Folk stories in Ningbo

The folk stories in Ningbo are as follows:

1, story 1

Cloth-bag monks read widely and are a generation of Zen monks. Chang Tong Zen Master expanded the temple to hundreds of trees, which made Xuedou Temple look brand-new. Chang Tong was honored as the founder of Xuedou Temple. After arriving at Honglangtan, Changting Village, the Buddhists in cloth bags made it a top priority to change the doctrine of asceticism. Emphasize the mind, the Buddha's nature is there, advocate that the mind should be clear, see the nature, and the believers should listen with relish.

When Chang Tong learned of this situation, he readily went out of the mountain gate himself and invited the monk in the cloth bag to the temple to give a lecture. As a result, the cloth bag monk and Chang Tong Zen master became close Buddhist friends. Xuedou Temple, as an ancient Buddhist temple and Maitreya Dojo, is unique in preaching Buddhist scriptures.

2. Story 2

About two thousand years ago, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, there lived a family in the north of Cicheng. Mother and son lived alone. My son has grown up. His surname is Dong Ming. Although his family is poor, he is sensible and filial to his mother. I don't want my mother to get seriously ill, eat or drink, and stay in bed one day. Mother Dong told her son that she wanted to drink the big hidden stream in her mother's house.

Dong Ji stirred up the bucket early the next morning, put on sandals, climbed mountains and ridges all the way, asked for directions everywhere, climbed the mountain of 7749 and the ridge of 7749, and finally came to the foot of Yinda Mountain, which is more than 30 kilometers away from home, found Yindaxi and took it home to treat his mother. It is said that Dong Lu's filial piety touched the immortal.

3. Story 3

A long time ago, there was a sea near the East China Sea. One day, the Dragon Duke and the Dragon Mother were playing with two dragons in the sea. They left in such a hurry that they lost the dragon ball. Unexpectedly, as soon as the Dragon Ball landed, it took root in this place and slowly raised a mountain there. I don't know how many years have passed, and many small trees have suddenly grown on this mountain, with leaves like dragons' tongues.

After eating leaves, people actually find that leaves can refresh themselves, quench their thirst and keep fit, so they call this kind of tree "dragon tongue tree". Later, some people dried and preserved the leaves of agave trees, and often used them as medicine, which not only quenched their thirst but also used them as medicine. The fragrant agave trees gradually became known as tea trees. People renamed this mountain "Fuquan Mountain" because the dragon trees and long springs on this mountain can benefit people.

Folk art in Ningbo;

1, bone and wood inlay

Ningbo bone and wood inlay is a decorative form that combines folk crafts with furniture and architecture, covering a wide range and being very practical, including traditional home, daily necessities, door and window architectural decoration, etc. It is made by sawing cow bone blocks and sawdust into various patterns with a wire saw, slotting the wood blank, gluing the embedded patterns with yellow croaker, polishing, carving and painting.

There are three manufacturing methods: high embedding, flat embedding and high mixing embedding. The commonly used themes are mostly historical stories, folklore, life customs and auspicious patterns such as Mei Zhu Lan's residence, which are in the same strain as China's traditional culture and rich in content.

2. Ningbo Zhu Jin Wood Carving

Zhu Jin wood carving in Ningbo has a history of 1000 years. Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, with the development of wood architecture, decorative architectural woodcarving with equal emphasis on color paint and gold plating has appeared. In 759 AD, Jian Zhen, a monk of the Tang Dynasty, and his disciples built the Zhao Ti Temple in Japan, which was decorated with many bamboo and gold wood carvings, and its style was very close to that of Asoka Temple in Ningbo.

3. Ningbo Gold and Silver Embroidery

Gold and silver colored embroidery, also known as "gold and silver embroidery", is embroidery with different patterns on silk with gold and silver silk threads and other colored silk threads. In the early 1960s, Ningbo arts and crafts circle changed its name to "Gold and Silver Colored Embroidery" in order to make it join with the three famous processes with gold and silver as raw materials: Zhu Jin wood carving, clay lacquer and bone wood inlay.