Zhang Ji's "a night-mooring near maple bridge" has been sung for thousands of years, and Jiang Feng is worried about sleeping on a cold night. In the lonely Hanshan Temple outside Suzhou, the bell that rang in the middle of the night reached the passenger ship. The bell of Hanshan Temple that night was clearly preserved in dreamlike poetry, leaving us with endless aftertaste.
Do you know how many times the clock in Hanshan Temple strikes at night? In fact, the trees struck by this clock are very interesting figures in ancient history, and historians have different views on his intentions and the connotation behind them. The bell of Hanshan Temple will ring all night 108.
It is recorded in the Manuscript of Seven Revisions in the Ming Dynasty: "Anyone who deducts 108 notes means one year old, and the year of the cover is December, with 24 qi and 72, which is exactly the number." In other words: Why 108? That's because a year has 12 months, 24 solar terms and 72 cycles (five days was a cycle in ancient times). These three figures add up to 108. Hanshan Temple rings the bell once a year, which means that you are safe for one year.
And it is said that ringing the bell can free people from confusion and trouble. In other words, there are actually 108 kinds of sufferings in life. If the temple bell rings 65,438+008, you can get rid of the suffering of 65,438+008 and bless your peace and happiness in the future. At the same time, the number 108 is also the commander-in-chief of 108 in the Water Margin. Taoism has 36 highest days and 72 demons, and 108 is also an endless representative. So this 108 is still a very interesting number, which is called the most interesting number in ancient history.