World Tibet Bureau

Chapter 867 Seven Palaces Poetry Collection
I also followed Xia Xi back.

Arrive at the entrance of Gobi Cave.

Xia Xi asked: "Su Zi, what do you think of this hole?"

I replied: "Very good."

When Xia Xi heard this, she was speechless: "What a good thing! I'm asking you, do you see anything?"

I came here in a hurry just now, and after I entered, I had another fight with Xia Xi. I had never really observed the situation in the Gobi Cave. When he said this, I started to pay attention.

I looked at it for a while.

I found something unusual.

The Gobi Cave is surrounded by sand, but the color of the sand above and below is different. It is obvious that the sand above is drier, while the sand below is slightly damper.

I asked back: "It was dug out not long ago?"

Xia Xi smiled and said: "If you don't say that your brain is very useful, it was indeed just dug out not long ago, less than a week."

"Take another look at what this hole was originally used for?"

I asked: "Temple?"

Xia Xi looked very surprised: "How did you tell?"

I replied: "Although the cave wall has been covered with sand for a long time and is covered with a layer of soil, there are still faint traces of earth-yellow buildings at the bottom. Buildings of this color were either Yamen mansions or temples in ancient times. Taoist temple."

"Most of our country is north of the Tropic of Cancer, so any house where people live in, if they want to receive air and light, will be arranged in a north-south layout. If it is a Yamen mansion, it will definitely be arranged in this direction. But the entrance of the cave is Facing west, swallowing the northwest wind, it proves that no one lives inside, excluding the Yamen mansion."

"The gates of temples may be set up in the southeast, northwest, and are all empty. For example, the gate of Jinshan Temple in Hangzhou faces west, the gate of Dajue Temple in Kyoto faces east, etc. The orientation of the entrance is in line with the characteristics of the temple. Although I still have the paintings on the cave wall, I didn’t look at it carefully, but it is a typical Buddhist painting technique, and it can rule out the possibility of Taoist temples, leaving only the temple as an option.”

Xia Xi rolled her eyes: "Do you think it would be boring to live like this?"

I asked: "Why are you bored?"

Xia Xi said: "People speculate and argue, spend a lot of time researching, and then come to a conclusion. It is a little fun at least. You take a glance like this and everything comes out. Is it interesting?"

"It's like a woman. She has been arrogant for a long time, but I seduced her for a long time. The excitement is extraordinary. You flick your finger at her, and she goes to bed with you. Isn't it boring?"

I replied: "It should be... quite exciting."

Xia Xi laughed loudly and patted me on the shoulder: "Su Zi, your current philosophy on life is almost the same as mine!"

I asked: "What is your life philosophy?"

Xia Xi said: "Eight big characters: greedy for money, lustful, and upright!"

I:"……"

Seeing us chatting at the entrance of the cave, Xiangliu's people pointed their spray guns at us: "Go back!"

We had no choice but to return to the Gobi Cave.

Xia Xi lit a foreign oil lamp and illuminated the mural for me to see.I started looking at these murals carefully.

But after looking at it for a long time, I didn't see anything.

Because the murals are all landscapes, just like tourist attractions, and many of the paintings are mottled and unsightly, and there are no characters in them, so no story can be seen.

Or.

I can't see what unique meaning there is in these scenery.

What is certain is that this is a very typical Buddhist painting technique.

the strange thing is.

I seem to have seen these paintings somewhere.

But for a while, I couldn't remember it.

Maybe it's an illusion.

I said to Xia Xi, "You'd better say it directly."

Xia Xi said: "In the early days of the Ming Dynasty, an enthusiastic Buddhist enthusiast named Qigong Yinbo from the Sakura Kingdom came to study with us. He was very interested in the Qiuci Buddhist culture and visited Kuqa many times for inspection. At that time , the ancient Kucha Kingdom has been destroyed, and the Buddhist culture within its territory has been almost completely destroyed."

"But Uncle Yin of the Seventh Palace made a shocking speculation through various clues. Before the ancient Kucha Kingdom was destroyed, he led a team of monks and civilians, Buddhist scriptures, and treasury gold and silver jewelry to secretly cross Chencang to Takra. Deep in the Magan Desert, a hidden Buddhist kingdom has been established.”

"After making this discovery, Seventh Palace Yinbo entered Taklimakan seven times to look for this hidden Buddhist kingdom, but found nothing. But on the eighth time, Seventh Palace Yinbo finally found this hidden Buddhist kingdom!"

I asked: "Then Uncle Yin of the Seventh Palace left behind a classic book similar to "The Story of Peach Blossom Spring". This classic book has always been in the Cherry Blossom Country and has never been seen. By chance, Xiang Liu's people obtained the classic book, and it was like finding a treasure. , and then, based on the classics, they went to the desert to find the ancient Qiuci Buddhist Kingdom in the desert?"

Xia Xi was stunned for a moment: "How do you know?"

I replied: "Nonsense! Aren't anecdotes, novels, and TV series all written this way? This is the tension and sense of novelty in the story. Otherwise, how can we attract fans?!"

Xia Xi said speechlessly: "Do you understand this?"

I said: "Tao Yuanming taught me this!"

Xia Xi said: "Okay, you haven't gone to school and you still treat Tao Yuanming... No, why should I talk to you like this!"

"The story of Uncle Yin of the Seventh Palace is not a novel, it is true. He left a book called "The Collection of Poems of the Seventh Palace", which contains more than 60 poems."

I asked: "Collection of poems?"

Xia Xi nodded: "Yes! Seventh Palace Yin Bo is a loyal and fanatical lover of Buddhist culture. After he discovered the ancient Buddhist kingdom of Qiuci, he regarded it as the only pure land in the world. The reason why he did not write down the entry route was because he was worried. After being discovered by others, he disturbed the tranquility of the Pure Land of the Buddhist Kingdom. But he was also afraid that he would never find the ancient Buddhist Kingdom of Qiuci again, so he recorded it very cryptically in the "Collection of Poems of the Seven Palaces"."

"Why is it so obscure? There are a total of 67 poems in "Seven Palaces Poetry Collection", all of which describe famous scenery in various parts of the Ming Dynasty. In fact, each famous scenery represents a Ming Dynasty city, and these cities are connected into a line. Line is the most convenient route to enter the ancient Buddhist kingdom of Qiuci!"

"Who would have thought that Uncle Yin of the Seventh Palace became seriously ill after he wrote the collection of poems. When he was about to die, he handed over the collection of poems to his descendants and told them the secrets about the collection of poems. It has been passed down from generation to generation until now, and his descendants Now he has become an old drunkard who hangs out in taverns all day long. He doesn't believe in this stuff at all. He has no money, so he sells the collection of poems to Xiangliu's collector and tells his ancestors the story about this collection of poems. "

I frowned and asked, "Did the people in Xiang Liu believe it?"

(End of this chapter)