Chapter 484: Visiting the Shwedagon Pagoda
"On our side in Myanmar, Shwedagon Pagoda has another name, 'Rui Daguang Pagoda'." Looking up at the Shwedagon Pagoda not far away, Hu Yongwen explained: "Rui means gold in Burmese, and Daguang is the ancient city of Yangon, so our locals like to call Shwedagon Pagoda Rui Daguang Pagoda." ”
Hearing this, Ye Feng and his entourage nodded, in fact, when they were in the hotel, Liu Feng had already introduced it.
Under the leadership and introduction of Hu Yongwen and his wife, the group began to slowly walk towards the location of the Shwedagon Pagoda......
While the group walked towards the Shwedagon Pagoda from the place where they got off the bus, Hu Yongwen explained: "In Myanmar, all Burmese men have to cut their hair at least once in their lives to become monks, which is considered a kind of accumulation of virtue and goodness, so on this side of Myanmar, there are many pagodas, temples and Buddha statues, which are the characteristics of Myanmar Buddhist culture." ”
Ye Feng nodded and said: "When Brother Liu made an introduction, he already felt it, according to Brother Liu, the famous scenic spots here in Yangon, such as the Shwedagon Pagoda where we are now, as well as the World Peace Pagoda, the Jiandi Pagoda and the Qiaotaji Great Reclining Buddha, basically the most famous scenic spots, all of them are pagodas and Buddha statues. ”
"A place has a local characteristic, which is a characteristic culture that belongs to a country and a nation, and it can also be said to be a kind of inherited faith." Du Yu took over and said.
Zuo Yunlei and Sun Zilong nodded in unison and said: "Yes, the status of pagodas and Buddha statues in Myanmar must be the same as the status of the Great Wall and the Forbidden City in the minds of our Chinese people, and they all have an irreplaceable status." ”
"Not bad!" Hu Yongwen nodded with a smile and continued: "In fact, in the entire pastry territory, there are more than hundreds of thousands of large and small pagodas together, and although the temples and Buddha statues are not as many as the pagodas, they also have tens of thousands of numbers together, so Myanmar actually has another name called 'the country of pagodas'." ”
"This may be related to faith, according to our Burmese people, how early the pagoda can be repaired in the next life, for the next life to accumulate wealth, so many places will vigorously build pagodas, and some rich businessmen, will also spare no effort to build pagodas, which has directly led to the number of pagodas built year after year."
"Brother Hu, according to what you said, presumably you and Brother Liu should have donated a lot of money to build a pagoda, right?" Ye Feng asked with a smile.
"Although Lao Liu moved here with his family when he was a child, the blood flowing in his bones is still the blood of your Chinese nation, so Lao Liu does not believe in such a statement, although there are donations to build, but the number is very small, only a few pagodas. I don't donate a lot to build it, and if you calculate it, there are no hundreds, but seventy or eighty is definitely there. Hu Yongwen said slowly.
Hearing this, Ye Feng, Zuo Yunlei, Du Yu, and Sun Zilong hesitated for a moment, but Hu Yongwen alone donated seventy or eighty nearly hundreds of pagodas, which is not difficult to explain why the number of pagodas in Myanmar is hundreds of thousands.
"Brother Hu, aren't you afraid that if you build a pagoda so much, the land area will shrink significantly?" Coming back to his senses, Ye Feng asked the question he had been thinking about.
Hu Yongwen has been thinking about this question since he said that there are hundreds of thousands of pagodas in Myanmar and that many people are willing to build pagodas vigorously.
"This problem was not obvious before, but recently it has been highlighted, so the government has already controlled the construction of pagodas, the first is the size of the scale, the second is the quantity, both of which have made very hard restrictions." Hu Yongwen said with a smile.
Ye Feng nodded, and did not continue to say anything, such a simple question, anyone can think of it, and the local government cannot and has no reason not to think of it.
"Brother Ye, do you know? There are tens of thousands of pieces of gold leaf pasted on the main pagoda, and the weight of these gold leaves together exceeds the number of ten tons, and the top of the pagoda is completely made of pure gold with a purity of more than 99 percent, and it is also inlaid with 5,448 diamonds of different kinds, and there are already 2,317 gems of different colors. As we approached the Shwedagon Pagoda in this way, the Shwedagon Pagoda got closer and closer to everyone, and the feeling of golden light became more intense.
"Tens of thousands of pieces of gold leaf, weighing more than ten tons, the top of the tower made of pure gold, more than 5,000 diamonds of different kinds and 2,000 gemstones of different colors......"
As Hu Yongwen's words fell, the group, except for Liu Feng, everyone else opened their mouths almost incredibly at the same time, and they were stunned here.
No wonder the name of this pagoda is called Shwedagon Pagoda, and it can indeed be called a veritable golden pagoda.
