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However, how can there be wooden fish here!

Wudang Mountain is a famous mountain of Taoism. It's not unusual for Taoist magic weapons to appear here. Lin Xi also recognized the four magic weapons on the table in front of him. The first three are typical Taoist magic weapons, and they are all well known. When the ritual activities were held in Wudang Mountain, those Taoists also held these magic weapons.

But Lin Xi was puzzled that as a Buddhist weapon, wooden fish was even more well-known than those Taoist weapons. Buddhism and Taoism were different religions. How could their weapons be put together!

Is there any mystery?

However, Lin Xi didn't go deep into his doubts, because he didn't believe in Buddhism or Taoism. Even if there was any mystery in it, it wasn't something that an outsider could guess.

What Lin Xi didn't know, however, was that wooden fish was also a kind of Taoist magic weapon, and its origin was extremely ancient, even far above the Buddhist wooden fish.

Wooden fish, also known as wooden fish drum, fish drum or fish board, was originally used as a magic weapon for Taoism to gather the congregation and preach scriptures.

According to the records of chongdao in daocang, a fish can be three feet long. It looks like iron, with purple and blue color. It is also like bluestone. It's bright and beautiful. It's almost beyond the ability of human. It's too loud to kowtow. Its fish can't be named. It's sent to pay tribute. The Emperor (Emperor Li Longji of the Tang and Ming Dynasties) ordered that it should be announced to Bai Liao, and it can't be distinguished. The emperor called it the auspicious fish chime, and still ordered it to hang in the Taiwei palace. So all the temples competed to use wooden and stone models to gather people instead.

In other words, Muyu originated from Taoism, and was gradually used by Buddhism later.

Since the wooden fish as a Buddhist weapon, it has not only been widely recognized by people, but also derived a legend about wooden fish: in the Han Dynasty, the emperor sent master ciguang and two monks to go to the west to get scriptures. They went through all kinds of hardships. On the way back, when they were boating, they suddenly had a storm The evil fish pounced on the boat with a big mouth open. The scriptures on the bow of the boat were swallowed by the big fish. The two monks jumped into the sea to fight with the big fish. They ended the life of the big fish and dragged it to the bow of the boat.

Brake time, calm, sunny, big fish body into sewage into the sea, leaving only the fish head on the bow. Master and disciple ciguang returned to the Buddhist temple with big fish head. In order to return the Scriptures, he knocked big fish head every day and said "Amitabha...".

Day after day, the big fish's head was knocked to pieces. Later, they had to make a wooden one according to the shape of the big fish's head and knock it every day. In this way, knocking the wooden fish to chant scriptures became a Buddhist habit.

It is precisely because of this that the name of wooden fish comes from "fish is not suitable for the eyes day and night", so it is carved with wooden elephant fish, which is used to admonish thinking of Tao day and night. When chanting and confessing, it cooperates with the bronze chime to control the Sutra.

As a common instrument of Buddhism and Taoism, the wooden fish and the bronze chime are a pair of inseparable instruments to communicate with gods. They are all necessary instruments in the instrument case. Their sizes, forms and materials are different, but they should be commensurate with the size of the bronze chime.

It is worth mentioning that there are many versions about the origin of wooden fish. The most well-known one is that wooden fish was created by Buddhist friends. However, Ma Chengyu pointed out that as early as Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty in China, people used Tung wood to carve fish shapes for percussion instruments, but it is not a religious weapon, and this is also the forerunner of wooden fish Body.

With the development of the times and the increasing prosperity of modern Buddhism, it is generally accepted that wooden fish is one of the magic weapons of Buddhism. Only a few people know its origin with Taoism, so Lin Xi's doubts are reasonable.

After putting down his doubts, Lin Xi's eyes shifted again and fell on the two long tables. He didn't know what kind of wood the two long tables were made of. From a distance, the material was exquisite, smooth as a baby's arm, and shining in the dark attic.

Moreover, the two tables are also carved with cloud patterns. No matter how many table legs or the intersection of mortise and tenon structures are surrounded by cloud patterns, even there are many traces of cloud patterns on the table. The whole table looks very precious.

Leaving the two long tables, the furnishings and styles of other places in the attic are not very different from those of the front five floors, except for the murals, which are carved beams and painted buildings.

However, Lin Xi found that the murals in the attic are very different from those in the front five floors!

You know, the stories recorded in the first five layers of murals are all related to Zhang Daoling. The number of murals in each layer is the same, and there are as many as 16 murals in each layer. However, there are only eight murals in this attic, and the contents of the murals are not the same.

After a careful look, Lin Xi found that the contents of the eight murals are all related to "Laozi", which is a record of his life. Each mural is an allusion about Laozi, and the eight allusions tell the story of Laozi's life.

The reason why Lin Xi can recognize the content of the murals is the allusions about Laozi is that he liked the traditional culture since he was a child, so he knew all the characters in the traditional culture of our country. Otherwise, when he chose his major in University, he would not choose the unpopular Department of history.

At that time, Lin Xi recognized the allusions in the eight murals, which were: intelligent youth, entering the Zhou Dynasty to study, Confucius asking for rites, discussing life and death, writing books in Hangu, enlightening Yangzi, lunshengshengshengjing, and finally re teaching Confucius.These eight allusions are not only the abbreviations of Lao Tzu's life legend, but also the concrete embodiment of his thought, and also the fundamental reason why he is known as the first of the three great saints in the East.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "Laozi is the best in the world"!

After reading the eight murals, Lin Xi felt a sense of enlightenment, just like seeing the sky through the clouds: Although the Taoist Lao Tzu and the Taoist taishanglaojun are not the same person, their pursuit of "Tao" and their ideological realm are the same, and the reason for leaving the eight murals in this building is probably to remind those who practice here not to Forget the essence of practice, that is, the pursuit of Tao!

Having seen eight murals, Lin Xi finally remembered the heavy object that had been pressed on the isolation board. After inspecting the attic, he found the heavy object in the corner.

The heavy object is actually a square stone lock, the same size as the one used by martial arts experts in TV dramas. However, the stone lock is round, and only the handle is smooth. I think it was the smooth side when I pressed it on the isolation board.

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for those readers who are interested in Laozi's eight allusions, you can look them up.

However, I want to make it clear that this book is not trying to explain these things in terms of words, but just to give you a more intuitive and detailed understanding.

And for those of us who write books, promoting traditional culture is also one of our responsibilities, not just muddling along and making money.

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