This room seems to be the Jialan Palace. Jialan is the provincial name of Sanghalama, which means gardens. The Eighteen Galan Gods also refer to Galan Bodhisattva, which is actually Guan Gong.
When Buddhism came to China, it also sealed many local historical figures. He is quite familiar with Buddha statues and can draw thangkas after all.
However, he has no feelings about Buddhism, nor does he have any objections. After all, he also knows a very good monk, who has lived in seclusion in the mountains for many years and has been doing good deeds.
But what Chen Xing saw more on the Internet was monks holding bags asking for alms. There are many such things on the Internet, but how many Taoist priests do this?
Therefore, as a Chinese, Chen Xing still prefers the way of immortals and gods. However, it doesn’t matter what you believe, just seek peace.
A monk walked over from the main hall and asked, "What's the matter with the donor?" Chen Xing turned around and saw him, smiled, and said, "Someone told me that there are beautiful stone sculptures here, so I came over to take a look. look."
"That's right, the statue is on the top of the mountain, but the road is difficult to walk." The monk was about thirty years old. He was probably worried that Chen Xing would not be able to find the way, so he said, "Well, I will take you there."
"Thank you." Walking out of the small room made of stone caves, he continued to walk up the stairs made of stone slabs. The road ahead was okay. The stone slabs were larger and not steep.
Chen Xing asked: "Master, how long have you been here?"
"It's been three years." He didn't talk much. Chen Xing didn't talk much unless he asked. He kept walking. However, when he was about to reach the top of the mountain, the road became difficult to walk. Before, it was more than half a meter long and more than thirty centimeters wide. The slate can now only be stepped on with one foot, and it is difficult to step on it with two feet.
There is no way to fix it like this. There is no longer a direct way up the mountain. This path goes up along the rock wall.
But the best thing is safety. On the left is a wall, on the right is a modern cement pile, and the middle is connected with an iron chain.
So although this road looks dangerous, there are supports on both sides, so I walked up with support.
"Donor, please be careful. It has rained and the road will be slippery."
"Okay." Chen Xing was also walking attentively. Fortunately, there are handrails, which are piles driven down in modern times. If it were really wooden piles and ropes, Chen Xing would not dare to walk on it.
He doesn't even dare to ride on a high swing or a roller coaster. A gentleman would not stand under a dangerous wall. He doesn't have the gene for looking for excitement, so spending his life peacefully is all he wants.
This kind of road is not long, and the two of them reached the top of the mountain in no time. The top of the mountain is almost flat and covered with vines and weeds, but there is a paved path leading forward, and there is a mountain with no grass in front of it... Damn it!
The entire surface of the mountain is covered with carvings, which are mural carvings. A hole of about forty to fifty centimeters was dug into it, and then a Buddha statue was carved from local materials in the hole. This kind of Buddha statue looks twofold here. more than ten.
However, this requires a but. These carvings have all been weathered away, and all the faces cannot be seen clearly, only a little blurry figure can be seen.
The weathering made their bodies form circles, like the traces of thick hemp ropes tied up in circles.
Wow, this is really beautiful. If all the statues here were intact and you could see the details and faces, Chen Xing wouldn't think it was that magical. He would just think that such a place has well-preserved ancient stone carvings that are very beautiful. But now, it's really amazing. It has charm.
"This should be the stone sculpture you mentioned. It's a pity that we didn't preserve it properly."
"No, this is the most beautiful." Chen Xing said, then raised the camera and gestured,
"Can I take photos?"
"The donor is free to do so." The feeling of light and shadow is not strong, but the feeling of the picture is the most important. After taking the photo, Chen Xing looked at the photos in the camera, thought for a moment, and said, "Master, please go back first. I'll wait here for a while."
"wait?"
"Well, I want to wait for the sun to set."
"It's still a long time before the sun sets. Why don't you come to our temple to have a vegetarian meal?" Chen Xing touched his belly and said, "That's okay." It's only noon now, and he's about 20 people who came from the temple. It only takes a few minutes. You can wait until four or five o'clock before going up the mountain.
Anyway, this stone wall is here, and he can't run away. Still holding on to both sides as he went down the mountain. Going down is more difficult than going up, mainly because you have to face the cliff below, which always makes you feel a little nervous, so you waste a lot of time.
