Quick travel god stick demeanor

Xie Ange took out the imperial decree and looked at it for a few times, with an inscrutable expression on his face. Finally, he snorted softly and put away the imperial decree again.

This emperor is really promising!

Time passed unhurriedly, April is coming soon, the cold air recedes, and the summer heat begins.

It is true that the city is the most beautiful April day in the world. Jiankang City is already full of bright flowers, such as peach blossoms, pear blossoms, lilies, peonies, crabapples, lilacs, azaleas, magnolias, poppies... Brilliant and bright, showing off her beauty to the fullest.

The people in Jiankang City, no matter where they are day or night, they often smell the flowers before their eyes see them.

Even the major temples are not exempt.

Xie Ange's camellias also bloomed brilliantly, but I don't know if it's because of the aura around him. The camellias, which were originally only potted plants for appreciation, have long been out of room in the abbot's room, so they can only be transplanted outside the window.

People in the south are graceful and romantic, so in the courtyards, small households with tent doors, and homes in the suburbs, no matter rich or poor, high or low, flowers are indispensable in this season.

Prestige is like peonies, and common people are like spring greetings, decorating houses made of bricks and wood in every household.

There is a peach blossom mountain dozens of miles away in the western suburbs of Jiankang City. Countless peach blossoms gather together, clusters of peach blossoms, one tree, white with pink, pink with red, looking from a distance, a piece of flowers The beautiful ocean, graceful and charming, the clouds are steaming and the clouds are flourishing, but there are countless victories in the world.

Surrounded by rivers at the foot of the mountain, many dignitaries built courtyards here to enjoy flowers in spring and escape the heat in summer.The peach blossoms in the other courtyard are not like those on the mountain, they are piled up in patches, which has a dazzling beauty.

However, the garden is unique, with light bridges, gurgling water, luxuriant green grass, and occasionally a few peach blossoms among them, which makes the other courtyard full of spring, like a paradise.

In fact, leisure and leisure are common people's.The monks basically didn't have the leisurely mind to go out for a spring break, even Xie Ange was like this, honestly nesting in Fahua Temple to prepare for the Buddha Bathing Festival.

Every year on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, it is the Bathing Buddha Festival, also known as the Buddha's Birthday. It is a festival for Buddhists to commemorate the birth of Sakyamuni Buddha, which is equivalent to Christmas in the West.

According to legend, when Sakyamuni was born more than 2000 years ago, he pointed to the sky with one hand and the earth with the other, saying: "I am the only one in the sky and the world." So the earth shook, and Kowloon spit water to bathe him. Therefore, Buddhists usually bathe Buddha and other ways to commemorate the Buddha's birthday.

This is a very meaningful, lively and interesting festival, and Xie Ange quite likes it.

He didn't do anything else, so he instructed the monks in Fahua Temple to go around, clean the temple inside and out, and wipe all the Buddha statues clean.All kinds of banners, banners and treasure covers must be replaced with new ones, and incense, flowers, lamps, candles and various offerings must be fully prepared.

On the seventh day of the fourth lunar month, many devout men and women could not wait to gather in major temples, preparing to attend the commemorative puja held in the early morning of the next day.

Marquis Jing'an and Mrs. Hou were old and didn't go to the temple. The two grandsons stayed in the mansion, but the eldest son and his wife of the Marquis of Jing'an's mansion came to Fahua Temple.

There were so many horses and horses outside Fahua Temple that they blocked the road.In desperation, Jing'an Hou Shizi and his party had no choice but to abandon the car and drive away.The concubine Shi Zi protected her swollen abdomen with one hand, and was carefully supported by the maid, while the concubine Shi Zi and his servants surrounded the concubine Shi Zi to prevent the crowd from bumping into her.

After crossing the mountain gate, they saw banners and treasures fluttering in the wind along the way. After walking for a while, everyone saw a flower pavilion made of flowers and herbs. On the table in the flower pavilion was a copper basin, filled with In the fragrant soup, there is a statue of Sakyamuni boy standing in the soup. The bronze statue points to the sky with one hand and the ground with the other, which symbolizes the birth of Buddha.

"This fragrant soup smells so good! The fragrance is tangy to the nostrils, moderately thick, refreshing, and the lingering fragrance is endless. It can be called a first-class fragrance." The concubine said with a smile.

