This is the first guided tour, and I have gained a lot since I came back. I also believe what the tour guide began to tell us: the beauty of the motherland depends on the tour guide's mouth. If the tour guide doesn't introduce it, mountains are mountains, water is water, and trees are trees, which can only be the first of the three realms mentioned by the Buddha: seeing mountains is mountains and seeing water is water.
However, with a tour guide, you can enter the second realm: seeing mountains is not mountains, and seeing water is not water.
The first stop of this study tour in Shandong is Dai Temple. Dai Temple is the place where ancient emperors lived when they climbed Mount Tai and sealed Mount Tai, commonly known as the Palace.
When I walked in, a tour guide introduced me, and I didn't know who wrote the stone tablet around me. I didn't know that Qianlong not only wrote more than 40 thousand poems in his life, but also left a painting in Dai Temple.
After reading so many stone tablets, I now think of the sentence written by Deng, climbing Mount Tai and seeing the magnificent mountains and rivers of the motherland. This sentence is very simple, but it is completely different from other stone tablets in temperament.
Regardless of the content, others give people the impression that they are very small and Mount Tai is very big. Deng's stone tablet gives people the impression that Mount Tai is small and the motherland is big. Mount Tai is in the eyes of others, and her eyes are the motherland. No matter how big Mount Tai is, it is also a part of the motherland. Looking at the dimension of Mount Tai, the realm is different.
Besides all kinds of stone tablets, Dai Temple also has buildings and trees. In the past, for these trees, especially the scenic spots and historical sites, I thought that the ancients planted pines and cypresses just because they liked their evergreen seasons, which meant evergreen inheritance. But this time, after listening to the tour guide, I realized that the ancients planted pine and cypress. Another reason is that ancient buildings are mostly made of wooden materials, which are very afraid of being eaten by insects, and conifers can emit some strange smells to drive away these insects, so wooden buildings can be largely guaranteed not to be eaten by insects.
Knowing this knowledge, I suddenly feel that Dai Temple is not an isolated individual, but an organic whole.
Dai Temple enters from the south gate, and when you reach the north gate, you can see Mount Tai not far from the north. The second stop of this study tour is there. Go or not, Mount Tai is there.
Get up early the next day and set off for Mount Tai by car. I always sit in my office and dare not climb down the hill. Fortunately, there is a tourist bus on Mount Tai, which takes us directly to Zhongtianmen halfway up the mountain. From here, this challenge begins.
One hour and 20 minutes later, I successfully arrived at the worse gate and declared the challenge successful. After dinner, we had a rest, and the guide took us up, strolled around Tianjie and climbed the Jade Emperor Peak.
Because of the experience of climbing Mount Hua, I can clearly feel that the cultural atmosphere of Mount Tai is far better than that of Mount Hua. One of the signs is that there are not enough stones on Mount Tai. Don't say that it is common to carve a sentence here to visit here, even if the emperor wants to leave an inscription here, he also needs to grab the place with other emperors.
From Qin Shihuang to Wu Zetian, Li Longji in Tang Dynasty, Kangxi and Qianlong in Qing Dynasty. Inscription, Zen, all written together.
When he reached the east wind, Confucius said that he climbed Dongshan and Lu Xiao, and there was a stone tablet where he climbed Mount Tai. The world was small. Knowing this fact, the first feeling is incredible. How do future generations know where Confucius said this when he climbed Mount Tai? However, when I think about it later, it's still quite scary. Since ancient times, countless people have climbed Mount Tai. After they climbed Mount Tai, they said countless words, but only Confucius' words were commemorated by a monument, which shows Confucius' position in people's hearts.
After coming back from Mount Tai, after a night's rest, I set foot on the third stop of this study tour, Confucius Temple, Confucius House and Confucius Forest.
Confucius Temple is a place where later generations, including later emperors, worship Confucius. It is also the place where the ceremony of offering sacrifices to Confucius is held on the TV screen now. Confucius House is the place where descendants of Confucius live and work. Kong Lin is the place where Confucius and his descendants are buried.
Confucius Temple is not static, but is expanding in the hands of different emperors. Probably because of the earthquake in Shandong during Yongzheng, it was later rebuilt, so there are more stone tablets in Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Interestingly, from the time point of view, the stone tablets and pavilions of Confucius Temple from the inside out should be consistent with the dynasty. However, the Qing emperor abruptly put his stone tablet closer to the mainland than the Ming emperor. This leads to the problem of insufficient space inside. There is not enough space, and the pavilion can be built smaller, but how could the emperor agree to this? Therefore, here, we can see the unique "intrigue" of ancient architecture in China, and make full use of the space without reducing the exhibition area.
Restriction does not necessarily lead to degradation, but may also lead to innovation. The so-called freedom is not to do whatever you want, but to be a slave to desire. Freedom is a peaceful state of life after accepting impermanence.
Out of the Confucius Temple, I went to Confucius House. When I arrived at Confucius' house, I really understood what my parents meant when they were young. The high and low stone platforms in front of Confucius' house are used to mount horses, which means to rise step by step. Carved flowers on the stone platform symbolize auspicious flowers. The relief in front of the stone platform is a symbol of justice and good luck.
It's an eye-opener that there are so many elaborate sentences in two small mount stones.
Walk from the front door to the inner house of Confucius' House and then to the back garden. Along the way, Cixi gave Confucius various blessings. Yan Song asked for help from the bench where he sat, warning future generations not to be greedy and lazy, which was shocking. It is indeed a family that has been passed down for thousands of years, and it is by no means comparable to ordinary families.
Out of Confucius' house, I came to Confucius' final resting place. Kong Lin is not only Confucius, but also a descendant of the Confucius family, so once you enter the Kong Lin, you can see graves of all sizes. But strangely, this should be a rather gloomy place. Walking in it feels very quiet.
Confucius and his sons, Kong Li, Sun Tzu and Kong Ji, formed a triangle. The tour guide said that in geomantic omen, this is holding a son and a grandson.
I don't know much about Feng Shui, but another sentence said by the tour guide touched me very much. Kong Li, the son of Confucius, once said to Confucius: Your son is not as good as mine, and my father is better than yours.
This sentence is obviously communicating with your own violence, which is a bit self-deprecating. I can understand myself, this kind of mood, my father is very powerful, others will consciously or unconsciously compare themselves with my father. If it is done well, others think it should be done; If you don't do well, others will blame you Later generations of Tang Gaozong and Li Zhi must have encountered this kind of embarrassment, and some people will compare themselves with their father Li Shimin.
Statistically speaking, this is called regression mean. Although mankind as a whole is stronger from generation to generation, from a family point of view, the latter generation is really not necessarily stronger than the previous generation. Otherwise, others will have no fun, and the whole society will not be as full of vitality as it is now.
Although it can be explained rationally, as an individual in it, such as Kong Li, it is estimated that there are many sorrows that outsiders can't understand.
Get out of Kong Lin and set foot on the high-speed train back to Beijing.
I think, how many people can one person influence? How much energy does a person have? Why is thought so magical? Even though the body has been dead for more than 2000 years, there are still so many people who are constantly commemorating it.
How does a person spend his life?
Zhiyi said: When I am old, I will visit Confucius again.