How many children are crawling on the big-bellied Buddha? What Buddha is it? Introduce it.

The origin of Maitreya with a big belly;

When people visit the temple in Wutai Mountain, they can often see a fat Buddha statue with a big belly, bare chest and a grin, as if to smile.

This chubby Buddha is called Maitreya Buddha. Because of its bare chest and abdomen, the deceased called it "Maitreya with a big belly". According to the Biography of Song Monks, this smiling Maitreya is the image left by China Monk after he changed his name to "Maitreya".

According to legend, in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, there was a well-known "Yunshui monk" (Buddhist name) in Fenghua County, Zhejiang Province. Because of his wandering around, his whereabouts were uncertain, so he claimed to be "here", also known as "Chang". This man is broad-minded, fat, shirtless and laughing. He often carries a cloth bag with crutches, which contains begging things, so people call him a "cloth bag monk".

According to folklore, one day the cloth-bag monk came to Xikou Town and saw an old mother sitting on the edge of the town crying. After asking, I realized that there was a rich man in this town named Jia Hongfu, who was a close friend of the mayor and was rich and powerful. Six months ago, he raped his old mother 17-year-old daughter, who threw herself into the river in shame and anger. The old mother misses her daughter very much and often sits by the river in pain.

After listening to the old mother's narrative, the cloth bag monk turned and left without saying anything. When he came to town, he began to play divination and fortune telling. A few days later, people in the town began to say that a fat monk appeared out of nowhere and could judge life and death, good or bad. Jia Hongfu, the rich man, wanted to know his fate, so he sent someone to invite the cloth bag monk to his home.

"You give me a good life, and I'll give you more money when I figure it out." Jia Hongfu said to the cloth bag monk.

"Monks are not greedy for money," the monk said, and asked Jia Hongfu's birthday according to the fortune-telling practice. "The mouse is ugly, the tiger is ugly, and the rabbit is ugly ..." The monk calculated his own life. Counting, the monk suddenly stopped talking. He stared at Jia Hongfu with a surprised look and shouted, "You raped a girl six months ago, but is this the truth?" Jia Hongfu thought, since I am a rich man, it is nothing to rape a girl, so why make a fuss! Therefore, he readily admitted: "That's true." The monk told him, "This girl went to the underworld and sued you in front of Yan Luowang. The judge will prepare your knife. " Hearing this, Jia Hongfu sat down in the plush chair, and suddenly he was so scared that he was full of sweat and dumbfounded. After a long pause, I asked the monk, "Please give me instructions to break the law, and I will not hesitate to work." The monk pinched his finger and said, "At midnight today, an incense table was set in front of Yan Luowang memorial tablet, and offerings were distributed, and the story of the rape of the girl that day was written on yellow paper. I will help you' cross over' to make big things smaller and smaller. " Jia Hongfu was convinced and did it immediately.

Everything is ready. In the middle of the night, the monk told Jia Hongfu to close his eyes and kneel in front of the incense table. The monk kept reading until Jia Hongfu couldn't support it any longer. The monk burned yellow paper and Jia Hongfu opened his eyes. Afterwards, I was told to think behind closed doors, not to go out for three days and not to receive visitors, otherwise all previous efforts would be in vain.

The next morning, the monk found his old mother, told her to go to Fenghua County to tell Jia Hongfu, and wrote a petition for her.

The old mother is eager to avenge her daughter, no matter how difficult the road is. When I came to the county government, I complained and complained on my head. The magistrate immediately went to court, read the complaint and sent someone on a business trip to preach Jia Hongfu. Jia Hongfu thought behind closed doors at home. Unexpectedly, two officers came and took him to the county government. Jia Hongfu knew what was going on as soon as he saw his old mother, but he denied that he had raped his daughter and carried out the mayor of Xikou Town as an amulet. The county grandfather summoned the witness of the old mother to confront him in court. Jia Hongfu was frightened as soon as the cloth bag monk went to class. It never occurred to him that the monk who told his fortune was his sworn enemy. At this time, the monk in the bag presented yellow paper written by Jia Hongfu. The county grandfather saw it and shouted, "Jia Hongfu, you'd better not confess truthfully." In the face of witness material evidence, Jia Hongfu saw that the tide was gone and had to confess. Since then, the cloth bag monk has become the savior of the helpless. People have known him for a long time. In the third year of Liang Dynasty (9 17), a cloth-bag monk sat on the strange stone of the temple and read a poem in his mouth: "Maitreya Buddha is really Maitreya Buddha, incarnating tens of billions. People are always on earth, and people don't know it." After that, he died After the death of the cloth bag monk, people said that he was the incarnation of Maitreya, but in fact he was just "young and ignorant". Therefore, it was suggested that in some temples (mostly in the Shanmen Hall or the Tianwang Hall), a fat statue of him lying on his back and topless. As the news spread, more and more monasteries followed suit. In this way, almost every temple has a Maitreya Buddha with a big belly.