Chapter 50: The Kuroshio

The wind, gently blowing the verdant branches, rolled up the green waves, and from time to time birds streaked through the treetops, leaving strings of crisp chirps. The sky was blue, and the floating white clouds floated leisurely, slowly, passing over the mountains, flying into the distance, and disappearing at the end of the sky......

The sun is just right, brilliant but not hot, warm and pleasant, sprinkled through the leaves, leaving a little mottle, gently floating out of the clean courtyard, sliding down the verdant grassy slopes, pouring into the mountain springs, and flowing slowly with the gurgling river.

At this moment, Taiyi and his party are in the ancient building to observe the scripture platform.

Ancient building view, hidden in the Qinling Mountains an ancient Taoist palace view, was built in the Western Zhou Dynasty, increased in the Qin and Han dynasties, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, destroyed in the gold, revived in the Yuan, gradually declined in the Ming and Qing dynasties, rebuilt in today's modern times, has a history of 2,600 so far. Because Yin Xi, the real person of the beginning of the text, is a building with grass here, stargazing and looking at the air, so it is called the building.

It is the ancestral court of Taoism, the world-class "Tao Te Ching" pilgrimage place, and because of this, the forest is deep and quiet, elegant and quiet, so it is crowned as "the first blessed land in the world".

It is said that there are four main halls of the scripture platform, namely the Laozi Temple, the Doumu Palace, the Relief Hall and the Lingguan Palace. There are two side halls, namely the Taibai Temple and the Four Temples. There are bells and drums on both sides of the mountain gate, and they face each other. In front of the mountain gate, there are stone steps winding up to the top of the platform. There is a stone spring pond not far from the west side of the mountain gate, named Shangshan Pond, there is a stone carved dragon head in it that spits water continuously all year round.

According to legend, in the twentieth year of Yuan to Yuan (1283), a plague occurred in the Zhouzhi area, there was no cure, and countless people died. At that time, Zhang Zhijian, the supervisor of Louguantai, had a dream at night, and dreamed that Taishang Laojun told him: "There is a stone slab in front of the mountain gate, and there is a spring water under the stone slab, and there is an elixir refined by me in the spring, which can cure the people's epidemic." ”

After Zhang Jian Yuan woke up, he felt very strange, so he ordered the little Taoist priest to look for it in front of the mountain gate, and sure enough, under the stone slab in the west, dug out a spring. Zhang Jian Yuan was busy getting water for the Taoist priests who were suffering from the epidemic to drink, and the epidemic was miraculously cured after two hours. After the news came out, people from near and far came to fetch water to cure the disease, and the epidemic subsided.

Three years later, Zhao Mengfu, a bachelor of Hanlin, came here to visit, and was very surprised to hear about it, so he asked for the three words of "Shangshan Pool" in a big book of paper and pen, and took the meaning of "Tao Te Ching" "Shangshan is like water".

Nowadays, every temple fair, pilgrims still compete to drink this water to cure illness and prolong life.

Looking down from the sky, the whole Gulou viewing area borrows the concept of yin and yang in Taoism in the overall planning, with the scripture platform as the core, and the cultural content of "Jingyi to Jiu, Jiujiu Daocheng", forming a pattern of "one axis, nine courtyards, and ten halls".

In the topography, the south is high and the north is low, and the buildings are built according to the mountain, sitting in the south and facing north. The whole scenic spot is formed by a group of buildings and landscape axis through it, the spatial sequence is very rich, the ancient building style and system of the Ming and Qing dynasties are adopted in the building, so that the whole scenic spot looks like a golden top and a red pillar, carved beams and painted buildings, bright colors, distinct grades, and magnificent.

In terms of design, it is mainly based on the Taoist palace system, but also combines the elements of modern architecture, which contains our deep thoughts about Lao Tzu and infinite admiration for the brilliant culture of Taoism.

Located at the beginning of the axis is the world's first blessed pond, the plane of the blessed pond is in the shape of a bat, meaning "blessed land holy land", coupled with the combination of boulders of the water feature, the momentum is magnificent, amazing. On the east and west sides, two major theme sculptures of "Taoist Teacher" and "Li Yuan Worship Laozi" are arranged.

