Facing Liu Taozhi's question, Wu Ming was a little confused, although he was already a layman, he was still a believer in Buddhism, and knew that there were two kinds of Buddhas that believers believed in these years: Maitreya Buddha and Amitabha Buddha. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Buddhism in the Central Plains has the Pure Land Sect, which is divided into Maitreya belief and Mida faith, although they were all introduced to the Central Plains from Tianzhu, but the two beliefs are different.

Maitreya Pure Land is Tushi Heavenly Palace, that is, Tushi Pure Land; Mida Pure Land is the Western Pure Land of Bliss, also known as the Western Elysium. Both are pure lands that their respective believers want to rebirth, but the difficulty of achieving them is different, and the Buddhas are not the same.

Amitabha Buddha is the Buddha of Immeasurable, whose original meaning is "immeasurable", and Maitreya Buddha is the successor of the World-Honored Shakyamuni Buddha, who will be born in the world of sampa in the future, that is, the future Buddha of the world of sampa.

Maitreya Buddha is the sustenance of Buddhist believers to be saved, in other words, for Maitreya believers, Maitreya Buddha is the savior, can save them from the dire situation, so there is a saying of "Maitreya saves the world".

"Maitreya saviour, there's nothing strange about that, is it? Believe it or not, it's up to the individual. ”

Wu Ming was a little puzzled, but Liu Taozhi didn't go around in circles, and pointed out directly: "Maitreya saves the world, how many people start an incident in the name of this?" ”

A few simple words were like an initiation, which made Wu Ming excited: "You mean, someone wants to rebel by saying that Maitreya saves the world?" ”

Liu Taozhi did not answer this question, but asked Wu Ming where he got this Buddha statue, Wu Ming thought about it and told all the ins and outs of the matter.

Not long ago, the guards of the Xiyang Palace, the cat team, in the routine operation of catching thieves, took a thief's nest, since the people were stolen and sent to the government according to the custom, it turned out that there was a statue of Maitreya Buddha among the stolen goods, and the list was not lost for several days to claim it.

This is not surprising, maybe the owner is transiting Xiyang, I don't know that the government Zhang Bang let the owner claim the lost property, but the thief confessed that the Buddha statue was stolen from a tenant in Xiyang City, and the clerk came to report that after a few days of Zhang Bang, the tenant was still living in Xiyang City.

On the second day of the officer's visit, the tenants abruptly left the house and never returned, which became known a few days later, and according to the landlord, the tenants had planned to stay for at least another month.

There are more and more suspicions, although it is possible that these tenants may have left temporarily, but such a coincidence still makes Sima Yuwen of Huangzhou, who handled the case, suspicious.

Yuwen fifteen stayed in Huangzhou to take care of the family for Xiyang Wang Yuwenwen, there are many things to do, of course, this kind of seemingly trivial things have no time to take care of in person, but the whole thing reveals a strange atmosphere, so he handed over this matter to "his own people", that is, Wu Ming's cat team.

In fact, it is to find something to do for the cat team, so as not to let a group of young people get bored and have a belly all day long, not to mention that Wu Ming is an 'industry insider', so he should take this job.

At first, Wu Ming judged that this Buddha statue had a mechanism, and there might be some treasure maps, wills and other small notes, but he didn't find anything abnormal when he looked at it with a magnifying glass, and when he was helpless, he always felt that this Maitreya Buddha statue was a little different from the Maitreya Buddha statue he had seen.

What is the difference, but I can't say it, so Wu Ming has been in a daze at home in the past few days.

"This Buddha statue is really different, do you want to hear about it?" Liu Taozhi asked, he has experienced countless ups and downs, seen countless big scenes, and killed many vassal kings and magnates, but he can't put up a stand in front of his only son.

Wu Ming was now thinking about the Buddha statue, and seeing that his biological father had an opinion, he couldn't help but become anxious: "Uh... Could it be that the style is different? ”

"Yes, you see..."

Liu Taozhi began to explain, the entry point is the style of the Buddha statue, this Buddha statue is a bronze statue of Maitreya with a legged Maitreya, and there are holes around the backlight of the statue, and a relics pagoda is installed at the top.

Brake top, body, seat on both sides of symmetrical decoration entangled branches honeysuckle pattern, brake seat has two small niches, carved in the niche each carved a sitting Buddha.

Under the tower, the symmetrical holes on both sides of the five bodies fly into the sky, the shawl wears a skirt, the body is as light as a swallow, the ribbon flutters, the face of Maitreya is square, the head wears a crown, the treasure is drooping, decorated with Yingluo, and the shawl hangs on both sides of the body after wrapping around the arms.

