Visit Dinghu Mountain, pass Ronghe Monument Pavilion, walk through the winding path of nine turns and eighteen bends, and arrive at Bushan Pavilion. It is said that there is no dust here, and there are even more couplets of Chihiro. In the southeast corner of Bushan Pavilion, there are two big trees. Roughly speaking, it's one tree, but look carefully, it's two trees. One meter below the ground looks like a tree head, and more than one meter is divided into two branches. Near the north is kapok, and near the south is longan. When it grows to about three meters high, another tree tumor connects the two trees together, and then the branches of both trees rise. It's like two trees growing on the head of a tree, and it's like a couple whispering hand in hand. This is the well-known marriage tree, and some people call it the mandarin duck tree. Many young men and women come here to express their feelings, and some kind men and women also come here to burn incense and bow down.
Legend has it that a long time ago, there were many temples and temples in Dinghushan, and the incense was flourishing, and there was an endless stream of believers every day. One day, a young nun went to Dinghu Mountain to be ordained and rested on Bushan Pavilion. An experienced Benshan monk in "Lu Yu You Yue" asked for directions and fell in love. Two young men were forced to follow an empty net because of misfortune. When they meet their friends again, they have the idea of secularization. They agreed to report back to the teacher and get married together. But in the Buddhist rules at that time, nuns were considered to be the most immoral things, so their demands were not allowed, but criticized. Not long after, the two young people met unexpectedly at the Bushan Pavilion. After sharing their feelings, they vowed that they would not live together or die in the same cave, so they all hanged themselves on the southeast branch. Later, according to their wishes, good people buried them together in the southeast of Bushan Pavilion. A few years later, the two trees grew on their graves. Now that the breeze is blowing and the leaves are swaying, it seems that you can still hear the whispers of these two young people.
The history of Baiyun Temple in Dinghushan
In the third year of Yifeng in Tang Gaozong (678), after the establishment of Baiyun Temple by Zen master Huineng Gaotu Zhichang, the sixth ancestor of Zen Buddhism, Buddhism rose in Dinghushan with 36 tricks built around it. Up to now, there are still relics such as Nirvana Platform, Samaitan, Shengsengqiao and LuoHancheng, which shows the prosperity of Buddhism that day.
In the Ming Dynasty, Hanshan monk (1545 ~ 1823), known as one of the three elders in the Buddhist history of China, came to Zhaoqing, which promoted the revival of Buddhism in Zhaoqing.
Hanshan, whose common name is Yin Cheng, became a monk at the age of 12. At the age of 2 1, Hongzhi was destroyed by fire and traveled all over Henan, which had a great influence in the whole country. Together with two eminent monks, Lianchi and Bai Zi, they are called the Three Elders of Ancient Buddha. In the ten years of Wanli, due to the fulfillment of praying for the heir, Li Taihou met; In the twenty-third year of Wanli, the emperor wanted to make the axe king a prince, which often clashed with Li Taihou. The emperor was angry with the monk and asked Li Taihou to reduce his diet to help build Hoonji and other gifts. Hanshan was assigned to Leizhou; In the 28th year of Wanli, he passed by Baiyun Temple in Dinghushan, Zhaoqing (he was in exile at that time) and donated 25 taels of platinum, asking the abbot at that time, Bao Monk Jinshan, to build Baiyun Temple. In thirty-four years of Wanli, Hanshan was forgiven. In the late spring of thirty-nine years, I fell ill on my way back to the north. Monk Jinshan invited him to Baiyun Temple to recuperate and live in tin for one year. During this period, he enjoyed the scenery of Dingxiang Mountain, especially Qingyun Temple (commonly known as Tiger's Nest), and wrote a poem for this, saying that Cangwu looked at Dinghu East in the west and the Yellow Emperor rose to the sky. After Pei Huan returned to Plantagenet, fairies often appeared in the white clouds. There is a lotus bed in Qingshan, and the Vatican Palace is placed in the temple. Leaning against the staff, standing alone in the air, leaning sideways against the cold wind. A folklore that appeared in the early Ming Dynasty was popularized. Legend has it that rotten cloth specially arranged for the rooster to announce the dawn in advance in order to let the Seven Saints put the Seven-Star Rock on the north bank of the Xijiang River, and to stabilize the chicken house attacked by the strong wind, and moved the cauldron cast by the Yellow Emperor in Jingshan to here. Since then, Dinghushan has been renamed Dinghushan, and the main peak is Jilong Mountain.
