The story of our Tanzhe Si tour in Beijing(page2)
On Monday , the temple was so quite peacefull, much fewer tourist than compare to the holidays or weekend days. Even the air of the temple was filling smell perfectly with all kind of trees. At a corner of a terrace beside of the stair steps leading to the main hall, there is a kind of two trees growing together, they are twist each other and mate each other growing from young to old for over hundred years. one of its trees named bai and the other is called shi trees in Chinese. actually, they are two different type of trees,bai is a kind of cypress and shi is persimmon and the other reason that two trees name 's pronunciation with a auspicious words is same-that is "baishiruyi" which means " As your own wishes in order to management." or baishi means all type of things on you to manged as your wihes. so that the tree is attracted so many couple visitors specially to write their wishes on a piece of red paper and then hang up on the tree. " it's interesting, isn'it?" they hong up their words they wrote on it meanwhile they hong up their nice wishes there..."that's why we saw so many red paper bags on the tree.
It is a harmony place to comfort your mental, the incense burner with special typical... as we all know, Buddhism has done more. Out of its atmosphere of love and mercy toward all beings has developed Kuan Yin, the ideal of Chinese womanhood, the goddess of Mercy, who embodies the Chinese ideal of beauty, filial piety and compassion toward the weak and suffering. She is especially the goddess of women, being interested in all their affairs. Her image is found in almost every household and her temples have a place in every part of China.
In most of temple of China, you might be easy found the women who pray with incense at front of the buddha, you may ask why they pray and why mostly women? because some people believed that they truely not understand , but only heared somebody say on it or they learned the big mass of the people, they used the incense sticks with high quality normaly . they are delighted to pay it. one girl who told us about her hold on the quality incense and said " Each tube comes with an information flyer about that particular fragrance. We have 9 different fragrances to choose from, including: Journey, Wisdom, Health, Prosperity, Recognition, Love, Luck of Kids, Guidance, and Wholeness. "
