Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 155 Famen Temple Worshiping Ancestors

  Li Fushou in his sleep felt extremely comfortable, as if rippling in the undulating waves, as if returning to the warm baby.

  Extremely refreshing is followed by an unspeakable emptiness. He sleeps more soundly and heavier...

I do not know how long it has been

  When Li Fushou opened his eyes, it was time to palm the lantern.

  The thick-armed candle in the Lingxiao Pavilion burned quietly, and a trace of sandalwood lingering in the air, filled with a light fragrance.

  The beautiful female black slave Kriss is gently helping her feet, placing Li Fushou's big feet in the center of her chest, with just the right amount of force.

   "How long have I slept?"

  "Master, you slept for two hours and twenty minutes, and you should have dinner in another 50 minutes."

   "Hmm...Thanks for your hard work, Chris, the master has a reward."

   "Thank you, Master."

  Li Fushou stretched lazily, and suddenly he uncovered the thin blanket as he felt, and found nothing unusual in the dim light.

  Chrissy's gentle beating stiffened a bit, as if she wanted to say something.

  Li Fushou retracted his feet and said faintly, "Okay." Chris quickly helped her owner put on socks and shoes, and bowed her head to grab a blessing.

Standing up and moving his legs and feet, Li Fushou felt that his whole body was full of infinite energy, and he felt a refreshing feeling from the inside out, so he walked out and said a lightly; "Chrissy, you are also the boss. Now, I will reward you with a house outside, and you can go out to live when you don’t have to wait."

  "Master, I don’t know...I don’t know how to live alone?"

   "Don't worry, it will be arranged."

   "Then who I am..."

  "From today, you will be a free man."

   After finishing speaking, Li Fushou's tall figure had left the Lingxiao Pavilion, quickly turned the door and disappeared.

  Kriss stood alone in the Lingxiao Pavilion, and the dusky shadows outside the window projected in, forming mysterious spots of light and dark intertwined with the warm candlelight, reflecting on her silky and smooth skin like chocolate.

  Because the skin color is too dark to see if she is blushing, Chris stands alone, not knowing what she is thinking.

  A while

  Chrissy’s mouth showed a slight smile, and then bloomed on the entire dark beautiful face, smiling with white teeth, and then sticking out her little pink tongue with fear

  The night was silent, and a trace of ambiguity drifted away slowly.

   more than ten days later

  Good day and auspicious day, it is advisable to go to the beams, move house, worship the ancestors, travel long distances, break the ground, good luck.

  In the early morning, Li Fushou, his family and the Li clan all bathed and changed their clothes, then put on the dark robes printed with the clan emblem, and walked to Famen Temple not far from the Red Fort.

  Famen Temple is a large-scale temple built according to the architectural style of the Tang Dynasty. The layout is very high-end. The golden glazed tile building halls and pavilions are full of the magnificent Tang Dynasty charm, which is extraordinary.

  The high-standard Nine Dragon Wall in the temple comes from domestic Jingdezhen official kiln craftsmen. A total of two sets were fired, one in Famen Temple and the other in Red Fort.

  Mainland Famen Temple originated in the Han Dynasty, and was later destroyed by war. It was rebuilt in the prime of the Tang Dynasty. The temples, pagodas, and temples all have detailed drawings and drawings that have been handed down to later generations.

  This Famen Temple in the Red River Valley of Australia is based on the pattern handed down in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. It is copied in its original flavor, and the temples, pagodas, and temples are more majestic and tall and look extraordinary.

  After three years of construction, the Famen Temple complex has cost a lot of money, and the main building has finally been completed. It has become the largest temple in the city of Honghe Valley, with the highest level.

  After the Spring Festival last year, Li Fushou welcomed the Li clan tablet and genealogy back from Lijiapu outside Gusu city, as well as the ancestors' relics, which are all enshrined in the Famen Temple.

  Famen Temple was originally a royal temple in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. It was renamed "Famen Temple" in the Tang Gaozu period. This has a long history.

  Famen Temple in the mainland of China is known as a royal temple. It has become a Buddhist holy place because of the placement of Shakyamuni’s finger bone relics. It is highly respected by Buddhist believers at home and abroad.

