5. Dreaming back to Jiuhua Mountain When people are in their thirties and are almost forty, they often start to have some strange dreams, as if they are intimate. My wife dreamed that she lived five hundred years ago during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty before the epidemic in 2019. She was deeply impressed by her clothes and hair accessories in her dreams. After waking up, I searched the Internet for ancient clothes. From the Qing Dynasty to the mid-Ming Dynasty, she recognized at a glance: "It's this clothes!" In her dream, she once worshipped in a mountain temple. She still remembers talking to the abbot, drinking tea, bamboo stools and furnishings in the house. I started to search for temples on the mountains across the country online, from Hebei, Chongqing, and Guizhou to look like them. Until I sent her a photo of Tiantai Temple in Jiuhua Mountain, she recognized it at a glance: "Yes! It's here." We verbally said that we would go to visit Jiuhua Mountain, but from 2019 to 2022, we never made a journey, as if the fate was not yet here. During the summer vacation of 2022, we finally set off. As soon as she arrived at the old street of Jiuhua Mountain, her wife suddenly said, "It's so familiar." When she walked on the street, she seemed to be able to recognize every alley, as if she had lived here for decades. But in fact, this is her first time here. That trip was for praying for our parents-in-law. We visited many temples and our wishes were fulfilled. After we got home, we thought: Why not bring our parents-in-law here directly? So two or three weeks later, we set off again. This time I'm familiar with the experience. I arrived at the Moon Stone Hall in the early morning. At the entrance of the Sandal Temple, my parents and I were walking in front, and my wife was suddenly stunned for a few seconds. She said that just now the scene from two or three hundred years ago flashed in her mind - at that time, the Sandalwood Temple had white walls and black tiles, surrounded by field roads, and Jiuhua Street was still very small. She actually remembered that she was a young novice monk with a master and senior brother... In just a few seconds, the scene suddenly appeared like fragments of memories of previous lives. A scene in my previous life that I felt like a different life, and I felt both friendly and familiar. It turns out that coming to Jiuhua Mountain in my dream is already a fate in my previous life