Chapter 196 How miserable the dragon is in Yunzhou
I don’t know what the eldest brother was thinking, but Sister Literary took the initiative to sit next to Xiao Bailong. The eldest brother may have thought that Xiao Bailong was special to Miss Long, so he arranged for Long Teng to sit on the other side of him.
The literary sister held his hand and comforted her like a mother: "Little Bailong, it's okay!" She raised her other arm and planned to put Xiao Bailong's head on her chest.
He Huan took his hand out of hers and sat upright. He wanted to cry even more. Everyone wanted to take advantage of him! Either they took advantage of him or they took advantage of him! Anyway, they wanted to take advantage of him! He was going to die and they wanted to take advantage of him.
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Long Teng turned his head slightly and looked at him. This lively and shameless man, who is always a confidante, who is always flirting with women and sometimes upright, versatile, omniscient, courageous and a bit silly, how could this very strange man suddenly become like this?
Like a child?
The general trend of the world is changing. The little white dragon became a baby and sat motionless. The tourists pedaled their bicycles hard and accurately took the little white dragon to the Three Pagodas.
He Huan walked to the ticket window. The conductor looked at him blankly and gave him the team ticket. He immediately called: "Team leader! Xiao Bailong is here!"
He Huan took the tourists in and was greeted by a man. He Huan stopped and wondered who was coming. Could it be arranged by the shopping store?
The man walked up to him quickly and said, "Xiao Bailong! You are here!"
He Huan nodded, "Who are you?"
"I am the leader of the tour group of the Three Towers. I have been waiting for you."
He Huan said worriedly: "Why...are you waiting for me?"
Seeing his defensive look, his hair wet with sweat, and his face a little gray, the team leader looked at the tourists behind him and asked, "What's wrong with Little Bailong?"
The tourists were unsuspecting and started talking: "Just now the people from the jade shop were chasing the little white dragon on their motorcycles..."
There was a thrilling description from the tourists. The team leader took He Huan's hand and found that his hand was cold, "If you want to come to the Three Pagodas, who dares to stop you? They invite you to drink tea, so just go and drink tea and make a phone call.
If I go to the Three Towers to pick someone up, how dare they not let me go?"
The tourists' faces were full of joy, and they felt like they had really arrived at Tianlong Temple where eminent monks gathered in the "Den Long Ba Bu"!
He Huan felt relieved and finally smiled, "Thank you, team leader. What's your surname?"
"My surname is Zhao."
"Hello, Team Leader Zhao."
"Let's go, I'll take you." The team leader patted him on the shoulder.
He Huan looked at him, would the team leader personally lead the way? That's fine! The team leader walked beside him with a smile, mainly because he wanted to listen to Xiao Bailong's explanation.
He Huan explained: "The layout of the Three Pagodas Scenic Area is square, symmetrical, and magnificent, like a palace.
Nine of the 22 emperors of Dali became monks here, so it is called the Royal Temple, the Miaoxiang Buddhist Kingdom, and the first temple of Han Buddhism. It is backed by Cangshan Mountain and faces the Erhai Lake. Fengshui is concentrated here.
Have you seen the Dapeng standing on the lotus in front? This is Dapeng Golden Wing Square. The Golden Winged Dapeng is the uncle of Buddha and has a very high status in Buddhism.
It turns out that the tallest tower also has golden-winged rocs on its four corners. Why is this place so closely related to the golden-winged roc? Do you know?"
The tourists shook their heads.
"Dali, the Erhai Lake, is often flooded. People think it's the dragon that's causing trouble, because the Dragon King Pagoda is afraid of the roc, so the three towers were built to suppress the dragon."
"Xiao Bailong, are you going to be suppressed when you come to Dali? No wonder you were chased out of Lingbo Weibu just now!" said a tourist.
The tourists laughed.
He Huan was speechless, "Not only in Dali, but also in Chuncheng East and West Temple Towers, there are Dapeng on the top of the tower. Many pagodas in Yunzhou have Dapeng. This is a major feature of Yunzhou, and they are all to suppress the dragon."
"You are so miserable!"
The team leader couldn't help but laugh.
He Huan said with a smile: "Yunzhou is located on a plateau, but the nine plateau lakes are often flooded. Spring City Yunchi floods, Dali Erhai Lake floods... everyone worked hard to build towers to suppress them.
Didn't I show you Spring City yesterday at the top of Paoma Mountain? It is built around Yunchi, and then the entire layout presses against Yunchi, the East and West Temple Towers, and the archway in the city center, forming a suppressive trend.