In the fifth year of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty (AD 660), the Buddha bones were greeted in Luoyang, the eastern capital. After three years of offerings, they returned to the underground palace of Famen Temple in the second year of Longshuo and built a 4-story wooden pagoda on it.

  The family of Lijiapu originated from the Litang imperial family. It is reasonable to build a Famen Temple in the Red River Valley of Australia, and there is a deeper meaning inside.

This Famen Temple located in the Red River Valley took the gourd and painted scoops, and spent a lot of money to collect the Buddha's real body relics in India and the United Kingdom. A total of 77 pieces were obtained, including the Buddha's skull, arms, chest, fingers, hip bones, and thighs. , Toes and other places are the temples where the most relics of the Buddha's body are enshrined.

  These Buddha relics are all from the UK, India, Myanmar and other regions. As long as they are willing to spend pounds, especially the chaotic Indian tribes, it is not difficult to welcome the Buddha relics.

  Most of the Indian people believe in Hinduism, and a few believe in ***, Buddhism is declining day by day, and no one has paid attention to it for a long time.

  It is said that after the death of Buddha Shakyamuni, his body was cremated into relics.

  In the third century BC, after King Ashoka unified India, in order to promote Buddhism, he divided the relics of the Buddha into 84,000 parts, so that the ghosts and gods were distributed in Nanyan Futian and distributed to countries around the world to build towers for worship.

  After more than 2,000 years of regime change and the destruction of war, there may not be so many counted down, but as long as you are willing to pay the price, 77 real relics can still be collected.

  Li Fushou and others came to Famen Temple, and there was a group of monks who had been greeted by the great monks and monks.

  In between

  The bells ringed together, the sound of clouds and boards sounded, and the Buddhist monk of the Dade greeted Li Fushou and his party, and came to Famen Temple to pay homage to the Buddha and ancestors.

  Li Fushou was escorted into the temple by the Dade monk, and facing him is the majestic triple Buddha hall. A clay sculpture of a golden Buddha statue is solemn and solemn, demonstrating the handwriting of a master from the mainland.

  The sound of wooden fish and the sound of chanting.

  Li Fushou led the Li clan and his family to devoutly worship the Buddha, and gave a large sesame oil money, which was originally reasonable.

Famen Temple was funded and constructed by Li Fushou. The incense monks in the temple are all enshrined by the Li clan. Li Fushou also specially donated 3% of the shares of the southern extension of the coastal railway to Famen Temple, as well as the vegetable and food output of two nearby farms. To maintain daily needs.

  In essence, it is no different from a family temple.

  After finishing the Buddha ceremony, bypassing the triple Buddha hall and coming to the middle courtyard, here is a wide white marble square with exquisitely carved white marble railings and a 4-story Dengyun Hall standing high in the middle.

  The building is magnificent and magnificent.

  Here is the place where the ancestors of the Li family and the ancestors of the Li family of Hongheshan are enshrined. It is the core of the entire Famen Temple.

  All the female relatives stopped here. They were not able to enter the clan ancestral hall dedicated to their ancestors. They could only kneel outside and watch the sacrifice on the white marble square.

Li Fushou, as the patriarch of the Hongheshan line, was the first to walk in with his head high. Behind him are the Li clan members lined up in two rows. They are arranged in order of seniority and entered in file. These are all clansmen and thinkers from Lijiapu. Many of the younger generations are the big bosses and backbones of the Red River Valley.

In front of the huge golden lacquered tablet in the ancestral hall of the clan, three animals, various melons and fruits, whole grains, and countless sesame oil lamps are enshrined. It looks like a sea of ​​flames beating, revealing extravagance in a silent place.

  All the Li clan worshiped the males. Under the declaration of the chief priest, they knelt down on both knees respectfully and prayed for their ancestors.

  The chief priest held the sacrificial essay written by a great scholar, and began to make a meticulous sacrifice to the ancestors. The words and sentences were extremely obscure and difficult to understand. The specific Li Fushou didn't understand it, just to the effect;

  In a certain year, certain month, certain day, certain moments, a natural vision, the dragon and the phoenix are auspicious, the Li clan gave birth to a person from Zhongxing, whose surname is Li and his name is Fushou, which has profound and far-reaching implications.

