Qin Mo Shu Wu: an innovative practice of inheriting and carrying forward Chinese excellent traditional culture in the Buddhist community
2022-03-31
Qin rhyme, calligraphy and Zen Mind As one of the most representative musical instruments in Chinese traditional music culture, guqin has a deep origin with Buddhism. Since the late Qing Dynasty, Qin monk Yun Xianren has compiled the "dry wood Zen Qin manual", which has become an important work of Guangling Qin school. The rest, such as master Daxiu, master zhuzen and master genru, are all leaders for a time. Qin monk has a continuous pulse. With the mission of inheriting and carrying forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture, Sichuan Chengdu Manjusri academy holds the popularization activities of Guqin culture from time to time to promote the public to improve their musical cultivation. Manjusri piano house is deeply appreciated by believers and loved by traditional culture lovers. In 2017, Chengdu Manjusri Academy established Manjusri piano house, which aims to inherit the Chinese ancient Qin culture, inherit the sound and charm of Zen, and provide a platform for monks, lay people and Guqin lovers to learn and communicate. Adhering to the concept of "strengthening quality through culture and education" of Manjusri academy, Zeng Chengwei, vice president of China piano Association, Professor of Sichuan Conservatory of music and representative inheritor of ancient Qin of Shu School, served as the teaching director of the piano house. Classes are held all year round to teach ancient Qin, and elegant collections and open art classes of ancient Qin are held in due time. It is deeply appreciated by believers and loved by traditional culture lovers. Since its establishment, qinshe has held 18 public welfare primary classes to let more than 1000 music lovers understand Guqin and experience learning. Manjusri piano house undertakes Guyu elegant gathering, Dragon Boat Festival elegant gathering and Mid Autumn Festival elegant gathering of Manjusri academy every year; Special music performances will be held, such as the music collection of "recalling old friends" and the "soul music awakens life" concert of Ma Changsheng Guqin. In 2019, the Manjusri academy held a summer solstice concert. All public welfare teachers and nearly 10 well-known artists in the piano house performed together. The 600 seat Manjusri Pavilion concert hall was full. In 2020, Manjusri qinshe held "Discussion on traditional culture and elegant collection of Guqin", from "Lisao", "drunken fishing and singing evening", "autumn water", to "three lanes of plum blossoms" and "running water", with 11 Guqin solo, ensemble and ensemble tracks, so that the audience can appreciate the beauty of Guqin and the unique charm of ancient Qin of Shu School. "The concert's interpretation of traditional classical famous music and modern innovative piano music makes the audience appreciate the 'ancient charm' and 'new ideas' of Guqin." Master Zhang Zongxing of the Manjusri hospital said. "A bald pen, calligraphy and Zen Mind. Write life and make good fortune in the world." The calligraphy and Painting Institute of Manjusri academy employs well-known calligraphy and painting professors to teach, successively runs public welfare traditional Chinese painting classes, seal script classes, clerical script classes, and organizes "weekend Scripture copying" activities every week to provide calligraphy and painting lovers, believers and tourists with opportunities to deeply contact traditional culture. The Academy of calligraphy and painting recruits more than 500 students every year, holds several teacher-student calligraphy and painting exhibitions, writes Spring Festival couplets and other activities, participates in cultural and charitable activities such as Manjusri academy meditation camp, experience camp, volunteer annual meeting, Buddha's birthday party and nursing home exchange, and uses calligraphy and painting art as the media to promote traditional culture to the public. At the end of 2021, teachers and students of the calligraphy and painting academy gathered together to hold the activity of "welcoming the new year and writing Spring Festival couplets". Hundreds of Spring Festival couplets and blessing words were written on site to send the Spring Festival blessing of the year of renyin tiger to believers and tourists in advance. In the middle of March this year, the calligraphy and painting exhibition of "being good, upward and free in mind" was held in Manjusri Academy. More than 50 famous calligraphers and painters in Sichuan Province created excellent works, and selected more than 20 calligraphy and painting works of students from the academy to participate in the exhibition. It not only brings visual enjoyment to the public, but also a beneficial attempt for artists to exchange and exchange views with each other, look after the future generations and inherit traditional culture. Over