"Well, that's good." The abbot, Hui Lone, twisted his snow-white beard and said, "I think it's very good, too. That's it.'" , in the front tent room, Zen Master Huiming also agreed, "Thirteen Lang, your peach talisman is well written, oh no, your peach talisman has a good intention."

"I've been at Changshou Temple for a long time, and I've heard a lot of Buddhism and learned a lot." , Li Chen smiled and said, (It turns out that there were Spring Festival couplets in the Tang Dynasty, oh, no, it is a peach charm.) )

I saw that next to the mountain gate of the Longevity Temple, a pair of peach charms were pasted, and the upper link was, and it was free to look at itself. The next link is, if you come to see it, it is very interesting to have a palindrome, and it is very Zen, so that the people of Changshou Temple are full of praise for Li Chen.

The monks finished the activity of watching couplets at the mountain gate and went back. Li Chen also returned to his own position, the tent. I opened the door and saw that Van was already inside.

"Fan, is Lingtang better?" "Much better, thank you Thirteen. It's just.' Fan showed a rare expression, "It's so much that it means it's not good." , Li Chen walked like the table and took out a bag of money from the drawer.

"There are two runs here." , Li Chen handed the money bag to Fan, "The problem of money, let's take it slowly, you take this money first, no matter what, don't let Ling Tang's illness become more serious because of lack of food and clothing." , Lifan took the money bag, "There are too many times, and one more consistency is enough." "It's always been the same, it's almost the New Year, so you have to add some New Year's goods." And on a cold day, you can buy more nutritious things and give Lingtang a nourishment."

"Thirteen Lang, I still want you to help me hide it, I'm really sorry." , holding a heavy money bag in his hand, he was very reluctant to go.

More than a month ago, Lifan came to him to borrow money. Because his aunt is sick, the irresponsible Aya only cares about his own gambling money, and he doesn't care about his wife who is sick and dying at home, if it weren't for Fan who followed Li Chen back to the town, he didn't know that his mother was so sick.

After thinking about it, Li Fan could only come to borrow money from Li Chen, because his family even had an empty rice jar, and he had no money to give Fan A-Niang a doctor.

"Thirteen Lang, can you not tell the abbot about this?" "Can't you say? Your mother is sick, anyway, there are also challenges in the temple, I can be the master and lend you money to see a doctor for your mother." , Li Chen said secretly in his heart, it doesn't matter if your mother doesn't pay it back then.

"No, the abbot said, the monks in the temple are not allowed to question the temple." , Whoever shakes his head, the longevity temple has a question, but the abbot stipulates that the monks in the temple are not allowed to question the temple.

"Not even relatives and friends?" "Yes, the abbot said, I'm afraid that once the door in the temple is opened, it won't be closed." Lifan said depressedly.

The quality of the temple is for the good of the people, so that the people will not be exploited by usury. Restricting the monks and their relatives and friends in the monastery from questioning is also to avoid suspicion, and more importantly, you should be a monk with six pure roots, so what can you do?

"It's okay, I'll help hide it a little, and I'll make up for it when the time comes." , Back to see Fan depressed, Li Chen comforted him and said, "You are to cure your mother's illness, even if the abbot knows, he will not blame you." , won't blame you, will blame me...

Because the monks in the temple are not allowed to question the temple according to the regulations. Li Chen gave Fan the money, strictly speaking, it was a kind of fraud, he used himself as a bookkeeper to take the money to Fan privately. If you don't pay it back, the money will be in vain.

"It's almost the New Year, Ling Tang is not in good health, is there a way to prepare New Year's goods?" "How many years can I live, I just hope that my mother can get better soon."

"How did you celebrate the New Year?" "Oh, I wanted to think about it, paste the peach charm, paste the door god..." Fan crossed his fingers and tried to remember how he used to celebrate the New Year.

Later generations believe that the custom of sticking Spring Festival couplets began from the fifth generation. However, some cultural relics unearthed in Dunhuang show that from the Kaiyuan period, there was a custom of sticking peach charms on the door.

Li Chen has not studied these things, but he was very surprised, it turned out that since the Tang Dynasty, there has been a habit of pasting Spring Festival couplets and peach charms.

What is a peach charm? The peach charm is a peach tree to get a peach, cut it with the trunk of the peach tree, painted red and pasted on the door. Seeing this thing, Li Chen's first thought was, is this to ward off evil spirits?

(Those Taoist priests use peachwood swords, which seems to have something to do with this.) I don't know if that thousand-year-old peachwood sword is really something. Li Chen thought distractedly.

Folklore has it that Taoist priests used peachwood swords to ward off evil spirits. The peachwood sword can be used to slash X, XX, and XXX. Anyway, those demons and monsters can be killed.

The peach wood sword doesn't seem to be able to be made with any peach wood, it seems that it can only be made with a sunny branch and a peach tree, and Li Chen definitely didn't really go to find a sunny branch to get a peach wood to see if he could ward off evil spirits.

"If you use a printing press to print a large number of Spring Festival couplets before the Chinese New Year, I wonder if there is a future?" , Li Chen habitually had to think out of his mind and began to think about other things.

I don't know what the peach charm started, so I have the habit of writing on it, and I don't know when to use red paper instead.

