(Excerpted from Hubei Institute of Yin and Yang Geography)
Legend has it that Han Xin, under Liu Bang, the Emperor Gaozu, was buried in a treasure trove of geomantic omen just by burying his mother, and his official career was flourishing. Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, buried his father, and the grave site happened to be in Long Yun Town Cave, so in 277, Zhu's surname was born.
There are many such sayings in the official history of China. The History of Yuan An Chuan (Volume 45) records that Yuan An, the military commander of Liu Xiushi, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, chose a treasure trove of geomantic omen when burying his father. From then on, he became rich. "At the beginning, when his father was away, his mother asked Ann to look at the burial place. Every scholar saw him and asked him what to do. He said he was safe. Life refers to one place, cloud burial. " If you can't see it at the moment, pay attention to safety. So he buried the land he occupied, so he was prosperous all his life. "
It means that Tao Kan, a famous Eastern Jin Dynasty star, was born in a poor family in his early years. When his family held a funeral, a cow was lost at home. Tao Kan went out to look for it and met an old man on the way. The old man told him that the cow was lying in the sewage pond in front of him. If his relatives were buried here, he would become a big official in the future. The old man pointed to another nearby mountain and said, "This is second to none. There are two thousand stones in the world." With that, the old man disappeared. Tao Kan went to the old man's sewage pond, where the family's cows were lying and the Taoists were buried.
Tao Kan's story can be found in The Book of Jin Zhou Fang Chuan (Volume 58). It turned out that Tao Kan told his friend Zhou to visit another treasure trove of geomantic omen. Zhou was buried there after his father died. Later, Zhou's trip really became a history of two thousand stones and three generations of dignitaries.
There are also things that don't believe in Feng Shui and dig ancestral graves. Yang hu, a famous soldier in the Western Jin Dynasty, is a rare military talent in the history of China. He can not only fight, but also be an honest official. "All the money he received was given to Jiuzu, and the sergeant was rewarded, so there was no money left at home. Nancheng may not be printed. "
A fortune-teller who is good at geomantic omen told yang hu that Yangjiazu's grave was "imperial". This is terrible. If the current emperor knows, the whole family will not suffer? However, the grave sweeper said, "There will be no queen if you chisel", but "it is still a fork in the road". In order to avoid harm, yang hu dug up his ancestral grave. Later, yang hu was thrown off his horse and broke his arm. Although he is in an important position, he has no son and has broken the incense.
Yang You was not greedy for the "imperial power" on the ancestral grave, but also kept his family property. Some people died because they believed their ancestral graves were buried in the dragon cave. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Tang Yuzhi, a native of Zhejiang, was born into a family of geomantic omen. His ancestors left him a treasure trove of geomantic omen, inferring that his descendants would become emperors. Tang Yuzhi, demagoguery, recruiting and insurrection, captured Fuyang City as emperor. After he proclaimed himself emperor, he had to act according to the regulations, and he was also neutral to the prince among his sons. When the court heard the news, it immediately sent the imperial army to conquer. As soon as they met, Tang Yuzhi was beheaded.
The original record of Biography of Southern History and Dangerous Drama (Volume 47) states: "Tang Yuzhi, a native of Fuyang, lives in Tonglu, and his father's ancestral tomb is his inheritance. Yu's grave is full of royalty. The golden seal in the mountain is confusing. In the winter of the second year of Yongming, he got together with the party and fell to Fuyang. Go to Qiantang tyrant and buy a prince. The thief took the county and sent Sun Hong, the prefect of Huiji, to take Yin Shan. When the satrap Wang Jing was still on the right path, Yu Can took advantage of his weakness and attacked. When the flood reached Puyang River, the county magistrate Zhang Sizu sent the garrison leader Yang Xiuwu to refuse to fight, which was a big break. The imperial court sent forbidden soldiers to the east for help. When they arrived in Qiantang, they dispersed after World War I, and the birds were cut empty. "
However, some people think that the geomantic omen of ancestral graves is good. Like Tang Yuzhi, they began to become emperors.
This was the case in Song Wudi during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Emperor Wu's ancestral grave is in Dantu, Jiangsu today. When Mr Feng Gong saw it, he thought it was the "son of heaven". The History of Southern Song Dynasty (volume 1) records that "the tomb of Emperor Kao (tomb of Liu Yuzu) is located in the back hill of Dantu, and there are people who are angry with the emperor between Qin Shiqu and Dantu. Sometimes Confucius, Miaoshan occupied the tomb, and the emperor tasted the tomb and bullied him and said,' What about this tomb?' Kong Gong said,' Very'. "From then on, Emperor Wu of song became more conceited, coveted the throne of the emperor, and abolished the gold in 420 AD.
