Some say it belongs to Taoism, but the real Taoist activity venues are generally called "guan", so some people single it out and say it is a divine building, so that the full name of "temple" becomes "temple".

The Sore Prince of Xiaochijian Village

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In the past, in the countryside, it was definitely a sight to have temples in every village. The "temple" refers to a place for Buddhist activities, let's not mention it for the moment, but its "temple" is the cultural entity of our original belief. Some people say that it belongs to Taoism , but the real Taoist activity venues are generally called "guan", so some people single it out and say it is a divine building, so that the full name of "temple" becomes "temple". ". Anyway, no matter what, in the eyes of the people in the countryside, it is almost the same thing. No one will fight over whether it belongs to "God" or "Tao". What matters is whether the "grandfather and grandma" inside are effective. It is effective and believes in the basic principle of "responsiveness to requests".

Based on this, even the "monastery" and "temple" of Buddhism can be confused.

I don’t know if you have noticed that even now, whether it is a Buddhist temple, a Taoist temple, or a temple, many have a plaque or a couplet banner with the words "All requests are answered" in the main hall.

The Temple of King Zhuang in Xiaochijian Village

In our pantheistic tradition, the Jade Emperor, Guandi Temple , Mountain King, Earth Temple, Medicine King , Wudao Temple, Notre Dame, Grandma Temple, etc. are commonplace, but this simple "Scar King Temple" is rare, I am afraid all Quyang County They are the only one in Xiaochijian Village, Lingshan Town.

一

It is natural for the King of Sores to be worshiped in the temple. As the name suggests, the King of Sores should be a surgeon who specializes in treating "sores", and the Temple of the King of Sores must be his clinic. If the current necessary qualification procedures for listed businesses are followed, since his name contains the word "ye", he must at least be a professor-level senior physician.

It’s a pity that he is neither professional nor advanced, but he has an absolute advantage in being down-to-earth, which allows him to easily expand his business scope to ensure his strong behavioral value. As the saying goes: If you can’t find a specialist, you can find them all online.

To put it bluntly, due to his remote location, his business of treating sores is limited. If he wants to fully realize the value of his life and live a full-fledged "god" state, he sometimes needs to work part-time to make a living. Although It doesn't matter if it has nothing to do with its main business. As the saying goes, if you don't want to make money, just make money.

According to legend, the cause of the Temple of the Sore King was that a half-year-old man passed by Xiaochijian Village a long time ago and met a group of people carrying a coffin. The coffin contained a middle-aged man who was looking for a sore. Many doctors failed to cure the disease and even died. The situation at that time was obviously to carry him to the cemetery, dig a hole and bury him.

So, he stepped forward to block the way and asked if he could be allowed to see the person in the coffin? People say, everyone is dead, so what’s there to see? But he insists that the person is not dead but still alive. As a result, people regarded him as a lunatic and just wanted to push him aside. Can it? Many people's shoulders and heads are still pressed down by the wooden poles of the coffin!

After some reasoning and a guarantee that the patient would be taken care of, people agreed and carried the coffin back. When I got home, I opened the coffin and saw that the person inside was still alive and made a "humming" sound.

Then he took the patient out and carried him to the kang in the room. The old man asked his family to boil salt water. At the same time, he put the bag on his shoulder on the side of the bed, and first took out a piece of it. a sharp knife Boil it in salt water for a while, take it out and dry it; then scoop out the cooled salt water and wash the sore for the patient. Taking advantage of the patient's coma and numbness of pain, use a knife to cut out the rotten flesh on the sore. , and then took out a small packet of medicinal noodles from the bag, applied it to the sore, and bandaged it.In addition, he took out two packs of the same medicinal noodles and left them with his family, telling them how to use them in the future.

(Note: By the way, there used to be a small canvas backpack with a single layer in the middle and double layers with openings facing each other at both ends. It was suitable for hanging on the shoulders when walking out, and hanging down from the front and back so that both openings faced upwards, making it easier to carry scattered small items. Items. )

As you can tell, this trick is really effective. It didn’t take long for the patient to wake up and say he wanted to drink water and eat. Isn't this a sign of improvement?

As for the original, why was he so sure that the person in the coffin was still alive? Later, people speculated that he might have noticed that there was moisture in the seams along the lower edge of the coffin, and concluded that it was the result of the pus and blood of the people inside.

The whole family was just enjoying themselves. They didn’t notice the half-grown old man. When he came to his senses and tried to figure out how to thank him, he couldn’t find him. Therefore, I felt that I had met a god and could not repay him in person, so I built a temple to enshrine him. Since I didn't know his name or where he came from, I simply called him "Prince Sore".

二

After the King of Shang Temple was built, a Feng Shui master was asked to choose the sixteenth day of the first lunar month as an auspicious day. Even a consecration ceremony was held for the King of Shang. It even became a tradition and derived from the tenth day of the first lunar month in Xiaochijian Village. Six traditional temple fairs. In fact, this is something to say later. At that time, the family who first cured the sore would go to the temple on time every first and fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, as well as during the New Year and festivals, to set up cases and make offerings and burn money to turn paper into repayment for the life-saving work of the sore prince. of grace.

