Chapter 21: Jade Toad Palace
As the sun got late, Li Mubai admired the sunset here with a look of intoxication, "My uncle said that I came to Tangxi when I was a child, but I can't remember, I will come to Leichi every year when I grow up, I like the sunset here, it makes me feel that I don't belong to myself." ”
"Not your own?" I looked at Li Mubai in puzzlement.
"I can't say it, it's like I'm going to be a different person."
"So esoteric? It's like a philosophical question. I shook my head.
"Do you have someone you like?"
"Nope. What about you? ”
Li Mubai frowned and thought for a long time, and suddenly said, "I don't know, I don't know what kind of feeling is like it." ”
"Hungry!" Xiao Qu Yan suddenly peeked out of his backpack.
"Is this guy really a foodie?"
Li Mubai looked at the little pangolin with a pampering expression, "Does he have a name?" ”
"Drain."
"Waste?" Li Mubai grinned, "This name is not very good, it is so greedy that we might as well call it potato chips!" ”
"Potato chips?" The name Li Mubai is really interesting.
"Potatoes, chips," the little guy poked his head out, learning to talk to us.
Li Mubai looked at me, and then at the little guy, "You see it likes the name, potato chips." ”
"Potatoes, chips, "
The little guy's milky voice made Li Mubai and I laugh for a while.
It was already evening when I returned to an inn, and so many things had happened in just one day, Du Group went to Ren's house as a guest, and Li Mubai and I also decided to visit the Jade Toad Palace.
Lying on the bed, it was happy and ate a lot of food that it had never seen before. Li Mubai likes this little guy very much, and has been pestering me to let the little guy be raised by him, but unfortunately Qu Yan doesn't like him, in fact, the main thing is that he doesn't have "Juyang San", I don't know what this thing means to the little guy, but I can feel that this thing is very important to it.
In the middle of the night, the little one lay in my arms and fell asleep, but I tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. I have always been at ease about the affairs of the Du group, not that I am afraid that he will be in any danger, but I feel that many times he chooses to bear too many things alone, and I want to share some of them for him, but I don't know how to speak.
We are all strong people, maybe Li Mubai is right, Ren Yaoyao's case is no longer the key, what we can do for the Du group is to unlock the secret of the Seven Treasure Glass Cup, and go to the Hainan Jade Toad Palace to find what the Du group wants.
I couldn't sleep, so I went to find some records about Hainan Yuchan Palace, Hainan Yuchan Palace is located at the foot of Wenbifeng Mountain in Ding'an County, Hainan Province, and is the founder of Taoism Nanzong, the final retreat of Bai Yuchan, the fifth ancestor of Nanzong. Of course, this is a Taoist record, and Du Group said that many Taoist stories are not as glamorous as they seem. Li Mubai also said that Bai Yuchan disappeared after founding the Shenxiao Sect in Lei Chi, and the Hainan Jade Toad Palace was actually built by his ancestors later.
The Jade Toad Palace is the only legal temple of Taoism in Hainan, and is worshiped by Taoism as the "Altar of Southern Sect". Yuchan Palace has the world's largest Taoist architectural complex, which is composed of nearly 20 halls, such as the Cihang Hall for praying for peace, the Yuelao Hall for marriage, the Yuanchen Hall for instructing the natal life, the Wenchang Pavilion for opening wisdom, the Medicine King Hall for health and longevity, and the God of Wealth Hall for making a fortune. The building structure is complete and the style is distinctive, systematically showing the cultural characteristics of Taoist themes.
The characteristic of the Southern Sect is that in addition to integrating the three religions ideologically and theoretically, it also absorbs the strengths of each school in terms of specific cultivation methods. However, after Bai Yuchan, because the Nanzong did not have the support of the upper echelons of society at that time, and its religious organization was also extremely loose, it gradually tended to be weak.
Bai Yuchan's second disciple Li Daochun, who integrated the Dan Dao theory of the two sects of the north and the south; When Chen Zhixu was born, he was originally the identity of the Southern Sect, but he tried his best to advertise himself as the descendant of the Northern Sect, and actively promoted the convergence of the two Southern Sects.
