Chapter 97, Incense
There is an incense burner and a Buddha statue on the merit box. This Buddha statue is quite well-known, and even Ye Kai, who does not pay attention to the Buddha, can recognize it at a glance.
This is Maitreya Buddha.
There are two rows of couplets beside the Buddha statue, which read:
A big belly can accommodate things that are difficult to tolerate in the sky; a laugh is always open to laugh at people who are ridiculous in the world.
Bypassing the Buddha statue and entering Shaolin Temple from the left, someone shouted: "The handsome guy will show us the ticket."
"Oh, OK."
Ye Kai took out the ticket from his pocket, and indeed he needed a second ticket check.
The most conspicuous thing after entering Shaolin is a towering tree on the left. The Ye Kai reads the introduction. This tree has a history of 1,500 years.
There are many people taking photos under the tree.
When you look closer, you can see many dense eyes on the ginkgo tree, all the size of fingers, which were left by the monks who practiced the Shaolin skill "One Finger Zen".
Guardrails have been surrounded outside the ginkgo tree, isolating tourists one meter away from the ginkgo tree.
There are many ancient trees planted on both sides of this corridor, and more than 20 stone tablets from all ages are hidden under ancient trees, such as the "Zong Daochen Returning to the Mountain Monument" and the "Xixi Zen Master Monument"
The monks in Shaolin Temple were not all Chinese. Ye Kai saw some foreign monks on the road, and walked in and came to the Heavenly King Hall.
There is a plaque above the main hall of the Heavenly King Hall, which says the world's number one ancestral court. These words were written by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty.
There is a door god on both sides of the left and right, which is the two generals of Henha. The blue statue on the right is Hun, and the red statue on the left is Ha. The hall worships the four heavenly kings with good weather, so this hall is called the Heavenly King Hall.
Inside is the Main Hall.
There is a huge incense niche outside the Main Hall, and the incense is rich and the incense smells very strong here.
"Do you want to burn an incense stick?" Ye Kai thought to look at the incense burner.
Although he does not believe in Buddhism, it will be 2020 soon. Burn a stick of incense here to make a wish for good weather next year.
The place where the incense is sold is at the entrance of the hall, with three monks wearing cassocks sitting next to it. Because there are many people queuing up, Ye Kai thought about taking photos.
The incense sticks on this table are very long. The thinnest incense stick is two fingers thicker, and the thickest incense stick is thicker than the mouth of the bowl, and the length is about one meter and two meters.
When I saw the blooming of the bay leaves, I felt that it would not be very cheap. It should cost two or three hundred yuan, right?
The monk said to the tourists: "The donor first write a name on the roster."
Ye Kai has good ear and eyesight. Although he is standing far away, he can still hear their conversation clearly. Do you still have to write a name for Bu Xiang?
"Does the signature cost money?" the man asked cautiously.
"Don't worry, don't worry, signing is not a cost."
After writing, a monk said: "Any pilgrim who signed the name will be chanted by Master Shi Yongxin personally to chant the sutras and chant the Buddha's name to eliminate disasters for you."
Then he pointed to the incense of different thicknesses and magnificent but golden, and asked, "Donor, which incense stick do you want?"
The man probably chose a medium incense for his sake.
When the monk carefully handed the incense to him, he said, "This incense stick costs two thousand yuan."
Two thousand yuan?
Ye Kai was confused. Of course, what was even more confused was the tourist who invited him to the fragrance. What kind of fragrance is this? It’s so expensive.
Forget it.
Ye Kai hurriedly walked away, and the incense that cost 2,000 yuan could not be burned.
Sometimes on the Bodhisattva's birthday, Li Meili would take him to temples near Tiancheng to burn incense and worship Buddha, and have a vegetarian meal. Some temples would burn incense for free.
Although it is very delicate and different from the one here, it will be a loss no matter how much you think about it for 2,000 yuan.
Anyway, Ye Kai didn't believe this and he ran away.
He saw that the person who was planning to burn incense before chose the smallest one again, and he didn't know how much it cost. It was okay, and the monks did not force you to burn expensive ones.
"Why are the attractions so pitiful?"
Whether it is Saipan, Kuanzhai Alley or Shaolin Temple, prices are very expensive. Moreover, when the peak season comes, tourists are crowded and crowded. It is better to find a place with mountains and water to have a picnic and see the scenery.
Behind the Great Hall is the Sutra Pavilion, and there are no monks who sweep the floor, but perhaps the monks who are guarding here may not necessarily be even a martial arts master.
The abbot's room is set up in the snow pavilion.
Outside Lixue Pavilion, there was a team of foreigners gathered around a monk who spoke a foreign language and listened to his explanation.
In fact, there is a voluntary commentary group in Shaolin Temple. If you are not a tour group and want to listen to the explanation, you can follow these voluntary commentary groups.
Since it is free, there is no need to worry about commenting.
After visiting the attractions in Shaolin Temple, I did not inspire the system prompts.
“Is it because I didn’t visit Tallinn?”
Ye Kai ran to visit Tallinn again.
With the lessons of the Potala Palace, Ye Kai was not anxious when visiting and walked slowly, but even so, he did not receive a systematic reward.
Standing on the edge of Tallinn, Ye Kai thought.
"Are there any other rules?"
The system he got was different from that in many novels. There were no prompts or explanations, and he did not post various tasks. He would only give you some rewards after completing various conditions.
Finally, there was a project to take the cable car to the mountain. Ye Kai also participated, but there was still no reward.
"Let's go to Zhongyue Temple first."
In any case, we will first complete the sightseeing around Songshan Mountain before considering it.
Always feel.
All the tourism in these attractions has changed.
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The original name of Zhongyue Temple was Taishi Temple, located at the foot of Taishi Mountain on the southern foot of Songshan Mountain. The ticket is only 30 yuan.
The area is large. Compared with Shaolin Temple, many of the buildings here are relatively old, but in fact, this kind of old building can make people feel the long history.
The world has changed and still stands in the sunshine, and it can still make people feel shocked in the wind and rain.
In front of the largest hall, a Taoist priest was feeding pigeons. The pigeons were not afraid of people. After he noticed that Ye Kai approached, he just jumped away and did not fly away.
"Master Taoist, are these pigeons raised in the temple?"
"That's right." said the Taoist priest.
The Taoist priest's Mandarin is not very good, and it has a local Songyang accent.
"Do you want to have an incense stick?" he asked.
Only then did Ye Kai notice that there was a small house behind the Taoist priest, which was a place to invite incense, with a lot of incense in it.
He smiled and said, "I dare not burn it."
There are few people here, and Ye Kai is happy to joke with them.
The Taoist priest saw Ye Kai's expression and explained: "Did you ask the place outside for incense? That was built by a merchant outside. Here is the one from our temple, three incense sticks and ten yuan."
Um?
So cheap?
Ye Kai did ask for the incense place outside, where there were three incense sticks and two hundred incense sticks.
"Really?"
Ye Kai was a little wary, afraid that they would have any tricks, but after repeated confirmation, he still spent ten yuan to buy three incense sticks.
Holding the lit incense in your hand, Ye Kai recited it.
"I would like to bless all the gods and gods to bless my future journey and turn bad luck into good luck."
After incense was infused, Ye Kai was about to leave.
This is the last attraction of Zhongyue Temple.
[You visited Zhongyue Temple and gained the skill of "health preservation"]
[Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature. You have been to the three local religions, and now you have a higher understanding of the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism]
[You have obtained the Six Arts of Gentleman - Shooting]
[You have obtained the Six Arts of Gentleman-Yu]
【Talent 10】
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Chapter completed!