There is a Tianshou Mountain in the northwest of Weicun Town, Yaodu District, Linfen City. Commonly known as the South Laoyeding, it echoes the North Laoyeding in Hongtong County. The peak elevation is1080m, which is said to have been built by Liu Xiu in the Eastern Han Dynasty. During the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, the Pingyang earthquake in 1695 completely destroyed the temple and all the monks died. In the 60th year of Kangxi, people from Zhao Cheng, Hongtong and Linfen cooperated to rebuild it. On April 22nd, Lunar calendar 1939, the 6th1434th Regiment of the Jin Army was stationed in the hospital. The Japanese army, which had just occupied Linfen, besieged Laoyeding on the 4th road, and the regiment was defeated. After the Japanese army captured Laoyeding, they began to set fire to the temple. The existing ruins seem to tell about the heinous crimes of the Japanese. ...
Now the world is peaceful and the population is prosperous. Every year on March 3rd and September 9th, local people will come here to burn incense and make wishes. .......
I have been to Tianshou Mountain, my dream, twice. The first time I visited my classmates in middle school, this time it was a dream, nostalgia and fun. Tianshou Mountain is located at the most edge of Chengxian sag in Qinling Mountains. It is a little-known hill with an altitude of 19 19 meters, which is 2 meters higher than the main peak of Jifeng Mountain in Chengxian Scenic Area, and is the second peak in Chengxian County. There are three names for "Tianshou". One is that at the end of Sui Dynasty, Yu Wenhuaji ordered civil and military officials to look around and dig up a precious famous medicine, which is said to be immortal. At that time, all the mountains with longevity grass (Ganoderma lucidum) were named Tianshou Mountain, and hunting and grazing were prohibited. Locals are not allowed to engage in any activities in the mountains all year round. According to this statement, the custom of worshipping this mountain can prolong life has been preserved to this day; Second, enjoy the meaning of life, and pin the people's longing for health and longevity; The third is that the sky is infinite and has the greatest significance. Heaven is the origin of the world spirit that China's ancient idealist philosophers said. "Mencius with all his heart": "Do your best and know your nature; If you know its nature, you will know its sky. " Generally refers to the objective materiality, Xunzi's theory of heaven: "The stars rotate, the sun and the moon shine, the emperors of the four seasons, and the yin and yang enlarge, which is called the sky." Here is a Buddha to guide me astray and solve my pilgrimage troubles; There are mountains here to help me settle down in the downtown area; There is water here to wash away the dust and impetuousness in my heart; There is a hole here, which opens my mind and realm of wisdom; There are forests here, let me rest and sing in the embrace of nature.
My hometown, Xiaochuan Town, is located in the hinterland of six towns in the west of Chengxian County. This town has a dense population and a large mountainous area. In the long river of history, it has always been a market town and inn for trade and commerce. Horses and businessmen from south to north gathered here and left here again. Therefore, the mountain city of Nana Ogawa is like a cornucopia, which absorbs the cultures and customs of different regions and inherits the simple and enthusiastic folk customs. Go all the way west, along the valley under Nanshan, and go straight along Huangcheng Road to reach village of tianshan. Everyone personally felt the simplicity of rural fields and the dangers of mountain roads. This was part of the Shu Road in those days. Think of Qu Yuan who once walked across the street in bamboo shoes, and later Li Bai. Have you visited this place?
Walking slowly along the mountain road, I merged into the vivid picture of folk life, picked wild fruits and strolled on the hillside. There are fantastic wind tunnels, water caves, and some Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian temples with the longest circulation. There are also four natural phenomena circulating in Tianshou Mountain: wind is rain, clouds are flowers, mountains and rivers are symphonic, and cattle and sheep have different slopes; Folk custom "five eccentrics": dragging kang in the door, changing bedding (changing handkerchiefs) at the wedding, looking for a job, and bumping into worshipping the wrist (wearing a small pot helmet prepared for the Dragon Boat Festival), feng shui is not conducive to burying the dead (there is no way, the dead will not be buried for the time being).
