The two went home together and had dinner. Wang Fei’s mother asked her son to take Chen Qian to the Chongyang Palace or to visit Lou Guantai. Wang Fei decided to go to Chongyang Palace first!
Speaking of Chongyang Palace, everyone may not know much about it, but if you have read Jin Yong’s "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", you must know that Wang Chongyang, one of the "Five Wonders in the World", founded the entire palace. You must be very familiar with the True Religion, and Chongyang Palace is one of its main halls. The current Chongyang Palace is said to be the site of the Quanzhen Sect.
According to true historical records, during the Yuan Dynasty, Quanzhen Taoism was at its peak. Chongyang Palace was the first of the three ancestral palaces of Quanzhen Taoism, with 5,048 palaces and buildings. Of course, it cannot be so big now. Well, the entire Taoist temple only covers an area of ??four or five acres.
Quanzhen Taoism was very prosperous in the Yuan Dynasty. Legend has it that Qiu Chuji, a famous Taoist priest of Quanzhen Taoism, traveled around, saving lives and healing the wounded, and hoeing the strong and supporting the weak. At that time, Genghis Khan had unified Mongolia and attacked cities everywhere. However, because he was a nomadic people and believed in the path of the strong, he would kill people and fill the fields.
Taoist priest Qiu went to Mongolia in person to meet Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan heard that Qiu Chuji was a generation of gods and immediately summoned him. After some painstaking persuasion from Immortal Qiu, from then on, there were no more murders and massacres in the Central Plains. Of course, this is also the legendary version. What is the reality? Who knows!
Nowadays, the Chongyang Palace is open to the public free of charge from the first day of the Lunar New Year to the Lantern Festival and the Ghost Festival every year, but there is usually a fee. On this day, there were so many tourists.
After entering, Wang Fei temporarily acted as a tour guide for Chen Qian, because he had driven there countless times since he was a child. It’s just that after I graduated and started working, I didn’t come as often.
Wang Fei was talking about the history and culture of Chongyang Palace, stories about characters, and versions of legends. At this moment, the yellow plum blossoms inside the temple are in full bloom. The small flowers are fragrant and there are many people taking pictures there.
Wang Fei and the others also took a lot of photos among the flowers. Then we visited the Forest of Steles collection in Chongyang Palace together. He told Chen Qian that when he was a child, the elders who were traveling with him told him that these turtle-headed monsters were the cause of chaos and made people miserable. Master Chongyang went to subdue them in person. He also thought that it was difficult to practice, so he did not kill them. However, the death penalty can be avoided, but the living penalty cannot be spared.
They were imprisoned in the Chongyang Palace. Many years have passed, and now they have turned into these chi-headed turtles or square feet. It wasn't until middle school that I realized that those legends were false. These inscriptions were nothing more than the handwriting of ancient calligraphers and Taoist celebrities, as well as the imperial edicts given by the royal family.
In the backyard, there is a thousand-year-old ginkgo tree. It has gone through dynasties, ups and downs, and wars. The heart of the tree has become empty, but it is still growing luxuriantly.
A new tower was built on the east side of the ginkgo tree. After walking over, I found that people had messed up the names on the tower.
Wang Fei said, "How about we also carve a sentence on it? Look, there are many people over there carving."
Turning around, he saw that there were indeed many young people. There, various tools were used to carve the so-called oath of eternal alliance on the body of the tower.
"Forget it, let's not do it. If you really love each other, you can stay together for a long time without the blessing of the gods; if not, the gods can't bless you."
Getting ready to go out , the cell phone rang, and after picking it up, it turned out to be Fa Xiao—Heng, suggesting that we go to Lou Guan Terrace or the Temple of Wealth to have a look.