Chapter 97, incense
There is an incense burner and a Buddha statue on the merit box, this Buddha statue is relatively well-known, and even Ye Kai, a person who does not pay attention to the Buddha, can recognize it at a glance.
This is Maitreya Buddha.
There are two rows of couplets around the Buddha statue, which read:
The big belly can tolerate the intolerable things in the sky, and the smile is always open, and the ridiculous people in the world are laughed.
Bypassing the Buddha statue and entering the Shaolin Temple from the left, someone shouted: "Handsome guy, take the ticket to us and show it." β
"Oh, good. β
Ye Kai took out the ticket from his pocket, and sure enough, he needed to check the ticket twice.
After entering Shaolin, the most conspicuous thing is a towering tree on the left, Ye Kai looked at the introduction, this tree has a history of 1500 years now.
There are many people who take photos under the trees.
If you look closely, you can see that there are many dense eyes on the ginkgo tree, all of which are the size of fingers, which were left by the former warrior monks when they practiced the Shaolin stunt 'One Finger Zen'.
A fence has been put around the outside of the ginkgo tree to keep visitors one meter away from the tree.
There are also many ancient trees planted on both sides of this road, and more than 20 stone tablets of the past dynasties are hidden under the ancient trees, such as "Monument to the Return of Sectarians to the Mountain" and "Monument to the Zen Master of Xixi"
The monks in the Shaolin Temple are not all Chinese, Ye Kai also saw some foreign monks on the road, and he walked all the way to the Tianwang Palace.
There is a plaque above the main hall of the Tianwang Palace, which reads the first ancestral court in the world, and these words were written by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty.
There is a door god on the left and right, it is the two generals of Hum Ha, the blue statue on the right is Hum, the red statue on the left is Ha, the hall is dedicated to the four heavenly kings of wind and rain, so this hall is called the Palace of the Heavenly King.
Inside, there is the Daxiong Treasure Hall.
There is a huge incense niche outside the Daxiong Treasure Hall, where the incense is in full bloom, and the smell of incense is very strong here.
"Do you want to burn a stick of incense?" Ye Kai thought as he looked at the incense burner.
Although he doesn't believe in Buddhism, it's almost 2020, so burn a stick of incense here and wish for good weather next year.
The place where the incense is sold is at the entrance of the main hall, there is a table, and three monks in robes sit next to it.
The incense on this table is very long, the thinnest pillar of incense is two fingers thick, and the thickest pillar of incense is thicker than the mouth of the bowl, and the length is about one meter two.
As soon as I saw this bay leaf, I felt that it would not be very cheap, and it should cost two or three hundred yuan, right?
The monk said to the tourists, "Let's write the name on the list first." β
Ye Kai's ear and eyesight are good, although he is standing far away, he can still hear their conversation clearly, do you still have to write your name when you buy incense?
"Does it cost money to sign a sign?" the man asked cautiously.
"Donors can rest assured that it costs nothing to sign. β
After the writing was completed, a monk said, "All the pilgrims who sign their names will personally chant the sutras and chant the Buddha to ward off disasters for you." β
Then he pointed to the incense sticks of different thicknesses and gorgeousness, but all of them were golden and shining, and asked, "Donor, which pillar of incense do you invite?"
The man probably chose a medium incense stick for the sake of face.
When the monk carefully handed the incense to him, he said, "This pillar of incense is two thousand yuan." β
Two thousand?
Ye Kai was stunned, of course, what was even more confused was the tourist who asked for incense, what kind of incense is this, so expensive.
Forget it.
Ye Kai hurriedly walked away, and the two thousand yuan of incense couldn't be burned.
Sometimes on the Bodhisattva's birthday, Li Meili will take him to the temple near the sweet city to burn incense and worship the Buddha, eat a meal, and some temples even burn incense for free.
Although it is a very fine incense, which is different from here, two thousand yuan is a loss no matter how you think about it.
Anyway, Ye Kai didn't believe this, so he slipped away.
