一千多年前的一天,晚唐詩人皮日休來到蘇州開元寺,見供案上擺着一對碧綠的玉石佛鉢,引起了詩人的注意。一位老儈向他述說了這對佛鉢的來歷:據《法顯傳》云,佛鉢本在古印度毘舍離,佛祖曾用它吃齋。其後這對佛鉢幾經流轉來到漢地。晋建興八年,漁民們在吳淞江邊的沙灘上發現了這兩個佛鉢,起初以為是臼類的東西,不一會兒有佛像從鉢子上浮現出來,漁民們無不驚異,趕忙把它們送到開元寺來保存。於是皮日休寫下一首《開元寺佛鉢詩》:“帝青石作綠冰姿(佛律云:此鉢帚青玉石也,四天王所獻也),曾得金人手自持。拘律樹邊齋散後,提羅花下洗來時。乳麇味斷中天覺, One thousand years ago, the late Tang Dynasty poet Piri came to Kaiyuan Temple in Suzhou. He saw a pair of green jade Buddha statues on the case and attracted the attention of the poets. An old man told him about the origins of the Buddha’s bowl: According to “Fa-fei-ch’i-ch’i”, the Buddha bowl was originally left in ancient India and the Buddha used it for fasting. After this flow of the Buddha bowl came to Han after several times. Jin Jianxing eight years, fishermen found in the Wusong River beach these two Buddha bowls, at first thought it was mortal things, and soon Buddha statues emerge from the bowl, the fishermen were all surprised, quickly put them Send Kaiyuan Temple to save. So Pi Rixu wrote the next song, “Kaiyuan Si Buddhist Bowl Poetry”: "Teijin stone green ice posture (Buddha cloud: the bowl broom jade also, the four kings sacrifice), Zeng Dejin manned. After the fasting meal, when Tirouse took a wash,