The world is so big and all kinds of wonders. Yang Yan, a famous Chinese painting master, loved the African girl wood carvings collected by his friend's house, and thus came up with the idea of ​​finding a prototype of the wood carving?

I met you for the first time, just like an old friend returning home. At first glance, it seems familiar and love at first sight. Such love is romantic and beautiful.

But have you heard of falling in love with wood carvings at first sight? The world is so big and everything is strange. Yang Yan, the famous Chinese painting master, loved the African girl wood carvings collected by his friend's house, and thus came up with the idea of ​​finding a prototype of the wood carving?

Looking for a woman in the vast sea of ​​people is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Yang Yan was extremely persistent about this and traveled thousands of miles to Africa to find the prototype African wood carving girl he was thinking about. So, can he find it?

One-eye ten thousand years

In February 1958, the Yang family from Xining City, Qinghai Province welcomed their son. Parents name their children Yang Yan . The word Yan means a talented person, and the expectations of parents are self-evident.

The Yang family is a well-known scholarly family in the local area. Their father is a highly respected teacher. He is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. He is a rare talented man.

My mother also has a good family background and was born in a family of Chinese paintings. Under the influence of her eyes, her painting skills cannot be underestimated.

Among the mother's family, her brother Ma Fuwei is the most talented in painting. Ma Fuwei is talented and has a lot of research on figure paintings, landscape paintings, and flower and bird paintings in Chinese paintings. He is a masterpiece of painting.

My parents attached great importance to Yang Yan's education, taught him calligraphy and painting since childhood, and cultivated his interests and hobbies. Yang Yan did not let down his parents' good intentions. He showed extraordinary talent for painting since he was a child. Coupled with his acquired diligence in learning and practicing hard, he already had the appearance of a great man at a young age.

Uncle Ma Fuwei loves talent as his life. Seeing that his nephew has talent in painting, he wanted his nephew to inherit his mantle and cultivate him wholeheartedly for this.

In 1964, on Yang Yan's 6th birthday, his uncle presented him with the "Keep Seed Garden Painting Collection" as a gift and asked him to copy it carefully and explore it carefully.

"Killet Seed Garden Painting Collection" is known as a classic that has passed down from generation to generation, including the plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, insect, bird, etc. It is an indispensable masterpiece for learning Chinese painting.

However, this is beyond the scope for Yang Yan, who is only 6 years old, but his uncle believes that Yang Yan is a good seedling of Chinese painting that is rare in ten years, and he can learn it thoroughly.

Under the high standards and requirements of my uncle, Yang Yan made rapid progress and his Chinese painting skills were very solid. However, there are many schools of Chinese painting, with different styles and strengths. If you want to truly learn the essence and fully understand everything, you must gather the strengths of a hundred schools of thought.

1978, Yang Yan became a teacher of Mr. Huatuo, and specialized in landscape paintings . Mr. Huatuo is a national first-class artist of . Later, he worked at the Landscape Painting Research Institute of Jiangsu Academy of Chinese Painting and served as the director. He is a well-known landscape master in the field of Chinese painting.

Through years of hard study, Yang Yan has gained a lot and his skills have made great progress. In 1985, he became a disciple of Huang Zhou and learned to create subjective paintings with huge scenes and many characters.

Two years later, in 1987, Yang Yan traveled thousands of miles to Beidaihe to visit the famous Li Keran . Li Keran is a disciple of Qi Baishi and has learned the true teachings of Qi Baishi. He is very good at painting in landscape animals.

Under the full teaching of many teachers, Yang Yan gradually grew up to be one of the most famous Chinese painting masters in China, and is known as the contemporary Zhang Daqian .

People always say that artists are passionate. For example, the famous people's artist Qi Baishi is like this. He married three wives and had 13 children in total. Zhang Daqian also married four wives, and there are countless confidantes.

However, Yang Yan is completely opposite to the two seniors. He is uninterested in women. After forty years, he is still alone.

This made the parents very anxious. Since their son graduated from school, they have urged them to get married every now and then, but Yang Yan is still unmoved. He is keen on paintings every day and is content with leisure.

can't be pushed anymore, so parents can only give up helplessly. But what they unexpectedly expected was that their son, who had been urging his marriage for 20 years, had an iron tree bloomed, and fell in love with a wood carving at first sight.

