Chapter 68: Entering Shaolin for the first time
Xiao Hanwei screamed, a little on tiptoe, his figure floated up, and he shouted: "Brother Duan, help." "www.biquge.info Duan Xiliu had already pounced, flipped his palms, and walked around Xiao Han, blocking him in front of him. Looking at the jade-faced doll in a pink brocade robe opposite, Duan Xiliu smiled bitterly and said, "Miss Meng, this is at the foot of Shaolin, aren't you afraid of getting into trouble?"
Xiao Han dodged a move, and he had already seen that it was Meng Wanxi, just now she sneaked up on herself, and she naturally used it as a fierce and strong "Flying Flower Ghost Claw", but what she didn't expect was that this little girl's kung fu was so fierce that she could catch the mountain and stone into debris.
Meng Wanxi's move failed, she was annoyed and angry, her jade face was frosty, and she looked at Xiao Han who was hiding behind Duan Xiliu and said angrily: "Scoundrel." Xiao Han said angrily: "Who is a scoundrel, is it not a scoundrel if I stretch out my head for you to arrest?" He is rude, lacks a family education, and is careful not to marry. With the support of Duan Xiliu, he knew that he was safe, and he was frequently vented with a poisonous tongue.
Meng Wanxi was so angry that her jade face turned red, and she suddenly pulled out her sword and was about to pounce. The camel that followed behind him suddenly stopped and said: "I will arrive at the Shaolin Mountain Gate soon, the girl is angry, and she will talk about it later." Another lame man followed, "Fight, be careful of hurting the people." A pockmarked face also followed: "If you want to learn from her, you can also go up the mountain." A gloomy-faced man said in a sharp voice, "Girl, it's important to hurry." ”
The four of them objected together, Meng Wanxi snorted dissatisfiedly, slowly withdrew the sword, glared at Xiao Han angrily, and said, "This matter is not over." Xiao Han sneered: "You are so rude, you have someone to clean you up." He wanted to say more, Duan Xiliu pulled his sleeve and said softly: "Don't say it, do you know who she is?"
Xiao Han didn't want to embarrass Duan Xiliu anymore, so he immediately stopped talking and ignored Meng Wanxi. Meng Wanxi was so angry that the three corpse gods jumped violently, staring at Xiao Han with both eyes for a minute before he stomped his feet hatefully and turned away. Xiao Han knew that she was looking at herself, pretending not to know, looking around carelessly, and when he saw her leaving, he asked Duan Xiliu, "Who is she?" You won't tell me she's a princess, right?"
Duan Xiliu was stunned for a moment, then nodded lightly and said, "You're right, she's really a princess." Xiao Han's mouth opened wide in shock, and he said dumbly: "Are you kidding?" Duan Xiliu shook his head and said, "No joke." Then he lowered his voice and said: "She is the sister of Emperor Meng Chang of Dashu, do you say she is a princess?"
Xiao Han's face changed, and he jumped up and said, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Duan Xiliu smiled bitterly: "You didn't ask me again." Xiao Han said dejectedly: "How can this be?" Then he jumped up and said: "Since they are both princesses, and the two are still familiar with each other, why do you want to hold me and let go?" Duan Xiliu shook his head and said, "I don't know either." ”
Zhao Chengzong saw that Xiao Han's matter was over, and walked over and said with a smile: "The two heroes really have a wide range of friends, and even there are acquaintances on Shaomu Mountain. Then he smiled and said: "That girl looks like a pink carving, I didn't expect that she could also do martial arts." Xiao Han crooked his mouth and said: "That little lady is kind and evil, you have to be careful, don't fall for others." Zhao Chengzong's face turned red, and he sneered: "Let's talk about it casually, the two brothers made fun of it." ”
The three of them have already sequenced their teeth along the way, naturally Xiao Han is the oldest, his real age is twenty-four years old, but he has always claimed that he is twenty years old, which is naturally because Li Yueying is only eighteen years old, and he can't be much older than her. Duan Xiliu was second, and Zhao Chengzong was only seventeen years old, so he was naturally the youngest, so he called the two "elder brothers".
