Beijing, Jishuitan. Since the chaos in the late Ming Dynasty, the prosperity here has been gone forever. The center of gravity of Beijing has gradually moved to the south. Jishuitan, which was originally the rich and prosperous place of Beijing in the past, has obviously been abandoned.
It’s just that although it is said to be abandoned, in fact it is mainly because the high-end commercial centers and wealthy homes have been moved away. It is true that many large courtyards and alley courtyards have popped up in the original place. However, due to the changes during the war period, the original
The expansion of the area of Jishuitan has made the population density here not high. And there is a young ancient temple next to Jishuitan - the reason why it is said to be young is because this temple called Chifeng Zhenguo Temple was built during the Hongguang period of the Yongli Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty.
Compared with other temples in Beijing from the Yuan Dynasty and even the early Ming Dynasty, it is much younger. The location of this temple is quite good, right next to Jishui Pond. The garden in the temple includes part of the pond, borrowing the scenery.
It looks like a garden in Suzhou, and it has been one of the scenic spots in Beijing since it was built.
The incense in Zhenguo Temple is unexpectedly not as good as that of other temples. For some reason, many foreign tourists come to visit on weekdays. Locals only come to visit during spring outings, and there are not many merit boxes in the temple.
, unlike other temples where you can’t wait to get a merit box every step of the way. There are not many monks in the temple, that is, a dozen old monks, and there are no money-making projects such as vegetarian food - this is not so much a temple, but
It is more like a garden. The area of this temple is not large, and the style is quite weird. The three main halls are compressed in a very close distance, and the garden in the backyard occupies the main area. Historians in Beijing also
I once verified, "The reason for this is because this temple was originally someone else's home temple. It was built in the back garden of the home..."
But even most of the old monks don't know that. In their temple, behind the three main halls, there is a wall where the monks live, which completely surrounds the area. There are two doors on the wall. Although this door
The paint is peeling off, but it can still be seen from the lintel and door panels that it was quite grand back then - but these two doors are locked with iron chains and big iron locks all year round. The old monks only know that they have been there since their master's lifetime.
He said not to open the door here, but to open it every year during Qingming Festival and Winter Solstice to clean it. You must come out before dark, and you must not stay in there overnight.
There are only three old monks in charge of all this. The other monks don't care and don't know about this situation - maybe they really heard the Buddha's hidden warning during practice... Occasionally, some monks ask about the three of them.
Every time I went in to clean something, the three people didn't answer anything they saw. Sometimes they just said it was the Demon Palace.
The area in the backyard is separated by a wall from where residents live, including alleys, courtyards, and courtyards. The alley next to this wall is called Panda Alley. On weekdays, there are people coming and going, but there are almost no people.
When I think about what is inside, I basically think it is just the backyard of the Zhenguo Temple in front of me. When the Four Olds were being broken, some boys once entered that temple to make revolution, but the Buddha statues in the Zhenguo Temple were all clay sculptures. And
It's not an elegant clay sculpture art. If it's smashed, it's broken. Some people also found the two doors. After breaking the iron lock, they went in. I don't know the details behind it. I only know that the guy who went in followed.
No one survived the great battle between the revolutionaries. The monks locked the two doors again, and the story sank directly to the bottom of the water... The only thing that is certain is that there are no rats in the Zhenguo Temple, not even a single one.
No…….
There is no fallen leaf in the main hall. It is said to be a main hall, but in fact it is not big. The height inside is only five meters and the area is only 120 square meters. There is a huge statue with a kind of shape on the platform at the back of the main hall.
Sitting on the huge chair in a quite relaxed posture. The bronze statue suddenly moved, the huge figure made a clicking sound, and then the bronze faded to reveal the skin color of a normal person. "Huh, this one can sleep well.
Not bad..." Following Bo Fu's voice, a thick black mist suddenly appeared in the small square in front of the empty hall. The black mist seemed to be swimming with life, and from time to time it showed images of people and horses.
In the two identical halls in front and the houses on both sides, the equally huge, ferocious and lifelike statues did not change and move like Bo Fu, and the black mist did not rise above the walls. People outside could not see it at all.
I don't know what happened inside - if there are helicopters in the sky or even if there are high-rise buildings nearby, theoretically you should be able to see this strange black mist... Unfortunately, there are indeed planes flying in the sky, and there are also planes flying around Jishuitan.
There are indeed high-rise buildings, but there is nothing unusual about the scenery.
Bo Fu, who stood up from the main hall, thought for a moment and knew that more than three hundred years had passed, and the Great Ming Dynasty outside had disappeared - "It's just much better than the late Manchu Qing Dynasty... Even in the period of great melee, it's still the same
It is a powerful country in East Asia, just like Ottoman Turkey... And it was the same group of people who reunified China, and it is still the same doctrine... This history is interesting. It's just that the Ming Emperor didn't even if his country was about to be destroyed.
Summoning us requires us to re-evaluate their integrity." In fact, this is not the case...
Bo Fu walked a few steps in the square. The originally surging black fog disappeared in an instant, and the sunlight fell on this place again. He felt the changes in plot points and deviations in the rules of this world, and Bo Fu laughed a few times.
After that, he returned to the hall and sat down again. Soon, the color of bronze covered his body again - only this time his posture changed.
It happened that the next day was the Qingming Festival, and three old monks came in to clean up. The monks in the outer courtyard saw these three monks crawling out, then locked the door tightly, and then fell directly to the ground...
...The monks quickly called an ambulance, but the three monks were pronounced dead after being sent to the hospital. From that day on, the abbot of Zhenguo Temple announced that the two gates would be locked forever, and at the same time, a wall was built to cover the door -
- All this happened after the abbot went in to check it out in person... Anyway, the abbot had been reciting Ksitigarbha's Original Vow Sutra since he left the house. The monks asked him what was going on but said nothing.
In Shennongjia, Chen Jialuo and Yang Shuo climbed into the cave on the mountain wall. After Chen Jialuo entered the cave, the first thing he noticed was that the bluestone slab under his feet was the same as the depressions carved on the cave walls on both sides.
Stone carvings were placed one by one. "I didn't expect the Shinto to be here! I really don't know how the King of Han came up with it." It turned out that the Shinto tomb was on the mountain wall. This has never been passed down in the ancient tomb robbing books of Chen Jialuo's family.
I have seen the same record in. (To be continued...)