81. Prayer and lottery are warnings

January 30, 1995 is the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and everyone is preparing for the New Year. In the morning, I bought a pair www.biquge.info of Spring Festival couplets from the cultural market in the morning, took them home, and pasted them at the gate of No. 36 Sungang Village. This couplet reads: The door welcomes Baifu, the household accepts Qianxiang, and the horizontal batch is: Ruiqi Yingmen.

In the evening, Summer invited her sister Xia Fang's family to Shenzhen State Guest House for a New Year's dinner.

After coming back, while watching CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, I greeted the New Year with colleagues and friends of Hubei Financial Services Co., Ltd. and the CEO of the main loan household. At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, although Shen Z had already banned fireworks, the whole village still "crackled" non-stop.

On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the summer mother got up as usual, cooked a meal, and waited for her children and grandchildren to get up. After the children and grandchildren got up, they said good things to each other and gave red envelopes to Laisee. After breakfast, the family got into a car and drove to Fairy Lake from the summer.

Half an hour later, the car drove to the "heaven and earth". Xia Yu clamored to play in the maze, parked the car in the summer, and the family got out of the car and walked around the maze, as if they couldn't find the north. Xia Yu said: "It's not fun. ”

So, Fan Ting asked everyone to come out, and the scenery of the lawn was pleasing to the eye, and the whole family took pictures in the lawn. Then, drive to the lake where Deng Lao planted trees to browse.

In the summer, when I was about to leave the Meilin Financial Services Club in April, I came to this tree with Fan Ting's younger brother to be inspirational. He looked at it for a long time, handed over the camera to Fan Ting, and asked Fan Ting to take a picture of herself standing in front of the tree, from near to far in the background, there are not only small flat hands planting trees, but also Hongfa Temple and the main peak of Wutong Mountain. Fan Ting followed the creativity of summer, just listening to the "click", and this image was frozen in the moment of history.

Later, the family slowly climbed up, came to the Hongfa Temple, each person took the three incense sticks from the hands of the monks with their hands folded, went up to the front of the temple, inserted incense, and bowed to the Buddha, which was regarded as relieving the thoughts in their hearts.

Some people say that worshipping the Buddha is the most sincere. When you are sincere and good, there are heavens, immortals, Buddhas, and Guanyin Bodhisattvas in the underworld. It's about what people believe, believe it or not. On the other hand, the summer family is sincere and kind, and should also be favored by God.

Sure enough, the family's journey down the mountain was much smoother than when they came. The cart easily returns the devout "beings" to their habitat.

They get out of the car, drink tea, cook, wash, wash vegetables, and live their lives the same, not to mention.

In the afternoon, Summer is writing a diary at home, thinking about the past Year of the Dog safe, smooth, and developed, crisis after crisis, and turnaround. Summer was thinking: A crisis is a turning point, and a risk is an opportunity; just like the Chinese Communists in the 40s of the 20 th century, just like the "March of the Volunteers" sang, at the critical juncture when the Chinese nation was facing the most danger -- the Japanese launched the annihilation of the country against China, and the more they fought, the more they fought, the stronger they became. In the past eight years, it has sprung up and not only become an indestructible anti-Japanese armed force, but also laid a solid foundation for the independence and liberation of the motherland and the nation. With the development of history to this day, many people clearly see that without the vigorous War of Resistance Against Japan, the Chinese people would not have been able to fully understand and support the Chinese Communists so quickly, and therefore, the People's Republic of China may not have appeared on the political map of the world so quickly. What a heart-wrenching classic!

When Summer thought of this, she was so excited that she didn't know what to write with the pen in her hand.

At this time, a noisy gong and drum sound was sounding at the door of the house, and Fan Ting said: "Lao Xia, the lion awakening is here, let them come in and have a lively time." ”

Summer to see his son Xia Yu is also very happy, with a lighter lit the door hanging firecrackers specially for the lion awakening, with a burst of "crackling" firecrackers with a burst of cheerful gongs and drums, the lion head of the lion dance team has entered the hall, people see the lion politely enter the hall, twist the waist and nod his head to the direction of the lobby to worship a few times, is the saying "visit to the gods". Then, the foreman said a few good words that he often heard in New Year's greetings, such as "Wishing you prosperity", at this time, Fan Ting handed a red envelope to the foreman, and muttered: "Tongxi, Tongxi", so she completed the purpose of "the arrival of Lisee" that the lion awakening team was looking forward to, and then quit the Xia family.

