Many people in old Quanzhou have had this experience. Children at home often come here for medical treatment and medicine when they have a headache and brain fever. Here are the traditional special medicine "Golden Juice" which has been refined and buried underground for more than 15 years, and the precious "rhinoceros horn" powder, which is "neither noble nor cheap" for the poor people. Huaqiao Tzu Chi Palace has a history of nearly a thousand years since the Song Dynasty. Recently, the newly-established provincial cultural relics protection unit has once again attracted people's attention.
Huaqiao Tzu Chi Palace is built in downtown Quanzhou, and its glazed tile roof is dazzling among the surrounding buildings.
stepping into the Huaqiao Pavilion with a long history of more than 1, years, I looked up and saw the stone tablet above the palace gate, which was engraved with the words "where real people live" written by Zhang Ruitu, a great calligrapher from Quanzhou in the Ming Dynasty.
It is said that a fire broke out in four streets around Huaqiao Tzu Chi Palace in the late Qing Dynasty, and all the nearby houses were burned down, but Huaqiao Tzu Chi Palace was safe and sound. Believers say that "Hua Qiao Gong appeared, and Vulcan did not dare to invade", and another says that "the handwriting of Zhang Ruitu (No.2 Water) water god scared the annealing god". After years of renovation and reconstruction, we can still see the well-preserved stone tablets.
Wu Zhenren helped the world by hanging a pot in the spring
During the Song Dynasty, Wu Zhenren came to the spring to hang a pot to help the world, which was widely celebrated among the people. At that time, the epidemic disease in Quanzhou was prevalent, and Wu Zhenren brought his disciples twice to treat patients day and night. Wu Zhenren hangs a pot in Huaqiao Pavilion, or walks through the streets and lanes, or goes to the countryside. He works tirelessly, his disciples follow him around, and the poor take nothing, saving countless people, which is well-known.
Wu Zhenren's disciples promoted the broad masses of good faith, donated medicines and medicines, until the medicines were given in an organized way, and even various charitable activities, and inherited and carried forward the spirit of real people's virtue and skill, which became a fine tradition of Huaqiao Tzu Chi Palace.
insisting on giving medicine for more than 1 years
In the fourth year of Guangxu, Quanzhou Houcheng Huang Tufu and Jinshi Wu Guisheng and Huang Maolie initiated the "Quanjun Pesticide Administration" and started the charity cause of Huaqiao Tzu Chi Palace, which was 18 years earlier than the so-called "world first" and the "Organization of Charity Relief and Begging Suppression Association" established in London, England in 1896.
At present, the back of the main hall of the Tzu Chi Bridge Palace is a medicine donation clinic building, and the first floor is a medicine donation office. For more than 1 years, Huaqiao Medicine Donation Clinic has not only given medicine, but also given food and cold clothes in disaster years. At present, on average, 2,-3, people are given medicines for retired cadres, workers, urban and rural poor, laid-off workers and migrant workers every year, and they send deep love to the disadvantaged groups. The people who served as the chairman of the board of directors of Huaqiao Medicine Donation Clinic in past dynasties were all respected social sages. Huang Depeng, the current chairman and vice president of Quanzhou Folk Belief Research Association, praised them as "self-indulgent, self-frugal and voluntary".
Huaqiao Palace in Quanzhou is well-known at home and abroad, and numerous celebrities and poets left Mo Bao after visiting it. A spontaneous folk charity can still be elegant after a hundred years' vicissitudes, which is the continuation of Huaqiao spirit "sneaking into the night with the wind, moistening things silently" and the vivid story of folk charity "giving a piece of love and the true feelings in the world".