At the beginning, spices were used to worship heaven and sacrifice gods, and were also used to dispel evil, cure diseases and embalm, and later they were used in religious prayers.

In Nanliang, spices no longer only have practical significance, but have been integrated into aesthetics.The Taiping days have passed for a long time, and spices have also been widely used. From lavender, hanging pendants to anointing, drinking, and even metering, they all reflect people's exquisite and elegant life taste.

In the temple, incense is burned every day, and the rich and powerful often hold incense parties to appreciate all kinds of incense. This kind of gathering is especially popular among noble women.Gradually, blending fragrance has become an elegant thing like making tea, and Shi Zifei is even better at it.There were several spice shops in her dowry, and the spice recipes she prepared made her a lot of money.

Now smelling the strange fragrance of this fragrant soup, Shi Zifei couldn't help being curious.

The crown prince hurriedly said: "The fragrance you usually make is also very good."

The concubine Shi Zi covered her lips with a handkerchief and smiled, her eyebrows and eyes curved, and she said after a while: "What do you know? There is a recipe for the fragrant soup for the Buddha Bathing Festival. It must use sandalwood, red sandalwood, turmeric, borneol, agarwood, musk, and cloves. ...It is formulated, it is indispensable, and it cannot be easily changed, and it is more expensive than gold. Now, the same prescription has a specious fragrance, which shows that the perfumer has put in a lot of effort."

The concubine Shizi cast a teasing look at the son, with "pretend to understand" written in her eyes and brows, the son turned his head and pretended to look at the scenery.

The subordinates watch their noses and noses and their hearts.

They came neither too early nor too late.There is also a meditation room in the temple for believers to borrow, but there is not much room for choice. After donating money for sesame oil, he was led to a small courtyard by a young monk.

There is also a couple who live next door to Shizi and his wife. The husband Liu Qubing is a big businessman, but he looks gentle and elegant, more like a scholar, but his wife has a very straightforward temperament.

The meditation room has already been cleaned up by the monks, and the servants only need to pack their luggage.

A lot of good friends from Jing'an Hou Mansion also came to Fahua Temple, and the prince went out to socialize not long after.The concubine Shi Zi sat for a long time and was a little bored, so she went for a walk in the yard, and a tall pregnant woman with heroic features walked towards her.

The woman had a hearty smile on her face, not the kind of ladylike smile without showing her teeth, but a sunny smile with big white teeth, and she was talking to the maid for some reason.

As they got closer, the imperial concubine only heard a few scratches.

"Ma'am, you are old...you can't keep running outside."

"What do you mean by running outside? I just walk around and exercise my body. How can I call it hard work? Before I was pregnant, I couldn't even carry two bags of rice without feeling tired!"

The concubine Shizi heard it funny, but the little maid was already tired and wanted to help her, but she saw that the pregnant lady ran faster than her, a big girl with yellow flowers.

Unable to bear it any longer, both the imperial concubine and the maid laughed.

As soon as the madam heard this, her eyes lit up, and she started to walk this way, followed by the little maid panting.

The concubine Shi Zi, who was educated by a noble girl from a famous family since she was a child, was a little embarrassed, and said: "Ma'am, it is my concubine who is rude."

Mrs. Liu laughed, "Sister, you are so funny. It is rude to smile, so what is not rude? Crying?" After speaking, she laughed first.

The concubine Shi Zi couldn't help laughing, the two got along very well, and they chatted very quickly, and it didn't take long for sisters and sisters to yell.

When the men who went out to socialize came back, the two of them were almost married to Jinlan.

Thousands of monks from Fahua Temple and believers from all walks of life participated in the annual Buddha Bathing Festival, and a temple fair was even formed around it.

The eighth day of April, the beginning of Si.

In the solemn guard of honor, all the monks of Fahua Temple walked slowly to the abbot's room to welcome the abbot.

In the abbot's room, Xie Ange had already put on cassock, and was sitting upright on the futon. The sunlight that came into the room from the window sills shone on his weather-proof face, making him look more and more like jade.

The monks bowed their heads together and saluted: "Amitabha."

Xie Ange also smiled back: "Amitabha."

"Abbot, please."

Xie Ange stepped out of the abbot's room first, and led the crowd to the Daxiong Palace.

The author has something to say:

There is Christmas in the west, we have Buddha's birthday (^_^)

There will probably be another one tomorrow