Why do monks ring their fingers at the door when they go to the toilet?

Where did you see it?

Is it because there are more Buddhas in the temple, and he prevents a Buddha from squatting inside, say hello in advance

Toilet. When urinating and defecating.

May all beings. Abandon greed and hatred.

Extinguish the law. Ann Hump Camel Ya (three times).

What you see is an isolated phenomenon.

I haven't paid attention to it, and I wonder why.

At present, the earliest known classic book that records toilets is the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period's "Rites and Rituals", which reads: "Liren Nirvana. Zheng Xuan, a master of Eastern Han Dynasty classics, made a note and said:

Subordinates, sinners, and servitudes. Nirvana, Saiye, is blasphemous for people. Meaning:

I want to go to the toilet, so the slave digs a hole for me. Although this is a relatively simple and crude way, it also means that human civilization has taken a big step forward.

By the Zhou Dynasty, people had learned to put wooden planks on large pits to support their feet, with leaky wells in the middle, and feces could fall directly into the pool. According to the "Zuo Biography", in 581 BC, the princess of Jin Jing "ate, rose, went to the toilet, and fell to death". It is said that Jin Jinggong went to a toilet before eating, but fell down and drowned.

This shows that the toilets at that time were not built to people's expectations, and can even be said to be rude.

Although China invented papermaking as early as the Han Dynasty, the Chinese people have always cherished the tradition of paper, and very few people use paper to wipe the filth after going to the toilet. In the Tang Dynasty Daoxuan's "Teaching the New Learning Bhikshu to Practice the Discipline Protector Ritual", there is a record of the "Fourteenth Law of the Toilet Law" requiring monks to "always have toilet chips, not to lose the que" and "not to use words and paper".

It is said that people used to clean themselves up at that time, and toilet chips are slender pieces of bamboo or wood that have been polished and smoothed, and you can imagine how to use them. At that time, toilet chips were widely used by the Chinese public, and there are also speculations that there were signs of "export" of toilet chips at that time.

In Japan, for example, in 1992, a 7th-century building site was discovered in Nara Prefecture, Japan, and a large number of chips (known as chips in Japan and toilet chips in China) were unearthed. Some archaeologists speculate that during the Sui and Tang dynasties, China attracted Japan and South Korea to exchange with each other because of its national strength, and during this period, a lot of "toilet culture" including toilet chips was exported, and Zuo Motojin, director of the National Museum of History of Japan, also agreed.

It is recorded in the Book of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Biography of Futu: "(The Later Lord) personally cut the monks' toilets, tried them with cheeks, and there were few thorns, and then repaired them." "It is said that Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, personally trimmed the toilet chip for the monk and put it on his face to see if there were any thorns.

This shows that toilet chips were widely used until the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Things began to change by the time of the Ming Dynasty. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor had already begun to use weaving cloth to clean his "filth". It is recorded in the "Five Miscellaneous Works":

Ouchi is used for the toilet of the Imperial Valley, which is spit into a cocoon by the wild silkworms in the middle of the river, and is woven into silk, which is only as big as paper. Everything for the royal use, even if it is discarded. ”

In the late Ming Dynasty, in order to save palace expenses, Emperor Xiaozong ordered that fabrics such as weaving and silk should no longer be used, but paper would be used instead. However, at this time, the emperor's imperial "holy paper" was made by a special department, the Treasure Banknote Division, which was smoother and neater than the previous toilet paper.

How did ancient people go to the toilet without paper, and what did they use? Don't believe it.

At first, clods of soil were used, and later paper was invented.

The saying of what a "gate" originates from Nixon's "Watergate" in the early seventies.

The end result of Watergate was to force Nixon**. This is one of the most disgraceful political scandals in American history. The English word for Watergate scandal is Watergate Scandal.

Soon after the Watergate scandal, the English added the suffix "—gate", which literally translates to "door" in Chinese. Meaning: a watergate-like scandal.

Since then, whenever a national leader (especially against the United States) encounters a governing crisis or a governing scandal, the international press often uses the word gate after the event. In recent years, similar reports in China have often been translated directly as "door". For example, "Irangate", "White House Secretary Gate", "Intelligence Gate", "Translation Gate", "Prisoner Abuse Gate" and so on.

When traveling and studying, the monks can go to the jungle of the ten directions to stay, which is called "hanging order" or "hanging". Nowadays, many temples also allow ordinary people who study Buddhism to place orders .......

The temple has a statue of Vedas, and if the whip in the hand of the statue of Veda is pestled on the ground, it means that the pending order is not accepted. If Veda folds his hands and holds the whip across his hands, it means accepting a pending order.

The key is your understanding, if you feel that becoming a monk is the best choice in life, only by taking this path, will life be meaningful, and having this concept is the most basic condition for choosing a monk. If you haven't developed this understanding yet, don't become a monk just yet. In addition, the relationship at home should be handled well.

In the Buddhist scriptures, it is said that if your parents do not listen, you must not leave the house. But this is not principled, there are many eminent monks in history, like the old monk Xuyun, although he did not ask for the consent of his parents, he still became a monk. There are many cases like this in real life, because many parents don't understand Buddhism at all, and it's impossible to get them to agree to become a monk again.

Therefore, there are many people who run out regardless of whether their parents agree or not.

If you are already married, of course, you must divorce before you become a monk. In terms of age, the precepts stipulate that you cannot become a monk under the age of 7 and over the age of 60, because at that age you cannot even take care of your own basic life, and you have to be supported by others. Therefore, if you don't have the ability to live independently, you can't become a monk, and you can't let someone else take care of you after you become a monk.

There are other conditions, for example, if you hold a more important party or government position, you must resign before you can become a monk; If you have a debt, you must pay it off before you can become a monk. There are also some other conditions, such as that a yin-yang person cannot be a monk, and a person who has committed a serious crime such as destroying another person's practice or stealing a residence cannot be a monk, that is, a person who has pretended to be a monk in his or her family and participated in an important meeting within the Sangha cannot be ordained. In all, there are thirteen situations that can cause obstacles to ordination, mainly to ensure the healthy development of Buddhism.

Here are some other questions that are of interest to you. For monks, the hukou and archives are not important, many monks in the monasteries do not have hukou, and few actually move the hukou to the monastery. There are more than 300 monks living in Nanputuo, where I live, almost only.

Twenty or thirty people have a hukou. If the monastery wants some people to live there for a long time and stably, they will try to move their hukou to the monastery, but for the monks, these are not important, and the treatment is the same with or without a hukou. In addition, the monastery where you live will provide you with your daily needs and medical expenses.

The economy of the monasteries is independent, and the state's policy towards the monasteries is to support themselves. Each monastery has its own economy**, some monasteries own land and can engage in some agricultural production, and many monasteries derive their income from tourism. The basic livelihood of the monks is absolutely guaranteed, and when possible, the monastery will also use part of the income for charity and Dharma propagation activities.

In the past, on the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month, the people had to take the ghosts of their ancestors home through certain rituals, and offered tea and dinner three times every morning, noon and dusk until they were sent back on July 15.

July 15 should be the ghost door closed, and July 14 should be the ghost door open.

According to legend, the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the "ghost month". The first day of the seventh month is the day when the "ghost gate pass" is opened, from the first day of the seventh month when the ghost gate is opened to the day when the ghost gate is closed on the 30th, the ownerless and lonely souls in the underworld will flock to the yang world, wandering anywhere that can be reached to find something to eat. Therefore, people hold preaches in July with chanting and other things such as purdue to the general transcendence of lonely spirits, lest they may cause harm to the community, or pray for the help of ghosts to heal diseases and keep homes safe.