The three of them fought for a while, and when they saw that the crisis was resolved, the young man's heart quickly forgot the unhappiness just now. The three of them laughed and walked out of the pavilion and walked along the mountain road. After walking two or three miles, you can see the mountain gate of Shaolin Temple in the distance. At this time, there were thousands of good men and women who went up the mountain, and the Shaolin Temple had sent monks on the mountain road to maintain order.
It was the first time for Xiao Han to come to Shaolin Temple in this time and space, and he couldn't help but look left and right, and look up and down. It's just that there are too many people here, and the scenic spot of later generations has to fight, Xiao Han only sees a huge mountain gate, there is a stone lion on each side, the eight-character wall of the mountain gate has two stone workshops on the east and west sides of the symmetry, the banner outside the east stone square is inscribed with the four characters of "ancestral source truth", and the inner banner is inscribed "Batuo creates"; the banner in the west stone square is inscribed "Mahayana resort", and the outer banner master "Songshao Zen Forest". The main entrance of the mountain gate is a three-room-wide, single-eaves hilltop building, sitting on a two-meter-high brick platform, with hard gable-style side doors and figure-eight walls on the left and right.
At this time, there were twenty or thirty gray-clothed monks outside the mountain gate to greet the guests on both sides, watching the endless flow of people entering the temple, and those monks smiled one by one. Xiao Han said in his heart, ahh
The flow of people blocked in front of the mountain gate, slowly squirming forward, but few people spoke, and it seemed very orderly. Xiao Han turned his head to take a look and found that there were many martial arts people with swords and swords. In the past, I heard that the martial arts people of the Wudang faction Shaolin faction wanted to enter, and the first thing was to untie the sword and hand it over to others for safekeeping, so it seems that the Wudang faction also has a pool called "Jie Jian Pool". But now he saw those people actually entering the mountain gate in front of the Shaolin monks, and those monks didn't look surprised at all. Looking at Duan Xiliu's calm face again, he knew that what he had seen before was a deceptive thing. The Shaolin Temple martial arts are authentic, and they don't care about those people coming to provoke them, they have enough self-confidence.
There were too many people, Xiao Han and Duan Xiliu and Zhao Chengzong held hands so as not to be crowded. Zhao Chengzong's men had already brought three horses down the mountain, and two others followed them. The three of them entered the mountain gate and saw a statue of Maitreya Buddha offered in the Buddha shrine, with a big belly and a smile, and was called "the Buddha with a big belly" and "the Buddha who is all happy" by the people of the world. Behind the shrine there is a wooden statue of Wei Tuo, Wei Tuo King Kong is angry, holding the demon pestle, is the god of the Shaolin Temple.
Xiao Han looked at everything in front of him with novelty, and it was Duan Xiliu who urged him to slowly walk in with the flow of people. After the mountain gate, it is the Yongdao, and on both sides of the Yongdao is the stele forest under the shade of the pine and cypress. After passing through the stele forest through Yongdao is the Tianwang Palace, which is located at the end of the stele forest, and is named after the four heavenly kings who symbolize "wind, tune, rain and shun". The hall has red walls and green tiles, the bucket arch is painted, and there is a statue of King Kong on the left and right in front of the partition screen in the door. Three heavy eaves rest the temple on the top of the mountain, there are two big King Kong outside, and the inside is the statue of the four heavenly kings, which is majestic and majestic.
Walk through the Hall of the Heavenly King, and then there is the Hall of the Great Hero. The Daxiong Hall is the center of the temple's Buddhist activities, and is called the three major Buddha halls together with the Tianwang Hall and the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion. The hall is dedicated to the statues of Sakyamuni, Medicine Buddha, Amitabha Buddha, the statue of Guanyin is hung behind the screen wall, and there are eighteen Arhats standing on both sides.
