The significance of the temple bell ringing, how many times the temple rings the bell every day, how

The Sanskrit bell is the Buddha bell, as the name suggests, it is used for the temple to do Buddhist things, or to gather monks to go to the temple, chant sutras and do homework, and other things such as getting up, sleeping, eating, etc. Therefore, different bells are rung for different purposes. But there are also a lot of attention to ringing the bell, which is said in "Baizhang Qing Rules: Magic Instruments".

The big bell jungle commands the beginning of the capital. Dawn is to break the long night, and the alarm sleeps; The twilight strike is faint and ignorant. Therefore, when the bell rings in the morning and dusk, it is necessary to strike one hundred and eight in a row.

Under. The Buddhist bell is used for prayer, enlightenment, and transcendence of sentient beings. The bell of the monastery is mostly struck once in the morning and dusk, each time it is 18 times tight, 18 times slowly, and 18 times again if it is not in a hurry, and so on and so on twice, a total of 108 times.

As for why the bell is set at 108 times? There are two ways to say this: One is:

Where the bell strikes one hundred and eight times in response to the twelfth month, the twenty-fourth solar term.

Seventy-two candidates (five days for one wait). "The combination is 108, which symbolizes the reincarnation of the year, and the days are eternal. This shows that in an agrarian society, people wanted to be blessed with abundant food and clothing through the Buddha. Another way of saying it is Buddhism.

It is believed that people have one hundred and eight kinds of troubles, and one hundred and eight knocks can relieve them. Ring the bell and say: "Hearing the bell, the troubles are light; Wisdom is long, Bodhi is born; Out of hell, out of the pit of fire; May I become a Buddha and save all sentient beings. "So, chanting sutras or mantras one hundred and eight times, Buddha beads.

There are also one hundred and eight, and even the Bodhisattva is one hundred and eight, and these are all to eliminate people's troubles and achieve excellent and auspicious meanings. The bell rings 108 times to get rid of the troubles of the world, and it is called "one hundred and eight bells" in Buddhism. In general, monasteries beat the bell and drum every morning and dusk, which is called the morning bell and dusk drum, to warn practitioners to be diligent and diligent and not to let go.

The bell is an important ritual instrument in Buddhist rituals, and in many famous temples, the tall bell tower adds to the majesty of the temple. The mellow and loud, deep and far-reaching bell is also infused with the Buddhist meaning of "awakening the world's fame and fortune and recalling the charming dream of the bitter sea".

Inform the monks that it's time to eat.

Why do temple bells strike 108 times?

The morning bell and the evening drum are struck once in the morning and evening, and the bell is recited 108 times each time. It is worth noting that the morning bell and dusk drum of the temple are not ringing in the morning and beating the drum in the evening, but the bell in the morning and then the drum in the evening.

The meaning and symbol of ringing the bell is peace and happiness.

Ringing the bell removes troubles and calamities, and brings New Year's blessings. The Buddhist scriptures say that "when you hear the bell, your troubles are clear, your wisdom grows, and Bodhi is born", so ringing the bell can remove a trouble, turn evil into good fortune in a year, and be safe and sound.

According to the tradition of Changchun Temple, each time you pray for the slag to know the blessing, you should knock it 3 times, which represents "blessing, Lu and longevity". Hit the bell hard, and may all the good things in 2020 come as scheduled.

Folding Nanchang Bell and Drum Tower is good to roll:

In the bell and drum tower, the ancient bells and drums are constantly hitting; The phoenix tower cracks, and the phoenix of the emperor leads to the difficult sound"。This couplet is very unfamiliar to today's Nanchang people, occasionally someone says, maybe many Nanchang people are not friends Liang Yu knows that it is a couplet on the Nanchang Bell and Drum Tower.

On a rare sunny day in winter, walking through Xiangshan Road in the cold sunshine, residents of a community next to Jiangxi Painting Institute leisurely eat steamed buns in Jiangying Baohang, and the hot steam is very eye-catching under the sunlight. Bus No. 33 swayed from Yuanming Road, and on the bus were some faces of Mu Na in the cold.

