Chapter Ninety-One: The Consecration Ceremony
The car slowly parked in the parking lot of the North Lake Temple.
Wanshou Temple, this is a temple that has not yet been built, but many people have come here to worship and burn incense. The ingots monk of Jiaxing Temple in Beijing came here to create, in the second year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1797). This is a temple with a secret background to pray for the longevity of Emperor Qianlong. This is seen in the temple introduction.
"No wonder so many people come here to pray for blessings and worship, it seems that this Wanshou Temple is really not small," said to Hongchen in a low voice after reading the fairy tale.
"It seems that today is what ****, or it is impossible to come so many people, I have been here before, but there are not so many people, go in and see"
"Don't you believe in Buddhism, why do you still come to the temple?" Fairy Tale looked at Hongchen suspiciously.
"Believe it or not, it has nothing to do with whether you come or not, this is a tourist attraction, I don't know how many people will come to visit and pray after it is built in the future, do you guarantee that everyone who comes to visit and pray is a Buddhist believer?"
"I won't tell you, I'll go in first, hahaha!"
The fairy tale entered the temple with a grin.
Although the temple has not been completed, there are many buildings, including bell towers, drum towers, and large halls, Jizo King Hall, Kannon Hall, and so on. Hongchen had been here before, and he was still a little familiar with it, and he took fairy tales to visit one hall after another. Every believer is very devout to worship the Buddha statue on the high, kowtow, and incense, so lively.
At this time, I found that there was a group of monks under the hall and began to practice their fists and feet, familiar moves, as if I had seen it on TV, like what iron cloth shirt, iron sand palm, Shaolin boxing, it was really like that, not long after, they finished practicing, and then the crowd around the Faxiang began to rush to the main hall, and the red dust and fairy tales were also squeezed into the main hall with the crowd, so spacious hall, only to see a big monk, where began to read the scriptures that he didn't understand. And all the people of the temple stood respectfully and listened. Then one by one, I went to donate incense money.
There are really a lot of rich people, Hongchen found that a believer actually donated 5 bundles of 100 yuan bills, it is estimated that there is something important to ask the Buddha for advice.
It's Hongchen's turn to look at fairy tales, no way, everyone is donating money, and now it's not okay if you don't want to donate money, because there are still many people waiting in line to donate money. Hongchen had to symbolically donate 10 yuan, and fairy tales donated 50 yuan. Afterwards, Hongchen knew why the fairy tale was rolled for 50 yuan, it turned out that she wanted to fulfill a long-cherished wish for one of her relatives, she had a distant relative who didn't know what strange illness suddenly died, and before she died, she told the fairy tale mother to meet a temple or other place to visit a place to relieve her of the sins she committed at that time, and hoped that the descendants of the fairy tale mother would also help her complete this long-cherished wish. So the fairy tale will do her best to help complete it, and this time she came out in a hurry and didn't bring too much money, or she would have thanked her.
Is it true that believers can atone for their sins by donating money? The more they donate, the better the salvation will be? Hongchen doesn't think so much about it, everyone has their own beliefs and ways of thinking, and they can't be treated equally.
It turns out that the incense is only one of the rituals, followed by the ranking of the novice in the statistics of the donation of incense, the first place will get a Buddha statue that has been opened, and then will follow the host to worship according to the main hall, and finally his name will be engraved on the pilgrim's worship plaque for future generations to participate in the mold. This is a moment that will be etched into history, no wonder so many people are rushing to donate money with their eyes open!
Then there is the grand super-degree ****, all kinds of monks, nuns, wave after wave of chanting, what Hongchen is reading is not understood at all, some believers who know say that it is Sanskrit, Hongchen feels like a duck listening to thunder, but it is rare to catch up with such a big ****, so I have to listen to it, and the fairy tale looks very pious, and it is not easy to say that I left.
Time passed in a flash, and finally there was the distribution of fruits, steamed buns or something, and some of them took more in the front, and there may be no ones in the back. I heard them say that this kind of offering can eliminate disasters and solve disasters after eating, so the believers began to rush like crazy, but fortunately there are monks in the temple to maintain it, otherwise there will be no stampede, a bit of an exaggeration!
The first time I saw the light, it was so amazing, it seems that the world really knows that you should walk around, and you can't be a frog at the bottom of a well.
Hongchen and fairy tales also received some offerings, since they came, they naturally can't go back empty-handed, right?
They went to see some of the other halls, and went to the bell tower, just in time to ring the bell, and the bell was buzzing and refreshing. The bell tower here rings the bell, and the drum tower over there beats the drum, and the bells and drums are really ringing in unison. It's kind of like a feeling of going through. When they went to the drum tower, the drum tower had stopped beating the drum, and when they went upstairs, they met the monk who was beating the drum.
With the sound of bells and drums, red dust, and fairy tales, the trip to North Lake is coming to an end. Hongchen led the fairy tale to the temple in front of the 2 rows of stone pillars to see, it is said that the stone pillars also have a very good history, but for a while I didn't remember that some stone pillars have not been completely built, this should be a renovated temple on the old site, the old scene has disappeared!
Before the sun went down, Hongchen led the fairy tale to drive the second-hand car home.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the fairy tale saw her grandmother, she began to describe the scene of the temple being consecrated, and she also added a lot of oil and vinegar to render it. This consecration ceremony seemed to be the biggest she had ever seen in her life. Grandma kept nodding her head on the side, and occasionally asked for details, it seems that grandma and the fairy tale envoy have found the topic of the foreman. The two of them chatted until the time of the lamp.
Hongchen warmed up the offerings he had brought back from the temple, and they tasted no different from others. Grandma and fairy tales seem to be very happy to eat, and their happiness is the happiness of Hongchen.
Happiness naturally evolves from family harmony.
Hongchen looked at his two relatives with a warm heart, and hoped that this scene would continue forever, knowing that the old sea was rotten in the wilderness, and he could be by his grandmother's side, the guardian fairy tale, although the life was bitter but happy.
Hongchen finally understood after experiencing this enlightenment method. You don't have to pursue wealth and wealth in life, just live happily, live freely, have clothes and food, have someone to talk to you when you are lonely, have someone to warm you when you are cold, and your family is not sick or disaster, which is enough!