Is the sloppy wine and meat monk Jigong really a person who is good at poetry and prose in history?

"The shoes are broken, the hat is broken and the cassock is broken. You laugh at me, he laughs at me, and a fan is broken ... shoes are broken, hats are broken, and cassock is broken. Laugh at me for being crazy, laugh at me for jumping, and wine and meat go through the intestines ... ",a fire from Jigong made this song popular all over the country.

Every time I hear this song, I will think of the living Buddha who is reckless. He is not bound by the secular world and can drink and eat meat, but what remains unchanged is his kindness to save the people. Such an image of a monk with flesh and blood is very popular with people. However, in history, the real Jigong is not a drunkard who plays around. On the contrary, he is good at poetry and writing.

Originally named Li Xiuyuan, Jigong was a native of Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, and was the great-grandson of Li Wenhe, a captain of "Tiantai Linhai" at that time. Their family believes in Buddhism. Jigong's father was born only in the last ten years. He thinks it is because he has been chanting Buddha for many years that he has touched heaven. Therefore, once the Jigong was born, she begged imperial academy to take a common name to decide her fate. Unexpectedly, because Jigong saw through the world of mortals, it can be said that he had a deep indissoluble bond with Buddhism and chose to become a monk in Dajiu Temple.

Jigong's master is Hui Yuan, a famous Zen master in the Blind Daotang, so he has a high attainments in Buddhism. After studying the theoretical knowledge, Jigong chose to travel around the world to practice. Her personality is straightforward, so her life is free.

During his travels, he didn't care about food, clothing, housing and transportation. He only focused on purchasing medicine stones for people, treating diseases and practicing medicine, and saved many people. At the same time, he listened carefully to the worries of ordinary people, put forward his own opinions for them and solved problems for them. At the same time, Jigong was fond of fighting against injustice all his life, and loved to eliminate violence and settle down, and punished many bullies for the people. Because of this, the name of the living Buddha is widely praised by people.

Although Jigong is a monk, his ability to write poetry and prose should not be underestimated. In his life, he not only wrote 65,438+00 volumes of Quotations from the Peak, but also wrote many poems, which were included in Jingci Temple and Brahma on Mount Tai. He can be said to be a versatile man. Nan once commented on Ji Gong's poems as follows: "In terms of poetic style, it is not inferior to Fan Chengda and Lu Fangweng, the four great poets in the Song Dynasty."

There is a classic mantra in Jigong's life, "wine and meat pass through the intestines, but the Buddha stays in his heart." It can be seen that although it is difficult to give up wine and meat, it does not hinder Jigong's yearning for Buddhism. At the same time, Jigong once said that "if the world learns from me, it will be like evil" to warn future monks not to learn from their own behavior.

In the second year of Jiading (AD 1209), Jigong died. At that time, all the people were heartbroken, which shows its high status in people's hearts. Throughout Ji Gong's life, he only pursued the word "whatever he wants", which is the most desirable life in the world, but it is also the most difficult to achieve. It can be said that the Hijigong lived a comfortable and enviable life.