The sixth day of the first lunar month is dingguangfo Christmas day.
1. About dingguang Buddha
Flaming Buddha (Van Di ^ PAM! Kara): also known as fixed light Tathagata and universal light Tathagata, it is the head of the Thousand Buddhas born in the past solemn robbery. Burning a lamp, 'when you are born, everything around you is like a lamp, so it's called burning a lamp prince. To be a Buddha is also called lighting a lamp.
2. Legend of dingguang Buddha
At the beginning, When Sakyamuni was a good wisdom boy, he saw a royal woman with many green lotus flowers. He spent 500 yuan to buy five for the burning Buddha. It's also said that in the past, one day, the boy of Shanhui was walking on the road when he happened to meet the burning Buddha. The child of Shanhui found a pool of sewage on the ground and thought that the Buddha walked barefoot, which would surely contaminate the feet of the Buddha. He threw himself on the ground and spread his hair on the sewage, waiting for the burning Buddha to walk over his hair. At that time, when the burning Buddha saw the scene of the good and intelligent boy covering the mud with his hair, he wrote: "good man, in the afterlife, you should be a Buddha, named Sakyamuni. '