I'd like to ask the Bayeux Classic of Chongqing Liangping Shuangguitang.

There are many cultural relics, stone carvings, calligraphy and painting in Shuanggui Hall, and hundreds of clay sculptures and bronze statues of Buddha statues are lifelike. In the 1 1 and12nd centuries, there were 106 pages of Bayeux Sutra written in Indian Sanskrit.

1990 laurel leaves were stolen, and then a laurel tree that had grown for more than 300 years withered and died overnight.

Bayleaf culture is a symbolic expression of Dai traditional culture. It is called "Bayeux culture" because it is preserved in Bayeux scriptures made by Bayeux. Bayleaf culture includes Bayleaf Sutra, Cotton Paper Sutra and folk Dai traditional cultural events.

Bayleaf Sutra is a Buddhist sutra carved on the leaves of Sanskrit Pattra with an iron pen. Bayeux sutra discovered in Xishuangbanna includes Pali and Dai languages. Besides Hinayana Buddhist classics, there are many legends, stories, poems and historical records. In Southeast Asian countries, there are also Pali prayers spelled in Burmese and Thai.

Bedolo tree, shaped like a palm tree, is called "Golan" by Dai people in Xishuangbanna. In the minds of the Dai people, "the leaf of the orchid" (that is, the leaf of the bay) is a god who carries the history and culture of the Dai people to the light. Since ancient times, all historical events and cultures of the Dai society have been handed down from generation to generation with pieces of scallops as records, and the Dai people have protected the scallop sutra as the precious wealth of the whole nation. Every Buddhist temple in history has a Buddhist pavilion, which is called "Lintan" in Dai language. All the Bayeux scriptures should be kept here under the strict supervision of Buddhists and Monks. Without the permission of the temple owner, no one is allowed to enter here without authorization and take away the scriptures. The management of Bayeux sutra is also very strict. In addition to the lyrics copied from cotton paper, there are also common sense of production and life, medicine, calendar, ethics, divination, legal classics and so on. Can be left in the village for the use of Zhai people, and individuals are not allowed to take Buddhist classics out of the Buddhist temple and hide them in private houses. Therefore, it is rare that the Bayeux Sutra is lost in Buddhist temples.

There are two main styles of Bayeux culture: leaf-shaped and paper-shaped.

One kind of leaf shape is the true leaf sutra, which is called "Tanlan" in Dai language. Carved on special scallops with folk iron hairpin, the specifications are four lines, five lines, six lines and eight lines, which are called "Lanxi", "Lanha", "He Lan" and "Lanbie" in Dai language. In the past, three kinds of scallop classics were the most common.

Paper refers to the thin paper scriptures, which are called "Bogalasha" in Dai language. It was written on thin paper with a fern pen cut from a wild fern pole dipped in ink. There are two specifications: wide page type and folding type, of which wide page type is the most common.

Among the above two forms of scriptures, the number of Bayeux scriptures is the largest, followed by paper scriptures. The above two kinds of Confucian classics, because of their large number, profound content and far-reaching significance, are known as "not tired of drama" (84 thousand copies), which will be immortal in Dai history.

The production of shellfish leaves requires three processes:

First, take shellfish leaves. Cut the leaves from the laurel tree, trim the laurel leaves one by one with a sharp knife, roll three or five pieces into a roll, tie them up and cook them in a pot. When cooking, add sour horn or lemon to make the skin on the surface of shellfish leaves fall off. Generally, it takes half a day to cook scallops until they turn light green and white, then take them out of the pot and rub them with fine sand by the river, then flatten them to dry, put them away for a while, and then order them and box them.

Second, make a box. There are two kinds of special wooden boxes for making scallop warp boxes. This wooden box is about 1.5 square feet long and 4 inches wide. Drill a small hole about half a square foot at both ends of the wooden box. The sun-dried, flattened and breathable scallops are tightly sandwiched between two wooden cases, and both ends are tied with ropes. Then use special nails to drill the scallops out of the small holes on both sides of the wooden box, and then put on the twisted rope, and order 500 to 600 scallops into a box. After ordering, gently smooth the laurel leaf box with a knife, and gently draw a chalk line on the laurel leaf with an authoritarian chalk line bow according to the lettering format for later lettering.

Third, lettering. At first, the Dai language was carved on the bay leaf with a sharp knife along the ink line. Later, I thought it was slow and laborious to write with a knife, so I switched to writing with an iron hairpin. After the carving is finished, the black smoke emitted from the bottom of the pot is mixed with plant fruit oil, coated on the carved scallop leaves, and then wiped with a wet cloth, and the handwriting on the scallop leaves is clearly revealed. After the engraved scriptures are bound into a book, they are protected and decorated with a layer of gold powder or red and black pigments.

Myrica rubra leaves are fine in workmanship and uniform in specifications. Because the four sides of the scripture are coated with a layer of colored paint and gold powder, it gives people a feeling of exquisiteness, simplicity, generosity and beauty. Because it is written on scallops with iron hairpin and painted with pigment, it is not only clear, but also indelible. Because scallop leaves are specially treated by boiling in water, they are insect-proof, waterproof, deformation-proof and durable. This is why the Bayeux Sutra can be preserved for hundreds and thousands of years.