Chapter 12: Dalongxing Temple (I)

The ancient city of Zhongdu in the Ming Dynasty under the Rijing Peak of Fenghuang Mountain, northwest of Fengyang County, Anhui Province. The surrounding three mountains are connected, and one water lingers, and the atmosphere is endless. In the second year of Hongwu, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict to take "Zhongtian and establish the four seas and three peoples". Fengyang, the birthplace of the city, was the Zhongdu, and the city was built according to the capital system, which concentrated all the craftsmanship and technology across the country, and built for six years. The main buildings are the outer, middle and inner cities. The outer city is Zhongdu City, with high soil

The wall is 3 zhang, 45 zhang; the middle city is the imperial city, 13.5 zhang, and the brick wall is 2 zhang; the inner city is called the Forbidden City, 6 zhang, about 4 zhang, 5 zhang, and the palaces in the city are magnificent and the carvings are ingenious. "Zhongdu Zhi" says: "The scale is so prosperous that it is the best in the world." Its scale and luxury are more than that of the Forbidden City in Beijing and the Forbidden City in Nanjing. The Forbidden City also draws on the architectural craftsmanship and structure of the Forbidden City in Zhongdu and Nanjing.

After more than two hundred years, this majestic city built by skilled craftsmen in the world would have been destroyed by war in the peasant uprising soon. Now it will be well preserved and become a precious ancient architectural heritage of the Chinese nation. Zhu Yinglong, who was dressed up by a simple and simple look, was in a particularly good mood. He came to Fengyang, Zhongdu, talking and laughing along the way.

When entering the realm of Zhongdu, Zhu Yinglong felt like a middle-aged man returning home, and his heart felt warm. This feeling was something Zhu Yinglong had never seen before in this time and space. It was very mysterious and mysterious.

"The thread in the hands of the loving mother, the clothes on the wandering son are sewn tightly before leaving, and they are afraid that they will return late. Who says that the heart of a grass can repay the three spring sunshine..."

Meng Jiao's song "The Song of a Wanderer" clearly reflects this strange feeling in his heart. It has been four years, and I don't know how his parents in that time and space are now living. If they lose their son, they will feel so painful. Thinking of this, Zhu Yinglong couldn't help but have a little wet eyes.

"Brother Wu, what's wrong with you?" Magu, who was nestled in Zhu Yinglong's arms, felt the man's emotions suddenly become strange, and raised his head and asked with concern.

"No, nothing, Fengsha squinted his eyes!" Zhu Yinglong quickly reached out and rubbed his eyes, covering it and said.

Although Magu was smart, he could never guess what Zhu Yinglong was thinking at this moment, so he believed it and stopped asking questions.

He ordered the Hai brothers to find an inn and settle down first. Zhu Yinglong came to Zhongdu this time to come and check the people's sentiments. There were not many opportunities like this in the future. Therefore, he did not want local officials to know that all the illusions were hidden, and it also disturbed the normal lives of the local people. There were more people in their group, and there were a few beautiful relatives like flowers. Therefore, he became the chief escort of the escort agency. The Hai brothers and a group of large inner guards all became escorts and wademen. Xiong Hu and Lan Rong became female heroes in the martial arts world. Magu, the chief escort lady, Yanhong became a maid after all. The items they accompanied him were temporarily guest-starred as an escort. Along the way, several large inner guards had worked in the escort agency and shouted escorts. When they spoke jargon, they were all seamless. No one expressed doubts about their nearly 100-person team.

The Zhongdu Imperial City could not be entered. Unless he showed his identity, he had no intention of going in and taking a look. He came to Zhongdu just to see the Huangjue Temple where Zhu Yuanzhang became a monk. He had no other interest.

After settling down, Zhu Yinglong took Xiong Hu and other five girls, Zhuoba, Hai brothers and the Shiming Dawei, to find out where the Huangjue Temple was located, and a group of nineteen people left together.

