Chapter 5 Also talk about Huguo Temple

Brother Bai Tiezheng wrote an article "Recalling Huguo Temple" in his newly published masterpiece "The Stories of Old Peking". The two famous historic sites in front of the adobe hall of the Guosi Temple, "Smart Ghost" and "Tulong Beier" are full of details, which makes people suddenly enlightened, as if they have visited the Huguo Temple again.The author also grew up in Xicheng, Beiping. After reading this article, the old stories of Chen Guzi who visited Huguo Temple in his childhood and rotten sesame seeds all came to mind one by one. The original name of Huguo Temple was "Chongguo Temple". It was the former residence of Tuoketuo, the prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty. The prime minister's mansion was changed to Tuoketuo ancestral hall, which was commemorated with funds, and ordered the soldiers and horses of the five cities to protect it properly.Unfortunately, during the reign of Tianshun, a fire burned the former residence of Tuoketuo to pieces, leaving no tiles left.It was not until the seventh year of Chenghua to commemorate the sages that the work was corrected and rebuilt, and the name was changed to "Dalongshan Huguo Temple".This reconstruction completely changed the style of the temple.After the reconstruction, as soon as you enter the mountain gate, there are two floors of bells and drums in the east and west. The first floor is the second hall of Henha, the second floor is the Four King Kongs, and the third floor is commonly known as the adobe hall. It is the main house of Tuoketuo Prime Minister Yanxi.At that time, because the urn and the rope hinges were all magnificent and neat, in order to keep the original shape, the beams and columns were not replaced, but the chalky walls and walls were painted with red paint. Therefore, the adobe hall, which has been eroded by wind and rain many times, is more beautiful than before. Several floors of the hall collapsed more severely.It is said that there was a statue of Prime Minister Tuoketuo and his wife in this temple at the same light year. Later, because of the boxer rebellion, the big brothers set up altars in the temple, and the doors and windows were dead, and the walls were even damaged. When the author knew how to visit the temple , except for the beams, paths and stones, there is no trace to be found.

The former teacher, Mr. Yan Yintong, devoted his whole life to the study of Yuan history?Some people say that there is a Zhenji photo studio opposite the door of Huguo Temple, and there are photos of the winged portraits of Prime Minister Tuoketuo and his wife. The author accompanied the teacher to the Zhenji photo studio.The old shopkeeper of Zhenji Photo Studio was a kind and kind elder, and immediately asked the clerk on the cabinet to rummage through the box to find an eight-inch negative. After printing it out, he realized that it was a portrait rather than a statue, but there was a paragraph next to the photo. The short postscript says that it was painted by Wang Yinglin, a painter from western Zhejiang, according to the original shape of the statue before the Wanli statue was destroyed in the Ming Dynasty.This photo was taken by a caring person during the Tongzhi period, and they have been preserved until now.Because the fixing technology was not perfect back then, some of the photos were blurred and yellowed after they were printed.When I was looking for this photo, I found a large number of rare photos of old actors in Liyuan. Ganqing Zhenji Photo Studio had contacts with famous actors in Liyuan Xing back then, and they all took photos in Zhenji, so he There are many photos of famous actors and actresses in Beijing in casual attire.Unexpectedly, there is such an unexpected harvest in this trip, which is really overjoyed.

Among them, I think the most precious are "Taking Chengdu" by Wang Guifen, "Seven Star Lantern" by Sun Juxian, "Spinning Cotton" by Xiao Ma Wu, "Ye Zhai" by Tian Guifeng, "Visiting Relatives" by Liu Gansan, Riding a Real Donkey, Yu Yuqin , Wang Lengxian's "Thirteen Sisters", Jin Xiushan's "Loyalty and Filial Piety", Tan Xinpei and Luo Baisui's "Tian Lei Bao", Liu Hongsheng's "Cut the Yellow Robe", Yang Xiaolou's "Yanyang Tower", and Yang Xiaoduo "Painting Spring Garden" by Qian Jinfu, "Blue Stone Mountain" by Qian Jinfu, and "Ma Siyuan" by Lu Sanbao.At that time, the photos were not particular about zooming in from small to small, and they were all eight-inch and twelve-inch glass plate negatives. I developed two of each type and kept them.Later, Zhang Guyu started a magazine in Shanghai called "Drama Ten-day Magazine", which not only has rich pictures and texts, but also every article about drama is very important. I sent these photos to Brother Gu Yu to publish in "Drama Ten-day Magazine".Later, Brother Gu Yu asked me to print two copies of Zhen Ji’s film photos out of all I had. Unfortunately, the old shopkeeper had passed away at that time, and the young shopkeeper was replaced by the young shopkeeper. As Brother Tie Zheng said, I was busy doing matchmaking , Blind date photos, I have no time to do this, so I owe the heavy trust of Brother Gu Yu, and I have not been able to submit the paper, I am really sorry.

