When students come to study in China, Chinese culture is what they should pay much attention to because culture plays an important role in learning intensive Chinese language courses.
To everybody who has intensive Chinese language courses, the Golden Temple in Kunming is a big tourist attraction as they often come to the place praying for bless. The Golden Temple is located at the top of Mingfeng Mountain, and it is made of copper, instead of gold. There is a famous copper bell in the Golden temple.
The sound of bell can spread for 40 km with a low weakening rate of its sound waves. For students who learn intensive Chinese language courses, they will find the bell pronounced as Yongle Dazhong.
Learning intensive Chinese language courses, you’ll find different version of the story, and here is one of them. According to legendary stories, there was a stone cave named “Jin Kai Men” on the Mingfeng Mountain. Two of its gates kept closed tightly and no one knew what was in there. At clear nights, occasionally there would be someone who found the gates opened and golden lights came out of the cave. The light colored the mountain and cloud into red.
At the foot of the Mingfeng Mountain, there was a village named Mingfeng Village. A master and his apprentice lived in the village. One night, the apprentice was working with his master. Suddenly, they saw a flash of golden light appeared on the top of the Mingfeng Mountain. The light brightened the whole part of the mountain.
“The gates are opening,” the mastered said,” let’s go and figure out what is happening. ” The master and his apprentice went straightly to the mountain immediately.
When they got there, the stone gates were still not closed. The shining golden light came out of the cave. What a surprise, there was no jewelry in the cave, and the only thing there was red soil. The master took some soil and twisted it with his fingers, but the red soil was as hard as stones. He put the red soil near his ear, and he a heard clear and brittle sound.
After thinking for a while, the master ordered the apprentice to help him take away the red soil as much as he could. They felt sweaty and tired after moving some soil out and went out of cave to get some cold air, but immediately they stepped out the cave, the gates were closed and the golden light disappeared.
In the next morning, the master and his apprentice took lots of time moving the red soil back and smelted it into golden liquid copper. They made the golden liquid copper into a large bell and put it on a huge stone pillar.
At night, the master packed his stuff and left. Before his leaving, he told his apprentice never to strike the bell until three days later. However, someone not listened to his master. When the bell rang, a large line of crack appeared on the ground, and the bell fell into the soil and disappeared. The master came back and told the apprentice the whole story about this bell.
If you study in China, you may be heard about this magic story told by many people. “The bell had a magic power of bringing treasures and blessing to the people lived within the area where I go, but when it rang, the magic power stopped. If you strike the bell three days later, many people will be blessed and large areas will be filled with treasures. “After saying all these, the master left. Without his master, the apprentice found a hoe, and started to dig. Many years later, he dug the bell out.
According to another student who has intensive Chinese language courses, some local people told him the bell that dug out by the apprentice was melted into liquid copper, and then it was made into the copper bell named “Yongle Dazhong”. The bell is hanging in the Golden Temple now, so if you come to have intensive Chinese language courses just go and visit the amazing place.
If you come to China, please don’t hesitate to visit the place. The Golden Temple itself is a big tourist attraction, not alone the “Yongle Dazhong” in the Temple.