Legend has it that the White Lady was suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda on the edge of the West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and in 1924 the Leifeng Pagoda fell, and the cultural relics scientists found the white snake when digging the bottom of the Leifeng Pagoda.
This issue of Ziya Children's Fun Exploration Diary will take you to see what is going on.
First of all, the story of Xu Xian and the White Lady is known to everyone, the White Lady is a snake demon who has been cultivating for a thousand years, because Xu Xian once saved her life, and after the White Lady cultivated for a thousand years to transform into a human form, she married Xu Xian in order to repay the favor.
The abbot of Jinshan Temple, Master Fahai, subdued the White Lady on the grounds that she had violated the Heavenly Rules, and suppressed the White Lady at the bottom of the Leifeng Pagoda, and stated that it must be "the West Lake is dry, and the Leifeng Pagoda is falling" Before the White Lady can get out of the tower.
Leifeng Pagoda also got its name, who knows that the water in the West Lake did not dry, leifeng pagoda really fell.
Leifeng Pagoda, also known as Xiguan Brick Pagoda and Imperial Princess Pagoda. According to historical records, Leifeng Pagoda was built in 975 AD by Qian Li, the king of Wuyue, to celebrate the birth of a son of Princess Huang, and is a stupa.
As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, "Lei Feng Xizhao" became one of the most distinctive attractions in the West Lake, when there was a poem singing, "The middle peak is divided into a path, and the clouds are folded." See you in the village before sunset, and smell from the other side of the autumn waves.
Long pine standard ancient green, sparse bamboo moving micro-lavender. Self-love Sumen whistles, Huai Xian is not a group. "The relationship between Leifeng Pagoda and the White Lady was first traced back to the twenty-eighth volume of the "Cautionary Tales" compiled by Feng Menglong in the Ming Dynasty.
Feng Menglong described a large python practicing for a thousand years to transform into Bai Suzhen, and met Xu Xian, a scholar at the West Lake, and the two fell in love, resulting in Bai Suzhen being taken into a purple gold bowl by Fahai and finally suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda.
Leifeng Pagoda has been destroyed many times since its completion, and during the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese Wokou once attacked Hangzhou, believing that leifeng Pagoda contained a lot of Ming dynasty troops.
So they set fire to the Leifeng Pagoda, resulting in the Leifeng Pagoda being damaged very badly, and the wooden part of it was basically burned out, leaving only the soil core.
There has always been a legend in Hangzhou that as long as you drink the soil and water on the wall of the Leifeng Pagoda, you can give birth to a son.
So many ignorant people came to secretly dig the soil layer and wall of Leifeng Pagoda, and after a long period of excavation and theft, Leifeng Pagoda finally collapsed in 1924.
The ancient Chinese pagoda was built to store the supreme relics of Buddhism, the Buddha, and almost every large pagoda would have an underground palace appear.
Originally, the fall of the Leifeng Pagoda was not a happy thing, but the people in Hangzhou were very happy, and they thought that the Leifeng Pagoda had overthrown the White Lady and freedom.
In fact, there was really an underground palace under the Leifeng Pagoda, and the cultural relics department at that time wanted to carry out protective excavation of the Leifeng Pagoda, but the technical means at that time were too backward to carry out large-scale excavation, and the real excavation work of the Leifeng Pagoda was after 1977.
At that time, our country had the ability to dig the Leifeng Pagoda. Under the Leifeng Pagoda, not only the underground palace and many valuable cultural relics were found, but even the white snake appeared in the underground palace.
One of the first problems archaeologists encountered in the underground palace was a huge stone slab weighing more than 1500 pounds. Archaeologists used lifting equipment to open the gates of the dungeon.
The discovery in the dungeon stunned everyone, not only found a lot of valuable cultural relics, when opening the dungeon, the legend is that there are several white snakes crawling out of it, scaring the eyes of archaeologists.
