热闹的市井之山

济南让人流连忘返的名山胜水多矣。著名摄影家、作家牛国栋先生却独独把千佛山称为＂世俗之山＂,斯言诚哉。当然,说它＂世俗＂,并非说它不是一个宗教之地,相反,它的玄机、它的神圣、它的暮鼓晨钟、它的经声佛号,每天都吸引着无数香客来此顶礼膜拜;说它＂世俗＂,是说它自古以来就是一座平民之山、市井之山。济南的春天是一夜春风刮来的。草绿了,花开了,沉寂了一冬的千佛山便热闹起来了。

THE LIVELY MOUNTAIN IN THE CITY

The temple fair, as a kind of social custom, grew up for profound historical reasons and from socialroots, having an intimate relation with the religious activities of Buddhism and Taoism in the process of their formation, and have been closely related to the folk beliefs of the Han nationality in the course of their progress and popularization.