I didn't see them until I walked out of Yangyixuan. I don't want to say goodbye, just look around silently, looking at this elegant and quiet place, and then looking at the back that is slowly walking away, I secretly wish you a safe journey!
Zen can be seen everywhere in this dimly lit attic. Wooden chairs with different shapes are neatly placed on the right hand side, and bamboo curtains are hung on the wall, just like the lunch box just now, which makes people feel like a lifetime ago.
The wayward potted plants climbed up the wall, obscuring half the bright lights. A row of red lanterns was yellowed by the light. Tall, exquisite, round, barrel-shaped, semi-circular flowerpots packed the second floor, as if this were their king of thailand, and we were uninvited guests.
After drinking the last bowl of coconut milk sago, I left. When I got up, I was a little reluctant. Besides antique tables and chairs, peaceful and kind white jade Guanyin, an old camera, a lovely lotus screen and a very elegant coffee table. Every corner of the room has a very delicate and quaint layout, some are portraits of bodhisattvas, some are celebrity calligraphy and painting, and there are all kinds of teacups and tea sets printed with Buddhist language.
If my stomach hasn't protested, I'll watch carefully.
When one of us sat down, we found a plate of fruit on the table. It took us a long time to study this fruit bowl before we made sure it was edible.
There is only a little fruit on the rectangular big white porcelain plate. A small blueberry, a cherry, a pitaya, an orange and half a grape. These fruits are arranged like a picture, which makes us afraid to do it after sitting down. I don't know if they are edible. Later, after some inquiries, I realized that it was pre-meal fruit, so I treated it rudely.
At first, I felt a little inappropriate to take chopsticks. Later, I saw two small forks and spoons beside me. Look around, everyone is eating fruit with forks, so I quickly put down my chopsticks. A little ashamed, the culture on this vegetarian table is deep.
The fruit was swept away by us in an instant. After waiting for a while, the food was finally served.
My favorite first dish is purple rice pudding. Only white pudding can be seen in the square plastic cup. If it weren't for those two pieces of spearmint, it would be like a piece of white jade tofu, which would be pleasing to the eye.
I'm smart this time. I changed a small spoon. Have a taste of this delicious pudding, and the more you dig down, the more you can see the small purple potato. Delicious! If all these desserts are like this, I will be satisfied.
I think it's time to finish dessert and serve. I didn't expect everyone in the second road to take out a big plate. There are only two small pieces of fried mushrooms on the big plate with a little sauce on it. There is a purple flower next to the fried mushrooms. Start with the flowers and draw a red circle. There is a green side dish under the circle and a pitaya at the left end of the plate.
This dish is served in two portions, only knowing that it is a painting, but not what it is.
The dishes below are more and more novel and exquisite. Every time the plate is different, there are flower-shaped, round, round and rectangular. I want to know whether I am eating vegetables or plates. It seems that I am more interested in plates.
Why is this happening? Because plates are more beautiful than vegetables. There are only a few dishes in each big plate, such as fried tofu with coix seed, fried mushrooms with pepper, stewed mushroom soup with pumpkin, fried rice with curry, fried mushrooms with lotus seeds ... almost every dish is gone in one bite. That one takes the longest time, because the rice is too hard. Let's eat it slowly so as not to be swallowed.
What I am most satisfied with is the last course, a bowl of coconut milk sago. This dish is so full that it takes several bites to finish. After all, I still like desserts.
The meal in Shaolin Temple impressed me the most, and it was also the place where we went out to play with some literary friends yesterday and stayed for the longest time.
Yesterday was my second time to join the book club. I can send it to the whole family this time, and I also want to thank the organizer Bao Ge. The weekly literary friend exchange activities are limited to sightseeing, and there is no need to hand in homework or consider other expenses. At first, I felt incredible. I wonder who is planning such an activity, and for what purpose?
After listening to it yesterday, I finally understood Brother Bao's helplessness and original intention. He usually takes part in the work step by step and has no time to participate in the activities organized by the Writers Association. He can only use the weekend time to organize some like-minded literary friends to learn from Buddha among the mountains and rivers and find a place to live for his soul. That's why he arranged vegetarian dinner! Let the body and mind banish the mountains and rivers together, away from the noise of the world.
Brother Bao, a kind name given to him by our literary newcomers comes from the names given to him by other predecessors. Do as the Romans do!
Although Brother Bao rarely appears in some public places, he is the most diligent, enthusiastic and fruitful literary elder on weekdays.
The red envelope is the most generous, and the essay is the boldest. The most common gun brother in newspapers is very similar to the chivalrous landlord in martial arts novels. Looking at his slender figure, it is a bit exaggerated to say that he is a soldier. I can only say that he is the master! The kind of landlord who accepts talents and is charitable, a big shot who specializes in doing good deeds without leaving a name!
Yesterday we went to Qili Temple, AIA Creative Park and Shaolin Temple.
Over the years, we have been to temples in countless places, but we have never been to a nun. When I arrived at Qili Temple and saw that the abbot was a teacher, I suddenly realized that this was a nun.
Could the nun here be the place where my former colleagues said there was nowhere to go in the new year and then I stayed? Where is a nun in Quanzhou? This is a problem that has puzzled me for a long time.
This place is not big, just wander around. In it, we saw a stone carving couplet inscribed by calligrapher Zeng Zhou in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China: Virtue will destroy the world in the present; It is convenient for people to learn from this place. This couplet is embedded in the vicissitudes of stone wall, which is inconspicuous.
This little temple, which is not very famous, is well known. It is said that Han Qi, the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, became a monk. It was founded in the late Tang Dynasty, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and became famous in Jingdezhen in the Northern Song Dynasty.
At present, Qili Temple is still under reconstruction. Seeing the large-scale reconstruction project plan, I believe it will shine again in the near future.
When I walked out of buddhist nun, I was still thinking about what Master Miaodu said just now: Buddhists must burn incense to show their sincerity when they enter the temple. Before that, I always believed that the Buddha was in my heart. As long as there was a Buddha in my heart, it didn't matter whether I burned incense or not. Now that she said this, the idea that has occupied my heart for many years is somewhat shaken.
At the second stop, we went to Caobang Reservoir, also known as AIA Creative Park.
This is a good place for sightseeing and fitness. Besides enjoying the beautiful scenery, you can also swim, barbecue and fish here. It is a leisure place suitable for parent-child activities.
When we arrived, it was late, but it was still very noisy and there were lively scenes everywhere. In the swimming pool, only large and small figures swim around in the water like fish; There are not many people in the fishing area, but they see fishermen sitting quietly with long fishing rods, waiting for the fish to bite. The reservoir is large and deep, and there is no shadow of fish. I heard that there are a lot of fish here, but we don't believe it.
Although the reservoir is surrounded by barbed wire, a notice is posted: swimming is strictly prohibited in the reservoir. However, we have seen many people swimming here by car. Knowing that they can't do it, some people just take risks and make fun of their own lives!
We walked around the reservoir for a long time, stopped talking and laughing all the way, walked together in groups of three or five, and went back and forth, but no one got separated.
After the tour, we went to Shaolin Temple for dinner.
Tired of walking, it was completely dark at Shaolin Temple. After a quick tour, we went directly to Yangyixuan.
A vegetarian meal with unique intentions subverted my prejudice against vegetarianism. It turns out that we are used to eating big fish and big meat. In fact, deep down, we are more eager to eat a vegetarian meal that does not need to be full, but only needs enough nutrition to clean the stomach.
After what happened yesterday, I can finally understand why Bremen likes hanging around the mountain temple so much. It turns out that all the encounters in the world are reunions after a long separation. Our fate with Buddha may be a doomed blessing!