Nanjing Cross-Clock Activity (Da Hongzhi Niushoushan)

New Year's Day is the intersection of the end of the old year and the beginning of the new year. All along, New Year's Eve has become a very important activity in many people's hearts, and praying for the New Year is a very grand thing. Many famous temples will ring bells in the New Year. Let's look at the bells in Nanjing.

Nanjing hongji

Nanjing Hongji Activity Time: 65438+February 3, 20081

Opening hours: 18:00- 2:00 am the next day.

Admission time:

Hongji Site Scenic Area:18: 00-23: 00; Yes, theater performance time: 2 1:00-22:00.

Tickets:

New Year's Eve dinner in He Shen ruins scenic spot: original price 1 18 yuan, special price 68 yuan, limited quantity.

New Year's Eve Theater Tickets: Special price 138 yuan, limited quantity.

Niushoushan in Nanjing

Time: 20 10 12 3 1.

Highlights of New Year's Eve activities: greeting blessings with a hundred drums, ringing bells to pray, lighting lanterns to pray, and praying with bulls' heads.

In the hearts of China people, drums always symbolize peace and good luck.

Happy drums, good luck and happiness. The new year's bell is greeted by drumming, which symbolizes the arrival of the Spring Festival and good luck.

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When the bell rings 108 times, it means that 108 kinds of troubles in life have been lifted.

At the end of the year, as the bell rings, we will be grateful for the past, pray for the future and enlighten the wisdom and good luck of the new year.

Ring the bell for blessing.

Lights symbolize light and wisdom.

Pray with a lamp, break the ignorance in your heart, and illuminate the lamp in the hearts of all beings.

When a warm heart lamp is lit, peace, joy, peace and hope also flow in the heart.

Light a lamp and pray.

Originally, it was an ordinary musical instrument, but in our country, it played an important role in almost all aspects such as political etiquette, religious belief, moral merit and so on. The bell is the gathering of the spirit of the sun in the underground, and the bell is rung to "summon" the spirit of the sun from the underground and nourish everything. The loud bell shook the earth and symbolized the vitality of the sun.

Because of this, before New Year's Day, temples all over China will ring the bell of 108 to welcome the arrival of the New Year.

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Why is the clock set to 108? There are two opinions: one is that Gezhi Jingyuan quoted Zhu Zhen's cloud: "Every time the bell strikes 108, it is December, with 24 solar terms and 72 hours." Yes 108, which symbolizes a cycle every year and will never change. This shows that in the farming society, people hope to ensure their food and clothing through Buddhism.

Another way of saying this is that Buddhism believes that people have 108 kinds of troubles, and 108 can be lifted. The bell rang and said, "When you hear the bell, you get bored;" Wisdom, bodhi life; Out of hell, out of the fire pit; May you become a Buddha all your life. "So the number of beads is 108, even the number of bodhisattvas is 108. These are all to eliminate people's troubles and achieve excellent and auspicious significance. The bell rang 108 times, which Buddhism called "108" to get rid of the troubles in the world. Generally, every time a temple rings a bell in the morning, it is called a morning bell and a night drum to remind practitioners to be diligent and be careful not to let go.