Many people in southern Fujian pay homage to Buddha. I have known that my family members often ask for signatures since I was a child. Most of the specific contents are no longer memorable, but I will never forget the signature.

More than seventy years ago, my 18-year-old grandma married her 18-year-old grandpa. After getting married, women in that era would take care of the housework, respect their parents-in-law, and serve their husbands. However, my grandpa, who did not understand how to be considerate of women, fell in love with her soon after they got married. Grandma said: I didn’t marry you to support you. You should find a way to support yourself. The marriage of the young couple was originally arranged by a matchmaker and decided by their parents. Grandma was very depressed, so she went to the Guandi Temple and asked for a sign. The signature was "Sun Wukong Crosses the Fire Mountain". She felt an ominous sign in her heart: This life will probably be How miserable and difficult...

A month later, when my great-grandmother (great-grandmother) was halfway through cooking, her infant cousin started crying. She got up and went to the room to make milk for him. The cousin drank, and the firewood in the big stove burned until the stove mouth fell to the ground, burning the whole house together with grandma's dowry. Grandma was also severely burned and died more than a month later.

Later, my grandfather and his brother smuggled to Malaysia. He died young when he was about thirty years old. His only son (my father) had never even seen his father. Grandma raised my father by herself, and when she died, she had been a widow for sixty or seventy years. The suffering she suffered should be no less than what Sun Wukong went through on his journey to obtain Buddhist scriptures.

Since I was a child, I have listened to my grandma talk about the ups and downs of her life. I feel for her sufferings in this life, especially this bizarre lottery, which is deeply engraved in my mind, although it is not as pious as it is. The elderly people ask Buddha about everything, but they have also developed the habit of often going to the Buddha to burn incense and pray for peace since they studied independently.

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