This room seems to be the Garan Temple. Garan is the provincial name of Sangha Rama, which means the garden of all. The Eighteen Garan Gods, also referring to Garan Bodhisattva, are actually Guan Gong.

Buddhism came to China and also sealed many local historical figures. He is quite familiar with Buddha statues, after all, he can draw thangkas.

However, he didn't have any feelings about Buddhism, and he didn't have any opinions or anything, after all, he also knew very good monks, and people had been doing good deeds in seclusion in the mountains for so many years.

But Chen Xing saw more on the Internet, still holding a bag of monks begging for almsgiving. There are a lot of such things on the web, but how many Taoist priests do this?

Therefore, as a Chinese, Chen Xing still prefers the set of immortals and gods. However, it doesn't matter what the faith is, just ask for peace.

A monk walked over from the main hall and asked, "Is there anything wrong with the donor?" Chen Xing looked back at him, smiled, and said, "Someone told me that there are beautiful stone carvings here, so I came over to take a look." ”

"That's right, the statue is at the top of the mountain, but the road is hard to walk." This monk was about thirty years old, probably worried that Chen Xing would not be able to find the way, and said, "That's it, I'll take you there." ”

"Thank you." Walk out of this small room built of a stone cave, continue to walk up the stairs made of stone slabs, the road ahead is okay, the stone slabs are relatively large, and they are not steep.

Chen Xing asked, "Master, how long have you been here?" ”

"It's been three years." He didn't talk much, Chen Xing didn't talk much without asking him, he kept walking, but when he was about to reach the top of the mountain, the road was not easy to walk, before it was a stone slab more than half a meter long and more than thirty centimeters wide, but now it has become only one foot to step on, and it is very reluctant to step on two feet.

There is no way to fix it like this. There is no direct way up the mountain, and this path is all around the rock wall.

But it is better to be safe, the left is the wall, the right is the cement pile that was built in modern times, and the middle is connected by an iron chain.

So although the road looks dangerous, there are supports on both sides, and you can walk up with it.

"Donor, be careful, it's raining, and the road is slippery."

"Okay." Chen Xing was also concentrating on walking. Fortunately, there are handrails, or piles that have been driven down in modern times, if it is really a wooden stake rope or something, Chen Xing really doesn't dare to walk on it.

He didn't even dare to sit on a swing or a roller coaster. Gentlemen don't stand under dangerous walls. He doesn't have the kind of gene that likes to find excitement, and spending this life peacefully is what he wants.

This kind of road is not long, and the two of them soon reached the top of the mountain. The top of the hill is almost flat and overgrown with vines and weeds, but there is a path that goes forward, and there is a mountain in front of it that has no grass...... it!

The whole surface of this mountain is carved, it is the kind of carving of the mural, and a hole of about forty or fifty centimeters is dug into it, and then the Buddha statue is carved in this hole, and this kind of Buddha statue looks like there are more than 20 here.

However, there must be a but. The carvings were all weathered, and all the faces were not clear, only a faint figure could be seen.

Weathering caused their bodies to form circles and circles, like traces of thick hemp rope tied up in circles.

Wow, that's really beautiful. If the statues here are all intact, you can see the details and faces, Chen Xing will not feel how amazing it is, he will only feel that there are well-preserved ancient stone carvings in such a place that are very beautiful, but now this kind of place, it is really charming.

"This should be the stone carving you said, but it's a pity that we haven't preserved it well."

"No, that's the prettiest thing." Chen Xing said, then raised the camera and gestured,

"Can I take pictures?"

"The donor is free." The feeling of light and shadow is not strong, but the feeling of the picture is the most important thing. After taking the picture, Chen Xing looked at the photos in the camera, thought for a while, and said, "Master, go back first, I'll wait here for a while." ”

"Wait?"

"Well, I want to wait for the sun to set."

"It's still a long time before the sun sets, why don't you come to our temple for a vegetarian meal?" Chen Xing touched his stomach and said, "It's okay." "It's only noon, and it's about twenty minutes since I came from the temple, and I can wait until four or five o'clock to go up the mountain.

Anyway, this stone wall is here, and he can't run away. Still holding both sides down the mountain. Going down is more difficult than going up, mainly because you have to face the cliff below, which is always a little hairy to look at, so it wastes a lot of time.

