What does the reincarnation of fortune-telling arhat mean?

Why is Jigong the reincarnation of Dragon Lohan?

Stories and legends about Jigong began to spread from the Southern Song Dynasty. First, some legendary stories about prodigy Li Xiuyuan or Taoist Daoji spread among the people in China, and then gradually enriched the content through storytellers' stories.

He is both "unstable" and "thrifty". His virtues of helping the poor, eliminating violence, promoting good and punishing evil have left a unique and beautiful impression in people's hearts. People miss him and deify him. Deification began with his birth.

"The Story of the Western Regions" contains: "The ancient Fangguang Temple of Liang Shi Bridge in Tiantai Mountain, the abbot of 500 arhats, is often known for its vast magical powers." When Jigong was born, it happened that the 17th Luohan in the Luohan Hall of the Treasury Temple (that is, Luohan who descended the dragon) suddenly fell down, so people said that Jigong was reincarnated as Luohan.

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Ji Gong was born in Shaoxing in the 18th year of the Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1 148) and died in Jiading in the 2nd year (A.D. 1209), a native of Yongning Village, Tiantai Mountain, Zhejiang Province. He was a Zen monk in the Southern Song Dynasty, and his dharma name was Daoji.

His great-great grandfather Li Zunxu is our military envoy in Song Taizong. The Li family has believed in Buddhism for generations. His father Li Maochun and his mother Wang live in Yongning village outside the north gate of Tiantai. Li Maochun is nearly forty years old and has no children. He finally got this son through devout worship of Buddha. After Jigong was born, the abbot of Xiaoguo Temple decided his fate by his common name, and since then, he has forged an indissoluble bond with Buddhism.

Although he is the great-grandson of Li Wenhe, the captain of Linhai, he didn't get the bad habit of being a dude. When I was a teenager, I studied in Ruixia Cave in Chicheng Mountain in the north of the village, influenced by Buddhism and Taoism. After his parents died, he first went to Xiaoguo Temple to learn from Fakong. At that time, Hui Yuan, the abbot of Dajiu Temple, was named Daoji. Later, he visited the Daoqing Temple and Kannonji Daojing, and finally went to Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Jigong