the years, the Academy of calligraphy and painting has trained a number of students with basic calligraphy and painting skills and a certain appreciation of traditional art. The Academy of calligraphy and painting continues to carry out various public welfare cultural activities to enable more people to come into contact with and love traditional culture. It is an important part of Manjusri Academy's practice of "human Buddhism". ■ Ningbo Qita Temple: Qixin library benefits the public Qita temple is located in downtown Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. Built in 2017, Qixin Library in the temple is a temple library fully open to the public. The library is located in an imitation quadrangle building on the west side of the temple. It is quiet and quiet. The self-service borrowing and returning facilities, book classification and retrieval system in the library are no different from those of ordinary university libraries. The reading area can be accessed freely. You only need to provide ID card and 100 yuan deposit to borrow books. Each borrowing period is 1 month and can be renewed. In addition to Buddhist classics, there are also comprehensive books such as literature, history, philosophy, medicine, economy and military, as well as Japanese and English original books, with a total of more than 70000 volumes. The library has "Eastern Zhejiang Buddhist literature collection center" and "Eastern Zhejiang local literature collection center". Qixin library attracts many keen readers because of its convenient transportation, high openness and reliable collection quality. In addition to Buddhist classics, Qixin library, which is open to the public, also has a total of more than 70000 comprehensive books such as literature, history, philosophy, medicine, economy and military. Tang Yizong once named Qita Temple "Qixin Temple", which is the origin of the name of "Qixin library". Its characteristic collections include "the whole Song Dynasty", "the whole Yuan Dynasty poetry", "Dunhuang relic", "compilation of Buddhist and Taoist documents in Chinese Local Chronicles · Temple volume", "Dazheng newly revised Da Zang Jing", "Qisha Da Zang Jing", etc. The tradition of collecting books in Buddhist temples in China has a long history. The Sutra building has always been an important building dedicated to the three Tibetan classics. After modern times, the concept of "human Buddhism" rose, and some monasteries began to set up modern cultural facilities such as libraries. However, these Temple libraries are generally not open to the public and mainly serve the teaching and research of Buddhism. It is rare to open them to the public. Qixin library is an extension of the traditional temple Scripture collection building. In the past, the Sutra building was a place for temples to worship classics. Only some people had access to classics, which was difficult to benefit the majority of believers and the public. "In the long run, the Sutra library should move towards the library and build a new library with modern standards." Master Kexiang, abbot of Qita temple, said that Qixin library has been built towards the goal of public library since its establishment. The hardware and software facilities are designed according to the standards of public library, in order to meet the reading needs of the public. Qixin library is open to readers from Monday afternoon to Sunday day and until 8 p.m. on weekdays. In the evening, the temple refused pilgrims, but as long as it was to go to Qixin library, the security guard would let them go. Qixin library currently supports inquiries outside the library, which can be retrieved through its official website. Readers can check books in the library and then go home. The books in the library were selected one by one by master Kexiang in the most "stupid" way. Running a library is one of the most painstaking things he has done in his years as abbot. Qixin library was opened in April 2017, and master Kexiang was preparing to select books as early as 2015. His goal is to exceed 150000 books in the library by 2025 and build an "e-book center of Qixin library". "After all, the space of the library is limited. We are building a digital library and making an e-book database." Qixin library has two floors underground in addition to the two floors on the ground. The modern underground facilities are in sharp contrast to the antique buildings on the ground. In the underground library, there are the whole wall of "Si Ku Quan Shu" and "collection of Buddhist periodicals and documents of the Republic of China". There is also a large lecture hall on the ground floor that can accommodate 400 people. In the four years since its establishment, the lecture hall has held 55 lectures on Buddhism, history, medical health care, art and other topics. It is open to the public free of charge, with a total audience of more than 10000 people. ■ Songshan Shaolin Temple: "Cloud competition" to promote