When I returned to the small temple, there was one more monk, so there were six people now.

Don't look at this temple as small, but there are quite a lot of people, they cleaned up one of the rooms, and Chen Xing and the seven of them ate here.

The monk who took Chen Xing up the mountain before was the youngest among them, and he was not a monk here, but a monk in a famous temple in Nanchang, and felt that he could live here more purely, so he came to live for a long time.

Indeed, there are not many farmhouses in this deep mountain and old forest. Chen Xing thinks that the real monks should be like them, far away from the world, what does the flowers outside have to do with a monk?

You don't even have to change your relationship, you can grow your own vegetables and eat them yourself, isn't this also a kind of practice? In ancient times, there were many natural and man-made disasters, and sometimes there was really no way, and the monks had to go out to make a living, but is it necessary in modern times?

A fat monk brought up the last dish and said to Chen Xing: "I made two more dishes today, we really haven't seen tourists outside here for a long time, we have to celebrate." Chen Xing said: "There are so many tourists who come to Wuyuan every year, haven't they come?" ”

"There are few people in the village outside us, and there is no road to build, who is coming?" The fat monk said.

"Hump?" The old monk said. The fat monk snorted twice and sat down honestly. Rice, stir-fried greens, cubes of tofu, steamed small potatoes, this is the kind that is not peeled, if you want to eat it, you need to pick it up and peel it yourself, and then there are vegetarian balls.

I have seen a lot of meatballs, and this vegetarian meatball Chen Xing has seen it for the first time.

"What are these balls made of?"

"It's a radish, green vegetables and noodles kneaded together, and the taste is no worse than meatballs." Another monk smiled and said, "What, when have you ever eaten again?" "They've lived here for years, and who doesn't know who.

Chen Xing tasted one. The vegetarian balls are pinched and boiled in the soup, the soup is mushroom and cabbage soup, and the mushrooms are provided by Chen Xing kindly.

Although it is only two very simple ingredients, the flavor of the soup is very strong, and it really has the heaviness of meatball soup.

Chen Xing gave a thumbs up to the fat monk who was cooking, and said, "It's amazing, it's really good." ”

"Haha, cooking, everyone likes it." The atmosphere at the table was very warm, and everyone chatted while eating, and there was no habit of eating without speaking.

In fact, this Chinese saying has been said for many years, but it basically only applies to your own home. If you really uphold the habit of eating and not talking outside, then the business will not be able to be discussed, and it is all the rules set at the wine table.

After eating, the monk who took Chen Xing up the mountain came out with a rattan chair and said, "You sit on this, this chair is comfortable to sit on." ”

"Thanks, what about you?"

"We're going to do our homework." There is a bamboo forest outside, it is very cool to stay underneath, and there is a kind of small beetle that sticks to the bamboo and has a long mouth, this kind of small creature was hard to find when Chen Xing was young, and some people even caught this outside the elementary school to sell.

But I won't bother them today. Chen Xing moved the rattan chair here, took a big pu fan that I don't know which monk, and sat on the chair and shook it.

He rarely takes naps, but he falls asleep in this environment. It's so pleasant to live in the mountains.

Nowadays, many owners who have developed in the city are also willing to return to the farm to build a villa to live, and it is estimated that there are some reasons for this.

Chen Xing dreamed in a daze that he took a picture of a stone wall with Hasselblad, and then won a lot of awards along the way, his ability to shoot the sunset was recognized, and he received a lot of photography training, or the school also used his own style as a teaching material...... Yenching University also invited myself to give a lecture.

Just as I was thinking about what I was going to say, I felt that my face was very itchy, and when I raised my hand to grab it, I caught a lot of bamboo leaves.

Well? Chen Xing woke up in a daze. I haven't dreamed in a long time, can't this dream be a little longer?

Damn it! Chen Xing threw away the leaves in his hand, took out his mobile phone to check the time, confirmed that it was not yet four o'clock, and shook the big fan twice with peace of mind.

Not to mention, there's something else to this dream. Hasselblad is very good at shooting the sunset, which Chen Xing has tried countless times, so it just so happens that the subject of the picture is also good this time, and it can be cut out for evaluation later.

