Shaolin Temple: It costs 6, yuan to burn a column of incense. How can this be incense burning?

[ repost] What Shaolin Temple did This place is really weird. When it comes out of Luoyang, the Luoshao Expressway is foggy and raindrops are scattered. As soon as I passed Dengfeng County and entered Songshan Mountain, I saw the sun shining and the blue sky washing. I thought the sky had cleared up, stayed in Shaolin Temple for nearly four hours, and then walked out of the valley of Songshan Mountain, where I saw gray and gloomy weather. I am a disciple at home who converted to Buddhism. I have visited a Buddhist temple and burned a column of incense. This is a habit. In the incense niche in front of the Daxiong Hall of Shaolin Temple, the thinnest incense stick is thicker than the arm, and the thickest incense stick is thicker than the bowl, all of which are about 1.2 meters long. At first glance, it is not burning incense, but burning money. It is just a etiquette and rule for Buddhists to burn incense. There are some requirements to clear the fragrance, but it is not as thick as possible, and the longer the better. In the past, Buddhists did not burn incense with a thick bowl. Knowing that the Buddhist world here has been covered with a layer of copper smell, I still can't help but gather together in the past, thinking that a hundred to ten pieces can also invite a column of Buddha incense. I don't know if I don't see it, but I was shocked when I saw it. Next to the incense niche in front of the Daxiong Hall in Shaolin Temple, three monks dressed in cassock sit and invite the guests to come over. They won't tell you the price and rules first, but please sign your name on the autograph book. Tourists don't know that the autograph book is a trap, and some people may mistakenly think that it is Shaolin Temple's respect for pilgrims, so they sign their names in a muddle, and you are trapped by this sign. After signing the name, the monk told you that all the pilgrims who signed the name, Master Shi Yongxin would personally recite the scriptures and recite the Buddha to help you eliminate the disaster, and so on. Then, pointing to incense with different thickness and splendor, but all of them are golden, I ask you: benefactor, which incense do you invite? Because as Master Shi Yongxin said earlier, good-looking tourists usually choose thick and gorgeous high incense, and they will tell you that this incense is 6, yuan when they hand it to you. At that time, it was too late for you to regret it. The name had been signed and you didn't say it. All the incense was in your hand, surrounded by spectators, and there was a giant Buddha in front of you. At this time, people usually swallow their bitterness and take out their money. Fortunately, there was a person in front of me who invited incense, which made me understand the process and didn't fall for it. The high incense in the incense niche is the cheapest 6 and the most expensive 6. The tourist chose the thickest incense stick. When he heard 6 yuan, his face turned white and froze there. His wife followed, her face hanging longer, pulling the man's cuff to go. The monk said, benefactor, you have already signed your name. The man, with a sad face, begged his wife and said, forget it, six thousand is six thousand. Honesty is the spirit, and wealth is broken to eliminate disasters. After watching this scene, I turned and walked away. Six thousand yuan is a stick of incense. Don't say that I can't afford to burn it. If I can afford it, I won't burn it. Where is burning incense? I clearly cheat people and collect money in front of the Buddha. I think there are all kinds of people in this society. Some people may come here specially for the incense of 6, yuan, and some people don't care about burning money. If Shaolin Temple doesn't cheat, you can put a sign in front of the shrine, clearly mark the price, and those who wish to take the bait. But they didn't. The three monks were sitting there, and they did nothing but lie. But it still hasn't escaped this robbery. When I turned to the last temple, I saw that the door of the temple was open and someone was kowtowing and burning incense there. I thought it might not be necessary to burn incense here, just put some money into the support box. So Qian lit a stick of incense, climbed down and kowtowed for three times. Before he got up, a monk in a gray cloth came over, folded his hands and recited Amitabha. He said, this is a place to kowtow and make a wish. Let me go and sign a sachet. At this time, I realized that I had been cheated, but I had finished my head. I can't run away, can I? So he followed the monk to the front of his wooden fish. He took out a sachet with six poems, each of which began with a number, saying that let me choose a number, and each number represents a hundred days. They would chant scriptures for the people who signed their names in the Buddha, asking the Bodhisattva to bless the pilgrims to fulfill their wishes.