Chapter 49: The Buddha Bathing Festival
When the two of them took Driver Wang's car and crossed Erlang Mountain again, it was already May 6th.
And this time, over Erlang Mountain, the pedestrians on the road, especially the herdsmen, felt much denser.
Not far away, you can often see groups of three or five herders, some driving ox carts, loaded with large bags of things, and many of them are adults, children, and old people, all together.
Walk slowly along the highway ahead.
The old herdsmen either twisted the Buddhist beads or held the prayer wheel, and while walking, they were still babbling in their mouths.
There is also a strange situation, Fan Yang found that these herdsmen do not ride horses, but lead them.
Along the way, you can see the five-colored cloth strips newly pulled by the herdsmen everywhere.
"What's going on? This time I came in, and it felt a lot more lively. Missing a door asked.
The driver next to him looked at it and said casually: "Well, the Buddha Festival, these are all going to the temple to participate in the festival, don't you know?"
"Bathing Buddha Festival?" Fan Yang stood up on the seat as if his butt had been pricked by a needle.
The closer you get to Kangding, the more obvious this situation becomes.
When you walk to the outskirts of the city, you can describe it as full of people.
And everywhere you can see cigarette smoke, prayer flags, everywhere is full of five-colored cloth strips, noisy people, everywhere you can see the herdsmen sitting on the side of the road, setting up a fire on the side of the road, boiling butter tea, and eating tsampa.
These herdsmen come from far and wide to participate in the Buddha Bathing Festival on the eighth day of April every year.
Fan Yang's heart was pounding with excitement.
Bathing Buddha Festival, Bathing Buddha Festival, it seems that I am reborn this time, and my luck is not too good.
The surprise came too suddenly.
Before, the two were also annoyed that they missed the big episode on May 1st.
In the blink of an eye, he sent a 10,000-person puja to himself.
I wasn't mentally prepared for this at all.
There are 9 famous temples in Tibet, the Kangding area occupies two, one is in the Tagong grassland, it is rumored that when the princess Wencheng entered Tibet, a Buddha statue fell to the grassland, and it could not be moved again, so a temple was built to offer the Buddha statue, which is the famous Tagong Temple.
There is also one at the foot of Gonggar Mountain.
As the cultural center of Tibetan Buddhism on the southern line, Kangding City, there are three other large monasteries, a Nanwu Temple, a King Kong Temple, all on the mountainside, and a large temple, just on the Happy Horse Mountain, called Da Leding Temple.
Tagong Temple and Gongga Temple are both famous for historical and humanistic reasons, and they are very old.
But in terms of scale, it is far from catching up with the three great temples in Kangding.
The Lantern Festival in October and the Buddha Bathing Festival in April are the most solemn festivals of Tibetan Buddhism, which are more significant than the Spring Festival outside.
Kangding, on the other hand, is undoubtedly the other center of the Buddha Bathing Festival in addition to Lhasa and Qamdo.
Lamas can be seen everywhere in the city.
I didn't expect that I would accidentally hit the Buddha Bathing Festival.
Fan Yang held back in the car, not wanting Driver Wang to find out what was wrong.
But after unloading the goods to the side of the road, I couldn't bear it anymore.
"Quick, quick, pull the goods back first, bring the table, let's start setting up the stall tonight, hurry, hurry up......"
"Aren't you sleeping tonight?"
"What do you sleep, well, I knew that all 24 pieces were into instant noodles, and what else did I sleep. ”
"Huh?"
"What a rambling thing, looking for a car. ”
There was a lack of a door, and he hurriedly went to find a tricycle.
As a result, it took half an hour to walk before I ran back out of breath, but I still brought back two three-wheelers.
"Why has it been so long? ”
"I can't help it, I can't call a car everywhere. ”
He ran around the city without a gate, and when he came back, he no longer had a blank look on his face, because he also discovered how dense the herdsmen in the city were now.
In order to participate in the annual Buddha Bathing Festival and celebrate the birthday of the Buddha, these pious herdsmen are ready for a few days, carrying candles and tents, and an urban area is like a grassland, and there are herdsmen everywhere.
The people who maintain the municipal government are too busy to do so, and these herdsmen don't care if you have a car or not, and they also set up poles and tents on the main road, and under a green tree on the side of the road, they set up several tents around if one is not good.
Moving bricks and building stoves everywhere on the road, the herdsmen also carry charcoal with them, which is very convenient for starting a fire, but it brings a great safety hazard.
The entire Kangding police force was dispatched.
"No fire, do you hear me?"
People who maintain order can be seen everywhere.
On the other side, the non-staple food wholesale department on the Xiangyang Bridge.
The boss named Tashi is in his thirties, more than 1.9 meters tall, with a big waist and a round waist, weighing no less than 200 pounds, wearing a huge suit, and two gold chains as thick as fingers around his neck.
At this time, it was dark, but the wholesale department was still in full swing.
He is a local celebrity, his father is a famous wise man on the Tagong grassland, and several generations of toast have a great influence in the entire Kham region.
In front of the door, there are constantly traders who come to batch goods on three wheels, and in just two or three days, his two warehouses have been emptied, and the total amount of non-staple food alone has been sold more than 400,000 yuan, and it will heat up in the next few days.
He himself sent out more than 20 people to set up mobile stalls on the transportation arteries of the three major monasteries in the city.
The people under him are busy, and he himself is also personally pressing, supervising the shipment of his people, and at the same time constantly paying attention to whether there are any fresh faces.
In Kangding City, outsiders who want to open a restaurant must also report to him.
It lasted until 10 o'clock in the evening, and the number of people who came to buy goods gradually decreased.
He drank a few more glasses in the evening, and at this time he was very sleepy, and threw the account book in his hand to the shopkeeper.
"Uncle Wang, look at it, I'll go back to sleep. ”
The shopkeeper surnamed Wang only nodded slightly: "Go ahead, I'll just keep an eye on it." ”
"That's only hard work for you, I'll change you tomorrow morning. ”
These days, the wholesale department is open all night.
Tashi walked to his Beijing JEEP, and when he got into the car, he remembered something and asked the shopkeeper, "Have the two outsiders found them?"
The shopkeeper shook his head: "Not yet, it seems to be gone." ”
"I'll be back, I've tasted the sweetness, where will I not come, watch more. ”
"It's okay, it's just two Sichuan rats, I'll let someone say hello. ”
What Fan Yang didn't know was that in the few days when they set up a stall in Qiaotou, although it seemed smooth on the surface, it aroused jealousy, and they should have been reported by someone.
It's also that Tashi was too busy some time ago, and everyone was out to do errands, and he wasn't there.
By the time it reached his ears, several days had passed.
And His Royal Majesty Tashi is very strict, and most of the people who follow him are outsiders, and he often does things without seriousness, so he can't rest assured, so he has to personally take care of big and small matters, especially in this regard.
In his absence, Fan Yang and the others spent those few days peacefully.
When Tashi returned, it happened that Fan Yang and the others had returned to Chengdu.