Up and down Yunnan Yanquan Temple-1000 mu.

Yanquan Temple is located on the edge of yiliang county. This mountain is called Pumice Mountain, and there are gurgling springs flowing. There are hundreds of years old trees on sandstone, and there is a towering old tree called Pistacia chinensis, which is said to have a history of more than 600 years. When it was pushed up, it actually belonged to the Yuan Dynasty and was related to Kublai Khan's army.

In this world, where there are ancient and famous trees, the world is always willing to add some sayings. By building temples and burning incense, the story becomes more and more bizarre.

In the late 1930s, a middle-aged man in his forties came to Yanquan Temple, Yiliang County. He rented a small building in the temple and read and wrote every day. The book he is reading is the history of the 25th century. When he chased Qin, the bright moon was in the sky, and the door of the late Qing Dynasty was open. He wrote a book called "Outline of National History", which has a kind of "warmth and respect" for China's 3,000-year history. The content is firm and stands on the position of "national consciousness of Chinese culture". This man's name is Qian Mu, and he is known as Mr. Bing Si. Later, he became famous, and was known as the "Grand Master" and "Four Historians" in China academic circles. "

Qian Mu lived alone in Yanquan Temple for a whole year. At that time, he was only a professor at Kunming Branch of National Southwest Associated University, and his fame was still controversial. Today, let's talk about Mr. Qian's imprint in Yanquan Temple, Yiliang.

In 1930s, Yanquan Temple was divided into Upper Temple and Lower Temple, which were only a few hundred meters apart. Shangsi is a Taoist temple, presided over by a Guangxi native who fled abroad. Si Xia is a Buddhist temple with abbots and monks. There are both rural and private monks' temples. The house where Mr. Qian Mu lives is the private property of a county magistrate, and the locals call it "county magistrate villa".

When Qian Mu moved in, the abbot came to the door and asked, How can the benefactor live here? Mr. Qian replied: I came here mainly to write books. The simpler things in life, the better. It's nice to have dinner with you.

The food of monks in Na Zhi Temple is so bad that they can hardly get in. After two days of persistence, I felt dizzy, so I quickly asked the abbot to discuss it again. The abbot knew for a long time and said, "The days of becoming a monk are usually like this. How can you go on like this, sir? You must change to a vegetarian diet.

Qian Mu felt very embarrassed. If I have a stove and pots and pans at home, how can I read and write? The abbot said that cook the meat is ok on the stove in our temple. All you have to do is pay a maid who cooks. It turned out that the abbot had already hired a maid named Zhang Ma, just waiting for Qian Mu to nod.

Later, Mr. Qian Mu wrote this period of time in Memories of Teachers and Friends, "Zhang Ma is well dressed and polite. Good cooking. One day, Zhang Ma cooked a chicken and I didn't care why. Suddenly, after lunch, she walked out of the temple and passed the kitchen door, only to find the abbot sitting by the door, munching on a drumstick in his hand. I can't help asking, do monks also eat chicken legs? Peter replied: What do monks eat if they don't eat chicken legs? See also a bowl of chicken soup on the stove. " So this is a meat monk.

Qian Mu takes the meter-gauge train of Yunnan-Vietnam Railway to Kunming every week, giving three-day classes to students in The National SouthWest Associated University. Because of the "noise", the class time is arranged in the evening. Then I went back to Yiliang by train, borrowed a batch of books from Yiliang Middle School and brought them back to Yanquan Temple. I've heard a lot about the abbot. It is an open secret that the abbot has a home in the village near the temple and goes back every so often.

Compared with the abbot of the temple, the Taoist priests in Guangxi who go to the temple are much more educated. Qian Mu was surprised that the Taoist claimed to be Jing 'an. This name is the same as Wang Guowei, a great scholar who sank into Kunming Lake in Beijing. The Taoist priest replied that he knew and liked Wang Guowei's poems.

The life of a Taoist priest is not easy either. They love opium and spend a lot of money. I usually make a living by buying and selling, that is, in the harvest season of rice and soybeans, I go to the market to buy at a low price, and then drag it back to the Taoist temple and store it upstairs. Before the end of the second year, sell at a higher price and earn the difference, which basically meets the livelihood of one year.

After doing business for a long time, I met Mr. Qian Mu and suggested that he give some money to Taoist priests. Taking advantage of the low food prices in the market, I quickly bought some and saved them until next year's profit.

Excited by boasting, the Taoist priest saw that Qian Mu was a man who didn't worry about eating and drinking, so he asked him to buy a girl of thirteen or fourteen from a poor family according to local customs. "The price is not expensive, sweeping the floor, washing and cooking can be used for all housework. And if it is long, it can be taken as a concubine room, otherwise a small sum will be prepared for marriage. "

During the Republic of China, The Story of Yanquan Temple's Ups and Downs, written by Mr. Qian Mu, a master historian, has spread to this day and become the cultural heritage of Yiliang in southern Yunnan.

