Tourists who did not pay for incense lamps were cursed "queen", Gansu Pingliang: banned shop behavior

The Paper's reporter Lu Xinwen

According to the news of the People's Network's "Leadership Message Board" on November 8, in response to tourists' feedback that "less than a year after marrying their lovers, they did not pay for incense lamps when they traveled to the Kundong Mountain Scenic Area, and as a result, they were cursed and threatened to cut off the incense, and even eliminated their descendants", the Gansu Pingliang Municipal Party Committee Inspection Office replied on the 8th that the zhongtai Cultural and Creative Center in the Kundong Mountain Scenic Area enshrined the idols, and the lamps and blessings were inconsistent with the scope of business, which were banned and the religious supplies in the store were removed.

Netizens recently left a message to the secretary of the Pingliang Municipal Party Committee in Gansu Province on the People's Network, complaining about the Kuntong Mountain Scenic Area borrowing Buddha to accumulate wealth. The netizen said: I and my family traveled in the Kundong Mountain Scenic Area on October 4. After we got off at the middle desk, we were told we could go to the yellow room in front of us to get a souvenir for free. After receiving a small wooden bead with his own affiliation, he was led into the house and asked the teacher to help him see it. There is a so-called teacher (monk dressed) first compliment two sentences, ask the age of marriage and family situation, calculate personal fortunes for us, and suggest that we light the lamp, saying 100 yuan, 300 yuan, 500 yuan can be. I said to my lover not to light the lamp, the teacher was not pleased, said that the incense lamp is related to the future generations, do not light the lamp will break the incense, will affect the future generations, and even use the words "no offspring". Before leaving the house, the so-called teacher was still saying, "If you don't light the lamp, you will know next year." Am I guilty if I don't light this lamp? Moreover, my lover and I each donated 20 yuan to the scan code. In fact, if you buy a lamp yourself, you only need one or two dollars. My lover and I have been married for less than a year, and the words "teacher" who would "cut off incense" and "never end" without lighting a lamp is a vicious curse. Dare to ask whether there is such a reason under the heavens, it is clear that it is to borrow the Buddha's wealth and ruin the reputation of the Buddha, and also ask the relevant departments to seriously investigate and deal with it.

In addition, the netizen also complained that the two-dimensional code was posted at the entrance of the temple throughout the Kuntong Mountain, and tourists blindly scanned the code without their knowledge, and the codes scanned everywhere were different, and I don't know who owns these two-dimensional codes? I don't know where these donations will eventually go, is there no donation statement? Shouldn't there be an account for tourists?

The Inspection Office of the Pingliang Municipal Party Committee replied on November 8 that after verification by the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, the shop reflected by netizens was the Zhongtai Cultural and Creative Center of Kundong Mountain Scenic Area, which was attracted by Pingliang Kuntong Mountain Cultural Tourism Development Co., Ltd., and Zhao Xgang, the owner of Guilin, Guangxi, was responsible for operating, selling tourism products, and the shop lease contract expired on December 31, 2021. After the Investigation of the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, together with the Management Committee of Kuntong Mountain Grand Scenic Area and the Pingliang Kuntong Mountain Cultural Tourism Development Co., Ltd., the store does have the phenomenon of distributing free souvenirs to guide tourists to enter the store and light up and pray for blessings, in violation of the relevant regulations of the scenic spot, and the following treatment is now made: First, the statues of the gods are enshrined in the Zhongtai Cultural and Creative Center of the Kuntong Mountain Scenic Area, the lamps and blessings are inconsistent with the business scope, they are banned, and the religious supplies in the store are removed; the second is to immediately stop the free distribution of souvenirs.

Reflecting the problem that the two-dimensional code of the Collection of Payments in the Taoist Palace View of Kundong Mountain Scenic Area is different, the Collection Code of Taiqing Palace, Jingle Palace, Dongtai Guandi Temple, Zhaohe Hall, Feisheng Palace, Queen Mother Palace, and Eight Immortals Terrace of the Seven Palaces of Kuntong Mountain Scenic Area does have inconsistencies, and the collection code of the above scenic spots has been cleaned up, and the collection two-dimensional code is uniformly posted by the Kuntong Mountain Road Management Committee.

In the next step, the Pingliang Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism will further strengthen the management of scenic spots, increase the intensity and frequency of service quality inspections, carry out in-depth special actions to "improve the quality of tourist scenic spots", unite with religious management departments, strengthen the management and education of religious personnel, resolutely ban superstitious behaviors such as divination and fortune telling, severely crack down on unlicensed operations, forced buying and forced selling, and solicitation of customers to pursue sales, and effectively regulate the operation order of scenic spots.

Editor-in-charge: Yubing Tang