Historical allusions to Mount Tai:
During the Tianxi period, Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty enshrined Mount Tai and built the Dai Temple. On the day the construction started, famous carpenters from all over the country were invited. Everyone worked day and night. , busy working nervously. Among them was an old man with a white beard who wandered around the construction site all day long, looking here and there, but he never reached out to work for a while.
Although many carpenters were a little dissatisfied, but seeing that at his age it was difficult to explain, they all said helplessly: Let this old man just make a living.
On this day, the old man finished his meal and said to everyone: I can’t just sit idle and make a few ink rulers for everyone to use. "After a while, the old man made dozens of them. While everyone was resting, Many people found it funny
This old man is really good at making ink rulers, but he can only make a few ink sticks with a bag of cigarettes. , Who cares? Many people took it and threw it away. Only a carpenter named Li carefully collected it.
After a few days, Carpenter Li’s ink ruler broke, so he took out the one given by the old man. When the ink ruler came to be used, a miracle happened. Carpenter Li used the ink ruler to draw lines on the wood, and the wood immediately split into two halves along the ink lines. When everyone saw it, they all looked for their own ink rulers, but they couldn't find them anywhere. Only then did I realize that the old man was Master Lu Ban.
From then on, the carpenter began to call the ink ruler the wood-cutting sword.
It is ridiculous that ordinary people cannot recognize the true face of gods.
Extended information:
Mount Tai is one of the birthplaces of ancient culture in the Yellow River Basin. The area around Mount Tai was developed by our ancestors a long time ago. The Dafengkou Culture at the southern foot of Mount Tai was The Longshan cultural relics at the northern foot are evidence of this. Even earlier, there are fossil remains of the Xintai people 50,000 years ago and the fossil remains of the Yiyuan people 400,000 years ago.
During the Warring States Period, there are direct access to the Taishan Mountains. The Great Wall with a length of about 500 kilometers was built on the Yellow Sea, and the ruins still exist in Mount Tai today. The scenic spots related to Confucius' activities include Confucius Dengchufang, Wangwu Shengjifang, Confucius Xiaotianxia, ??Confucius Temple, Zhanlu Terrace, and Menghugou. etc. The sacred mountain and cultural treasure Mount Tai is known as "the first of the five mountains" and "the most respected of the five mountains". It is a symbol of political power and became a sacred mountain when the ancient emperors came to the throne. During the pre-Qin period, 72 generations of monarchs came to Mount Tai to offer sacrifices. From the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, emperors visited Mount Tai 27 times to offer sacrifices and the majestic and magnificent scenery. Celebrities came to Mount Tai to write poems and poems, leaving behind countless poems engraved on stone, such as Confucius' "Qiuling Song", Sima Qian's "Book of Fengchan", and Cao Zhi's "Flying Dragon Chapter". ", Li Bai's "Taishan Ode", Du Fu's "Wang Yue" and other poems have become famous poems handed down from generation to generation in China.
The Song Dynasty murals in Tiankuang Hall and the rare Song Dynasty painted Arhat statues in Lingyan Temple. Treasures: Taishan's stone carvings and stone tablets are the culmination of Chinese calligraphy art. They are all complete with real cursive, official and seal scripts, and are completed by Yan, Liu, Ou and Zhao schools. It is an extremely rich cultural heritage of Taishan's calligraphy and stone carving art in the past. There are 97 ancient ruins and 22 ancient building groups (Table 3), which provide physical information for the study of ancient Chinese architectural history.
Taishan religion has a long history, and Buddhism was introduced to Mount Tai in the mid-4th century AD. The eminent monk Langgong first went to Daiyin in Taishan to establish Langgong Temple and Lingyan Temple. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the largest temples in Taishan included Gushan Yuhuang Temple, Shenbao Temple, and Puzhao Temple. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Lingyan Temple was extremely prosperous. Li Jifu, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, called Lingyan Temple in Taishan one of the "four wonders" in the world. As early as the Warring States Period, Taishan Taoism had alchemists living in seclusion in Daiyin Cave; after the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were many Ci temples. The ones that have been preserved to this day include the Queen Mother Pool (Qunwang Temple), Laojun Hall, Doumu Palace (Longquan Temple), Bixia Temple, Hou Temple, etc. Shiwu Temple, Yuanshi Tianzun Temple, etc. Among them, Queen Mother Pond is the earliest, founded before 220 AD.
Bixia Temple has the greatest influence. Mount Tai is the birthplace of the myth and legend of the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother Pond Taoist Temple was built as early as the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Queen Mother Pond is located at the east end of Huanshan Road at the southern foot of Mount Tai. It was called "Qunyu Temple" in ancient times, also known as "Yaochi". Cao Zhi of the Wei Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms had a poem about "passing eastward to the Queen Mother's House", and Li Bai in the Tang Dynasty had a chant about "drinking from the Queen Mother Pond in the morning".
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