Hanshan also went deep into the tiger's nest, thinking that surrounded by mountains and peaks, it was like a lotus flower, leaving a poem with lotus petals and green leaves, renamed Lotus Peak. Let's talk about Yixing Buddhism: there is no dog barking in the daytime, and there is a dragon listening at night.
Hanshan wrote Leng Yi, Leng Jia Ji, South China Notes and so on. Later, Ming Fushan and others recorded the complete works of Hanshan Master in 40 volumes.
In the sixth year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty (1633), Liang Shaochuan, a native of Shangdi Village in Gaoyao County, believed in Buddhism, and Zhu Ziren, a newcomer from Yangjiang, etc. 10 took root in the den of Lotus Peak, hoping to serve Hui Yuan (364 ~ 4 16) and 65433, the founding fathers of the Eastern Jin Dynasty who hated the pure land Sect.
In the seventh year of worship (1634), Zhu Ziren highly disliked the habitat (1586 1858). He shaved and dyed his quilt in Fusaiji, Baiyun Mountain, Guangzhou, and his dharma name was Hongzan. Later, he changed his name to ginseng, and then he easily became a cow ginseng. He returned to his habitat for half a year.
In the autumn of the following year (1635), Shiqi Valley went from Guangzhou to Xinxing Guo Si Temple (the sixth ancestor Huineng was born in his hometown) and went out to Duanzhou and Guangli. Niu Shen and others joined the crowd to welcome him into Dinghu Lake and urged him to be the abbot of Qingyun Temple. Because the situation in Guangzhou was tense and the Qing army was approaching, he wanted to stay away and promised to come back the next year.
In the ninth year of Chongzhen (1636), on May 26th of the lunar calendar, Qihe officially opened a mountain in Dinghushan, changing the Lotus Temple into Qingyun Temple. It is said that when he first entered the altar of this mountain, he saw five-color clouds appearing on the summit. Qihe thought it was a good omen to have the second house of Qingyun, so he named himself Genting the Old Man. Qihe also believes that the word Qingyun means that this temple is also the way to live in clouds and mountains, and its roots are not forgotten.
According to the records of Qingyun Temple, this mountain is Boshan Bell and Drum, which has the rules of Yun Qi. Zen, purity and dharma are all good.
Judging from the lineage of the legal heirs, the abbots of Dinghushan in past dynasties were all descendants of the stone monk (770~790) under Gao Qingyuan, the sixth ancestor of Zen Buddhism, and Boshan Sect, the founder of Cao Dongzong. They were authentic in the cave and took Boshan Yuanlai as their ancestor. The monk Qihe is the thirty-fifth grandson of the stone monk who wants to move. Boshan is no different from the monk method (Boshan II), so it is called Boshan Bell and Drum. Qihe himself has also studied Pure Land Sect and French Sect at the same time. Worship Biya first, then Hanshan, and the method of inheritance is the same. Buddhist nun, a monk who once joined the French Sect, went to Huozhuoji, Guangzhou, and was given a cloak by the foot police and the monk Lianchi of Yun Qi Temple in Hangzhou. Monk Lianchi is one of the nine ancestors of Lianzong (Pure Land Sect came from Hui Yuan monk in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, also known as Lianzong). In the history of Buddhism, it combined two Zen schools and formulated ten covenants, which monks regarded as the law of discipline. Monks in Qingyun Temple still follow it, so it is a custom to live like this.