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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > Yongle clock is not a town item in Beijing</h1>
The Yongle Bell is actually a Buddha clock. The Yongle Emperor did not cast the Buddha Bell to revitalize Buddhism and promote Buddhism; it was not to make a golden town, but for his own health.
When the Yongle Emperor was young and vigorous, especially in order to seize power, he did not consider how many people died, but in his old age, he suffered from insomnia for a long time. He believes that he was harassed by the ghosts of the unjust ghosts who died in the war. In order to alleviate this situation, Yao Guangxiao, a Daoyan monk who assisted him in becoming emperor, advised him to copy Buddhist scriptures. As a result, Zhu Di spent a lot of time and effort personally copying the forty-volume Sutra of the Names of the Buddhas and Noble Ones, such as the Bodhisattvas, Divine Monks, and other scriptures totaling about 200,000 words, but still had no effect.
Later, Yao Guangxiao asked him to cast a large bell, and the inside and outside of the bell were filled with scriptures, and through the bell, he overdoed the lone ghost who died. Yongle the Great took his advice and included the casting of the Bell as one of the three major projects to move the capital to Beijing.
Inside and out are all the Yongle bells of Buddhist scriptures. According to research, this large bell is cast with 7 Buddhist scriptures, 9 Chinese mantras and more than 1,000 Sanskrit mantras, totaling more than 230,000 words, and the bell text is clearly recognizable so far.
In 1420, the bell was cast and did not hang in a Buddhist monastery. The Yongle Emperor ordered his men to hang it in a Hanjing factory on the edge of the Forbidden City, the Ming Dynasty was the institution for printing scriptures in the Inner Province, and the place specializing in printing Chinese characters and Buddhist scriptures was called the Hanjing Factory. The factory that prints Tibetan, Mongolian, Manchu and other ethnic minority Buddhist scriptures is called the Fanjing Factory. Located in the east of Jingshan, this Hanjing factory declined in the late Ming Dynasty, and the Fayuan Temple was built in this place during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.
The reason why he put the big bell here is because Zhu Di thinks that he can hear the bell before he can be sure and sleep more peacefully. Since hanging the big bell in the Hanjing Factory, the bell has continued to ring 108 times at a time. Buddhism believes that people live in the world and have one hundred and eight kinds of defilements, and to convert to Buddhism one hundred and eight kinds of defilements is to cut off these one hundred and eight kinds of defilements. One is shaving, the hair is the thread of defilements, shave off the hair, remove the defilements from the form; the second is to study the Dharma, eliminate selfish desires and distracting thoughts, and rise from the mind, the defilements will naturally disappear; the third is to concentrate on chanting the Buddhist sutras in the mouth every day, counting 108 Buddha beads in the hand. Every time you count a Buddha bead, you are far away from one kind of defilement, and if you count all 108 Buddha beads, you are far away from one hundred and eight kinds of defilements, so that the body and mind reach a state of silence.
Striking the bell 108 times a day is the same as counting 108 Buddha beads, and it is also necessary to eliminate 108 kinds of troubles. It is not only to eliminate the troubles of the lone soul wild ghosts and achieve the purpose of the super lone soul wild ghosts, but also to eliminate the troubles of the Yongle Emperor.
It can be seen that this Yongle bell has nothing to do with the five towns. Of course, prolonging life by listening to the bells is impossible. Indeed, only four years after the bell was cast, in the twenty-second year of Yongle (1424), Emperor Zhu Di died of illness at the age of 64 at the age of 64 at the time of Yumuchuan (present-day Wuzhu Muqin, Inner Mongolia) on the way back to the Northern Expedition. After Emperor Akihito succeeded to the throne, he quietly hung the Yongle Bell at the Hankei Factory.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > there is a big bell and then a big bell temple</h1>
After the death of the Yongle Emperor, the Yongle Bell has been idle in the Hanjing Factory, and no one has paid attention to it. In the fifth year of the Ming Dynasty, that is, in 1577 AD, the new royal temple Wanshou Temple in the western suburbs of Beijing was completed. The Wanli Emperor ordered the yongle bell to be moved to The Wanshou Temple. In the eleventh year of the Yongzheng Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty (1733), the weather was dry in those years, and the harvest of the peasants was sharply reduced, and the Yongzheng Emperor personally prayed for rain from the upper heavens, and arranged to build a Juesheng Temple in the north of the capital, because according to the relationship between the five parties and the five elements, the north belonged to the water, so praying for rain was built in the north of the capital.