exchanges Shaolin Kungfu is a national intangible cultural heritage and is famous all over the world. The year-end examination of Shaolin Temple in Songshan, Henan Province is divided into seven items: Zen meditation, Zen martial arts, Zen medicine, Zen Art, lecturing, singing and reciting. It aims to investigate the learning achievements, technical achievements, mental wisdom and social responsibility of Shaolin disciples, Shaolin Kung Fu practitioners and Shaolin culture lovers. It is an important system, cultural tradition and practice method of Shaolin Temple. Shaolin Temple and the Shaolin cultural center on five continents in the world launched the "Shaolin Kung Fu online test competition" to organize professional and technical judges to judge offline. Shaolin Kung Fu test is usually held in Shaolin Temple. With Shaolin disciples spreading around the world, Shaolin cultural centers on five continents also organize students to evaluate their academic achievements and share their learning experience every year. After the Shaolin merit examination, it was extended to an international Shaolin merit examination conference. From the first European Shaolin Culture Festival held in Germany and Austria in 2012, to the first North American Shaolin Culture Festival held in the United States in 2013, and then to the third (European) Shaolin Culture Festival in 2014, each Shaolin Kung Fu examination conference attracts thousands of Kung Fu fans. At the end of 2021, Songshan Shaolin Temple and Shaolin cultural center on five continents in the world launched the "Shaolin Kung Fu online test competition", which is divided into five competition areas: Greater China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), North America, South America, Asia / Oceania and Europe / Africa. The contestants submit the competition video through the Internet, and the technical officer will judge and score offline. The first "Shaolin Kung Fu online Kung Fu test competition" was held in Shaolin Temple from February 9 to 15 this year. More than 5000 Shaolin Kung Fu lovers "compete in the cloud" all over the world. The novel coronavirus pneumonia, Shaolin Temple abbot, said that during the new crown pneumonia epidemic situation, "Yun Kao Gong" enabled the global Shaolin Kung Fu fans to participate in the competition, and to ensure safety and health, and achieved the goal of promoting communication and interaction and enhancing solidarity and friendship. "It can be said that the Shaolin Kung Fu online test competition is a 'family fun' in Shaolin." According to master Yan Ge, who is in charge of the publicity of the competition, the Shaolin Kung Fu online merit test competition is organized with the participation of Shaolin cultural centers (museums and schools) in more than 200 cities in 89 countries and regions. Teaching units around the world, such as schools, social groups, martial arts institutions, clubs, etc., or individuals sign up for the competition. Contestants range from 3-year-old children to the elderly in their 70s. There are also lively scenes of family as a unit, generations together and the whole family, old and young, participating together. "But this does not mean zero threshold. Shaolin Kung Fu is widely accepted and taught all over the world. It is not so much a threshold as recognition, transmission of intangible cultural heritage and joint construction and sharing." Said master Yanchong of Shaolin Temple. "Online Kung Fu test competition" includes individual projects such as Shaolin Kung Fu boxing and Shaolin one move, collective projects such as collective Shaolin boxing, family Shaolin Kung Fu exercises and other family projects. Talking about the original intention of the competition unit of "one move merit" set up in this competition, Master Yan Cen, the head of Shaolin monk, said: "Shaolin is the best Kung Fu in the world. Shaolin Kung Fu, which has been passed on for 1500 years, has a unique charm of Kung Fu culture and effective offensive and defensive skills. There are many kinds of Shaolin Kung Fu in history and rich content. The core idea of the 'Shaolin one move' project comes from the Shaolin boxing proverb 'if you are not afraid of a thousand moves, you are afraid of the essence of one move'. Through the practice of 'Shaolin one move', practitioners can cultivate the character and wisdom of perseverance, perseverance, open mind and basic ability." The head of Shaolin Culture Center said that after the news of Shaolin Kung Fu online merit test competition was sent out, more than 100 local students signed up to participate. Novel coronavirus pneumonia is popular in Italy, especially during the new crown pneumonia outbreak, local Shaolin Kung Fu fans feel that they benefit from the practice of Shaolin kung fu training, physical fitness and immunity enhancement. At the closing ceremony of the competition on February 15, Marta from Serbia and
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