The magical Wei Zi (4)

There are many famous mountains and monks in the world, so I have to leave one or two strange peaks for my Taoist friends to live in. The Buddha has said all the beautiful things in the world, but who knows my five thousand wonderful things?

Weizi with beautiful scenery is called "Buddhist country". Within 20 square kilometers of Fiona Fang, there are 16 temples. The largest jungle is the weizi Temple, now called the Laozi Temple. Surrounded by seven mountains, it looks like a lotus. At the peak, there were more than 600 monks in the abbot whose building area reached 1000 square meters.

Born in the afternoon of July 7th, 4th/Kloc-4th BC, Zhang Bao, the founder of Laozu Temple, commonly known as "Chitose Zhang Bao", was the ancestor of Buddhism in Han Dynasty and the longest-lived "mortal" in human history.

When we returned to the gate of the Six Dynasties Temple, we deliberately slowed down and asked if we wanted to go in and have a look. Everyone said to come again next time. This temple is too familiar to me. My hometown is ten miles east of Shandong. Through the biographies of my ancestors and my personal experience, the ups and downs of more than a century are imprinted in my mind.

The modern decline of the ancestral temple began with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement in the middle of19th century. After successive wars, when New China was founded, it was almost deserted, devastated and in a mess. The four heavenly kings of the Heavenly King's Hall in front of the Ursa Major Hall vaguely existed, and the Buddha statues in the hall showed ferocious faces, which frightened countless children. No fragrance, nobody cares.

After the land reform, the government nationalized the temple property, established forest farms and planted trees. Transform a dilapidated temple in the east into an office accommodation for the forest farm, which is under the jurisdiction of Wuzu Temple Forest Farm.

At the end of 1960s, the County Education Bureau established Huangmei County Forestry Middle School according to the guiding spirit of the national education reform, and transformed Daxiong Hall and Tianwangtang into classrooms and dormitories, where students worked part-time to help forest farm workers dig fire lines and plant saplings.

In the early 1970s, the school was closed, and then the Dagu Commune Tea Farm was established. The Commune Revolutionary Committee organized hundreds of young people to fight hard in Wei Zi for three years, and opened up more than 1000 mu of high-quality tea gardens, reviving the Millennium "Yunwu Tea".

Weizi has a long history of growing tea. When Zhang Bao monks opened up their territory, they began to grow tea. The ancient tea garden is located on the east and west sides of the temple, and the natural acidic black sandy soil has created the famous Laozu tea.

In the Tang Dynasty, Cha Sheng Luyu, a native of Tianmen, Hubei Province, traveled to Wei Zi and was received by the abbot of the ancestral temple. He tasted and discussed Wu Yun tea with him, lamenting that he could take away the tea of the bodhi old zu, but he could not take away the water of the bodhi old zu. He wrote it into the tea classics and turned it into an ancient book.

/kloc-in the spring of 0/975, the school organized a work-study program and went to the Laozu tea farm to pick spring tea. The tender green buds are so fragrant that people can't put them down. I remember that under the encouragement of Mr. Liu, the director of education, everyone scrambled to put the satellite upstream. Li Tongxue created a miracle in this ancient tea garden, picking 36 kilograms of fresh leaves a day. So far, no one should have broken this record. Unfortunately, in the early 1980s, when Xueyan Power Station was completed, these tea gardens were flooded by the lake.

After the reform and opening up in the late 1970s, the national religious policy was gradually implemented, and Buddhist believers returned to temples one after another. State-owned forest farms and tea gardens of the ancestors have also moved out of the temples one after another, and at the same time they have taken away some Millennium-old cornerstones and utensils (stone basins, stone tables, stone benches, etc.). ).

Everything has to start all over again. At that time, apart from policy support, the state did not invest any money, and "out of the wooden pond" and "out of the rice stone" were not as high-spirited as they were a thousand years ago. Believers start from scratch and struggle.

I remember that an early resident was a Qichun person, with a common name of Wu, who was called "Master Wu" ("Master" was the respectful name of that era). He is in his fifties and looks healthy. After more than a year's hard work, he finally built two huts in the position of the original Ursa major hall for him to worship Buddha and rest. Wu dialect

Then, a female believer named Wei in the western suburbs of Huangmei County was called "Master Wei". She is kind, hospitable and considerate, and is deeply loved by donors. In less than a year, three blue brick houses were built, and the conditions were greatly improved. Nave is dedicated to Bodhisattva, and the wings on both sides provide convenience for nearby villagers to transport living materials, temporarily store some items and meet the demand for tea.

When I was a child, I learned from a large group of people that when Mr. Feng Shui passed by the ancestral temple, he said in the face of the ruins: The restoration of the Dojo of the ancestral temple will not be possible until the bamboo forest behind the temple has reached the top of the mountain.

Phyllostachys pubescens, native to Jiangnan, was transplanted to Dabie Mountain in the late Song Dynasty. It has been breeding for 600 to 700 years, and it is only within 300 meters around the temple and two miles from the top of the mountain. In addition, it was impossible to believe that it could become a reality at that time. This is just a fantasy, out of reach.

Time flies. In 2008, Beijing successfully held a global peace pageant, and Wei Zi's bamboo climbed mountains and mountains unconsciously. The "Buddha Country" welcomes Master Jinghui in a corner. Entrusted by the county party committee and government, it invested hundreds of millions of yuan to repair the temple and split three tourist roads leading to the temple.

Nowadays, the temples hidden among the pines and bamboos are antique, resplendent and magnificent, which promote Buddhism and solemnly open the lotus flowers that have been sleeping for a hundred years to the sun again.

Now the people who live in the temple are not ordinary good men and women, but all Buddhist disciples with higher education. Handsome men and beautiful women are not what they used to be; I believe in freedom and love my China.

Weizi, with infinite scenery, exists like a god, constantly creating miracles on earth! (Stop writing temporarily)