The bell tower where the Yongle Bell hangs
The Mountain Gate of the Great Bell Temple
In 2014, the Temple was renovated and opened to guests. (Photo by He Guanxin)
At that time, a minister remembered the Yongle Bell in the Wanshou Temple, so he suggested moving the Yongle Bell to the Juesheng Temple, and gave the reason: According to the theory that the five elements of yin and yang are compatible, the golden water, the Yongle bell is copper, it belongs to gold, and the north belongs to water, and it is beneficial to put the bell there to pray for rain. The Yongzheng Emperor listened and felt that what he said was reasonable, and the Yongzheng Emperor also knew that the Yongle Bell was exquisite and spectacular, and in the Ming Dynasty it was the Imperial Bell, and it should be made to play a role again, so he decided to relocate the bell to the Feng Shui Treasure Juesheng Temple located in the "Qianfang of the Capital".
It took 30 years to transport the bell from the Hanjing Factory to the Wanshou Temple, and this time the transportation may have been improved in methods, and it took only ten years to complete the relocation of the Yongle Bell. However, the Yongzheng Emperor was not as fortunate as the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who ordered the bell to be moved just two years after he died, and the Yongzheng Emperor could not hear the bells in the Juesheng Temple in his lifetime, and it was not until the eighth year of Qianlong (1743) that the bell moving project was completed.
Because of the Yongle Bell, Juesheng Temple also has an additional name: The Great Bell Temple. Yongle Dazhong has been in this new home until now.
The Yongzheng Emperor decided to move the bell to the north of the capital for the purpose of praying for rain, so in terms of the location and function of the bell, it had nothing to do with Xizhen!
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="39" > summer palace copper cow is not a water town</h1>
Historically, Kunming Lake is not only a water feature of an imperial garden, but also a reservoir in Beijing, and has been called "Urn Shan Po", "Da Po Lake", "West Lake" and so on. In 1750, the Qianlong Emperor admired the deeds of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in excavating the Kunming Pond in Chang'an to exercise water troops, and renamed the West Lake "Kunming Lake".
It is said that the purpose is to use it to train the water army, and some people say that the Qianlong Emperor built the Summer Palace and built Kunming Lake into the shape of a shou peach for the mother's birthday, which has nothing to do with the water town. Moreover, from the perspective of the orientation, the Summer Palace and Kunming Lake are not in the north of Beijing City, but in the west of the Juesheng Temple, saying that the bell of the Juesheng Temple is the West Town, and the Kunming Lake of the Summer Palace is the North Town, which contradicts itself from the orientation, and some people say that the town of the water town is not Kunming Lake, but the copper bull on the edge of Kunming Lake.
In the old Beijing town water there is a town water beast is the dragon zi pao. The places where old Beijing needed to set up town water beasts were to place one or more babbles. For example, the Wanning Bridge in front of the Drum Tower, the old Beijingers call it the Houmen Bridge, and in 2000, the Houmen Bridge was repaired on a large scale, and the town water beasts that had been buried for many years were dug up.
The town water beast by the Wanning Bridge rattled.
The 1920s German photographer Peckerhammer photographed the Copper Bull in the Summer Palace.
Cultivation map seen from Yuquan Mountain during the Republic of China period.
Therefore, the copper bull in the Summer Palace is not used for town water at all, according to historical records, this copper ox was cast in the 20th year of the Qianlong Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty in 1755) is the largest ancient gilded copper ox in China.
In his daily life, the Qianlong Emperor often referred to himself as the Jade Emperor of heaven, imagining the beauty of the Summer Palace as a palace in the sky and Kunming Lake as a heavenly river. One day, Qianlong looked at Kunming Lake and thought that there should be cowherds and weavers on both sides of the Tianhe River, so he arranged for the casting of copper cattle and placed them on the bank of the east embankment of Kunming Lake, and then ordered people to open up a piece of land on the west side of Kunming Lake, and erected a white jade stele with the seal of Qianlong's imperial pen engraved with the three words "Weaving and Cultivating Diagram" underneath, as a symbol of "Weaver Girl" and "Cow Lang" looking at each other at a distance.
Speaker: Zhao Zhenhua, screen name "A Barge Gun". Before retiring, he was engaged in enterprise management for 40 years, and was an authentic old Beijinger (who lived in Beijing for more than ten generations and four hundred years). Influenced by his family, he has loved Beijing culture since he was a child, and in the past 30 years, he has collected more than 10,000 photos of old Beijing, nearly a thousand sentences of old Beijing sayings, and hundreds of old Beijing songs. Every Saturday at 8 p.m., Teacher Zhao punctually speaks in the old Beijing map to talk about old Beijing.
Source Beijing Daily Old Beijing Tu said
The keynote speaker | Zhao Zhenhua (a barge gun)
Audio Finishing | Bright
Text finishing | Shan Shui Taoyuan
Edit | Huang Jiajia
Process Editor Wu Yue