The main hall of the King of Sores Temple

Perhaps it was because people built a temple and worshiped the old man who used to cure sores seriously, so that he really became a god and no longer needed to be practical when he cured people's sores. Let's take action, as long as we use some magical powers behind our back, everything will be fine! Over time, people have come to know that Lord Shang is very effective in curing sores. Once people from all over the country have sores that cannot be cured for a long time, basically all of them come to burn them and pray according to the rules. It is said that all the results are fulfilled.

Nowadays, people don’t pay much attention to sores, because the living environment is better, there are many changes of clothes, and they often take baths. Compared with the past, people lived in low adobe houses and wore only coarse clothes. Especially in the dog days of summer, hands and feet were sticky everywhere, and some places were short of water. Men could just If you keep it clean, you can't stop going to the small rivers and ditches outside the village. Wang Zili took a bath; on the contrary, the women were well-dressed and conservative in their thinking. It was rare to take a bath. In addition, they rarely changed their clothes. As a result, their flesh and skin were not clean, and if their faults were covered up, they would easily get sores. It is not uncommon for people to die from pus and rot.

It is said that Prince Zhang not only attends clinics, but also goes out to work as a traveling doctor. Once, I was invited by a wealthy family in the county town to treat my daughter-in-law's sore, which happened to be on her chest. Because he was away from home and his conditions were limited, he was not able to use his magical powers, so he had to do it with his own hands.

The King of Sores Treats Diseases

Not to mention that the daughter-in-law of the rich man’s family is very good-looking, especially when she is sitting on the kang and her mother-in-law unbuttons his clothes and lifts up his clothes, a pair of white and big breasts suddenly flash out. The silver light is simply eye-catching. Prince Zhang wanted to avoid the taboo, but because he was invited to see a doctor, he had no choice but to come closer.Since the two plump breasts had to be separated with his hands to see clearly, he asked his mother-in-law, who was leaning on the kang box, to hold her left breast, and he stretched out his left hand to lift her right breast. He couldn't help but feel fascinated. He was shocked and blurted out: "It's not serious!"

My mother-in-law was inevitably anxious when she heard what he said, and said: "Sir, no matter how serious it is, you can treat it as much as you want!"

The Sore Prince He quickly took his hand back and said to his mother-in-law: "If you want to do this, you have to let your wife lie down flat. You use your hands to separate her breasts and I will take a closer look."

The result was, There was an abscess the size of a date, and it was already white on top. The King of Sores took out a knife, and after some treatment, he cut open the sore, squeezed out the pus and blood, wiped it clean, then applied a bandage with medicine, and then turned to leave.

The rich man's wife chased him quickly until she reached the door in the street and insisted on asking him how much he wanted. Prince Sore said: "This is the wish I made. There is no money to cure the sore!"

Seeing that he was so stubborn, the rich man's wife stopped mentioning money for the time being and asked him where he was. , Which village people are from, what is their surname, and their home is difficult to find.

He hesitated and said that he came from Hongtugou Village in the north of Shanxi. It was easy to find a home. He lived at the intersection of the street. There were two big poplar trees in front of the door. As for who he was, he didn't say his name.

三

After a few days, the rich man’s wife’s sores healed. The family members thought that they had to find the doctor who treated sores and express their feelings. So, I grabbed a lot of good things and set out for the Shanbei area of ​​Quyang County. After driving down Yuan Shidao, I found out that there was no village called Hongtugou. They always refused to give up and asked a few more people. Once they heard about it, they were all convinced, saying that their insurance company had misinformed the name of the village.

Then I asked around again and came across a few people chatting on the street of a village. Of course, they still said that such a village was priceless. As soon as I described to them why they wanted to find him, and some of the circumstances of his home, one of them suddenly realized it on the street and said, "Are you not talking about the Prince Zhang of Xiaochijian Village?"

to It’s true that you mentioned it, and I remembered it; you carried it, and I carried it too. But isn’t Hongtugou just Chijian? In this way, everything else fell into place. First of all, King Zhuang never charges money for treating sores. Secondly, there are really two big poplar trees in front of the Temple of King Zhuang.

After the people who came to express their gratitude understood the situation, they bought incense and paper nearby and went to the Zhuangwang Temple in Xiaochijian Village. Normally, the door of the King of Shang Temple is always open, but today it was locked. In fact, when Prince Zhang was treating his wife's sores a few days ago, he suddenly lost his sense of proportion and almost lost control. Therefore, he felt ashamed and could not face her again.

The visitors had no choice but to entrust the things they brought and the joss sticks for sale to nearby families, and Prince Qishang opened the temple to enshrine his descendants.

You guessed it, that night the people who came to express their thanks and the people who were entrusted with the sacrifice had the same dream. An old man said to them: He will not accept any of these things. The two asked him why. He said that it was hard to explain the inside story clearly. After all, the matter ended here and no one wanted to mention it anymore! In this way, the next morning, those things were all returned to their original owners without even knowing it. Although those who wanted to thank Prince Zhishang had doubts, since the old god had already said it to death, he must have his reasons, so he stopped mentioning it from now on.

