1. Li Yuan, a hermit in the Tang Dynasty, lived in Huilin Temple and had a good relationship with the abbot Yuanguan, and they were mutual friends. The two met to visit Mount Emei in Sichuan. Yuan Guan wanted to go to Chang'an and enter Sichuan by land from the north. At Li Yuan's insistence, the two entered Sichuan from the Yangtze River waterway. On the way, they met a pregnant woman who was three years pregnant by the river.
Yuan Guan cried when he saw the pregnant woman, saying that it was for this reason that he did not want to walk by water, because he was destined to be the woman's son and could not escape if he encountered her. He and Li Yuan We met at Sanshengshichu in Hangzhou 13 years later. Yuan Guan passed away that night and the pregnant woman gave birth to her baby smoothly.
Thirteen years later, Li Yuan came to Sansheng Stone as promised, and saw a shepherd boy singing: "The old soul on Sansheng Stone, watch the moon and chant the wind, don't talk about it; I am ashamed that my old friend is visiting me from afar, although this body is of the opposite sex." "Cun." Li Yuan recognized him, and the shepherd boy said that he was Yuanze, but his fate was not over and he could not stay for a long time, so he left.
2. It is said that after Nuwa mended the sky, she began to make people out of clay. Each time she made a person, she took a grain of sand as a plank, and finally turned it into a huge stone. Nuwa erected it on the bank of the Ling River in the west sky. Because this stone began when the heaven and earth first opened, it received the essence of the sun and the moon, and its spirituality gradually became clear. I don't know how many spring and autumn years passed, but I heard a loud noise in the sky, and a stone thrust straight into the sky, pushing against the cave in the sky, as if it had the intention of breaking out of the sky.
Nuwa looked around and was shocked. She saw that after the stone absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon, it became top-heavy and upright. Divided into three sections, it has the intention of swallowing up the three realms of heaven, earth and man. Nuwa hurriedly used the soul talisman to seal the stone. She thought that after creating a human being, she only lacked marriage and reincarnation, so she named it the three-life stone, gave it three-life magic power, and named its three sections the past life, this life, and the next life. , and add a marriage line to him, which will last from this life to the next life.
In order to better restrain its demonic nature, Nuwa thought over and over again, and finally placed it on the bank of Wangchuan River, the gate of hell, to take charge of the reincarnation of marriage for three generations. When the stone is erected, the divine power shines all over the world, and there is an endless stream of people kneeling down to pray for marriage and reincarnation.
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Sansheng Stone is located at the east foot of Lotus Peak behind Fajing Temple in Santianzhu, Hangzhou. It is one of the "Sixteen Relics of West Lake" mentioned in "The Story of West Lake" by Wu Moliangzi in the early Qing Dynasty. "one. The most famous love in ancient China - Bao Dai's love started from the previous life beside the Sansheng Stone.
The stone is about 10 meters high, more than 2 meters wide, steep and exquisite. On the stone are engraved "Sansheng Stone" in three bowl-sized seal scripts and an inscription "Tang Yuanze Monk Sansheng Stone Traces", describing the origin of "Sansheng Stone".
There are many inscriptions from the Tang and Song Dynasties on the stone, most of which are no longer identifiable. Only the inscriptions by Taishi Yang Yu, Hanlin Zhang Zhu and others in the autumn and September of the Yuan Dynasty (1341) are still clearly visible.
Sanshengshi is a kind of argillaceous limestone with colors such as brown red, vermilion, black yellow, and earthy yellow. Sansheng stone is produced on Jiuxian Mountain in the north of Qufu, the hometown of Confucius. It has a soft texture and exquisite texture. The Sansheng stone in front of the mountain is brownish red, which is called Sansheng stone. After polishing, it can appear like a wood grain pattern or black dot embellishment. , so it also has the reputation of red sandalwood among stones.
The stones on the back side of the mountain are mostly dark yellow or earthy yellow, which are called Sansheng stones and Yin stones. Yin stones are also decorated with black natural pictures. After polishing, large stones can form mountain waterfalls and ancient trees. The patterns such as dead branches, birds and animals, romantic figures, etc. are clear and lifelike, each has its own beauty, and has the nobility and elegance of ink painting. Sanshengite contains cinnabar, quartz, calcite, stibnite, dikaiite, kaolinite and other ingredients.
"Three Lives" originates from the Buddhist theory of cause and effect and reincarnation, and the Three Lives Stone is produced on Jiuxian Mountain in the hometown of Confucius, the founder of Confucianism. The legendary Yuanchi Immortal is also a representative of Taoism. After a long period of evolution of Chinese religious culture, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism have penetrated and assimilated each other. To a certain extent, the three religions have become one. Therefore, the Sansheng Stone is even more of a spiritual stone.
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