37 of 63 - Rain Flower Pavillon at the 2024 Nanjing Show

You’ve heard me comment about the agates and the Nanjing story of the Rain Flowers in a few of the previous videos. Well, in this video we go to the source of all those stories - The Rain Flower Pavillion in the heart of Nanjing.
As the story goes, the Buddhist Master Yu Guang was preaching the words of Buddhism to the public about 1,500 years ago. The gods were listening to his preaching and were so moved by the eloquence and beauty of his words that they brought forth a rain of flowers from the Heavens. When the flowers hit the ground, they turned into beautiful agates which have been found and collected from the ground in the area of this pavillon. In fact, there are STILL people who have little booths set up in the streets to sell these agates.
So collecting agates is still such a huge part of the cultural history of Nanjing. So we head off to visit the Pavillon itself to see what tidbits of history we can pick up on our trip.
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Nanjing 2024
May 29, 2024 - June 2, 2024
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