Chapter 56: Up the Mountain
Getting up early in the morning, Song Chenqing felt refreshed, and felt much more comfortable than getting up before, without the feeling of waking up and being a little dazed, which simply surprised him.
What's going on? Is it because I went home that I slept more soundly? He didn't think about the chanting he heard last night for a while, but he blamed it on the familiar environment at home, so he slept more peacefully.
Then I naturally got up, brushed my teeth and washed my face, and when I went down to the first floor, I saw that my mother and Song Jianqiu were already eating breakfast.
After saying hello, he also sat down and began to eat, and by the time Song Wencheng came back from a walk, and the family had finished breakfast, it was already past eight o'clock in the morning.
Then tidy up again, change clothes or something, it's almost nine o'clock.
At this time, the family went out, went to the community parking lot to drive the car, and set off together to participate in the temple fair of Lingyan Temple.
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Legend has it that hundreds of years ago, a huge meteorite fell from the sky and smashed down to the ground, and ordinary people thought that the curse was coming, and they scattered and fled, but they did not expect that the menacing meteorite, at the last moment when it was about to hit the ground, suddenly seemed to lose its weight, and fell lightly on the top of a mountain.
This scene is like a miracle, many people rushed to tell each other, spontaneously lined up the mountain, lit incense and candles in front of the boulder, and prayed day and night.
Later, a wandering monk passed by here, saw this boulder, so he stopped, raised money everywhere, and finally built a temple on the top of the mountain, before the boulder, named Lingyan Temple, and this nameless mountain, it is called Lingyan Mountain.
This is the origin of Lingyan Temple.
The stone tablet engraved with this story stands at the foot of Lingyan Mountain, and every visitor who passes by here must pass by here, and you can see it at a glance.
Except for a few outsiders who have never been to Lingyan Temple, most of the people who have come here will not stay here, but park their cars in the parking lot at the bottom of the mountain, and then wind their way up the smooth road paved with cement.
The trail is just over two meters wide and has a rocky cliff on one side and a cliff on the other. For safety, a fence has been installed on the edge, and a row of trees has been planted outside the fence, which is lush and green, although it blocks the view of visitors from afar, but gives people a greater sense of security.
On weekdays, there are not many people who come to Lingyan Temple to offer incense, except for those who believe in Buddhism, most people will only come here to play on the birthday of some Bodhisattvas or temple fairs and festivals.
Today's day is the latter, although Lingyan Temple is not to say in the whole country, that is, in the whole province and the whole city, it is not a name, just a small temple, but for the people of Asan City, Lingyan Temple is actually a very good attraction.
First, it is not very far from the city, but more than ten kilometers, and second, there are not so many pits and tunnels, and there will be no phenomenon of killing people, so even if there are no festivals or activities, there are generally quite a lot of people who come here to play.
And today, it is particularly lively, the entire winding mountain road, almost all of them are crowded, and at the entrance of the mountain, there is a traffic police officer directly responsible for directing the order, so that the people who drive will not block the road.
It is now the end of June, the summer vacation is approaching, the weather becomes hot, more than 10 o'clock in the morning, let the visitors walking on the mountain road feel that the sun shines on the body a little hot.
Fortunately, this is a mountain, not to mention how deep, but at least the woods are dense and thick, and walking in the shade, coupled with the wind blowing from time to time, can also have a moment of coolness.
Walk all the way up along the mountain road, and when you reach the halfway up the mountain, it begins to become more lively, many stalls supported by simple supports, set up along both sides of the road, and sell a variety of goods, all kinds of jade pendants, jade Buddhas, or flowers and plants and all kinds of special snacks.
Because there are so many types, it is impossible to classify them completely at one time.
Many tourists stop by these stalls to buy a small pendant, or climb the slope for half a day and feel a little hungry and buy a snack.
The same is true of Song Wencheng's family, originally Lin Yuqin also planned to buy a jade Buddha pendant for Song Jianqiu, but Song Jianqiu refused, she was already wearing a carp pendant, and there was no place to wear it if she bought another pendant.
In the end, the family of four bought some snacks and continued to walk up the mountain while eating.
The further you go, the more people will become, but in addition to those who go up, there are also many people who have already started to go down.
At this time, the mountain road seems to be a little narrow, the people on the right go up, the people on the left go down, and there are people who feel crowded for a while.
Song Wencheng was afraid that people would get lost, so when he was on the road, he protected Lin Yuqin, and asked Song Chenqing to hold Song Jianqiu to avoid separation.
At the beginning, when his hand was held, Song Jianqiu still felt a little awkward, but now that he is in a hurry, he can only endure it first.
Fortunately, although there is a lot of people, as long as you follow the people who go up the mountain, you will not necessarily get lost.
Soon after, in the midst of the crowds, they came to the top of the mountain.
In fact, when the bottom of the mountain is not far from the top of the mountain, you can already smell the smell of incense and candles.
This aroma, the closer you get to the top of the mountain, the more intense, and when you reach the top of the mountain, every breath of air you breathe is filled with this aroma, and you can also see the pale cyan smoke lingering around and in the air, faintly, gradually spreading around.
The first thing you see here is a square the size of half a football field, the ground is paved with slate bricks, and in the center is planted a camphor tree about the size of a water tank, and on the edge of the square, like the mountainside below, there are many small stalls and vendors selling goods here.
The variety of goods sold is almost the same, but it is clear that after the entrance of the temple, there are more stalls selling various incense and candles.
In addition to the normal-sized incense sticks, the one-person-high incense sticks were also piled up into a mountain, and from time to time you could see someone paying for one, as if holding an extended version of a baseball bat, and then going to a burning iron dome not far from the door, lighting it, and then carrying it into the temple.
The square is full of green smoke, feeling a little choking, and it is a little breathless, but fortunately it is the top of the mountain, the wind is strong, and a gust of wind blows from time to time, which blows away these green smoke, so that it will not really accumulate here all the time, and people can't breathe.
When you get here, it can be regarded as a destination, although Song Wencheng and Lin Yuqin do not believe in Buddhism, but since they have arrived at the temple, how can they not sell some incense and worship?
I bought a handful of incense at the door, directly removed the package, and after all the lights were lit, the four of them divided it equally, and then even if they entered the temple gate, they worshiped when they saw the Buddha, and there were many people in some places, and they even had to queue up to get their turn to insert incense.