You can even send it to Hasselblad to see if they can see it. Chen Xing remembers some of the terms he wrote when he signed the treaty.

If they can shoot well, they will create a one-of-a-kind Hasselblad X2D for this photoshoot.

The effectiveness of this camera is still uncertain, but the honor is definitely full. Chen Xing decided to take the shooting more seriously.

I checked the camera's battery and turned on the system's video recording function...... He had to record all the images he had taken of that scene, so that he could send an evaluation when the time came.

I also want to say that I went to Poyang Lake to shoot it, but the current sunset effect is obviously better than that of Poyang Lake. At half past four, Chen Xing moved the chair back to the temple and returned it to them along with the fan.

"Be careful when you go up the hill, and remember to hold on to the rope."

"Thanks, I see." He'd been up once, and he knew what the road was. Chen Xing is not proficient in walking this kind of road, these monks often go up the mountain, if they are not dragged by themselves, it is estimated that they don't need to be helped, three steps and two steps, it only takes ten minutes to run to the top of the mountain.

The light was soft near five o'clock. After Chen Xing went up the mountain, he took off the camera and tripod from his backpack and tried to find the best shooting spot by observing the angle of the sun setting in the sky.

In the end, they were almost on the edge of the cliff before they found a position that was enough to get an overview of the whole situation. The Hasselblad X2D is a medium-format camera, and its 21mm can express far more than the full-frame 21 compared to full-frame, so if someone finds this place through Chen Xing's photos in the future, they won't be able to shoot the same effect without a good lens.

The tripod was set, and Chen Xing sat directly on the ground. Wait. If you want to be a landscape photographer, patience must be good.

Landscape photographers sometimes wait for a gust of wind, or walk up to a person in the frame by chance, or, as Chen Xing is doing now, wait for the sun in the sky to fall at the right angle.

A wildlife photographer is better than a landscape photographer who is more patient. This kind of person has to wait for a day or two, there is a former boss in the school textbook, in order to shoot the picture of the snow leopard, he lived on the snowy mountain for nearly a month, and he set up a tent, not a warm wooden house.

When I learned this, I guess I didn't have a second thought except admiration. The mountain was so calm that you couldn't even hear the cries of insects.

There are a lot of songworms in summer, and when Chen Xing sleeps in the bamboo forest in the afternoon, there are songworms calling all the time.

But there was no more on the mountain, although sometimes something jumped in the grass.

But he never screamed. It's a very sacred feeling, Chen Xing thought to himself. A bird landed on the top of the stone wall, and then probably saw that the clothes Chen Xing was wearing were different from the surrounding environment, so it flew towards Chen Xing and landed on the camera body.

Chen Xing's eyes widened suddenly. Don't scratch me! The hand stretched forward to chase away, but the bird jumped onto Chen Xing's hand and grabbed it.

It doesn't seem to be a heavy scratch? Chen Xing withdrew his hand, and it didn't run. This is a white bird, its eyes are very beautiful, the whole is about the size of Chen Xing's palm, it naturally lowers its head and uses its beak to sort out the feathers on its body, not worrying about what Chen Xing will do to it at all.

As long as Chen Xing doesn't hurt him, then Chen Xing is equivalent to this bird's friend. A friend who doesn't communicate.

Chen Xing used his left hand to adjust the delay to take a picture, and then reached forward to find a composition. It would be nice if this bird could listen to Chen Xing, and when the sun sets, this bird stands on the top of the stone wall, so that there is a small bird on the edge of the originally smooth stone wall, and that kind of picture is called a must.

The hand went up, and the strength was a little too much. The bird was thrown out and fluttered its wings and flew away.

There are no insects on it, and there are quite a lot of birds. After a while, the sun became softer and softer, and it also landed in the position that Chen Xing had predetermined.

The sunset set was very fast, and Chen Xing didn't dare to rest next to him, so he sat next to the tripod and stared at the camera.

When the sun completely sank behind the stone wall and the light spread out from all directions of the stone wall, Chen Xing pressed the shot.

At this moment, a flock of birds flies through the sky and becomes a silhouette of a flock in the camera frame. That's how it feels!

Without waiting for Chen Xing to check the camera, he felt that it was appropriate. It's an absolute blockbuster!