The Hanshan series is listed and revisited
Tong Cheng. At the beginning of this year, when appreciating and analyzing the Hanshan series of folk money, there were two questions: first, the casting place of the Hanshan series did not seem to be a money furnace in Suzhou or nearby;The second is the year of Jiaxu, this special year, there must be special allusions.
Because of the fame of Hanshan Temple, the legend of Hanshan and the two monks is well-known. In the writing, I think about and verify from this perspective.
After the publication of the article "Hanshan Temple, Folk Customs Qian Said", Quanyou Wobing told me that the Hanshan series was listed in Guangxi, which should be related to the legend of Hanshan's birthday. I thought it made sense, so I learned to think Xi again.
Hanshan Festival. Hanshan Festival is a traditional festival of Yulin people in Guangxi.
Hanshan has a radius of 100 miles and an altitude of 720 meters. The origin of the cold mountain can be found in the historical record of the Han "Nine Domains": "Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue, sent an envoy into the mountains to pick oranges in the summer, and returned it after ten days. Why?He said: 'It's cold in the mountains, and you can't return.' Hence the name. Historical records record that during the period of Qin II, the Qin general Zhao Tuo led a large army to conquer Guilin and Xiangjun in 205 BC, and then established the Nanyue Kingdom with the South China Sea, and established himself as the martial king of Nanyue. Since then, it has been more than 2,225 years since the establishment of the South Vietnamese State.
According to legend, the ancestors of the three saints of Hanshan lived in Changsha Mansion, Hunan, and were the three brothers of the same mother, according to the records of the "Chinese Zhang Family Dictionary", they were the descendants of Zhang Liang, the founder of the Han Dynasty. The eldest brother Zhang Guiqing was born on the fifteenth day of the ninth lunar month in the eighth year of the Qingli calendar in the Northern Song Dynasty (that is, in 1048 AD). The second brother Zhang Guiting was born on the twelfth day of the second lunar month in the third year of Huangyou of the Northern Song Dynasty (1051 AD). The third brother, Zhang Guicheng, was born on the fifteenth day of the fourth lunar month in the first year of the Northern Song Dynasty and the first year of the Hehe Dynasty (1054 AD). The three of them were born with dignified appearances, burly figures, similar appearances, and talents.
Under the teaching of their parents, the three brothers are knowledgeable, diligent and filial, and are well-known filial sons in their hometown. Unfortunately, their parents died in the prime of life. In order to fulfill their parents' wishes, the filial Zhang brothers began a journey of searching for feng shui treasures all over the country to bury their parents.
Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, the three Zhang brothers trekked through mountains and rivers, overcame thorns and thorns, slept in the wind and ate all the way to the south, traveled hundreds of miles, visited countless places, experienced countless risks and difficulties, but did not find the ideal feng shui treasure. None of this could shake the determination of the three Zhang brothers to find their relatives in the cave, on the contrary, they learned a wealth of geographical knowledge Xi the process. Along the way, he has used this geographical knowledge to find clean water for countless rural people.
It is rumored that one day, when the Zhang brothers came to Shatang Mo Village in the heart of Yulin Mountain, it was already dusk. An eldest sister in the village warmly invited the three Zhang brothers to her house to greet them, and specially prepared a table of good dishes and meals to greet them. During the meal, the three Zhang brothers learned that this small village of more than 200 people has long been seriously short of drinking water for people and animals, and the daily life of the villagers is miserable, but the locals have dug many wells and have no water. After the three Zhang brothers found out, they took the suffering of the villagers to heart. The next morning, they were busy about it. With their vast knowledge and experience in geography, they found a spring for the villagers in one morning. As soon as I dug it, I really dug up a rushing spring well, which is not only enough for the whole village to drink, but also can irrigate the farmland. When the nearby villagers heard the news, they all rushed to ** and clapped their hands and praised the three Zhang brothers as their "life-saving benefactors".
