A temple in Shandong and the Shaolin Temple frequently communicate, is it to convey news or have other hidden feelings?

(Daily One " Chinese Cultural Historical Sites" No. 1086) In the TV series, we often see some confidential information passed on under the guise of the temple, so is this really the case?

"Individuals sweep the snow in front of the door". Ancient temples were complex in lineage, and with the geographical isolation of the high mountains and high roads, not all temples had contact. However, there is a period of close contact between Lingyan Temple and Shaolin Temple. According to the geographical location, one is located in Shandong, one is far away in Henan Songshan, what is hidden behind the frequent traffic?

(Shandong Lingyan Temple Pagoda, taken in the 1920s, all rights reserved)

According to the 1941 "Chinese Cultural Historical Sites" (Honshe "Atlas of China's Scenic Spots and Monuments in the Late Qing Dynasty"), according to the "Monument of the Ten Fang Lingyan Temple", Song Xining Gengzhi Year (1070) this place is the Ten Square Jungle, three years later, because the Yunmen Sect Yang Tianyuan Gong Zen Master came to live here, the Lingyan Temple was first called the Zen Temple, after twenty generations, until the seventh year of Jin Mingchang (1196) Linji Zong Guangchen Zen Master served as the abbot of the Lingyan Temple, after which most of the Caodong sect of the Yuan Dynasty lived here, and there was close contact with the Songshan Shaolin Temple. The 39th abbot of Lingyan Temple, Xi'an, was the 15th abbot of Shaolin.

Not only that, but this exchange was also related to a Japanese monk. According to the 1941 "Historical Sites of Chinese Culture", there was a Japanese monk Shao Yuan under the door of the Temple, who followed the temple to the Shaolin Temple, and after the death of the temple, Shao Yuan was entrusted by the governor to write an inscription for the temple. Lingyan Temple built a bone pagoda for the Temple, and the pagoda also contains a stele written by Shao Yuan, which is included in the eighteenth volume of the Taishan Chronicle. The central part of the article is consistent with the inscription, but the front and back parts are inconsistent. Meiji Forty-one years (1908) Kuwahara discovered this stele in the southeast corner of the tomb forest and made it public in the academic community.

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