Song gate waiting for the moon

Song gate waiting for the moon

Every night of the Mid Autumn Festival, a bright moon like a silver plate slowly rises from the semicircular door opening. It is just in the middle of the two peaks, like a jade mirror embedded in the frame. The bright moonlight makes the green mountains covered with silver. The scenery is beautiful and fascinating.

Song gate waiting for the moon

Fawang Temple

Fawang temple is located at the southern foot of Songshan mountain. Behind it is Taishi mountain, with steep mountains on both sides. There are two peaks in the east of the temple, which are jagged and abrupt, relatively towering and shaped like a door, so it is called "Songmen". Every night of the Mid Autumn Festival, a bright moon like a silver plate slowly rises from the semicircular door opening. It is just in the middle of the two peaks, like a jade mirror embedded in the frame. The bright moonlight makes the green mountains covered with silver. The scenery is beautiful and fascinating. Since ancient times, during the Mid Autumn Festival, people from all over the world have gathered in the hinterland of Songshan Mountain, carrying lanterns and colorful dragons, carrying famous wines and delicacies, inviting friends. Sitting on the platform of the main hall of Fawang temple, talking, drinking and singing, enjoying the beautiful scenery, waiting until the moon comes out of Songmen. When it's three o'clock, the silver moon is slanting to the West. Tourists still linger here and don't want to leave. Therefore, there is a poem praising: "Song gate can't bear to return to the moon.".

During the Hongwu Period of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Dayuan visited Zhongyue. After enjoying the scenery, he wrote a poem praising it

Songmen is the most famous place in Zhongzhou. Fortunately, it's mid autumn. Hao soul hanging canggukou, clear light full of green hills.

To realize the dream of Lulao, the people would rather forget the worries of the state. I'm not tired of returning to my hometown, but the song and Tao and the bell rhyme.

The origin of "Songmen waiting for the moon"

It is said that a long time ago, there lived a girl named "Maoni" in the big stone cave in the east of Songmen waiting for the moon. In the south of the cave, there is a mountain peak and a hillside. There lives a young man named "hero". At the beginning, both of them were slaves to the rich man. Later, they were exploited by the rich man. They escaped in the middle of the night and fell in love on the way. They vowed never to return to the rich man's house again. In order to avoid being discovered by the rich man, one of them lived in the south slope and the other in the North cave. During the day, they went up to the mountain to raise "Shenmiao", and at night they came to the peak to meet. Day after day, year after year, their industrious and loving actions moved the God of heaven. On the night of August 15, the God of heaven cut the mountain into a door with one sword. The moon is hidden behind the round gate. When Maoni and the hero meet, the bright moon like a silver plate slowly rises from the round gate hole to illuminate and guide them. From then on, people called the place where Maoni lived "Maoni cave". The place where the hero lives is called "hero slope". The place where they met was called Songmen waiting for the moon. The "Shenmiao" raised by Maoni and the hero is called "songshen".

Song gate waiting for the moon

Song Hongjian

The two rugged peaks, standing opposite each other and shaped like gates, are the "Songmen" at the southern foot of Songshan mountain. On the night of the Mid Autumn Festival, a bright moon rises from the semi-circular door opening, just like a silver plate and a jade mirror, just embedded in two peaks and valleys. At this moment, the gentle and elegant moonlight, like watermarks pouring down, will make the green mountains covered with a silver suit, bright, beautiful and fascinating. At this moment, people from all over the world, carrying colorful dragon lanterns, carrying famous wine and delicacies, invite friends to gather on the platform of the main hall of Fawang temple. While enjoying the beautiful scenery, they can't bear the jade rabbit galloping West

It is because of this beautiful dream that I came to the foot of Song Mountain in Central China.

I asked, how about looking at the moon on weekdays? Xiaohe shangyun: except that he can't stand in the center of Songmen, the rest are the same. So, I stayed in Fawang temple until dark. I cleaned my hands and burned incense. I sat on the moon watching bridge suspiciously, waiting for the romantic and moving willow shoot mirror appointment.

Twilight slowly shrouded the southern foot of Taishi mountain. In the ancient temples, there are superb steles, red eaves, green tile pavilions, lush green pines and cypresses, all of which are mottled. The thick brush highlights the dark shadow. Only the towering pagoda at the waist of the other half of the mountain still shows the prestige of "ancient temple hidden in deep mountains". According to "Dengfeng County annals", there are mountains around the world, but song is high in the world. All the famous mountains are temples, but the situation of the king of law is the best. " That is to say, the Fawang temple, founded in the Eastern Han Dynasty and more than 1900 years ago, is well deserved to be known as "the first resort of Mount Song".

