Riding the wind of rebirth

"Amitabha!" Master Hengfa stretched out his hand to wipe his forehead, and was so nervous that he was sweating just now: "I have found it!"

"Why don't we go out and chat first? It's a bit boring here..." Master Qiao said.

"Well, go out, wait for me to get some scriptures, and I can be a witness when I go back."

After choosing three volumes of scriptures, everyone retreated from the small cave.

The light outside the cave is good, and each of the three people has a book, so let's hold our eyes first.

The regular script in the Kangxi printed edition is very refined, reminiscent of the regular script in Wen Zhengming's 83-year-old Heart Sutra, and the knotted characters are slightly flat, which is close to Zhao Mengfu's lower regular script.

Generally, there are not too many withering plates, because as the number of printings increases, the edges of the handwriting of the withering plates will wear out and lose their original flavor.

This withered plate in everyone’s hands is very well preserved, and the edges of the left and right points are rubbed perfectly. Zhou Zhi has learned about the Qianlong Tripitaka, and has withered more than 9000 withered plates, and only printed 150 copies, very well preserved.

The Jiachuan edition of the Tripitaka of Qianlong is actually the last volume printed.

The font is beautiful, the engraving is exquisite, and more than 860 craftsmen, who worked in three dynasties, are like one person.

After the scriptures were transported to Fawang Temple, it seems that they have hardly been turned over. In addition, the preservation conditions of the scripture storage building of Fawang Temple and the Bodhisattva Cave of Lianhuafeng are very perfect, so these scriptures are almost kept in the place where they were printed. In the state of the day, when the pages of the album are turned, you can even hear the crisp sound of the paper.

"It's a pity..." Zhou Zhi shook his head and sighed.

"My virtuous brother, why did you say that?" Master Qiao held an ancient book in his hand, and fell into a mental illness again, and began to play classical Chinese.

Zhou Zhi decided not to spoil him this time: "For this year's National Book Award, there was a photocopy of the "Qianlong Tripitaka" published. I read the news that the Guanghua Temple master copy used for photocopying is not as well preserved as ours. "

"If we can find out a year or two in advance, how can there be any business with them?"

"Speaking of this, I think of something..." Hengfa asked: "Bow, these things should be considered cultural relics, right?"

"That's for sure. Although it was printed between the 17th and 18th years of Guangxu, it is also... eh? Just right, this year is the [-]th anniversary of the birth of this set of scriptures!"

"So this scripture has been found for us now, so it is called God's will in the dark..." Master Hengfa said again: "But if it is a cultural relic, will this thing not be able to stay in Fawang Temple in the end?"

"Uh...it is indeed possible." Zhou Zhi nodded, "From the perspectives of protection, restoration, and exhibition popularization, the best destination for this set of books is of course the province, or even the national museum."

Then he rolled his eyes again: "But this set of scriptures has a great relationship with Fawang Temple, so we can ask Abbot Compassionate to find some benefits from the county, or even the city and province!"

"What good can it do?"

"That's too much. For example, if the original product can't be kept, you have to get a photocopied version to replace it? And those sutra cabinets in the Sutra Library, if they are taken away, do you have to make a copy in the Sutra Pavilion?" Save it inside?"

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"For example, can you take this opportunity to vigorously promote Fawang Temple? Tell me that Fawang Temple is in urgent need of repairs. I hope governments at all levels and people from all walks of life can help?"

"Crying for alms for the poor is your monk's profession, why do you ask me instead?"

"Ah... our Fawang Temple integrates agriculture and Zen, and emphasizes self-reliance and sufficient food and clothing..."

"Yes, this fine revolutionary tradition can't be lost no matter what... Wait a minute, you are religious people, so you can't talk about it..."

A few people discussed it for a while, and suddenly figured it out, the Fawang Temple is the master of the master, and Zhou Zhi is a non-staff employee of the cultural center. When his godfather praised him in the cultural management work report, he always wrote "in Thanks to the joint efforts of all concerned..."

So their task has actually been successfully completed, and they can't interfere with the rest.

So the final result is that Master Hengfa cooks, Zhou Zhi and Master Qiao go back into the cave and count the bamboo boxes.

The Tripitaka in Chinese is a major cultural project that has been compiled throughout the Chinese dynasties since the time of Emperor Wu of Liang.

From the earliest "Catalogue of Classics" in Hualin Garden in the Liang Dynasty, to "Kaibaozang" in the Shu version of the Northern Song Dynasty, "Golden Cang" and "Zhaocheng Cang" of the Jurchen regime in the late Northern Song Dynasty, "Yuanguan Cang" in the Yuan Dynasty, and the official "Kaibaozang" in the Ming Dynasty Yongle South Tibet and Yongle North Tibet, the folk "Jiaxing Collection", and the Qing Dynasty's "Qianlong Collection" are a systematic cultural project with an orderly inheritance.

From only one feature, it can be seen that the inheritance of the Chinese Dazang is orderly-whether it is government-run or private-run in the past dynasties, the part of the Zhengzang is compiled with the "Thousand Characters".

Among all the scriptures, the earliest and authoritative cataloging and original version is the "Zhaocheng Jinzang", and the "Jingshan Cang" with the richest content.

Other good editions include "Fangshan Stone Classic", "Zifu Cang", "Puning Cang", "Yongle Cang" and so on.

Of course, "Qianlong Collection" is also among them, and there is another set of foreign scripture collections - "Goryeo Collection" re-engraved from "Kaibaozang", "Khitan Collection" and "Xuzhen Yuanlu" during the Gaozong period of Goryeo .

The Jiachuan version of the "Long Zang Jing" is actually the "Qing Zang" often said in the academic circles. parts.

Although part of it was banned and destroyed by the government, there are still 480 five letters in the Zhengzang and 230 nine letters in the Continued Collection.

There are 720 four volumes in the two collections, more than 1000 volumes, and more than [-] volumes.

After counting the opened bamboo box, 72 volumes of scriptures were stored in it.

When counting the bamboo boxes, it happened to be one hundred and eight.

If 72 volumes of scriptures are the average value of a bamboo box, then the capacity of [-] boxes is almost the entire volume of the "Dragon Canon".

The next step was to re-seal it. I was careful and felt that the hay used to press the bottom of the box and cover the scriptures in the box might be a little tricky, so I took some.

After exiting the hole, the two of them sealed the small hole they had just pulled out, and Master Qiao used the accumulated water in the tank to mix the mud to seal the gap.

And Zhou Zhi came to Hengfa with hay, "Master, do you know this?"

"This is Guanglingxiang. Isn't there a large area under the nanmu forest in the back mountain? Xiangji Kitchen uses it to make marinated tofu and you still say it's delicious. Why did you forget?"

"Huh?" Zhou Zhi laughed, "Then why did Zen Master Yuanxiu use it to spread bookcases?"

"It should be an insect repellant." Heng Fa said: "I know this thing can expel roundworms. It can be decocted before going to bed. For children, use young leaves to steam eggs. The effect is very good."

"Ascarids and silverfish are probably not the same thing." Zhou Zhi thought for a while, and put away the spirit herbs: "I'll ask experts after I get out of the mountain. But the scriptures we read are indeed well preserved, and there are no traces of moths. "

"Well, come over for dinner, this meal is over, this place is suitable for overnight stay, we will go back to the temple tomorrow, the presiding master knows how happy he is!"

Zhou Zhi looked at the abyss outside, feeling a little guilty: "Sleep here...it's a bit different from Guanyin Cliff..."