Here, you can experience the perfect fusion of classical culture and modern culture.

After walking around the scripture platform, everyone went to the southeast, there is a "Yangtian Pond", which is said to be the pool where Lao Tzu hit iron and quenched fire, and there is a "Qizhen Pavilion" near the pool.

There is a female spring on the west side of the platform, which is the place where Lao Tzu taught his disciple Xu Jia.

Legend has it that Lao Tzu turned a white bone into a handsome young man Xu Jia on the way to the west, and after arriving at Hangu Pass, Lao Tzu turned seven herbs into a beautiful woman to test him, Xu Jia couldn't resist the temptation, and was just about to make a move, and Lao Tzu pointed at it with his hand, and immediately showed the original shape of the white bone. Fortunately, Yin Xi interceded for him, and Lao Zifang turned the white bones into Xu Jia again, and touched the ground angrily with his cane, and the beauty turned into a clear spring.

Finally, everyone came to say that the two miles of Taipei, in the green bamboo thicket, within the white wall, the ancient trees are towering to the sky, the stele stone stands solemnly, the palace pedestal, tall and wide flat, here is the ruins of the Zongsheng Palace.

Zongsheng Palace is the earliest palace view of Taoism, which was called Louguan and Caolouguan in ancient times.

Back then, Yin Xi, the real person of Wenshi, was here to build a grass building, stargazing at the stars every day, and finally waited until the sage Li Er, who awarded the Tao Te Ching 5,000 mantras.

When you first enter the mountain gate, the spring breeze first arrives at the Ziyun Tower.

The snow disappears and the green tiles are exhausted, and the smoke surrounds the five colors of the danying.

The flowers are shining among the trees, and the twelve pearl buildings are connected to the five cities.

It's a pity that they have all been destroyed now, which is embarrassing.

Wu Mengya, Chen Jingyi, Li Ling, Ling Xue, Yang Fei and Chen Changqing couldn't help but feel a little heavy when they saw it, the treasures of human civilization and art, no matter how great and magnificent they were, could not withstand the erosion of time and man-made destruction, turned into clouds of history, and disappeared in the long river of time.

Is affection really better than ruthlessness?

No, of course not.

In the Louguan platform, there are nine ancient cypresses that are still lush and verdant after thousands of years, vigorous and upright, and the local people are respectfully called "the nine elders of Louguan". Among them, there is a tree that is said to have been used by Lao Tzu to tie cattle back then, and is called "Ox Cypress". There is a stone ox carved in the Yuan Dynasty under the tree. There are three trees in the southwest corner, and the galls on the trees resemble three goshawks with their wings stretched out, and they are called "three eagle cypresses".

Just as the nine elders of this floor are evergreen through the ages, the spirit and wisdom of the sages and ancestors have long been eternal and immortal, remembered by the world, and will surely bloom again and radiate vitality.

Ruthless, affectionate, there is a love word after all.

The avenue is invisible, the world of fertility, the avenue is ruthless, and the sun and the moon run.

The Tao is supreme, indescribable, big and outward, small and inward, unintelligible, chaotic, independent and unchanging, circumferential and not perishable, all things in heaven and earth are born from her, raised by her, and finally resolved by her, she is the source of all things, the foundation of all things. That's why she gave birth to the world.

The Tao is supreme, extremely noble and noble, although all things are in her tolerance, but she is the same, without the slightest preference and personal protection, running the universe, there is no stop, there is no deviation.

The Tao is ruthless and affectionate.

Under the Niu Bai, Mengya and the others seemed to have undergone an invisible spiritual baptism, and the heart lake returned to peace and tranquility, Li Ling and Changqing were fine, but Mengya faintly touched something.

The Tao is the way, the very way, the name is famous, the name is not the name.

The Tao is a thing, but it is in a trance. In a trance, there is an elephant in it. In a trance, there is something in it. There is a fine in it. Its essence is true, and in it is faith.

Nameless, the beginning of heaven and earth, named, the mother of all things.

