Chapter 10 The God of Wealth Temple borrows ingots to congratulate you on making a fortune

During the Lunar New Year, both the north and the south have the custom of offering sacrifices to the God of Wealth, but which day is the God of Wealth Day varies from north to south.In the south, the fifth day of the first lunar month is the official day, while in the north, the second day of the first lunar month is used to worship the God of Wealth.The most famous God of Wealth Temple in Beiping is not far from Zhangyimen (formally known as Guang'anmen) in the southwestern corner of the city. Although this temple is not as deep as the upper level and decorated with golden scales, it is full of incense and incense, and it has been repaired for many years. Danying powder walls, colorful and carved gold, the temple looks radiant.In the first lunar month, all the nunneries and temples in Beiping have their own benefactors and believers who come to pay respects to the Buddha, except for the Temple of the God of Wealth outside Zhangyimen. Anyone who burns incense and pays back their vows must go there on the day of the God of Wealth, and everyone wants to pay homage to the Buddha. Rushing to burn the first stick of incense, as if going late will not be able to get rich.In fact, burning incense sticks is the privilege of temple blessings, and no one can beat them.In the past, at Jiaozizheng, all the inner and outer cities of Beiping were closed, and they were reopened at dawn with five drums. Every year on the second day of the first lunar month, morning incense was burned. Just after midnight, some people went to the gate of the city to wait for the opening of the city, from Zhushikou to Zhangyimen. , The whole street was crowded with people and vehicles.Later, in order to adapt to the public opinion, the government was very accommodating. On the first night of the first day of the lunar new year, the Zhangyi Gate was simply not closed all night. , It is not uncommon to walk for an hour or two.There is a small way to burn incense in the Temple of Fortune. People who can burn incense buy and burn incense at the Temple of Fortune. It is big, but it can't hold thousands of high-quality incense sticks in the stove anyway, so people who burn incense finally squeezed to the side of the stove. Take out the incense sticks and throw them into the big incense pool below, insert them as you like, but faithful men and women always hope that the incense they burn will burn more in the incense burner for a while, so that they can get more blessings from God, but the temple wishers who hold incense all have Eccentric, if the incense you burn is bought in a temple, he will know it at a glance, and he will pick it up a little later. If the pilgrim brings it by himself, he will pick it up a little faster, so good men and women who know the inside story must buy it in the temple. Incense, the income from selling incense on this day is enough for their temple members to chew for a whole year!

The biggest feature of Caishen Temple is to borrow ingots to make a wish, which is something that does not exist in other temples.In the temple, a large number of gold and silver paper ingots of different sizes are ordered in advance at the paper shop, and they are offered in front of the gods. Most people who come to the Temple of Wealth to burn incense want to buy ingots and go back to worship. Obviously, they bought them for some more incense, but they are not allowed to say To buy, it is said to be "borrowed" or "pleased" to go back.Take the ingots home and put them on the table of the gods. When you go to the God of Wealth Temple to burn incense and fulfill your vows in the next year, you will pay back one ingot and two ingots.At that time, there was a Wujing Shen Sanyu in Liyuanhang. Every year on the second day of the first lunar month, he would go to the Temple of Fortune to burn incense and borrow ingots. cumbersome.Later, he came up with an ingenious way to tie the ingots on a bamboo pole with a small thread, and asked his apprentices to carry the bamboo pole to burn incense. Some people joked with him, saying that he was too pious, and he said that it was better than worshiping incense. Kowtowing one step at a time is still far away!In the past, there was a ballad written for money fans who borrowed ingots, and now it is written to entertain everyone:

The author has no pleasure in crowding people to sacrifice to the God of Wealth to borrow ingots, but for the people returning incense, no matter men, women, old or young, they wear loess turbans on their heads and are filled with intricate algae paintings and five-color gold-painted velvet flowers, which is very interesting.One year, it was said that a master who specialized in tufted flowers, who had worked as an official in the inner court of the upright government, performed the handicraft of tufted flowers in the Temple of Fortune. In addition to the tied velvet flowers, he also tied and sold them now.People are surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside. Although he is sitting on a high stool on the earthen platform, he still has to put his feet up to see it.Ingenious and skilled craftsmanship, pinch and squeeze a flower three times, and you're done.I was concentrating on watching when I suddenly noticed someone squeezed past me with quick and weird movements. When I looked carefully, I dared to pickpocket a young woman with empty hands. The tall and slender boy locked the thief's hands with a pair of Shanlihong, not to mention his neat technique, and his attitude was very calm.After inquiring carefully, I found out that he is the descendant of Cangzhou Bibi Li, and he is the protector invited by the Temple of the God of Wealth. He always catches twenty or thirty thieves during the temple fair of the God of Wealth Temple every year.The abbot of the temple said: "Everyone comes to the temple to burn incense and pray for wealth during the new year. If the pilgrims lose their property and lose their money, it would be a disastrous sight." See you!