Back to the Ming Dynasty Chapter 125 Burning incense
"Yes, yes, yes, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is right, how could we sneak out without taking you with us? I didn't expect you to come. Huh"
"Hmph, flamboyant, I didn't expect you to be such a Lin Hainan, following my brother to lie to me. Hmph, where are you going to play today?"
"We are in the capital today, if you don't go out of the city, you girls can follow us. However, the place we went to today is more solemn, and you girls are not allowed to come nonsense, especially you, Yue'er. I'm not worried about Miss Park and Ah Ling, but you like to lose your temper. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said.
"Ah, brother, did you say that about your sister? The princess said happily.
"Yes, I was wrong, you are the most obedient ......" The prince shook his head helplessly.
"Ah, His Royal Highness the Prince, how many of them are going to follow?" Feng Jianfei heard this, and his head was big. If these aunts and grandmothers followed, then they might come up with some tricks.
"What do you mean, don't you want us to follow?" the princess glared at Feng Jianfei.
"I ...... I mean, you can follow us, but you don't like the places we are afraid to go, so I ......" Feng Jianfei didn't believe the lies he made.
"Okay, Yue'er, you can follow. Don't say that your royal brother won't take you out. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said.
After arguing with Princess Yongan for a long time, a few people left the prince's mansion. This Nizi, if you want to talk to her, she may be able to talk to you for a day. And with her quite unreasonable personality. No one could tell her clearly. The younger sister of the crown prince. He knows best, and has been spoiled by them since he was a child.
A few people walked all the way to the main street of the imperial city. Although several of them are wearing plain clothes, no one knows their identities, but there are so many people, and all of them are wearing silk and satin, and they are walking on the street with a majestic atmosphere, which will inevitably attract the attention of others.
"Brother, where are we going? The princess said.
"Why are you asking so much? Isn't it over if you follow? You'll know when you get there. โ
"You tell us, and you won't do anything. We're going to go anyway......"
"Huo Xiao Palace!"
"What kind of place is this?"
"Oh, the Fire Shaw Palace is a temple. A very old temple. It is the largest temple in the capital. I have a little friendship with the abbot of this temple, so I want to burn incense and worship the Buddha......" said the prince.
"Burn, burn incense and worship the Buddha? Brother, when did you become so religious? Don't you don't believe in these things in the first place? What kind of gods and Buddhas are these? You're still here to burn incense, isn't that normal?" said Princess Yong'an.
"What's wrong with that? I heard that this place is very effective, so for thousands of years, the incense here has been prosperous for thousands of years, and it has been preserved after many wars. It is a place of Buddha protection. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said.
Listening to the prince's words, I don't know in my heart whether what the prince said is true or false. Is this place really so effective?Or does the prince come here for some other purpose?Lin Hainan pondered for a while, and several people had already followed the prince to that place-Huoxiao Palace.
Lin Hainan has always thought that everything has its own fixed number, if everything can be solved by asking God to worship Buddha, then there will not be so many troubles in the world, even if he knows the art of Qimen, he can't respond to requests, and those gods and Buddhas appear to be just tricks played by those temples in order to accumulate sesame oil money. It's more reassuring. There is no other effect. Even if the gods and Buddhas appear, they can't be exhaustive. If everybody's request for the Buddha to appear and be blessed, then can the Buddha be busy?
This Huoxiao Palace is indeed a magical place, Lin Hainan and they went there, where the architectural styles blended the characteristics of various dynasties.
"It seems that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is right, this place is indeed a long history, if I guess correctly, this place should have been built in Zhou until now. Lin Hainan said.
According to the examination records, the Three Kingdoms was named "Huo Xiao Guan", and in the Tang Dynasty, it was renamed "Xuanzhong Guan", and in the Tang Dynasty, it was changed to "Guan" to "Palace", and it was renamed "Huo Xiao Guan" in the Five Dynasties, and it was renamed "Huo Xiao Palace" in the Song Dynasty , until today to the Tang Dynasty is the most prosperous, the Ming Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty built the temple unfortunately destroyed in the natural disaster burning, the damage is heavy, has no longer the Tang and Song Dynasty grand occasion, the current fire Xiao Palace is Song Renzong six to ten years after the reconstruction and restoration, in the later Yuan Dynasty years, and after many times of training, after the Ming Dynasty and many repairs. The prince said with a few treasures.
"Brother, how do you know this?"
"Do you think I'm like you, and I know how to play all day long? I have some friendship with the abbot of the temple. That's what he told me. The prince said.
"I also see from the architectural style next to this, these buildings seem to have some style from each dynasty," Lin South said.