In the void, there is no loneliness and no surface, no heaven and no earth, no yin and no yang, no sun and no moon, no crystal and no light, no east and no west, no green and no yellow, no south and no north, no softness and no rigidity, no overlay and no load, no bad and no hidden, no virtuous and no saint, no loyalty and no conscience, no going and no coming, no life and no death, no front and no back, no circle and no square, tens of billions of changes, vast, formless and imageless, natural emptiness, poverty and difficulty, immeasurable and boundless, no height and no bottom, no equal and no sorrow, no left and no right, high and low nature.

Lao Jun is the incarnation of the eighty-first life of the ancestor of the Taishang Dao, a natural saint, wisdom, the wonderful book of nature, the suzerain of tranquility, the combination of nature, the separation of morality, the common respect of all saints, and the ancient times can not be lost.

The cow cypress was used by Lao Jun when he was a cow, and he left a quiet and inactive rhyme, and everyone was fortunate to be able to feel it today, which was a great opportunity.

The sky is coming to an end, and the sun is slanting in the west.

The remnant sun is like blood, and the sunset is like fire, dyeing the sky a faint vermilion.

The refreshing wind blows, stirring the leaves of the nine elders of Louguan, and it makes a loud sound, like playing music.

It's so wonderful, it's so moving.

Taiyi and Mengya stood side by side, watching the clouds rolling in the sky, changing in thousands of ways, admiring the magnificent beauty of the sunset, quiet and brilliant, and indifferent from the distance.

Behind him, Xia Wei, Changqing and others also quietly admired.

The sunset is infinitely good, just near dusk.

Dusk is like a hidden word in life, which guides people to comprehend the peace and indifference of life. The tranquility of sunset is like a beam of starlight, which makes people's hearts lonely and peaceful, and dusk does not mean sadness.

Its light, its soft and hopeful glow, will end the day with the most beautiful scenery.

It's a pity that the world is unpredictable and elusive.

A wisp of black gas is like ink, deep and viscous, quietly blooming, forcibly breaking into the solemn and quiet beauty of the sunset, unscrupulously releasing the aura of domineering, violent and ferocious destruction.

Gradually, the black gas became more and more, tumbling and flying, like hundreds of millions of black dragons haunting, and blooming like a surging tide, engulfing the setting sun and covering most of the sky, as if in a great dark universe.

It was as if something was brewing.

Suddenly, I heard a roar like thunder, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, only to see a red essence explode, giving birth to hundreds of billions of big red lotus flowers, in the black tide, on the cusp of the storm.

Ups and downs, flying in the air.

The red lotus jade essence streamer, covering the square circle of Lixu, shoots out a pillar of light that is black and red, staggered vertically and horizontally, under the petal lotus leaves, there is purple electric flying frost, yellow gas is vast, colliding with each other, inspiring millions of fires, yin and yang hugging, water and light, and metamorphosis endless boundless and immeasurable dust cosmic time and space.

Looking at it with the eyes of the immortals, you will see that the black tide is directly below the depths of the ground, a young man in black is sitting alone, there are fourteen cyan chains, which run through his ancestral knots between his eyebrows, two shoulders of pipa bones, palms of both hands, two feet and feet, three inches below the umbilicus, two ribs, two waists, and the last chain passes through his heart, nailing him tightly to the Yin and Yang Twin Rocks, the upper body is out of the Yang world, but the lower body is in the Nine Nether Realm.

The filthy gas of the yellow spring steamed up, pouring in from the soles of the young man's feet, and emanating from the Baihui acupoints above his head, only to see the young man's body from his feet to his head, inch by inch, inch by minute, and gradually completely turned into white bones. The Dao Qi above was reckless, surging over, endlessly washing down, pouring in from the Baihui acupoints above his head, and flowing out from the soles of his feet.

From head to toe, pink muscles grew inch by inch, minute by minute, and when the muscles were completely grown, the filth rushed up, and they turned into white bones again.

In such a situation, there will be three hundred and sixty-five rotations in one day, and the young man in black has been bound to this Yin and Yang Twin Rock for a full three thousand six hundred and fifty years.

Three thousand six hundred and fifty years, one hundred and thirty-two thousand two hundred and fifty days and nights, four hundred eighty six million two hundred and seventy-one thousand two hundred and fifty reincarnations from birth to death and from death to life, young people have long been accustomed to it, numb, and now they are finally waiting for the hope of seeing the light of day again.

The black qi in the air overflowed from him.