Outside the gate of Huguo Temple, against the high wall, there are colorful and fragrant flowers and trees such as pomegranate, crabapple, peach and apricot, and clove.Tourists walking through the flowers will make people fragrant and filthy, and they will be dazzled.Yang Yunshi, a talented scholar from the east of the Yangtze River, has a bamboo branch poem: "Chongguo Temple is the most prosperous, and there are not many jadeite houses. Only artificial people sell spring colors, and flowers are fragrant all the year round." This is a true portrayal of the flower market in Huguo Temple back then.There are several flower factories near the Huguo Temple. The flower trees cultivated by them are really lovely.There are four flower factories in total, namely "Qihui", "Lianji" and "Huifang...Yuanxiang". , put some seasonal flower bonsai, just for publicity. Because "Qihui" and "Yuanxiang" occupy a large area near Huguo Temple, the house is spacious, and there are greenhouses, they also store flowers for customers.There are some big families in Beiping who don’t have a greenhouse and don’t employ flower arrangements. If they have more expensive flowers and trees that are afraid of the cold, such as citron, bergamot, jasmine, white orchid, gardenia, pearl orchid, etc., they will be happy after the Double Ninth Festival. You can entrust the flower factory to pick them up and put them in their flower caves for winter maintenance.If you have fragrant flowers such as red plum, white plum, and wintersweet at home, and you plan to offer them in front of the Buddha or in the ancestral hall during the New Year, you can tell the flower factory in advance, and they will be delivered to you two days before New Year's Eve. Ying Zhi.

These flower factories have been in contact with the house for many years, so the names of the flower factories can still tell their names even after twenty or thirty years. In the northwest corner of the apse of the Huguo Temple is the Lama Courtyard, where all the lamas live.Lamas in Huguo Temple can intermarry with Han people, so the lamas living there are gradually Sinicized. Some young lamas not only can't read Lama scriptures, they can't even speak Mongolian and Tibetan.There are two small brick houses at the end of the pagoda courtyard, in which lived an old lama, everyone called him a crazy lama.Ordinary lamas are not afraid to eat meat and mutton, but the crazy lama eats vegetarian food and does not eat after lunch, wandering around all day, with his doors locked.Back then Dai Jitao, Tang Zhuxin, and Qu Yingguang held the Kalachakra Dharma Assembly in Hangzhou to protect the country and alleviate disasters. After the meeting, they returned to Beiping with Zhangjia Living Buddha. Lama Su, Ganqing is that crazy lama.According to Zhang Jia: Jiada Wusu is a modern sage in the Yellow Sect who intensively studied the theory of idealism in the Langa Sutra and obtained the true meaning, so he was invited to return to Tibet to teach the Dharma, so he was placed in the West Lake Hotel.Brother Peihuang, Tang Zhuxin's son, had just graduated from Yan University at that time. He heard from Zhang Jia's attendants that the crazy lama would invite the gods to arrest ghosts. He was young and curious, and he was familiar with the crazy lama. Show him a hand or two.The mad lama was so annoyed that he couldn't help it. One day, he took a piece of cold water and didn't draw a charm to chant a mantra. He sprinkled cold water on the ground in a big circle, lit three pieces of yellow paper, and threw it into the circle. The fireball rolled to the edge of the water circle and rolled along the water circle for a circle and a half before turning into paper ashes.He said that there were two ghosts trapped in the water circle in the ashes of the paper, and the ghosts were innocent, so he had to recite the scriptures a hundred times to save himself from rebirth.This incident was witnessed by brother Peihuang himself, and he said it himself, so it is not a lie.But what is the reason, people can not guess friends.

There is also a celebrity in Peking named Guo Zaizi who lives in Huguosi Street. He opened a Mingyi shop in the north of Huguosi Xikou Road. His main business is to make clothes for the dead and burn them. People paste the ceiling and the four-white floor-to-ceiling wallpaper, so it is also called the paper shop.What is the name of Guo Zaizi's paper shop, sorry for my bad memory, I can't remember it for a while, anyway, when Guo Zaizi is mentioned, there are probably no residents in the western half of the city who don't know it.The person just died, the upside-down car sedan chair made by his family, the delicate silk people, the mountains of gold and silver, the building hanged by the companion, the funeral paper banner for the funeral of the filial son, and the double-eaves embroidery with a seat burned by the grandmother of Wuqi after death. Umbrellas, boat bridges burned for sixty days, he can paste them more delicately than others.Especially all the clothes and furniture used by the deceased, as long as you can tell the name of the thing, or see the real thing, you can make it out for the customer, and it is absolutely realistic.

I remember that when my grandmother passed away, the family asked Guo Zaizi to paste a red sandalwood Xiangfei couch with a thick white linen cushion on it. Because of its large size, it was placed on the corridor under the sutra shed.A relative came from the south to hang the sacrifice. After offering incense and saluting, he saw a Xiangfei couch in the corridor, and just sat down to rest his legs. Who knew that when he sat down, he fell down and squatted, and the Xiangfei couch naturally fell. Broken.Of course, this is because the light in the shed is poor, so I can't see it clearly, but it also proves that Guo Zaizi's burning is really vivid.

Although Guo Zaizi passed away after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, his Mingyi shop is still open.Ms. Hou Rongsheng once went back to Beijing to visit relatives as a native of Meiyu. It is said that the Huguo Temple area was demolished and rebuilt, and a theater for model operas was built. The museum and several flower factories have also become ruins, and there is no way to look forward to it.In the bustling scenery of the past, you can only look for some historical relics in your sleep. In the future, you will tell the children stories such as ghosts and dragon steles.