Li Shulan keenly noticed that someone was following her and followed her all the way to Qixia Temple.

Li Shulan thought to herself: "This stalking person is really a bit powerful, I put on so good makeup, I was even recognized by him, follow me, this is really annoying, originally, I will find a way to dispose of your stalker, but I also need you to send out the wrong news, so that your master will be fooled, so, spare your life for the time being, and I will clean you up later." ”

Li Shulan pretended not to find anyone who was following her, and she still talked about the temple with the rickshaw master Xiao Jiyuan in a relaxed and happy way, and toured the architecture and landscape of Qixia Temple.

After entering the mountain gate of Qixia Temple, continue to walk forward, you can see the Maitreya Buddha Temple, the Maitreya Buddha in the hall is open to the upper body, with a smile, he smiles happily at the guests who enter the hall, which makes people feel relaxed and comfortable when they see it.

Behind the Maitreya Buddha, there stands the majestic King Wei Dao, he stands tall, very strict, and does his best to protect the temple, if the wicked enter the temple and see the King Wei Dao, he will be a little afraid.

Walk out of the Maitreya Buddha Temple, go up the steps, and then arrive at the main hall of the temple - the Daxiong Treasure Hall, there is the Buddha statue of Sakyamuni who is as high as more than three zhang in the treasure hall, the statue appears to be kind and kind, deep and wise, and the magic power is boundless.

After the Daxiong Treasure Hall is the Pilu Treasure Palace, although it is not as majestic as the Mahavira Treasure Palace, but it also appears very solemn, the middle of the hall is dedicated to the golden body of the Buddha of nearly two zhang high, his disciple Brahman, the Emperor Shakti stands left and right, "Twenty Heavens" are arranged on both sides of the main hall, majestic and magnificent.

In the back, is the statue of Guanyin on the island, Guanyin on the island is also known as "Guanyin looking at the sea", is one of the four great bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism, according to legend, Guanyin takes the big turtle or turtle in the sea as a mount. Everywhere to reach out to all beings.

This statue of Guanyin stands on its head, looking rich, soft, elegant, and kind, on both sides of her. Standing good wealth, dragon maiden, Guanyin 32 incarnations all over the island.

After that, there is the Dharma Hall, the Buddha Hall and the Tibetan Scripture Building built by the mountain, and the Tibetan Scripture Building treasures various scriptures such as the Chinese "Tripitaka Sutra", with tens of thousands of volumes.

On the left side of the scripture building, there is a "memorial hall of the master who crossed the sea", the hall enshrines the statue of Jianzhen monk to take off the yarn, displays the sixth eastward crossing of Jianzhen and the memorial cultural relics of Jianzhen monk, the fifth eastward crossing of Jianzhen monk was not completed, and the return journey was stationed in Xiyu Qixia Temple. This great monk also brought great fame to Qixia Temple.

Xiao Jiyuan explained to Li Shulan while walking, he had been to Qixia Temple many times, and heard many tourists tell the story of Qixia Temple, so she was very familiar with the buildings and Buddha statues in the temple, and she talked about it head-to-head.

Xiao Jiyuan took Li Shulan on a tour of the temple, Li Shulan burned incense and worshiped the Buddha in the hall, and they went around to the right. Walked out, very quickly. They walked to the stupa of relics.