Seeing this, I finally understood why Li Mubai despised his ancestors so much, the unity of the three religions was a good thing, and it was understandable to devote himself to promoting the convergence of the two sects of the north and the south, but Li Daochun's approach was debatable, the confluence of the two sects should not be divided into priorities and subordinates, and he was also regarded as a sinner of the Southern Sect.
After reading a lot of introductions about the Jade Toad Palace, I suddenly couldn't wait, I have never seen a real temple of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism.
The next morning, I was woken up by the little pangolin, and I don't know where it turned out my "Six Styles of Exorcism", holding the book and shouting to me: "Gathering the sun, exorcism, cultivation, and Dongyuan." ”
I looked at it blankly, "You're crazy, early in the morning, what do you want to do?" ”
"Cultivation, cave abyss."
The little guy insisted on stuffing "Six Styles of Exorcism" into my arms.
I went to yesterday's bag and turned out "Juyang San", it put the two books together, and then let me open the first page, I was surprised to find that there was a line of words hidden between the pages of the two books, the first page was written with the words "Yu Qi Jue", and each of the following pages had a mantra for cultivation, I tried to breathe and practice for a while according to the way on the mantra, and found that this way of meditating and breathing made people feel particularly awake, and there was a feeling of lightness throughout the body after meditating.
I thought about practicing again, but I was stopped by the little guy, and he shook his head vigorously, meaning that this cultivation method should only be practiced once a day.
Thinking of going to Hainan Yuchan Palace, I didn't ask too much with the little guy, after packing my luggage, Li Mubai also appeared at my door, still wearing a windbreaker from head to toe, just looking at his expression, sweeping away yesterday's melancholy, handsome hairstyle and cool sunglasses, I instantly looked dull next to him.
Li Mubai booked a plane in the morning, and it was too late to go to Ren's house to say goodbye to the Du group, so we flew to Hainan in a hurry, Li Mubai hated his ancestors, so although he was the vice president of the Taoist Association, he had never been to the Jade Toad Palace in Hainan like me.
At about ten o'clock in the morning, we came to the Jade Toad Palace, which was similar to what I imagined, and the architectural style was similar to the Wanghua Palace in Changlin City, but the Taoist statues inside were far from the same.
The trend of thought of "the confluence of the three religions" is vividly embodied in its Guanyin Temple. When it comes to Guanyin, the first thing that comes to our mind should be Buddhism, but in fact, the Chinese belief in Guanyin is reflected in Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. There are three white marble statues enshrined in the Guanyin Hall of the Jade Toad Palace, arranged in order from left to right. Holding a pure bottle, it is for the Buddhist Great Compassion Guanyin Bodhisattva; Holding jade Ruyi, representing the folk Guanyin belief under the influence of Confucianism; The one in the center holds a dust, which is a Taoist Cihang real person.
The prototype of Guanyin is a "two-horse boy god" in the Vedas of ancient Indian Brahmanism, and later Mahayana Buddhism was influenced by this to shape the image of Guanyin Bodhisattva.
The original image of Guanyin is very different from what we know now, for example, in the statues of Guanyin in India and the murals in the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Guanyin is a man, with a burly body and a beautiful beard, and the statues of Guanyin in Tibetan Buddhism still retain many characteristics of the original Guanyin image.
After Han Buddhism was introduced into China, it inevitably blended with China's mainstream ideology, first with metaphysics, and then with Confucianism and Taoism.
In fact, it can be seen that although this Jade Toad Palace is a combination of three religions, its mainstream Taoist ideas can still be clearly seen, just like the three Guanyin statues in the Guanyin Palace, with Cihang Zhenren in the center, undoubtedly want to express the three religions in the Taoist led thoughts.
Li Mubai looked at the three statues of Guanyin thoughtfully, "China's mainstream ideology is still Confucianism after all, and even this Guanyin is gradually regarded as a Confucian sage and has been popularized. ”
I'm very interested in all kinds of Taoist legends, after all, I didn't understand it before, but now it sounds like listening to a story, sometimes a person wants to understand a thing or something, and the inner desire for it is uncontrollable.
The little guy was lying on my shoulder, it didn't seem to like this kind of lively place, it was invisible all day, if it weren't for the fact that this guy was still a little heavy, I might not have felt its presence anymore.