China has a long tradition of cherishing Chinese characters. Jia Pingwa, a writer, said in the article Xi 'an Complex before and after I wrote The Waste Capital: "Chinese characters are made by saints, and everyone should cherish them. Literati blaspheme the word paper, and if literary works are condemned, there is no way to enter the school, and the exam is not the first; Ordinary people defile the paper, they become infatuated, and those who pick it up have boundless merits and increase their longevity. "Therefore, there are a lot of sacred laws in ancient folks that we can still see today, such as Xi Zi Fa, Xi Zi Xin Bian, Xi Zi Kao Lu, Wen Chang Di Xi Zi Fa, Wen Chang Xi Zi Fa, etc. Moreover, from Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism classics to note novels, there are a lot of admonitions and legends about respecting words and paper.
The first volume of Two Carved Cases in Ming Dynasty, Seeing the Diamond Sutra as a Pilgrim, and Seeing the Dharma Meeting as a Clever Monk after Being Released from Prison, tells a story about cherishing the calligraphy paper: in Song Dynasty, Wang's father cherished the calligraphy paper, and when he saw something abandoned on the ground, he picked it up and burned it; It fell into the dunghill. After all, he managed to pick it up, wash it with water, or throw it into running water, or burn it when it was dry. After so many years, I don't know how to clean up Qian Qian's thousands of words. One day, my wife was pregnant and was about to give birth. Suddenly I dreamed that the sage Confucius came to pay for it and said, "Your family treasures China's calligraphy and has made great contributions. I have played God and sent my disciple Zeng Shen to give birth to your family and make it very rich. " After the dream, a son was born. He was named Wang Zeng because of what he said in his dream. Later, even the three were not in the middle, and the official seal interpretation frenzy. In the Song Dynasty, there were only three people, namely Song Yao, Feng Jing and this Wang Zeng. This is not the rarest surname! Who knows that one of them is just a blessing that cherishes words like gold and paper? Isn't that what everyone has done?
In the Qing Dynasty, Liang recorded in Volume 4 "Persuading People to Cherish Words" in the First Record of Beidongyuan: "Zhu Kanquan was born in Qiantang. Visiting other provinces, the second son of an official postponed his class. It is not surprising to see that its residents do not cherish words like gold, paste windows and clean tables and trample on filth, and their bad habits are everywhere, but they urge them to stop living and donate money to buy them. Or there is dirty paper, be sure to wash your hands and burn it. Everyone advised him to change his customs. In a few years, the number of words received is tens of billions. And when he returned, his eldest son, Lan, joined Ding Chou in Jiaqing as a scholar, and his second son, Ying, was also recommended by a certain subject. " The fifth volume of the book "Xi Zi Express" records: "I know that Chen Lianxing and maocai (Luo) will burn the extra things at all costs and give them to the helper who picks up the goods tomorrow, not afraid of trouble." Lianhang originally lived in Fuzhou and taught in Pucheng with his son. One day, his son was mad, jumped out, walked at night, and was teased by a road ghost. It was already late at night, so I slipped into Yueshan Taoist Temple and informed LaSalle. Come back in the morning and you'll be fine. On that day, Seeker focused on the stream outside the city, but didn't know it was close to the city. If they hadn't met this servant, they would have been afraid that something would change that night. If they are not used to this servant and Lian Hang's father and son, they will not necessarily bring him back. He said,' it is good to cherish words like gold, and you can persuade everything you have eaten since the founding of the party.' "
The word "Yun" in Yan Zhitui's Yan Family Instructions in the Northern Qi Dynasty is "the heart of ancient sages and sages", so words and paper should not be used, otherwise the end will be very miserable. The ancients recorded in Xi Zi Bian: "Fumeng Temple is a monk with nine disciples. Disciples have to go to the mouth of the flame, burn the heart sutra, and paper ashes are everywhere. A young monk was wrong and said nothing. At night, the dream was taken away, and all seven monks knelt down. I heard that you were burning scriptures for nothing. It is said that the young monk said, Gu Rao, tell the world that you can recite the scriptures, but you can't burn them. After a few days, the walls of four monks were crushed to death, two dead people drowned in the water, and one died of Yan. " Some people believe in this karma. 1873 13 On March 4th, Shanghai Shenbao published a news that a woman wiped the filth with writing paper, threw it into the toilet, was struck by lightning, and fell to her knees. On February 3, 65438 of the same year, Li Zongxi, the governor of Liangjiang, ordered all paper mills to preach that it was forbidden to affix the font size on cursive paper and other papers, and it was forbidden to transform old books and accounts into paper to avoid blasphemy. "Of course, it is too superstitious to persuade people to respect and cherish the word paper in this karma way, but it is worth promoting to respect and cherish the virtue of the word paper.
