Entering the first month, the appearance of Nanzong Temple has also taken on a new look.

The snow in winter makes the entire Lingyun Mountain covered with a thick white quilt, and the courtyards are like white mountain bags, white and bulging, full of joy close to nature.

The pines and cypresses in the mountains and forests are also dressed in thick white clothes, like silver-white armored warrior monks, standing silently in the mountains and forests, and the crystal ice ridges on the branches and leaves are like their natural and magnificent weapons.

The courtyards of Nanzong Temple are warm and festive.

Originally, Nanzong Temple did not care about this earthly New Year, but due to the large number of pilgrims in Nanzong Temple, the number of pilgrims who come to Nanzong Temple to burn incense and pray for blessings and worship the Buddha in the first month is several times more than usual.

Although Nanzong Temple is large, there are many branch temples, and there is not much money and food, but pilgrims are still an important source of incense supply for Nanzong Temple - even if Nanzong Temple stands on the peak of Lingyun Mountain like a fairyland, it is still unavoidable.

Therefore, Nanzong Temple also conformed to the wishes of the pilgrims, hanging red lanterns in each courtyard, hanging fluttering red silk in the porch, and pasting fiery red spring couplets on the doorposts.

In the spring couplets of the important courtyards, there are also many ink treasures written by the abbot master and other elders, and the pilgrims are very pious, and the spring couplets they write are also set up under the door posts to set up some incense burners and offer them.

Not only that, every year on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Nanzong Temple also holds a prayer lantern festival on the huge square in front of the Daeungbojeon.

On the wide and huge square, tall iron trees are neatly erected in rows and rows, and all kinds of lanterns are hung on them, at least tens of thousands!

The colors are golden, silver-white, new green, and purple, but the most is red, and the shape is full circle, oval, cylinder, marquee, animal lamp, lotus lamp, etc., gorgeous and colorful, and so on.

Many of them depict legendary stories from Buddhist scriptures, allowing pilgrims to guess the characters, the names of the stories, the Buddha's mantras, and so on.

According to the monks and devout pilgrims of Nanjong Temple, if you guess the riddle, you can pray for good fortune and avoid bad luck for a year.

In addition, those who guess can also receive a prize, or Buddhist beads, bracelets, incense candles, etc., from the monks who are scattered around the square to ask for a blessing and good fortune.

This prayer lantern festival has been held for many years, and its reputation spreads far and wide, and when it is held every year, it coincides with the festive atmosphere in the first month of the year, and it is one of the grand events of the whole Yunzhou and even the Dawu country in the first month of each year.

On this day, there will be a huge number of pilgrims and believers climbing Lingyun Mountain, in addition to pilgrims from all over Yunzhou, there are also Junzhou, Jiangzhou, Qingzhou, and even pilgrims who are far away in the northeast of Dawu Country and remote Hanzhou for several months, and specially rushed over.

When night fell, they watched the beautiful lanterns lit up in front of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and bowed down on the spot to pray for blessings, and if they could guess one or two lantern riddles at that time, they were even more happy and grateful.

The light of various lanterns reflects the golden light of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, there is the solemnity from the heavens and the Buddha country, and there is also the bustle of the mundane, everything looks so harmonious and beautiful.

But crowded places are lively and troublesome.

Even if the square in front of the Daxiong Hall can accommodate at least 100,000 people, after placing lanterns and other items, the pilgrims can still fill it to the brim, rubbing shoulders, trampling, crowding, and all kinds of disputes continue.

The second is accommodation, even if the housing of Nanzong Temple can live tens of thousands of people in addition to the monks of the temple, but there are still many believers who cannot accommodate it, and they should be advised to go down the mountain early, or give certain heavy clothes to keep out the cold, and even open some of the temple's scripture halls, lecture halls and even Buddha halls.

Finally, there are too many pilgrims and believers, and there are people with bad intentions who will enter and destroy this beautiful and harmonious scene.

Therefore, on this day, Nanzong Temple must send thousands of monks, including some cultivators and warrior monks who are in charge of command, to protect the magnificent scenery of Nanzong Temple and its universal reputation.

Today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Yifeng and Xiugu and the senior brothers have already listened to the description of the Blessing Lantern Festival in the mouths of other senior brothers, and they are so greedy that the excitement in their hearts has not been repelled by the cold ice and snow.

Yifeng and Xiugu often go to the main peak and the Buddha Peak to run before and after running, watching the lively scenery of countless monks up and down, and their hearts are also excited.

