Chapter 81 anecdote

Jiang Dan's "Hongyi Lawyer's Biography" records that Li Shutong once said that when he was born, there was a sign of a magpie holding a pine branch in his house.After Master Hongyi passed away, some publications reported that the pine branch carried by the magpie was kept by Li, and it was hung on the wall next to the meditation bed until the time of his death.However, descendants of the Li family denied the claim that the magpie held the branches, saying that the hangings in the meditation room were longan branches, which were used by the master to hang hats. Li Shutong liked cats when he was young. Jiang Danshu wrote in "The Master of Remembrance": "When the Master was young, he liked cats very much. There were many old animals. When he was studying in Tokyo, he sent a home appliance and asked if the cat was safe."

Li Shutong once wrote a preface to the biography of Li Pingxiang, a famous prostitute. He believed that music books are not only a manifestation of the development of modern civilization, but also one of its motivations: "The progress of music books and the development of civilization are closely related. The degree of civilization can be seen from music books." "Those who swim in it will be refreshed in spirit, lively in body, open up the spiritual aperture of thought, and open up the wisdom of the brain." Li Shutong is gentle and elegant, with a stunning appearance in his gestures, and Feng Zikai admires him very much.Xia Mianzun said: "Zi Kai is fascinated by Li Shutong!"

Feng Zikai recalled: "One time during the fan performance, a classmate farted. There was no sound, but it was very smelly. The piano, Mr. Li and a dozen students were all immersed in the Armonia gas. Most of the classmates Covering his nose or making annoying noises. Mr. Li frowned, and played the piano by himself (I think he must be holding his breath). After playing, his Armonia breath was gone, and his brows were relaxed. After class, the students still Before going out, Mr. Li solemnly announced: "Everyone wait a while, there is another word." Everyone stood in silence again. Mr. Li said kindly in a light and serious voice: "Fart in the future, go outside the door, Don’t put it indoors.’ Then he bowed again, indicating that we were asked to go out. The classmates suppressed their laughter, and as soon as they came out, everyone ran to a distance to laugh.”

Li Hongliang recalled that once, several students approached the Japanese teacher Toshimi Honda and asked him to write a calligraphy screen for each of them.Unexpectedly, Honda's stationery was not complete, so everyone suggested to write in Li Shutong's office, but Honda couldn't even say no.Later, someone said that Li had gone out, so Honda agreed, and specially arranged people to watch the wind, on the escalator, on the corridor, and at the door of the room, and repeatedly asked Li Shutong to notify him immediately when he came back.The students said: "Mr. Li will never get annoyed by this." But Honda said: "You can't be casual in front of Mr. Li. Of course, Mr. Li's moral articles need not be said, even the Japanese is so beautiful. It’s amazing!” When the words were finished, someone lied to him and said, “Mr. Li is here.” Honda was so frightened that he fled back to his room in embarrassment.The students couldn't help laughing.

When Li Shutong was 30 years old, he once ruled a seal, and he himself was an "old man". After his death, Yao Yuchu wrote a poem about it, in which there is a sentence "the first time I saw the cape, a majestic thirty old man". Li Shutong once prepared four pairs of walking at the same time. Someone asked why, and replied: one is for worshiping the Buddha, one is for leisure time, one is for going out, and the other is for going to the toilet. In the autumn of 1918, after Li Shutong became a monk, he collected more than ten kinds of Chinese and Japanese children's toys (including mud horses, bamboo dragons, Guangdong mud ducks, Wuxi Dafu, cloth tigers, Japanese clay dolls and plaster statues of Venus, etc.) ) to Chen Shizeng (Hengke) as a souvenir.In the following year, Chen Shizeng drew these gifts into strips, titled "Pictures of Toys of Resting Fast", and hung them indoors.This picture "arranges all kinds of things all over the canvas, with bright colors (only the stone statue of Venus is ink-washed), and the inscription roughly reads: My friend Li Shutong became a monk in Hangzhou last year. Its image. 'Going up to the world, how many people are there who appreciate this!'" It is a pity that Chen's painting and Li's old things were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.