In 2001, my friend Zhang Ermiao invited Yang Yan to come and enjoy the paintings. The two have been friends for many years and have similar interests and hobbies, so Yang Yan went there happily.

Zhang Ermiao loves painting and collects, and always has collections from all over the world at home. Yang Yan admired his friend's artistic taste very much. The two of them watched and chatted, which was very speculative.

When passing by an African girl wood carving collection, Yang Yan suddenly put away his conversation, savored it for a long time, and reached a state of selflessness.

The African girl on the wood carving is bright in outline, her eyes are bright, and her graceful and slender swan neck is full of temperament, which is very charming.

Since the two met, Zhang Ermiao has never seen Yang Yan have such a great interest in any wood carving, so he joked: "Do you simply like this wood carving, or do you like this girl?"

In the past, when it comes to the relationship between men and women, Yang Yan must have refuted it carefully. But this time he was silent and blushed appeared on his face.

Zhang Ermiao is a meticulous person, and Yang Yan's facial expression changes cannot escape his sharp eyes.

As expected, Yang Yan said that he fell in love with the wood carving girl at first sight and wanted to find the prototype of the wood carving character, marry and have children, and grow old together.

Zhang Ermiao suddenly felt something was wrong because he knew Yang Yan's personality very well, and knew that he was a person with strong action and persistence.

Artists have wild ideas in their creations, which is a good thing. But in life, impracticality will waste life.

In order to prevent his friends from going astray, Zhang Ermiao persuaded him hard and proposed two difficulties that cannot be ignored in finding a prototype of wood carving.

1: Africa covers an area of ​​30.2 million square kilometers, with a population of nearly 1.286 billion. If the gender is halfway, women also have a population of 643 million. It is hard to find a woman among all living beings.

The second is: If this wood carving girl prototype is really found, she is married and has children, wouldn’t it be futile? Besides, if she is single, she may not necessarily like you!

"How do you know if you don't try?" Yang Yan's words left Zhang Ermiao speechless. Zhang Ermiao knew that he was determined to find his dream lover.

travels to Africa

That night, Yang Yan couldn't sleep all night, his mind was full of the appearance of a wood carving girl. He is a freelance worker with flexible time and can take a journey of chasing love at will.

The next day, Yang Yan booked a flight ticket and flew to Africa. The unique customs and culture of Africa brought him a wonderful journey experience. However, the only drawback is that Yang Yan never met a girl similar to an African girl statue.

Yang Yan was not discouraged because of this. He was very interested in Buddhism and believed that fate began and died, and fate was caused by heaven's will.

God intends to let him meet an African girl wood sculpture, which makes him fall in love and cannot extricate himself. This is the destined fate in the dark. In the decade after

, Yang Yan traveled to and from Africa many times. There were 60 countries and regions on the African continent. His footprints almost covered the African continent, and he visited more than 50 countries and regions in total.

Why not go to the remaining places?

This is because in 2011, he finally found his sweetheart in Sierra Leone .

Sierra Leone is located in western Africa and borders Guinea. In 1971, China and Sierra Leone officially established diplomatic relations, and the two countries exchanged mutually beneficial exchanges and won-win cooperation. China gradually became Sierra Leone's largest trading partner.

In addition to economic construction, the two countries also have many cooperations in the fields of culture, sports, etc. In March 2011, Sierra Leone held an art exchange meeting. Yang Yan, who plays a pivotal role in the Chinese art industry, was invited to participate in the event. Considering the language barrier and communication difficulties, the organizer arranged translations for Yang Yan and other participants. Yang Yan's translation is a female college student named Aila .

At that time, Ella had just turned 21 years old, young and beautiful, tall, delicate facial features, and her bright big eyes made people unforgettable. She was a prototype of an African girl's wood carving.

I met you for the first time, just like an old friend returning home. At first glance, it seems familiar and love at first sight. Such love is romantic and beautiful.

But have you heard of falling in love with wood carvings at first sight? The world is so big and everything is strange. Yang Yan, the famous Chinese painting master, loved the African girl wood carvings collected by his friend's house, and thus came up with the idea of ​​finding a prototype of the wood carving?