When he went out, the sound of gongs and drums sounded again, and the scene was repeated.

This is the improved Spring Festival lion dance activity staged in Deep Z. In fact, the lion dancing activities that I saw in my hometown when I was a child in the summer and what I learned about in Guangzhou, Nanhai, Shunde and other places after adults are much more complicated than this. However, this lion dancing team wants to make money from thousands of households during the Spring Festival, and in the special zone of Shenzhen Z, it is very simple to make money faster. This is completely in line with the laws of the market, so it has become a habit over time, and no one says it is bad.

After the gongs and drums sounded, Summer could no longer concentrate on writing his diary.

"I have to give up. - Summer said in her heart.

The next day, the second day of the Lunar New Year, the family prepared to go to Xili Lake in the summer. At nine o'clock, the family had breakfast, got into the car, and drove leisurely to Xili Lake. After more than half an hour, the car drove directly into the villa area of the resort, and after parking the car, the family came to the playground. In the playground, Xia Yu did a few garden activities, and after visiting the calligraphy and painting exhibition in the park, the family walked to the pagoda temple.

Entering the temple gate, Fan Ting said: "Let's draw a lottery to see the New Year's fortune." ”

Summer's mother said, "You smoke, I don't." After saying that, he exited the temple gate.

Summer is also interested in divination, see what the signature says. So, the father and son each took three kinds of incense and lit it, knelt on the futon, chanted words in their hearts, bowed the incense in their hands to the temple three times, and then inserted it in the incense burner. Later, each grabbed the stick holder and shook it in a clockwise direction. It is said that the first sign that fell was a portrayal of his one-year journey.

After some tossing, the summer lottery was seventy-nine, only to see that it was written:

The void vows to keep peace,

If you want to keep your body safe, you will not return it;

Don't forget the sacred,

You should know that the word of God is not to be taken lightly.

The old man read the signature, explained as usual, and said, "Be cautious this year. He also copied the signature from right to left on a piece of pink paper. After writing, I turned to the back and wrote: "Jizo Bodhisattva, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Amitabha".

Summer thought to herself, "Didn't I come to make a vow?" ”

At this time, Mrs. Xia's Fan Ting's lottery was also drawn. Summer walked up to his wife, took the sign and looked at it, only to see that it read:

16. Winning the lottery

Sorrowful thoughts gradually opened,

Lift out the clouds and rejoice;

Like a treasure of jade in the soil,

Good works come out of the dust in one fell swoop.

The old man in the temple drew a gourd in the same way, and read and spoke while reading with words in his mouth. After speaking, it was also written on a piece of paper. Fan Ting felt that the old man was reasonable, and took out ten yuan and pressed it under the old man's book.

Later, Fan Ting helped her son Xia Yu, who was still a primary school student, to add ten yuan to the incense tank in the temple, took three sticks of incense, lit a fire in the incense burner, told her son to kneel, face the shrine, close his eyes, chanted words in his heart, bowed a few times, and inserted the incense in the incense burner. Then, he asked Xia Yu to close his eyes, took the hexagram and shook it frequently, and after a while, he dropped a stick. Fan Ting picked up the sign on the ground and handed it to the old man as if she were relieved. The old man immediately read: "Eighty signs", and then said in a long voice: "Sign the clouds-":

Go straight to the fairy rock to learn immortals,

How do you know that once the emperor declares;

The blue sky and the sun and the moon always shine brightly,

Xinzheng's reputation spreads all over the world.

"Good sign!" said the old man. Then he flipped through the book on the table and said, "There are noble people who help each other, and they can help each other in everything." ”

The summer family was very happy to hear it. In the summer, he gave the old man another 20 yuan and said, "Thank you!" Then, he left the pagoda temple with the family and went to the racecourse to play.