Master Hongyi often copied the "Ksitigarbha Sutra" or Ksitigarbha's repentance rituals to dedicate his merits to his deceased mother.When going to bed every night, he often falls asleep with the name of Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha. In 1926, he went to a temple near Hangzhou to place an order. One night, robbers armed with knives and sticks came to rob the temple. None of the monks survived, but the room where the master lived was not searched. The window man hit the glass repeatedly, but it couldn't be broken. After an hour or so, he was exhausted.When the sky is about to dawn, the robbers can only go away in resentment.That night Master Hongyi went to sleep in the name of Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha as usual, but he didn't know what happened at night.The next day, the monks in the temple told each other about the surprise, and then they found out.He believes that it is due to the protective power of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.This further strengthened his belief in Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. Hongyi once said: "Since Wei Wei was ordained, he has sincerely converted to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva...he has received the greatest kindness." During the nearly 10 years in Xiqingfu Temple, Hongyi The Master has never stopped making offerings to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

Li Hongliang recorded that Master Hongyi once talked about: when he lived in a certain temple in the countryside, robbers came to rob the temple, and one person shone a flashlight from the window of his room. At that time, he was lying on the bed and suddenly felt that the alarm clock on the table could not stop. gone.The robbers did not notice him, and soon left.After the robber left, the alarm clock started to run again. When Hongyi heard that there was a chaotic Buddhist monastery in Shanghai where he preached and recited Buddhist scriptures, he searched everywhere, but he found that the monastery was actually in the thatched cottage in the south of the city where he lived in Shanghai.Master Hongyi said with emotion: "It's a strange fate! I really had infinite feelings at that time."

Feng Zikai once asked Master Hongyi to name his residence. Hongyi asked him to write down the words he liked and matched with each other on a small piece of paper, and then twisted the paper into a ball and put it on the altar of the Buddha statue to draw lots. is what.Feng Zikai caught the word "Yuan" twice in a row, so his living room was named "Yuan Yuan Tang".The master immediately wrote a banner for him, and no matter where Feng moved in the future, this banner would be hung in his living room. Master Yihuan recalled that when Master Hongyi was in Baihu, Master Jingquan, Elder Bingrui, and Elder Jing'an were all there, "All the masters sat around a table to eat, because it was rare, the atmosphere became too serious. Don't have an appetite at all, and leave the table before finishing the dishes. According to my statistics, there were only two or three words of "please" at this dinner party, but there were dozens of gestures of clasping hands and paying tribute to each other. Therefore, I can't Named, once called 'Lonely Lunch'".

Master Hongyi knew the principles of medicine. When he got sick, he found out the old treasured medicine and took it. He fasted for one day and reduced food for a few days, and the disease was cured. Master Hongyi, known as Old Man Wanqing, wrote "The Collection of Wanqing", and his study was also named "Wanqing Shanfang". It was all because of his love for Li Shangyin's poems, which was taken from the sentence "God's will pity the grass, and the world cherishes the evening sunshine". The young Huang Yongyu was lucky enough to get to know Master Hongyi.Huang Yongyu, who was not yet 17 years old at the time, was picking flowers from a magnolia tree in full bloom in front of a mountain temple in Fujian. An old monk asked him under the tree:

"Ah! what are you picking flowers for?" "I am happy, if you want to pick it, pick it!" "Look, it's doing fine on the tree..." "I take it off and it looks good!" "You've been here twice." "Yes, I will come a third time." "Come down, be careful, you don't look like a Quanzhou person when you speak." Huang Yongyu bit the flower branch and jumped down from the tree. The old monk invited him to sit in the house. This old monk was Master Hongyi. The house is very simple, Hong Yi smiled and asked: "What do you usually do?..." Huang replied: "I paint, eh! I can do other things, I can sing, I can box, I can write poems, I can also act, I can sing Beijing opera Hey! He can also shoot guns, jackals, wild boars, and pheasants..." So the two chatted, talking about art knowledge, Raphael, Da Vinci, Michelangelo... After knowing Hongyi's identity, Huang Yongyu asked The mage asks for words.The mage agreed and asked him to pick it up in four days.A week later, Huang Cai, who returned to Quanzhou, learned that Master Hongyi passed away, and left him a calligraphy banner: "Don't seek happiness for yourself, I hope the world will be free from suffering." Huang Yongyu wept loudly in the temple.