Looking for a woman in the vast sea of ​​people is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Yang Yan was extremely persistent about this and traveled thousands of miles to Africa to find the prototype African wood carving girl he was thinking about. So, can he find it?

One-eye ten thousand years

In February 1958, the Yang family from Xining City, Qinghai Province welcomed their son. Parents name their children Yang Yan . The word Yan means a talented person, and the expectations of parents are self-evident.

The Yang family is a well-known scholarly family in the local area. Their father is a highly respected teacher. He is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. He is a rare talented man.

My mother also has a good family background and was born in a family of Chinese paintings. Under the influence of her eyes, her painting skills cannot be underestimated.

Among the mother's family, her brother Ma Fuwei is the most talented in painting. Ma Fuwei is talented and has a lot of research on figure paintings, landscape paintings, and flower and bird paintings in Chinese paintings. He is a masterpiece of painting.

My parents attached great importance to Yang Yan's education, taught him calligraphy and painting since childhood, and cultivated his interests and hobbies. Yang Yan did not let down his parents' good intentions. He showed extraordinary talent for painting since he was a child. Coupled with his acquired diligence in learning and practicing hard, he already had the appearance of a great man at a young age.

Uncle Ma Fuwei loves talent as his life. Seeing that his nephew has talent in painting, he wanted his nephew to inherit his mantle and cultivate him wholeheartedly for this.

In 1964, on Yang Yan's 6th birthday, his uncle presented him with the "Keep Seed Garden Painting Collection" as a gift and asked him to copy it carefully and explore it carefully.

"Killet Seed Garden Painting Collection" is known as a classic that has passed down from generation to generation, including the plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, insect, bird, etc. It is an indispensable masterpiece for learning Chinese painting.

However, this is beyond the scope for Yang Yan, who is only 6 years old, but his uncle believes that Yang Yan is a good seedling of Chinese painting that is rare in ten years, and he can learn it thoroughly.

Under the high standards and requirements of my uncle, Yang Yan made rapid progress and his Chinese painting skills were very solid. However, there are many schools of Chinese painting, with different styles and strengths. If you want to truly learn the essence and fully understand everything, you must gather the strengths of a hundred schools of thought.

1978, Yang Yan became a teacher of Mr. Huatuo, and specialized in landscape paintings . Mr. Huatuo is a national first-class artist of . Later, he worked at the Landscape Painting Research Institute of Jiangsu Academy of Chinese Painting and served as the director. He is a well-known landscape master in the field of Chinese painting.

Through years of hard study, Yang Yan has gained a lot and his skills have made great progress. In 1985, he became a disciple of Huang Zhou and learned to create subjective paintings with huge scenes and many characters.

Two years later, in 1987, Yang Yan traveled thousands of miles to Beidaihe to visit the famous Li Keran . Li Keran is a disciple of Qi Baishi and has learned the true teachings of Qi Baishi. He is very good at painting in landscape animals.

Under the full teaching of many teachers, Yang Yan gradually grew up to be one of the most famous Chinese painting masters in China, and is known as the contemporary Zhang Daqian .

People always say that artists are passionate. For example, the famous people's artist Qi Baishi is like this. He married three wives and had 13 children in total. Zhang Daqian also married four wives, and there are countless confidantes.

However, Yang Yan is completely opposite to the two seniors. He is uninterested in women. After forty years, he is still alone.

This made the parents very anxious. Since their son graduated from school, they have urged them to get married every now and then, but Yang Yan is still unmoved. He is keen on paintings every day and is content with leisure.

can't be pushed anymore, so parents can only give up helplessly. But what they unexpectedly expected was that their son, who had been urging his marriage for 20 years, had an iron tree bloomed, and fell in love with a wood carving at first sight.

In 2001, my friend Zhang Ermiao invited Yang Yan to come and enjoy the paintings. The two have been friends for many years and have similar interests and hobbies, so Yang Yan went there happily.

Zhang Ermiao loves painting and collects, and always has collections from all over the world at home. Yang Yan admired his friend's artistic taste very much. The two of them watched and chatted, which was very speculative.

When passing by an African girl wood carving collection, Yang Yan suddenly put away his conversation, savored it for a long time, and reached a state of selflessness.

