"You will stay here during this period, turn off your phone after arranging things, and don't go down the mountain if you have nothing to do."

The old man stamped his feet, thought for a while and said, "I'll ask Xiaoman to bring you some food and make it yourself."

Xiao Man barked twice, seemingly accepting the task.

When Chang Xian arrived, he was contented with it and asked: "Then what should I do?"

"Tubo monument."

The old man didn't even raise his eyelids.

Chang Xian was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect it to be such a job.

This place is finally full of surprises, either shooting down or inflating monuments.

Many stories talk about Shaolin learning skills, such as carrying water, lighting fires, sweeping the floor, slapping water, catching flies and so on, which are all common operations.

What is even more shocking is that the second ancestor Huike cut off his own arm and turned the white snow into "red snow" in order to follow Bodhidharma.

But no matter how he thought about it, Chang Xian never thought it was a monument.

Tuobei is also called Mo Tuo.

The stone tablet is too heavy and difficult to move. Players are not brave enough to play with and communicate while carrying a stone tablet weighing hundreds of kilograms.

Therefore, most of what is circulated in antique shops are rubbings taken from stone tablets.

Rubbings bound into a book are called rubbings, also called inscriptions.

In ancient times, there were no photocopiers or cameras. If you wanted to copy the text on the stone tablet as it was, the only way was to use ink rubbing.

The principle of this thing is very similar to that of engraving printing, which is to wet-paste the white paper on the surface of the monument, fit it into the concave and convex inscriptions, apply ink on it, and then peel off the paper, and the inscriptions will be copied from the original shape.

Therefore, most of the rubbings have white characters on a black background, just like reverse-white negatives.

Things like calligraphy, painting and rubbings are made of paper and can be cut and patched, so these types of things are most likely to be counterfeited.

The most unscrupulous businessmen will break some genuine works into pieces and add them to several fake paintings, thus doubling their profits.

For example, the rare books and inscriptions of Song Dynasty often have seals but no titles and postscripts, because they were stolen by others.

Therefore, in the antique shop, things like rubbings are known as black tigers and are very valuable. However, there are also many fakes. If you are not careful, you may be deceived by tigers and lose all your money.

"Master, how long do I have to stay here?"

Chang Xian felt a little numb in his head and asked stupidly.

"Everything that can purify one's life is all about nourishing Qi. He said that tranquility lies in the heart, not in the situation. When the human heart can be calm, even if everything is changing, nothing will happen."

The old man squinted his eyes and said: "He must insist on sitting quietly for four quarters of an hour every day. Thinking carefully about the gods is like the sun rising, and the body is still like a tripod. He can abide by these two words."

Zeng Guofan, nicknamed Disheng.

Cleansing means washing away the contamination of old stains.

Those who are alive, understand Yuan Liaofan's words: "All the things in the past are like dying yesterday; all the things in the future are like being born today."

Chang Xian drew inferences from one example and understood that the old man wanted to refresh his mind, wash away distracting thoughts and filthy thoughts, abandon the old and pursue the new.

There is nothing mysterious about Mo Tuo, it is just a craft at best. Although Chang Xian has not practiced it very much, he still understands the basic situation.

Can this be used to cultivate a calm mind and develop a calm spirit?

He murmured doubtfully in his heart, feeling a little weird.

"As for staying here, should I stay here for one or two days? Three days and five days? Or a week or two weeks?"

The old man stood at the door, crossing his arms from left to right.

"I have lived here for thirty-eight years, and the first twenty years were spent carving monuments. There are a total of eighty-nine monuments here, all carved by me."

"In the past eighteen years, I have been unable to carve any more, so I have been learning to roll the monument. Soon, I will no longer be able to carve the monument..."

After a while, the old man said: "How long will you stay here? Don't ask me, ask yourself."

The old man took Chang Xian directly to a flat stone tablet.

This stone tablet is about two feet seven high, with only four characters engraved on it: the intersection of sorrow and joy.

This word comes from the "Song Book·Xiao Si Hua Biography": "With cowardice and power, the situation will be prosperous, the prosperity will be prosperous, and the joy and sorrow will be mixed."

But it was Master Hongyi who made this word popular.

Master Hongyi is like a mountain or a sea. There is no pride in front of him.

Zhang Ailing's arrogance is well known to everyone, and she also said that if anyone could make her humble, that person could only be Master Hongyi.

Taking the ninth month of the seventh year of the Republic of China, when he entered Lingyin Temple to receive the bhikkhu ordination, there is a clear distinction between Li Shutong, a young man in troubled times before he was thirty-nine years old, and Master Hongyi, an ascetic monk after him.

Throughout his life, the Master was a handsome young man, a man of lofty ideals, a talented artist, a serious educator, and a leader with strict discipline.

And with my heart devoted to the West, I will have good fortune and pass away.

The Zen master who practiced ascetic discipline, when he passed away, did not realize that the four elements are empty, but expressed a mixture of sorrow and joy.

Li Shutong and Master Hongyi intertwined under the green lamp. What is sadness? What is joy?

In front of this monument, there are rubbing paper, ink, vertebrae, brown brushes, brushes, felt and other rubbing tools lined up in a row. The brushes are slightly bald, and the edges of the felt have signs of wear. Presumably these things are used by the elderly on daily basis.

accustomed.

"Tread it first. There are books in the room."

The old man only said ten words in total and left without mentioning anything to pay attention to when rubbing the monument.

Chang Xian didn't dare to criticize. He went to the room and picked up a book on the introductory steps of rubbing monuments. He lowered his head and read it for a while. With his current memory, he only remembered an outline in a moment.

At this time, the old man came back and brought a bowl of steaming rice soup.

Seeing the old man clearing out the miscellaneous rice in the rice soup bit by bit, Chang Xian knew that this thing was used to make paper.

An important part of stele rubbing is paper application.

In order to make the monument and paper stick together better, the paper is usually fully wet with water or rice soup.

If you are a fastidious craftsman, you will also need to soak the glue made from Bletilla striata in boiling water.

The conditions here are relatively simple, and rice soup is the most convenient thing to eat and drink.

The old man put down the bowl, said nothing, and walked away with his hands behind his back.

Chang Xian went through the process in the book in his mind, rolled up his sleeves, did a few chest-expanding exercises, and then squatted down, ready to start rubbing the monument.

The first step in engraving a monument is to clean the surface of the monument.

He picked up a large bristle brush, dipped it in clean water, and brushed the entire surface of the stele first, brushing off the loose soil. Then he switched to a small bristle brush and swept away the sand and weeds between the words.

This preparation work alone took half an hour. This was good luck. The stone tablet was not very old. If it were an ancient tablet, it would be covered with moss and would have to be burned off with fire.

Sometimes after being burned several times, the stone becomes brittle and immediately breaks apart, leaving no chance to repair it.

Oddly enough, when Chang Xian was cleaning, there were indeed fewer distracting thoughts in his mind.

It seems that when a person is fully focused, it is really not easy for his mind to wander.

After cleaning the ancient monument, Chang Xian picked up a piece of paper from the side. The old man had already cut it to a size that was exactly two circles larger than the surface of the monument.

He twisted his hand and recognized that it was Wang Liuji's thin cotton paper.

Wang Liuji is an old brand passed down from the early Ming Dynasty. Their rice paper is moderately thin and thick and feels very tough when twisted in your hands.
Chapter completed!