Chapter 31 Little Penglai in Baiyun Temple
Baiyun Temple is located about two miles outside the Bianmen west of the capital. Qiu Chuji, the leader of the Taoist dynasty in the previous dynasty, once built the Changchun Palace here to rule the Taoism in the world.
Later, his disciple Yin Zhiping established a Taoist temple on the east side of Changchun Palace, named it Baiyun Temple.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, buildings such as Changchun Palace were destroyed by wars of changing dynasties. Only this Baiyun Temple was preserved and was continuously repaired and expanded as a royal Taoist temple. It has now become the largest and most famous Taoist temple in the capital.
Since it is a royal Taoist temple, it naturally has a corresponding style. Ordinary people can only come in to burn incense during festivals and festivals, and they are not allowed to enter in normal times.
Yesterday's Winter Solstice Festival was the day when Baiyun Temple was open to the public. Zhao Shouzheng and his group planned to come to burn incense yesterday in the same year, but were stopped by Zhao Shouzheng. Zhao Shouzheng told them that during the festivals, Baiyun Temple was crowded with people.
It's not worth it to squeeze out the clothes and sweating for burning incense.
All the disciples are now people with identities, so they naturally agree with it. After listening to their elder brother's words, they came to burn incense today.
When they left Xibianmen, passed the moat and arrived at Baiyun Temple, they saw that the huge square in front of the temple was filled with incense paper and firecrackers, and various tent curtains that had not been demolished. They were set up along both sides of the square to the moat.
It can be seen how lively it was yesterday's Winter Solstice Festival.
The disciple couldn't help but feel a little regretful, and they all said that when the Baiyun Temple is open next time, they must come and join in the fun.
Zhao Shouzheng, who was very talkative in the past, became surprisingly silent at this time.
He looked at the four majestic characters "Dongtian Scenery" outside the Baiyun Temple, which were carved railings and jade-made, and on the magnificent Lingxing Gate on the four pillars and seventh floors, and could not control himself for a long time.
"I heard that these four words were written by the imperial pen of the late emperor?" The disciples looked at Zhao Shouzheng, who regarded himself as "Beijing Tong".
After a while, Zhao Shouzhengfang came to his senses and nodded slowly and said, "No, it was the personal writing of Emperor Shizong Su."
"The former emperor practiced Xuan Chongdao, so it was not surprising that he wrote an inscription for Baiyunguan." Tang Hezheng said with a smile: "It's just that the emperor and the ministers are the same. The Taoist priests are probably not having a good life now."
"Yuanqing is careful." Shi Jinchen advised Tang Hezheng with a wry smile. This guy was always unrestrained, and being with him always made people worried. "Besides, the court investigated and dealt with the alchemist, not the Taoist priests."
"It's all the same." Tang Hezheng smiled. His father Tang Shunzhi was an outstanding disciple of Yangming Gong. Although he has passed away, the big guys in the court still recognize him as his junior brother. With this background, he is naturally more relaxed than those who are cautious in the same year.
"Okay, let's go in." At this time, Zhao Shouzheng completely cleaned up his emotions and called a group of people of the same year to enter the temple and said, "This Baiyun Temple is the temple of Changchun's real people. It has always been the most effective. After you enter, you should be careful in your words and actions and don't annoy the immortal chief."
Tang Hezheng knew that the second half of the sentence was for him, so he had to nod his head obediently, thinking that after my brother entered Beijing, he became more mature and steady. Could it be that the city of Beijing is prosperous?
The disciples followed Zhao Shouzheng to the front of the mountain gate. They saw three rooms wide in the mountain gate, single-eaved glazed tiles on the top of the mountain, white marble carved flowers arched the stone gate, and under the eaves, the "Imperially Built Baiyun Temple" was written. There were stone lions, Huabiao and other objects on both sides of the front door, all of which showed the style of the royal Taoist temple.
They were naturally stopped by the wise Taoist priests.
Fang Wenshan took out a silver ingot from his sleeve, stuffed it into the sleeve of the Zhike, and whispered: "Master Hu still remembers me, do you? I came to fight the front station yesterday afternoon."
"You..." The Zhike looked at Fang Wen for a long time, but he still couldn't remember seeing this person yesterday. But he still remembered that the prison court agreed yesterday and asked a group of picks to come in to burn incense today, pinched the silver ingots in his hand, and gave Fang Wen a bright smile: "How could he not remember? I can't forget it as long as I meet you."
"Master Hu, you are so good..." But Fang Wen was so moved. It was the first time that anyone could remember him immediately after growing up.
Zhike couldn't help but shivered, thinking that this person was sick? But for the sake of money, he opened the mountain gate and led all the students into Baiyun Temple.
The smoke curled and the bells were melodious in the Taoist temple, which made the restless hearts of the students involuntarily calm down. Under the leadership of the Zhike, they visited the Lingguan Hall, the Jade Emperor Hall, the Laolu Hall, the Qiuzu Hall, the Sanqing Pavilion and the Siyu Pavilion in turn, as well as the Fengzhen Hall and the Confucian Temple at the back.
All the seven halls in the middle road have to burn incense. Especially the Qiu Zu Hall and the Confucian Immortal Palace are even more careless. They not only have to worship, but also donate incense and paper money to seek the two immortals to bless them to win the golden list...
After the incense was burned in the seventh hall of the middle road, Zhike took the juren to the palace hall of the east road to worship. However, Zhao Shouzheng took advantage of the inattention and flashed into the backyard of the Taoist temple from the moon gate behind Qiuzu's palace.
In the backyard, there is actually a large garden called "Little Penglai". There are small bridges and corridors in the garden, pavilions and pavilions, rockery ice lakes, white snow and red plums. Although it is in the middle of winter, it still remains unabashed with the interest of immortals.
Even if ordinary people come to Baiyun Temple to visit the incense several times, they may not know about this paradise.
Zhao Shouzheng accidentally entered this "Little Penglai". Today he revisited along the old place of the corridor, and he seemed to have returned to that spring. At that time, the peach blossoms were in chaos and the fragrance of plum blossoms, and the beauty had just tried the Po Luo Shang...
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In that room, the students visited the East Road Palace Pavilion, and the guests enthusiastically invited them to visit the West Road Palace Pavilion. After all, it is the obligation of every guest to ask the pilgrims to pay as much as possible to pay for incense and oil.
The students were in trouble, especially those who were stolen and were all supported by Zhao Shouzheng. At this time, they were already short of money.
When they wanted to see what their brother had to say, they found out that Zhao Shouzheng was missing...
"Where did your brother go?"
"Have you gone to the cottage?"
"No, I haven't seen it for a long time..."
Just as the students were about to search around, they suddenly heard a cannon outside the mountain gate.
The Zhike's face immediately changed and he stomped his feet and said, "It's broken, a noble man is here to burn incense!"
"Take them away quietly from the east gate quickly, don't hit the noble man!" He ordered the Taoist boy who was following him, and left behind a group of soldiers and hurriedly ran away.
"Donors, please come and ask." The little Taoist priest was anxious and urged the disciples to say, "There are not many noble people who can fire fire outside the gate of this temple. In a moment, the Jinyiwei will come to search the hospital. If we get you, we will also eat the ones."
"Our brother hasn't come yet!" The disciples were panicked. No matter how arrogant they were on weekdays, they would still reveal their true colors when they met the nobles of Tianhuang.
"The Taoist will make people look for him. He has a small goal alone, and it doesn't matter if he is discovered. He can always deal with it..." The Taoist priest pushed and scared him, and finally drove the crowd out of Baiyun Temple from the east gate.
Chapter completed!