Chapter 71: Occasional Meeting
"Do you want to go out when you join the army, but please let me wait......"
After a few moments, Windswept and several of her companions changed into their usual robes and heads, but still wore their armor inside, wrapped their blades, and carried them behind them like a walking staff, and led us out together.
Spring City is full of flowers,
In the clear willow dance, we stepped out of this large mansion, which is the downtown neighborhood on the side of Guangsheng Bridge in Hangzhou, and the rivers on the bank of the Qiantang River are dense, like a big net, shrouding the streets and alleys of the ancient city.
I looked back at the name plate we came out of, and the words "Wei Yuan" were written in black lacquer.
Although Hangzhou, as I am familiar with, at least in my time and space, it will not take shape until the great development of the Southern Song Dynasty, but in this time and space line, there are still many frustrations.
At least the West Lake has become bigger, the Su Causeway and the broken bridge are gone, the white sand embankment between the Lonely Mountain and the North Mountain is still the same, the Leifeng Pagoda has deviated from the original position, and has become the so-called Baosheng Tower, Feilai Peak is also called Linghu Mountain, and in the Lingyin Temple under the Little Tianzhu Mountain, there is no legend of a crazy monk.
The four fields of West Lake are not dense, there are high-rise buildings everywhere, and there are stitches and needles, under the banner of various lake-view houses, real estate under construction and real estate developers, after the blockage and suffocation, the vision becomes quite refreshing and pleasant, and the light yƬ can be seen to be full of blue waves and villas around the lake, exquisite and unique houses are cloudy, which is very pleasing to the eye.
Since the Southern Dynasty, it has been a big city built according to Phoenix Mountain, known as "16 miles and 90 steps on Wednesday". Although there have been damage increases and decreases in the past dynasties, but the overall has not changed much, the biggest attraction is that the construction or renovation in different eras, and the style of the water and land city gates,
Standing on a high place, the most conspicuous thing is that the Qiantang River is a large area of sea ponds and embankments filled in by the "stone hoarding and wooden pile method", showing a certain historical heritage.
As the southern end and end point of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which runs through the north and south, there are still many remnants of the former prosperity, such as the former site of a large salt warehouse and freight store next to the Gongchen Bridge, and the large and small wharves and ship enclosures all over the riverbank.
During the Kaiyuan Tianbao period, the Jiangnan light and expensive goods and Jiangnan women who boarded the ship could even take a boat to reach the pond outside the Jingming Gate in Chang'an, Xijing, and sing and dance to accept the Son of Heaven on the gatehouse.
However, unlike other famous cities that rely on the north-south transportation of the Grand Canal, the rise and fall of honor and disgrace, Hangzhou at least has an outlet to the sea, so after the rebels of the Anshi Rebellion cut off the river and the rise of Haicao, Hangzhou soon changed its course and became an important starting point of Haicao, so even if it is still entrenched in Dengzhou, among the many maritime forces entrenched in Dengzhou, it has always been indispensable to have a place for the Hangzhou business group.
Later, it coincided with the rise of the sea domain, the imperial court encouraged the vigorous development of overseas golden age, and the sea trade of various products flourished, so in the southeast port of Dayi, Hangcheng, which had the advantage of being the first mover, quickly got rid of the negative impact caused by the decay of the river trough, and re-lived a good life of thousands of merchants gathering and sailing like a forest.
It was also one of the starting points for the collection of immigrants from the foreign domain, all kinds of mainland people who were lured or abducted by rhetoric, bankrupt and landless farmers, unemployed craftsmen, desperate villagers who sold themselves, people who were trapped by the government, or escaped from the lawlessness of Yousi, criminals exiled by the imperial court, and here they turned back step by step, embarking on the road of no return to be sent overseas to open up.
At the peak of history, it is known as more than 100,000 families, surrounded by lakes and mountains, left and right, and Fujian merchants, sails and waves, in and out of the smoke and mist, can be described as prosperous. It is still famous for its weaving, printing, brewing, and paper-making industries, and most of the city's inhabitants are engaged in handicrafts or handicraft-related trades.
Because of the prosperity and comfort of the place, even if the center of gravity of the government is still shifted inward, but in Hangzhou, there are still three important envoys in eastern Zhejiang, Yuyao Jingluo and Sanjiang transshipment, as well as a large number of related yamen officials.
For example, in addition to the Jingjiao Shrine in the southeast, which was once popular in the southeast after the Qianyuan Dynasty, there is also a rare fire worship shrine in the southeast, and the Mani Bright Courtyard or something.
And with the characteristics of the other party in the south of the Yangtze River, all kinds of local worship of the nature of the gods, shrines, is countless, almost walk through the streets and alleys, you can meet one at any turnover.