Under the skirt, the pattern of the dress is deep and smooth, round and convex. Hands are fearless and wishing, sitting on the Sumeru seat with their feet crossed, and a dragon stretches its limbs and hovers beside him.

The Buddha statue is not in the style of the Southern Dynasties, and Liu Taozhi can determine that this Buddha statue originated from the Northern Dynasties, specifically it should have been made in the Qingzhou area, and the time was probably in the Qi (Northern Qi) period.

Why are you so sure? Of course, Liu Taozhi is sure that the evidence is still the style of this Buddha statue.

The belief in Maitreya was spread from south to north, during the Wei period of the Northern Dynasty, the belief in Maitreya in the Southern Dynasty spread all the way to the north through Guangling and Pengcheng, and Qingzhou, which is located in the north of Xuzhou, was greatly influenced by it.

The rebellion of the six towns, the situation in the Northern Dynasty was turbulent, the number of people who believed in the Pure Land of Maitreya increased significantly, both the noble and the poor were begging for Maitreya to save the world, with the expansion of Maitreya belief in Qingzhou, the style of the statue has also evolved significantly.

Liu Taozhi summarized that from the Wei State to the Qi State, the style development of the Maitreya Buddha statue is roughly divided into three stages.

In the first stage, that is, before the rebellion of the six towns of Wei State, the style of the Buddha statue was consistent with the "Xiu Gu Qing Statue" of the Southern Dynasty, with more back-screen statues, paying attention to the depiction of clothing, and the Buddha dress was dressed in the right collar placket on the left elbow, and the hem was abducted on both sides.

In the second stage (Eastern Wei Dynasty), the number of round carvings increased, the shape of the Buddha statue was larger, and the depiction of clothing changed to the performance of the Buddha's form, and the Buddha's clothes changed from heavy to light, and the way of dressing also changed.

The right collar is raised from the left elbow to the left shoulder, the chest ornament is still retained, the hem of the Buddha's robe is restrained, the Yingluo accessories gradually increase, the high conch of the Buddha's head begins to change to the low conch, and the crown decoration transitions from the low crown to the high crown.

In the third stage (Qi period), the physical performance of the Buddha statue is more prominent, the Buddha's clothes are less carved or not engraved, the whole body is applied with a checkered pattern and painted with a portrait of a person, the Buddha's clothes are dressed by the right collar to the left shoulder and tightened behind to form a small round neck, and the hem is close to the body on both sides.

The Buddha statue obtained by Wu Ming is obviously the style of the third stage of statue-making, and the praising clothes of this Buddha statue not only cover the left shoulder, but also expose the uncovered tongue-like left collar, which is the style of the Buddha statue in the Qingyan area.

Therefore, Liu Taozhi can conclude that the source of this Buddha statue is Qingzhou, and the production time is in the middle and late Qi Kingdom, and another reason is that the dragon of the Buddha statue, this dragon is called "descending dragon", which is the characteristic of the Maitreya Buddha statue in Qingzhou.

And the reason why Wu Ming felt that something was wrong was because of the "descending dragon".

"Descending the dragon? Doesn't seem like anything special? ”

Wu Ming was shocked by Liu Taozhi's rich experience in identifying Buddha statues, but he still had many questions, and as for his questions about descending the dragon, Liu Taozhi also explained.

The descent of the dragon mentioned here is the "descent" of descending, not the "descent" of surrender, and the dragon in the Buddha statue means the descending dragon that followed Maitreya into the world, if it is three or four claws are very common, but the descending dragon of the Buddha statue in front of him is five claws.

The general Maitreya Buddha statue will be engraved with a vow text by the Buddha maker, such as "a certain year, a certain month, a certain day, how the people of such and such a county make a vow", but this Buddha statue does not, the only explanation...

"Maitreya was born, descended with the dragon, polluted the world, and turned into a pure land on earth."

Liu Taozhi read out the words that had been sealed for a long time, which made Wu Ming a little stunned: "Pure Land on Earth? Isn't this a call for revolt? Belch... How do you know so much? ”

Why would I know?

Liu Taozhi didn't answer, looking at the strange Buddha statue in his hand, everything seemed to be back to the past.

He, high up, stared at himself with eyes like goshawks, and threw a Buddha statue in front of him: "Liu Taozhi, I heard that there is a savior in Qingzhou, who wants to turn the dirty world into a pure land on earth..... Hahahahaha! ”

There seems to be thousands of troops hidden in the laughter, murderous and chilling.

"You, go to Qingzhou and come back with the head of this so-called savior!"

"Yes."

"Those with long hair in white, kill!"

"There are conniving harborers, kill!"

"There are those who believe in this image, clan!"