I have to say that it is very pleasant to have a picnic on this beautiful soil ridge.

Wang Qiang and his sister chatted while eating, and fed the three big dogs some barbecue meat and fruits from time to time, which was very comfortable.

It wasn't until about one o'clock in the afternoon, when everyone had eaten and drunk enough, that they got up to pack their things.

The arrangement in the afternoon is naturally to take my sister and them to visit Wenwu Temple and worship the gods and goddesses.

After packing up his things, Wang Qiang took four girls and three mutant dogs to the south of Wumiaoling, followed the straight bluestone steps and stone path, and began to descend the mountain.

Descending from here, you can directly come to the small square between the Wenwu Temple, which is located at the foot of the ridge in the south of the Wumiao Mountains.

Descending from this low earthen ridge, there is no such thing as "easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down", and the speed of going down is very fast.

In just about ten minutes, everyone came to the foot of Wumiao Ridge, along the small square, and first walked towards Wumiao.

The main reason is that the reputation of the Wu Temple in the tea city is greater than that of the Confucian Temple, and there are more statues of various gods and goddesses enshrined in it.

The small square here has also been completely overhauled by the prefecture this year.

The ground is all paved with bluestone slabs and blue bricks, not to mention neatly and neatly, but also combined into a lot of patterns on the ground.

Around the small square, there are stalls selling money, candles, incense and other tributes.

The stalls are well planned and neatly arranged on the inside of the sidewalks on both sides of the small square and the main road.

These stalls have been built into a unique wooden shed building, which looks small and not small, and is neatly arranged in a row.

This is the most neat and orderly outdoor stall that Wang Qiang has seen in this era.

Moreover, there were no disputes here, and everyone was calmly buying and selling all kinds of incense offerings.

It is full of ancient etiquette and can be seen everywhere here.

Wumiao is close to the Chajiang River Riverside Avenue, which is beginning to be built on a large scale, and is about five or six hundred meters away from the river, which is not far away.

The outermost part of Wenwu Temple is a large circle of tall walls, and the places facing the street are all built the same, with red walls and yellow tiles, and the architectural style is very chic.

Two large temples not far apart, facing the street, have one large and two small entrances.

In front of the entrance of the gate, there are several garden paths that are not small or small, covering an area of about half an acre.

In front of the main entrance of the two temples, there is a wide bluestone pavement, which is about ten meters wide, and it is connected to the main road outside, which is very smooth and tidy.

There are many flower beds here, surrounded by bluestone and blue bricks, with different shapes, which are very pleasant to look at.

The two large temples, with a small square of about five or six acres in the middle, which are made of bluestone and blue bricks, have a very reasonable layout, and look solemn, beautiful and tidy.

"Brother, did you buy such a big pack of incense candles and other tribute?"

Wanling saw her brother buying a large bag of incense, candles, money paper, etc., at a stall on the edge of the small square, and asked.

"In these two temples, not only the two saints are enshrined, but also various gods and goddesses are enshrined."

Wang Qiang explained, "Every immortal statue has to go to burn incense and worship, and the large amount of incense, candles, money and paper purchased now is estimated to be just enough for the five of us." ”

He explained to a few little girls with a solemn face, "When you enter the temple, don't make a loud noise, you must be in awe in your heart, and you will burn incense and money honestly and sincerely." ”

"Since you have come, you must be sincere. Some things are very mysterious, and many people usually don't believe in them, but since they have come, they must be treated with caution. ”

Hearing Wang Qiang say seriously, several girls didn't dare to be careless, and nodded one after another and said:

"Oh, I see."

"Brother, I understand too."

"Well, I won't make a loud noise, I will go to incense and burn paper devoutly, and I will ask all the gods and two saints to bless my brother and our family." ……

After explaining to his sister, they all remembered when they saw them, Wang Qiang was carrying a large bag of tribute, and explained that the three big dogs were waiting near the gate, don't run around.

