Chapter 156 Famen Temple worships ancestors
Li Fushou in his sleep felt extremely comfortable, as if rippling in the undulating waves, and as if he was back in warm swaddling clothes.
Extreme comfort was followed by an unspeakable emptiness, and he slept more soundly and deeply......
I don't know how long it took
When Li Fushou opened his eyes, it was already time to hold the lamp.
The candles as thick as an arm in the Lingxiao Pavilion burned quietly, and a trace of sandalwood lingered in the air, which was filled with a faint fragrance.
Chrissy, a beautiful black slave, is gently pinching her feet, putting Li Fushou's big feet in the center of her chest, and the strength of each blow is just right.
"How long have I been asleep?"
"Master, you slept for two hours and twenty minutes, and in 50 minutes you should have dinner."
"Hmm...... For your hard work, Chrissy, my lord has a reward. ”
"Thank you, host."
Li Fushou stretched lazily, and suddenly opened the thin blanket and looked at it as if he felt it, but he didn't find anything abnormal in the dim light.
Chrissy stiffened as she tapped softly, as if she wanted to say something.
Li Fushou retracted his feet and said lightly, "Okay", and Chrissy quickly helped the master put on his socks and shoes, and bowed his head to collect a blessing.
Standing up and moving his legs and feet, Li Fushou felt that his whole body was full of infinite energy, and he felt comfortable from the inside out, so he walked out and said a word lightly; "Chrissy, you are also a big boss, I will reward you with a house outside, and you can go out to live when you don't have to wait."
"Master, I don't know...... I don't know how a person should live? ”
"Don't worry, it's all arranged."
"Then my identity ......"
"From this day forward, you are a free man."
After speaking, Li Fushou's tall figure had already left Lingxiao Pavilion, quickly turned the door and disappeared.
Chrissy stood quietly alone in the Sky Tower, the shadows of the twilight outside the window casting in, forming a mysterious light and dark intertwined with the warm candlelight, reflecting on her silky and silky skin like chocolate.
Because her skin was too dark to see if she was blushing, Chrissy stood quietly alone, not knowing what was going on in her mind.
A while
A slight smile appeared at the corner of Chrissy's mouth, and then bloomed onto the whole swarthy beautiful face, smiling and revealing her snow-white teeth, and then stretched out her little pink tongue with some fear
The night was silent, and a trace of ambiguity slowly drifted away.
More than ten days later
Good days and auspicious days, it is advisable to go to the beam, housewarming, worship ancestors, travel far, it is advisable to break ground, and it is auspicious.
In the early morning, before dawn, Li Fushou and his family members and the Li clan all bathed and changed their clothes, then changed into dark robes printed with the family emblem, and walked to Famen Temple, not far from the Red Fort.
Famen Temple is a large-scale temple built in accordance with the architectural style of the Tang Dynasty, the pattern is very high-end, the golden glazed tile building hall is full of magnificent atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty charm, it is extraordinary.
The high-standard nine dragon walls in the temple come from the skilled craftsmen of the official kiln in Jingdezhen in China, and a total of two sets are fired, one is in the Famen Temple and one is in the Red Fort.
The mainland Famen Temple originated from the Han Dynasty, after the destruction of the war, rebuilt in the Tang Dynasty, the Buddha hall, the pagoda, the Buddha hall have detailed drawings handed down to future generations.
This Australian Red River Valley Famen Temple is in accordance with the pattern handed down in the Tang Dynasty, the original copy out, and the Buddha hall, the stupa, the Buddha hall is more majestic and tall, it looks extraordinary.
After three years of construction and countless costs, the main building was finally completed, becoming the largest temple in the Red River Valley and the highest level.
After the Spring Festival last year, Li Fushou welcomed back the Li clan tablet and genealogy from Lijiabao outside Gusu City, as well as the relics of the ancestors, all of which were enshrined in the Buddhist hall of Famen Temple.
Famen Temple was originally a royal temple in the Tang Dynasty, and it was renamed "Famen Temple" when Tang Gaozu was renamed, which has a long historical origin.
Famen Temple in the mainland of the mainland is known as a royal temple, and has become a Buddhist holy place because of the placement of the finger bone relics of Shakyamuni Buddha, and is unanimously respected by Buddhist believers at home and abroad.
