Original title: Master Haitang: Studied under Shaolin and sought after by thousands of people, why is there no memorial for Shaolin Temple when he dies?
If someone wants their children to practice martial arts now, they will definitely choose the Shaolin Temple. As we all know, Shaolin is the largest school of Chinese martial arts, with more than 700 kinds of martial arts. If you study Shaolin, this is a very proud thing. Even now, Shaolin's fame is thunderous.
In 1985, the TV series "Sea Lantern Mage" directed by Xie Hong attracted wide attention. The sea lantern mage in the play is not fiction, but a real character. He once studied under the Shaolin Temple, was sought after by thousands of people, and was known as the "Shaolin monk", but when he passed away, there was no one in the Shaolin Temple to mourn, what is the hidden secret in this?
The picture shows the sea lamp mage
1. Losing His Parents and Determined to Study Martial Arts
Master Haiteng, formerly known as Fan Jinghe, was born in 1902 in a poor family in Sichuan. At that time, the country was in internal and external troubles, and the people's lives were difficult. Fan Jinghe's father was just a small tailor, barely able to make ends meet.
What is even more unfortunate is that when Fan Jinghe was 5 years old, his mother died of illness. Without his mother's protection, Fan Jinghe's young heart suffered a huge shock, but life had to go on. After entering private school, Fan Jinghe's grades were excellent, but he was not satisfied with this.
Fan Jinghe, who followed his uncle Xi Wu, liked to dance knives and guns since he was a child, and was not very interested in Wen Crepe's private school. Under the guidance of his uncle, Fan Jinghe laid a relatively solid foundation in martial arts. But there were unforeseen circumstances, and when he was 12 years old, his father was beaten to death for offending a certain bully. Fan Jinghe set his ambition to study martial arts diligently, and then avenge his father.
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In order to be strong, you must have a skill, although Fan Jinghe is not interested in learning, but he has not given up reading, because he knows that reading is also one of the ways to change his destiny. Having lost his parents, he had no means of livelihood and had to get paid to help teachers correct homework and submit essays to make ends meet.
In 1918, Fan Jinghe was admitted to the Sichuan Provincial National Police Superintendent School with the first place. While practicing martial arts and studying without delay, Fan Jinghe also studied medicine with Li Yaoshi, and also treated and practiced medicine for others in his spare time.
19-year-old Fan Jinghe officially changed his name to Fan Wusick, which means no disease and no disaster. At this time, he still did not forget to avenge his father, so Fan Jinghe began to visit the teacher. By chance, Fan Jinghe met two senior monks of Shaolin Temple, and his perseverance in learning martial arts impressed the two senior monks, so Fan Jinghe began to enter the Shaolin Temple to study.
Second, Master Haiteng is famous at home and abroad
Fan Jinghe spent the first half of his life laying the foundation for learning martial arts, and he was fortunate that under the guidance of many famous masters, his martial arts realm reached a new realm. Moreover, because he had spent time in a Buddhist temple, his research on Buddhism had reached a new height.
In 1937, under the recommendation of Elder Fotai, Fan Jinghe worshipped Master Zhiguang of Zhaojue Temple as his teacher, and took the name Haidang. In the eyes of the monks, Master Haideng was a monk who was both civilized and martial, and he taught all his mastery of Tong Zigong, Two Finger Zen and Plum Blossom Pile to all his disciples.
In 1979, the fame of the sea lantern mage was growing, and a film crew heard about the master's deeds and decided to film it. In the filming of the TV station, Master Haideng and his disciples performed various martial arts, exquisite martial arts techniques and divine tricks were shown through the documentary "Sichuan Curious Records".
During that time, a frenzy of martial arts training was set off throughout the country, especially the reputation of the sea lantern mage, and even spread abroad for a time. At that time, Master Haidang suddenly became a celebrity, invited to various places to promote martial arts, and he once claimed to be the "32nd generation of the authentic Shaolin sect".