Then, with the four little girls, he walked towards the gate of the solemn martial arts temple.

After a while, he entered this huge martial temple.

This entrance is a large patio surrounded by a large gatehouse-like corridor of wooden buildings.

These gatehouse-style corridors are about six or seven meters high, and the base is made of bluestone, and the other buildings are all blue bricks mixed with wooden composite buildings.

Thick wooden pillars support the large gatehouse-like corridors with large patios.

On both sides of the corridor, there are delicate wooden balustrades.

The large corridor around the entire large patio has a very reasonable layout and looks full of antiquity.

On both sides of the large corridor, there are wing-style temples made of blue bricks and ancient wood, which are dedicated to various gods.

This kind of large patio-style gatehouse-style corridor building has as many as three entrances!

There are three consecutive large patios, and there are wing-type temples on both sides, which are dedicated to various gods.

It is necessary to walk through this large courtyard complex with three entrances, about 100 meters or so in a straight line, to be able to reach the last large temple dedicated to the martial saint Guan Gong.

This martial temple is a little smaller than the Temple of Literature, but it also has a scale of more than 100 meters in length and width, and the actual construction area is not small.

"Let's go! Let's go here first to worship the God of Wealth! ”

Wang Qiang looked at the bustling crowd and the square buildings filled with incense, and immediately said to his sisters.

The gatehouse-style corridor at the entrance of the Wu Temple, the first wing-style temple on the right, is dedicated to the God of Wealth.

He took his sister and them, and then began to line up at the gate of the temple dedicated to the God of Wealth.

Everyone slowly moved along with the crowd, and after about ten minutes, it was their turn to go in and offer incense.

Wang Qiang took his sister and them solemnly into the temple dedicated to the God of Wealth, and saw the statue of the God of Wealth sitting on the platform.

The statue of the God of Wealth is surrounded by a circle of wooden terraces, with wooden railings to isolate people from the statue, and they can only burn incense and paper on the incense platform not far in front of the statue.

There is a merit box that must be found in the temple for believers to donate incense money.

In the middle of the incense stand is a large bronze incense burner, which is a special place for burning money paper.

On both sides of the bronze incense burner, there are incense stands for incense and candles, which are two rectangular low-legged bronze tripods.

In front of the large bronze incense burner and two low-legged bronze tripods, there is a row of futons for worshippers and pilgrims to prostrate themselves.

Wang Qiang took the four girls to the front of the futon, lined up, knelt on the futon, and first put a stack of money paper into the bronze incense burner and lit it.

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Then, he took the incense candle to the large incense burner and lit it on the burning money paper, and then inserted the incense candle into the rectangular low-legged bronze tripods on both sides.

There is a special guard temple here, whenever I see the incense candles on the incense stand to be filled, I will come and burn the incense candles that are still burning inside to the big incense burner in the middle of the open flame.

Only in this way will it not affect the later pilgrims and believers who come to offer incense.

After a while, Wang Qiang, who had burned incense and paper, and completed the worship, lined up to go to the merit box on the side once, and each donated a dime.

They're kind of generous.

Because most of the pilgrims and believers today do not donate.

A small number of believers and pilgrims donated, and most of them were one, two, or five cents.

In this era, there are very few people who donate more than one dime of merit money.

There is no other reason, one word: poverty.

In the Wenwu Temple, all the immortals enshrined add up to at least nearly a hundred!

If you donate a dime to worship every immortal, it will cost you almost ten yuan.

Finally, after offering incense to the two saints, the merit money donated will definitely not be a dime, right?

Then, if you come to incense once, you must donate at least ten yuan or more!

At present, the wages of workers in most collective units are only about 30 yuan.

The cost is huge, you can imagine!

Therefore, the vast majority of pilgrims and believers choose not to donate money, not because they don't want to, but because they really can't do it.

This is the kind of situation that is said to be the kind of situation that has more than enough heart but not enough power.

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