Liu Kang smiled and said: "Speaking of what Mayor Xu might not want to hear, I think our villages are disappearing as a result of the short-sightedness of you officials. Both cities and villages are the living environment of human beings. It is not only high-rise buildings that represent advanced. Only when it is combined with natural ecology and people's lives are integrated with nature, is the best for mankind."
Xu Zheng smiled and nodded, and said: "This is true, but now there is a lot of work everywhere, no one pays attention to this."
Liu Kang said: "Well, the construction of a thousand cities in the country is now piling up concrete forests. If we don't review it again, I think we will taste bad results sooner or later."
Xu Zheng’s trip was to investigate urban architecture, so he focused on the landmarks of the city. Basically, he saw the city halls of several cities in Germany. These city halls are not luxurious, but they are basically all It can represent the different architectural styles of various cities. Munich’s city hall is old and gloomy. Stuttgart’s city hall square is very cute, with a fountain as the center, surrounded by bear statues from various countries, which is very fun. The Frankfurt City Hall has a unique Russian flavor. The Big Red Building and the statue of the Goddess of Justice stand on the square, which is very philosophical.
After arriving in the Netherlands, after seeing windmills, wooden shoes, and tulips, the delegation did not go to the red light of Amsterdam, the sex capital, and had a dispute. The final result of the discussion was to take a look outside and see the city buildings. Not going to nightclubs and the like will satisfy people's curiosity on the one hand, and on the other hand it will also be connected with the content of their investigations.
The red light district is near the downtown square, which is only a five-minute walk away. On the road from the square to the red light district, there are more blacks and more people. If there are no blacks and advertisements, this can be regarded as a beautiful canal, with typical Dutch houses on both sides. When Xu Zheng and his party went there, it was around nine o'clock in the evening, which was not the busiest time in the red light district, but it was also prosperous.
There is a shop window outside each residential building. The shop window is divided into several floors, and the upper and lower floors are full of underwear girls. The underwear girls either have their legs upright, their arms pushed up on the glass, and their waists are constantly twisting; or sitting sideways on a chair, smoking a cigarette, winking, teasing passersby. Most of them are European girls, but occasionally I can see an Asian face. The girls wore all kinds of sexy underwear, which made people stunned. Although Xu Zheng and his party are very greedy and admire all kinds of underwear girls in the window, they are used to being moral gentlemen and don't dare to stay too much. They can only pass by after a few glances.
Liu Kang followed Xu Zheng and said with a smile: "Don't look at these women who look glamorous at first. In fact, the skin is not shiny, and there are a lot of folds on the belly. They are inferior."
Xu Zheng smiled and didn't comment. In fact, even though he was inferior, what he saw was already bloody. The foreign girl gave him a different temptation, and made him feel a sense of swelling.
Police cars pass by from time to time in the red light district, but the police do not care about women who have missed their feet, but only take care of their clients. The facial expressions of the women who stumbled were very calm, and it seemed that the teasing they were doing was taken for granted. This was nothing but an upright job for them.
Paris is far from being as good as it is supposed to be. Xu Zheng and the others passed through the old town. There are many races, including Latins, Asians, Europeans, and Africans. From time to time, there are Middle Eastern women wearing black robes. The ground is full of rubbish, waste paper and cigarette butts are everywhere, the buildings are particularly broken, and the pollution in the city is also very serious, which made Xu Zheng and others think that Paris is really difficult under its reputation.
But it's fine to enter the city center. There are various distinctive buildings everywhere. The streets are radial around the Arc de Triomphe, and the Seine River runs through the entire city. After seeing the Eiffel Tower, seeing the magnificent and flavorful, typical Gothic architecture of Notre Dame de Paris, a group of people rushed into the Galeries Lafayette department store to go shopping.
The Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris was born in 1893. It has almost all the fashion brands in the world, and it is the vane of fashion in the flower capital of Paris. It occupies No. 40 on Avenue Haussmann, next to the Paris Opera. Its decoration is like a palace. Under the Byzantine-style giant carved gold dome, the crowds come and go, making people feel like going to a medieval party, and shopping is truly a pleasure.
Xu Zheng might have been instructed by his family and relatives to come here for shopping with this delegation. Everyone took out a shopping list and ran towards what they wanted with the list. Liu Kang followed Xu Zheng to accompany Xu Zheng to shop, and he himself didn’t want to go shopping. Although the things here are all famous brands, they are not very attractive to him. He came here only for Xu Zheng’s purpose. Is paying.
"Beijing is such a good place. There are so many places of interest and historical sites." Jinda sighed.
Fu Hua smiled and said, "Yes, this is the imperial city. It was the capital in the heyday of ancient China. No matter how bad it is, it would be wrong."
Because it was the weekend again, Jinda wanted to see the Lama Temple by name, and Fu Hua accompanied him. Although Fu Hua had been here with Zheng Lao, he didn't come to visit at that time, so he didn't see many places.
