The story of Jigong Living Buddha

Jigong Living Buddha is a legendary figure known to the people of Hangzhou for thousands of years. The image of Ji Gong in the minds of Hangzhou people is a popular mad monk who wears a broken monk's hat, wears a broken monk's robe and holds a broken pu fan. He is not a good monk, not a beggar or a beggar. He is crazy, witty and playful. There are many legends about Ji Gong, and most of them are related to the West Lake in Hangzhou. According to legend, Ji Gong was a native of Tiantai, Zhejiang Province in the Southern Song Dynasty, and his common name was Li Xiuyuan. At the age of 18, he came to Hangzhou Lingyin Temple and became a monk. He breaks the rules. He drinks and eats dog meat. Later transferred to Nanshan Jingci Temple when the room (clerical) monk.

Once, Jingci Temple caught fire and destroyed the Hall. At the abbot's request, he collected the large wood for building the temple. After three days of drinking, he cried out, "Big Wood is coming! It can be taken from the well! Sure enough temple in the bottom of the well there is a big wood gushing out. Temple had hurried from the well has taken out seven or eight zhangs long, five feet more than a round diameter of more than 60 big wood. Later, when the abbot said that it was enough, the big wood no longer sprang up, and a big wood that was just about to come out of the well stopped moving. In the "God Yun Well" (also known as the "ancient well of transporting wood") in today's Jingci Temple, you can also see the large wood end face on the water surface of the well. Once, Ji Gong predicted that there would be a hill flying from the west to fall in front of Lingyin Temple, in order to save the lives of the villagers in the village before the temple, he was in a hurry to use the "monk rob the bride" method, so that the villagers hurried to save the bride, thus avoiding the fate of being crushed by the mountain. This is the story of Flying Peak.

Once, Ji Gong passed by the West Lake and saw that many residents had cut off the tails of the snails and were ready to eat them. So he begged the residents for the snails and released them into the West Lake. All the snails without tails came to life. Since then, many spiral snails without tails have grown in the West Lake. Up to now, there are still snails without tails growing in the mountain streams around Hurun and Xixi, which are said to be the "relics" set free by Ji Gong himself. Today, a small stream in front of Huran Temple, which used to dry up in ancient times, was Ji Gong holding a broken leaf fan and Shouting: "Rise, rise!" The water gushed immediately, and since then it has flowed freely and never dried up.