In fact, Buddhism and Taoism have always had many respectable regrets in China. Master Bi Song, a monk of the Han nationality, studied Buddhism in Tibet for seven years, and was the first to obtain a degree from the three major monasteries in Tibet, namely11Laran Bagesi. He wrote in the book "Finding the Law in Snowy Areas":

"By the end of the Qing Dynasty, Buddhism and temples in China began to decline. Since the Republic of China, warlords have been fighting and social chaos for years. Many local people devote themselves to Buddhism, and even journalists come to eat Buddhism. These reporters came to the temple to open their mouths and said, monk, let's be vegetarian, and sometimes we bring prostitutes to our homes together.

In order to survive, temples must rely on local politicians and gentry. As an abbot, you must know the world, be good at communication and be versatile.

I remember my master, a monk on the altar, often played cards with the East and gave gifts at home during the Chinese New Year. Therefore, in most temples in China, there are not many monks who really have a solid foundation in Buddhism and good deeds. "

The nightmare of the temple is not over yet, and it still lingers on this land.

After historian Qian Mu left Yanquan Temple in Yiliang, Yanquan Temple became a military camp again. What follows is even more unpredictable. It was not until1990s that the famous ancient temples gradually returned to people's sight. Villagers in Yanquan Temple pulled up the collapsed temple, painted the clay statue of Buddha golden yellow, and painted the building reddish brown.

The open economy has given many people divergent spatial thinking. A Hunan native named Long led a group of "masters" of Mount Emei, gave money directly to Murakami, contracted Yanquan Temple, and staged countless absurd things. In the most years, it will give Murakami more than 7 million a year.

There are famous mountains and springs and ancient trees towering into the sky, so there is a lack of stories. In the communication between Ming and Qing Dynasties, the story that General Wu Sangui became a beauty when he took the crown is still circulating today.

It is about Chen Yuanyuan, a beautiful woman who is one of the "Eight Colors of Qinhuai", and her name is spread all over the south of the Yangtze River. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Yuanmeiren was invited by a senior official in Beijing. In order to seek support in troubled times, Chen Yuanyuan was given to Wu Sangui as a gift. When Nurhachi's army marched into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen sent heavily armed Wu Sangui to the battlefield, and Chen Yuanyuan stayed in Beijing.

Soon, Li Zicheng, the leader of the peasant uprising army, took advantage of the emptiness of Kyoto to invade the capital and took possession of women belonging to Wu Sangui. Faint with Wu Sangui's anger and disappointment with the Chongzhen Dynasty, he turned around and opened the door of Shanhaiguan, allowing the Qing army to March in and end the world of Zhujiajian.

Wu Sangui took refuge in the Qing army, made great contributions, and took Chen Yuanyuan, a beautiful woman, to Yunnan. It's sunny, enjoy yourself. This Chen Yuanyuan is not only a vase, but also a political dreamer. When she saw that Wu Sangui dominated Yunnan, she was arrogant and extravagant, and when she was extremely luxurious, she hid her murder. Abandon all wealth and become a monk. The later story is just as Chen Yuanyuan expected. Wu Sangui was suppressed by the Qing army, and Chen Yuanyuan's whereabouts were unknown. Some people say that they committed suicide by throwing themselves into the pool, while others say that they have seen it in buddhist nun.

As a result, the contractor in Yanquan Temple arranged a story accordingly. It is said that Wu Sangui took Chen Yuanyuan to Yanquan Temple. Chen Yuanyuan saw the mountains and rivers green and the aura threatening, so she drew a sign. It turned out that it was her future destiny and she became a monk! A word became a prophecy. Since then, people have called this sign "the first sign in southern Yunnan in 600 years." "Yanquan Temple has become a holy place for drawing lots to punch in.

This is an era when people are not afraid of many stories, but they are afraid of accidents. Once launched, it will attract attention and make people daydream.

No matter what kind of faith, once it comes into contact with money, it is easy to become a devil in a bottle.

Contract the "fake monk" in Yanquan Temple, Yiliang. Contact major travel agencies, pull group tourists to visit Yanquan Temple in Shilin Scenic Area, offer high-priced incense, draw lots for fortune telling, set up disaster prevention monuments, and nourish the heart with holy water? Almost every day, countless Buddhist tricks are cheated.

A European tourist from Guangxi came to Yunnan. As soon as he entered Yanquan Temple, the "Master" glanced at his face and asked him to draw a sign saying that disaster was just around the corner. He stunned the tourist and quickly lost more than 20 thousand yuan to solve the disaster.

China Newsweek reporter experienced with the group and got 14. Later, he followed the tour guide to the Feng Shui Transshipment Hall to untie the sign. The "master" answered questions one by one, saying that the reporter was not in harmony with Yin and Yang, and there was a family disaster and flood behind him, so he needed to burn a 600 yuan incense and leave his name for the monk to recite the scriptures for a hundred days.

Historian Qian Mu died in 1990. If he knew that the house where he lived in Yanquan Temple was the place where the Outline of National History was written, he didn't know what to think in the next 70 years.