A First Look at the Great Eclipse 4
Equipped with a short knife, this knife has a peculiar shape, most of them are scimitars, with patterns, and the most peculiar thing is that this great cannibal has a devout respect for his religion, and needs to worship the West five times a day.
When Nan Jiyun first came to Guangzhou to see the big cannibal, he was attracted by this strange scene, and his curiosity was to find out.
Guangzhou Mansion is an important town in Lingnan, very rich, the port is developed, the maritime Silk Road starts from Guangzhou, the Great Food Empire has many business travelers, trade, very prosperous, the Tang Dynasty merchants and their transactions are also a lot, Nan Jiyun and others found a Guangzhou merchant who does business with the big cannibal, and they talked.
The merchant described a lot of the Great Food Customs, and Nan Jiyun and others learned that the Great Cannibal believed in Islam, and the name of Allah was Allah, and the believers called Muslims, and worshiped the West every day towards the Kaaba of the Holy Mecca, which is one of the five important rituals of Islam, these five skills are:
1. Halal: The basic creed and teachings of Islam: "I testify that there is no God but Allah; I testify that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah."
This is the foundation of all beliefs and rituals in Islam. Muslims are required to recite Halal during prayer, and some non-Muslims are required to recite Halal when they want to convert to Islam.
2. Salah: That is, prayer, Muslims must pray five times a day.
Each prayer was performed towards the Kaaba in Mecca.
Salah means to devote oneself to Allah and is seen as a private communication with Allah as an expression of gratitude and worship.
Salah is mandatory, but discretionary is available. The prayer is recited in the language of the Great Food and consists of verses from the Qur'an.
3. Zakat: Almsgiving.
This is an act of almsgiving to accumulate wealth, and it is the duty of all Muslims who are able to do so. They are obliged to donate a fixed portion of their savings to help the poor or to promote Islam.
zakat is regarded as a religious obligation, and the wealth of the rich is "the property of Allah's graciousness," so the rich owe it to the poor.
Both the Qur'an and the Hadith hold that Muslims should voluntarily give more wealth.
4. Fasting: Muslims do not eat or drink from dawn to dusk in the month of Ramadan and reflect on their mistakes.
Fasting is the pursuit of a sense of closeness to Allah, and Muslims are required to be grateful and dependent on Allah during the month of Ramadan in order to make up for the past mistakes of Muslims and to care for the poor.
For those who are unduly burdened, fasting is not necessary and can be dealt with as appropriate, and Muslims who fail to observe the fast must make up for it as soon as possible.
Some Muslims do not fast in the month of Ramadan, but at different times.
5. Hajj: The pilgrimage to Mecca in the month of Al al-Khail-al-Khail.
Any able-bodied Muslim is required to make the pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in his lifetime.
When pilgrims enter within 20 miles of Mecca, they must wear ordained garments, consisting of two seamless long scarves.
The Hajj ritual consists of walking seven times around the Ka'ba, touching the black stone, running back and forth between Mount Safa and Mount Merwo seven times, and symbolically throwing stones at the devil in Mina.
Hajj pilgrims are highly respected in their homeland, and Islamic teachers consider Hajj to be an expression of Allah's devotion and not a means of gaining fame.
In addition, there are many strange customs about the big food country, and Nan Jiyun listens to it with relish. However, although this merchant did business with the Great Cannibals, he had never sailed to the land of the Great Food, and had only heard that it would take several months to sail by ship, and that he would have to pass through Tianzhu and other small countries on the way to reach it.
The sea route is so far away that the land route is self-explanatory. Nan Jiyun and others asked the merchant about the big food treasure knife and the good horse, and the dealer replied: The big food treasure knife is the Damascus knife, which is finely made and very sharp, and it is a sharp weapon for the big cannibal to cross West Asia, and it is not easy to show people, and the big food and good horse are also rare in the Celestial Empire.
Nan Jiyun and the others were stunned, but after hearing so many anecdotes, it was not in vain.
After a few days, Liu Feng and Lian Lixiong returned from Shaozhou, and everyone discussed it, and they all thought that Yang Mi should have stopped and would not embarrass Zhangjia Village.
However, Mu Shouyi is the person who is thoughtful, and insists on waiting for a while, after all, the four righteousness of Ludong are all good men in the north, and they are all acting in Jiangbei, and it is rare to get Jiangnan, let alone Lingnan, since they are meddling in the matter of Zhangcun, they must be done safely, and everyone naturally has no objections.
Since entering Guangzhou, they have been around Yang Mi's affairs, and now that the matter is over, they should visit the old ones, and the martial arts style in Guangzhou is very prosperous, and there are many well-known martial arts fists. Ludong Siyi has been wandering the rivers and lakes for many years, quite chivalrous, and knows many southern martial arts figures, so he took this opportunity to visit them one by one, which is also a great pleasure.
Nan Jiyun and others want to accompany Ludong Siyi to visit friends and get acquainted with southern heroes, but Liu Feng said that Guangzhou is still Yang Mi's land, if you meet Nan and Lei and Ludong Siyi are familiar with each other, then wouldn't the previous efforts to hide the identities of Nan Jiyun and Lei Wanchun be in vain?
So Nan and Lei had to accompany Liu Ningshuang and Mu Xueyan to travel around, there are many scenic spots near Guangzhou, and occasionally go far away, so they rest in other states, the Tang Dynasty is open, the defense of men and women is not strict and they are all people in the martial arts, men and women walk together, but no one looks sideways.
On this day, the four of them went out of the city to Foshan to play.
The name of Foshan is obtained in the second year of Zhenguan (628), there is a hill called Tapo Gang here.
One day, the Tapo Gang suddenly shines brightly, the villagers gather together to dig three bronze Buddhas on the Tapo Gang, move away the Buddha statue, and see a clear spring gushing out. The villagers built wells to draw water, and rebuilt the Tapo Temple on the post to worship the three bronze Buddhas.
Therefore, there is a proverb in Foshan: "Before Foshan, there is Tapo first"
Since then, because the people thought that this place was a Buddhist mountain, it was named "Foshan".
There is a place to go in the southwest of Foshan, the name is Xiqiao Mountain, there are many strange peaks and strange stones and flowing springs and waterfalls, the famous ones are Jiulong Rock, Shiitake Rock, Yan Rock, etc., in addition, the cloud cliff waterfall and the flying leaf spring are also quite famous.
The four of them talked about it, and when they came to this Xiqiao Mountain, they only felt that it was quiet and beautiful, and the flowing water and strange rocks were very different from the magnificent mountains and rivers in Jiangbei, and they felt that they had a great flavor.
Nan and Lei are accompanied by beautiful women, and their hearts are even more happy.
Coming to the cloud cliff waterfall, the tourists are weaving, the scenery is wonderful, there is a beauty about seventeen or eight years old, dressed gorgeously, with a good posture, only to see her little goose egg face, picturesque eyebrows, starry eyes and bright teeth, small and straight nose, the figure is also petite, a gentle and graceful appearance of a southern daughter, followed by three or four little maids, also watching the waterfall beside the waterfall, but this beauty is slightly frowning, there is something in her heart, next to a small maid asked, "Miss is still worried about the master's affairs?" Why are you so worried?"