Fahai in one of the famous "Four Ancient Love Stories" in the White Snake Biography, as a major character (the High Monk of the Golden Mountain Temple), the back of the White Snake Legend is during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, so the Fahai in the White Snake Biography defaults to being also a person during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, but in the chinese history, there is indeed Fahai, but Fahai generally refers to the Tang Dynasty monk Fahai Pei Wende. Therefore, the people of which dynasty in Fahai have always been controversial, and the main statement is naturally the two mentioned above.
Statue of Fahai
Fahai was a person during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, mainly because of the widespread praise of the White Snake Legend, basically the Chinese people and people who know the story and background of the White Snake Legend know that the poignant love story between Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian occurred in the Qiantang River of the Southern Song Dynasty Shaoxing Annual Inspection, but Fahai repeatedly persecuted Bai Suzhen and let them go through hardships. This poignant and moving love story can be said to have achieved the love story of Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian, and at the same time let the world remember Fahai's ruthless indifference and unswerving devotion to the Dharma. From this, it can be said that the sea is also based on the people during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, but the legend of the White Snake is only a widely circulated love story in the folk after all, and the authenticity of it is still debatable.
Fahai was a Tang Dynasty man, mainly because Pei Wende's Dharma achievements in history were superb, and he also admired the Dharma with great achievements. According to the records in the official history, Pei Wenhai was born in a famous and prestigious family, and his family has always studied Buddhism, which can be said to be deeply baptized by Buddhist thought, and later when Pei Wende became a monk, he also practiced endlessly, until the abbot evoked "Fahai". Therefore, it is also based on the fact that the sea was a Tang Dynasty person, but it is not well known to ordinary people after all.
What is the end of Fahai
Fahai is the villain in the Chinese folklore "The Legend of the White Snake", his identity is a monk, originally the abbot of The Golden Mountain Temple in Zhenjiang. The final ending of a monk is usually to die in the monastery, and this Fahai is not an ordinary monk, his mana is boundless, but he is too upright, so what is the end of Fahai?
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"The Legend of the White Snake" describes a love story, the white snake essence Bai Suzhen and the green snake Xiaoqing transformed into a beautiful woman who met The young man Xu Xian in the world by the West Lake, Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian fell in love and got married, and they opened a medical center together to treat people and were liked by everyone. Suddenly jumped out of the old monk of Fahai to exorcise the demon, he locked Xu Xian in the Golden Mountain Temple, and fought with Bai Suzhen, who came to ask for her husband, Bai Suzhen lost her mana because of the birth of a child, and was taken by Fahai and pressed under the Leifeng Pagoda, Bai Suzhen's son grew up and defeated Fahai with Xiaoqing, beating him to nowhere to hide, only hiding in the belly of the crab, they rescued Bai Suzhen, and the family lived happily ever after. This is the folklore of the end of the Fahai.
The real history also has Fahai this person, he is a monk of the Tang Dynasty, originally after the famous door, in Zhenjiang Jinshan Temple ordained, the name of the Law Fahai, at that time the scale of the Jinshan Temple was still very small, not called Jinshan Temple, Fahai was determined to rebuild the temple, in the construction project to dig the foundation, dug out a lot of gold, Fahai handed over this gold to the state, the emperor was very moved, on the gold to the temple for infrastructure construction, named the temple as Jinshan Temple. Master Fahai became the founder of the Jinshan Zen Temple. The Jinshan Zen Temple has such a large scale and magnificent style today. Fahai practiced in the zen cave next to jinshan Temple until he died, which is the end of Fahai in history.
Does Fahai really have someone?
From ancient times to the present, Chinese's impression of the Buddhist family is compassion, but a white snake legend has completely subverted all the images of Fahai among the Buddhist disciples, and many people think that Fahai is a ruthless, sinister and vicious person, but this is just a folk interpretation of the love story White Snake Legend for a depiction of Fahai, a high-ranking monk of jinshan Temple, so what is fahai like in history? Does Fahai really have someone? Or is everything just a folk interpretation of the mirror flower water moon?
According to the records in the chinese canonical history, Fahai is there, and there are not a few people who have become high monks of Jinshan Temple, the main set of masters should belong to the Tang Dynasty Jinshan Temple Fahai Zen Master (common name: Pei Wende), Fahai Zen Master This person's achievements in Chinese history are also quite high, not only because of the circulation of a white snake legend, but more importantly, Fahai Zen Master's own cultivation and writings have contributed to the Buddhist family. Fahai Zen master grew up in a famous family since childhood, the family is also a generation of study of Buddhism, vigorously respect the Buddhist ideology and culture, it can be said that the Pei family style made Fahai Zen master in his youth fell in love with the Buddhist family, for the later Fahai Zen master's life contribution has been of great help.
Fahai Zen Master is not only the unique Tang Dynasty supreme monk Pei Wende, but also many Fahai Zen masters in other dynasties. During the Southern Song Dynasty, there was also a Fahai who was promoted by the world, but now his historical appearance has long been unverifiable due to the changes of the war, but there are still some traces of him in the relevant literature.
It can be seen from this that Fahai is a diverse person, or severe, or ruthless, or compassionate, or a writing, etc., which shows that Fahai really has its own person in Chinese history, and there is more than one person.
How about Fahai, played by Jet Li
Jet Li's interpretation of Fahai in "The Legend of the White Snake" has achieved a huge sensation. Speaking of Jet Li, the first thing we think of is the big heroes he played, such as Huang Feihong and Fang Shiyu, as a kung fu superstar, he became famous and was named "Kung Fu Emperor" by the media. This time, The Fahai played by Jet Li is also very distinctive.
All along, Fahai this person in people's hearts is an old monk who beats Mandarin ducks and does not know the cold and warm of the world, and Jet Li has completely broken through this image. In this drama, Fahai is the reincarnation of the Dark Devil, who has powerful mana. Here Fahai is not just, shouldering the mission of acting for The Heavenly Path, slaying demons and exorcising demons along the way to save Cangsheng, in the words of Jet Li later concluded, Fahai is a modern version of the people's police! Xiaobian feels that this image metaphor is very in place. This is a large-scale magical love movie, in which Fahai has always spent time on the road to exorcising demons, in this era of demons, as the abbot of Jinshan Temple, Fahai and his apprentices have taken on the mission of slaying demons and exorcising demons to defend Cangsheng.
Fahai, played by Jet Li, is a righteous, heroic and tenacious monk, who cares about the people and bravely shoulders the mission of saving Cangsheng; As a monk, he did not understand love in the world. The touching love story of the white snake and Xu Xian is what each of us yearns for, and in the eyes of a high monk who shoulders the mission of slaying demons and exorcising demons, there is no real simple love between people and demons. This is incomprehensible to a monk, and Xiaobian feels that this should be understandable. In general, Fahai is also a person of integrity and justice.