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Happy Tycoon - Chapter 530

Published at 29th of September 2021 01:36:21 PM


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Yang Jing smiled and said, "Hello, Taoist priest. I'm a traveler. When I see this Taoist temple today, I'll come and visit it. By the way, I want to offer you some incense for the blessing of the Lord."

Hearing this, the Taoist priest smiled and made a "please" gesture with one hand, so he continued to pick up the broom and continue to clean the courtyard.

Yang Jing didn't think he was disobedient. The Taoists in this Taoist temple are obviously real Sanqing disciples, not fake Taoists fishing for fame in some scenic spots. When they see a merit master coming to the door, they want to leave all the money in the merit master's pocket.

The real Sanqing disciples pay attention to quiet inaction and detachment from nature. They never pay attention to things outside their body. Therefore, when the merit master comes to the door, these real Sanqing disciples will not mind whether the merit master will give money or not.

Yang Jing went in and found that the Taoist temple was really small. Even song Laohei's house occupied an area larger than this Taoist temple.

The architectural style of the Taoist temple is somewhat similar to the quadrangle in Yanjing. After entering the gate, there is a small courtyard with an area of about 30 square meters. Facing the north and south, there is a small main building. There is a plaque above the gate, which reads "Sanqing hall". Needless to say, this Daimei Temple worships the three ancestors of Sanqing, yuan Shitian Zun, moral Tianzun and Lingbao Tianzun.

There are three wing rooms on both sides of the Sanqing hall, which must be the place where the Taoists in the temple live, as well as the kitchen and warehouse.

Although the Taoist temple is small, it is full of green. There are big trees around all the houses. In the middle of the courtyard, there is a ginkgo tree with hundreds of years of roots and luxuriant leaves.

The small Taoist temple is full of a peaceful natural atmosphere everywhere, which is deeply in line with the Taoist concept of "Tao follows nature". When people are inside, they can't help feeling a sense of being far away from the world.

Yang Jing nodded slightly and walked towards the Sanqing hall. There was a incense table at the door of the Sanqing hall. On the left was a merit box, and on the right was a young Taoist. When he saw Yang Jing coming, he bowed his hands and chanted, "boundless merit!"

Yang Jing also made a bow, then put down his backpack, took out ten hundred yuan bills of "four great men" from his pocket and put them into the merit box. Only then did he respectfully tidy up his clothes and wash his hands from the nearby hand washing basin. Then he said to the young Taoist, "Taoist priest, I want to invite incense."

Incense can't be served casually. According to Taoist rules, you must tidy your clothes and clean your hands before incense. Yang Jing did it right.

The young Taoist didn't seem to expect that the young monk suddenly took out so much incense money. After being stunned for a while, he smiled and nodded at Yang Jing, and then took out three incense sticks one meter long and one circle thicker than his thumb from the box behind him.

However, the Taoist priest did not pass the incense. Yang Jing knew that there was a procedure to be done before incense, that is, wax.

According to the rules of Taoism, before burning incense, light candles first, which means "silver lights shine brightly, show the sky, shine brilliantly and spit Silver Rainbow. The vegetarian Lord is pious to offer, gather blessings and welcome details, and gather blessings and welcome details."

Although Yang Jing is not a Taoist disciple, the holy ring is a genuine treasure of Taoism. As the host of the holy ring, Yang Jing naturally has to study some Taoist rules.

Originally, Yang Jing did not believe in Buddhism or faith, but since he got the holy ring, he unconsciously regarded himself as a Taoist disciple. Therefore, when offering incense to the ancestors of Sanqing Taoism today, it is natural to offer incense in strict accordance with the rules of Taoism.

After the candle was lit, Yang Jing took over the three incense sticks, burned them and began to incense.

These three incense sticks also have a beginning. They are called "three treasure incense". When they are burned, they must be perfumed with their left hand, because in the tradition of Chinese Taoism, they are generally called auspicious hands with their left hand and murderers with their right hand; In the Chinese folk tradition, the left is also the most important.

Yang Jing held the incense in her left hand and first inserted a incense stick in the middle of the incense burner, which means "Daobao incense"; Then insert the left side, which refers to the left side of the statue of the founder, that is, the right side of Yang Jing, which means "jingbaoxiang"; Three insert on the right, which means "shibaoxiang". This is the source of Sanbao incense.

The three incense sticks are required to be about an inch apart, representing the center of an inch, and should be horizontal and vertical without skew.

Yang Jing did all this very well, and the young Taoist next to him nodded slightly when he saw it.

After the incense, it is "money (paper)", that is, paper money.

These are the three things you need to do before paying homage to the statue of your ancestors, such as wax, incense and money.

After all this, Yang Jing respectfully walked to the left door of the main hall, first walked with his left foot into the main hall, and then walked to the three statues of Sanqing Daozu. He made three kowtows and nine obeisances according to the rules, and then respectfully stepped with his right foot out of the right door of the main hall.

Yang Jing used to only believe in kneeling on the ground and kneeling on the heaven. But since he had the holy ring, Yang Jing still made a standard three kowtows and nine obeisances in the face of the holy image of Sanqing Daozu.

