The legend of Foshan
Author: Wang Zhien? Edit picture: Dai Xin
Foshan, located at the junction of Henan and Shaanxi, is famous for its red, bright and burning maple leaves in autumn.
Foshan was not originally called Foshan. Because of the fog on the mountain, it was originally named "Fushan" and later changed to "Fushan" and "Fushan". What's going on here? This has to start from the beginning.
According to legend, in the early years, an old monk, Jue Yuan, came here and was thirsty. Suddenly, a woman in red floated from the depths of the jungle, like a delicate and bright red leaf. Jue Yuan's eyes lit up: Amitabha, Fushan and such a beautiful woman! So I asked the woman: Is there a mountain spring to quench my thirst? The woman looked at his white beard and said, "Can I call you Grandpa Beard?" Jue Yuan smiled, the woman's face turned into a flower, and then turned and disappeared into the jungle. Not long after, I came with a bamboo tube full of Ganhuan Mountain Spring. After drinking the mountain spring, the old monk felt refreshed and as light as a swan. Seeing this commanding place, the mountains are unobstructed, and the mountains in the distance are crystal clear and clear. The cottage at the foot of the mountain looks like a clear and beautiful land of geomantic omen. Jue Yuan decided to chant and preach here, cultivate one's morality and cultivate one's sexuality.
The woman in red is called Ye Er. After Jue Yuan came, she became his shadow, never leaving. She helps to grow vegetables on the mountain. She called her father and neighbors to build a temple. The courtyard sighed: "This is a good woman given to Fushan by Bodhisattva!"
The temple gradually took shape and was named zenrinji. In the past few years, not only Luozhou, Hua Wei, Shaanxi, Henan and Hubei, but also good men and good women followed. Zenrinji incense is flourishing, and Fushan zenrinji is famous all over the world.
Fushan Mountain is very lively, and villagers can earn some money by setting up stalls.
The maple leaves on Fushan Mountain are also dyed every year, full of red mountains and full of sunshine.
An old scholar said that Jue Yuan brought blessings to Fushan, so he changed Fushan to Fushan, hence the name "Fushan".
One day, a lonely monk came, and his dharma number was enlightened. He had to run away to avoid disaster because he was accidentally involved in personal grievances. Good Jue Yuan took him in.
Ye Er saw this man and said, "Grandpa Beard, this understanding is really poor." . Sure enough, this consciousness is really lazy, not carrying water and chopping wood, not growing vegetables in the fields, and not sleeping late. Jue Yuan advised him, but he wouldn't listen. He ran down the hill to steal clothes and food to sell and buy wine to drink. He also looked at Ye Er with a cheeky smile and said, "The women in Fushan are really beautiful! There is nothing more exquisite than Fukuyama women in the world. Why don't I be secular and marry you? "
Ye Er turned pale with anger. He once again said, "Grandpa Beard, get out of Wuzhen."
Feeling far away, he said, "He is homeless. If I drive him away, the Buddha should not! " "
Kewu Town went further, stealing chickens, sheep, pigs and dogs from villagers, or selling or eating them. He also steals money from pilgrims, touches beautiful women and does what he can.
Jue Yuan finally had enough. He said seriously, "A monk should keep his duty, abstain from greed and do good deeds in the countryside. But you have repeatedly done the same thing as a thief, and you are lewd and dirty. Jue Yuan dare not stay, you can find a way. " . Ye Er clapped his hands: "Grandpa Beard did the right thing. Get rid of him. " .
Wu Zhen had to go.
This autumn, Ye Er went to live with Aunt Huayin for several months. When he came back, his father told him that Grandpa Beard had left.
Ye Er ran to Fushan and cried in front of Jue Yuan's new grave in the maple forest. Her tears poured down like rain, and the whole Fushan was in tears.
A few years ago, the overwhelming red maple leaves disappeared, leaving only bare trees and desolate and cool mountains.
In zenrinji, the smoky scene of the past is gone, and there are no pilgrims in front of the door.
Ye Er thought, that must be Wu Zhen's bearded grandfather.
One day, Zhen Wu, who had been sleeping until sunset, stretched himself and just went out, and his body screamed and was hung in the air by a rope. Ye Er, dressed in red, stood at a distance with a rope in his hand and said at the other end, "This is my device for trapping wild boar. Do you think you killed Grandpa Beard? Don't say it, just hang you in zenrinji. "
Wu Zhen reluctantly told the story. After being kicked out, he idled around, had no food, no clothes and no place to live, so he had to come back to Jue Yuan. Jue Yuan said, "You have ruined zenrinji's reputation. I dare not accept it." . Seeing that there was no hope of taking him in, Wu Zhen was angry and ashamed, so he punched him, and poor Jue Yuan died.