The emperors of the Tang Dynasty all broke the rebellion by bad feng shui.
The geomantic omen of ancestral graves is so important to future generations that the phenomenon of grave excavation caused by "digging ancestral graves" has become a major point of view in the history of ancient grave robbery in China.
In the mid-Tang Dynasty, Yu Chaoen, a great eunuch, had a bad idea of digging Guo Ziyi's ancestral grave. Yu Chaoen and Guo Ziyi have been at odds. The Biography of Guo Ziyi in the New Tang Dynasty (volume 150) records that Guo Ziyi "was short-lived by Cheng and Yu Chaoen. When he was in trouble, he took the letter to him, and now he took the baggage and take the journey. Destroy the hidden Lingzhou, and send someone to the father's grave, but the thief has not got it. " Yu Chaoen hoped to curb the prosperity of the Guo family's official career by robbing the ancestral graves, but he failed and sued the emperor instead.
The geomantic omen theory in Sui and Tang Dynasties, promoted by Guo Pu and other Wei and Jin celebrities, entered a new peak, and a number of Wei and Jin celebrities appeared. Therefore, people paid special attention to the ancestral grave geomantic omen in Sui and Tang Dynasties, and a new theory came into being. "Digging ancestral graves" and "bad geomantic omen" have become powerful means to punish rebels in the current dynasty.
Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in the history of China, used this method to punish the rebellious Xu Jingye.
Zhang Kun, a native of the Tang Dynasty, recorded this in the Book of the Ruling and Opposition (Volume 6): At the beginning of the burial of Xu Jichu, the Emperor Yinggong of the Tang Dynasty, he said, "Suzaku is singing and his descendants are thriving." Hearing this, Zhang Jingzang said privately, "It takes up too many things. This so-called rosefinch is sad, and ashes are seen in the coffin. " Later, Sun rebelled against Yangzhou, and his younger brother Jing Zhen replied, "When I was born, I dug a turtle under the cup, like a big and expensive cloud. Public order in Britain is secret, and nothing is said. If there is a big change. " Then the wrath of heaven, the British public coffin, burning its body, its ash is also.
Chu Haojun, who also came from a ruling and opposition party and was once the prime minister of Tang Gaozong, Li Zhishi, was also sanctioned by Wu Zetian. When Hao was buried, a scholar passed by his grave and sighed, "bury the dragon horn." It must be very embarrassing. " Later, Hao's grandson had an accident, which harmed Hao and Wu Zetian. According to historical records, Hao was dug up and humiliated after his death, which should have nothing to do with Feng Shui. However, Emperor Gaozong strongly opposed Hao, who was the prime minister of Wu Zetian, and made Wu Zetian bear a grudge.
Huang Chao was the leader of the peasant uprising army at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and he was also one of the madman in the history of grave robbery in China (see the book People: Huang Chao, the Dumbest Grave Robber). In 88 1 year, Chang 'an, Tang Dou, was captured, the state of Daqi was established, and the name of Jintong was changed. And stealing the Tang emperors, the "great" Feng Shui they built was destroyed and dug away by the imperial court. In the third year of Li Xian's neutrality in Tang Xizong (AD 883), a secret message came from those who owned the same land. There is a "Huang Chao Valley" near Niu Shan, Jinzhou, which is the treasure house of Huang Chao. If the weather in Huang Chao is bad, this mountain should be dug. According to Wang Mingqing, a poet in the Song Dynasty, in his book After the Swing, Li Yan really believed it and sent ten thousand people to dig Niu Shan for a month before destroying Niu Shan. A stone bucket was unearthed, which contained a yellow monster and a three-foot sword. Huang Chao committed suicide after the defeat (it is said that he was murdered by his nephew).
In fact, this is not credible. Huang Chao's failure has nothing to do with Li Xian's digging Niu Shan. In the third year of neutralization, the insurgents in Huang Chao were dying. On the eighth day of April that year, Tang Jun entered Chang 'an from Guang Tai Gate, and Huang Chao was invincible. He burned the palace and fled, invincible.
In the Tang Dynasty, many people didn't believe in the good or bad luck of Feng Shui, and Yao Chong, a famous minister in Li Longji during the Xuanzong period of the Tang Dynasty, was one of them. The Book of the New Tang Dynasty Yao Chongchuan (volume 137), the ancestral temple collapsed during the Kaiyuan period. At that time, Li Longji was going to Luoyang, the capital of the East, and everyone around him thought it was unlucky to travel.
