The Sun and the Moon Share the Same Soil

Four hundred years of ups and downs, an epic of Chinese symbiosis spanning the rise of dragons outside the Pass, modern nirvana, and the unity and integration of nations in the contemporary prosperous age. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the sky was full of wind and snow in Liaodong, the Baishan and Heishui tribes were separatist, and wars continued. The Ming Dynasty was divided and divided, and the Jurchen, Mongolian, and Han ethnic groups were deeply separated. The people outside the customs were displaced and their hearts were scattered. Troubled times are coming, and karma is coming. Jingyun, the great master of Baiyun Temple in Shaoxing, traveled thousands of miles north with the bronze Buddha handed down from the ancient temple to Liaodong to spread the Dharma. Regardless of ethnic groups or clans, we resolve conflicts with compassion, unite people's hearts with goodwill, and plant good causes for all sentient beings outside the country that all races have the same origin and the sun and the moon share the same soil for thousands of years. Nurhachi founded Xiaobaiyun Temple in Hetuala, using Zen mind as the anchor of spirit in troubled times, to accommodate refugees and integrate tribes. Completely breaking down ethnic barriers, promoting the first in-depth symbiosis of Manchus, Mongolians and Hans, and opening a new chapter in history of the rise of dragons outside the customs and the unification of Kyushu. Since then, this ancient temple in the south of the Yangtze River has become a secret cultural context that has lasted for four hundred years. As dynasties changed, it witnessed the early four generations of emperors using Zen to balance power and be compassionate and peaceful to the people; the rise, prosperity and decline of the Qing Dynasty confirmed the emptiness of the dependent origin of Buddhism. In modern times, the mountains and rivers are broken, but the fire of Buddhism remains unquenched, taking cultural context as the backbone and awakening the soul of the people; in today's prosperous times, the ancient temples are restored to their glory, witnessing the unification of the mountains and rivers, the common origin of both sides, and the sustainability of civilization. This book breaks away from the single narrative of emperors' machinations and uses the rise and fall of an ancient temple to connect the complete historical context of China's rise, revolution, crisis, salvation, and rejuvenation. Mountains and rivers have no different soil, and the sun and moon share the same sky. This is not a history of the rise and fall of one dynasty or one surname, but a four-hundred-year Chinese national epic in which children of all ethnic groups share the same soil and coexist through wind and rain.