Ye Er hands a loose, enlightenment really fell from mid-air. Unexpectedly, this enlightenment really practiced kung fu and fell to the ground unscathed, grinning and saying, "You dare to fight me with a little girl! Don't fight me, Fukuyama, no one can fight me! Seeing that you are watery, it is better to follow me and be a woman for me. "
Ye Er said with bright eyes, "Grandpa Beard can't die in vain".
But Ye Er is ill. In the past, when she was ill, Grandpa Hu would come to see her and give her medicine. As soon as she drank the medicine he cooked, she was all right. Today, the disease has lasted for half a year.
Zhen Wu became cautious after being hanged once. He keeps several vicious dogs in the temple and leads them when they walk during the day, for fear of being calculated again. No one dares to go near zenrinji at night. Since then, this kind of education has become even more unscrupulous, climbing mountains and mountains, grabbing openly and secretly, bullying men and women, and committing all kinds of evils. There were once able-bodied men in the mountains who tried to get rid of Zhen Wu with axes and sticks, but none of them were Zhen Wu's opponents, either killed or killed. Therefore, this enlightenment is famous, and anyone who mentions the word "enlightenment" is cold all over.
Fushan is sparsely populated, and there is no sight of incense and pilgrims in zenrinji. Villagers can't set up stalls in Fushan, and even dare not go out on weekdays.
Fukuyama is not blessed, and Fukuyama has fallen. Someone simply changed "Floating Mountain" to "Floating Mountain".
In summer, Ye Er's condition gradually improved.
One morning, before dawn, Ye Er went to Fushan.
Wu Zhen saw Ye Er's face turned white after his illness, his eyes were bigger, brighter and more charming, his eyebrows were meniscus, his lips were ruddy and delicate, and his thin body was even slimmer, especially the red dress, which was like fire. The evil monk has long been fascinated and drooling.
Ye Er said, "Don't you want to marry me?" Wu Zhen almost jumped for joy. Enlightenment's fear that Ye Er will set a trap for him again, he secretly watch out. Ye Er went down the mountain in the morning and evening, cleaning the yard, carrying water, washing and cooking, and growing vegetables. He didn't see any signs of setting a trap for him. Zhen Wu thought that Ye Er might not be able to defeat him or obey him.
I heard that Ye Er was going to realize the truth, and my father was scared silly. The villagers were also shocked. Asked her, she pursed her mouth and said nothing.
It's autumn in a blink of an eye. On this day, Ye Er said to Wu Zhen, who had been waiting for a long time, "We are under pressure in Fushan. People who have done too many bad things should use pine oil to stick away the evil spirits before marriage, otherwise they will fester and bleed to death within three days of marriage. You have killed many people and done too many bad things, but you must eliminate evil spirits and evil spirits. " Wu Zhen quickly asked how to divide it. Ye Er told him to look for pine trees in the woods, take off the pine oil, stick it on his body, and take it out again in a few days, so that evil spirits would stick the pine oil away. In autumn, pine trees are covered with shiny and sticky turpentine. Wu Zhen ran into the Woods without saying anything, and did so. Ye Er was busy as usual, but he also brought dry wood from the mountain to fill the house.
After a few nights, Ye Er lit a fire in the stove and asked Wu Zhen, "Do you know what this pine oil can do besides ward off evil spirits?"
Wu Zhen, covered in turpentine, shook his head.
Ye Er stood up, dressed in red. Ye Er pulled out a burning pine branch from the hearth and smiled coldly: "It can also drive away villains!" Said that the pine branches in his hand were thrown at Wu Zhen. Pine oil caught fire, and with a shout, Wuzhen immediately became a burning man, crying, and the fire on his body ignited the dry wood in the house, and the Zen forest suddenly became a sea of fire.
That night, people in the dozens of miles around Fushan Mountain saw a red light coming slowly from the Zen Temple and dyed the sky red.
No one can do anything to villains, but Ye Er, a woman in red, got rid of them.
In addition to the villains, Ye Er burst into tears beside the ruined zenrinji. Her cry is as bleak as the autumn wind. People say, "Ye Er is crying for her beard grandpa".
The next morning, people suddenly found that the maple leaves that had not been seen for many years on Fushan turned red overnight, and the maple leaves all over the mountain surged like fire. .......
Ye Er's burning of zenrinji soon spread, and monks from far and near came to Fushan to rebuild zenrinji. Pilgrims who pray for God are bustling, and Fushan is bustling. There are more and more monks in zenrinji, who abide by Buddhism and Taoism, are merciful, pray for the people, help the weak and help the poor, and win the hearts of the people. Therefore, people changed Fushan to "Foshan".
Since then, the maple leaves on Foshan have been bright red, and the name Foshan has been used ever since.