Seeing this, Fang Zheng's brows furrowed slightly, and then he seemed to have figured out something, so he stretched out again.

Salted fish and red boy also frowned when they saw the big stone incense burner.

Salted fish muttered, "Master, are you sure that this is an incense burner, not a donkey trough?"

Fang Zheng directly gave him a burst of the chest, glared at him and said, "Your donkey trough is so beautiful?"

Although this big incense burner looks simple and unpretentious, if you look closely, you can see that it is clumsy, and the natural texture on it is faintly outlining the Daxiong Treasure Hall, such as the scene of the Buddha being worshiped by ten thousand Buddhas......! However, when Fang Zheng took a closer look, he was surprised to find that it was not a stone! It was a special porcelain product made of clay and paper! Only the appearance was the same as that of a stone! In other words, the painting on it was not made naturally, but was ingeniously fired!

That's awesome, Founder has never heard of anyone being able to do this!

The salted fish didn't feel any pain when he ate a popping chestnut, but still carried forward the style of not dying: "Seriously, although the incense burner I saw in Lingshan also has stones, they are basically round......! Master, have you been deceived into bringing the donkey trough to the top bag?"

The red boy also said, "Master, I have never seen such an incense burner. This incense burner is obviously square, but it only has three feet, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a tripod!"

Red Boy's words were more sidelined, and Fang Zheng was not easy to get angry, looking at the few little guys with curious looks, he could only patiently explain: "You don't understand this." In ancient China, the tripod was used to cook food and sacrificial items, and how could the utensils used for cooking things have no lid? Moreover, tripods are generally bronze and metal products, metal is easy to conduct heat, and cooking things are easy to cook. ”

Salted fish muttered: "I understand, according to the guy who gave you the tripod took a kickback, and the tripod cover was greedy! Or fell at home and didn't send it to you! Master, you can't bear this, how can there be a reason to give away something and send half of it?"

Fang Zheng didn't bother to pay attention to him, and continued: "You guys are looking, what material is this incense burner made of?"

A group of little guys all came up, lone wolves, squirrels, and monkeys had never seen anything in the world, so naturally they couldn't see one, two, three, and called them stones.

The red boy is different, he has grown up in all kinds of magic weapons and magic weapons since he was a child, and his eyes are still vicious, and after looking at it for a while, he shouted: "This is porcelain!"

Fang Zheng nodded and said, "That's right, this is indeed porcelain." ”

"Master, what's wrong with the porcelain? What's so special about this?" The squirrel really can't figure it out, a thing used to burn incense, as long as it's big enough, what kind of materials are used for what?

Fang Zheng shook his head and said: "Although Buddhism was transmitted from the West, after countless years of integration, it has long been followed by the local customs, and many ideas and concepts have been deeply influenced by Chinese culture, abandoning the past and integrating into Chinese culture. In China, the sky is round and the place is round, so the incense burner is also different because of the different sacrifices. Just as Salted Fish said, there are many round incense burners in Lingshan, and that is because the Buddhas burn incense and worship not gods, but heaven! Mortals also use round incense burners to worship the heavens, and most of these incense burners are carved from stone and made of metal.

The square incense burner is used to worship the earth, the mortal dust, the sentient beings, and the blessing of all sentient beings. This kind of incense burner is mostly made of earth clay, that is, ceramic. However, the truth in this must be clear. Our ceramic incense burner itself follows the principles of China.

As a teacher, I often say that the Buddha we worship is not the Buddha who flies in the sky, not the Buddha who sits firmly on the mountains, but the Buddha in the hearts of all beings, the beginning of the person who sees the nature of the mind, the source of goodness. Therefore, the pilgrims who come to our temple to worship the Buddha are not so much worshiping the Buddha as they are seeing their own nature with a clear mind. Therefore, we use this square incense burner, which is also a good match.

As for the three-legged like the big ding, it is a commonly used thing in Buddhism, and the three-legged represents the three treasures of Buddhism. However, this is mostly seen in the round incense burner, the square incense burner with three legs, to be honest, I have never seen it before.

Of course, now it is not so particular, and it is not so careful, metal, stone carving, and ceramics can be used at will. At least, many monasteries don't pay attention to this anymore......"

Speaking of this, the red boy nodded and said: "Indeed, in the eyes of some people, this is just a feudal superstition, in this era of information explosion, of course, how convenient and how to come, anyway, the meaning is on the line." ”

Hearing this, Salted Fish shook his head.

The squirrel was cute, and he didn't quite understand: "Is sincerity spiritual, I think, this is not wrong, right?"

Hearing this, Fang Zheng's eyes were a little lonely, and he shook his head slightly and said: "Sincerity is spirituality, that is the mentality of worshiping the Buddha." But this one is different from that one......"

After speaking, Fang Zheng shook his head and went to the backyard, his figure a little lonely.

The squirrel immediately followed and asked, "Master, can you explain?"

Fang Zheng waved his hand and said: "The inheritance of culture is carried in the ceremony, when the ceremony is simplified or even omitted, what remains is just an empty word that cannot be seen, and finally blown away by the wind in the long river of history, and there is no trace." These exquisiteness, it seems to be nothing, but it carries the culture of China, when these are gone, the culture is gone.

It's like people often say, the current Spring Festival has no New Year's flavor, is it really no New Year's flavor? It's your Spring Festival that has been watered down, all the ceremonies have been streamlined and canceled, and all that's left is a Chinese New Year's Eve meal. Now in this era of abundant food and clothing, can you eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, but can you not eat it usually? When the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner also loses its attractiveness, then, what is left of the Spring Festival?

In the past Spring Festival, it was a lantern color, firecrackers were set off according to the hour, hanging inside and outside the house, pasted, people met and said, turned on the lights to stay up on Chinese New Year's Eve, set off firecrackers in the middle of the night, the whole family ate dumplings, children and grandchildren knelt down to thank their parents for their kindness, parents sent red envelopes, and they were happy. Now it has become, you have a mobile phone, I have a mobile phone, no one watches the Spring Festival Gala, the dumplings are eaten in advance, the firecrackers are too lazy to put off, and they go to bed early. years passed unconsciously......

Rituals carry culture, but culture has to give up rituals, and in the end, is it really rituals that are given up?"