The African girl on the wood carving is bright in outline, her eyes are bright, and her graceful and slender swan neck is full of temperament, which is very charming.

Since the two met, Zhang Ermiao has never seen Yang Yan have such a great interest in any wood carving, so he joked: "Do you simply like this wood carving, or do you like this girl?"

In the past, when it comes to the relationship between men and women, Yang Yan must have refuted it carefully. But this time he was silent and blushed appeared on his face.

Zhang Ermiao is a meticulous person, and Yang Yan's facial expression changes cannot escape his sharp eyes.

As expected, Yang Yan said that he fell in love with the wood carving girl at first sight and wanted to find the prototype of the wood carving character, marry and have children, and grow old together.

Zhang Ermiao suddenly felt something was wrong because he knew Yang Yan's personality very well, and knew that he was a person with strong action and persistence.

Artists have wild ideas in their creations, which is a good thing. But in life, impracticality will waste life.

In order to prevent his friends from going astray, Zhang Ermiao persuaded him hard and proposed two difficulties that cannot be ignored in finding a prototype of wood carving.

1: Africa covers an area of ​​30.2 million square kilometers, with a population of nearly 1.286 billion. If the gender is halfway, women also have a population of 643 million. It is hard to find a woman among all living beings.

The second is: If this wood carving girl prototype is really found, she is married and has children, wouldn’t it be futile? Besides, if she is single, she may not necessarily like you!

"How do you know if you don't try?" Yang Yan's words left Zhang Ermiao speechless. Zhang Ermiao knew that he was determined to find his dream lover.

travels to Africa

That night, Yang Yan couldn't sleep all night, his mind was full of the appearance of a wood carving girl. He is a freelance worker with flexible time and can take a journey of chasing love at will.

The next day, Yang Yan booked a flight ticket and flew to Africa. The unique customs and culture of Africa brought him a wonderful journey experience. However, the only drawback is that Yang Yan never met a girl similar to an African girl statue.

Yang Yan was not discouraged because of this. He was very interested in Buddhism and believed that fate began and died, and fate was caused by heaven's will.

God intends to let him meet an African girl wood sculpture, which makes him fall in love and cannot extricate himself. This is the destined fate in the dark. In the decade after

, Yang Yan traveled to and from Africa many times. There were 60 countries and regions on the African continent. His footprints almost covered the African continent, and he visited more than 50 countries and regions in total.

Why not go to the remaining places?

This is because in 2011, he finally found his sweetheart in Sierra Leone .

Sierra Leone is located in western Africa and borders Guinea. In 1971, China and Sierra Leone officially established diplomatic relations, and the two countries exchanged mutually beneficial exchanges and won-win cooperation. China gradually became Sierra Leone's largest trading partner.

In addition to economic construction, the two countries also have many cooperations in the fields of culture, sports, etc. In March 2011, Sierra Leone held an art exchange meeting. Yang Yan, who plays a pivotal role in the Chinese art industry, was invited to participate in the event. Considering the language barrier and communication difficulties, the organizer arranged translations for Yang Yan and other participants. Yang Yan's translation is a female college student named Aila .

At that time, Ella had just turned 21 years old, young and beautiful, tall, delicate facial features, and her bright big eyes made people unforgettable. She was a prototype of an African girl's wood carving.Before the official start of the art exchange meeting, the organizer specially invited guests from all over the world from afar and explained to them the schedule and precautions of the exchange meeting.

In such a grand occasion, translation must not be absent. In this way, Yang Yan and Ella officially met.

The noisy and lively reception room, Yang Yan saw Ella shining among the crowd at a glance. After many years, he once again felt the feeling of ten thousand years. His eyes stayed on Ella for a long time, and his heart was turbulent and his face was flushed.

If it weren't for participating in a major event, Yang Yan would probably be unable to resist coming forward to confess his love. Just as Yang Yan was thinking about how to ask the girl about contact information after the banquet, the girl walked straight towards him and smiled.

Just as Yang Yan was puzzled, Ella came to him and introduced herself generously and enthusiastically: "Hello, I am Ella, your accompanying translator at the art exchange meeting. I am very happy to know you."

Yang Yan suddenly realized and said silently in his heart: "This is simply a fate given by heaven." Ella is fluent in Chinese, and the two communicate without any barriers.