Huangjue Temple is also known as Longxing Temple. Zhongdu Fengyang is the place where Longxing was found in the Zhuming Dynasty. It should be named. In the 16th year of Hongwu, it was moved from Ganying, 6 kilometers southwest of Fengyang County to rebuilt it. It was named "Dalongxing Temple". Zhu Yuanzhang personally wrote the "Longxing Temple Stele" text, and set up a monk to record the abbot and awarded the Longxing Temple Seal. The temple was built by Zhongdu famous craftsmen. It has fine carvings and regulations, and has a very high level. It is one of the important buildings in Zhongdu City. According to the "Records of the Hongwu Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty", "(Longxing Temple) Buddha Hall, Dharma Hall, and monk houses belong to 381 rooms." The main buildings include the Heavenly King Hall, the Great Hall, the Zen Hall, the Galan Hall, the Ancestor Hall, the Great Compassion Pavilion, the Taizu Hall, the Ksitigarbha Hall, the Buddhist Hall, the Buddhist Hall, the Sutra Tower and the Imperial Monument Pavilion.

"The imperial construction of Dalongxing Temple" is made of gold and blue, shining brightly. The buildings in the temple are majestic, antique and sturdy. The Buddhist holy land, the sound of chanting and chanting scriptures is constantly coming out, and the royal temple is indeed extraordinary.

"Donor, please stay!" Zhu Yinglong was about to climb up the steps when a little novice monk ran out of the mountain gate to stop his footpath.

"My little master, why did you stop us from going?" Zhu Yinglong said in surprise. Although Dalongxing Temple is a royal temple, it does not prohibit people from entering the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha!

"The abbot of the presidency ordered that there will be distinguished guests to the temple today, so this temple will not receive other pilgrims today. Please forgive me!" Xiao Sha said.

This is strange. Dalongxing Temple is a royal temple. When the emperor arrives, he is actually turned away. If this spreads, it will definitely be a strange thing.

"Master, who are the distinguished guests in your temple today?" Zhu Yinglong asked in confusion.

"The little monk doesn't know, donors, please come back!" After saying that, the little novice monk bent down and said, "Amitabha" and returned to the mountain gate.

Although he was the emperor of Taizu Longxing Temple, he did not dare to trespass. Since there were guests receiving them, it was not the time to come, Zhu Yinglong felt unhappy and said, "Let's go back, come tomorrow morning."

Just as he was about to get on his horse, the mountain gate suddenly opened wide, and two rows of monks came out one after another, and they were placed on the steps of the mountain gate, and kept whispering to the Buddha. Then the old monk wearing a robe with big red gold silk lace folded his hands and bowed to Zhu Yinglong and said, "Amitabha, donor, please stay!"

Seeing that he had his ears hanging down, his eyebrows were gray, and his peaceful aura, and his robes were wearing, he recognized the old monk at a glance, and must have been the host of Dalongxing Temple. He turned around and walked to Taijie and said, "Master Abbot wants to stay down, can you give me some advice?"

The old monk walked down the mountain steps and came to Zhu Yinglong. Heshi apologized and said, "My husband Hongzhi has seen the donor. He just now was reckless and neglected the distinguished guest. Please forgive me!"

"So that the distinguished guest that the little novice monk mentioned just now is here?" Zhu Yinglong was secretly shocked. Could this old monk know whether he was coming before he knew whether he was coming?

"The purple qi comes from the east, and the donor is the best person in the world. What is it if he is not a distinguished guest?" Abbot Hongzhi said with a calm smile.

Zhu Yinglong smiled and the old monk quietly pointed out his identity with one sentence. There was no need for him to hide his armpits and said, "How did Master Abbot know that I'm coming today?"

"Last night, I watched the celestial phenomena at night and found a purple aura that was rising like the sun was coming to Zhongdu. This morning, I passed by Taizu Hall and found that Emperor Taizu actually picked up his beard and smiled at me. In surprise, I inferred that a distinguished guest would arrive today, so I asked the young disciple to guard the mountain gate and welcome the distinguished guest alone. But I didn't know that he didn't know the distinguished guest and drove away the distinguished guest. It was my fault. Amitabha!" said Hongzhi.
Chapter completed!