"If you look at the streets here, the history can be traced back to the early Tang Dynasty, and most of the houses here are relatively old, but they are extremely prosperous, and you can buy almost everything. This is a lot of fun for Park Eunbei and Ah Ling. In the market in front of the Huoxiao Palace, there is everything to eat and play, and compared with other places in the capital, it is simply surpassed."
"There is still such a place in this capital, why haven't we found it?" the princess and Park Eun-bey were happy.
"Brother, why didn't you bring me here to play earlier?" the prince glanced at her and didn't say anything.
It may be because of the Ming Dynasty, standing on the ancient street, there is a feeling of vicissitudes and relatives, Lin Hainan saw Feng Jianfei's face full of melancholy, and Park Enbei looked heartless for a while. So Lin Hainan proposed to go shopping first. The prince also promised.
There are still typical Tang traditional culture and customs, I am a little trance walking on the street, if it weren't for the prince next to him is the prince of Daming, they really can't tell where they are, Ah Ling and the princess and Park Enbei bought a wishful knot, Feng Jianfei also bought a small Guan Gong knife on a whim, play with it.
After walking a short distance, they stopped in front of the quaint temple.
The prince said that this is the holy land of Buddhism, I heard that it is very effective, people who come here, almost all have incense worship, just arrived at the door, the princess who has always been greedy for fun is clamoring to go in to see, with her playful state, the prince is really worried that she will tear down this ancient temple. When he was about to enter the temple, Lin Hainan was pulled by Park Enbei and pointed to the temple gate for him to see.
There are many small vendors who buy things at the gate of this Huoxiao Palace, and there are all kinds of incense and candle ingots, but Park Enbei pointed to a very remote place at the entrance of the temple, and there is a small fortune-telling stall under a Bodhi tree, which is blocked by the crowd of people.
At the gate of this ancient temple, it is not unusual to see fortune-telling, but here to set up this stall, how good the business is can be imagined, this place is a holy place of Buddhism, and fortune-telling belongs to the category of the five arts of Taoism. This man is setting up a stall here, and I don't know what he thinks. I watched it for a long time, but no one patronized.
Lin Hainan didn't care too much, maybe it was because of the people of the same way, he looked at him twice, he looked at a middle-aged man, it seemed that he didn't know how old the idea was, this age gave people a little less convincing fortune-telling, and he didn't see him in a hurry when the business was light, he sat on the chair calmly, holding a jade handle in his hand, calmly and quite imposingly, and was engrossed in feeding a thrush in the birdcage, next to it was a stack of signatures, the thrush was a trick in physiognomy, sticking the things that the bird likes to eat on a signature, and then the bird took out the paperใ This is all a common trick in the rivers and lakes, Lin Hainan smiled. This white-faced scholar, how could anyone come to him for fortune telling.
Looking at this line, Lin Hainan shook his head lightly, at best, he is a god stick, but also a god stick with a not very bright brain, the posture is there, and he can choose the wrong place, although there are many people here, most of them come to ask the Buddha for blessings, how can they ask for two gods in one thing? Moreover, Buddhist believers know or believe very little about Taoist physiognomy. How can there be business coming to the door?
The prince instructed Feng Jianfei to buy a large hug of incense and candles, and gave each of them some shares, so that they would go to worship the Buddha and pray later, see the temple to burn incense, and kowtow to the gods, saying that this can bless us in and out of the safe, all wishes come true, Lin Hainan smiled, and reluctantly took these incense candles. Then he looked at everyone, and everyone was very helpless.
A few people were about to go in, but Lin Hainan turned around and looked at the man, the fortune teller was still sitting there gracefully, and the prince saw Lin Hainan looking at the man.
Then he asked, "Mr. Lin, what are you looking at?"
"Oh, nothing, I'm looking at the fortune teller over there, it's weird. "Lin Hai South Road.
"Strange, what's strange?" the prince turned his head to look over. It seems that he saw something, and his face was a little bad. Then he walked over without saying anything.
The prince walked towards him, but the middle-aged man was still not in a hurry, still teasing the bird in the cage.
A gust of wind blew, and the signboard erected next to the stall was blown over, with only four words written on it in small seals.
Although it was written by Xiao Seal, the prince probably saw these words, so his face became so ugly.
Lin Hainan frowned slightly, with a big tone, the stall looks like either he has real talent and learning, or he is a swaggering and deceitful magic stick, this middle-aged man doesn't look like the former, and the nine-fingered Mao Qi is a Laoshan Taoist. Such a famous person in physiognomy, he only dared to call a golden jade good word when he opened a stall in the night market in the capital, this middle-aged man dared to play such a signboard, and it was in the Ming Dynasty, this is suspected of contempt for the king, and if he doesn't get it right, he may lose his head, he did this, which made Lin Hainan even more confused, this person is either a madman, or he just doesn't want to live.