After finding a hotel room as a resting place, the couple immediately searched for Hangzhou travel guides on the hotel computer.
But I don’t know if she was infected by Chu Xuan. Liu Yifei, who had always been very transparent when it came to selection problems in the past, also suffered from the same difficulty in choosing as Chu Xuan.
"There are so many fun things, where are we going? I want to go there all the time."
Once people find it difficult to make a choice, they will fall into endless entanglements.
It wasn't until Hu Yanbin called to invite him to dinner at meal time that the couple made a decision. They randomly selected a travel guide and visited the attractions one by one according to the above, so as to avoid the entanglement of overthinking.
Hu Yanbin was very polite and ordered a large table of dishes for the three of them to eat. His career started thanks to "Legend of Red Flame" and he had thanked director Kong Sheng during the Chinese New Year. It was considered a chance meeting.
After meeting each other, I wanted to express my gratitude to the couple.
The couple responded politely, saying that all of this was due to Hu Yanbin's own ability, and both sides truly achieved mutual success.
After a harmonious and friendly dinner, the two parties parted ways.
With this meeting, the two sides also enhanced some friendships.
Hu Yanbin rushed back to the studio the next day to work on his career, and looked forward to having a good time together and having fun if both parties could participate in a Chinese singing and dancing variety show.
The couple happily replied "Okay", and after saying goodbye to him on the phone, they continued to start their travel world...
Lingyin Temple, backed by the North Peak and facing Feilai Peak, is located between two precipitous peaks and is not visible to the world. It is actually a good place for retreat for reclusive masters, and it is also a famous domestic tourist attraction.
It was neither a weekend nor a holiday, so there were very few people hiking under the scorching sun, but this was just in line with the leisurely environment the couple wanted for their mountaineering trip.
Liu Yifei was carrying a small white backpack, and Chu Xuan was carrying a black travel bag. The two of them each wore baseball caps and sunglasses. They were walking along the Yangchang Mountain Road, admiring the green shade of the nearby woods and lingering on the mountains and rivers on both sides. It was so pleasant.
"Lingyin Temple, I've never heard of it before. The name is so spiritual. It doesn't sound majestic like Songshan Mountain. It sounds more like the feeling of a Taoist master hiding in the wild."
"This temple was very famous in ancient times and has many interesting historical origins."
"Really, Teacher Chu, tell me a story."
Liu Yifei took Chu Xuan's hand and shook it. Then she jumped forward and turned around and walked backwards. She came face to face with Chu Xuan and looked very interested. She wanted Chu Xuan to tell her stories about this temple.
"Don't walk like this on the mountain trail. What if you step on the wrong foot and fall?" Chu Xuan saw his wife in a good mood due to traveling, but because it was really dangerous to walk backwards on the mountain trail, he tried to persuade her.
"With you here, I'm not afraid." Liu Yifei shook her head, very naughty, and revealed her 100% trust in Chu Xuan's complete sense of security.
"Tsk, come back and be obedient." Chu Xuan refused to obey her. It was just a joke, but he couldn't make fun of safety.
Seeing Chu Xuan's serious face, Liu Yifei snorted, then jumped back to Chu Xuan and walked normally.
Seeing Liu Yifei's unwilling and surrendered look, Chu Xuan joked: "Really, sometimes I don't understand you. I would say you are mature, but you do have a very mature side, and when you are mature, you don't look like a 21-year-old girl at all."
Jiajia, but sometimes she is very childish, just like a seven or eight-year-old girl. Are you a little witch who can change your mind?"
Liu Yifei smiled and winked at Chu Xuan: "Then which one do you like, the mature me? The childish me?"
"I like them all, as long as it's you." Chu Xuan said without thinking.
Liu Yifei said "Uh-huh" and was very satisfied with Chu Xuan's answer. She put her arm around him and said, "Tell me a story. What is the historical origin of Lingyin Temple?"
"It's a long story, let me sum it up." Chu Xuan organized his thoughts and brainstormed clues to the story from the books he had read in the past.
After a while, he spoke loudly.
"There is a race in the Western Regions called the Yue people, which can be traced back to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, there was a system of enfeoffment. The ancestors of the Qin Dynasty, the Qin people, originally raised horses for the powerful officials of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Because of their meritorious service in raising horses, they were enfeoffed by the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to Qin, which is now Gansu.
At that time, the west of the Qin Land was collectively called the Barbarian Land, and it was also a large area of the Western Region planned by the Han Dynasty.
The Qin people's fiefdom was the closest to the Western Regions. At that time, many Yi tribes invaded and harassed them, including the Yuezhi people.
