Li Ruhui made an appointment with Shangzong Zhenlei and came to Yongzuo Temple early in the morning. Before leaving, she received a message from Professor Li asking them to hurry up again, and Li Ruhui replied that they would go to Yongzuo Temple today to find a new breakthrough according to his request.

Entering the gate of Yongzuo Temple, Zong Zhenlei said: "I want to take a good look at the shadow of these two towers connected in a line today. ”

Li Ruhui grabbed him and said, "It seems that there was a new discovery last night?" ”

Zong Zhenlei nodded: "Yes, last night I saw an article explaining Yongzuo Temple and the 'Red Snake Winding Seal', which is very interesting." ”

Li Ruhui said with a smile: "I have heard of the red snake around the seal in feng shui allusions before, but I don't remember the specifics, I only know that it is rich and noble." ”

Zong Zhenlei said: "The red snake around the seal said in feng shui is a capable person who is rich and noble. There is information that the red snake is an auspicious thing since ancient times, the snake is a small dragon, and the red is auspicious, so the red snake is the meaning of the red dragon; 'Winding' is the object that seems to rise layer by layer, and here it is a tower that is higher than the floor, and 'seal' refers to the seal of the ancient government, and here it is the building of the temple. ”

"This kind of 'red snake around the seal' collocation, it is best to be in the southeast position to be in favor of the main position."

"Yes, this lord is our city, so the direction of the temple must be facing north. This is just like the ancient yamen officials sitting in the north to the south, in front of the left hand, that is, in the southeast, with the official seal, look at how majestic this posture is, isn't this exactly what you want to seek! ”

Li Ruhui was laughed at by him: "You really know how to compare!" As she spoke, she used her mobile phone to find a passage on the Internet: "What you said about 'Red Snake Winding Seal' is not this passage in "Rebuilding the Twin Towers Yongzuo Temple Guanyin Pavilion Inscription": 'According to Kanyu, the southeast is Xun, Xun and Si are the same palace, the temple is the seal, and the Xunfang temple is called the red snake around the seal. Xun is the wind, the mouth of the tower, and the style of writing is blazing'. ”

Zong Zhenlei nodded and said: "This passage is recorded by the remnant monument on the west side of the gate of the Sanjin Courtyard; In the inscription, it is said that the temple was built in the 'Xunfang' as 'the red snake around the seal', and this passage is actually to worship the southeast; there are two missing words in the 'high tower mouth' before the 'literary style is prosperous', which is estimated to be related to the introduction of the southeast's qi. ”

Li Ruhui paused and thought for a while and said, "I think this is different from what was said when the tower was first built; Saying, she found a collection from her mobile phone, "Wanli year's "Shanxi Tongzhi" believes that the local 'Dulong is slightly insufficient, so the civilization is not open, the tiger is slightly stronger, so the people are fierce, and the family is few', in which the dragon and tiger refers to the left green dragon and the right white tiger, the dragon should be higher than the tiger, but the local terrain is low on the left and high on the right, 'the terrain is paralyzed on the left and the right', so the tower should be built on the left; ”

Zong Zhenlei deliberately wanted to lead her to talk more about her point of view: "Explain a few more words? ”

Li Ruhui said: "The construction of the Wenfeng Tower is 'to supplement the shortcomings', that is, to make up for the defects of the terrain, not to attract the rich and noble and the style of Qi Chang. ”

Zong Zhenlei shook his head: "What you said was the reason for the construction of the Wenfeng Tower, and only a single tower was built there at that time. As he spoke, he stretched out his two index fingers and said: "But later Miaofeng Zen Master built the Xuanwen Pagoda, and after having two towers, a line was formed, and only with the connection can there be directionality, which is the saying that the southeast is introduced." So I understand that the construction of a single tower is to make up for the lack of terrain, which is to block and prevent the overflow of land gas; The construction of the twin towers is a 'lead', which can introduce the blazing atmosphere of the East and Nanchang; although one wall and one lead are different, one of them is the same, all in order to retain local talents and prosper the literary style. ”

Seeing that Li Ruhui was silently meditating, Zong Zhenlei said again: "I'll go back to that article; In that article, about the connection of the twin towers and the interpretation of the prescription position of Yongzuo Temple with feng shui, it was very enlightening to me, and I understood the statement of southeast worship on the introduction stone tablet. ”

"Feng Shui should be related to the terrain, you name it."

"That's right, Feng Shui is to see where you can gather wind and hide qi, and the topography of good Feng Shui will have a relationship with wind and water; Generally speaking, there is water to produce 'qi', and 'qi' represents vitality and vitality ......"

"Stop, get straight to the point!"

“Sorry！ I just remembered that your dissertation was to study the local topography and feng shui, so I pointed to it. Zong Zhenlei smiled and briefly narrated: "That article summarized the view of worshipping the southeast. The article first explained that in ancient times, Feng Shui masters believed that there were red snake veins in the southeast of the local area. Qi' is the origin of the auspicious land, and then further explains that the twin towers are connected to the southeast, in order to use the high tower to attract the southeast qi; the qi attracted by the wind is channeled into the wind, and the built temple is stationed in the wind, and the gate of Yongzuo Temple is facing north, so that this wind patents the city; in addition, the southeast position qi is the gentle qi, which is the need of Confucianism to seek benevolence and cultivate virtue, and the prayer for the southeast qi is also to dominate the cultural luck; in order to make the attracted qi visible, it is proved by the shape of the peony variety that bloomed earlier at the turn of spring and summer, the purple xia fairy flower. The vigorous scene presented by the arrival of qi is a sign of "prosperity of the literary style", so as to help the city achieve the goal of cultural prosperity. In short, the worship of the southeast is to introduce auspicious energy. ”

