The Struggle History of the Fourteenth Qing Dynasty

The Fourteenth Lord snatched the braid back: "Don't sigh, hurry up and polish the ink for the Lord, and I have to write a letter again, this time I will tell Huang Ama and Er Niang about the Buddhist temple."

The letter from the Fourteenth Master to Kangxi is easy to say, anything can be done.

But it's not good for Concubine De, he is afraid that Concubine De will think about him.

Every time I write some interesting things to make people happy, such as so-and-so patrolling and fell a big butt, and so-and-so sprained his ankle during the war, which is counted as a battlefield injury.

Or those who won a battle and were in a hurry to eat, but burned their mouths, whoever ate meat without dipping salt, etc.

But these things can't always be told to Concubine De, lest Concubine De think that his army is full of two hundred and five.

Now, his mother believes in Buddhism, or in other words, there is no woman in the harem who does not believe in Buddhism. There is also a small Buddhist hall in Defei's Yonghe Palace dedicated to enshrining a white jade Guanyin, which came from a certain famous mountain and Dachuan ancient temple. Avalokitesvara of passing light.

The women in the harem should be pure and ascetic, as if they became the emperor's women, all of them have no desires, few people will compete for favor and jealousy, let alone be jealous.

That is not advisable.

So the fourteenth master felt that his mother-in-law could divert his attention.

So he wrote a letter to Kangxi, telling him his great wish of "replacing himself with hair", and only asked Huang Ama to take care of himself, not to be angry, and not to be angry with some indifferent people.

What moved Kangxi even more was that the Fourteenth Master also told Kangxi about the situation there. Although there are few plateau plants, they are not without them.

In his room, there are many, which can make his breathing more comfortable.

Kangxi felt a little distressed at Shishi, and asked Liang Jiugong beside him: "You said, did I transfer Shishi back? It was too difficult there."

Liang Jiugong didn't dare to say anything, he just smiled and said: "Master Fourteen is really filial!"

Kangxi was very happy in his heart: "Fourteen is the most filial child."

"Yes, that's the Fourteenth Lord, who can do this and replace himself with hair." Liang Jiugong actually admires the Fourteenth Lord very much. How did he come up with this method?

Concubine De also received a letter from Fourteen.

It said in it that not only prayed for Long Live God, but also prayed for Concubine De.

It was written in the letter: "Huang Ama is the biological father and Erniang is the biological mother. Both are indispensable. The son and minister only use hair as a substitute. I only hope that the Buddha can see the piety of the son and the minister, and bless Huang Ama and Erniang. Stay healthy and live a long life."

Seeing Concubine De's tears streaming down her face: "This silly boy!"

"Sister, the Fourteenth Master is really filial." Concubine Min also wiped away tears: "My sister must take care of herself for the Fourteenth Master."

During the recent change of seasons, Concubine De had a stomach flu, she was vomiting and could not eat anything, Princess Yong personally went to the palace to serve the illness, and cooked some side dishes for De Concubine to eat, but there were not many, Yong The concubine was so anxious that Prince Yong also came twice, but Concubine De drove him away, saying that he had too many things to do, so stop hanging around in the harem and get busy ahead.

Chase him away.

In fact, it is useless for Prince Yong to come, he is not needed for Shiji, but Kangxi is not in Beijing, but Prince Yong is needed to sit in front of him.

Shisan is also busy, Kangxi is not at home, and Shisan is busy protecting the Firearms Bureau.

Don't allow people to take advantage of loopholes!

Although the others are small, they still have to take care of Fourteen's business, their own business.

This time, the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentyth followed Kangxi to the north tour, and no one else left.

Prince Cheng was in the middle of the capital, and everyone was tense. This third brother has a character like no wind, no waves.

Babeile is also in Beijing, although he has no errands, he is not idle!

"I know that he is filial, so I feel sorry for him. You said that even the Mongolian Eight Banners don't like to go to that place, let alone the Tibetan Eight Banners." Army, and then to the Lama Temple, there will be no time to stop."

Although Concubine De is silent in the palace, but the palace is the place where the world's news is the most well-informed, and the harem can basically know what's going on in the previous dynasty.

So Concubine De also knew some of the previous situation.

Fourteen seems to be the king of the Great General, majestic and majestic, but the battle ahead is not easy to fight. Since the beginning of the war, it has been good news of victory.

But what if we lose?

People don't have a thousand days to be happy, and flowers don't have a hundred days to be successful.

The pressure was already high, and it was all like this, but Fourteen was still thinking about Huang Ama and her mother-in-law.

