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Chapter 186 Little Penglai in Baiyun Temple

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    Baiyun Temple is located about two miles outside the west gate of the capital. Qiu Chuji, the Taoist leader of the former dynasty, once built the Changchun Palace here to lead Taoism in the world.

    Later, his disciple Yin Zhiping established a Taoist temple on the east side of Changchun Palace and named it Baiyun Temple.

    At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the Changchun Palace and other buildings were destroyed by the wars caused by the change of dynasties. Only the Baiyun Temple survived and was continuously renovated and expanded as a royal Taoist temple. Today it is the largest and most famous Taoist temple in the capital.

    Since it is a royal Taoist temple, it naturally has a corresponding style. Ordinary people can only come in to burn incense during festivals and are not allowed to enter during normal times.

    Yesterday, the Winter Solstice Festival, was the day when Baiyun Temple was open to the public. Zhao Shouzheng and his group planned to come to burn incense yesterday, but they were stopped by Zhao Shouzheng.  Zhao Shouzheng told them that during this kind of festival, Baiyun Temple was crowded with people.

    It¡¯s really not worth it to burn incense and get dressed disheveled and covered in stinky sweat.

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? out of consideration for the fact that they are all people with status now, so they listened to their brother's words and came to offer incense today instead.

    When they left Xibianmen, crossed the moat, and arrived at Baiyun Temple.  In the huge Guanqian Square, the ground was full of incense paper and firecrackers, as well as various tents and curtains that had not been dismantled in time, erected along both sides of the square to the moat.

    You can see how lively it was here during the Winter Solstice yesterday.

    He couldn't help but feel sorry, and said that when Bai Yunguan was open next time, he must come to make up for the fun.

    Zhao Shouzheng, who was usually very talkative, became strangely silent at this time.

    He stared at Baiyun Temple for a long time, unable to control himself for a long time.

    "I heard that these four characters were inscribed by the late emperor's royal pen?" All the officials looked at Zhao Shouzheng, who regarded himself as a "Beijing expert".

    After a while, Zhao Shouzheng came back to his senses, nodded slowly and said, "Yes, it is the inscription written by Emperor Shizongsu himself."

    "It's not surprising that the late emperor cultivated Xuan Chong Taoism and wrote an inscription for Baiyun Temple." Tang Hezheng said with a smile: "It's just the emperor and the ministers. I'm afraid the life of the Taoist priests is not easy now."

    "Yuan Qing, be careful what you say." Shi Jinchen persuaded Tang Hezheng with a wry smile. This guy always spoke freely, and being with him always made people nervous.  "Besides, the court is investigating alchemists, not Taoist priests."

    "It's almost the same." Tang Hezheng smiled casually. His father Tang Shunzhi was an outstanding disciple of Duke Yangming. Although he has passed away, the big shots in the court still recognize him as his junior disciple.  With this background, he is naturally more open-minded than his more cautious contemporaries.

    "Okay, let's go in." At this time, Zhao Shouzheng also completely recovered his emotions, and greeted everyone who came to the temple in the same year: "This Baiyun Temple is the Taoist temple of Changchun Master. It has always been the most efficacious. Please be careful when entering."  Okay, don¡¯t anger the Immortal Chief.¡±

    Tang Hezheng knew that the second half of this sentence was meant for him, so he could only nod his head obediently, thinking to himself that my brother has become more mature and steady after entering Beijing. Could it be that he is a prosperous city in Beijing?

    All the disciples followed Zhao Shouzheng to the mountain gate. They saw that the mountain gate was three rooms wide, with a single eave glazed tile on the top of the mountain, a white marble carved arched stone door, and the inscription "Edict to Build Baiyun Temple" under the eaves. There were stone lions and Chinese watches on both sides of the door.  and other objects all demonstrate the style of the royal Taoist temple.

    They were naturally stopped by Zhike Taoist priests.