Today, Yifeng and Xiugu finished their evening fast early and sat at the table waiting for the fire monkey and the book ceremony.

Xiu Gu is still dressed as a lay disciple today, but she changed into the robe given to her by the lay female disciple of Yuxiu Academy, in addition to the overall plain and light white, the trim on the edge of the sleeves is also embroidered with some delicate patterns of gold and light red, the whole person is like a different appearance, delicate and pretty, but also adds a gentle temperament.

She looked at Yifeng and looked at her from time to time, and she smiled and said to Yifeng: "Yifeng, is Senior Sister good-looking today?"

A limelight is like pounding garlic.

Xiu Gu smiled with satisfaction and raised her face, a little proud. She suddenly rolled her eyes, looked at the two senior brothers, and asked, "Second senior brother, fourth senior brother, what do you think?"

Shuli slowly picked up the dishes and nodded silently.

The fire monkey was busy eating, and said vaguely: "It's okay, it's okay." ”

Xiu Gu pursed her mouth, a little angry, and said to the fire monkey: "Just know okay, okay, second senior brother, can you take a snack! Also, can you eat quickly, the Blessing Lantern Festival is about to start, and you can't squeeze in when you squeeze in!"

With food in his mouth, the fire monkey looked up at Yifeng, who immediately nodded obediently and fiercely, firmly supporting his senior sister.

He glanced at Shuli again, swallowed the food in his mouth first, and then learned the way Shuli looked, slowly picking up the vegetables, his eyes squinted at Xiugu, and said slowly and proudly: "Little junior sister, you are also urging the fourth junior brother!"

Xiu Gu silently looked at Shuli, snorted, but didn't dare to open her mouth to urge, and glanced at the fire monkey who had succeeded in her treacherous plan, and snorted angrily.

The fire monkey laughed, the laughter continued, and suddenly, Shuli put the dishes and chopsticks down, and said lightly: "I've eaten well." ”

The fire monkey's laughter came to an abrupt end, causing Xiu Gu and Yifeng to laugh instead.

Shuli stood up and walked out the door, and Xiu Gu and Yifeng immediately followed.

The fire monkey shouted loudly from behind: "Hey, you wait for me, Fourth Senior Brother, you cold devil is really not righteous enough······

Outside the house, there was still a cold winter wind, blowing a wind's face red, like a lantern in the courtyard.

Yifeng and the fire monkey both wore monk's hats to protect them from the cold, and Shuli had never shaved his hair since he left Qingshan Temple, and now he tied a short scholar's hair bun on the top of his head.

When he was in Qingshan Temple, whether he shaved his head or not also depended on his mood, the master and the senior brothers never said anything about him, Yifeng should have been ordained, but the master did not insist, and there is no scar on Yifeng's head so far.

As Master said, cultivating the Buddha is cultivating the mind.

Although Yifeng can't do how to strengthen the Buddha's heart now, he firmly puts the master's words in his heart.

The four of them walked along the stone road from the spiritual peak to the main peak, the path was cleaned by a special monk and hurriedly, there was snow piled up on the side of the road, Yifeng and Xiugu some time ago, they also piled up several snow bodhisattvas in the Erran Courtyard and the disciple's courtyard, Lingyun Mountain is high, and the snow is afraid that it will take many days to melt.

The sun has not yet faded, and the sky is still burning with brilliant sunset, resisting the envelopment of night.

Now the road is mostly full of people, in addition to the monks who are busy inside and outside, there are also a team of warrior monks in charge of patrolling, and the most are pilgrims.

The Blessing Lantern Festival has not yet begun, and the red lanterns in various parts of the courtyard have been lit, and the thousands of courtyards of the entire Lingyun Mountain Nanzong Temple are full of warm and joyful red light and shadow, and the warm orange of the lights.

Thousands of courtyards are surrounded by lights, wearing snow-covered white hats, and the green pine and giant cypress outside the courtyard stand proudly.

The Tibetan Scripture Pavilion stands majestically in the distance, the elders and monks on duty in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion move a part of the Buddha beads in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion to the outside of the tower, so that the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion is full of golden light, and also participate in this grand joy from afar, and the entire Lingyun Mountain is incomparably prosperous and brilliant.

How is this not attractive?

Even the monks who have practiced in Nanzong Temple for many years are looking forward to the grand winter scene of Nanzong Temple every year, and even more looking forward to the prosperous and gorgeous night in the first month.

This is the most beautiful mortal world!