When we returned to the small temple, there was another monk, so there were six people now.
Even though this temple is small, there are quite a lot of people there. They tidied up one of the rooms, and seven people, including Chen Xing, ate here.
The monk who took Chen Xing up the mountain before was the youngest among them. He did not become a monk here, but in a well-known temple in Nanchang. He felt that life here was more pure, so he came to stay for a long time.
Indeed, in this deep mountain and old forest, there are not many farmers nearby. Chen Xing felt that real monks should be like them, far away from the world, what does the colorful flowers outside have to do with being a monk?
You don’t even need to beg alms, just grow your own vegetables and eat them yourself. Isn’t this also a kind of spiritual practice? In ancient times, there were many natural and man-made disasters, and sometimes there was no way around it. Monks had to go out for alms in order to survive. But is it necessary in modern times?
A fatter monk brought the last dish up and said to Chen Xing: "I made two more dishes today. We haven't seen tourists from outside for a long time, so we have to celebrate." Chen Xing Said: "There are so many tourists coming to Wuyuan every year, why haven't they come here yet?"
"The village outside us has few people and no road construction. Who will come?" said the fat monk.
"Hong Pu?" the old monk said. The fat monk snorted twice and sat down obediently. Rice, fried vegetables, cubed tofu, steamed small potatoes, which are unpeeled. If you want to eat them, you need to pick them up and peel them yourself, and then there are vegetarian meatballs.
I have seen a lot of meatballs, but this is the first time Chen Xing has seen these vegetarian meatballs.
"What are these meatballs made of?"
"It's made from radish, green vegetables and noodles. The taste is no worse than meatballs." Another monk said with a smile: "Why, when have you eaten it before?" They have lived here for many years, who still wants to eat it? I don’t know who it is.
Chen Xing tasted one. The vegetarian meatballs are kneaded and boiled in the soup. The soup is mushroom and cabbage soup. The mushrooms are kindly provided by Chen Xing.
Although there are only two very simple ingredients, the taste of the soup is very rich, and it really has the thickness of meatball soup.
Chen Xing gave a thumbs up to the fat monk who was cooking and said: "Awesome, really awesome, the cooking is delicious."
"Haha, let's cook. As long as everyone likes it." The atmosphere at the table was very lively. Everyone was chatting while eating, and there was no habit of keeping silent after eating.
In fact, this Chinese proverb has been said for many years, but it basically only applies to your own home. If you really adhere to the habit of not talking while eating outside, then there will be no business discussions. Those are all rules set at the wine table.
After eating, the monk who took Chen Xing up the mountain brought out a wicker chair and said, "You can sit on this chair. This chair is comfortable."
"Thank you, what about you?"
"We have to do our homework." There is a bamboo forest outside. It is very cool to stay under it. There is also a small beetle with a long mouth attached to the bamboo. This kind of small creature was something that Chen Xing could encounter when he was young. It’s unforgettable. Some people even caught this for sale outside the elementary school.
But I won’t disturb them today. Chen Xing moved the wicker chair here, picked up a big cattail leaf fan belonging to an unknown monk, and sat on the chair shaking it.
He rarely took naps, but he fell asleep in these circumstances. This kind of life living in the mountains is so comfortable.
Nowadays, many bosses who have become prosperous in the city are willing to return to the farm to build a villa and live there. There are probably some reasons for this.
Chen Xing vaguely dreamed that he took a photo of a stone wall with Hasselblad, and then passed all the way and won a lot of awards. His ability to shoot the sunset was recognized, and many photography trainings, or schools, regarded his style as Textbooks... Yenching University even invited me to give a lecture.
Just when I was thinking about what I wanted to say, I felt itchy on my face. When I raised my hand to scratch, I caught a lot of bamboo leaves.
Um? Chen Xing woke up confused. I haven’t had a dream for a long time. Can’t this kind of dream last longer?
hateful! Chen Xing threw away the leaves in his hand, took out his mobile phone and checked the time, confirming that it was not four o'clock yet, and shook the big fan twice with peace of mind.
Don't tell me, there is something more to this dream. Hasselblad is very good at shooting sunsets, which Chen Xing has tried countless times, so it just so happens that the subject of the picture this time is also good, and it can be cut out for evaluation later.