Tang Gaozong Xianqing five years (AD 660), welcome the Buddha bones in the eastern capital of Luoyang, after 3 years of offerings, in the second year of Longshuo welcome back to the Famen Temple underground palace, and build a 4-layer wooden pagoda on it to worship.
The Li Jiabao clan originated from the Li Tang royal family, and it is reasonable to build a new Famen Temple in the Red River Valley of Australia, and it contains deep meaning.
Located in the Red River Valley, this Famen Temple painted a scoop according to the gourd, and spent a lot of money in India and Britain to collect the Buddha's true body relics, and got a total of 77 pieces, including the Buddha's skull, arms, chest, fingers, hip bones, thighs, toes, etc., which is the temple that worships the Buddha's true body relics the most.
These Buddha's relics are all from the United Kingdom, India, Myanmar and other regions, as long as they are willing to spend pounds, especially in the chaotic Indian princely states, it is not difficult to welcome back the Buddha's true body relics.
Most of the Indian people believe in Hinduism, a small number believe in *** religion, Buddhism is declining, and no one has paid attention to it for a long time.
Legend has it that after Shakyamuni Buddha was extinguished, his body was cremated and formed into relics.
In the third century B.C., after Emperor Ashoka unified India, in order to promote Buddhism, the Buddha's relics were divided into 84,000 parts, so that the ghosts and gods were distributed to all countries in the world to build pagodas for worship.
After more than 2,000 years of regime change and war, it may not be so much, but as long as you are willing to pay the price, you can still make up 77 real body relics.
Li Fushou and others came to Famen Temple, and there were already a cadre of monks under the leadership of the great monk to welcome the door.
In an instant
The bell chime rang in unison, the sound of the cloud board, and the great virtuous monk announced the Buddha's horn to welcome Li Fushou and his party, and came to Famen Temple to worship the Buddha and worship the ancestors.
Li Fushou entered the temple accompanied by a virtuous monk, and was greeted by the majestic triple Buddha hall, a clay statue of the golden Buddha solemn, showing the handwriting of the master from the mainland.
The sound of the wooden fish and the chanting of the scriptures continued.
Li Fushou led the Li clan and his family to worship the Buddha devoutly, and sent a large amount of sesame oil money, which was originally reasonable.
Famen Temple was funded by Li Fushou, the incense monks in the temple are worshiped by the Li clan, Li Fushou also specially donated 3% of the shares of the southern extension of the coastal railway to Famen Temple, as well as the output of vegetables and vegetables from two nearby farms to maintain daily needs.
In essence, it is no different from a family temple.
After the Buddha worship, you will come to the middle courtyard by bypassing the triple Buddha hall, which is a wide white marble square, surrounded by white marble railings with exquisite carvings, and a four-story cloud hall standing high in the middle.
The building is magnificent and imposing.
This is the place where the ancestors of the Li family and the ancestors of the Li family of Honghe Mountain are enshrined, and it is the core of the entire Famen Temple.
At this point, all the female dependents stopped, they could not enter the ancestral hall dedicated to their ancestors, and could only kneel outside to watch the white marble square and worship in the distance.
Li Fushou, as the patriarch of the Honghe Mountain lineage, was the first to enter, and behind him were two rows of Li clansmen, lined up in order according to their seniority, and they all came from Lijiabao's clansmen and Sizi generations, many of whom were bigwigs and backbones in the Red River Valley.
In front of the huge gold lacquer tablet in the ancestral hall of the clan, three animals and various melons and fruits, grains and grains, and countless sesame oil lamps are enshrined.
All the Li clan worshiped the males, and under the declaration of the chief priest, they respectfully knelt down on their knees and kowtowed, praying to their ancestors with their hearts.
The chief priest held the sacrificial text written by the great Confucian, and began to write a crepe sacrifice to the ancestors, the words and sentences were extremely obscure, and the specific Li Fushou could not understand it, to the effect;
A certain year, a certain month, a certain day, a certain moment, born vision, the dragon and phoenix are auspicious, the Li clan gave birth to a person of Zhongxing, surnamed Li Fushou, the meaning is both deep and far.