  Let's play up all the past, and then there is a large basket of ancestors showing their blessings, clan blessings, prosperity and prosperity, prosperity and prosperity.

  In particular, Li Fushou praised Li Fushou as rare in the sky and unparalleled in the underground.

  The long verses ceremonial essays have been recited for 20 minutes. The circumflex and frustrations of the priest's recitation, the rhyming of the same rhyme, and the vicissitudes of the ancient verse, it is really rare.

  Then the men burned incense to worship their ancestors, worshipped three times and nine knocks, a long piece of ceremonial poems with gold and silver ingots tied with dry paper, and sacrifices such as mules, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens were burnt, and the sky was covered with smoke.

The implication is to tell our ancestors that our Li family’s epigenesis has grown bigger and how great, you can steal it from the sky, by the way, burn some money for the ancestors, eat and drink everything, and spend money to use it. Don't worry about it, you can use energy...

  A whole set of red tapes were put in order, and it was already around 3:00 in the afternoon, everyone was dizzy and hungry.

  Simply used some fast food in Famen Temple, Li Fushou and others came to the temple’s backyard to worship the Buddha’s most precious treasure.

There are a total of 7 pagodas of different shapes, square, round, pentagonal, hexagonal, and octagonal. They are different in height and low. They are a collection of various representative towers since the Han and Tang dynasties, such as those in the Tang Dynasty. The four-story square tower, the round tower in the Northern Wei Dynasty and so on, present the pattern of the Big Dipper 7 stars.

Especially in the Beidou position, the tallest Ming Dynasty eight-row and seventeen-level brick tower is 77 meters high. The ribs are made of carved jade rock. Reveal the sacred and solemnity of the Buddha.

  The so-called Beidou, looking north to China!

  These 7 pagodas, all add up to a total of 77 floors. Under each pagoda, in the underground palace, there are a number of Buddha's real body relics enshrined, the same number as the pagoda, a total of seven or seven.

  Seven ups and eight downs are auspicious metaphors for ups and downs. It is widely used to describe the boundlessness of Buddhism and the universality of sentient beings. It implies the number of the week and the sky, and it is extremely mysterious.

  This large-scale ancestor worship officially set the memorial tablet for the ancestors of the branch of the Li family in Honghe Mountain, and established the status of Famen Temple's family temple. At the same time, it also demonstrated the orthodox position of Li Fushou from the royal blood line, which is unshakable.

  The symbolic meaning of ancestor worship is very strong. Since then, the Hongheshan people of Li Fushou's line have taken this place as their lineage, settled and reproduced with peace of mind, and no longer wanted to return to the mainland's fallen leaves to return to their roots.

  The root of this clan lies in Honghe Mountain. Where else can it go?

  Since the Li family worshipped the ancestors, Famen Temple was very lively for more than half a month, and the incense was flourishing.

  Wu clan, Zheng clan, Wang clan, Chen clan, Zhang clan, He clan... the family members are scrambling to worship their ancestors, and no one dares to neglect this matter.

All Chinese families with some financial resources have paid tribute to their ancestors at Famen Temple to comfort their ancestors. This means that the descendants are well mixed in this land. Please bless the ancestors and ancestors in the spirit of heaven. The descendants will burn incense on the ancestor's tablet, offer three kinds of sesame oil, and make sacrifices day and night. ...

  Famen Temple is a large temple, it is impossible to only serve as the family temple of the Li clan family, it is really not a tyrant, but it is dominated by the Li family, and it is located in the core of the entire Famen Temple.

  In the side rooms and side halls on both sides of the vast temples, as long as the surnames of other tribes donate enough sesame oil money, they can get a side hall dedicated to the ancestor's tablet, and enjoy incense worship day and night.

  In this way, the incense of Famen Temple has become more and more prosperous, and the Chinese believers continue to worship. It soon became the Buddhist shrine in Australia, attracting overseas Chinese from all directions to worship and seek roots.

  Strong ocean barriers, thousands of miles away.

  The Chinese living in a foreign land can find a place of spiritual comfort and continue the bloodline and clan inheritance incense, which contains great significance. Perhaps only the Chinese who attach great importance to the family relationship can understand it, and the significance is extremely significant.

  (End of this chapter)