This Lingyan Temple is said to be an ancient temple, in fact, only the middle and back part is a building hundreds of years ago, and in the following time, all the newly built temple side halls, etc., are around the middle of the ancient temple to three sides of the development, the scope is expanding more and more, to the modern era, it is to expand far wider than before.

However, the top of the mountain is so small that if you want to expand, you can only dig down, layer by layer, like terraces, and after digging out the platform, you will build a temple on it.

As a result, many of the buildings built later seem to be built on cliffs and rocks, and if you want to go up, you have to go up the narrow stairs gradually.

And the further you go to the center of the interior, the narrower the staircase becomes, indicating that it was built earlier, giving people a feeling of leaving traces of time.

In fact, the highlight of the entire temple of Lingyan Temple is not the newly built Buddhas and Arhats around it; These are all modern buildings, what can be seen about?

The key is still the spiritual rock in the innermost ancient temple of Lingyan Temple.

People who have been to Lingyan Temple, except for a small number of people who have seen many times and do not want to go again, otherwise it is impossible to just go around the temple on the periphery and leave, it must be to go to the end, to the highest place, to see the ancient temple with a history of hundreds of years, and the Lingyan enshrined in the ancient temple.

The same is true of the four members of the Song family, after worshipping the Bodhisattva Arhats around them, they deliberately left the last few sticks of incense in their hands, and then began to crowd people inside.

Fortunately, when worshipping the Buddha and burning incense before, it has been going inside layer by layer, and when I got here, it was not very far from the ancient temple in the center, in fact, it was not very far, and the key was that the stone ladder was too narrow.

You know, in the past, Asan City was not called Asan City, and it was just a small town, and it has only gradually developed until now.

And this Lingyan Temple, used to be very quiet, basically only the locals will go to burn incense and donate money, so naturally, when the stairs were built in the past, who would have thought that today, Lingyan Temple will be so prosperous?

Most of the stone stairs that get narrower and narrower the further you go inside are actually built for the monks here in the past, so that they can easily walk.

Now, groups of modern people are crowded on this stone staircase, and while going up, they also have to leave a place for people to go down, can this not be crowded?

However, perhaps because in the temple, everyone was also very patient, chatting while going up little by little, I don't know how long it took, finally the four members of the Song family reached the top and came to the real ancient temple of Lingyan Temple.

This is not a grandiose, and looks quite old wooden building, the cornices are warped, antique, if you look closely, you can also see some carved railings under the eaves painted with various colorful flying maps.

The entire ancient temple occupies a small area, only about 30 square meters, standing alone on a rock base, and two faded wooden pillars support the roof.

It can be seen that the other buildings in the temple are built in the style of this ancient temple, but most of them are bricks and cement, so naturally there is no such simple feeling.

Next to this ancient temple, there is a stone tablet, which is engraved with the ins and outs of this ancient temple, and is listed as a national key protected cultural relic.

In addition to the fact that this ancient temple building makes people sigh at the magic of the ancients, the most eye-catching thing is the items enshrined in the ancient temple.

In the temples below, when there are various Arhats and Bodhisattvas and the four heavenly kings, in this ancient temple, a stone is enshrined; A huge, more than two meters high, four or five meters in diameter, probably no less than a hundred tons of irregular rock.

This is the legendary rock, and it is precisely because of its appearance that there is Lingyan Temple, and Lingyan Mountain - if it were not for this stone, it might be called something else.

However, it is said to be a spiritual rock, but in the eyes of outsiders, no matter how you look at it, it is just an ordinary stone, without a high platform, so it is simply placed on the ground, surrounded by wooden railings and red silk cloth, leaving only a gap in the middle, but pulling a few iron locks to prevent people from reaching out to touch it.

Because there was still a steady stream of people coming behind, after Song Wencheng, Lin Yuqin, Song Chenqing and Song Jianqiu came in, they didn't have much time to observe, and after they came in, they knelt down directly on the futon, and then inserted the incense that had burned more than half in their hands into the incense burner in front of them.

Song Jianqiu is reluctant to bow down, she is an atheist, even if she has become like this now, and she still recites Buddhist scriptures every day, but she still feels that there should be no so-called gods in this world.

If there is, it may also be that those Taoist Buddhists, when they were practicing Taoism and Buddhism, were accidentally seen by the laity and preached it.

For her, these Bodhisattvas and Arhats who sit in the temple and are worshiped by 10,000 people are just wooden people, and when she spread out below to worship the Buddha, she bent down three times and inserted the incense into it, which is already her biggest concession.

But when she got here, because she was with her parents, and there were a bunch of believers watching at the door, she was not good at being a maverick, so she could only kneel down and bow three times very perfunctorily.

However, after these three bows, she couldn't help but feel her heart move, as if she faintly felt that something was trembling in this rock, which aroused her heartstrings.

This situation made her frown and look at the huge stone carefully, but she didn't have any perspective eyes, no matter how she looked, she could only see the lines indicated by the stone, but could not see the internal movement.

At this time, Song Wencheng, Lin Yuqin and Song Chenqing had already finished worshipping, got up and were about to leave, but they saw that the little sister was still kneeling there, and she didn't even insert the incense, so she looked at Lingyan blankly, Song Chenqing went over and patted the little sister on the shoulder, and said, "Little sister, we should go!" ”

"Huh? Oh! After coming back to her senses, Song Jianqiu got up, inserted the incense that was about to burn into the incense burner, and then followed Song Chenqing, who naturally took her hand, and walked out.

On the way back, it was faster than when I came up, after all, the stairs were getting wider and faster, and naturally it was not difficult to go up.

A few minutes later, the family went down to the open space at the entrance, and saw that it was almost noon, so Song's father proposed to simply eat in the temple, anyway, it is not very good to come often, and it is still very good to eat once in a while.

Song Ma has no opinion on this proposal, and Song Chenqing and Song Jianqiu naturally have no opinion.

The family agreed and were about to leave the place and go to the temple when they suddenly saw a monk in his thirties come up and stop him.

"This master, is there something wrong?" Several people were a little strange, and Song Wencheng asked.

"The donor is polite!" The monk folded his hands, bowed to Song Wencheng, smiled kindly, and said, "I'm here to find this benefactor!" As he spoke, his gaze fell on Song Jianqiu.