What is commendable is that Aila is not only proficient in Chinese, but also loves Chinese culture and can also comment on Chinese painting calligraphy. She is knowledgeable and talented.

has common interests and hobbies, and the two get along more relaxed and happy. During the few days of the exchange meeting, they talked about life, ideals, traditional culture, and everything they could say when they had time.

I wanted to chat with you very much and my relationship gradually warmed up.

At the end of the exchange meeting, Yang Yan took the initiative to break the window paper, and told the story of his search for an African girl wood carving, and said that Ella was the prototype of the wood carving she had been looking for, expressing her admiration.

Ella has long admired the man who is knowledgeable and talented and has a strong artistic atmosphere and has a secret love for him. After listening to Yang Yan's story, she felt more and more that he was a rare and affectionate man, so she agreed to Yang Yan's confession without hesitation.

But there is still a problem in front of the two of them, that is the distance. Cross-border love is too difficult and unrealistic, and some of them must compromise.

Aila took the initiative to express her willingness to follow Yang Yan to study and live in China, and this moved Yang Yan very much. Afterwards, the two went to Ella's hometown to visit Ella's parents.

Parents’ concerns about their daughter’s decision are beyond words. Although he could not speak, Yang Yan could still understand the emotions of Ella's family from their expressions.

Think about it, my daughter plans to live with a man she just met in a short time away from her hometown. If she is abandoned by a man, how can her daughter live alone in a foreign country? No one can rest assured.

In order to make Ella's family feel at ease and also give Ella a promise to accompany her for the rest of her life, Yang Yan took the initiative to propose the idea of ​​marrying Ella.

has legal protection, even if there are any changes in the future, Yang Yan will still be responsible for Ella, and Ella will not be left on the streets.

Hearing Yang Yan’s truth, his family understood that he was a good man in charge and agreed to their marriage.

In order to give Ella a glorious wedding, and to make Ella's family believe that he has the ability to give Ella a better life, Yang Yan spent a huge amount of money to invite everyone from the tribe to attend the wedding, and at the same time invited the most famous local band to support her.

Everything is ready and the wedding is held as scheduled. Under everyone's testimony and blessing, the two formally became husband and wife according to local traditional customs and promised to never leave and grow old together.

After the wedding, Yang Yan took his newlywed wife Ella to China, intending to hold another joyful Chinese wedding .

urged marriage for so long and there was no movement. After a few days of going to Africa to participate in the event, the marriage was all done. Things happened too quickly, and Yang's parents couldn't recover for a while.

Let’s get married in a flash, but the partner of the flash marriage is still a foreign woman who is 32 years younger than her son. Such an old couple and young wife combination cannot be accepted by parents who have always valued reputation.

But Yang Yan has decided, and he will not marry him unless he is Ella. Afterwards, he took Ella to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register for marriage, and began to carefully prepare his Chinese wedding.

The raw rice has been cooked, and parents can only agree. October 2011, in the golden autumn season, 53-year-old Yang Yan and 21-year-old Ella held their wedding in Beijing.

Zhang Ermiao, who was invited to attend the wedding, also presented the wood carving of an African girl symbolizing the fate of the two to Yang Yan.

The wedding cost 40 million yuan, and was held in the Kangxi Palace in Wendu Shuicheng . The palace is decorated with lanterns and gongs and drums, which is very lively.

At the time of the great gift, Ella wore a phoenix crown and a colorful uniform, as beautiful as a fairy. The two of them got married amid the cheers of everyone.

Become a monk and practice

You paint and adjust the color. After marriage, the two of them were as close as ever, which made others envious. Yang Yan also taught his wife how to paint step by step and told her about her experience in painting.

After a long time, Ella can evaluate the artistic conception of the painting without Yang Yan’s detailed explanation. After this, Ella became the most dazzling tour guide at Yang Yan’s painting exhibition.

In 2012, after Ella was pregnant for ten months, she gave birth to her first son, Yang Heping.

Yang Yan, who had a child in his old age, cried with joy. He always experienced and performed his daily life in person and was very dedicated.

In 2014, an Ebola outbreak broke out in Sierra Leone, and the epidemic spread rapidly, with the death toll reaching 3,955.

