Chapter 273: The Holy Lamp Appears
"Yes, since you said that the holy lamp is rarer than the Buddha's light, then what did you just say that we are likely to see it this morning?" asked the mouse, scratching his head, he still didn't know what the holy lamp was......
"Actually, it's not impossible to see the rare phenomenon of the holy lamp, I don't know if you noticed it just now, the people who came up behind all took an umbrella?" Duanmu Ci smiled and said, he found this very carefully just now, almost everyone who came up took an umbrella. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"What's the matter with taking an umbrella and turning off the holy lamp, is it possible that you have to bring an umbrella to see it?" said to him, not understanding why Duanmu Ci said this.
"When we were on the mountainside just now, did we see a lot of clouds gathering, but now that we look again, we can see the lights of the temple halfway up the mountainside, and they have umbrellas, which means something, it is already raining at the foot of the mountain. Duanmu Ci smiled and continued.
"If you want to see the holy lamp, you must have four natural conditions, the first is the first sunny day after the rain, the second is that there is no moon in the sky, do you see if there is no moon tonight? The third condition is that there are no clouds under the mountain, there are just now, there is no rain after a rain, and the fourth is that there is no strong wind and rain on the top of the mountain, do you feel the wind now? Obviously, no, as long as we have these four natural conditions, then we are very likely to see the holy lamp." Duanmu Ci smiled and explained, he saw this from a book, but in his previous life, he also happened to see a scientific explanation about the holy lamp.
Presumably, the "holy lamp" is a "ringworm" that attaches to the branches of trees and emits light when it encounters 100% humidity in the air. In 1983, a field survey team of the Jinggangshan Master Planning Committee saw a scene very similar to the "holy lamp" when they stayed overnight in the Shuikou Ao, Nanping Ridge. They sampled the soil, rocks, insects, etc., and the branches and leaves of related plants in the luminescent area, and the results showed that the light was the fungal material of the "dense ring fungus" that was epiphytic on the branches, and when the moisture reached more than 100%, it could emit light, and the light disappeared after drying. The reason why this fungus-carrying branch and leaf can fluoresce in the dark night is entirely due to the friction between the oxygen element in the air after the fungus gets enough water. This is very consistent with the poem "The drizzle is moist and does not go out, and the good wind blows brighter" in the poem of Concubine Xu more than 1,000 years ago; and it is very consistent with Wang Shixing's "Travels" more than 400 years ago, "As soon as the holy lamp arrives, thousands and hundreds are like fireflies, and they are all wooden leaf ears."
"It's almost dawn, so pray that we can see this magical landscape before dawn" Ling Xue smiled and said, Duanmu Ci was simply a walking encyclopedia, as if there was nothing he didn't know.
Now there is still about half an hour before the theoretical time of dawn, the top of the mountain is still pitch black, only a few pillars of light from the tourists' flashlights, Duanmu Ci and a few people are still sitting on the rented small bench chatting and eating snacks and waiting.
"Dad, look down there, there are so many bright little dots!" a child pointed to the bottom of the observation deck and said curiously, the child's father was annoyed that the child had run to such a dangerous place without paying attention, and hurriedly crawled over to pull her over.
"This, this, this...... This is the holy lamp! Come and see!" The man looked at the rising stars below and shouted excitedly, his family lives not far from the foot of Mount Emei, and often climbs up in the middle of the night to watch the sunrise, today the child's kindergarten is on vacation, so he plans to take the child to see the sunrise. He has also seen a lot of Buddha light, but it is the first time he has seen the holy lamp, this kind of scene is really beautiful.
Everyone heard the man's shouting and ran to the edge of the stone fence of the stands, Duanmu Ci was no exception, and hurriedly pulled Xiaoxue over, their position here is relatively high, so they soon came to the edge of the fence, originally he didn't have much hope, because even if he had the conditions just mentioned, it was very likely that he would not see the holy lamp, but he didn't expect them to come to Mount Emei for the first time, and they saw this very rare spectacle, and they couldn't be too lucky.
"It's so beautiful...... Ling Xue said stupidly as she looked at the dots of light below, as if the stars had risen from the foot of the mountain, going to make peace with the stars in the sky, it was particularly eye-catching in the dark night sky, and small blue dots in the distance flickered.
"Nature is really amazing!" Duanmu Ci also smiled and exclaimed, thousands of phosphorescence flickering was very shocking, Duanmu Ci's eyesight was better than anyone else, he could even see the size of those phosphorescence in the distance, some were as big as the mouth of a bowl, and some were only a small dot like a bean, as if the Milky Way was close in front of him, it was so beautiful, he hurriedly took out his camera to capture such a spectacular and rare scene.
After about twenty minutes, the phosphorescent light in the distance disappeared, it should be the reason why the air is drier and drier the more it rises, after the air dries down, this phenomenon will naturally disappear, everyone is discussing the scene just now, because it is so beautiful and spectacular, everyone is very glad to come up to see the sunrise today, I didn't expect the sunrise to come yet, but I saw the holy lamp first.
"Fortunately, I took a picture, otherwise it's a pity" Duanmu Ci smiled and looked at the photo he had just taken in his camera and said, his technical level of taking pictures is not bad, he took many photos in a row, the photos are very good-looking, but it is still not spectacular to see with his own eyes.
"The sunrise is coming, everyone pay attention to that side" Duanmu Ci looked at the time and said, before coming, he specially asked the staff of the hotel, these people are watching almost every day, and they can almost accurate the time of sunrise to the minute, and after looking at the time, it is only a few minutes before sunrise, Duanmu Ci hurriedly adjusted the camera and prepared to record the upcoming moment.
According to the locals, being able to see the sunrise of Mount Emei means that you have a relationship with the Buddha, in fact, that is also a legend, and you really have to rely on your luck to see the sunrise. Because of the high altitude of Mount Emei, the weather conditions are changeable, and it is not something that can be seen every day. That also needs the right time, place and people. However, in this weather, the interest rate of being able to see the sunrise cannot be said to be very high, but if you look at it at normal times, it should be able to see it.
I am like floating clouds and Wu Yue, the king is the holy lord of Danque, Emei Mountain, the moon is half in the autumn, the shadow into the Pingqiang River flow, the Tang Dynasty poet Li Taibai once expressed his incomparable amazement in witnessing the sunrise of Mount Emei on the golden summit of Mount Emei. They also came to this place today, I don't know if it's really as shocking as Li Taibai said?