Xie Lingya spent two days to count the things in Baoyang Temple, and found a plaque in the utility room. This is the original brand of Baoyang Temple, which must have a history of hundreds of years.
When Jingui Pedestrian Street was renovated before, the facade of the entire street was unified. Baoyang Temple was actually located outside the gate of the pedestrian street, but it was probably because it was next to each other, so it was changed together for the sake of neatness. Anyway, the outer wall was always overturned. turned.
Besides, the entire Baoyang Temple, with a total area of less than one mu, is a miniature, miniature Taoist temple. The whole is a small building of brick and wood structure, with a circle of bamboo planted against the wall in the front yard, and an old water well in the shape of gossip in the corner.
Then there is the main hall, Sanqing Hall, which is also the largest building in the entire Baoyang Temple. It is dedicated to Sanqing, with the Jade Emperor on the back, and Taiyi Tianzun in the east and west rooms.
After passing the Sanqing Hall and entering the backyard, in a circle of buildings, except for the two side halls of Lingguan Hall and Wenchang Hall, they are all used for living such as residence and kitchen. Such living houses have been renovated with cement.
A small plot of land was set up in the courtyard, where some vegetables and fruits were originally grown, but now it has been abandoned. There are also inscriptions left in the old days, which are also hundreds of years old.
The Taoist temple as a whole is a very typical Taoist temple architectural style. It sits in the north and faces the south, with a symmetrical layout.
According to the records of predecessors, the Taoist temple was built in the Ming Dynasty, was destroyed and rebuilt in the late Qing Dynasty.
Xie Lingya still remembered what his uncle told him when he was a child. When the Baoyang Temple was the largest, there were several entrances along the central axis. The main hall was originally dedicated to the Lingguan statue, the Sanqing statue was in the apse, and there were several side halls. Later, it was destroyed over the years, and only one main hall and two side halls remained. The statue of Sanqing was moved to the main hall, and the statue of Lingguan was placed in the side hall.
Xie Lingya took pictures one by one and went to the Municipal Cultural Bureau. His uncle was very unconcerned about these things. He thought that the temple was a bit old, so he went to find out.
After a question, Xie Lingya knew that Baoyang Temple had been registered.
In the past two years, the city has begun to pay more attention to the protection of cultural relics and historical sites. Some people from the Cultural Bureau visited Baoyang Temple for inspection and appraisal, but the only Taoist priest Wang Yuji was sometimes unknown, so he was only registered.
As soon as Xie Lingya showed up, they also said that they would issue nameplates to Baoyang Temple, which were made uniformly, including the city's historic sites and cultural relics. Xie Lingya accepted it happily, and shamelessly asked if there was any protection fund to apply for.
Unfortunately, some people have special funds, but the amount is limited. Baoyangguan is neither the oldest nor the worst. I don't know when it will be my turn.
The reception staff saw that Xie Lingya was good-looking and always had a smile on his face, so he felt good about it, so he told him that the bureau was compiling a book about local places of interest, historical sites, cultural relics and legends. send them.
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Xie Lingya became interested, and when he went back, he started flipping through the notes.
Not only does it cost money to repair the Taoist temple, it is also difficult for an empty Taoist temple to recruit disciples, and it will fall into a vicious circle. He has to recruit some tourists and pilgrims first. It may be difficult in the early stage, but it is necessary.
Wang Yuji never thought of commercializing Taoism, or he didn't know it at all. Xie Lingya thought, let's start by perfecting the legends and stories of Taoist temples.
People before Baoyang Temple had a lot of content, and there were footnotes added from generation to generation. At most, one page of notes had more than half a page of comments. The story materials Xie Lingya wanted to find were scattered in his notes. He flipped through several books and saw his previous graffiti.
Xie Lingya didn't like to study before, but he was thinking about peeking at Wang Yuji's notes.
The art of looking at people is indeed a bit miraculous. In the past, Xie Lingya didn't know how the so-called people who had the ability to penetrate the stars did not know. Anyway, when he didn't learn the art before, he didn't say "sixteen steps of kung fu to become an immortal" so exaggerated, but his understanding was really special. quick.
The contents of the pages he turned over are still fresh in his memory.
After searching for a long time, Xie Lingya finally found some usable materials.
There are many ways to name Taoist temples. The names of gods, legends, place names, and Taoist cultural terms can all be used as temple names. Xie Lingya always thought that the name of Baoyang Temple was taken from "holding yin and holding yang".
In the end, I found out that Baoyang Temple was originally called "Holding Sheep Temple", because there used to be a lot of sheep in the temple, but somehow it gradually became "Baoyang Temple".
"This is too outrageous." Xie Lingya sweated and simply omitted this part. With a swipe of his pen, he exaggerated and fabricated a legend about holding Yangguan according to some of the contents of his predecessors' notes. Various gods descended to earth and fairies fought.