In the hearts of the people of Yunzhou, the dragon is very fierce. It stirs up floods everywhere all day long, but they cannot leave the water, otherwise the plateau will become a wasteland. Nine lakes have nourished Yunzhou, so they are respected and feared.
The people of Yunzhou are very direct, and they will scold whatever they respect. When the weather is good, they will respect the dragon and the ghosts and gods. When there is a disaster, they will curse the dragon and the ghosts and gods.
Look at the shamans of the ethnic minorities. They have cow heads in front of them for sacrifice, whips in their hands, and curses in their mouths:
"Becoming an Immortal in One Step"
Hey! Hey dragon! Come and enjoy this delicious food! After you finish eating, hurry up and do your work! If it doesn’t rain if it doesn’t, I’ll beat you! If it rains if it doesn’t, I’ll beat you again!”
The tourists leaned forward and backward for a while.
"How miserable!"
"Um."
The team leader was also overjoyed, nodding and saying: "It's very vivid! It's like this!" He looked at He Huan before he walked in, and it was so interesting!
Everyone kept laughing and stopped for a long time. With smiles on their faces, they followed He Huan towards the three towers of the central building.
"Three pagodas stand in tripod, forever guarding the mountains and rivers. The Qianxun Pagoda in the middle was built by the Nanzhao Kingdom, that is, the Tang Dynasty. It is a very obvious Tang Dynasty architectural style. The small towers on the left and right are from the Dali Kingdom, that is, Duan Yu's
It was built in the Song Dynasty style.
The Three Pagodas are among the first batch of key cultural relics protection units in my country and are a five-a scenic spot. Dali is located in an earthquake zone, but despite several strong earthquakes over the past millennium, the Three Pagodas are still standing."
"Is it because the Buddha is inside?"
"From a mysterious point of view, this is a formation set up by eminent monks. From a scientific point of view, it is because of the superb construction technology and real-name responsibility system."
Everyone was stunned.
"You have good eyesight. If you look up, there are many small holes left by scaffolding. Dali people thousands of years ago would have used scaffolding to build tall buildings."
Everyone looked at Qianxun Tower.
"The body of this pagoda is carved with a lotus Buddha statue and a vase. There is also a name. This is not something that was engraved on later. This is the name of the craftsman and the model of the brick."
He Huan took the tourists around the tower and found a brick, "Look at this, the village ugliness, my God, the ugliest in the village, how much his parents love him!"
"Hahaha……"
"This is true love! Giving ugly names is a major feature of our country, because ghosts and gods also like beautiful things, so my parents say ghosts and gods! I am so ugly that I am not worthy of serving you! I just want him to grow up in peace."
Everyone nodded, feeling this simple love.
"In addition to the exquisite carvings and imprints on the outside, our country discovered more than 600 cultural relics inside the tower during the renovation.
Among them are the golden wings of the Dapeng on the top of the tower, which are now stored in the Yunzhou Museum. In addition, there are many Buddhist scriptures, texts, etc., which left precious historical materials for Dali after Zhu Yuanzhang burned the books."
"Zhu Yuanzhang burned books?"
"I will explain this to you carefully when we tour the ancient city in the evening. It cannot be finished in just one or two sentences."
"good."
While still listening to him telling the story of the Three Pagodas, everyone was looking forward to visiting the ancient city again, wishing he could finish it in one breath.
Go around the Three Pagodas to the Guanyin Hall at the back.
He Huan said: "This is Yutong Guanyin. Take a closer look. She has a kind-hearted female face, similar to most Guanyin we see, and her body is that of a strong man."
Everyone looked up at Guanyin and nodded.
"Avalokitesvara was originally a male, but Han Buddhism gradually transformed it into a female. This is the period when Avalokitesvara is transforming from male to female, so it presents a special image of being androgynous."
Looking up at the kind and strong Guanyin, tourists worship in their hearts.
"Guanyin Hall, Guanyin Hall, now that you have arrived at Guanyin Hall, you can pay your respects."
Tourists quickly went to buy incense.
I don’t know what the scene is like in normal times, but the incense burning in some temples and Taoist temples is very awkward. But the team leader and Xiao Bailong are here, and the incense is sold at a very reasonable price.
Everyone worshiped Guanyin devoutly and continued to follow He Huan.
He Huan said: "The saint worshiped in Chongsheng Temple is Guanyin. Buddhism was introduced to Dali during the Nanzhao period of the Tang Dynasty, and reached its peak in the Dali Kingdom of the Song Dynasty. It became the main belief of the Bai people, and the Bai people believe in Guanyin the most."