I don't know what day of the lunar calendar this evening is. I just feel that it's a dusk in early winter. I have an appointment with the top literary masters to come here to drink, write poems and enjoy the moon. The natural and unrestrained Mr. Taibai took the lead in breathing out "the bright moon comes out of the Tianshan Mountains and the vast sea of clouds"; the calm Mr. Du Fu immediately joined in "the full moon flies through the mirror and returns to his heart and turns the sword". Wang Wei said that it would be more lively in spring, "when the moon comes out, the birds will cry in the spring stream"; Yuan Mei said that it would be better if the winter moon is cold, "the light blowing window is brighter, and the moon shines on the snow all day.". Li He, a genius, is always different. He says that the moon in Guanshan Mountain is too blurred, the full moon in Mid Autumn Festival is too tempting, noisy and cold. He just wants a new moon outside the Great Wall - "sand in the desert is like snow, and the moon in Yanshan mountain is like a hook". Next, Du Fu Zi's tearful eyes were hazy, and he remembered his brother's "dew is white tonight, and the moon is bright in his hometown"; Zhang Jiu Ling looked at the moon and sighed with deep regret that "the moon is born on the sea, and the end of the world is at this time.". Infected, I am seeing Tao Qian in the countryside at the moment, thinking of Jia Dao, who lives in seclusion by reciting "birds stay in the trees by the pool, monks push the door under the moon."

Fine mountain wind swept by, stirring two Ginkgo trees in Fawang temple for thousands of years. Looking up at the 30 meter high Huangluo umbrella, it is full of fruits and brilliant trees. Among the golden fallen leaves, the terraced diamond hall, the heavenly king hall, the Mahatma hall, the dizang hall, the Western sage hall and the Sutra pavilion are filled with ancient simplicity and serenity. The 15 level square Tang Pagoda with dense eaves, the single-layer brick Pagoda with four corners, the seven level yuan Pagoda with six corners, and the monk pagoda of Migao Ligong are surrounded by Sakyamuni, Ananda, JIAYE, pharmacist Buddha, Amitabha Buddha, as well as the kind and dignified Avalokitesvara, Manjusri and Puxian Bodhisattvas.

One night in 64 A.D., Liu Zhuang, the Ming emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who was worried about the people's livelihood, suddenly dreamed that Zhang liujingang had entered the imperial palace. After listening to Fu Yi's explanation that he was a Western Buddha, he sent an envoy to the western regions. After three years of hardship, he returned to Luoyang with a white horse. After that, he ordered officials to accompany Indian eminent monks to walk all over the famous mountains and waters, and finally built China's first Bodhi Temple named "Dafa Wang Temple" under the peak of Yuzhu in Songshan mountain. Because of the favor of the emperor, in the past, it once "covered an area of 100 hectares, with thousands of monks, covered with purple clouds, overflowing with aura, unique sense of Jinan, happy and affectionate". However, in the mid-1980s, two monks from Jiuhua Mountain came here, looking up at the broken walls, the snaking rabbits and mice, the piles of bird and animal excrement, the withered grass and the knee less leaves, and then they left in a daze and wail

The revitalization of Fawang temple is inseparable from master Shiyan who has been struggling for 12 years. It was his bitter experience in the world that knocked on the door of "wuliangtianzun" to meditate and understand the Tao, and made his chance to purify the world customs and guide people. There is an inscription on the national day of 1996 in the temple as evidence. It records that Deng Yaping, a Chinese table tennis player, came here with coach Zhang Xianlin and his parents because of lack of confidence before he went to the Atlanta Olympic Games. After the master's announcement, he was full of confidence and returned home to win the gold medal for his country. He personally donated 20000 yuan to Fawang temple. But I think, if we take the power of the Chinese people in the new century, take Songyue as the racket and throw the bright moon as the ball, let alone say that China's ping-pong will go to the world. Even if it flies across the universe, it will also attract global attention like "Chang'e-1" and "share the beautiful scenery for thousands of miles."!

Is the girl named Maoni still in the cave in the east of Famen Temple? The young man named "hero" behind the mountain in the south, how are you? The servants of the two rich families fell in love in the middle of the night and vowed never to go back to be exploited by the rich. Then they lived separately in Nanpo and beidong. They went up the mountain to cultivate ginseng seedlings during the day and met at the peak at night. Day after day, year after year of hard work and love, finally moved the God, so on the night of August 15, a sword split the peak, holding the silver plate like bright moon out of the round door hole, illuminating a pair of lovers' hard climbing rocks, leaving a beautiful and moving legend of "song gate waiting for the moon" for later generations. Looking at the sky, where the sword cuts the peak, the fish belly is white. But why does the bright moon linger, waiting for the "hero" and his beloved "Maoni" girl?

A few stars sprang out of the ridge, but Chang'e, who had closed her Palace door, remained the same. The most famous masters can't wait. Even if there is no moon, they will toast Qingfeng and linger with the song and shadow. "The moon at the beginning is like a bow, and it is clearly hanging on the edge of the blue sky." Miao's Fu Yue Yue begins. "The light of the lake and the autumn moon are in harmony, and there is no wind on the surface of the pool. Liu Yuxi's Wang Dongting also sings. Finally, my program danced over and over again with the words of song gate waiting for the moon and can't bear to return: "Song Mountain is the most famous scenic spot in the Central Plains, so I'm lucky to be here for the Mid Autumn Festival. Haopu at the beginning of Canggu mouth, clear light full of green hills. Qiyuan is a temporary resting place for the dream of dust and labor, and the people would rather forget the worries of the country. From the desire to return to love, Song Tao and Zhong rhyme for a long time

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