As a result, the wars and disputes between the Qin people and the Yi people continued for hundreds of years.
During this period, the Qin people's fiefdom expanded and expanded, and the Yi people, including the Yuezhi people, were conquered to XJ.
Even so, the Yi tribe still suffered repeated defeats because they did not know how to produce and only knew how to plunder for a living.
It was not until Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, established the Western Region Protectorate, and established various passes and garrisons that the Yi people's eastward expedition was basically disrupted.
Those Yi people are not fools. If they want to attack the pass in the face of it, they will die. Therefore, a group of races have completely given up invading China, including the Yuezhi people.
The Yuezhi people were very lucky. They followed the right path of invasion all the way to the west and south, and plundered Tajikistan, Pakistan and then India along the way.
After entering India, the Yuezhi people stopped and woke up. They felt that relying on plundering was no longer a problem, and that self-sufficiency like the Chinese was the way to go.
So in the first century AD, the Yuezhi people established a country in India called the Kushan Empire."
"Wow." Liu Yifei said in surprise: "This is how the legendary Kushan Empire came about? Didn't the Indians resist at that time? Aren't there many people in India? The Yuezhi people are a racial tribe. How did they win?
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Chu Xuan smiled and continued.
“This is where it gets interesting.
Around 600 BC, Sakyamuni was born in Nepal. He was deeply moved by the poverty of all living beings, and that strong people would always enslave weak people to work, so he came up with the Buddhist idea that all living beings are equal.
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This is also true for Sakyamuni's independent thoughts. Once he preached, he gained a large number of followers and then embarked on his own career.
But to the north of Nepal are the Himalayas, which modern people cannot cross, and ancient people could not cross this mountain.
Therefore, Sakyamuni went south and entered the Indian region to preach. Indians were also the first ethnic group to accept Buddhism.
The idea of equality for all beings is very noble, but for India, where agricultural production was still very weak at that time, outstanding people could not show their talents, otherwise they would be unequal to those without talent.
Therefore, at that time, this kind of thinking was tantamount to rubbish.
It was such a rotten humanistic environment that lasted for hundreds of years that was violently crushed by the barbaric Yuezhi people in the first century AD, and the Kushan Empire was easily established."
"So that's it." Liu Yifei was very interested. She gained a lot of knowledge and said with great interest: "Later, what does this have to do with Lingyin Temple?"
Chu Xuan took a sip of the mineral water in his hand and continued.
“Because all living beings are suffering, Buddhism is the most down-to-earth and has been the most accepted by people since ancient times.
Or to put it bluntly, the doctrine that is easiest to brainwash people is Buddhism, because its doctrines are all about people's suffering, and it is easy to resonate with them.
Because of this, the Yuezhi people, the leaders of the Kushan Empire, were also brainwashed and believed in its evil idea of 'all living beings are equal'. Since they are equal, there is no distinction between the powerful and the common people, nor between superiors and subordinates.
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Without this distinction, problems would arise in all aspects. In the end, the indigenous people took advantage of the loophole and overthrew the Kushan Empire. This country only existed for 200 years.
In the 3rd century AD, the Kushan Empire fell, and power disputes began. War continued in various places, and those who could not survive began to run away.
Among them was an Indian monk. Because he spread the power and wealth of China when the Kushan Empire of the Yuezhi people ruled this area, he led a large number of temple believers northward and was very lucky to find a country on the Silk Road.
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After asking all the way and walking all the way, I came to the land of China from the Western Regions.
Unexpectedly, at that time, due to the influence of the Five Husbands, the land of China became a situation of Northern and Southern Dynasties. The north was controlled by foreigners such as Xianbei, and the south was controlled by the Han people.
This Indian monk devoted himself to China and traveled thousands of miles before finally arriving at Jinling and paying homage to the then leader of the Chen Dynasty.
When the leader of the Chen Dynasty heard that this man came from thousands of miles away and lost many believers along the way, as if he wanted to make a pilgrimage, he was naturally very happy, so he spent money and effort to build a temple for this Indian monk and revive Buddhism.
Because this Indian monk had the courage and courage to travel thousands of miles away, he thought that this Indian monk must be very wise, so he gave him the word "wisdom".
This Indian monk passed through the Northern Dynasties but disdained the land of the Northern Dynasties. It happened to be the territory of the Han people who wanted to come to the Southern Dynasties. He thought that the Indian monk was very sensible and sensible, so he gave him the word "reason".
