On the east bank of Tianshan Tianchi, the ancestral temple of the Queen Mother in the west.

At this time, it was already evening, Zhang Yi and a few people had been resting in this Taoist temple for several hours, and they originally planned to come here and rest for a while before going into the water, but the Huo family brothers said that as soon as the sky is dark, the pool water will become colder and colder, if it is in the morning, the pool water will also be warmer, although the strength of Zhang Yi and the four people is very strong, but after all, when they get to the bottom of the pool, they have to open the ice to get the sword, so it is always good to keep more strength, Nie Qingchen also said that he has been at the bottom of the pool for more than 20 years, The water in the pond was indeed a little warmer in the morning, and the four of them decided to go into the water the next morning.

The Huo family brothers are the only two people in this Taoist temple, according to Wang Yunfeng, the Huo family brothers are the descendants of a martial arts family at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, one is called Huo Tiandu, the other is called Huo Tianyun, the two brothers are rare masters in the western region, and the Huo family boxing is also superb.

Twenty-three years ago, when Wang Yunfeng sent Nie Qingchen to this Tianchi to recuperate, the ancestral temple of the West Queen Mother had not yet been rebuilt, so there was no one on the Tianchi Pond, but after the West Queen Mother Ancestral Temple was rebuilt at the end of the century, Wang Yunfeng was worried that Nie Qingchen's secret at the bottom of the pool was known by some ordinary people, so he secretly let the Huo family brothers enter this temple as Taoists, guarding the Taoist temple while paying attention to Nie Qingchen, and never letting ordinary people know the secret that someone is at the bottom of the pool.

The father of the Huo family brothers was killed by the head of the Vietnam Holy Dao Church in the martial arts incident, and later the head of the Holy Dao Church was killed by Wang Yunfeng, so the Huo brothers were also grateful to Wang Yunfeng and agreed to Wang Yunfeng to enter this Taoist temple, and this entry was more than ten years.

Now one of the two brothers is the master of the Taoist temple, and the other is the person in charge of the Tianshan Administration, so on this Tianshan Mountain, the two of them are now the biggest.

Originally, there were more than a dozen Taoist people and administrators in this Taoist temple, and there were waiters, but after winter, the Tianshan Mountain Road was closed, and those ordinary people stayed here with nothing to do, and secondly, they couldn't stand the cold weather, so the Huo brothers sent everyone down the mountain, and then let them come back in the spring of the next year. Their brothers are also martial arts, so they can naturally resist this kind of cold.

When Wang Yunfeng just told Zhang Yi about the origin of the Huo family brothers, Zhang Yi was also surprised, no wonder the Huo family brothers were very surprised when they saw them just now, it turned out that they were also in the same way, as a fellow in the same way, the former three masters in the Chinese martial arts world, naturally no one did not know.

After the Huo brothers prepared some dinner for a few people to eat, Nie Qingchen and Master Guangzang Fahong found a room to meditate and rest, Wang Yunfeng went to Tianchi, saying that he was looking at the scenery in the evening, and Zhang Yi was curious about this Taoist temple and visited.

On the main hall of this Taoist temple, there is a bronze statue of the Queen Mother of the West, and Zhang Yi is standing under this bronze statue at this moment, looking up and admiring it.

According to the "Biography of Mu Tianzi", three thousand years ago, the Western Zhou monarch Zhou Mu Wang once took the "Eight Horse Carriage" to the west of the Tianshan Mountains, and the Queen Mother of the West met him in Tianchi. King Mu of Zhou presented her with a large number of brocade silk and other specialties of the Central Plains, while the Queen Mother of the West gave back the treasures of the Tianshan Mountains and invited King Mu of Zhou to visit the famous places of the Tianshan Mountains. King Mu wrote "The Mountain of the Queen Mother of the West" as a commemoration. When parting, the Queen Mother of the West persuaded her to drink again and again, and sang impromptuly: "I wish you a long life, and may you come again." ”

However, myth is a myth after all, in the official history, the ancestral temple of the West Queen Mother was built in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, this temple is one of the Taoist temples of Taoist culture, because there is the legend of the Queen Mother of the West, so it is called the ancestral temple of the West Queen Mother. The temple was built on a grand scale and the incense was extremely prosperous. However, during the war, the ancestral temple of the Queen Mother of the West was destroyed in the war. In the early nineties, the Taoist "Cihui Hall" on Taiwan Island built a simple temple on the site of the ancestral temple of the former Queen Mother of the West for good men and women to worship the Queen Mother of the West. At the beginning of the 21st century, the local government rebuilt a magnificent West Queen Mother Ancestral Temple through investment promotion, and restored this famous monument on the shore of Tianchi Lake, which is now the rebuilt West Queen Mother Ancestral Temple.

"How's this bronze statue?"