However, because of the legacy of worshipping Buddha in the Southern Dynasty, and because it is close to Tiantai Mountain, one of the four mountains of Buddhism, the most are still various Buddhist monasteries, Jingci Temple, Gion Temple, Guanyin Temple, Tianzhen Temple, Jingkong Temple, Donglin Temple, Jianguo Temple, Faxin Temple, Gushan Temple, temples and Buddhist halls of various names from the five schools and eight sects, almost in the continuous street market, with floating slaughter and cornices to show their own sense of existence, and the incense is flourishing with a certain hope of people in this corner of troubled times.
But it is more because Hangzhou has changed hands several times in history, almost all of them have been opened bloodlessly, or abandoned and transferred, so that the victor, Emi, has too many opportunities and reasons to send and destroy this ancient city.
Mixed with the daily introduction, the various overflowing longing and compliments of the wind and the flag are still continuing, like a surging river, endlessly, coming from the sky, rushing to the sea and not returning, and the vocabulary has not been repeated.
However, I wondered if he had been assigned to this task because of this kind of chatterboxing attribute that he couldn't stop talking about at the beginning. It would be a waste not to be a salesman or an insurance or real estate agent in the later generations, but in this chaotic era, it will inevitably seem a little chicken, even if it is a Warring States family or something, there must be enough background and backing, so that people can appreciate and play it.
However, as an escort and tour guide, he is still quite responsible, and he is also a treasure of various local allusions, and he can talk for a long time without making people feel bored......
Visited the city near the river bank of several distinctive sea markets, and the corresponding tide watching Range Rover, although most of the sea market is the off-season, there are very few foreign sea boats, the account opening business is mainly local merchants, and the apprentices and men of the various shops are also lazy, and can not raise their energy against the sparse flow of people.
And those buildings at the tide viewing place are not the most suitable season for watching the tide, and there are only two or three kittens in the courtyard, but we are quite satisfied.
Listening to the spring river tide outside like thunder, eating the local snack called "fresh eight pieces", slowly moving the sore legs and feet, it is also quite a pleasant thing.
"Next."
I thought about it
"Let's go to Lingyin Temple......"
"Lingyin Temple ......"
Wind Roll Banner thought about it with some uncertainty,
"Let me ask......"
After a few moments, we got on two lifts, something like a sliding pole, and carried us along until we reached some familiar landmark.
I looked at the small door plaque "Lingyin Temple", as the earliest famous temple in Hangzhou, occupying the best feng shui treasure around the West Lake, between the North Peak and Feilai Mountain. The so-called two peaks are confronted, the forest is towering, the ancient temple in the deep mountains, and the clouds and smoke are all in shape.
Because this time and space did not have the late Tang Dynasty "Huichang Law Difficulty", the destroyed temple was still vulgar and abandoned, until the process of rebuilding the five dynasties of Wuyue King Qian Hui, so it still maintained a considerable number of ancient buildings since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but the quaint style that has not changed much,
For a traveler like me, who has been poisoned by the flow and noise of modern scenic spots, the ubiquitous hawkers and ticket consumption traps, and pollution, it is still quite a novel and different dislocation experience.
Because it looks quite leisurely and light here, there is a long stele on the tree in front of the mountain gate, which is inscribed with the "Lingyin Temple Record" of the tea saint Lu Yu:
"The Jin and Song dynasties have descended, the virtuous and capable people live together, the words of the stele remnants of the simple text, and the words of the beetle Zhichuan. Pavilion is elegant, Yuan Song is long-lived, embroidered horns and painted arches, and the glow is haloed in the nine skies; The caisson Danying, Hua hangs in the four photos. The corridor is repeated, and the jade spring is dived; Flying pavilion rock dawn, reflecting the tree of weeping pearls. Feng Duo touches the joy of the sky, and the flowers search for the treasures of the land and the sea. Green trees and flower branches, Rongrong Dongmao; The green lan is clear, and the morning and sunset are condensed. ā
In later generations, it became the five mountains of Nanchan, and the Lingyin Temple was built in different dynasties, and it is now one of the eight sects of Xijing, the dojo of the high monk Daofeng of Huayan Sect, and it is also the most common branch of the local Buddhism mainstream in Hangzhou.
Therefore, the building is also a typical Huayan sect, according to the middle hall, the golden hall, the lecture hall, the left hall, the right hall, the back hall, and the five-storied pagoda, the so-called "seven halls of Garan" pattern.
However, compared with those temples that live in the city and the downtown area, the scale of the Lingyin Temple in this time and space is not very large, and it is not very famous in the Huayan Temples. I even saw monkeys climbing and playing on the eaves of the back hall and the five-storied pagoda.
Mainly occupy the oldest local small Tianzhu Mountain five temples, the only temple that survives, in front of the first line of the mountain next to the temple, shaped like a petal five pavilions surrounded by cold spring Xiaobo, but there are a lot of money bags literati ink writers and celebrities left inscriptions, including Sikong Shu's "Lingyin Temple", Bai Juyi's "Lingyin Temple", Song Zhiwen's "Lingyin Ji" what.
