Visiting the Shwedagon Pagoda for second grade composition of Dehong Primary School in Yunnan

It took me at most 20 minutes from getting off the car to eating something, and then took a taxi to the Menghuan Shwedagon Pagoda. There were people walking up the mountain along the way, because today we were women. Festival, there were too many people to describe, but because I was so tired, I forgot to take pictures.

In more than 10 minutes, I arrived at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Menghuan. Seeing such a building from a distance reminded me of the "Shwedagon Pagoda" in Yangon, Myanmar. This tower is nothing, and it is nothing in the car. The driver also told me one day that this pagoda is worth seeing because it is the largest Theravada Buddhist pagoda in China and the third largest in Asia. Such a pagoda can only be regarded as an average pagoda in Myanmar.

The weather was really hot, and my skin felt stinging from the sun. I was about to buy a bottle of water when I happened to meet an old man who was selling popsicles in an old wooden box. The attire and the feeling of not being able to come out made me take out money from my bag and buy popsicles from him. They cost 30 cents each and gave him one yuan. He was still looking for change and was ready to give it to me. Said there was no need to look for it. He gave me two more popsicles. I said I couldn't eat them and they weren't much. I asked for one and left. The old man said a lot to me in dialect, thank you girl! I haven’t eaten this kind of popsicle in more than 10 years. It reminds me of many interesting things in my childhood, so I took this photo with the popsicle in my right hand and the camera in my left hand.

While eating popsicles, I didn’t forget to check my watch. I walked quickly to the entrance of the Jinta District. I saw many people at the ticket window. I heard from people around me that the tickets were only half price if they were from the Dai ethnic group. , the full ticket is charged to outsiders (the full ticket is 30 yuan per person, just to see such a tower?) I originally planned to buy a ticket, but I didn’t expect that maybe because of the clothes I was wearing, the ticket seller mistakenly thought that I was a Dai nationality, and asked me in Dai nationality. , how many people? Fortunately, I can understand the Dai language he speaks, and I also speak to him in Dai language, alone. He said it was half price, and I asked him, wasn’t it free of charge before? Why is it charged now? He asked me again if I was from Ruili? I looked at him smiling. At that moment, I didn't know what I was thinking. I just wanted to say yes or no? Before I answered him, he mistakenly thought that I was from Ruili, so he only charged me 10 yuan, and then tore the ticket to me. I was squeezed out by the next person who wanted to sell the ticket. Holding the ticket, I felt a little embarrassed. In such a mood, I ate the popsicle on my hand in one bite.

This is a panoramic view of Mangshi taken from the railing at the entrance.

In order to come back and write a diary, I took notes and wrote down the following introduction about the tower:

It is said that "Sakyamuni" lived here when he was reincarnated as "Aluan". Hundreds of years after the Buddha's Nirvana, the Buddhist disciples "Zhao Handa" and "Arhat" came to this mountain to practice in order to spread the Buddha's teachings. In order to give "Zhaohanda" a good training environment, all the weeds and thorns were given way, so it was called Lei Yarang Mountain, which means the place where the weeds were given way. Later, a pagoda was built on this mountain, which has been recognized as one of the holy places of Buddhism since ancient times.

The original Leiya Rangshan Pagoda was destroyed during the Anti-Japanese War in 1942, and the Menghuan Shwedagon Pagoda in Luxi City was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution in 1966. In order to satisfy the needs of the majority of religious believers, The desire to carry forward national culture and promote the development of social economy and tourism decided to be rebuilt as one and named Menghuan Shwedagon Pagoda. The tower is 76 meters high and the diameter of the base is 50 meters. It is an octagonal four-door hollow pagoda. It was built in 2 AD. On June 30, 2004, a "Pure Land" ceremony was held and the ground was broken. The consecration ceremony was held on May 1, 2007.

The "Menghuan Shwedagon Pagoda" is located on the top of Leiyarang Mountain at an altitude of 1,079.6 meters in the southeastern suburbs of Mangshi. The tower is seventy-three meters high and the base is fifty meters in diameter. The overall structure is an octagonal hollow pagoda with four gates.

They are the east gate; the south gate; the west gate; the north gate; this is one of the gates. There are four large natural white marble Buddha statues around the sky pillar in the center of the hall. To the east is the Sakyamuni Buddha, to the west is the Medicine Buddha, to the south is the Guanyin Bodhisattva, and to the north is the Maitreya Buddha. (This is one of the Buddha statues)

There are four gates, each with eight guardian statues of gods. This is the guard statue of one of the gates. There are four sculptures surrounding the sky pillar in the center of the main hall in the pagoda. The second and third floors of the main hall display murals and utensils reflecting the life and teachings of the Buddha. There are sixteen groups of pagodas with unique shapes on the outer platforms of the second and third floors. There are eight vase towers with exquisite Buddhist artistic creativity built on the outer platform of the fourth floor. The main center pillar on the base is built with a large bell and thirteen alms bowls, which are special Buddhist objects. The highest point is topped with a large golden dome weighing 2.3 tons.

I am next to the sky pillar in the tower.

I heard: On March 29, 2005, the pagoda relic placement ceremony was held. On May 1, 2007, the coronation and consecration ceremony of the Menghuan Shwedagon Pagoda was solemnly held. The Yunnan Buddhist Association also held The sacred Bodhi tree in Sri Lanka was welcomed and enshrined in a grand ceremony.

I was in the pagoda: (This was taken by someone. To be honest, what I was thinking more about at that time was the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar)

These two little ones Master used red thread to weave auspicious threads that can be worn on the hands, and I also invited two of them as a pleasure. After worshiping the Buddha, a man wandered around the pagoda for a while and saw the incense burner. Wherever there are Dai people, you can see elephant statues everywhere. At around 16:30, we took a taxi to the airport.

The flight at 17:40 was delayed, so I arrived in Kunming around 19:00, ending my half-month trip.

Note: Since I have been busy dealing with things at hand since I came back, I cannot write a diary as scheduled. I am writing in the form of memories. Thank you everyone for sharing my travel diary with me!