Xiao Jiyuan pointed to the relics stupa and said: "This relics pagoda is also very famous, it was built in the first year of Emperor Wen of Sui Renshou, it is said that Emperor Wen of Sui had ordered the world to build Renshou relics pagoda in eighty-three states, the relics pagoda of Qixia Temple is one of them, this relics pagoda was rebuilt in the Southern Tang Dynasty in the tenth century. It can be regarded as the most valuable ancient building in Qixia Temple. The body of the relics stupa has seven levels and eight sides, all are made of white stone, up to four and a half zhang, there are stone carved railings on all sides of this tower base, and the pedestal is Sumeru. The eight sides of the Sumeru seat are engraved with the 'Eight Phases of Enlightenment Map' of Shakyamuni Buddha, and the monks in the temple have told that these pictures are very meaningful and interesting stories, such as the reincarnation of the white elephant, the birth under the tree, the prince of the Nine Dragons bath, the West Gate, the penance of the city, the bathing and sitting solution, the enlightenment and the subjugation of demons, and Nirvana. 'Eight phases of enlightenment map' is the first level of the tower body, it is particularly high, octagonal, each corner has a pillar, the tower body is carved with Manjushri, Puxian Bodhisattva and the statue of the four heavenly kings and other reliefs, the image is beautiful. Further up, the distance between the upper and lower eaves of each layer of the tower is relatively short, the eaves of the five layers are income from bottom to top layer by layer, the body of the tower also has income, there are niches on each side of the tower, each niche sits a Buddha, the inclined plane under the eaves is carved with the image of flying sky, Lotte and offering to the heavenly people, the brake pillar at the top of the tower is lotus-shaped, the whole relics pagoda is magnificent and exquisite, it is a typical stone carving art style of the Sui and Tang dynasties. ”

Li Shulan was very happy to listen to Xiao Jiyuan's explanation, she said: "Master Xiao, my son said that you have a relationship with Buddhism, but you don't believe it, at this time, you talk about the relics pagoda, and you speak in an orderly manner, very much like a person with Buddhist knowledge who specializes in explaining, in your current body, you can't see the appearance of a person pulling a cart!"

"Li Gongzi smiled, the little one has already told you, what the little one said was heard from others, the two ears came in, and it was broadcast from the mouth, and the little one just remembered better, so he could tell some stories that he hadn't forgotten, don't say hello to the little ones!" Xiao Jiyuan said.

"Ben Gongzi is telling the truth, you really speak well, keep working hard, you will definitely be very promising, keep talking!" Li Shulan said.

"Qixia Temple is built on the mountain, so it looks very magnificent and magnificent!" Xiao Jiyuan said.

"The builder of the temple chose to build the temple in this Qixia Mountain, it is really very insightful, the temple is built on the mountain, and the buildings arranged in the temple are very layered, and the mountain is very coordinated, it is really ingenious!" Li Shulan praised.

"This Qixia Mountain is composed of'three mountains and two streams', namely Longshan, Tiger Mountain, Zhongfeng, Peach Blossom Stream, Zhongfeng Stream, there are mountains and waters, mountains and rivers are contrasting, it is really a good scenery of clear mountains and clear waters, in addition, there is a saying, Qixia Mountain, there are all kinds of medicinal materials growing, and eating can be taken into the body, so Qixia Mountain is also called 'Shooting Mountain'. Xiao Jiyuan said.

"This 'receptive' is also quite interesting, Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty has a cloud in "Sikong Mountain Waterfall in Shuzhou": "Lingqingxiao, the pine wind blows my feet", very detached, and it is very meaningful to call Qixia Mountain 'Seshan'. Li Shulan said.

Xiao Jiyuan led Li Shulan to the back of the relic, they climbed the mountain rock, only to see that there is a group of grottoes on the mountain rock, each grotto is chiseled with Buddha statues, more than 500 Buddha statues, it is very spectacular.

Xiao Jiyuan said: "This mountain rock is called 'Thousand Buddha Cliff', among the more than 500 Buddha statues in all the grottoes, the Buddha of Amitayus is the largest, up to more than three zhang, standing on his left and right is Guanyin and the Great Trend to the Bodhisattva, three Buddha statues constitute the Western 'Three Saints', in addition to the Buddha statue, there is a very interesting statue, that is, in the last grotto, there is a masonry statue holding an iron hammer and an iron cone, it is said that this is the craftsman who carved the Buddha statue to chisel his own image into the Buddha shrine. ”

"It's really rare, this statue is more vivid, it's a very valuable statue. Li Shulan said.

