, that is, during the Chongzhen period, the monks in Shichahai were not what they are now. According to the records in Liu Tong's "Scenery of the Imperial Capital", the monks at that time lived in one room.

First, because Buddhist temples are rich, and Zhu Yuanzhang himself is a monk. He not only adopts protection policies for Buddhism, but also vigorously promotes Buddhism. Second, because there are many temples in Shichahai, which are not far behind, and third, because of a special practice method of Buddhists. .

In some parts of India, you can still see small holes that can only accommodate a single person. These are used by ascetic monks when they are meditating. It really turned into a Buddha statue, no matter what was happening outside, it remained motionless.

   Anyone who has seen that kind of cave knows how depressing it is. Most people can’t stand it for a long time. Relatively speaking, a room for one person is much more comfortable, and monks can also copy scriptures or meet guests in it.

  It changed in the Qing Dynasty. Except for the presiding everyone living in a hut inside the temple gate, no one complained that so many meditation rooms were empty and why the monks were not allowed to live alone.

   If you ask them why, they will only answer "Amitabha Buddha", or else it is like the same period of Juren, even if he told others, no one believed it, but instead regarded it as a "Liao Zhai" story, talking and playing during the game.

In the Tang Dynasty, if someone won the Jinshi Association, it was called "Yan Pagoda Inscription", and the Wild Goose Pagoda was the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. After the banquet in Qujiang, the new scholars would collectively come to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and put their names and places of origin under the pagoda. The time of Hejidi is written on the wall. If someone becomes a minister in the future and changes his name to Zhubi, it will be a great honor.

Qujiang is located in the south of Chang'an City, and the upper reaches of the Royal Furong Garden. The banquet eaten here is not an ordinary banquet, but a "burning tail banquet", which expresses the emperor's gratitude for the banquet. "Meaning, it began in Tang Zhongzong, and Tang Zhongzong's era name was Shenlong.

  The women of the Tang Dynasty will come to Qujiang with their companions to choose a good husband from the new scholars, and there will also be "Master Taishan" to personally choose a son-in-law. It seems like a fish leaping over the dragon gate overnight.

   There was a man named Dong Qujiang. In the fourth year of Qianlong, he lived in Lingyou Palace and got acquainted with a Taoist priest. Not everyone lives in the temple and Taoist temple because of their shyness. Some people think that it is convenient and picturesque. They donate a sum of money to the temple and Taoist temple as incense, and then the monk and Taoist clean up a condition that is more quiet and elegant than the inn. I don't know. How many times the place for guests to live.

  Emperor Wanli is different from Zhu Yuanzhang. He believed in Taoism and especially liked alchemy. When he was the emperor, there was a "Red Pill Case", and the Lingyou Palace was expanded during the Wanli period.

Not all Taoist priests eat fast like the Quanzhen sect. The Taoist priest Dong Qujiang knew was very fond of drinking, and the two often "drinked together into three people" together. Later, one day Dong Qujiang invited his friends to watch the puppet show, and the Taoist priest was also high. I was so happy that it was a little late when the performance ended, and the Taoist priest handed over his hands and said to everyone, "Thanks to everyone's grace, I invite me to watch the play, but I can't repay it. I'll invite everyone to watch a puppet show tonight, okay?"

Everyone happily agreed, and when they arrived at the Taoist priest's residence, there was a large square table, with a little water and wine tribute on the side of the table, and a chessboard in the center of the table. After sitting down, the Taoist priest slapped the ruler on the table with a "pop", and a few little people eight or nine inches tall fell onto the chessboard.

   They appeared out of nowhere, like a conjuration, and then these little people began to rap and act in unison, like four or five-year-old children.

   There is no match, these villains move on their own, and the movements are exactly the same as the puppet show I watched before.

After the show was over, the villains disappeared, just like they appeared suddenly, and then a few more appeared and performed until midnight, when the Taoist priest asked the boy to put hundreds of eggs and eggs on the table in the outhouse. After a few jars of liquor, the music stopped abruptly, and the new villain no longer appeared.

Everyone was amazed and asked the priest what was going on. The Taoist said, "Anyone who has practiced the Five Thunders can make the ghosts and ghosts do things. I just asked them to act as a one-night pastime, but it's okay to drive them to do this kind of thing. Let them steal or cause harm, or God will punish them immediately."

  The crowd had never heard of it, so they begged to come back the next night, and the Taoist priest agreed, but when everyone came back to the Taoist priest's residence the next night, the Taoist priest had already left with the child.

  It was already dusk when Nick arrived at Faxing Temple. This Tang Dynasty temple was bathed in the setting sun, as if plated with gold.

  The pilgrims had almost left. A monk was cleaning the incense platform. Nick spoke in half-familiar Chinese, and the monk took Nick to the meditation room where he lived.

Nick has been to temples in Japan, and he can feel that the style of Tang Dynasty and Japan are still very different. The buildings of the Tang Dynasty can also be divided into windows and entrance doors. All Japanese sliding doors can be opened, so that it is convenient to enjoy the outside. Dry Landscape Garden.

The courtyard of Faxing Temple is very ordinary, there are not so many beautiful landscaping, only a thousand-year-old Bodhi tree, the mountain wind blows through the wind chimes hanging under the eaves, making a crisp sound, it is easy to remind people of Huineng and the rich Zen. intentional poetry.

   Zhuren put down his pen. The Qing Dynasty people did not sit on the floor like the Tang Dynasty and the Japanese. He sat on an old chair and turned to look at Nick who was standing outside the door.

   "Pirates don't feed people, and they can't force you to be a pirate, and sooner or later they will let you go."

  Nick was very satisfied with his answer. He opened his arms and hugged the thin old man in a circle.

   (end of this chapter)