In the popular pursuit of people, the sea lantern mage seems to have become a god-like figure, praise for the sea lantern mage everywhere, even the Beijing evening newspaper has serialized the novel "The Legend of the sea lantern mage", making it the focus of media tracking.
In the eyes of foreigners, Chinese martial arts are the most magical place, and they have invited Haidang Master to go overseas to teach Buddha countless times. And Master Haideng had strong patriotic feelings and refused this request many times. It was not until 1985, when Master Haideng was invited by the famous Dulun Xuanhua Shangren, that he went to the United States to teach the teachings in Wanfo City.
After returning to China, Master Haidang was immediately appointed as a member of the Buddhist Council of China and a member of the Seventh National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and he received countless praises. In this regard, the strength of the Sea Lantern Mage cannot be questioned. It was precisely because of his American lectures that Chinese Buddhism and Chinese martial arts were able to become famous abroad and have a far-reaching influence.
Because of the great fame of Master Haidang, many media have successively filmed various documentaries and TV series in order to satisfy people's admiration for him, and the Central News Film Studio has even evaluated Master Haidang with "authentic and amazing skills".
In 1987, a TV series based on a true story "Sea Lantern Mage" was born, which was sought after by thousands of people, but it was discontinued for some reason during the broadcast. Why is that? And it all starts with the feud between Master Haidang and Shaolin.
3. Fall off the "altar" and "expell" from Shaolin
In 1928, when Master Haideng did not yet have a Dharma number, he met two senior monks of Shaolin Temple, and Fan Wuxing, who was bent on entering Shaolin to learn martial arts, burned 32 oil lamps in his chest to show his piety, and burned lamps to offer Buddha, so that he was able to learn Shaolin masters such as "Tong Zigong" and "Qi Transformation God". While Fan Wuxian was concentrating on practicing Buddhism and martial arts, Master Zhenjun of the Shaolin Temple in Songshan Mountain, Dengzhou, thought he was too angry and expelled him from Shaolin.
In 1946, when Master Haideng's reputation was high, Shaolin in Songshan in Henan Province specially hired him as a professor of national arts to enter the Dharma Ancestor's face wall cave to sit in meditation. Later, Master Haidang compiled the "Shaolin Yunshui Poems". However, "there are many popular people", especially in the foreign transmission of Haideng, who repeatedly called itself "the 32nd generation of the authentic Shaolin sect", which completely angered the Shaolin Temple.
The Shaolin Temple is particularly disgusted by this behavior of Master Haitang, and many monks in Shaolin indicate that the Shaolin abbot has only passed on to the 29th generation, and there is no 32nd generation at all. It turns out that Master Haitang is not a monk in Shaolin, he is not a monk of the Shaolin Temple, and promoting his Shaolin identity to the outside world is fraudulent.
Just when the real and false abbot was making a fuss, some people began to question the sea lamp mage, and the photographer of the documentary "Sichuan Curious Record" directly pointed out, saying that the sea dang mage did not have peerless martial arts at all, and the so-called "two-finger zen" was made by hanging Weiya and special effects.
For a while, the reputation of the Sea Lantern Mage was discredited, and his prestige in people's hearts was not as good as before. The sea lantern mage who fell to the altar paid with his life for his erroneous remarks, and the sea lantern mage has repeatedly said that the qigong he practices can cure diseases, even cancer, and can be cured by practice. In 1989, Master Haidang died of cancer. At his funeral, many believers still came to mourn, but no one from the Shaolin Temple came.
Even if Master Haidang passed away, he could not solve the grudge between him and Shaolin, and the reason for it did not need to be investigated deeply. The once highly famous Sea Lantern Master will eventually get involved in the turmoil, precisely because his "qigong healing theory" is a lie. As for the merits of the sea lantern mage, his own descendants commented. It is undeniable that he is indeed the inheritor and promoter of Chinese Buddhism and martial arts.