He saw that the person who was going to burn incense had re-selected the smallest one, and he didn't know how much it was. It's okay, the monks didn't force you to burn expensive ones.
"Why are the attractions so pitted?"
Whether it's Saipan, Kuanzhai Alley or Shaolin Temple, prices are very expensive. And when it comes to the peak season, tourists rub shoulders and are crowded, so it is better to find a place with mountains and rivers to have a picnic and see the scenery.
Behind the Daxiong Hall is the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, and there are no sweeping monks in it, but the monks who are happy to stay here are not necessarily martial arts masters.
Abbot's room, Tachiyuki Pavilion.
Outside the Lixue Pavilion, there was a group of foreigners, who were surrounding a monk who spoke a foreign language, listening to his explanation.
In fact, there is a voluntary interpretation group in the Shaolin Temple, if you are not a tour group and want to listen to the commentary, you can follow these voluntary interpretation groups.
Since it's free, you don't have to worry about the suspicion of rubbing the commentary.
After visiting the attractions in this Shaolin Temple, it did not inspire a systematic prompt.
"Is it the reason I didn't visit Tallinn?"
Ye Kai went to visit Tallinn again.
With the experience of the Potala Palace, Ye Kai was not in a hurry when he visited, and walked very slowly, but even then he did not get a reward from the system.
Standing on the edge of Tallinn, Ye Kai thought.
"Are there any other rules?"
The system he gets is different from what he gets in many novels, without any hints or explanations, and without posting various tasks. Some rewards will only be given to you after you have completed various conditions.
In the end, there was a project to take the cable car to the mountain, and Ye Kai also participated, but there was still no reward.
"Let's go to Zhongyue Temple first. β
In any case, the tour of the attractions near Songshan is completed first.
I always feel.
The tours in these attractions have changed their taste.
..................
The original name of Zhongyue Temple was called Taimur Temple, located at the foot of Taimur Mountain at the southern foot of Songshan Mountain, and the ticket was only 30 yuan.
The area is large, and many of the buildings here are relatively old compared to the Shaolin Temple, but in fact, this old building makes people feel the long history.
In the past, it is still standing in the sun, wind and rain, and it can still make people feel shocked.
In front of the largest hall, a Taoist priest was feeding the pigeons, and those pigeons were not afraid of people, and after noticing Ye Kai's approach, he just jumped to the side and did not fly away.
"Dao Chief, are these pigeons raised in the temple?"
"Sort of. The Taoist priest said.
The Taoist chief's Mandarin is not very good, with a native accent of Songyang.
"Do you want to put incense on the pillar?" he asked.
Only then did Ye Kai notice that there was a small house behind the Taoist chief, which was an incense place, and there was a lot of incense in it.
He smiled and said, "Don't dare to burn it." β
There are few people here, and Ye Kai is happy to joke with them.
The Taoist priest saw Ye Kai's expression and explained: "You asked about the incense invitation outside, right? That one was repaired by a merchant outside, and here in our temple, three incense sticks are ten yuan." β
Well?
So cheap?
Ye Kai did ask the incense invitation outside, where there were two hundred incense sticks.
"Really?"
Ye Kai was a little wary, for fear that they would have some routines, but after confirming it again and again, he still used ten yuan to buy three sticks of incense.
Holding the lit incense in his hand, Ye Kai read.
"I ask all the gods to bless our Chinese land with smooth wind and rain next year, and the balance of the earth is safe, and bless me with a safe journey in the future. β
After inserting the incense, Ye Kai prepared to leave.
This is the last attraction of Zhongyue Temple.
[You have visited the Zhongyue Temple and obtained the skill 'health']
[Human law and earth, earth law and heaven, heaven law and Tao, Tao law and nature, you have been to the local three religions, and now you have a higher understanding of the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism]
[You have obtained the six arts of a gentleman - shooting]
[You have obtained the six arts of the gentleman - royal]
γTalent +10γ
....................................
PS: My hand hurts a lot these days, and today I learned that I had tenosynovitis, and I endured the pain, I just want to make a wish that everyone can vote for more .......