There is also a three-life stone behind the temple, which is said to come from the story of Yuan Jiao's "Ganze Ballad Yuanguan" by Yuan Jiao of the Tang Dynasty:
Tang scholar Li Yuan and Luoyang monk Yuanguan friendly, together in the Three Gorges, see the woman to draw, the view said: "Among them, the pregnant woman's surname is Wang, it is a certain place to support herself." About 12 years later, on the moonlit night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, we met outside the Tianzhu Temple in Hangzhou. It is the sunset that the fruit dies, and the pregnant woman gives birth.
In time, the source went to the appointment, and listened to the shepherd boy's song "Bamboo Branch Words": "The old spirit on the Sansheng Stone, don't talk about the moon and the wind." I am ashamed that my lover visited each other from afar, although this body is of the opposite sex. "Because I know that the shepherd boy is the body behind the circle of view.
This story is also the earliest three-life stone connection, the origin of various love, hatred, hatred, sorrow, joy and clutch allusions in the past dynasties, and it is also the theme that rotten women and crooked men in later generations like to see. But now it's just a strange stone buried in the barren land.
When we turned back, in the narrow path behind the temple, we passed by another group of people, both young and old, who looked like a group of family members who had come out to visit the spring.
Sit on the lower steps of the back hall and enjoy the bitter tea served by the monks.
"You made a wish......"
I gently squeezed the palm of my head and squatting.
"Hmmm......"
"Can you sue me......"
"I just want to be with Asha for the rest of my life,"
She raised her eyes and looked at her seriously
"Then I'll teach you to sing a song,"
I had a sudden urge
"It's called "Life and Life" ......"
"Love is love, love is willing, always unforgettable, now and before"
I hummed softly, and something familiar seemed to begin to revive and slowly fill my eyes.
"Whoever is right and wrong should not owe anything, and be wholehearted, every day, every year
Love is like a flash in the pan and then disappears
Happiness is sweet when there is bitterness between the lines. ā
"If you want to, you can't take care of your dignity
Grievances are inevitable, and don't hesitate. ā
"If you want him, just go as long as you want
It's fate, and no one can change it
Let's go with him at the end of the world
If it is fate, it will be perfect, and life will be forever and ever
If you want him, go as long as you want
It is fate, no one can change life, life and life forever and ever"
Holding his head and squatting to follow me, he finished singing a song like a harmony, and then I realized that I was watched by several monks and pilgrims with different expressions.
Rao is I feel that my face is very thick-skinned, and I have to go away, but I was stopped by a monk, and I couldn't help but feel a little angry, damn it, do you bald donkeys still want to correct the weathering, eh
"Please bother with one or two......"
But when he saw him, he solemnly saluted
"The white words sung by the good man have the style of Xinyuefu,"
ā.ā
I was stunned for a moment.
"Can tolerate the small temple good record as the title...... Retention of discipline"
"Woo ......"
My expression suddenly became embarrassed, what kind of stalk is it at this time, this song is sung, are the monks here collectively thinking about spring
The wind swept flag and quickly glanced over, and I only understood it after a few ear explanations.
It turns out that this Yuhang land is also a place where the art and literature flourish in weathering, under the influence of the perennial edification, there is no shortage of Buddhist monks who can sing and compose lyrics.
"But it's okay, as long as you don't have a name......"
I replied accordingly.
"Thank you for ......"
He saluted again.
"The little monk Xinming, added as the master of the Dharma Hall......"
"Please also serve tea ...... in the hall"
Fragrant tea and fruits, set a table, Xinming as a companion, I let my head squat and sing again, watching them solemnly, word by word, but there is already the illusion that the heavy festival has fallen off.
"I once heard rumors about Lingyin Temple in another place......"
Since the other party is so polite and the courtesy is grand, I will simply buy one and get one free to add to the nod.
"It's mostly about a monk who plays the world and has the Dharma name Daoji......"
Then I told a few small stories about Buddhism about the monks of Jidian, what wells are floating trees, what are the robberies to save the village, and their expressions are changing, which is quite exciting.
In the end, they almost rang the bell and drum, led by the presiding officer who had not seen the guest for a long time, and kept treating me as a layman with great wisdom roots and good karma, and personally sent me outside the mountain gate, which was indeed a courtesy that I had never imagined.
Well, the feeling of empty white teeth creating a zĆ o history makes people feel a little fluttery.
But we saw that the lifter we had called was gone, and a carriage was blocking the aisle, and the wind swept in front of us with some vigilance, and those companions also came out of the corner and gathered around us.
"Is this your thing......
With a clear and moving voice, the head that has been white and tender poked out from the chain of green satin,
In this hand, he held a colored concentric knot, which seemed to be tied by squatting on the Sansheng Stone before.
At the sight of this thing, her little mouth suddenly pursed the most, revealing a certain hanging expression.