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Chapter 49 Soul
The subject figure chosen by Wang Hua for carving is half of his fellow countryman——Chen Yi from Goushi County, Luoyang, whose legal name is Xuanzang, who is also known as Tang Sanzang and Tang Monk.He studied in Tianzhu for 12 years, returned to Nalanda Temple, and lectured on Mahayana theory and consciousness-only choice theory according to the orders of the sages.From time to time, a teacher refuted the theory of the middle school and the hundred and two theory, and refuted the theory of Tang Sanzang. The Tang Sanzang Association and the two sects of Madhyamaka and Yoga made three thousand verses to destroy it; Praise breaks the Mahayana theory of the Hinayana theorists of the Wudang Kingdom, so it is famous all over Tianzhu.

This year Tang was 41 years old and wanted to return to the east. King Jieri heard his name and held a Dharma meeting for him in Qunv City. Eighteen kings of India were present, and more than [-] people including Mahayana and Brahmans also came. This is Buddhism. The famous song in history, the Women's City Debate Conference.Tang was awarded the Master of Discussion, praised Mahayana, and put forward a thesis on the eulogy of true consciousness, which was hung outside the door of the venue. After [-] days, no one made a discourse on it.After this meeting, eighteen kings returned to become Tang Seng's disciples after the meeting.

Wang Hua chose this part of the story for carving.

This project can be described as extremely huge. There are more than 7000 great monks, and it is extremely difficult for each monk to be carved lifelike.This is also the reason why Wang Hua invited shopkeeper He to invite people, and most of the people he invited were master sculptors.Moreover, after the carving is completed, lacquering, gold leafing, and other processes are required, which not only consumes more labor, but also increases the cost dramatically.If it weren't for the backstage boss of Baolinzhai to compete with the Wang family in Taiyuan, relying on Wang's paintings, they would not have the capital to make this lacquerware.

This is the first project, and of course the main project.It is impossible for Wang Hua to extol Buddhism in order to make this lacquerware.Today's Buddhism has become a bane of the country because of Wu Zetian's promotion.A large number of people entered the gate of the temple because they were greedy for the absence of tax corvee in the temple, which hindered the country's income.This is only one, because the number of temples has increased, and many monks are illegal, luring poor people to pay incense money, in order to seek wealth and safety, this is the second.Therefore, not to mention the cost of building temples, people's lands have been embezzled from time to time, which is the third.

Wang Hua never thought that he wanted to be a good person, but he also didn't want to be a vicious bad person.

Therefore, the real significance of his making this lacquerware is not to promote Buddhism, but to Tang Seng's upward spirit of striving for ideals.And this kind of open-minded and enterprising spirit has basically disappeared in Chinese people since the Tang Dynasty.After the Song Dynasty, Chinese people gradually became introverted, and finally closed themselves off.

Like Du Shenyan of the Tang Dynasty, he can say loudly that my articles are as good as Qu Song’s. Regardless of whether this is the case or not, this spirit is full of confidence and vigorous.After the Tang Dynasty, few people dared to utter such confident words.Sometimes that's not modesty, it's pure hypocrisy.

This is the theme he promotes.

Therefore, there are the following two projects.

The second project is lacquer painting, which is a series of pictures. It narrates that Tang Monk traveled westward from Yumenguan Pass from Liangzhou to Tianzhu, and then became famous in Tianzhu. The grand welcome scene of civil and military officials, some of the main stories of the 17-year [-]-mile journey.

This project is not comparable to the first project, but because of its size, it is also huge.

The third project, from one front of this lacquerware to the other, transcribes "Da Tang Western Regions" written by Tang Seng.This book is very important to the history of India. Although this country has created a long history and civilization, it does not focus on historical records.Without this book, it is possible that the ancient history of India would not have been reorganized.Even the most proud story of Ashoka in India comes from the records in Tang Seng's book.

But this book has twelve volumes and more than [-] words.This piece of wood has three straight faces, the area is not small, and it had to be written in small script on the head of the rope, and then engraved on the straight face with Zhe seal, woodcarved, and then painted with gold powder.

Now Shopkeeper He finally knew what Wang Hua said was the last word.His eyes turned black after hearing this, more than 100 statues of people, more than [-] characters, and more than [-] comic strips, okay, Xiao Langjun, you are awesome.

He just didn't say a word for most of the day.

