The original name of the Mantou Nunnery in Dream of Red Mansions is Shuiyue Nunnery. It was originally a nunnery in which there were an old nun named Jingxu, a wise nun and a young nun who was smart. A nunnery is supposed to be a quiet place away from the troubles of the world, but it is not quiet in this nunnery. First, the old nun Jingxu intervened to break up Zhang Jinge and Shou Bei's son, causing the lovers to die in love. There are also young nuns Zhi'er and Qin Zhong who "got fun" at the Mantou Temple, and later Fang Guan, a Zhitong avatar and opera singer, became a monk and served as a servant. It can be said that a quiet place was made to harbor filth and evil. Why did the author arrange it like this? We analyze the following one by one. The most important thing in practice is to cultivate the mind
Mantou Temple should be a quiet place, away from the noise of the world, free and peaceful. But what is shown to us in Mantou Temple is machinations, calculations, and worldly filth. What does this mean? I would like to use a poem by Tao Yuanming to explain: "The house is built in a human environment, without the noise of carriages and horses. When I ask you what you can do, my mind is far away and I am biased." If you want to practice cultivation, the key is to keep your inner peace, not the location or form.
The fourth girl, Xichun, decided to become a monk because she wanted to completely break with the "dirty" Ningguo Mansion. However, the Buddhism she pursued was not a pure land. Similarly, the jade of the monks "will never be clean if you want to, but the clouds may not be empty. The poor quality of gold and jade will eventually sink into the mud." In the final analysis, Miaoyu's heart has not been broken. The book mentions that Miaoyu is so "noble" that when outsiders come to her Cuicui nunnery, she will wash the floor with water. Grandma Liu will take a sip of tea and throw away the expensive tea cup. Throw it away, but what happened in the end? It ended up in "Naoni", which is shocking.
After being polished by life, Jia Baoyu, Zhen Shiyin and others fully realized it. When Jia Baoyu finished listening to "Parasite Grass", Jia Baoyu once wrote the following Zen enlightenment: "You prove my proof, my heart proves my mind. If there is no proof, Si Keyun proves. If there is no cloud proof, it is based on the ground." Lin Daiyu looked at it and added to him, "If you don't have a foothold, you will be clean." What does this mean? It means, "If you can even give up a foothold, then that is the final understanding." "Everything is empty." In fact, Lin Daiyu is also the person who understands thoroughly, so Lin Daiyu can eventually "come and go clean again". The key to Zen enlightenment lies in the heart of the practitioner. There are very few times when the outside world can satisfy us, and there are many times when it cannot. Therefore, human suffering is endless.
Just like the end of science is philosophy, read and reread A Dream of Red Mansions. There is a Zen message in it. A monk came to the world to save Jia Baoyu. Jia Baoyu rolled around in the gentle and wealthy land. , understood thoroughly. Only by knowing the true face of the world can we gain more freedom. However, the "Jingxu" in Buddhism are still calculating and calculating. The original name of Mantou Temple is not Mantou Temple, but Shuiyue Temple. It got its name because the steamed buns are well made. It is mentioned in the book that the name of Mantou Nunnery is "Qin Zhong Dequ Mantou Nunnery". The reason why they went to Mantou Nunnery was because Qin Keqing's spirit stopped in Tiekang Temple. Wang Xifeng found two rooms in Mantou Nunnery and lived there. There is a connection between the nunnery and the Tiekan Temple.
Tiekan Temple is the place where Jia's family holds funerals and holds funerals. The host is Se Kong. Mantou Temple is not far from Tiekuan Temple. The two names of Tiekan Temple and Mantou Temple are more likely to remind people of the favorite poem of Miaoyu, who calls himself "the outsider of the threshold", "Even if there is an iron threshold for a thousand years, there must be a soil steamed bun in the end." This poem comes from the Southern Song Dynasty Fan Chengda's "The Land of Nine-Day Camping and Longevity Hidden"
A catalpa tree can be used anywhere in the family mountain, and a lotus palate and a pot are like drunk Liu Liu.
Even if there is an iron threshold for a thousand years, there will eventually be a piece of earthen bread.
The three-wheeled world is still in a state of gray calamity, and the four major bodies are strong.
How thick are the ants and the black kites? The chrysanthemums bloom in autumn in the wind.
The creative background of this poem is that Fan Chengda was hiking a mountain during the Double Ninth Festival. He saw someone building a tomb for himself in the future, and he was inspired by it. In the mortal world, we often wish the elderly "live as long as the immortal pine in Nanshan Mountain", but in this life, even princes, generals, and people with great fortune and great wealth cannot escape death. Fate will treat everyone fairly, and their final destination will be a grave like a bun. In the mortal world, people are just skins. Even after three reincarnations and three disasters, they will eventually return to their origins and their "hometown."
In this regard, there is no difference between ants and kites, and there is no difference between all living beings. This is the law of nature.
The term "iron threshold" comes from the seventh generation grandson of Wang Xizhi. He was an eminent monk in the Sui Dynasty. Influenced by the legacy of his ancestors, he had high attainments in calligraphy. He once wrote eight chapters of "The Thousand-Character Essay" More than a hundred copies are distributed to those who love calligraphy. Because there were too many people asking for letters, the threshold of the place where he lived was broken through, so it was covered with iron sheets. Later, it was used to refer to the noble family and its long-lasting prosperity. In the Dream of Red Mansions, the Iron Kan Temple was built by the Second Duke Rongning and is the family temple of the Jia family. The wish of the Second Duke Rongning that the Jia family can be prosperous forever is also reflected here.
The expressions of iron thresholds and earthen buns can also be found in the Tang Dynasty. The poet Wang Fanzhi of the Tang Dynasty once wrote two limericks:
"There is no century-old man in the world"
There are no century-old people in the world,
Force to make a thousand-year tune,
Forge iron to make the threshold (sill),
Clap your hands and laugh when you see ghosts.
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Don’t think it’s tasteless.
These two limericks are simple and humorous. Everyone wants to live a hundred years, build a strong iron threshold, and want to last forever, but life is short after all, and no one is exception. This behavior of people , was applauded and laughed at by the ghost. The tombs outside the city are like steamed buns, and the fillings of the steamed buns are people. One for each person is fair.
The Jia Mansion has been prosperous and prosperous for hundreds of years. After being cooked by fire and flourishing with flowers, the building finally collapsed and fell into a vast white land. The earth was so clean that everything was "a dream in the end. "The state returns to nothing", which proves that even if it is an iron threshold, it cannot escape the ending of earthy buns. Whether it is called Mantou Temple or its official name is Shuiyue Temple, the "glory and wealth" of the Jia family before was "the moon in the water, the flowers in the mirror", but in the end it was all in vain. This idea is very consistent with the "good song" of Yiseng Yiyi , it is also consistent with the overall idea of ??Dream of Red Mansions, and is a portrayal of the fate of the Jia family.