The common people of this place seem to have a natural superiority, so life is unhurried. This has to understand the bell and drum tower in Nanchang, there was no clock in ancient times, the time was kept by the day and the leaky pot, and the common people all relied on the bell and drum tower set up by the government to transmit the information of the time.

The Buddha bell has three, seven, eighteen, thirty-six, and one hundred and eight percussions. When the monks go down to the hall after fasting porridge, after the meditation is finished, when they inspect in the morning and evening, or when they get out of bed after eating tea, they sing three times; When the abbot goes to the Buddha in the morning and evening, and the abbot enters the monk's lecture hall, he sings seven times; When the monks enter the hall during the fasting period, they sing eighteen times, which is called"Entrance bell"The entrance bell is done one by one in the order of fasting; And thirty-six times is the sum of the three blows, and the total is one hundred and eight. The important activities in the Buddhist monastery are subject to one hundred and eight times, so the Buddha bell is also called"One hundred and eight bells"。

When the hail monks go down to the hall after the town raises the sail and eats the porridge, after the meditation is completed, the morning and evening patrols or when they get out of bed after eating tea, they sing three times; When the abbot goes to the Buddha in the morning and evening, laughs and fights incense, and when the abbot enters the monks' lecture hall, he sings seven times; When the monks enter the hall during the fasting period, they sing eighteen times, which is called"Entrance bell"The entrance bell is done one by one in the order of fasting; And thirty-six times is the sum of the three blows, and the total is one hundred and eight. The important activities in the Buddhist monastery are subject to one hundred and eight times, so the Buddha bell is also called"One hundred and eight bells"。

So when we go to play, we just knock 3 times, ha<>

There are two kinds, one is called the Brahma bell and the other is called the half bell.

Fanzhong is also known as big bell, fishing bell, hit bell, Hong bell, whale bell, Pu Lao, Hua whale, Hua Zhong, giant clock. Most of them are bronze, a few are iron, generally about 150 centimeters high, about 60 centimeters in diameter, the form is that the upper end has the angler carved into the dragon's head, the lower end has two opposite lotus-shaped collision seats, called eight leaves, the collision seat is called grass room below, and the lower edge is called the horse claw; The above is divided into two parts, between the pool and the mammary room, and there are small protrusions between the mammary and surrounded by them, and they are connected to the collision seat, and the strip that crosses at right angles is called the robe, also known as the six roads. In addition, the angler has a cylindrical plug inside.

These bells are mostly hung in the bell tower and are used to gather the public or to report the morning and evening.

Half bell, also known as the bell and the small bell, is mostly cast in real (brass), usually about 60 to 80 centimeters high, and is hung in a corner of the Buddhist hall.

Buddhism, Buddhism, and the bell are used to pray for longevity, probation, and transcendence of sentient beings. There is such an inscription cast on a Buddha bell: Hearing the bell, the troubles are light, the wisdom is long, Bodhi is born, leaving hell, out of the fire kang, and wishing to become a Buddha and save all sentient beings. 」

The bell of the Buddhist temple is mostly struck once in the morning and dusk, each time it is struck 18 times, 18 times slowly, and then 18 times unhurriedly, and so on twice, a total of 108 times. Why is it 108? One says that there are 12 months, 24 solar terms, and 72 seasons (five days are one season), which is 108, symbolizing the reincarnation of a year, and the days are long.

Another saying is that people have 108 kinds of troubles, and the bell rings 108 times to get rid of the troubles in the world.

The sound of the bell is deep, loud and long, so that it can shock people's hearts. The base frequency of the bell with large weight is low and the energy storage is large, which makes the bell deep and long. Bronze bells made with tin added are more crisp than brass and iron bells.

The lower part of the bell and the lip of the bell are thickened and stretched outward, so that the sound has a strong ability to radiate outward, which will make the bell loud. Therefore, the bells of all infectious Buddhist bells are made by bronze bells that are large and heavy, with thick lips and outwards.

When ringing the bell, don't forget to hear and chant: Hearing the bell, the troubles are light, the wisdom is long, the Bodhi is born, the hell is buried, the fire is out of the kang, and I wish to become a Buddha and save all sentient beings. With such a heart, the double cultivation of blessing and wisdom is immeasurable.