"Sister, the fourteenth capital is the general king. Don't worry too much. I haven't heard that Nian Gengyao's firearms battalion beat the enemy to death. The concubine heard from the thirteen family that when the cannon fired, the golden million Two! It’s about the fact that once the cannon is shot down, the military exploits and spoils are too much to fit in. The Mongolian Eight Banners won this battle, and on Fourteenth they didn’t even share the spoils with the Mongolian Eight Banners, because they didn’t like it!” Concubine Min smiled and said in a low voice: "I heard that the soldiers of the Mongolian Eight Banners even stripped the captives of their clothes. What's the use of those ragged coats?"

"The frontline wars are like this. He didn't even mention it to me in the letter." Concubine De burst into tears again: "Who are these people? Picking up people's clothes?"

Concubine Min didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Don't get me wrong, the soldiers on the front line are angry, what rebellion do you mean for no reason? Even if it wasn't for our Qing Dynasty, then it was for our Qing Dynasty. Canonized ones, don’t clear up the canonized ones now.”

In fact, they didn't know much about the cause of the war, and they didn't ask so much about things they weren't interested in at all.

Concubine De continued to look down, and in her mind she also mentioned two temples, the introduction of various layouts, and the treasured ancient relics inside. Concubine De looked at it for a long time, and suddenly said to Concubine Min: "Do we have people who make thangkas here? "

Thangka is also called Tangga, Tangka, which is a transliteration of Tibetan, and refers to religious scroll paintings that are mounted in colorful satin and hung for worship.Thangka is a unique art form of painting in Tibetan culture. The subject matter involves many fields such as Tibetan history, politics, culture and social life. Most of the Thangkas handed down are works of Tibetan Buddhism and Bon religion.

Because most Thangkas are made of religious portraits, using bright colors to depict the world of the sacred Buddha; traditionally, the pigments are all precious minerals such as gold, silver, pearls, agate, coral, turquoise, malachite, and cinnabar. Precious stones and plants such as saffron, rhubarb, and indigo are used as pigments to show their sacredness.These natural raw materials ensure that the painted thangkas are bright and dazzling in color, and even after hundreds of years, they are still bright and bright in color.

Traditional Thangka drawing has strict requirements and extremely complicated procedures. It must be carried out in accordance with the rituals in the scriptures and the requirements of the master, including the pre-painting ceremony, making the canvas, drafting the composition, coloring and dyeing, drawing lines and shaping, laying gold and silver, opening eyes, A whole set of technological procedures such as sewing, mounting and consecration.

It takes a long time for one person to make a thangka, half a year in the shortest time, and more than ten years in the longest time.

Thangka is inherited and developed from the cloth painting of Bon religion, a native religion in Tibet.

Bon monks used portable canvas paintings for preaching, which was later used by Buddhism.

"You want?" Minpin blinked: "Making Thangka?"

"Sakyamuni: Crystal Mirror" written by Ngawang Luosang Gyatso, the fifth Dalai Lama, contains: Dharma King Songtsan Gampo drew a statue of the auspicious Goddess with his own nosebleed, and it was placed in Cai Bawan During the period of head of the household, Living Buddha Guozhuxi saw this goddess statue and put it in the statue as a decoration. This is the theory of the origin of Tangga.” Concubine De touched the letter of her youngest son: “Find a Karma The thangka masters of the Gazi School of Painting, or find a few more, pay a high price, and let them make thangkas for the palace!"

The Karma Gazi School of Painting is also translated as "Garma Gachi School of Painting", also referred to as "Gazi School" or "Gachi School", born out of the "Menzi" School of Painting.

It is popular in the eastern part of Tibet, centered in Ganzi, Dege, and Qamdo, Tibet. According to legend, it was founded by the Living Buddha Nankha Tashi and named after the Karmapa Dharma Assembly.

The source of the style of the Karma Gazi School of Painting is relatively complicated. The founder of the school, Nanka Tashi Living Buddha, took the South Asian Sanskrit-style bronze Buddha statue as a model, and was deeply influenced by the paintings of the Miantang School Gadan Xiajueba Yejuepangde.

Beautifully crafted and gorgeously styled.

In other words, such a thangka is quite expensive, and Concubine De has to pay for it herself.

"I'm not short of money, but I need something, and I can finish it within a month." Concubine De said: "I can add money, as much as I want, and it only takes one month to complete the work."

Concubine De had something to do, and her condition improved a lot, so she didn't need Prince Yong to wait on her, she got better herself, and started to talk about this matter.

What kind of things can't the Ministry of Internal Affairs do?

In addition, this matter was ordered by Empress Defei, so no one dared to delay.

Soon, more than a dozen masters of thangka making came, all of whom were from the Karma Gazi school of painting, and Concubine De spent a lot of money to buy all kinds of things for making thangkas.

Gold powder, silver powder, pearl powder, agate jade, coral powder, turquoise powder, malachite powder, cinnabar from Korea.

Saffron from Tibet, rhubarb from Sichuan, indigo from Jiangxi...

