Why did Zhu Yuanzhang grow from a cowherd to a founding emperor? Historians have made a detailed analysis, but some people have interpreted it from the perspective of geomantic omen. Today Dapeng will talk about it.
The core concept of Feng Shui is the word "Qi". "Qi" is divided into two kinds: life and death, showing the difference between yin and yang, and has five attributes: gold, wood, water, fire and earth. If we bury the bones of our ancestors in a lively place of geomantic omen, we can shade our descendants and even let the country continue.
Xu Zhenqing, one of the "four gifted scholars in Wuzhong" in the Ming Dynasty, recorded in Yi Ye Sheng Wen that "after Zhu Yuanzhang's parents died, his family was too poor to afford a coffin, and he planned to wrap it in a straw mat and pick it up with a pole and bury it in the mountains.
Unexpectedly, the pole was broken during transportation. Zhu Yuanzhang's second brother went home to find a way to keep Zhu Yuanzhang awake. Suddenly, it got dark and there was a storm. The rain stopped, and the place where the parents' bodies were put cracked and naturally became a grave.
Because the place where Zhu Yuanzhang buried his parents happened to be on the Long Mai, which is a rare treasure trove of geomantic omen, Zhu Jiazi's grandson lived an imperial life. Decades later, Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor.
Of course, this is just a legend in unofficial history. It's in the Biography of Ming Taizu. After Zhu Yuanzhang's parents died, there was nowhere to be buried. Taigong Liu Jizu saw his pity and gave him a cemetery. Because of this, after Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor, he made a special imperial edict to posthumously award Liu Jizu as the "Yi Huihou" to show his gratitude.
Because of the belief in geomantic omen, there was a kind of "bone washing and burial" among the people in the past. If there is a disaster at home, it will be considered that the bones of the deceased ancestors are not clean or buried badly. So the tomb was dug up again, the bones were taken out, washed with clear water, and then buried again at a good time. I wonder if you still have this custom there?