I would say Prince Wang is generous, but he is also stingy. He is generous in that he never charges money to treat sores, but he is really unreasonable and unforgiving when he is stingy.One time, just after the 16th day of the first lunar month the temple fair , because the incense was very strong during the temple fair, a paper burning pool was built outside the temple gate to prevent fire, and an iron fire hook was prepared to stir up the paper that was not easy to burn. I also blame the person in charge for not putting away the fire hook in time, and was taken back by a petty girl in the village when she passed by the Temple of the King of Shang. As a result, Prince Zhang tortured her so hard for three days and three nights that she would either cry or laugh, turning her into a half-crazy madman. It wasn't until my family felt that they had taken the fire hook from the Temple of the King of Sores and sent it back that they got over it.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the old gods are always like the statues in the corresponding temples. They are serious and solemn. All their words and deeds are in secret, and they rarely appear. Relatively speaking, this sore prince can He is more forthright, and from time to time he goes deep into the masses. Otherwise, let’s just say that he can’t stop doing things that have nothing to do with his main business on the side?

The Statue of Prince Zhang

Once, Prince Zhang went to the market in Wangkuai Town, Fuping County, in the west. When he came back, he met a man who looked about the same age as him. Because they were traveling together, they told each other the name of the village. , the other party said he was from Guojiazhuang Village, and he claimed to be from Xiaochijian Village. It was already dark when we arrived at Xiaochijian Village, because we still had to walk 5 miles east to Guojiazhuang. Although the journey was not far, the road conditions were particularly bad. He said, "No, you can stay here with me." Well. I'm the only bachelor in the family, so I don't have to be shy, so I'll take advantage of the black price. "Son, let's have a drink."

As a result, we also ate and drank. We added a bedding for him and arranged for him to sleep next to him. He fell asleep unconsciously while talking. .

arrived the next morning. When he woke up, he found that he was fully asleep on the platform of the King of Shang Temple. Then, he suddenly realized that the person who walked with him yesterday and stayed with him was none other than Prince Zhang!

四

Ever since the news about Lord Shang staying over, there was a rich man in the village who felt that he was easy to talk to, so he calculated that there had never been a famous person in the village, so maybe he could bless him for his success. Juren, scholar and so on. So some people gathered together to burn incense and paper, kowtowed repeatedly, and went to the temple to pray to the Prince of Sores, asking him to use his yin skills to help the village. The result is always nothing.

How to start talking about whether this is valuable or not? It is said that discerning people can tell the truth from the state of burning cigarettes and incense ashes. So I thought again, maybe Prince Zhang thinks that the place here is too small to create a scene? Or maybe you just feel like you’ve been staying in this place forever, and you don’t want to agree to it when things get complicated? So, people found a larger place in the west of the village and built a new temple. When they were trying to move the statue of Prince Sore, a dozen good guys couldn't lift it, which made people wonder. Logically speaking, it's impossible?

Unexpectedly, Prince Sore moved to a new house. Not only did the village not benefit, but it suffered a lot - feeding pigs died, feeding sheep and sheep, and even big mules and big horses were injured. Quite a few, and people's situation is getting worse day by day.

I had no choice but to move him back. It’s the same statue. When we rushed to move it back, it only took three people to carry it back. Do you think it’s strange? Then the village settled down and the situation improved day by day.

In the few years when Prince Zhang moved to the west of the village, Fu Laojing of Dachijian Village in the west became famous. He built houses and acquired land one after another. It is said that the gods and ghosts helped: in the autumn, they grinded grain ears, After threshing the grains, several judges sent by the Lord of Hell were exhausted. They poured grain into his house from Kaifeng, Henan, and killed more than a hundred little devils. Even if a thief wants to steal from him, he can't find a chance to do it.

Whenever a thief came to his house to steal something, he would always be seen sitting upright on the high platform in the main room of the building.

Once, as soon as the thief entered the yard, he felt that he had been discovered. He hurriedly ran towards the toilet of his house, wanting to hide it temporarily, but unexpectedly Fu Laojing was already squatting inside. So, I just wanted to stop doing it and just take out a knife and stab him to death. As a result, the knife that was inserted turned into a broomstick. You can see, with this person’s destiny and luck, it’s not as good as his ability to fly (not)?

In addition, the King of Sores is not only an expert in treating sores and a down-to-earth god, but also a model anti-Japanese! During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese built many artillery towers in Lingshan and Dangcheng areas, including one in the west of Xiaochijian Village. The Japanese in the artillery tower often come out to burn, kill, loot and commit all kinds of evil in the neighborhood. On the night after the temple fair on the 16th day of the first lunar month of the same year, the blockhouse in the west of Pingbai Wuji Village caught fire and completely burned to pieces.

As a result, the Japanese officials from the two big gun towers in Lingshan and Dangcheng came over repeatedly to find out the reason. They searched and searched and found out even a single shadow, so that people spread the word and said it was the village. The sore inside was burned by the Lord’s spirit.