Legend has it that during the Song Dynasty, a white snake, in order to repay the life-saving grace of the scholar Xu Xuan, cultivated for a thousand years and finally transformed into a human form, and named himself Bai Suzhen. She cleverly arranged to marry Xu Xuan's reincarnation as she wished, but met Master Fahai of the Golden Mountain Temple. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Fahai designed Bai Suzhen to drink Xionghuang wine, showing his original form and frightening Xu Xuan. Xu Xuan was then abducted to the Golden Mountain Temple, and Bai Suzhen had to flood the Golden Mountain to save her lover, and finally was suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda for violating the Heavenly Rules. When the West Lake water drys up the Leifeng Pagoda, the white snake can reappear in the human world.
On September 25, 1924, the Leifeng Pagoda collapsed, did the White Snake really reappear?
Leifeng Tower
The real cause of the collapse of leifeng pagoda originated from the late Qing dynasty and early Minchu, because it fell into disrepair, and the Leifeng Pagoda at that time was already crumbling. There is also a rumor in the local area, saying that there should be a snake fairy at the bottom of the Leifeng Tower, and the bricks that build the Leifeng Tower have the special functions of driving away evil spirits and avoiding evil, benefiting boys, and benefiting silkworm breeding, so many villagers have begun to secretly dig the Leifeng Tower, and finally the Leifeng Tower is overwhelmed and collapsed, after the tower collapses, people are surprised to find that there is a dungeon below.
In 1999, the local government made a decision to rebuild the Leifeng Pagoda and restore the "Leifeng Xizhao" landscape, and on March 11, 2001, the excavation of the Ruins of leifeng Pagoda and the underground palace was put on the agenda. The local government deliberately set up a team of archaeologists to excavate cultural relics, and all the doubts in everyone's mind also surfaced with the excavation work.
Thunder peak sunset
In the process of cleaning up, the archaeologists were surprised to find that in the middle of the underground palace, there was a small octagonal room, which was actually pressed with a huge stone weighing 1500 kilograms, when the archaeological staff wasted the power of the nine bulls and two tigers, and finally removed the boulder, they actually saw more than a dozen frozen snakes inside, was the story of Bai Suzhen and Xu Xuan true? Was there really a white snake suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda? What's more, the white snakes inside are guarding the relics of the Buddha, they have been sleeping for a thousand years, and the secrets of the Buddha will be revealed to the world. So is all this true? Let's move on.
The octagonal room was pressed against boulders
When the archaeologists slowly lifted the boulder, there was an accident, the hanging stone did not move, and when everyone was at a loss, the rudder suddenly returned to normal work. Many staff members felt that this might be the White Lady casting spells. The next excavation work went well, and by noon, the whole picture of the entire underground palace had been revealed, there were no traces of stolen excavations, and it was very well preserved. However, there is no legendary white snake Bai Suzhen inside, but a mysterious cultural relic.
During the cleaning process, archaeologists found that in the octagonal room in the center, there was a relic, and around the iron letter there was a bronze Buddha statue, 4 bronze mirrors, and a large amount of copper coins. On the opposite side of the iron letter are various ancient cultural relics such as jade coins, jade turtles, agate jewelry, etc. These things are called "Seven Treasures" or "Seven Treasures" and are used to provide for relics. But to say that it is the Seven Treasures, in fact, it is not seven kinds of objects, but refers to all the precious and rare things in the world. Different historical periods and different versions of the scriptures also interpret the Seven Treasures differently, generally referring to carnelian chalcedony, beeswax, bricks, pearls, corals, gold, silver and so on.
Relic Iron Letter
In addition to the relics of the iron letter, many rare treasures were also found in the underground palace, such as the statue of Jade Guanyin, the statue of the Jade Boy, the silver belt, the scripture scrolls and so on. One of the most stunning is the gilded and silver Ashoka Pagoda in the iron letter, which is made of sterling silver and has a large number of exquisite patterns and reliefs engraved on the tower, which is a production process that is beyond your reach. Through the hollowed-out tower, you can see that there is a mysterious "golden box" inside, which is likely to be a relic, but due to the obstruction of many Buddhists at that time, the gold box has not been opened.
These rare cultural relics in the underground palace have been buried for more than a thousand years, and now they have finally appeared in front of the world, which makes people can't help but lament the superb skills of the ancients and the prosperity of the Buddhist family at that time. But also broke the Leifeng Pagoda under the suppression of the white snake, because this archaeological operation has a lot of TV reporters real-time tracking reports, there are many photographers to follow the shooting, the whole process is not particularly strange, the underground palace appeared in the zombie snakes, may be because the underground palace environment is dark and damp, very suitable for snakes to live. For thousands of years, Leifeng Pagoda has left people with infinite reverie and mysterious colors, but with the end of this archaeological operation, it has also solved the mystery of the white snake that has puzzled people for thousands of years.
Ashoka Tower
The Leifeng Pagoda was not originally called the Leifeng Pagoda, but the Imperial Princess Pagoda.
During the Five Dynasties period, a concubine of the Huang clan, who was particularly favored by King Qian Ofe, gave birth to a son, in order to celebrate this, Qian Li ordered people to build this pagoda, enshrined the Buddha's snail hair relic in the pagoda, and specially made the bricks that built the pagoda hollow, and hid the scriptures in the bricks, so there were rumors that the bricks of the Leifeng Pagoda were "Tibetan scripture bricks" as early as before. The sutra is similar to the pronunciation of jin, so people believe that the brick contains treasures or magical effects.
White Lady
After Li Huang listened, he generously paid her money and returned home after living together for 3 days. But when Li Huang returned home on the fourth day, he felt full of fishy breath, his body was heavy, the sky was spinning, and he couldn't afford to be sick. When Li Huang's family heard about this, they went to look for the woman in white, only to see a lonely soap pod tree in a deserted courtyard. People near the house said that there was no one living there, but there was often a huge white snake coiled in the tree, and they knew that the beautiful young woman was originally transformed by a snake demon. About the Leifeng Pagoda and the White Snake, the story ends here. Friends who like it pay a little attention and share folk tales from time to time
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