What should I do with that word paper? There is a poem at the beginning of Volume II engraving: "There are words and papers in the world, and those who see them will be caught in the fire. Or put it in a clean place, and the natural fortune is endless "; "Yan Family Instructions" says "should be incinerated". An old man once told Jia Pingwa in the article "I wrote about Xi 'an complex before and after abandoning the capital" that when the old man was young, there was an iron furnace in the temple Taoist temple in Xi 'an, and monks and monks were sent on duty every day, holding nails and carrying bamboo baskets, walking around the streets to collect paper and then taking it back to the furnace for incineration.
In ancient times, there were word-worshipping pavilions, sacred pavilions, word-cherishing towers, word-cherishing palaces, word-burning stoves and word-burning libraries. Generally speaking, the tower body generally has a hole, square, round or inverted U-shaped, which is used for burning paper. Xilai Ancient Town, Pujiang, one of the top ten tourist ancient towns in Chengdu, has a century-old amorous feelings tower. There is a burning font library on the front of the tower, engraved with the words "Xi Zigong", and there are couplets on both sides: "Waste Ink Collects Classics and History, but writes Han and Tang Dynasties". Bian He Village, Yankou Township, Longhui County, Hunan Province, has a "learning furnace", which was built during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. In fact, it is a three-story masonry tower with a height of 12.5 meters. There are stone tablets embedded in the walls of the north and south towers, and the inscriptions are faintly discernible. One of them describes the purpose and significance of the construction of "borrowing words and cherishing words", warning future generations that "reading should cherish words because of respecting words", and never treat "broken pieces" and "seeing words" as "covering things", "cleaning windows", "birds falling into the mud" and "trampling on the same grass". There is a famous pagoda in Fenghuang Shawan, Hunan Province, which was built for burning paper in Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty. Original tower height 1 1 m. The tower is a regular square with three eaves and six corners, and the top is a colorful glass gourd. The words "Twilight Shooting" are written on the outer wall of the upper floor, the middle-level book is the mainstay, and the lower-level book is the calligraphy flowing. The precious words tower was destroyed, and now it has been rebuilt.
According to textual research, the custom of burning characters began in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Don Dave's Guang Yi Ji Di Renjie records: "During the reign of Emperor Gaozong, Emperor Renjie supervised the national history. Gangneung shrine, slightly burned. To Duanzhou. There is a savage god, and Ren Jie wants to burn it. Make people enter the temple and die. Renjie trains people who can burn and rewards them with hundreds of dollars. Two people dropped out of the subscription. Ren Jie asked,' What's the use of reciprocating?' People say,' I wish I could die.' Renjie followed closely. When he arrived at the temple, he said, "Yes." Because the mold is opened, make an announcement. God doesn't move. Burn it. "Tang Gaozong and Di Renjie, in order to monitor the empire and deal with a vicious" pretty god "in Duanzhou, specially invested huge sums of money in" The Burner ".The two people who subscribed went there with magical letters written in words and finally defeated the" pretty god ". Known as one of the three ancient mysteries in Xiangxi, the most important thing is to write some words with special meanings on paper.
Cherishing word paper means cherishing culture.