Zhou Zuoren wrote "Destiny Day" in June 1940, saying: "The day when the sun, the moon and the sky are doomed to fate is the birthday of the Buddha or the day of enlightenment. On this day of every month, a ceremony is held in the temple, and many people come to pay homage. " It turns out that each bodhisattva only has one or two days a year. Later, the number of days continued to increase. There is a Guanyin Day every month in Kannonji, where the incense is the most popular, such as Tokyo and Sensoji Temple. Since the early Edo period, every Buddhist temple has been fixed on the frontier to hold sacrificial ceremonies, and a large number of believers have come to pay homage, which has led to the rise of the surrounding markets, and Guanyin City, Tianshen City and Desert City have gradually formed a "frontier economy".
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Worship once equals to worship 1000 times, so the rapid merit method quickly spread throughout the country. During the warranty period (17 16- 1736), Edo Sensoji Temple (present-day Tokyo), Kanazawa Kannonji and other places even put out the slogan of "46,000 days", claiming that once this day is over, they will immediately get the merit of 126 years. According to the average life expectancy of the ancients, the merits of this day are almost enough for a person to live for three lifetimes. The logic goes like this: the most efficacious bodhisattva, who worships once in his life, can have peace all his life. The homonym of "life" in Japanese is "one liter", and one liter of rice contains about 46,000 grains of rice. Therefore, the merit of paying homage on July 10 is 46 thousand's "life"
Forty-six thousand days can't be found in Indian, China and Japanese Buddhist scriptures, and it doesn't seem to be a work of "orthodox Buddhism". From the perspective of Chinese people's worship of God, Forty-six thousand Days always shows the shrewdness of a small businessman who "talks business with Bodhisattva". The minimum input, the maximum output, the specific time, and the specific merits are doubled. Indeed, this is a "once and for all" religious behavior that can only appear in the Edo era when the commodity economy is prosperous and the civilian culture is prosperous.