Jinda pointed to the stone pond on the oval white marble seat, and there was a 1.5-meter-high bronze Mount Xumi, and asked with a smile, Fu Hua, did you know that Mount Xumi is the center of the world in Buddhism. The moon revolves around Mount Xumi, and the heavens of the Three Realms are also built on top of Mount Xumi. There is Gandhara Mountain on the side of Xumi Mountain, and the Aral Sea surrounded by Tiewei Mountain outside the mountain. There are four continents around the Aral Sea: Dongsheng Shenzhou, Nanfuzhou, Xiniuhezhou and Beijuluzhou.
Fu Hua smiled and said, "Isn't Sun Wukong the one who came from Dongsheng Shenzhou proudly?"
Jinda smiled and nodded, and said, "Yes. These ancient people are also really interesting. They always think that they are the center of the world, just like China is a country in the center."
Fu Hua smiled and said: "This is the limitation of understanding. The ancient people's understanding of the world is often blind and touch the elephant, only knowing a part, but unable to see the overall situation. I remember reading a piece of information, which is what we call the world in history. Lin Zexu, the first person, thought that foreigners’ knees are straight and cannot be bent."
Jinda said: "The Chinese were stupid at that time, and Lin Zexu is already very discerning."
While they were talking, they walked into the main hall of Lama Temple, where three bronze statues of two meters high were enshrined. Jinda said with a smile: "Buddhism is actually very interesting. These three Buddhas have spent all their time and burned the lamp. The Buddha is the past Buddha, Sakyamuni is the present Buddha, and Maitreya is the future Buddha. It is said that Sakyamuni bought five lotus flowers in his previous life to dedicate the lamp to the Buddha, and the lamp prophesied that Sakyamuni would be born after ninety-one calamities. Buddha."
Fu Hua smiled and said, "This Maitreya is in the West and represents the future. Does it mean that one day we need the Western world to save?"
Jinda smiled and said: "Coincidentally, it is strictly speaking that the Western Heaven in the Buddhist scriptures is in India, not the Western world as we are talking about."
The two of them walked and watched, and after a while they walked to the East Chamber of Wanfu Pavilion and saw the six reincarnation pictures. Buddhism advocates the equality of all living beings and believes that people from generation to generation are in a constant wheel-like whirlpool and have equal opportunities. After a person dies, there are six ways out in the next life: either as a god, or as a human, or as an asura, or as a beast, or as a hungry ghost, or as hell. The "Chang Aghan Sutra" says: "The destiny of a person in the next life depends mainly on the performance of the present world. For example, if you accumulate good virtues, the lower caste can become the upper caste in the next life; if it is bad, the upper caste will also become the inferior Caste, even into hell, all this is what Buddhism calls reincarnation."
The Six Paths of Reincarnation pictured a huge monster with long claws and three eyes, shaped like a black bear, sitting on the ground, hugging a circle shaped like a big wheel. All around the circle are painted with various characters and evil deeds such as burning, killing, trespassing, deceiving, robbery, stealing, eating, drinking, prostitution, gambling, etc. Several air streams divide the round wheel into six lanes. In the first road, the five-colored clouds in the middle palace are towering, like a fairyland, called the heaven; the second road is in the city society, the common people, and humane; the third road is full of smoke, water, fire, drought, and waterlogging, which is called the Ashura road; The male and female ghosts in the Dao, with smoke in their mouths, skinny as firewood, are being severely tortured, they are called the Hungry Ghost Road; the fifth path is pigs, dogs, cattle, horses, fish and insects, and they are called the Animal Path; the sixth path is the knife mountain ice valley, the fiery sea purgatory, and the ghosts are suffering. Called hell road.
Jinda looked at the six reincarnation diagrams and said with a smile: "Fu Hua, do you believe there are really six reincarnations?"
Fu Hua smiled and said: "I don't believe this too much. I think it is probably made up by the Buddhists to persuade kindness. It gives people the impression that they will be punished for doing evil and that they will be praised for doing good. No evil is done, all good will follow."
Jinda said: "Yes, I also don't think this six realms of reincarnation is credible. Many people have done bad things and have not been punished. Instead, those who do good deeds are being punished."
Fu Hua laughed and said: "This is normal. The ancients have this kind of confusion, otherwise there will be no good people who don’t live long and harm for a thousand years. In fact, this kind of reincarnation scares all kindness. People, only kind-hearted people will believe this and live in the fear of this six realms of reincarnation."
Jinda shook his head and said, "I don't think so. Sometimes people who have done bad things are more fearful and come to pray to God and worship Buddha. But after all, how many people in this world have never done bad things? You? Can you say that you haven't done anything bad?"
Fu Hua laughed and said, "I dare not say this. Who in this world dares to say that he has never done anything bad? Isn't there such a story in the Bible..."