After completing this set, the young Taoist had a better attitude towards Yang Jing. He seemed very satisfied that Yang Jing could complete this set of process so completely.

Yang Jing was not in the mood to communicate with the young Taoist. After worshipping in the hall just now, he had found that the floor of the hall was definitely old. The ground of the main hall is paved with bluestone slabs. Although many of the slabs were later added, many of them are old objects with absolute age.

In the main hall, Yang Jing guarded the holy image of the Sanqing Daozu. In order to show respect, Yang Jing did not use the holy ring, but after leaving the main hall, Yang Jing was ready to carefully look for other things with years in this Taoist temple, even the remains.

With the holy ring, as long as there are remnants, it is easy to identify who built the Taoist temple first.

"Taoist priest, can I visit this Taoist temple? I am an overseas Chinese in Britain. I like all kinds of historical inheritance of the motherland very much. Taoism is a local religion in China, and I also like Taoism very much. I like the inheritance of Taoism and the architecture of Taoism."

After all, this is someone else's territory. If Yang Jing wants to study carefully in the Taoist temple, he must be approved by others, so Yang Jing can only take out his fabricated identity again. Presumably, the young Taoist is also willing to see foreigners like Taoism..

"Blessed is the boundless Heavenly Master!" with the sound of the Taoist horn, the yuanhezi who swept the floor just now came over, "I'm glad that you can like my Taoist culture, this monk. Our Taoist temple worships the Sanqing Taoist ancestor, so please don't make a noise when you visit the Taoist Temple later, so as not to disturb the Taoist ancestor."

"Don't worry, Taoist priest. I still understand the rules."

The young Taoist came up to Yuan Hezi and whispered something. After Yuan Hezi looked at Yang Jing again, his eyes became more peaceful. Yang Jing estimated that her incense money and the set of processes worked just now.

Yuanhezi held a broom in his right hand and made a one handed gift in his left hand.

The Taoist one handed ceremony is similar to the Buddhist one handed ceremony, but the Buddhist one handed ceremony is that the five fingers are straight, while the Taoist one handed ceremony is that the index finger needs to be bent, which means "one Qi and three clearing".

Yuan Hezi walked into a wing room with a broom, while the young Taoist continued to stand next to the incense table. As soon as Yang Jing saw that others had agreed to visit the Taoist temple, he put on his backpack and began to wander around in this small Taoist temple.

The main hall has just entered. Obviously, the wing rooms on both sides can't enter. But Yang Jing was not in a hurry. He turned around the hall and found that the exposed foundation of the hall was also a very old thing. So after Yang Jing stroked it with her left hand, the holy ring immediately gave the answer.

"The ruins of the main hall of Xinde temple. In 1135, Xinde scattered people."

"The concept of faith and virtue? What the hell is the concept of faith and virtue? Did you guess wrong?" the answer given by Shengjie confused Yang Jing. However, it is obvious that the foundation of the hall is indeed old. In 1135, the fifth year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, it has a history of more than 900 years.

Yang Jing did not believe in evil and touched a bluestone. As a result, the holy ring gave another answer.

"The ruins of Keats temple hall, Dacheng mountain people in 1372."

This result made Yang Jing scratch her head again. Obviously, the previous Xinde temple was destroyed, and then the Taoist named Dacheng mountain man built a Keats temple from the ruins of Xinde temple. As for 1382, isn't it the fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty? At noon, the old man said that Zhu Yuanzhang immigrated from Hongdong on a large scale. When their village ancestors immigrated from Hongdong, there was such a Taoist temple on the edge of the village. It is estimated that the Taoist temple is Keats temple.

Yang Jing did not believe in evil and continued to touch. As a result, she found a different answer.

"The remnant wall of the main hall of the Jade Emperor Pavilion, a Taoist of Xuancheng in 1785."

This answer made Yang Jing nod slightly. At lunch, the old man said that the Taoist temple rebuilt by several Taoists from Zhongnan mountain during the reign of Emperor Qianlong was estimated to be the Jade Emperor Pavilion.

But whether it is the view of faith and virtue, the view of Keats, or the Jade Emperor Pavilion, it is not the answer Yang Jing wants. So Yang Jing continued to touch it. If she couldn't touch it at one time, she would touch it twice. It's a big deal to learn from trinket. If she had nothing to do, she would touch it

"The ruins of Yuecheng temple, yuechengzi in 928."

The result immediately excited Yang Jing. Sure enough, you guessed right. The predecessor of this Daimei temple is Yuecheng temple.

However, the Yuecheng temple has been destroyed many times in a thousand years. The foundation of the hall identified by the holy ring alone has four cornerstones of different ages. Counting the current Daimei temple, the Taoist temple has been rebuilt four times in more than a thousand years.

This Taoist temple is full of disasters.

However, for thousands of years, Taoists have come to rebuild the Taoist temple, which also shows that the Taoist temple is indeed blessed by the ancestors of Sanqing.

After determining the true identity of the Taoist temple, Yang Jing was in a good mood. He went around the two wing rooms again. As a result, Yang Jing found another very strange place behind the West Wing room.





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