He also knew a lot about couplets, and had memorized them before. What, the industry federation, separates the road of life and death with both hands, cuts off the root of the matter with a knife, and says that the pig is killed. I hope everyone is healthy, why don't I be poor alone, doctors are available.

Some couplets are common, one yuan is repeated, and Vientiane is renewed: business is prosperous and leads to the four seas, and financial resources reach the three rivers; The days increase the years, the father increases the longevity, the spring is full of Qiankun and the mother is full of doors; Firecrackers remove the old year, peach charm thousands of households welcome the new year; Print some innovative couplets, it should sell well.

It seems that there is something strange mixed in in the front, so I don't care about it for now. If these are too novel, there are also some Spring Festival couplets in the Tang Dynasty, when the Spring Festival couplets were written at the mountain gate, listen to those monks say, what is the beginning of the three yangs, and the beginning of the four sequences; Or, the blessing of the new day and the celebration of life are boundless; Then there is Baoji can ward off evil, and Ruiyan solves Chengxiang.

Spring couplets, this can be had. Many poor families can't afford to replace the peach charm, so they continue to use the old ones. The Spring Festival couplets are better and cheaper than peach charms, and the poor can afford to use them. In addition to the Spring Festival couplets, you can also stick the door god.

"I know what the door god is sticking to the peach talisman. Why didn't we post the mountain gate?' "Of course I don't post it, we have Bodhisattvas, we have Vajra, so why do we need any gods." There is a door god at the gate of the mountain.'" Li Fan looked at Li Chen with a stupid expression. Li Chen was furious, caught Fan's bald head, and knocked it as a wooden fish.

Li Chen has never had the Tang Dynasty New Year, and the memories he inherited are very messy, no way, the original owner is a nerd. Li Chen listened to Fan talk about how he used to spend the New Year, and when he heard that there was also a door god, he felt that this was another business opportunity.

It turned out that the Tang Dynasty began to have the custom of sticking to the door gods. But initially, it was Shen Tu and Yu Lei. Originally, it was the same as the peach symbol, that is, the peach tree trunk was painted red, and the words were written on it.

"Don't be complacent, little novice, do you know the origin of the door god?" , Shen Tu and Yu Lei are the earliest door gods, and legend has it that these two great gods can drive away evil and suppress evil. But later, he was replaced by Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Gong.

"Of course I know, don't underestimate me." , was underestimated and began to tell a story, telling how Qin Shubao and Wei Chi Jingde became gods.

It turned out that Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, once promised to help a dragon king extend his life. The dragon king, who was in charge of the clouds and rain, was angry with Yuan Tiangang, a famous scholar in the early Tang Dynasty.

Yuan Tiangang said that in which year, month, and day, how much rain will fall, the dragon king does not believe it, and he is in charge of the clouds and rain at his own expense, and he can control when it will rain and how much it will rain. As a result, the Dragon King returned to the Dragon Palace and received an edict from Heaven to rain, and the time and amount of rain were exactly the same as what Yuan Tiangang said. The dragon king deliberately went down late, and it rained for an extra hour (two hours).

"As a result, the Dragon King, who was so excited that he wanted to go to Yuan Tiangang for bad luck, only to know that he was in great trouble, and Heavenly Court wanted to cut him down, because it rained a lot, which caused floods and drowned many people." , said the funny part, and Fan laughed out loud.

"The Dragon King panicked and begged Yuan Tiangang for help. That day, the teacher said that you would ask for beheading at three o'clock in the afternoon of a certain month in a certain year, and the person who supervised the beheading was Wei Zheng. As long as you hold Wei Zheng, you can not die."

"I guess I'm dead." "Of course, the Dragon King originally begged Emperor Taizong, and Emperor Taizong also promised to help drag Wei Zheng down. As a result, unexpectedly, Emperor Taizong pulled Wei Zheng to play chess, and Wei Zheng dozed off and woke up, saying that he had killed a dragon in a dream. He gestured, "The dragon's head is so big, bigger than a bull's head."

"Because Emperor Taizong broke his promise, he promised to be the Dragon King, but he didn't do it. As a result, the Dragon King asked for his life night and night, and Emperor Taizong was unable to sleep at night, and in the end, Emperor Taizong found the military generals in the court to protect the law. But a few generals are useless, only Qin Shubao and Wei Chi Jingde, these two generals, stop at the gate of the palace, and this dragon king will not dare to come."

So, this door god spread. This story is the same as Li Chen had heard before. It's just that he is quite puzzled, why Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong?

Although these two were both generals of the Tang Dynasty, they had made great achievements in war, and they also went to Lingyan Pavilion. But the Tang Dynasty was able to fight a lot, like Cheng Biting Jin, Li Jing... He carefully recalled a book he had read, and he was still puzzled by the biography of Tang Heroes. And he did.

By the way, although the Tang Dynasty vigorously promoted this story, the door god had to change until the middle and late Tang Dynasty. More and more people changed the door gods to these two Tang Dynasty generals.

"What else is there?" "Yes, the most lively thing is the stall. I look forward to this day every year.'" "Stalls? What's that?' , "Thirteen Lang, haven't you ever had the Spring Festival? It's so pitiful.'" , Fan actually took pity on Li Chen, he was so big, he didn't even know how the Spring Festival was over, and he hadn't even touched the stall. As a result, he naturally suffered another blow from Li Chen.