The so-called crowd gathers firewood and the flames are high. By April, the old ancestral temple has been built.
There are three entrances, more than a dozen halls, and dozens of statues. They are really majestic and magnificent.
This is also the largest temple with a radius of fifty miles.
It is much bigger than the Sanguan Temple five miles away.
The Sanguan Temple has only two entrances, and only for Tathagata Buddha, Medicine Buddha, and Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, which correspond to rebirth, disease, and childbirth respectively.
For the poor people, having a place to die, living a healthy life, and having many children and grandchildren are enough.
Xiang Nan's Ancestral Temple has more functions.
The God of Wealth bestows wealth, Wenchang bestows talents, heavenly officials bless, local officials pardon sins, water officials relieve misfortunes, Cihang gives birth to children, Lei Zu eliminates evil spirits, Yama reincarnation...
Coupled with his "authentic" little **** sitting in charge, the old ancestral temple is naturally famous.
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April 15th is an auspicious day.
Xiang Nan specially held a consecration ceremony to celebrate the completion of the Ancestral Temple.
On that day, people with a radius of tens of miles rushed to join in the fun, crowding the old ancestral temple so that the wind and rain could not leak.
Everyone wants to witness with their own eyes how powerful this little fairy is.
I saw a high platform on the square in front of the temple, on which there were offering tables, incense offerings, burning paper, command flags, French seals, etc., which were dazzling and unpredictable.
As soon as the morning arrived, I heard three bangs of the blunderbuss, followed by the sound of gongs and drums, and the sound of firecrackers.
Then someone shouted, "Look at the sky!"
Everyone looked up and saw Xiang Nan wearing a Taoist robe, fluttering leisurely, descending from the sky, like an exiled immortal.
"Wow!!"
The people were all in an uproar.
Before they heard that the little fairy Xiang Nan could ride the clouds and ride the fog, they refused to believe it.
Now hearing is deception, seeing is believing. Xiang Nan really fell from the sky, which really opened their eyes.
Xiang Nan fell to the altar, and then the consecration ceremony began.
In "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng", he served as a guardian of the country and led Taoism for decades, so he naturally knows the various rituals of Taoism in detail.
Therefore, it should be done in a rigorous manner, and it really shouldn't be too easy to bluff these bumpkins.
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Xiang Nan took the big incense that was as thick as the mouth of the bowl, rubbed his hands together, and the big incense ignited spontaneously without fire, and the common people were dumbfounded.
Then he began to pray, "In the second year of the Republic of China, in the fourth month of the Renzi year, Yiyou, the great disciple of Honghu's ancestor, worshiping immortals and Taoism, respecting gods and offering sacrifices, setting up temples and white deer, Zongxi in the Spring and Autumn Period, disasters and disasters, and water. Drought begging...respectful worship, without compromising one's virtue. But the front is abandoned, and the side of the temple is here. Sober and reverent, the spirit will only bless you. Yong Yong's degree, the people's pleasing service..."
After saying the prayer, Xiang Nan burned his watch to sacrifice to the heavens. He still poked out his finger, and the burning paper would automatically ignite, which surprised the people again.
Then Xiang Nan took a basin of clear water and put his hands into it. In an instant, the clear water had condensed into ice.
"Blessings from the ancestors, the rain will fall everywhere!" Xiang Nan shouted loudly, then took out the ice, threw it into the air, and shattered it with a volley of palms. Then with a wave of the long sleeves, icicles splashed in all directions, one after another sprinkled on the people, which made people excited.
"It can condense water into ice, the little **** is worthy of being a little god."
"Oh, it's really a fairy. The weather is so warm, and it can still turn into ice."
"Sure enough, it's Ganlin. You really deserve to be a god. It's amazing!"
The common people exclaimed in admiration.
"Please respect God for the next session!" Xiang Nan said loudly, then sat cross-legged on the stage, and silently recited the "Huang Ting Jing".
Coupled with the dense aroma of incense offerings and the melodious strings played by the band, the atmosphere of the whole scene is more sacred, solemn and mysterious.
Even if they are not believers, at this moment, they all feel awe-inspiring in their hearts, shut up one after another, stand erect on the spot, and dare not laugh and play anymore.
Afterwards, a person shouted loudly, "Oh, I saw a god~", "I also saw a god~", "God, god~"
Everyone in front of the high platform shouted loudly, and then they all fell to their knees.
Following the people on the outside, they also shouted, "I have seen a fairy", and then they all looked up to the sky and bowed down, as if a fairy really came from the sky.
Affected by this, more people shouted "I also saw the gods", and in an instant, the whole audience knelt down, cheering in unison, extremely devout.
"God blesses~" Xiang Nan shouted, and then Lu San, Zhang Fenglan, and other believers threw the prepared cakes to everyone.
The people followed suit one after another, bowing their heads to thank them.
"God back to heaven!" Xiang Nan then shouted, seeing a plume of green smoke rising straight into the sky above the high platform.
When the common people saw it, they all thought that the **** had gone by the wind, and they couldn't help but kowtow again to thank him.
"Immortal, what an immortal~"
"I saw a **** today, and I am willing to die."
"Great, I saw the gods, and the gods are still smiling at me~"
They said one after another.
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The consecration ceremony ended, but the pious hearts of the people have just been ignited.
Because they saw the gods coming down to earth just now, they became very devout. After the ceremony, they went to the temple to burn incense and worship the gods and offer incense.
There was a long queue in front of Xiang Nan, and he was almost overwhelmed.
In less than half a day, more than 2,000 yuan of ocean and hundreds of buckets of grain were harvested, which shows the enthusiasm of the people.
And such a bumper harvest made Lu Zilin, Bai Xinger, Sang Laoba, Bai Shitouer and others very envious.
They don't believe in ghosts and gods, but only in profit.
They respect Xiang Nan.
This time, although they came to the consecration ceremony, they only came to watch the excitement, and did not come in to burn incense and worship God.
For them, instead of donating money and food to the temple, it is better to eat by themselves.
Seeing that Xiang Nan collected so much money and so much food, their envious eyes turned red.
"He can really make money for a long time~" Lu Zilin looked at the white ocean, so greedy that his saliva almost flowed out.
The old Lu family worked hard for several lifetimes to earn such a little wealth.
Looking at it now, it's not as much as Xiang Nan earns in a day, it's really his grandma.
"Brother Zilin, did you see a fairy just now?" Bai Xinger asked curiously again.
"No." Lu Zilin shook his head, "Did you see that?"
"Me neither." Bai Xing'er shook his head.
Sang Laoba and Bai Shitouer also shook their heads, but neither of them saw any gods.
"Then why did you all kneel down just now?" Bai Xinger asked puzzled.
Lu Zilin, Sang Laoba, and Bai Shitouer were taken aback, not knowing what was going on.
Everyone knelt down just now, and they also knelt down. In fact, they were not prepared to kneel.
"Grandma, don't read it, it's too annoying." Lu Zilin cursed, then turned and left.
Sang Laoba, Bai Xinger, and Bai Shitouer also followed.