This event was staged in the Ruiguang Tower. Ruiguang Tower is located in Panmen, Suzhou. According to historical records, in 24 1 year, Kang Xing, a monk from the Western Regions, came to Wu and presented a relic. Sun Quan built Ruiguang Temple to meet him. In 25 1 year, in order to repay his mother's kindness, Sun Quan built a 13-story pagoda in Ruiguang Temple, which was the original Ruiguang Pagoda. Due to its long history, turbulent situation or disrepair, the Ruiguang Tower has undergone many repairs in later generations and was rebuilt into seven floors in the Northern Song Dynasty. Since then, it has been destroyed many times and repaired nine times in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.
The ancient life experience endows it with heavy historical connotation. The tower itself is a living fossil of ancient architectural structure and skills, and it is a precious historical material. After school in the 1970s, primary school students originally planned to dig out the bird's nest. Maybe it's providence. Pupils searched the Ruiguang Tower and found no bird's nest, but movable blue bricks were found on the third floor. They moved the blue bricks and found a wooden box with words on it, so they told their families about it. The family thought it was probably a cultural relic and reported it to the relevant departments. Experts came here to explore, and gained a lot: nine statues of Buddha and Bodhisattva, handwritten scriptures in the Five Dynasties, woodcut Hokkekyo in the Northern Song Dynasty, and so on. According to experts' ancient books, this national treasure is worth no less than 5 billion.
One of the most precious is a real pearl relic building. The height of Baolou is 1.22 meters. The main body of Baolou is carved from nanmu, with more than 40,000 pearls embedded in it. With this place, it is enough to reflect its exquisiteness and delicacy. The production of treasure buildings is based on the "seven treasures" in Buddhism. The Amitabha Sutra says that the seven treasures are gold, silver, coloured glaze, coral, red pearl and agate.
Gold and silver are naturally money, so the value of gold and silver goes without saying. In Buddhism, there is a tradition of dressing Buddha with gold and silver. Some monks don't change their bodies, which is called the whole body relic, and their bodies will be enshrined with gold foil by future generations. In ancient times, the raw materials of colored glaze mainly came from the by-products obtained in the production of bronzes, so colored glaze was very rare among the people, even more precious than jade. Manjianghong is the largest deep-sea shellfish, and the end of its shell can be processed into beads; Red beads are red coral beads, which are piled up by coral corpses and grow very slowly. They are non-renewable resources and are very precious.
The solemnity of the seven treasures of Buddhism is enough to show that the makers attach importance to the treasures, and the relics on the treasures are priceless. The treasure house is inlaid with nine relics. The relic is the crystallization left by a monk with a certificate of practice. Can be divided into blood heritage, meat heritage, bone heritage, hair heritage and so on. , its luster is complex. This is a symbol of monk's practice and has a lofty position among Buddhist believers. According to legend, the skull relic of Sakyamuni Buddha is enshrined in the Great White Pagoda of Wutai Mountain, and there is an endless stream of believers who come to worship. At the foot of the Great White Pagoda is surrounded by a prayer wheel, which has been turned over in the hands of believers for years.
The value of treasure architecture is not only reflected in its magnificent treasures, but also its manufacturing technology is very representative. This treasure house, which integrates more than ten kinds of skills such as jade carving, gold silk weaving and gold and silver leather carving, is itself a fossil of ancient craftsmen's skills and a precious historical material. It has important value in history, art, culture, science and many other fields, and it is not enough to show its value only by money.