After writing, Xie Lingya is still a little unfinished. It's not that he is exaggerated. When he was in the Cultural Bureau, he read other materials compiled by others. Good guy, all of them are connected with Nuwa and Huangdi at the farthest, and Qianlong is also involved in the simplest.
In Taoist temples, the highest deity, Sanqing, is bound to be worshipped. In addition, there is usually a god who is mainly worshipped. This depends on the beliefs of the local people or Taoist priests. For example, some Taoist temples are dedicated to Emperor Zhenwu, some are dedicated to Lu Dongbin, and there are God of Wealth, Wenquxing and so on.
The main deity enshrined in Baoyangguan is Wang Lingguan, that is, the deity of the deity in the Lingguan Hall in the side hall.
Wang Lingguan is a Taoist guardian of the mountain, and he specializes in guarding the Taoist mountain gate. Therefore, basically the first hall of the Taoist temple, there will be a spirit official statue in the mountain gate hall, which guards and protects the mountain gate.
Xie Lingya roughly made up a story about Wang Lingguan's apparition, helping a certain Guanzhu in Baoyangguan to subdue demons and subdue demons and save the people of Diyang. He sent this rough story to the people in the Cultural Bureau, and the other party sent a few thumbs up emojis. It is estimated that he also got the essence.
The environment of Baoyangguan is relatively quiet and simple, but it is not covered after all.
Behind Baoyangguan is a vegetable market, which starts business early in the morning, and the pedestrian street is full of people during the day. In the evening, the uncles and aunts all gathered in Liming Square, and there were several groups, and the music was loud.
Xie Lingya read books all day in such an environment, and the more he read, the more he felt that it would be surprising if there were believers in this environment...
He hasn't figured out how to get the funds yet. For the time being, he spends half of his time reading his professional books, and half of the time recording his predecessors' pens into an electronic version, which has improved his typing speed.
Because the sound of the square dance accompaniment was too loud at night, his Taoist temple was facing the square, so Xie Lingya read a book with headphones on. Xie Lingya fell asleep while watching it, woke up with a dry mouth, and didn't know what time it was. As soon as he took off his earphones, he heard a faint knock on the door.
Xie Lingya just woke up, and was stunned for a while. Then he realized that there was a corner door in the backyard leading to the vegetable market at the back. Hearing this sound, it seemed like the back door was knocked on.
Xie Lingya turned on the phone and glanced at the time. It was 2:10 in the middle of the night. Who would knock on the door at this point
The knock on the door was chaotic and urgent, and there were shops all around, and it was estimated that only Xie Lingya was disturbed. Xie Lingya has always been bolder and bigger, holding his mobile phone and putting on his slippers, he walked out, and also copied a rolling pin.
Tonight, there is a moon without stars, and the moonlight shines on the world quietly. Xie Lingya didn't even ask who was outside. He opened the back door halfway with one hand, and suddenly asked the person who knocked on the door, "What are you doing?"
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He Zun was almost lying on the door, his upper teeth and lower teeth were fighting, panic spread all over his body, he had knocked on the door for three minutes and still didn't respond, but the darkness behind him seemed to have substance...
He was almost desperate when the door suddenly opened.
crunch.
The moonlight poured down along the opening and closing, illuminating a very good-looking face. The complexion seemed to be as cold and white as the moonlight. The two lying silkworms under the clear eyes were originally a little cute, but they were slightly lower when He Tuan was lying on the door. Looking at it from the angle of view, it seems a bit cold.
He Zun was stunned for a while, then fell into the ecstasy of finally seeing a living person: "Please let me in, help!"
Xie Lingya raised his eyebrows.
He Zun wanted to squeeze in through the crack of the door, but Xie Lingya blocked it tightly. He said urgently, "Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. What, just let me go in and hide!"
Xie Lingya: "Buddha? You can see that this is a Taoist temple, right?"
He Zun: "..."
I really don't know... The top of the building can be seen from the outside at night, and he thought it was a temple at first.
He Zun was deeply afraid that the other party really kept him outside, and people might think he was hiding his debts, so he clawed at the door and shouted, "Please, please, please, please, there is a ghost, help!"
ghost? Xie Lingya paused when he closed the door, held the door and looked at him, and in this man's expectant eyes, he slowly raised his left hand—
The ring finger and the little finger are bent, the index finger and the thumb are respectively pinching the back and front of the first horizontal stripe of the middle finger, and the white and slender middle finger is stretched straight.
He Zun: "..."
He Zun fought a cold war, and then said indignantly: "Why are you like this? If you don't listen to it, don't believe it, you can't save it if you see death, and you're even pointing your middle finger at me!!"
Xie Lingya: "...?"
A scholar can be killed, but not humiliated.
He Zun turned around and left.
Xie Lingya called him from behind: "Hey, you better come in."