"It is said that in history, this Qixia Temple has had several names, at first it was called 'Qixia Jingshe', the Tang Dynasty was renamed 'Merit Temple', when it was rebuilt in the Southern Tang Dynasty, it was changed to 'Miaoyin Temple', to the Song Dynasty, it was renamed 'Puyun Temple', and later, it was changed to 'Qixia Temple' and retained. It is said that in the Tang Dynasty, there were more than 40 temples in the 'Meritorious Temple' at that time, and the scale was large, and it was called the four major jungles in the world together with the Lingyan Temple in Changqing, Shandong, the Yuquan Temple in Jingshan, Hubei, and the Guoqing Temple in Tiantai, Zhejiang. Xiao Jiyuan said.

"Qixia Temple is large-scale, and there are many celebrities who have a close relationship with Qixia Temple, which makes the temple very famous, and the famous temple attracts more celebrities to the temple, and the advantage of interaction, Qixia Temple is naturally famous all over the world. Li Shulan said.

"That's right, there is a big temple is a celebrity, there is a famous temple, there is a famous temple and more celebrities, the temple is famous, and the people are more famous. Xiao Jiyuan said.

"The fame of the temple, there is a magnificent hall, and it is more important to have Buddhist culture, specifically, it is necessary to have a famous monk and the spread of Buddhism, Monk Lang spread the teachings of the 'Three Treatises' in Qixia Temple, which is the key to making Qixia Temple famous, so the greatness of the temple is based on its heritage. Li Shulan said.

"Is Li Gongzi saying that what is really famous in the temple is not only the magnificent buildings, but the invisible Buddhism in the temple, and the knowledge in the mind of the great monk?" Xiao Jiyuan asked.

"Your understanding is right, and you should understand it in the future!" Li Shulan said.

Xiao Jiyuan asked: "The buildings and grottoes in the temple have basically been visited, how does Li Gongzi want to play next?"

Li Shulan paid attention to the person who had been following her, she thought for a while, and said to Xiao Jiyuan: "You go to the gate first to rest, wait for Ben Gongzi, Ben Gongzi wants to go to the relics pagoda alone, the relics pagoda is a long time away, there are statues worth seeing on it, and you can appreciate the special style of Sui and Tang Dynasty sculpture art if you look carefully." ”

In fact, Li Shulan didn't just want to see the relics pagoda again, but deliberately went to the relics pagoda to take a walk, she wanted to make the people who followed her mistakenly think that she was interested in the relics, and she wanted the people who were following her and his master to pay attention to the relics pagoda in Qixia Temple, so that they could be busy.

Li Shulan still remembers very clearly, the last time she was in Jing'an Temple, she found the door leading to the underground palace on the top of the relics pagoda, if the person who followed her this time had an understanding of her last situation, then let him think about it.

Li Shulan circled around the relics pagoda a few times, carefully admiring the various parts of the pagoda.

This is a dense eaves type stone tower, made of white limestone, from bottom to top is divided into three parts: tower base, tower body and tower stop, there are pedestals, Sumeru seats and upturned lotus seats, the carved table of the base plane xiàn swims in the sea water and auspicious clouds of dragons, phoenixes, fish, turtles and other ornaments, the side is carved with pomegranates, phoenix patterns; The phoenix ornament, the middle girdle part is made of octahedron, the semicircular corner pillar is carved at the eight corners, the image of the wrestler and the dragon is embossed on the column, and the relief between the pillars is Sakyamuni's "eight-phase enlightenment map"; the Sumeru seat is placed on the upturned lotus seat of three layers of lotus petals, in order to bear the body of the tower; the tower body has five layers, each layer is far-reaching, the cornice is curved, the lotus pattern is engraved round tile and the heavy lip dripping, and the back end is decorated with a dragon head. The first layer of the east and west two sides are respectively embossed Manjushri, Fuxian statue, the north and south sides of the carved stone door, the door post is engraved with scriptures, the remaining four sides are carved with a statue of the king of heaven, the whole stone tower is a Sui and Tang Dynasty sculpture art display, it is amazing.

Li Shulan likes the sculptures on this stupa very much, and she thinks that Buddhist art is also very beautiful. (To be continued......)