No wonder such a large wood is used as raw material.But this is also a good thing, if it is made perfectly, it must be a masterpiece!

On the other side, which is directly behind the largest statue of Tang Sanzang, Wang Hua took it as the main face, and Wang Hua began to write an inscription:
Master Xuanzang, in order to seek justice, traveled more than tens of thousands of miles, traveled through deserts and deserts, passed through desperate regions, thirsty and hungry, and obtained the orthodox scriptures of the Western Regions.The way of a gentleman is not to be afraid of danger, not to be afraid of difficulty, not to be abandoned by embarrassment.When the road is clear, the faith becomes clearer.

Taishi Gongyou wrote "Historical Records", Confucius named Chen Cai as the Spring and Autumn Period; Zuoqiu was blind, and settled in "Guoyu";When you are high, you don’t forget your form; when you are low, you don’t lose your ambition; when you are full, you know how to gain;

The sky is healthy, and the gentleman keeps on striving for self-improvement!
Today, those who talk about morality, enter into the old, enter into the Buddha, enter into the Confucianism, those who enter are attached, and those who leave are polluted.The old man said, Confucius is also a disciple of my teacher.The Buddha said, Confucius is also a disciple of my teacher (a Buddhist disciple in the Tang Dynasty said that Lao Tzu, Yan Hui, and Confucius were the three disciples of Buddha, and Confucius was a Confucian boy Bodhisattva).Those who are Confucius are happy to salivate and say, my teacher is also a teacher.It's ridiculous!
I tried to read "The Analects of Confucius" when three people walk together, there must be my teacher.I also tried to read the honey scriptures, and all the sages are different based on the law of inaction.Long sigh.The avenue is remote and far away, seek the long and avoid the short, don't be afraid of the difficult and easy to forget, this is the truth!

In this inscription, Wang Hua praised Tang Sanzang's spirit of not being afraid of hardships and hardships, and at the same time struck some mutually exclusive ideas in academia.The fourth section of Wang Hua adopts an argument from Han Yu's "Original Dao", but Han Yu's article respects Confucianism and denounces Buddhism and Taoism.Wang Hua even criticized Confucianism.Anyway, it is all wrong to be arrogant.No matter what family you believe in, as long as you don't humbly seek the strengths of others and make up for your own shortcomings, it is a bad behavior.

Of course what he said was good, but whether anyone listened to it was another matter.If he knew this truth, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty would not be full because of being full, and there would be the disaster of the Anshi Rebellion, and he would not be closed to himself in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

It is this short inscription that immediately transforms this lacquerware from praising this event in the Buddhist world to another meaning.This is also the soul that Wang Hua has been pursuing.To put it more simply, this piece of lacquerware has a distinct theme.

But Wang Hua thought about it, and still felt dissatisfied.So another poem was written under this inscription.This time he shamelessly plagiarized a masterpiece.

A golden bottle of sake is worth ten thousand dollars, and a jade plate is ashamed of ten thousand dollars.Stopping the cup and throwing the chopsticks, I can't eat, I draw my sword and look around in a daze.

If you want to cross the Yellow River, which is blocked by ice, you will climb the Taihang Mountains covered with snow.When I was free to fish on the Bixi River, I suddenly dreamed of taking a boat to the side of the sun.

Difficult to travel!Difficult to travel!There are many divergent roads, where are you today?There will be times when the wind and the waves cleave, hang the clouds and sail straight to the sea.

When shopkeeper He saw this inscription and this poem, he thought about the appearance of this lacquerware after it was formed, and he didn't say a word for most of the day.In the end, he solemnly bowed and saluted, and said, "Xiao Langjun, let me tell you what I think in my heart. Xiao Lang, you are too reluctant to make lacquerware."

Although he knew that this piece of lacquerware would bring great fame to his master, now he was more likely to win the secret battle with the Wang family.But when a person's talent reaches a certain level, people have to look up to him.

Not to mention that this poem is amazingly written, this inscription contains many true meanings, and the enterprising spirit contained in this lacquerware, this article and this poem is even more respectable.

At this time, Shopkeeper He no longer dared to treat Wang Hua as a boy in his heart.

He knew it later, like Di Renjie saw Wang Hua at a glance, and he was different.Of course, if he was like an ordinary boy, wouldn't Wang Hua's decades of life be in vain? Besides, he was still the most elite person in society during those decades!
(End of this chapter)