In the underground palace, not only are there such things as Ashoka Pagoda, Jade Buddha, Jade Guanyin, Silk Fabrics, Scriptures carved on stone slabs, but also many valuable cultural relics, which have a history of more than 1,000 years.
However, in addition to finding the white snake in the underground palace, there was no shadow of the white lady in the underground palace, and the legend was a legend after all.
Although no traces of the White Lady were found in the underground palace, archaeologists found a national treasure-level cultural relic in the Leifeng Pagoda underground palace.
Archaeologists found a sinking space after cleaning up the cultural relics in the Leifeng Pagoda underground palace, because the Leifeng Pagoda had been blistered, and the cultural relics in this sinking space were difficult to clean.
When people cleaned up the artifacts in the sinking space, archaeologists found an iron letter in this space, that is, a large boxy coffin like an iron boxy coffin.
Archaeologists judged that this iron letter should contain the supreme Treasure of Buddhism.
Because before the excavation of the Leifeng Pagoda, like the Longquan Temple in Shanxi, after the pagoda in the Famen Temple in Xi'an collapsed, they were excavated under the pagoda to the underground palace, and in the underground palace, they found something made of gold coffins and silver rafters, which contained the Buddha treasure relics.
In the previous excavation of Leifeng Pagoda, the media and journalists were allowed to participate, and archaeologists also hoped to record the whole process of excavating the Leifeng Pagoda Underground Palace through the camera, and at the same time tell everyone that there is no white lady under the Leifeng Pagoda, and the beautiful love story of Xu Xian and the white lady is just a legend.
Speaking of this iron letter alone, when the archaeologists decided to open this iron letter, the archaeologists refused all the media and journalists.
Because the cultural relics in this iron letter are likely to be national treasures, the refusal of the media and journalists is on the one hand out of the protection of cultural relics.
On the other hand, only in a relatively safe environment can open the iron letter, open the iron letter must have a place that can control the ambient air and humidity very well, and finally archaeologists chose to open this iron letter in the underground cave of the Zhejiang Museum.
After the efforts of archaeologists, in the underground cave of the Zhejiang Museum, the iron letter of the Leifeng Pagoda Underground Palace was finally opened. Sure enough, as the experts expected, in the iron letter is a stupa.
This is the most memorable moment in the archaeological event of Leifeng Pagoda, where the silver stupa contains the supreme treasure of Buddhism, the Buddha's conch hair.
In order to protect the stupa well, archaeologists unanimously decided not to open the stupa again. It is the Buddha's treasure in the stupa that has brought spiritual sustenance and comfort to countless Buddhist practitioners.
Finally, the stupa was also left in the later rebuilt Leifeng Pagoda, which is still stored in the exhibition hall in the Leifeng Pagoda in Hangzhou's West Lake to this day.
Although no proof of the love story of the White Lady and Xu Xian has been found under the Leifeng Pagoda, the Leifeng Pagoda has become the most supreme love legend and belief shrine in the hearts of the people of the whole country.
Everyone has heard the legend of the White Lady, but there has been another legend about the White Lady version in Hangzhou.
Legend has it that the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the birthday of the Queen Mother," and this day is very lively on the West Lake of Hangzhou, and many people come here to play like the temple fair.
Lu Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals, is a person who loves to join in the fun, and on this day he also came to the West Lake and became a small trader selling tangyuan.
There are two kinds of tangyuan in Lü Dongbin, one large and one small. The small dumplings were cheap, sold out the fastest, and soon sold out, leaving only three large dumplings on their stalls.
There is a Xuanwu living in the West Lake, the so-called Xuanwu is one of the four ancient divine beasts composed of snakes and turtles, this snake is Bai Suzhen, this turtle is the Fahai.
At this time, a child bought the last three tangyuan, and was preparing to eat it, when suddenly Xuanwu shook the earth, frightening the child to drop two of the three tangyuan in the West Lake.
He only ate one, the child who sold tangyuan was Xu Xian, and the two tangyuan that fell into the West Lake were eaten by Bai Niangzi and Fahai, which led to the story of three people entangled together.
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