He walked to the gate of Chongsheng Temple at the back and said, "This is the Tianlong Temple in the Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon. Duan Zhengchun and Duan Zhengyan are also the places where Duan Heyu became a monk.
In The Eight Parts of the Dragon, Duan Zhengchun is a very romantic woman, and she is always beautiful. In fact, Queen Gao of his family is very strict, that is, Duan Yu's mother, who is a famous talented woman in the country.
Duan Zhengchun praised his wife: The state has a heroine, and the family has a lovely wife. It is a good thing that the husband is not as good as his wife. Don't go to the west when your wife tells you to go east, talk sweet words to the east, and compete in poems to the west. The husband is born with no talent, and it is difficult to compete with the beautiful wife with red makeup.
Compared with high and low.”
"Hahaha……"
The team leader looked at him with a smile, he has such a good memory!
"So he is a role model for loving his wife. Now that men and women are equal, boys who can't get girls also call him a licker with grief and anger."
"Hahaha……"
The girls all pulled their boyfriends and laughed like crazy. Bulb said: "I want to lick it, but I can't!"
"But whether he always thought this way later is unknown. Anyway, the queen did not allow him to enter the harem, and he later became a monk. It is probably that Mr. Jin Yong wanted to get what he couldn't get in life.
He only had a wife and a son, so that the political power was coveted by the side clan. Duan Yu's mother learned her lesson and refused to let her husband have a harem, so she expanded the harem for her son and paid the compensation she owed me to her son. You can't say that she is narrow-minded, right?
"
"Hahaha... I'm so miserable!"
"It's hard to say whether Duan Yufeng is romantic or not. Maybe he just listens to his mother, compensates his father and serves the country."
The tourists laughed, and the group leader looked at him with a smile on his face, as if he knew for the first time that his scenic spot was so fun!
"In short, the marriage alliance is very broad. But if there are more harems, there will be harem disputes. Especially his mother's family, the Gao family, has always been married to the Duan family.
When he served as prime minister, he controlled the government affairs. When Persia, Kunlun and other countries came to court, they all paid homage to the prime minister first, and he was called the country of China. This also made him exhausted mentally and physically, and he was ignored, so he simply regarded everything as empty and became a monk.
After becoming a monk, he lived to the age of ninety-four, becoming the longest-lived emperor in Dali and the second-longest-lived emperor in the entire history of our country."
"Who's number one?"
"I won't tell you."
"Hahaha..." The tourists looked at him with both love and hate!
"All the beauties in the country are tired! Do you want to consider becoming a monk here?"
Tourists are staggering here and there. Look at the white clouds pressing down on the green mountains, and the green mountains are resplendent. It’s not a bad idea to become a monk!
"In reality, Duan Zhengyan is also an emperor who is good at reading, martial arts, diligent in politics, and loves the people. Yu ascended the throne at the age of twenty-five, and everyone came to congratulate him. Treasures filled the warehouse, cattle and horses were everywhere, and there was a big banquet in Wuhua Tower..."
Everyone was listening with infinite fascination, imagining the grace of this young emperor, when He Huan stopped and said, "We will talk about it this evening."
The team leader looked at him, as if he had just heard about a book and suddenly heard the next chapter decomposing it, and said unhappily: "Can't you talk about it now?"
"We'll talk about it tonight."
The team leader was helpless. It was impossible to finish talking about history at once, and the ancient city was the royal palace!
He looked at his tourists again and said, "He is the first to talk about the ancient city! The other tour guides let you move freely and never talk about it!"
The tourists looked at the little white dragon happily, and He Huan also smiled.
Going up to the halls one after another, the history of Dali Buddhism is explained in each hall, until the Wanghai Tower at the end. Everyone climbs up, with Cangshan Mountain in the back, overlooking the Erhai Lake, and feels happy!
After going downstairs and taking the sightseeing bus out, the group leader sat in a row with He Huan, "Next time I have time, let's talk about it carefully, completely! I heard that you talked for a whole day in the Nationalities Garden!"
He Huan smiled and said: "Okay."
After getting off the bus, the team leader walked him out and said, "You can call me in Dali. I can pick you up wherever you are."
A national key cultural relic unit, a five-a scenic spot, and a tourist symbol of Dali, He Huan certainly believes it.
"Well, thank you, team leader." He Huan and team leader Zhao exchanged phone numbers. This chapter has been completed!