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Huang Songting Jian's Notes on the Construction of the Pioneer Temple of Nankang Army: "However, the main monk rate is often the elderly, and there are hundreds of people who go to Siam. As the saying goes, the sea has changed, and the Siamese Taoist is also there, so it is a Zen forest. " Qing Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio Frog God II: "The temple has been built, and it is more important to open the light."
Chapter 24 of Legend of Heroes of Children: "Lady An said,' Girl, you have to pay a visit first, so that you can get a place. When the girl saw that it was two Buddha statues, she inquired about it and kowtowed six times. Zhao Shuli's The Change of Li Jiazhuang XVI: "The old man Wang Anfu said: You can't remember that when I was twelve years old-that is, in the twenty-seventh year of Guangxu, the Longwang Temple was built in my village, and the opening ceremony was sung on August 15th."
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1, excellent light, let light in.
2. After the Buddha statue or dragon boat is completed, the sacrificial ceremony or launching ceremony on a certain day is also called opening the eyes.
It is a custom for children to wipe the eyes of the deceased with cotton before closing the coffin, which is called "opening the light".
4. One of the decoration methods is to leave a certain shape of space (such as fan, diamond, heart, etc.). ) in a certain part of the object, the space is decorated with patterns, which are common on cloisonne, carved lacquer and ceramic utensils.
5. It also refers to blessing before using a new knife or sword.
Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Opening the Light