An altar lamp burning day and night.
【cháng míng dēng】？
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A round-the-clock oil lamp. Most of them are used to offer sacrifices to buddhas or gods. ?
example
Tang Liu Kui's Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties: "There is an ever-burning lamp in the Temple of Jiangning County, which is blue but not hot for a long time.
Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty was flat, which surprised the ancient times and still exists today. "Tang Huang Tao's" Datang Fuzhou Multi-Pagoda Monument ":"The ever-burning platform, the round cage is lonely and bright. " ?
Ba Jin's Autumn Sanjiu: "Go through the gloomy hall (there is only a ever-burning lamp hanging in front of the temple) and send Chueh-hsin's cough out of Mrs. Zhang's room."
Legend origin
The eternal fire first appeared in all kinds of fairy tales. It is said that this eternal fire is the fire of the heavenly palace, which Prometheus secretly brought to mankind. In a word, human beings know this secret by accident. Perhaps a philosopher passed it on to human beings, just as Shennong taught human beings to grow crops and Youchao taught human beings to build houses. Once humans know how to make permanent lights, the news spreads like wildfire, and temples all over the world want to install this kind of lights that will never go out.
According to the customs of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, the dead also need lights to drive away darkness and light up the road. So before closing the tomb, it is customary to put a lamp in it. And the house of wealth and splendor should be extravagant, with an unlit lamp to illuminate the dead forever. Thousands of years later, when the vaults of these tombs were opened, the diggers found that the lights inside were still burning well. But these are the facts of the past, and it is still an unsolved mystery today.
In China, it is said that on the New Year's Eve, all the ghosts come out to look for food because the gods went to heaven, especially those ghosts, such as raccoons and raccoons, who don't worship during the Chinese New Year and the holidays at ordinary times, are even more welcome (because every family has a lot of cakes and cocoons that night). If you blow out the lights and can't see the world in the dark, you will catch people with the sound, especially in the middle of the night when children cry and old people cough, and their lives are hard to protect.
There are many similar records. According to historical records, there is an ever-burning lamp in Qin Shihuang's tomb. China people have a tradition of treating death like life, and the mausoleum after death is also called a haunted house. Kings pay special attention to the mausoleum as a residence after death, and hope that the lights before death are as bright as palaces, so there will be ever-burning lamps.
Correlation conjecture
Why hasn't such a magical ever-burning lamp been preserved so far? Didn't the ancients pay enough attention to the ever-burning lamp they discovered? In fact, the ancients did keep these magic lamps, but strangely, once they appeared, they would be quickly destroyed in some way, such as by savage marauders and diggers. Are the ancients using some kind of spell to keep their technical secrets?
/kloc-In the middle of the 0/7th century, in Grenoble, France, a Swiss soldier named Du Pulitzer stumbled upon the entrance to an ancient tomb. After struggling to enter the ancient tomb, the young man didn't find any gold, silver and jewels he wanted. However, what surprised him even more was that there was a burning glass lamp in this isolated grave. Surprised, he took this mysterious lamp out of the grave and gave it to the monastery. The monks in the monastery were equally dumbfounded. This lamp has been burning for at least 1000 years. They kept it like a treasure. Unfortunately, a few months later, an elderly monk accidentally knocked it off the ground and broke it.
Another interesting thing happened in England. A mysterious and unusual tomb was opened. The person who opened the tomb found a lamp hanging on the vault of the tomb, which lit up the whole tomb. When the man walked forward, part of the floor trembled as he walked. Suddenly, a fixed statue in armor began to move, holding some kind of weapon in his hand and moving near the lamp. The weapon in his hand destroyed the lamp. This precious lamp was destroyed like this.
The purpose of the ancients has been achieved again and again: the mystery of the lamp has been closely guarded and will never be known to future generations.