I had heard that there was a place in Ruzhou that was jokingly called "Little Potala Palace" by the locals, and I immediately drove to the Lutai Mountain Tibetan Monument Temple in Lingtou Town, Ruzhou on the weekend.
Lutai Mountain is located in the north of Lingtou Town, Ruzhou City, with an altitude of 751 meters, and in the Tang Dynasty, it was equally famous as The Wind Cave Mountain and the Kuntong Mountain, and was a famous historical and cultural mountain in Ruzhou. According to the Tang Dynasty's "Records of Tianhe County", the Qing "Minutes of Reading History and Public Opinion", "Ruzhou Zhi" and other records, Lutai Mountain was included in the entry of famous mountains. In particular, the Ming Dynasty's "Yitong Zhi" records: "Lutai Mountain is twenty miles north of Ruzhou in Nanyang Province, and there is a squat deer in the shape of a platform. ”
Drive into Taihuai Village, named for being held in the heart of Lutai Mountain, where dead vines and old trees are scattered on both sides of the narrow mountain path, and sparse houses are scattered under the mountain, which is a quiet place.
Lutai Mountain is surrounded by mountains, surrounded by peaks and steep cliffs, only the top of Lutai Mountain is a platform. Standing on the platform and looking north, Shaomuro Mountain and Taimuro Mountain float in the sea of clouds, like a mirage. Turning back and looking down at lutai huai village in the valley, the water is beautiful and the mountains are clear, and the cooking smoke is thick, like a fairyland on earth.
Lutai Mountain is not only intoxicating scenery at four o'clock, but also has a deep cultural accumulation. This is the birthplace of the idiom "in the doom". The abbot of the Tibetan Monument Temple in the mountains had a strong friendship with Huang Chao, who rebelled at the end of the Tang Dynasty.
One day in the late autumn of one year, Huang Chao said to his father-in-law, "I will send troops to Luoyang tomorrow, and before I leave the division, I will kill people and sacrifice knives." The first person I meet tomorrow will be killed by me, so you should hurry up and avoid it! ”
The abbot returned to the temple, quickly sent everyone in the temple away, and suddenly found that he did not know how to hide, and in a hazy moment he saw an old willow tree in the open space outside the temple gate, and in a hurry, he burrowed into the empty hole of the old willow tree.
Early the next morning, Huang Chao held a ceremony to point the soldiers, and seeing that the time for sacrificing the sword had arrived, he could not find the person who sacrificed the sword. Looking at the old willow tree in front of the team, Huang Chao had a plan in mind and shouted at the old tree: "Take your sacrificial knife today and ensure that I will win the victory!" Saying that the knife fell from his hand, the cold light flashed, and the dead tree was cut off, but the people found that the blood stained the sword red.
Huang Chao was horrified, fixed his eyes on it, and found that the abbot was hiding in the tree hole, and he had cut the key point. Huang Chao held the bloodied abbot in his arms, unable to regret it. The breathless abbot said, "When the doom is over, it is difficult to escape with one's life." However, the great general who revolted for the people of Li gave up his life to sacrifice his sword and protect his horse until he succeeded, and it was not a pity that the old man died! "Just smile and go away." After Huang Chaohou buried the abbot, he attacked Luoyang and Kexijing, and was invincible.
Since then, the story of "in the doom" has spread.
Today, the old willow tree has long disappeared, only the dead branches and leaves of the mountain are decaying.
However, what is puzzling is that a white pagoda appeared on Lutai Mountain without knowing when. The tower was clearly built in a manner very different from the religions of the mainland.
The White Pagoda has always been used by Tibetan Buddhism, has been widely built in Tibetan areas, and is said to represent the place where sacred relics have appeared.
According to Tibetan Buddhism, in the 7th century AD, after Songtsen Gampo established the famous Tubo Dynasty, Buddhism was introduced from two channels, the Tang Dynasty and Nepal, and Indian Buddhism began to spread in Tibetan areas of China. From this time on, the pagoda began to appear on the land of the snowy plateau.
According to legend, the Tibetan Buddhist White Pagoda was built according to the stupa style brought by Nepal, and its blueprint is the more primitive bowl-covering stupa in ancient India, which has always been used by Tibetan Buddhism, so it is commonly known as the "Lama Pagoda". Because their surface is generally coated with white ash, the color is white, and it is also commonly known as the "white tower".
But who can explain the fact that a white pagoda of Tibetan Buddhism appeared on Mount Lutai in Ruzhou in the interior of the Central Plains?
Looking through the mountains, there are no ancient monuments, so what is the meaning of this "Tibetan Monument Temple"?
Although there are many doubts about this trip, the scenery of Lutai Mountain is simple and elegant, and it is worth visiting again in the coming year.
I hope that when I come back, all doubts have been resolved.