Further back is the Dharma Hall, located behind the Daxiong Treasure Hall, is the place where the monks Tibetan scriptures speak the law, until the Ming Dynasty changed its name to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion. To the southeast of the hall is the meditation room, where the monks meditate, and to the west of the hall opposite, which is responsible for receiving guests.
On the west side of the Daxiong Hall is the Hall of the Six Ancestors. The front of the hall is enshrined in the general trend to the Bodhisattva, Manjushri Bodhisattva, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Fuxian Bodhisattva, Jizo Bodhisattva, the two sides are enshrined in the first ancestor of Zen Buddhism, the second ancestor Huike, the third ancestor Monk Can, the fourth ancestor Daoxin, the fifth ancestor Hongren, the sixth ancestor Huineng, known as the six ancestors worship Guanyin. The west wall of the Six Ancestors Hall is a large colored sculpture "Bodhidharma only walks on the map of returning to the west".
The bell tower and the drum tower are located on both sides of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, the east is the bell tower, the west is the drum tower, both buildings have four floors, the shape is ingenious, majestic and majestic. The "morning bell and dusk drum" is a signal for the monks to live and carry out Buddhist activities. The stele in front of the bell tower is engraved as "Emperor Songyue Shaolin Temple Stele", commonly known as "Li Shimin Stele", engraved in the 16th year of Tang Xuanzong. On the front is Li Shimin's teaching to the Shaolin Temple temple master and others, commending the Shaolin Temple monk to help Tang Pingding Wang Shichong's military exploits, the fifth line from the right has Li Shimin's initialled "Shimin" two words, the inscription "Emperor Taizong Wen Emperor's Imperial Book" seven big characters are Tang Xuanzong Li Longji imperial book. The back is engraved with Li Shimin's "Monument to the Imperial Book of Baiguzhuang of Shaolin Temple", which describes the story of the thirteen stick monks saving the King of Qin.
Further back is the Thousand Buddha Palace, the Thousand Buddha Hall is also known as the Pilu Palace, it is the last hall in the temple. The back of the hall and the east and west walls are painted with colorful murals, the most famous ones are "Thirteen Stick Monks Save the Tang King", "Five Hundred Arhats Pilutu", the colors are gorgeous, the composition is harmonious, the clothes are fluttering, showing the high level of murals in the Tang Dynasty. There are bronze statues of Pilu Buddha and white jade Shakyamuni statues in the hall, the area reaches several hundred square meters, it is the largest existing temple in the temple. In addition, there is a white-clothed hall on the east side of the Thousand Buddha Temple, and a Jizo hall on the west side.
The abbot's room is the place where the abbot of the temple lives and the council. Sitting north to south, facing three rooms, out of the front porch, for the hard mountain style building. The east and west sides of the abbot's courtyard are the east and west wings of the abbot's courtyard, each of which is a hard mountain style porch building with five rooms, which is the place where the resident deacon monks live and deal with Buddhist activities.
Tallinn is located at the foot of a hill about 300 meters west of Shaolin Temple, covering an area of about 20,000 square meters, and is the burial place of Shaolin monks of all dynasties. Because there are many kinds of towers, the size is uneven, the height is different, the thickness is different, the form is diverse, the arrangement is scattered, it seems to be a lush forest, so it is called Tallinn.
There is a natural stone cave in the upper part of the middle peak of the five milk peaks behind the Shaolin Temple, which is the face of the wall in the ninth year of the Bodhidharma Patriarch, called the Bodhidharma Cave. Bodhidharma, the first patriarch of Zen Buddhism, meditated on the wall of this cave for nine years from 527 to 536 AD. The Dharma Cave faces southwest, the entrance of the cave is built with bluestone blocks to form an arch, the depth of the hole is about seven meters, and the height and width are more than three meters each. There are three stone statues on the platform in the cave, the middle is the sitting statue of Bodhidharma, and the two sides are its disciples.