After entering the mountain gate, the huge tower base is clearly presented in front of everyone, the Shwedagon Pagoda has four entrances, each entrance has a stone lion handle that means the town house, after entering the entrance is a long staircase, you can go straight to the top of the Golden Pagoda.
When entering the interior of the Shwedagon Pagoda, one must take off one's shoes, which is a sincere expression of Buddhism. Under the arrangement of the staff, the group took off their shoes and entered the interior of the Shwedagon Pagoda through the entrance on one side.
On the top of a series of steps, there is a statue of the Buddha, and the bottom of the tower is made of bricks, and covered with gold nuggets, these are real gold bricks made of pure gold, donated by Buddhists from all walks of life in Myanmar, and the niche on the foreshadowing of the tower is enshrined in different forms of jade Buddha statues.
Walking in the golden pagoda, from time to time there are monks dressed barefoot walking by, although this golden pagoda is extremely luxurious, but people standing in it, but people can't help but give birth to a different kind of tranquility in their hearts, very calm, very want to be harmonious, it seems that there is no such splendid and extremely luxurious everything at all, as if in a calm and simple place.
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After visiting the Great Golden Altar, Ye Feng and his entourage visited Bandura Square, the World Peace Pagoda, the Jiandi Pagoda and the Great Reclining Buddha of Qiaotaji.
Sure enough, it is worthy of being the most famous scenic spot in Yangon, Myanmar, and the most famous scenic spot in the whole Myanmar, these ancient architectural stupas and various Buddha statues are quite Myanmar's local characteristics, bringing people a sense of precipitation of Myanmar's local history.
After all these scenic spots were visited, it was nearly six o'clock in the afternoon. After such a day of contact, the relationship between Zuo Xinrui and Hu Chunyao seems to be a lot closer, and they look intimate, like a pair of good girlfriends.
Such a scene made Ye Feng and Zhang Kexin's hearts more and more confused, I don't know what Zuo Xinrui's idea was to do this today?
However, although he was puzzled, Ye Feng's heart was slightly relieved, no matter what, as long as there was no world war between the three women, he originally thought that after Hu Chunyao arrived, the situation he faced would be even more cruel, but he didn't expect it to be so easy......
Of course, in fact, what Ye Feng was most worried about was whether Hu Chunyao, who had recovered from his illness, would he also become the same as Zuo Xinrui after he had recovered, but fortunately there was nothing like what he was worried about, otherwise, the result could be imagined!
That night, Hu Yongwen's family arranged a sumptuous reception banquet for Ye Feng and his party at the Yangon Hotel to celebrate, and everyone left until late at night.
During the banquet, Hu Yongwen took the initiative to clink glasses with Ye Feng more than once, and he could see the excitement and joy in his heart as a father since Ye Feng cured Hu Chunyao's illness.
Maybe he drank too much wine, and after Hu Yongwen clinked glasses, he raised his glass at Liu Feng: "Old Liu, thank you." ”
Liu Feng paused for a moment, thinking that Hu Yongwen was going to introduce Ye Feng to treat Hu Chunyao's illness, and then smiled and said: "Old Hu, how many years have our brothers been friends!" Why are you still mentioning this, besides, I'm just pulling the needle, and the treatment is all Brother Ye's own business. ”
"It's not this, I'm not talking about this...... Hu Yongwen shook his head and waved his hand: "I know what you mean by asking me to arrange a car today to take Brother Ye and a few of them to visit several famous scenic spots in Yangon." Do you want to give Yao'er more opportunities to get in touch with Brother Ye......"
Ga!
Liu Feng's face was a little embarrassed, he understood Hu Chunyao's thoughts very well, so in his selfish heart, he really hoped that Hu Chunyao would be able to ......, so he would call Hu Yongwen when he decided to visit the scenic spots, and ask him to send a business car over, to put it bluntly, these are just to hide people's eyes, and the real purpose is to give Hu Chunyao more opportunities to contact Ye Feng.
The situation in Myanmar is different from that in China, some rich people can often marry several wives, but it is just as exaggerated as Ah Sanguo, so basically no one cares about the fact that Ye Feng already has a partner to get along with, and he looks at it very openly.
But now, when such a thing is said by Hu Yongwen, Liu Feng's face can't help but be a little unbearable.
Hu Chunyao's face at this time was also flushed.
Ye Feng and his party were also speechless about Liu Feng's approach, especially Zhang Kexin, this girl's face was already a little unhappy.
However, everyone was also very surprised by Hu Yongwen and his wife's approach, obviously after knowing that Ye Feng already had someone to get along with, he didn't stop his daughter Hu Chunyao's idea, but still took the initiative to push people out to Ye Feng, this thing is really weird!
Living in two different countries, the national conditions of Myanmar are like this, so in their hearts, even if they understand the actual situation here, it is still difficult to really understand the true state of mind of the Burmese people born and raised here.
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