When Zhang Yi was immersed in the artistic conception of the vividly portrayed bronze statue, a voice sounded behind him, Zhang Yi looked back, it was Huo Tiandu, the eldest brother of the Huo family, and immediately instinctively responded: "All copper, right?" Very valuable"

"Valuable?" Huo Tiandu was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "I'm talking about the charm and smile of the Queen Mother of the West, what do you think?" ”

"What's this?" Zhang Yi shook his head lightly and said with a smile: "In the mythological story, the Queen Mother of the West was a peerless beauty when she was young, and only her beauty is comparable to the first goddess of the Heavenly Palace, the Nine Heavens Xuannu, and she is also the mainstream of Taoism and the ancestor of the Quanzhen Dao, so her beauty when she was young is true, good, and beautiful, and her charm and smile are naturally not comparable to mortal women." ”

Huo Tiandu also said sincerely: "Yes, I have been in this Taoist temple for so many years, and the rhyme of this kind of goddess is indeed not artificially portrayed, I have been in this Taoist temple for so many years, and sometimes I wonder what the goddesses in those stories are like?" ”

Zhang Yi then said with a smile: "The Classic of Mountains and Seas records that the image of the Queen Mother of the West is: a leopard tail with a human body, tiger teeth and good howling, fluffy hair hoopoe, and Si Tianzhi and the five remnants. It means that the Queen Mother of the West resembles a human, with a leopard's tail and tiger teeth, roars and whistles with a voice like a wild beast, and her unkempt hair resembles a striking crown of feathers on the head of an unlucky hoopoe bird, and is a god sent by Heaven to rule over plague, disease, death, and punishment. ”

"Isn't Nuwa also a human-headed snake body?" Huo Tiandu muttered.

Seeing his fascinate appearance, Zhang Yi laughed again: "When the king of Shang saw Nuwa, he once mentioned a poem, should you also want to mention a poem for the Queen Mother of the West?" ”

Huo Tiandu heard this, but said with a smile: "I want to, but I'm just a martial artist, poetry and songs, I don't understand it at all?" ”

"Are you married?" Zhang Yi asked suddenly.

"It's over, my wife and children are all down the mountain, and my brother and I plan to go down the mountain soon to accompany them." Huo Tiandu said with a smile.

"If you have a wife, don't think about the Queen Mother of the West, these are just fictional characters in mythology, Taoist culture is like this, believing in immortals." Zhang Yi spread his hands.

Huo Tiandu said: "Actually, I didn't believe in Taoism, but after coming to this Taoist temple, I gradually began to like Taoist culture, and I am now a true believer in Taoism." ”

"Taoist culture pursues the unity of nature and man, quiet and inaction, negative escapism, to understand in modern terms, it is also a kind of self-face, adapt to the attitude of society, it advocates the four values, life value, human value, personality value and ideal value are very meaningful, for the scientific research of modern outlook on life has a pivotal position." Zhang Yi looked at Huo Tiandu and said with a faint smile: "Theology is the highest science, the end of physics is mathematics, the end of mathematics is philosophy, and the end of philosophy is theology, I have always admired scholars who study theology, because their ideological height is not comparable to ordinary people, although I don't believe in Taoism, but I like Taoist culture, which is the so-called theology."

"What's so bad about faith? At least you can find your true self in the lost" Huo Tiandu smiled suddenly: "The 'Tao, and' virtue mentioned in "Lao Tzu", the respect of the Tao, the nobility of virtue, and the life of Fu Mo are always natural. Everything in the universe is natural, and people should follow their natural nature and not act intentionally

Zhang Yi nodded, "Morality is the most important social ideology in human society, and the most important thing in Taoist culture is to promote this social consciousness, which is a small step in Taoist culture, but it is a big step in human progress."

Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism are the three supreme classics of the highest knowledge for people, if you can read one, it will not be in vain, but unfortunately, in addition to the founder of these three learnings, the great sage, no one will understand the truth for thousands of years.

The two did not talk for too long about the Queen Mother of the West, Taoism, this kind of problem is too profound, not easy for ordinary people to understand, there is no end to learning, as long as you have no distractions, treat others, family, friends, you are the real winner in life.

Subsequently, Huo Tiandu took Zhang Yi to visit some other buildings in the Taoist temple, and the time soon came to night, and during the period of time between the two, Zhang Yi also learned some detailed origins of their Huo family from Huo Tiandu's mouth again.

According to Huo Tiandu, their Huo family belongs to the Western Han Hussar General Huo Quzhi, although they are not the real descendants of Huo Quzhi, but they are also the descendants of other people in the Huo family of Huo Quzhi, and Huo Qubing also has a blood relationship of 2,000 years.

After listening to what he said, Zhang Yifang suddenly realized, no wonder, Huo Jiaquan was created by Huo Quai, and later became the most important martial arts in the Chinese martial arts world because of Huo Hong's fame, no wonder Wang Yunfeng said before that the strength of the Huo family brothers is not much better than Tong Qing, one of the five strange people, it turns out that they are the descendants of famous generals, and there is such a martial arts founded by an ancestor who will naturally not be bad, Wolong ShengZhuge Qingtian, the descendant of Zhuge Liang, is an example, Moreover, Wang Yunfeng also said that the father of the Huo family brothers is the master of the Huo family.

After Huo Tiandu took Zhang Yi to visit the Taoist temple and returned to the main hall, Wang Yunfeng also came back from Tianchi, and when he came back, he was covered with snowflakes, it turned out that it was snowing heavily outside at this time, and the sky was already dark.

At this time, Huo Tianyun, who had prepared a room for everyone, also walked into the main hall and brought Zhang Yi and Wang Yunfeng to the room where they were going to rest.

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