The past of all kinds of people is exaggerated, and then there is a big basket of ancestors who appear to bless, the clan is blessed, the wealth is prosperous, the prosperity is prosperous, and the people are prosperous.
In particular, Li Fushou is praised in the sky, and there are no unparalleled clouds in the ground.
The long green word sacrificial text was read for 20 minutes, and the main priest read the tone and frustration, and the rhyme of the rut rhyme, and even read out the vicissitudes of the ancient text, which is really very rare.
Then there are all the men burning incense to worship their ancestors, three bows and nine knocks, and the long green words are sacrificed together with the gold and silver ingots tied with dry paper, and the sacrifices such as mules, horses, sheep, pigs, and chickens are burned, and the green smoke curls up in the sky.
The implication is to tell the ancestors, our Li family's descendants have grown up, how is it amazing, you can steal fun in the sky, by the way, burn some money for the ancestors, there is no shortage of food and drink, you don't need to save money, but you can use it......
By the time the whole set of red tape was over, it was about 3:00 p.m., and everyone was dizzy and hungry.
In the Famen Temple, I simply used some fasting rice, and Li Fushou and others came to the Buddha in the backyard of the temple to worship the treasures of Buddhism.
There are a total of 7 pagodas with different shapes, square, round, pentagonal, hexagonal, octagonal and octagonal are different, and the height is also different, bringing together various representative pagoda buildings since the Han and Tang dynasties, such as the four-story square tower of the Tang Dynasty, the round tower of the Northern Wei Dynasty, etc., showing the pattern of the Big Dipper 7 stars.
Especially on the Beidou position, the tallest Ming Dynasty eight-edged seventeen-level brick tower, seventy-seven meters high, the edge is made of carved jade rock, the bell is hung at the arch corner, the breeze passes through, the bell tinkles, it shows the sacred solemnity of Buddhism.
The so-called Beidou, looking north to Shenzhou!
These 7 pagodas, all add up to a total of 77 layers, each pagoda under the underground palace, enshrine a number of different amounts of Buddha real body relics, and the number of layers of the pagoda is the same, a total of seven or seven of the number.
Seven up and eight down, for the auspicious metaphor of the upper and the best, a broad metaphor for the boundless Dharma, the purification of all sentient beings, implying the number of the week, extrapolation is extremely mysterious.
This large-scale ancestor worship officially set the ancestral tablet of the Li branch of Honghe Mountain to be enshrined, and established the status of the family temple of Famen Temple, and also demonstrated the orthodox status of Li Fushou from the royal bloodline, which is unshakable.
The symbolic meaning of ancestor worship is very strong, and since then, Li Fushou's Honghe Mountain people have taken this place as their lineage, settled down to reproduce and develop with peace of mind, and no longer want to return to the mainland to return to their roots.
The roots of this clan are in Honghe Mountain, where else to go?
Since the Li family worshiped the ancestors, the Famen Temple has been lively for more than half a month, and the incense is prosperous.
Wu, Zheng, Wang, Chen, Zhang, Ho...... People from all families rushed to worship their ancestors, and no one dared to slack off in this matter.
But all the Chinese families who have a little financial resources have paid tribute to their ancestors in Famen Temple and comforted their ancestors, which means that the descendants are mixed well in this land, and the ancestors and ancestors are blessed by the spirit of heaven, and the descendants burn incense to the ancestral tablet, offer three animals with sesame oil, and sacrifice day and night......
Famen Temple is a big temple, it is impossible to only be a family temple of the Li clan, it is really not a shrimp bully, but it is mainly based on the Li family, and it is in the Dengtian Hall at the core of the entire Famen Temple.
In the wings on both sides of the vast temple, in the side hall, as long as the surnames of other clansmen donate enough sesame oil money, they can get a separate side hall dedicated to the ancestral tablet, and enjoy the incense offering day and night.
As a result, the incense of Famen Temple became more and more prosperous, and Chinese believers continued to worship, and soon became a Buddhist holy place in Australia, attracting expatriates from all over the world to worship and seek their roots.
Separated by oceans, thousands of miles away.
The fact that the Chinese in a foreign land can find a place of solace and continue the ancestral inheritance of incense has great significance, which may only be understood by the Chinese who attach great importance to clan affection.
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