Everything is not cheap.

The Fourteenth Lord still doesn't know about his mother's big move, because if you go up, you will be on a real plateau, not to mention that the rebels can't hold on, and the people of the Eight Banners of Mongolia are eyeing the enemy.

So much so that the enemy put up the free card.

In addition, on the Fourteenth side, we also have to adapt to the climate, so both the enemy and ourselves have a relatively peaceful and stable period for the time being.

Three months later, Beijing's supplies arrived.

Among them are the rewards from Kangxi, those who rewarded the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and the things given to Fourteen by Concubine De and Prince Yong.

One of the gifts sent by Concubine De was for the monastery alone, two sets of thangkas with more than 200 kinds of Buddha statues and the black flag of Dharma protector Vajra Dancer Sijie on them.

There are also the Muxu Buddha body and Dala Buddha body made of iron for Yixi Temple for a hundred days.

Bronze Buddha statue made for Agi Rinpoche (incarnation of White Tara, daughter of Venerable Rong Rin Dorje) of Tumu Temple.

These two gifts were delivered to the two temples by the Fourteenth Lord himself, not to mention making the two temples happy.

Thangkas with the theme of Buddhism are used as offerings, which must be hidden and consecrated. On the back of the Thangka, the head, neck and heart of the Buddha statue are written with three Sanskrit characters Om, Ah and Moo in red pen, and the lamas are invited to recite the scriptures. Bless and consecrate.

On the back of many Thangkas there are Tibetan words written in red pen, indicating that these Thangkas have been stored and consecrated by monasteries or private living Buddhas since they were completed.

There are also some thangkas that do not have the above words, but have a complete handprint or signature, which are also forms of consecration.

Tibetan Buddhist believers believe that the thangka Buddha statues that are installed and consecrated are indistinguishable from the real Buddha, and if they are enshrined and practiced, they can also be blessed by the Buddha.

On the Thangka sent by Concubine De, Concubine De personally embroidered the seven characters "Faithful Lady Wuya's Worship" on the bottom of the Thangka with gold thread.

Before sending it away, Shisi touched the seven characters and didn't want to give them to the temple anymore.

"Is this the embroidery of Empress Defei? It's really good." Nian Gengyao glanced at it and thought the embroidery was really good.

The small golden characters are very delicate.

"When I was young, my grandfather's clothes, shoes and socks were all made by Erniang. In fact, I knew that she also made them for my brother, but I was too embarrassed to take them out. My brother didn't know about Erniang's hard work. Matching the two of them, they are both mother and son, what is the relationship between them that can't be discussed? In fact, they both care about each other very much, but if they don't say anything, their mouths are hard and their hearts are soft." The fourteenth master touched the seven words: " When the mother and son are reconciled, the elder brother is grown up, and the mother is also old, time, like a double-edged sword, can take everything away and bring everything back."

"This argument is so strange." Nian Gengyao put on a posture of listening attentively.

"Grandpa is getting older, and Erniang doesn't make clothes for him anymore. Later, my brother's clothes are gone, so I'm in balance." The fourteenth master stuck out his tongue: "My grandfather used hair as his body, and Erniang embroidered it herself." This thangka, Erniang is a person who is afraid of trouble, and this thangka is newly made, it has not been consecrated, so send it to the monastery!"

The next day, things were sent to two monasteries.

Both monasteries held grand consecration ceremonies.

Then it was hung on the main hall of the back hall of their monastery.

Kangxi, who was far away on the grassland, knew about this and specially rewarded Concubine De with 500 taels of gold.

There are no secrets in the harem, as soon as the women ask about it, they will know why Concubine De has been rewarded with 500 taels of gold.

But think about it, Concubine De invested more than 500 taels of gold, so everyone was balanced.

But it is an honor to let Kangxi send people from thousands of miles to reward 500 taels of gold.

The Fourteenth Lord also found a master of thangka making in Ganzi area and bought three pairs of thangkas.

One pair was given to Concubine De, one pair was given to Prince Yong, and the other pair was given to Princess Wen Xian.

When the things were sent back, Nian Gengyao had already led his people, together with the Eight Banners of Mongolia, to the battlefield, intending to end the war in one go and take everyone back to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

When Kangxi was on the grassland, he also received a thangka sent by the [-]th. It is said that this is an ancient relic from the Tang Dynasty. It is not beautiful, but it is very spiritual.

Touching such an ancient relic, Kangxi was surprised: "I didn't expect that the plateau is also interesting."

On the plateau, the sound of artillery fire rang out again. This time, the enemy army learned to be smart. As soon as they heard the sound of artillery fire, Baotou turned around and ran.

On the grassland, Emperor Kangxi raised his wine glass.

In Beijing, Concubine De donated the 500 taels of gold to the Lama Temple.