Therefore, this Indian monk's Buddhist name is "Huili". Historical records only have his Buddhist name, but not his real name.
Finally, Abbot Huili established Lingyin Temple in Feilaifeng, Hangzhou.
The reason why it was built here is because the history books record the words of Abbot Huili: "The root of chaos lies in people, regardless of the level of civilization. Now that the Han people's land is not safe, it is best for poor monks to avoid it."
Sure enough, the Chen Dynasty collapsed within a few years, and there were endless disputes over the structure of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Dozens of dynasties changed over the past hundred years, but no matter how the dynasties changed, the precipitous location of Lingyin Temple was never affected and continues to exist to this day."
"Wow, this is really great wisdom." Liu Yifei admired this ancient man a little. He was so clever that he allowed Lingyin Temple to exist for more than 1,600 years.
Chu Xuan picked up the mineral water and took a sip, tightening the bottle cap while saying
"In the era of Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty in more than 600 AD, Chen Yi of Henan, also known as Tang Xuanzang, came to Lingyin Temple to discuss Buddhism and learned about the history of Abbot Huili, which triggered Tang Xuanzang's ambition to "acquire the Western Scriptures."
You can travel thousands of miles to spread Indian Buddhism eastward, and I can also travel thousands of miles west to spread Chinese Buddhism.
With such ambition, Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty came to India to "take the Western Scriptures" and single-handedly defeated thousands of temples in India through a "war of words."
"War of words..." Liu Yifei was amused.
Chu Xuan also smiled slightly and continued.
"Although Buddhism comes from Sakyamuni, our Chinese civilization is profound. Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty added a lot of Chinese elements to the core ideas based on Sakyamuni's Buddhism, combining Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism, Yin and Yang and other schools of thought.
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Now tell me, how could those Indian monks do better than Tang Xuanzang?
They only understand Buddhism. Tang Xuanzang understood hundreds of schools of thought, but he just packaged it into Buddhism.
Because of this move, monks all over India were shocked by Tang Xuanzang, and the Eastern Tang Dynasty also became a holy place for monks.
Therefore, it was during the period of Li Shimin that the flourishing period of the spread of Buddhism to the East initiated by Xuanzang of Tang Dynasty began here, adding a stronger cultural and civilized color to the rule of Zhenguan."
"It's so dazzling when I think about it." Liu Yifei thought about the prosperous age of the Tang Dynasty. The dazzling civilization of China really makes people want to go back and take a look. It must be very majestic and spectacular.
At this time, Chu Xuan changed the subject again.
“But success is also the Dharma, and failure is also the Dharma.
Because Li Shimin, Wu Zetian and others promoted Buddhism, a large number of temples occupied a large amount of land, and these lands were not taxed.
As a result, the country naturally gradually turned from prosperity to decline. By the end of the Tang Dynasty, it could no longer afford military pay, and a large amount of wealth was concentrated in the hands of thousands of temples across the country.
This was also one of the root causes of the fall of the Tang Dynasty, and one of the reasons for the Anshi Rebellion. It was also the rebel strategy of An Lushan and Shi Siming, the initiators of the Anshi Rebellion, to "destroy the temples first and then overthrow the Tang Dynasty."
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So the end of the Tang Dynasty was brought about by the Tang Dynasty.
It is quite interesting to interpret the prosperity and decline of the Tang Dynasty from this perspective."
Liu Yifei looked at Chu Xuan with admiring eyes, and said with stars in her eyes like a true love fan: "Teacher Chu, you are so awesome, I think you can become a history teacher. Not only do you explain clearly, but you are also very interesting.
I was immediately interested in history.”
"Boo~" She couldn't help but kiss Chu Xuan's face. She was conquered by Chu Xuan's talent and knowledge, and then praised her again: "Awesome! I have decided that you will tell me a story like this before going to bed in the future!"
She is a little interested in history, but history seems to be a very serious thing, and it is very boring if it is straightforward, so she has never taken the initiative to understand the idea of history, and only occasionally learned a thing or two from Chu Xuan's mouth.
But now it was the first time that she heard Chu Xuan talk about history in such detail, and that a simple Lingyin Temple could trigger changes in civilization for a thousand years from BC to AD. This simply broke the scope of her knowledge.
Can Lingyin Temple, established in the 3rd century AD, be related to the Yuezhi people of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period BC?
Can the Yuezhi people of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods be related to the Qin people at that time?
From the Qin people to the Han people, can it also be related to the Western Region Protectorate?
Can the establishment of the Western Region Protectorate also lead to the Yuezhi people going south?
