Yang Fan glanced strangely at the monk who followed him, and said softly, "Lao Hu doesn't seem to have invited you, right?"

"What does the little monk have to do with Lao Hu? Do you still need to be invited? Brother Yang can just leave, don't worry about me. The monk pursed his lips and didn't take Hu Wei seriously at all.

Yang Fan shook his head and didn't care about these things anymore, but fortunately, Shen Meng didn't follow.

Sure enough, Hu Wei saw the monk who quit greed, and his whole face darkened.

"Where are you going?" asked Yang Fan, deflecting the awkward atmosphere.

"Since you are in the capital, you naturally have to walk around. Let's go to the Great Bell Temple first. ”

"Uh! It's a monk's temple again?" Xu Ping was stunned, you know, they had just come from Nanshan Temple, and they weren't very interested in the place where the monk stayed.

"Yes and no! ”

"Why do you need tickets for every temple!" Xu Ping was very depressed, and the Nanshan Temple he went to yesterday was the same.

Yang Fan smiled, this is the current situation in China. As long as there is a little sightseeing value, they are fenced up and charged, and what temples and the like are even hardest hit areas, it is simply relying on the Bodhisattva to make a fortune.

"Okay, you wait, the little monk goes and communicates with them. ”

Qu Greed was happy to do this kind of thing, and immediately stepped forward to say hello, and began to cheat and eat and drink in the name of the Master of the Lonely Lamp. Since it is a peer, the Great Bell Temple has opened a green channel and does not charge everyone's tickets.

"If Master Lone Lantern is here, I'm afraid he will be so angry that he will vomit blood, right?" Yang Fan smiled bitterly. People are cheating fathers, you are pit masters!

The original name of the Great Bell Temple was Juesheng Temple. Because there is a very large bell in it. That's why it's called the Great Bell Temple.

This bell has a lot of origins. It is rumored that after Zhu Di, the king of Yan in the Ming Dynasty, became the emperor, he was afraid that someone would overthrow his throne, so in order to eliminate the civil resistance forces, he sent the military advisor Yao Guangxiao to collect the common people's knives and guns and other weapons, and cast a big bell, which was engraved with all the Huayan Sutra, thinking that the common people would not resist him again after listening to the bell.

Later, the bell was unknown for some reason. It sank to the bottom of the long river in front of Wanshou Temple outside Xizhi Gate. In the Qing Dynasty, the emperor ordered people to fish out the bell, move it to Juesheng Temple, and build a bell tower to hang the big bell. After the craftsmen leveled the ground, dug the groove, released water, and froze, the bell was moved to the temple on ice. Later generations called the Great Bell Temple, but the Juesheng Temple was forgotten.

The Great Bell Temple is large-scale and was built by order of the Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. There are mountain gates, Tianwang Palace, the main hall, the apse, the scripture building, the big bell hall, the side hall building, it was originally the place where the emperor prayed for rain and believers pilgrimage.

Yang Fan and the others went to see the big bell a few times first, and saw the Yongle big bell known as the king of the clock.

"It's huge!"

Actually, put it today. It was not difficult to cast a large bell in this shape. But in ancient times, it was definitely a huge project.

According to Yang Fan. This bell was one of the three major projects at that time, and it was difficult to think of it without being famous. It is precisely in this way that Juesheng Temple invited such a big bell to come in, and even his name was covered up and became the Great Bell Temple.

If you just make a big clock, it won't be difficult. However, in order to ensure that there is no problem with the quality of the bell, it is necessary to have superb casting methods.

China's foundry technology in the fifteenth century has been at the world's leading level. There are three traditional crafts of casting bells in China, namely the mud method, the iron method, and the lost wax method. The bell was cast using the pit mud method. The clock casting technology is in the leading position in the world.

It is said that in the 18th century, the Russian tsar ordered the casting of an imperial bell that surpassed the Peking Bell. Tsarist Russia used a lot of manpower, material resources, and financial resources to cast a bell weighing 193 tons. Due to poor workmanship and large cracks after cooling, it has become a big bell that has never rang in the world.

"More than 80,000 catties, can it be big?". The monk who quit greed said.

The bell itself is not very valuable, but the words on it are very valuable. According to his understanding, more than 230,000 characters were cast on this clock, and the pen is clear, which is not only a miracle of casting technology, but also a model of calligraphy.

"Okay, don't talk about this useless. Let's go, take you guys to a good place. Hu Wei said.

"Don't go to see other places?" Xu Ping asked.

"What's so beautiful, isn't it just some monks ringing the bell. Let's go, it's important to get down to business. Hu Wei said.

The place he was going to was near here, and he was just stopping by when he entered the Great Bell Temple.

"Gambling stones?" Before he got to the place, the monk guessed it.

"That's right, it's been a long time since I've had a thrill. ”

Many people know that Hu Wei is a representative of the new generation in the antique industry, but they don't know that this guy also has a specialty, that is, gambling stones, which will not be worse than some old-timers.

This guy's current net worth is basically earned by him playing gambling stones. Therefore, if it is his hobby to pick up treasures and collect antiques, gambling on stones is his profession.

Hearing this, Yang Fan was slightly stunned, and then became interested. He has never played gambling stones, and he will look forward to new things a little.

Yang Fan and the others came to an inconspicuous place, and the plaque at the door said Wanshizhuang.

"Don't underestimate this place, the daily trading volume is over 100 million. Hu Wei said.

Xu Ping gasped, but he despised the boss here in his heart, he was too stingy, right? With a daily transaction volume of hundreds of millions, he didn't even repair a gate.

Naturally, he will not know that gambling stones are also a kind of gambling, although it is not illegal, but it cannot be hyped up, so as not to cause a bad social atmosphere.

Therefore, although the boss here makes a lot of money, he also has to make a fortune in a low-key manner.

"Yo! Hu Shao is here? Please, please! It just so happened that a batch of new goods were brought in today. A person in charge in a suit immediately greeted him.

In the antique circle, Hu Wei's reputation may not be very good. But in the gambling stone circle, this guy is definitely a star and very popular.

"Hmm! ”

Yang Fan glanced at the guy who began to pretend to be forced, and couldn't see that in the gambling stone world, this guy seemed to be very likable! Unlike in the antique circle, everyone hides.

There's a lot of space in it, it's bustling, and it's quite a lot of people. At a glance, there are not people or stones, and there are a lot of them. There are several stone-cutting machines in the corner, which are making a screeching sound.

"Everybody look at it. The person in charge said to Yang Fan.

"Go get busy!" Hu Wei waved his hand.

Knowing that this guy wants to join in the fun, many people here also have this kind of mentality, and when they see others cutting up, they surround them one by one.

This is one of the charms of gambling stones, which are easy to attract. Playing exciting, this place is no worse than the roller coaster in the playground, and the magnitude of the joy and sorrow is even more terrifying. (To be continued......)