Yang Yan and his wife are very worried about this. In order to help Sierra Leone improve its medical level and curb the spread of the epidemic as soon as possible, they specially held a charity sale event, and donated all the more than 400,000 charity funds raised by the event to the health department of Sierra Leone.

During this period, Ella became pregnant again and gave birth to her second son. The family of four fell in love with each other and lived a happy life.

The beautiful life came to an abrupt end in 2018. Yang Yan proposed without warning the idea of ​​divorced Ella and becoming a monk and practicing, and quickly put it into practice.

All Yang Yan’s relatives and friends, including Ella, could not understand why he made this decision. In order to make Yang Yan change his mind, they tried hard to persuade each other.

From when Yang Yan went to Africa alone to find his dream lover, we can see that he is a person who insists on his own opinions.

This time history has happened again. He has made up his mind and is determined to purify his psychology in Buddhism, pursue great wisdom, and is unwilling to return to the world.

In early 2018, a Buddhist orcharding ceremony was being held in Zhongnan Mountain Jingye Temple . Yang Yan sat meditating on the cushion and recited Buddhist scriptures intently. The abbot personally shaved his hair and gave him the Dharma name of "Shi Dajue" .

Ella washes her face with tears all day long, unable to believe this heartbreaking fact. She took her child to Jingye Temple many times, hoping that Yang Yan could go home for the sake of the child.

However, Shi Dajue has long been a practitioner with pure six senses, no desires and no desires. If he no longer cares about the past, it is naturally impossible to go back.

Looking at his wife and children crying, Shi Dajue said lightly: "In my early years, I devoted myself to studying Buddhism and believed in all the cycle of cause and effect. That day, I suddenly realized that I was free and happy in the world, and my heart was too empty. Only by pursuing great wisdom in Buddhism can I transcend the world and enjoy it." After

, Shi Dajue turned around and left. Looking at his determined figure, Ella had no choice but to accept reality.

monks Faxian masters once went overseas to seek scriptures, which had a profound impact on Chinese Buddhist . Shi Dajue took Master Faxian as an example, followed his footsteps, traveled around, and lived a life like an ascetic monk.

During this period, Shi Dajue did not stop his artistic creation and created magnificent masterpieces such as "The Exercise Tower" and "Fa Xian's Traveling West".

In 2020, Shi Dajue proposed to build the Faxian Pagoda to commemorate Master Faxian’s outstanding contribution to Buddhist culture . The proposal was recognized by relevant departments.After

, Shi Dajue focused all his energy on the design and construction of the Faxian Tower, and did everything himself. Hard work pays off. Soon after, the first Faxian Tower was completed on Xisha Stone Island.

Now, 64-year-old Shi Dajue is still calling and rushing around to build more Dharma Pagodas. At the same time, he is also actively participating in Buddhist exchange meetings around the world and doing his best to the development of Buddhism.

Aida has also come out of the shadow and started a new life with her two children. This once loving couple is now having fun in their own lives, which is also a gratifying ending.

Conclusion

Many people accused Yang Yan of becoming a monk, which was a manifestation of abandoning his wife and children, and being irresponsible. It is inevitable to be bound by various shackles in the world, so it is naturally difficult to understand the ideas of people who are far away from the secular world.

For whom do people live for the rest of their lives? There are so many people in this world, and the answers are varied. No matter who you live for, for yourself, if you figure it out, you will be thoroughly alive. As others, it is useless to say more, and respect and blessings for other people's choices, that's enough.

But Yang Yan has decided, and he will not marry him unless he is Ella. Afterwards, he took Ella to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register for marriage, and began to carefully prepare his Chinese wedding.

The raw rice has been cooked, and parents can only agree. October 2011, in the golden autumn season, 53-year-old Yang Yan and 21-year-old Ella held their wedding in Beijing.

Zhang Ermiao, who was invited to attend the wedding, also presented the wood carving of an African girl symbolizing the fate of the two to Yang Yan.

The wedding cost 40 million yuan, and was held in the Kangxi Palace in Wendu Shuicheng . The palace is decorated with lanterns and gongs and drums, which is very lively.

At the time of the great gift, Ella wore a phoenix crown and a colorful uniform, as beautiful as a fairy. The two of them got married amid the cheers of everyone.