Yao Chong thought to himself, "I heard that Sui took an old temple in Fu Jian to build it, and Tang was in charge. And the mountain is rotten and collapses, and the wood is old and self-sufficient. But the peace guild is not good, and neither is Bak Yan. Moreover, your majesty has been in Guanzhong for no years and has paid something. Because he is lucky in the East, not his own. I have given up all my thoughts. Please drive as scheduled. It is difficult to repair the old temple. Why not give it to the Taiji Hall? Most of them are new temples, Shen Chengfeng, and the virtue of filial piety. " Li Longji was very happy. "What you said is exactly what I meant." Not everyone can be buried in the land of feng shui.
The emperors of the Song Dynasty were also superstitious about Feng Shui.
Song Shenzong Zhao Yong was a superstitious emperor. There are three kinds of unfilial, and the last is the greatest. If the emperor has no "dragon seed", it is even more taboo for the country. Zhao Yong gave birth to many sons, but died one after another. Someone told him that there might be too many graves around Kaifeng, the capital, and Yin Qi was too strong, which affected the royal Feng Shui and suppressed Zhao Zongshi. So I'm going to force people to move their graves here.
Wang Anli, Wang Anshi's younger brother, wrote to discourage him from doing something, so as to avoid a large-scale "digging ancestral graves" incident. The Biography of Wang Anli in Song Dynasty (Volume 327) is recorded as follows.
"The emperor lost the prince, and the tomb of Taishi Gong forced the capital, so it was bad for the country's heirs, and hundreds of thousands of people were reported without Lu, and the people were afraid. An Li remonstrated: Wen Shi Wang is thirty years old, and his administration precedes the burial of bones, and he has never touched the people's graves to benefit his heirs. Emperor mourning. "
Song people's superstition of geomantic omen is no less than that of Tang people. After the Swing tells the story of Fan Zeshan burying his father in the Song Dynasty.
Fan Kuai died in a temple on his way to Shangrao, Jiangxi. The old monk in the temple told Fan Zeshan: "There is a cave on the mountain behind the temple. If you don't bury it, you don't have to move. " The old monk knows feng shui, saying that this cave has good feng shui, and the master and future generations are very rich. After Fan Chusun buried his father, his career of becoming the first place was smooth sailing. Later, Fan Zeshan wanted to move his father's body back to the original place for burial. When the old monk heard about it, he suggested not to move, but Fan insisted on moving back. Later, Fan Chusun was impeached, demoted, exiled and died in other places. In fact, Fan's bad luck in choosing an official did not hinder the relocation. The direct reason is that he offended Qin Gui, a powerful person of the dynasty.
In the past, people believed in fate, and fortune was in the sky. Some lives will come, but those that don't are unfortunate. The same is true of the land of feng shui, which is not worthy of the name. The ancestral graves buried landlords and murderers of geomantic omen.
In Song Dynasty, Hong Mai's Jane Yizhi is a note of "extreme changes in supernatural powers", and its writing style is similar to the strange novel Searching for the Gods. The origin of Chen Wei's father's tomb is recorded in Volume E. Chen Wei's father's tomb is next to the South Temple in Putian, Fujian. It turned out that it was bought by a rich family. However, after the rich were buried, their descendants suffered from eye diseases. Mr. Feng Shui said that this is because the feng shui of the cemetery is not good, so it is advisable to move this cemetery and sell it, otherwise there will be endless troubles. Chen Weiguo bought this land and buried his father's grave. The eye diseases of the rich disappeared, and Chen Weigong soon made a fortune, became prime minister, and made Shao Shi an official.
At that time, people thought that people who were not virtuous in the land of Feng Shui should not be buried, otherwise they would get into trouble. In fact, these statements are superstitious and deceptive.
Excavation of Long Mai in Qing Dynasty during the Apocalypse of Ming Dynasty
Coincidentally, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty also did the work of "digging ancestral graves", which was even more powerful than Li Xian in Tang Xizong.
Don't think that the robbery was done by thieves. Judging from the history of grave-robbing in China, mass grave-robbing and grave-digging are mostly "official acts", and some of them are even planned by the emperor himself, such as Wu Zetian's digging of ancestral graves and Hao's tomb.
The event of "digging ancestral graves" in the Ming Dynasty occurred in the apocalypse period at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Youxiao, the son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the second-to-last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, destroyed all the tombs of Jin emperors near Jiulong Mountain, a Dafang mountain system in southwest Beijing, and dug up the Long Mai of the Qing Dynasty.