The three of them played all the way, and saw that there were Shaolin disciples guarding each hall, and most of the front halls were gray-clothed monks, and when they arrived at the Daxiong Treasure Hall, they were all replaced by yellow-clothed monks, and they were much older than the monks in the front hall, all of whom were middle-aged monks around forty years old. Xiao Han took a closer look, and saw that these people's temples were bulging high, and their eyes were shining, obviously their martial arts were extraordinary.
The three of them were caught in the flow of people and toured the Shaolin Temple, Xiao Han looked at the antique hall and the Shaolin disciples, and was amazed. Because Xiao didn't show the invitation, naturally no one came to take care of them, so they played all the way unimpeded. When those Shaolin monks saw the martial arts people with swords and swords, they just glanced at them from time to time, but they didn't show any nervousness.
Xiao Han took a closer look and found that there were no people in the rivers and lakes he knew, so he made up his mind that Meng Wanxi had a noble status and was welcomed into the VIP room. It was Duan Xiliu, and every moment he walked, someone stepped forward to say hello. Most of them were young men of the same age as them, wearing all kinds of tight-fitting clothes, carrying all kinds of weapons, all of them were fierce and fierce, and after bowing to Duan Xiliu, they chatted for a while. At this time, Xiao Han can only stand on the side with Zhao Chengzong and chat, watching the flow of people is also interesting.
It was nearly noon, and the Shaolin Temple sent hundreds of thirteen or fourteen-year-old novices back and forth among the tourists, informing them that there was a free meal in the backyard. The tourists were tired of playing, and they followed the little novice to eat in groups. Xiao Han was also a little tired, and when he saw that Duan Xiliu had finished talking to someone, he pulled him up and wanted to follow Xiao Shami back with Zhao Chengzong.
Zhao Chengzong smiled bitterly and said: "That kind of big pot rice tastes insignificant, if Brother Xiao doesn't mind, you can come with me to ensure that you eat authentic Shaolin vegetarian food." Xiao Han knew that he didn't want to join in the fun, and his father had an old relationship with Master Xingkong, so he would naturally be entertained differently, if he hadn't played with him, Zhao Chengzong would have gone to see Master Xingkong a long time ago.
Duan Xiliu also said when he heard this: "Most of the Shaolin hospitality is in the meditation hall, although it is still early on the second day of February, but looking at today's situation, there will be a lot of people by then, it is better to go there to see, I don't know if the senior brother is here." Saying this, Xiao Handeng nodded and said, "Okay, listen to you." The three of them walked through the flow of people and walked back to the meditation hall along the way they came, because most of the tourists went to the backyard to eat, and the flow of people between the halls was thinning, and the three of them came to the meditation hall and explained their intentions to the two monks who were guarding. One of the monks in a yellow shirt glanced at them and said, "The Tianshan Sect has always been personally received by the abbot master, and he does not stay here, so please ask the three of you to go to the abbot's room to inquire." ”
The three of them thanked the monk and walked back to the abbot's room, where there were four yellow-shirted monks guarding and guarding the door, and they heard the intention of the three of them. One of the old monks in his fifties proclaimed the Buddha's slogan: "The three donors asked to see the abbot, and they should agree, but the abbot has important matters to deal with and is discussing with the stewards, so the three donors should come again tomorrow." ”
Zhao Chengzong said politely: "There are so many disturbances, I will come to visit the abbot master tomorrow." Duan Xiliu traveled all the way, but he didn't see a single person from the Tianshan faction, thinking that it was because it was still early, and they hadn't arrived yet. Xiao Han wondered why there were so many people in Shaolin Temple now, although there were many people in the rivers and lakes along the way, they didn't see anything special. Hearing that Master Xingkong, the abbot of Shaolin, had something important to deal with, Xiao Han immediately thought of Li Yueying, and couldn't help but blurt out, "Has the master ever seen a young girl come with two Taoist masters?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the wind behind his head, and a slender jade hand grabbed the top of his head with a cold light.