After listening to this, Li Ruhui thought for a while and said: "The two towers you said are connected to a line, which reminds me of a passage in my Yangqu County Chronicle in Daoguang Year: 'Kanyu family said, the old tower is in the Xunfang side of the city, which is related to cultural luck, and it cannot be doubled. This means that Mr. Feng Shui originally insisted that it could only be a tower for the sake of cultural luck, and said that it was related to the cultural movement and could not be formed in pairs; But later, after the two towers were built, it was said that because the two towers could be regarded as one in the city, it was recognized; It's just that I don't know if this insistence on seeing 'one' has anything to do with what you said about 'red snake winding the seal'? Okay, regardless of this, I also think of one more important thing, the construction of the tower to form a line is to attract the southeast 'qi', and the temple is built to surround the wind around the seal, so how to explain the relationship between this feng shui and the Buddha relics of the Buddhist family? ”

"The article explains that the Buddha relics have the property of 'not dispersing' compared with the five elements of 'earth, water, fire, wind, and air', so they can form wind seals."

"In this way, the seal of the wind is still for the style of Changwen, which is different from the meaning we think of building the tower to worship the ancestors of the royal family and protect the ethnicity."

"That article is an analysis of the scholar's revival of the literary movement, so it is different from the direction of our interpretation."

"After listening to what you said, I suddenly thought that we would not go astray?"

"You don't have such confidence in Popeye?"

Li Ruhui smiled and said, "I hate it, don't talk about me!" Then you interpret it! ”

Zong Zhenlei smiled and said, "Then let's not talk about Wenyun for now, change the topic, remember my speculation about the reason for building the Xuanwen Pagoda?" ”

"Remember, you speculated that the 'skewed' was to cover up the 'southeast worship'."

"The reason why I think that the 'correction of the skew' is to cover up the 'southeast worship' is that it involves the royal family; as I said, the southeast orientation involves the tomb of the Ming and Jin kings in the southeast of the city in the area of Laofeng Village, which may be regarded as the 'right place' by the Jin kings; the main gate of the Xuanwen Pagoda opens to the southeast, symbolizing the acceptance of the meaning of the ancestors' virtue and fortune in this direction; Yongzuo's combined interpretation, the meaning of wanting Zhu Ming's descendants to be blessed is obvious, therefore, the direction of the two towers is consistent with the direction of the main gate of the tower, and the meaning is to be blessed. This 'get' is not the same as the 'introduction' mentioned in Feng Shui above, although the purpose is not the same, but from the perspective of 'ying' in the southeast direction, the concept is the same. ”

He looked at her: "However, I thought of the 'sword' we had on different routes into the tower courtyard last night, and I figured out one thing. You see, since the predecessors were able to plan the routes to different towers for their own worship, it means that the southeast worship may include both aspects, just take what they need; So I think we don't have to figure out whether the southeast worship is beneficial to the cultural movement or as a blessing, the cultural movement is not the focus of our concern, our focus is to find the source of the Buddha relics, is to interpret the code distributed by the monks, so we only need to care about the Buddha relics. ”

Li Ruhui nodded as she listened, and seemed to accept his statement. Inadvertently, the two of them had arrived at the foot of the Xuanwen Pagoda.

Under the sun, the huge shadow of the tower was cast on the east wall of the Sansheng Pavilion, which made Zong Zhenlei think of the "mysterious veil" that left a deep impression on him.

Zong Zhenlei asked Li Ruhui: "The county chronicle you just said is like standing in the southeast to see the twin towers, saying that the new tower is leaning on the old tower, and then running to the northwest to see the twin towers, saying that the two towers are still one from the city; This reminds me of the question of the meaning of the northwest direction that the twin towers point to. ”

"Have you figured out the answer? I made a connection on the satellite map and found that the extension line in the northwest direction could pass near the original Yamen of Yangqu County on Fuxi Street. Li Ruhui pointed to the building in the distance.

"Okay, do your homework quietly! Did you find anything? ”

"I guess that the sentence on the Yangqu County Chronicle: 'Looking at it from a high place in the city, it is still the same', and the point of this 'high place in the city' looking at the twin towers may refer to the yamen of Yangqu County, from where the twin towers are regarded as one, which is exactly the northwest direction of the twin towers' connection; do you think this is the meaning of representing the northwest direction?"

"I don't agree with your assumption, the implication of the northwest direction should not be as simple as pointing to the county yamen; Master Miaofeng is a high monk, and the thinking of a high monk should have a higher depth. Well, when you go back, send me your image on the satellite map. ”

"That's not easy, I'll pass it on to you in the evening".

Zong Zhenlei's thinking returned to the shadow of the tower, and said to himself: "The shadow of this tower is short for a long time, sometimes in the courtyard, sometimes outside the courtyard, and there are spots all over the courtyard......"

Li Ruhui reminded him: "The length of the shadow should be related to winter and summer. ”

"I'm wondering, what does it mean that there are so many shadows in the tower?"

"Why are you standing here dreaming, how can you observe the shadow if it doesn't move in a short period of time? Also, what's the use of landing outside the courtyard, since there is a drop point in the courtyard, let's go down to the temple to see if we can still evoke new ideas, and by the way, look at the brick carvings in the courtyard. ”