Why did Cixi cry and bow down to the "virtual cloud" old monk? Who is the old monk Xu Yun?

In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu, foreign enemies invaded Beijing, and Beijing was in chaos. Since the emperor, the empress dowager, ministers, eunuchs and ladies-in-waiting have all fled to Chang 'an, which is Xi 'an today. Prince Qing heard that the old monk Xu Yun was a Taoist, so he asked the old monk Xu Yun to come and accompany him, so as to ensure his own safety.

The plague spread in Chang 'an, and the living ate dead human flesh.

It was August, in the midsummer, and bodies were everywhere in Chang 'an, rotting away. This smell is indescribable and very unpleasant. The plague must have started to spread in such an environment, and there was no food. In order to survive, the living actually eat the dead human flesh.

Xu Yun, an old monk, feels pity and is willing to organize a 7-day snow prayer ceremony in Wolong Temple. I hope that God will be pitiful and that rain and snow will eliminate the plague.

Well-intentioned people dissuaded them from saying, "It's an act of God that survived a disaster. If praying for snow is unsuccessful, the emperor will sentence you to pull it out and behead it in a rage, saying that you cheated the monarch. What should I do? " "

Regardless of his own safety, Xu Yun, an old monk, still organized a snow-praying Dafa meeting in Wolong Temple, in which monks from various temples in Xi participated. Nearly a thousand people prayed together for six days. On the morning of the seventh day, as expected, the sky began to overcast. It snowed heavily in the afternoon. After it began to snow, both monks and nuns returned to the temple. However, Xu Yunfeng still sat with a spell, because it was said that snow would stop when it came. For the sake of his whole life, he persisted for 7 days, and both inside and outside Chang 'an City were covered with snow.

Cixi kowtowed to the old man.

Empress Dowager Cixi came to Wolong Temple and saw the old monk Xu Yun still sitting in the snow holding a spell and casting spells. She was moved to tears. So she knelt in the snow and kowtowed to the old monk Xu Yun, because she believed that the old monk Xu Yun was a living Buddha.