Next to the "Rice Rock" temple in Fujian, there is a strange large stone. There is a fist-sized hole at the bottom of the stone, and there is a square groove at the bottom to catch the rice flowing out from the hole.

Every temple with strong incense must "live" the gods who protect the people. and there must be a legend like "god" between the "god" and the people. This legend has been passed down from generation to generation, until a hundred or a thousand years.

Next to the "Rice Rock" temple in Fujian, there is a strange big stone. There is a fist-sized hole at the bottom of the stone, and there is a square groove at the bottom of the hole to catch the rice flowing out from the hole. According to legend, a bowl of rice flows out of this cave every day, no more or less.

The legend of "Rice Rock".

The history of "Rice Rock" can be traced back to in the Tang Dynasty. It is said that a sweeping monk who lived in a temple went to the mountain to chop firewood that day. When he was carrying the heavy firewood down the mountain, he felt a little sore, so he sat on a big stone resting his feet.

Taking advantage of the rest of the room, the monk looked around and admired the beautiful scenery of nature. Suddenly the monk saw a "magical" scene: I saw that the big stone I leaned against, and white rice flowed out of a hole at the bottom.

At first, the monk thought he was dazzled, so he leaned over and took a closer look, and put the rice flowing out of the cave in his hand and touched it while smelling . Although it looks exactly the same as rice, it is just too unbelievable.

In order to verify whether this is edible rice , the sweeping monk took the rice back to the temple and put them in the pot and cooked them. Seeing that the rice turned into white rice, the sweeping monk picked up a chopstick and tasted it, but he didn't expect that this was really edible rice.

This surprise discovery made the monk very excited. Every day afterwards, no matter whether the monk went up the mountain to chop wood or not, he would take a bowl and put the rice flowing out of the cracks of the stone back into the temple to store it. And he was surprised to find that in this stone cave of , only one bowl of rice flows out every day, no more or less.

Not long after, a drought occurred in the local area, and the people had no harvest. From time to time, disaster victims came to the temple to ask for food. In order to help these victims, the temple cooks a large pot of porridge for the victims to eat every day, so as to help the people through the disaster year.

However, the temple's grain storage is also limited, and not long after, there is not much grain storage in the temple. What should I do? Fortunately, there is still "rice rock". Although only produces one bowl of rice every day, it can barely be made into a big pot of porridge. Although it is not full, it saves the lives of many victims.

Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. In this way, the deeds of "Rice Rock" spread to ten or ten, spread among the local people, and the incense in the temple became prosperous.

"Rice rock" Why doesn't rice produce?

Many people, after hearing this legend, went to the local area to see the wonder of "Rice Rock". , but the current "Rice Rock" does not produce rice. Why is this? It is said that when the sweeping monk was old, he sent a little novice monk to "get out of rice rock" to get rice because of his inconvenience of legs and feet.

But this little novice monk didn't know if it was because he disliked the "rice rock" that "rice rock" was too slow, or because he felt that "rice rock" had not enough rice. actually used a hammer to chisel out "rice rock". Perhaps this behavior "angry" , and since then, minced rice no longer produces rice.

Life wisdom

Water flows out of the cracks of the stones. This is a very normal natural phenomenon. but rice can flow out of the cracks of the stones. is incredible. So what is the truth? Some people say: is because the granary of the temple is connected to the rocks, and there happens to be a passage in the rocks, so the rocks produce rice.

So why should the temple do this? Some people speculate: it is to prevent disaster victims from snatching food, and to make the incense of , a miracle of "Rice Rock" was compiled.Because the age is too old, people cannot find out the truth, but no matter what, the temple has helped the victims, which is enough.