You can even send it to Hasselblad to see if they like it. Chen Xing remembered some of the terms he wrote when he signed the contract.
If they can take good photos, they will create a unique Hasselblad x2d tailored for this photography.
The performance of this camera is not yet certain, but it will definitely be praised. Chen Xing decided to take the filming more seriously for a while.
He checked the camera's battery, and then turned on the video recording function of the system... He had to record all the images he took of that scenery, so that he could publish them for evaluation.
I also wanted to go to Poyang Lake to take pictures, but the sunset effect is obviously better than that of Poyang Lake now. At half past four, Chen Xing moved the chair back to the temple and returned it to them along with the fan.
"Be careful when you go up the mountain and remember to hold on to the rope."
"Thank you, I understand." He had already gone up there once and knew what the route was like. Chen Xing was not familiar with walking this way yet. These monks often went up the mountain. If they were not dragged down by themselves, they would not need any help. They could reach the top of the mountain in only ten minutes by taking three steps and two steps at a time.
The light was soft near five o'clock. After Chen Xing went up the mountain, he took out the camera and tripod from his backpack and looked at the angle of the sun setting in the sky to find the best shooting point.
In the end, we almost reached the edge of the cliff before we found a position where we could get an overview of the whole situation. Hasselblad x2d is a medium format camera. Compared with full frame, its 21mm can express far more things than full frame 21. So if someone finds this place through Chen Xing’s photos in the future, there is no good camera. The lens cannot produce the same effect as his.
After setting up the tripod, Chen Xing sat directly on the ground. wait. If you want to be a landscape photographer, you have to be patient.
Landscape photographers sometimes wait for a gust of wind, or a person who accidentally walks into the frame, or like Chen Xing now, they have to wait for the sun to fall to the right angle in the sky.
The only person who is more patient than a landscape photographer is a wildlife photographer. Don't wait a day or two for this kind of person. In the school textbook, there is a former boss who lived in the snowy mountains for nearly a month in order to take pictures of snow leopards. He also set up a tent, not a warm one. wooden house.
When I learned this, I probably didn’t have a second thought other than admiration. It was calm on the mountain, and you couldn't even hear the chirping of insects.
There are a lot of singing insects in summer. When Chen Xing was sleeping in the bamboo forest in the afternoon, there were singing insects all the time.
But there are no more on this mountain, although sometimes I see something jumping in the grass.
But he never cried out. It's a very sacred feeling, Chen Xing thought to himself. A bird landed on the top of the stone wall, and then, probably seeing that the clothes Chen Xing was wearing were different from the surrounding environment, it flew towards Chen Xing and landed on the camera body.
Chen Xing's eyes suddenly widened. Don't let me catch you! He stretched his hand forward to drive it away, but the bird jumped into Chen Xing's hand and caught it.
It doesn't seem like the grip was very heavy? Chen Xing took back his hand, but it didn't run away either. This is a white bird with beautiful eyes. It is about the size of Chen Xing's hand. It naturally lowers its head and uses its beak to tidy up its feathers, without worrying about what Chen Xing will do to it.
As long as Chen Xing doesn't hurt him, Chen Xing is equivalent to this bird's friend. A friend who cannot communicate.
Chen Xing adjusted the delayed photo with his left hand, then stretched his hand forward to find a composition. It would be great if this bird could listen to Chen Xing's words. When the sun sets, this bird stands on the top of the stone wall, leaving a small bird on the edge of the originally smooth stone wall. That kind of picture is amazing. .
He pushed his hand up, using a little too much strength. The bird was thrown out and flew away with a clatter of wings.
There are no insects here, and there are quite a few birds. After a while, the sun became softer and softer, and it also landed at the location planned by Chen Xing.
The setting sun set so quickly that Chen Xing didn't dare to rest next to it, so he just sat next to the tripod and stared at the camera.
When the sun completely submerged behind the stone wall and the light spread out from all directions of the stone wall, Chen Xing pressed the camera button.
At this moment, a group of birds flew across the sky and became a group of silhouettes in the camera's frame. That’s what it feels like!
He felt it was OK before Chen Xing went to check the camera. This is an absolute blockbuster!