He Zun only took five steps to walk out. In fact, he regretted it when he reached the third step. It was so scary outside. Xie Lingya didn't say a complete sentence.
Xie Lingya, who wanted to explain: "..."
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Xie Lingya poured a cup of hot water to the stranger, he looked at it, the man looked young, probably only in his twenties, and asked, "What happened just now?"
In fact, He Zun felt much better just now. Now that he drank hot water, he was even more refreshed and told his own experience slowly.
He Zun is a sophomore student at Tuyang University. In the evening, he met with friends for dinner and singing K. After leaving, he felt really sleepy, and after drinking some wine, he wanted to open a room in a nearby hotel to rest.
He Zun wanted to take a shortcut and crossed a small road, but as he walked, he found that he could not reach his destination, and the surroundings were unbelievably quiet.
This is also a commercial area, even in the middle of the night, there will be no sound at all, and all the lights in the buildings are turned off, including the street lights, only a little strange moonlight remains, but it is even more terrifying.
The whole world suddenly had no direction, no sound, and no lights. He Zun's sense of drinking was all frightened, and he thought of three words at once, ghost hitting the wall.
Then, not only could he not get out, but it seemed that something was peeping in the dark, making him terrified.
When He Zun was very desperate, the Baoyang Temple and the lights of the Baoyang Temple appeared in his line of sight, just like the brightest star in the night sky.
Then Xie Lingya also knew what happened, and He Zun rushed to knock on the door. At that time, Xie Lingya was asleep and wearing headphones, so He Zun knocked for several minutes.
Seeing Xie Lingya's expression, He Zun didn't seem to disbelieve, and said hesitantly: "Well, in fact, when you compared your middle finger to me just now, I felt like I was covered with a layer of veil, and it disappeared all of a sudden, returning to the normal world. Feeling. That's because of your... middle finger?"
Xie Lingya: "...It's not what you think it means."
He Zun put his palms together and bowed to Xie Lingya, and said brokenly: "Thank you very much, I still misunderstood, I didn't expect you to save me with your middle finger! Did I bump into something strange? The first time I met, I heard People are fiercer than that thing, and sure enough, it is afraid of you! Thank you, I learned it!"
Xie Lingya was speechless, so he simply took He Zun to the Lingguan Hall next to him.
He Zun looked up and saw a statue of a god in the small side hall. The golden armor and red robe were old, but he had a majestic expression. He had three eyes on his forehead. The same gesture, with the middle finger held high.
He Zun took a deep breath: "...Are you Taoist gods so diao?"
Xie Lingya: "..."
Xie Lingya resisted the urge to roll his eyes, and said: "This is our ancestor of Baoyangguan, Taiyi Thunder God Yinghua Tianzun, Taoist Dharma Protector, Wang Lingguan. He knots Lingguan Jue in his hand, also known as Yushu Fire Finger, to exorcise evil spirits and subdue demons. . Descendants will form a spirit official formula, which can sense the ancestors and not be evil."
—Although it is very similar, it is not really comparing the middle finger! It's exorcism, exorcism! Really better than the middle finger? Diao will not be so incompetent!
As a Taoist temple dedicated to Wang Lingguan, this belongs to the basic knowledge of Baoyang Temple, which has been figured out in the notes of predecessors.
In general, hand moves also need to be combined with gang steps and incantations, and the Lingguan tactic is no exception, but it has been simplified by people who hold Yangguan from generation to generation.
He Zun felt even more awe-struck after hearing this. He said how the middle finger was so good. When Xie Lingya competed with him, he felt that the chill around him had been expelled.
Before tonight, he didn't say that he was a staunch atheist, but he never entered the monastery and Taoist temple. Today, it was a little subversive, and he immediately said respectfully and respectfully: "Then I will give my patriarch a pillar of incense to thank him!"
He Zun asked Xie Lingya after serving the incense: "Then tell me, have I been affected in any way? Are there any sequelae? Why did I encounter it, and what should I pay attention to? This must be the legendary ghost hitting the wall, right? ?"
Xie Lingya said, "I don't know."
He Zun: "??"
In He Zun's heart, Xie Lingya, who saved him in a critical moment, seemed to be an expert figure, and this sentence directly caused He Zun's face to freeze with a somewhat funny expression.
Xie Lingya said innocently: "I really don't know, I'm not a Taoist, I just live here."
There are also Taoist priests who don't need to have long hair, but he really isn't. I'm sorry that he can't pretend.
His theoretical knowledge has never been systematically entered, and the operation is so sharp, but he can't tell whether what He Zhen encountered was a ghost attacking the wall.
He Zun's eyes were unpredictable, and he looked at Xie Lingya and exclaimed: "You are the sweeping monk here..."
"..." Xie Lingya looked at him with caring eyes for the mentally handicapped.