When the Yuezhi people went south to establish the Kushan Empire, did they involve Indian Buddhism?
Subsequently, the Kushans were overthrown, and due to power disputes, Abbot Huili traveled east to China to establish Lingyin Temple.
And this Lingyin Temple affected the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty hundreds of years later, and paved the way for the collapse of the Tang Dynasty...
It turns out that the changes in civilization and history involved in any inconspicuous thing in the world can be so grand and magnificent. It really opened a window for her cognitively and gained spiritual insights.
A great improvement.
Whether looking at history or looking at current things, starting from the results and tracing back to the original roots and the essence of the process, this is the correct answer to learn from history!
Only then can the country know more thoroughly how to avoid repeating the mistakes of history at the root, only then can enterprises understand how to develop more correctly, and only then can we, as ordinary people, establish a clearer cognitive perspective when looking at things.
Liu Yifei hugged Chu Xuan tightly, clinging to Chu Xuan like a girl. What does it mean to be full of poetry and calligraphy? My husband is the perfect interpretation of this sentence!
"Am I too charming?" Chu Xuan turned his head to see his wife's sudden clingy look, and couldn't help but joked.
"Tch!" Liu Yifei got out of her body, folded her arms, made a proud look, looked at Chu Xuan and said: "I don't care, anyway, you have to tell me a story before going to bed."
Chu Xuan shook his head: "How can there be so many stories to tell? I am just a history buff, not an expert. I will tell you if I am interested. I will get tired of telling it every day."
"Hmm..." Liu Yifei continued to say "hmm". She felt that what Chu Xuan said made sense, so she nodded and said: "Okay, tell me the story if you are interested, but it is up to me to decide when you are interested."
Chu Xuan couldn't laugh or cry: "When do you decide when I am interested? Do I have no autonomy over my own interests?"
"Can't you?" Liu Yifei blinked. Underneath her innocent and cute appearance, there was a little witch hidden in her heart.
"Okay, okay, you are my boss, you have the final say." Chu Xuan accommodated her and doted on her.
"Yeah!" Liu Yifei said "yeah" happily, enjoying the tolerance from Chu Xuan.
There were not many monks gathered in Lingyin Temple, and there were only a few tourists under the bright sun.
Arriving here in broad daylight, the couple stopped making intimate gestures and stopped flirting. Although they didn't believe in Buddhism, they still had to show a minimum of respect.
I walked around and gave some money for incense. I bought a few sticks of incense and just threw them in the incense burner without praying.
According to what Chu Xuan said, if you don't believe it, why worship it? This is very hypocritical.
Facts have proved that no matter how grand Buddhism is, it cannot affect the foundation of five thousand years of civilization.
The belief of our civilization is that man can conquer nature, and there is nothing that Chinese people cannot do.
But what the Chinese can do, the so-called Buddha cannot do. It is clear which of the two beliefs is stronger and which is weaker.
After spending a day visiting Lingyin Temple, they returned to the hotel to rest for a good night. The couple continued to visit various scenic spots in Hangzhou according to their plan.
West Lake, Leifeng Pagoda, Songcheng, Qiantang River, Qianhu Island... Different from the self-written history and culture of tourist destinations in Western countries, most tourist attractions in our country have their own historical origins and allusions. This is the heritage of civilization.
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After several days in a row, Liu Yifei also found the right way to start traveling with Chu Xuan, which was to have fun while touring while listening to Chu Xuan's interesting explanations of the stories behind each scenic spot.
Chu Xuan didn't know everything. When he met someone who knew it, he would talk about it in detail. When he met someone who didn't understand it, he could only pick out some convincing things to say. However, it also added a lot of color to the couple's journey in Hangzhou.
It enriches the couple's emotional life.
While traveling in Hangzhou, it is impossible to travel in public without being noticed.
Therefore, the couple was photographed by passers-by at various scenic spots and posted on the Internet for fans to have fun.
"Report——Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei are at Leifeng Pagoda!"
"Report——Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei are at the Qiantang Riverside Cafe!"
"Report..."
The fans are also very funny, acting like a horse explorer in ancient times. They spread the couple's whereabouts in the group on Weibo for fans to follow up.
Many local fans in Hangzhou even followed "Tan Ma"'s revelations and went offline to "capture" the couple.
Those who "caught" it were naturally very excited after getting a photo with the couple, while fans who didn't "catch" it and those who missed it were more regretful.
On the day when fans were blindly guessing where the couple would go next in order to prepare for their stay in advance, the couple changed lanes and boarded a nanny car heading to Jinhua to start their next stop.