About the spread of Buddhism, there are inscriptions clearly recorded here. According to the historical records compiled by Gao Wei, a professor at the School of History and Culture of Lanzhou University, Buddhism spread in Chengxian in 60 AD. Tianshou Mountain is recorded in 69 AD. According to the surname family recorded in the inscription, there was a prosperous temple here during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. This also confirms the law of the evolution of Buddhism. During the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, elite Buddhism in the Han Dynasty stagnated and declined, while popular Buddhism developed by leaps and bounds, resulting in the situation that "every family is Guanyin Bodhisattva and every family is Amitabha". From the sectarian point of view, Zen Buddhism and Pure Land Sect are mainly popular. Pure Land Sect takes "Amitabha in the south" as its practice method, aiming at dying in the western paradise, which is the simplest method and has the greatest influence among the people.
The main folk gods are Guanyin Bodhisattva, Maitreya with a big belly and the patron saint. Guanyin holds a clean bottle in her left hand and Yang Liuzhi in her right. She is called the Great Compassion Bodhisattva because she has great compassion and great inspiration. For the benefit of all beings, you can show 33 bodies. There are also thousands of hands and eyes Guanyin, which is deeply loved by Chinese people. There are two kinds: one is forty hands, each hand has one eye, and each hand and eye has twenty-five functions. After multiplication, you get one thousand hands and one thousand eyes; One is 250 hands on one side, four sides 1000 hands, and each hand has one eye, which is the actual thousand hands and thousands of eyes. Maitreya, a paunchy man, hangs his ears and shoulders, often smiles when he opens his mouth, bares his chest and stomach, sleeps everywhere, often carries a cloth bag with a stick and runs around all day to persuade people to believe in Buddhism. This elephant is placed in the Tianwang Temple, facing the mountain gate. His expression means that a Buddhist student should be calm and happy all his life. Treat anyone and everything calmly, be happy and don't care about anyone. Only with such conditions can one be qualified to become a Buddha. In addition to the four heavenly kings and the patron saint Guan Yu, there is also a young armored general Wei Tuo, who protects his family and travels around three continents with Vajrayana in his hand. There are 500 guards of Sakyamuni who hold King Kong's guards, secret King Kong who opens his mouth and holds a pestle, powerful ancient Indian gods, Rona Yantian who holds a stick in silence, and Wang Zun who specially guards the mountain gate, commonly known as the "two generals". All of the above were enshrined in Tianshou Mountain, and most of them were destroyed or taken away in the whirlpool of history.
Temple layout is mostly in the mountains, and there are three gates (mountain gates) as a whole. Because there is an empty gate (middle), a non-phase gate (east) and a reactive gate (west), it symbolizes three liberation. The seven temples in Galand refer to the mountain gate, Buddhist temple, Buddhist temple, Buddhist temple, Buddhist temple, Buddhist temple, kitchen, toilet and Xijing. It is composed of quadrangles with several steps, and there are also some halls and corridors.
Guan Yu, the most admired person of the local people, dominates the happiness of people's production and life. In the eyes of ordinary people, the supreme jade emperor, Buddha and god are too far away from themselves to take care of the tiny pain of an ordinary person, so many people believe in the red-faced Guan Yu (Guan Yu God). Guan Yu, a native of Guan Yunchang and Hedong (now Yuncheng, Shanxi Province), defected to Liu Bei at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was defeated and killed in Dangyang, Hubei Province, and was beheaded. Guan Yu became famous only after the Song Dynasty, because he was a model of loyalty, filial piety and righteousness, and was praised by the emperor many times. Confucianism respects him as a warrior saint, Buddhism respects him as a galactic god, and Taoism respects him as a Guan Sheng emperor. Guan Gong became the only idol respected by Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Up to now, Guan Yu's knife-sharpening meeting in the fifth lunar month 13 is still circulating in the local area. It will rain this day, and people beat gongs and drums to pray for rain, hoping that the weather will be good and the crops will be bumper.