Later, the Zhang brothers came to the peak of Hanshan Mountain and found that there were five phoenixes piercing the clouds, so they decided to bury their parents here. After the burial, the wind and rain were combined, the sand and stones were flying, and the three brothers instantly feathered into the sky, listed as the fairy world, turned into a spiritual flying stone, and fell to the top of the mountain. Later, the people remembered the filial piety of the three brothers to their parents, so they built a temple here to worship incense. Because the three brothers obtained clear drinking water and irrigation water for many people along the way, the Zhang brothers gradually evolved into the local gods of rain in Yulin. Every year on the birthday of the three brothers of the Zhang family, the people go to the top of the cold mountain to worship them, which is the "cold mountain birthday" that has been handed down to this day, and the god of Si Yu who "the cold mountain should be asked by the rain" has evolved into the protector of Yulin today after thousands of years. Because the birthdays of the three brothers of the Zhang family, who are known as the "Three Holy Masters", are different, the "Hanshan Festival" is divided into three: (lunar calendar) February 12 (two saints Zhang Guiting), April 15 (three saints Zhang Guicheng), September 15 (the great sage Zhang Guiqing) A total of three "Hanshan Birthdays", among which the birthday of the twelfth day of February of the lunar calendar is the most grand.
Hanshan Temple. The Hanshan Temple on the top of the Cold Mountain is said to be the place where the three holy feathers turned into immortals, and there were people who set up altars here before the Ming Dynasty. It is rumored that the cold mountain manifests its spirits, and the spirits are responding to the rain. Whenever the local Li people encounter a drought, they set up an altar here to pray for rain, carry the flying stone to parade, and can make clouds and rain, so they believe that it is a sacred stone and make a totem worship.
There is an exact record that: "During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Chen Shengjing, the magistrate of Wutai County, advocated raising donations to rebuild its altar, and the stone was the temple, which has been around for hundreds of yearsIn the year of Jiaxu (1694), the official gentry and merchants of Hezhou resumed the battle of reconstruction. ”
The stone temple on the top of Guhan Mountain has existed for at least 320 years now. Therefore, the temple built with the stone arch structure on the top of the existing Hanshan Ridge is all made of 1214 stone arrows, which is the oldest in Yulin, and it is also the historic site of "Cold Mountain Rain", one of the eight views of Yulin. The Hanshan Temple, located in the center of Hanshan Village, is speculated to be built in the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty at the beginning of the temple, and it has a history of nearly 200 years. The Hanshan Temple is also the Qing Dynasty building with the largest area and the largest construction area in Yulin City.
For thousands of years, the core of the folk activities during the birthday of Hanshan Temple was to ask for rain. In the era of farming, praying for rain is the most closely related to the life of the masses of important folk activities, according to local documents, all the officials who come to serve in Yulin Prefecture go to the cold mountain to worship, pray for good weather and benefit the people. There was a lame state official, who was overwhelmed by the suffering of climbing to the peak to offer sacrifices, so he set up an altar to worship in Hanshan Village at the eastern foothills. Later, the villagers of Hanshan built a temple here, called the Hanshan Temple. Every time you ask for rain, it will work. Subsequently, another state official, who was old and sick, and could not go to the sacrifice because he wanted to, advocated the construction of the Hanshan Temple in the south of the city (that is, now in the Yuzhou District Federation of Trade Unions). All localities have followed suit, and it has become a trend, and the impact is extremely far-reaching. The record of this official activity was listed as one of the important activities of local administration as early as the Qing Dynasty, and due to the official derivation, the Hanshan Festival folk activities naturally became the most influential folk activities in Yulin and the surrounding areas.
So far, the original two questions have been answered. In "Hanshan Temple Folk Money Says", it is only borrowed from the Hanshan Mountain (actually the place name) to praise the Hanshan Temple (temple name);The three saints of Hanshan are used to symbolize the two immortals of Hanshan. Learn and then know the insufficiency, and then explore and learn new knowledge. Thank you Quanyou Wobing for your timely advice!
They are all the land of immortals, and they are all saints.
The article was revised on 2020-04-10.
This article has been published with permission from the author.
Special thanks to the childlike gallop Pinquan Gongweihao.