    Fang Wenshan stepped forward, took out a silver ingot from his sleeve, stuffed it into Na Zhike's sleeve, and whispered: "Do you remember me, Taoist Master Hu? I came to visit the front station at noon yesterday."

    "You" Na Zhike looked at Fang Wen for a long time, but he still couldn't remember meeting this person yesterday.  However, he still remembered that the prison hospital had promised yesterday to let a group of disciples come in to burn incense today. He squeezed the silver ingots in his hands, then gave Fang Wen a bright smile and said, "How could you not remember? I am a poor man in this business.  As long as you meet once, you will never forget it.¡±

    "Director Hu, you are so kind" But Fang Wen was deeply moved. This was the first time in his life that someone could remember him instantly.

    The guest couldn¡¯t help but shudder, thinking, is this person sick?  But for the sake of money, he opened the mountain gate and led everyone into Baiyun Temple.

    The smoke curling up in the Taoist temple and the bells ringing melodiously made the restless hearts of the disciples calm down involuntarily.  Under the leadership of Zhike, they visited the Lingguan Hall, Yuhuang Hall, Laolu Hall, Qiuzu Hall, Sanqing Pavilion and Siyu Pavilion, the fifth main hall, and the Fengzhen Hall and Confucian Immortal Hall behind them.

    All the seven halls in the middle road must be lit with incense.  Especially the Qiuzu Hall and the Confucian Immortal Hall are even more careless. Not only do they have to worship, but they also donate incense paper and money, in order to pray to the two immortals to bless them to win consecutive gold medals

    After the incense was burned in the seventh hall on the middle road, Zhike took the people there.Go to the palace and pay homage.  However, Zhao Shouzheng took advantage of no one's attention and ducked into the backyard of the Taoist temple through the moon gate behind Qiuzu Hall.

    In the backyard, there is actually a large garden called "Xiao Penglai". In the garden, there are small bridges and verandas, pavilions, rockery, ice lakes, white snow and red plums. Although it is the middle of winter, it still has the charm of a fairyland.

    Even if most people have come to Baiyun Temple several times to pay incense, they may not know this paradise.

    Back then, Zhao Shouzheng also broke into this "Little Penglai" by chance.  Today, revisiting his old place along the verandah, he seemed to have returned to that spring, when peach blossoms were blooming and plum blossoms were fragrant, and beauties were trying on thin clothes for the first time

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    In that room, the disciples had finished paying homage to the East Road Pavilion, and Zhike warmly invited them to visit the West Road Pavilion.  After all, it is the duty of every pilgrim to make pilgrims pay as much as possible for the scented oil.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Especially those who were robbed and relied on Zhao Shouzheng for financial support, were already short of money at this time.

    When they wanted to see what their brother¡¯s opinion was, they discovered that Zhao Shouzheng was missing

    "Where has brother gone?"

    "Have you gone to the hut?"

    "No, I haven't seen you for a long time"

    When the soldiers were about to look around, they suddenly heard the sound of a cannon outside the mountain gate.

    The Zhike¡¯s expression suddenly changed, and he stamped his feet and said, ¡°That¡¯s bad, a noble person is here to offer incense!¡±

    "Hurry up and take them away quietly from the east gate, don't bump into the noble man!" He ordered the Taoist boy who was following him, then left the disciples behind and ran away in a hurry.

    "Please hurry up and invite all the donors." The little Taoist priest was also anxious and urged the disciples: "There are not many nobles who can shoot off cannons outside the gate of this temple. In a moment, there will be guards in brocade uniforms coming to search the courtyard. If they get it from you  , we also want to eat."

    "Our brother hasn't come yet!" The disciples were panicked. No matter how arrogant they were on weekdays, their true colors were revealed when they met the noble Tianhuang.

    "The trail will send people to look for him. He has a small target on his own. Even if he is discovered, it doesn't matter. He can always cope with it" The little Taoist priest pushed and threatened, and finally drove the gang away from the east gate.  Out of Baiyun Temple.

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