In Beijing, the ancient capital of the four dynasties, there are many Taoist temples, temples and other religious buildings, such as the earliest temple in Beijing - Tanzhe Temple, which has always had the saying "first there is Tanzhe Temple, then there is Beijing City", and the ancestral court of the Taoist Quanzhen Longmen sect - Baiyun Temple.
But the most prosperous incense is a temple named after the "palace", which is the Lama Temple.
The predecessor of the Lama Temple was a royal palace, but it was far more than a royal palace.
It was the residence of Kangxi's fourth son Yin Yuzuo Beile and the prince, and because the Qianlong Emperor was born here, the Lama Palace also became a "dragon blessed land" because of the two emperors.
Later, when Yongzheng died, the coffin was parked here, and it was also at that time that the architecture of the Lama Temple changed from green glazed tiles to yellow glazed tiles, the same specifications as the Forbidden City. In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the Lama Temple has always been the highest standard Buddhist temple in the country, and incense has flourished to this day.
In Beijing, there is a saying, "male Yonghe, female red conch", which means that if you burn incense to petition, the man will go to the Lama Temple and the woman will go to the Hongluo Temple, which is said to be the two most spiritual places in Beijing.
But perhaps because the road to Hongluo Temple is really a bit far away, this Lama Temple on the edge of the second ring road has become the spiritual home of many people.
But this kind of wealth, let's not ask for it.
"Yesterday's young buddies talked from Didi on the shelves about transnational capital operations, hot money and VIE structures. Today's uncle saw the tension in the parking spaces around Baiyun Temple, and talked about the origin of the Lama Temple and the secret history of Yongzheng Qianlong..."
"You will know it once you go once on the first and fifteenth day of the new month, and that grand scene can make you doubt life."
Every Laba, there is a custom in Beijing to go to the temple to receive Buddhist porridge, especially the Lama Palace gate is the largest procession.
In the Qing Dynasty, the Laba porridge cooked by the Yonghe Palace was not only for the imperial family, but also given to ministers, and whether or not you could drink the rewarded porridge also represented the level of status. However, no matter how the ingredients of Laba porridge change, there will be 32 types, representing the 32 phases of the Buddha.
However, what is shocking is the "head grabbing" of the Lama Temple every year, and at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, someone guarded the door and began to line up.
Even in order to ease the flow of people, sometimes subways and buses pass through Lama Temple Station without stopping.
No wonder some people say that "before the first moon comes out, the KPIs of the Lama Palace Bodhisattvas this year are estimated to have reached the standard."
However, if you don't have a particularly anxious thing to ask for a bodhisattva, it is not recommended to go to the Lama Temple in winter, which is not the reason why the weather is cold or cold, because I heard that every winter people who wear down jackets to the Lama Temple will harvest two holes.
"I didn't receive the God of Wealth, I received two holes"
Walking in the Lama Temple, you will also find a phenomenon that there are more young people than old people.
Going to the Lama Temple regularly to burn incense has become one of the ways for contemporary young people to decompress.
"The president was very dissatisfied with the project, the money was spent ineffective, not transformed, the leaders were criticized, and at the meeting iron-faced people from our department went to the Lama Temple to burn incense."
This proves once again that the end of science is theology.
Lama Temple also became a second university campus for young people.
"The young people today are either in the Lama Temple team or in the lottery shop."
If you say that you go to the Hongluo Temple to ask for marriage, no one will pay attention to it, once you say that you will go to the Lama Temple to seek wealth and career, the door will only open at 8 o'clock, and he will be waiting at the door at 5 o'clock in the morning.
The Lama Gong incense ash bracelet with the hands of the workers also implies that these problems that cannot be fought and solved by their own strength can also appeal to the gods.
"I really want to go to the Lama Temple to worship, and I have saved a bunch of things I want to say to the bodhisattva"
"How are modern young people doing? You can tell from the number of people who went to the Lama Temple."
"Young people really have no choice, so they have to leave their anxiety to worship"
Others think that it is a matter of concern that young people put their hopes in the gods.
But in fact, this is not superstition, "God may not be omnipotent, but it gives everyone expectations."
As one netizen said: "This expectation will make people return to peace in the impetuous life, after telling God their wishes, the other half of the way to realize their wishes will be to go by themselves!" ”
"You just have to work hard, and the rest of the Lama Palace will be done."