Become a monk and practice

You paint and adjust the color. After marriage, the two of them were as close as ever, which made others envious. Yang Yan also taught his wife how to paint step by step and told her about her experience in painting.

After a long time, Ella can evaluate the artistic conception of the painting without Yang Yan’s detailed explanation. After this, Ella became the most dazzling tour guide at Yang Yan’s painting exhibition.

In 2012, after Ella was pregnant for ten months, she gave birth to her first son, Yang Heping.

Yang Yan, who had a child in his old age, cried with joy. He always experienced and performed his daily life in person and was very dedicated.

In 2014, an Ebola outbreak broke out in Sierra Leone, and the epidemic spread rapidly, with the death toll reaching 3,955.

Yang Yan and his wife are very worried about this. In order to help Sierra Leone improve its medical level and curb the spread of the epidemic as soon as possible, they specially held a charity sale event, and donated all the more than 400,000 charity funds raised by the event to the health department of Sierra Leone.

During this period, Ella became pregnant again and gave birth to her second son. The family of four fell in love with each other and lived a happy life.

The beautiful life came to an abrupt end in 2018. Yang Yan proposed without warning the idea of ​​divorced Ella and becoming a monk and practicing, and quickly put it into practice.

All Yang Yan’s relatives and friends, including Ella, could not understand why he made this decision. In order to make Yang Yan change his mind, they tried hard to persuade each other.

From when Yang Yan went to Africa alone to find his dream lover, we can see that he is a person who insists on his own opinions.

This time history has happened again. He has made up his mind and is determined to purify his psychology in Buddhism, pursue great wisdom, and is unwilling to return to the world.

In early 2018, a Buddhist orcharding ceremony was being held in Zhongnan Mountain Jingye Temple . Yang Yan sat meditating on the cushion and recited Buddhist scriptures intently. The abbot personally shaved his hair and gave him the Dharma name of "Shi Dajue" .

Ella washes her face with tears all day long, unable to believe this heartbreaking fact. She took her child to Jingye Temple many times, hoping that Yang Yan could go home for the sake of the child.

However, Shi Dajue has long been a practitioner with pure six senses, no desires and no desires. If he no longer cares about the past, it is naturally impossible to go back.

Looking at his wife and children crying, Shi Dajue said lightly: "In my early years, I devoted myself to studying Buddhism and believed in all the cycle of cause and effect. That day, I suddenly realized that I was free and happy in the world, and my heart was too empty. Only by pursuing great wisdom in Buddhism can I transcend the world and enjoy it." After

, Shi Dajue turned around and left. Looking at his determined figure, Ella had no choice but to accept reality.

monks Faxian masters once went overseas to seek scriptures, which had a profound impact on Chinese Buddhist . Shi Dajue took Master Faxian as an example, followed his footsteps, traveled around, and lived a life like an ascetic monk.

During this period, Shi Dajue did not stop his artistic creation and created magnificent masterpieces such as "The Exercise Tower" and "Fa Xian's Traveling West".

In 2020, Shi Dajue proposed to build the Faxian Pagoda to commemorate Master Faxian’s outstanding contribution to Buddhist culture . The proposal was recognized by relevant departments.After

, Shi Dajue focused all his energy on the design and construction of the Faxian Tower, and did everything himself. Hard work pays off. Soon after, the first Faxian Tower was completed on Xisha Stone Island.

Now, 64-year-old Shi Dajue is still calling and rushing around to build more Dharma Pagodas. At the same time, he is also actively participating in Buddhist exchange meetings around the world and doing his best to the development of Buddhism.

Aida has also come out of the shadow and started a new life with her two children. This once loving couple is now having fun in their own lives, which is also a gratifying ending.

Conclusion

Many people accused Yang Yan of becoming a monk, which was a manifestation of abandoning his wife and children, and being irresponsible. It is inevitable to be bound by various shackles in the world, so it is naturally difficult to understand the ideas of people who are far away from the secular world.

For whom do people live for the rest of their lives? There are so many people in this world, and the answers are varied. No matter who you live for, for yourself, if you figure it out, you will be thoroughly alive. As others, it is useless to say more, and respect and blessings for other people's choices, that's enough.