Live appraising treasures, I became a national treasure expert?

Chapter 390 There is still a formation

"Li Ding'an, wait for me..."

Yu Huiyin hurriedly caught up, "Why are you leaving?"

"With Yuan Lu, Director Xiao, Director Cheng, and so many experts from the Forbidden City, it's useless for me to stay!"

How could it be useless?

Even Director Wang said that you discovered this place and of course you are responsible for it, including experts from Luyuan and the Forbidden City...

Yu Huiyin was stunned for a moment, "Aren't you happy?"

"no!"

Nothing is written on his face...

Shu Jing pursed her lips, and Yu Huiyin suddenly understood.

"Is it for the ruins? It doesn't matter. We'll come back after the New Year."

What else is there to celebrate the New Year?

If your father dares to agree, Director Guo won’t even agree...

Li Ding'an comforted himself by saying, "Let's take a look first!"

The three people followed him and entered the Meridian Gate.

The two city platforms on the left and right extend outward, and buildings are built on the platforms. They are "concave" shaped like the Meridian Gate, like a pocket.

If the enemy attacks, this pocket will be a meat grinder.

Behind the door is an urn city. It is not big, less than 800 square meters, but no matter how small it is, it is still an urn city: the second meat grinder.

Entering the inner gate again is the royal city.

The bluestone avenue goes straight to the north, with ruined palaces on both sides. Bricks and stones are scattered around, piles of sand and soil are piled up, and the rammed earth palace walls are swaying this way and that.

It has a history of more than a thousand years, so it is pretty good that it can be preserved to this extent.

Technicians first inspected, then workers cleaned up the sand and soil, and the engineering team simultaneously added construction.

When it comes to the safety of workers and technicians, this must not be taken lightly.

Further forward is the main hall.

Made of stone bricks, it is ten meters high, twenty-seven meters from east to west, and fifteen meters from north to south. The ratio of length to width is nine to five, which is a symbol of the ninety-five-year-old.

It is very small, only one-seventh of the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City, and one-eighth of the Hanyuan Hall of the Daming Palace, but it is huge here: the main hall of the Royal City.

The hall was filled with yellow sand before. When the Ziwu Road was first dug, it flowed out like water. Now nearly half of it has been cleared.

Steel roof trusses are erected both inside and outside, and the engineering team is reinforcing them.

The raised eaves have disappeared, and the foundation stones of His Highness's platform are also crooked, but the main body of the hall is basically intact.

There was only one thing, a big hole was broken in the middle of the roof of the hall, and a stone pillar was inserted.

Li Ding'an was speechless for a long time.

He really wanted to ask Zuo Peng to come and have a look: Director Zuo, look, is it exactly the same as the six stone-core dragon-driving stakes in Qinglong Mountain?
Except for high points and thick points...

Yu Huiyin took a look: "Li Ding'an, how come this pillar... comes out of the main hall?"

"It's really weird!"

It’s strange if you don’t think so…

He sighed: "Let's go!"

After bypassing the front hall, the terrain suddenly opened up, and a slightly smaller hall was located at the end of the stone path.

There is another one in the middle, smaller and extraordinarily exquisite.

If we make an analogy: the front hall is the father, the back hall is the mother, and the one in the middle is the son who has not yet grown up.

If we explain it from the perspective of Feng Shui: Qian is the sky and yang, Kun is the earth and yin, and here in the middle is the place where the heaven and the earth are in harmony, and the yin and yang are in harmony.

If you compare the main hall of the Forbidden City: Taihe-Zhonghe-Baohe, Taihe is the largest and highest, Baohe is the second, and Zhonghe is the smallest.

Including the harem of the Forbidden City: Qianqing-Jiaotai-Kunning. The Qianqing Palace is the largest, the Kunning Palace is the second, and the Jiaotai Palace is the smallest.

Although small, without exception, the nave must be the center of the palace complex, including here: the center of the nave is the axis of the entire royal city.

The only flaw is that a pillar is inserted unexpectedly, which is not an ordinary dazzling thing.

Similarly, there are stone pillars on the tops of the front and rear halls, but the one in the middle hall is the tallest and thickest.

Before the Royal City was excavated, everyone had seen it: it pierced the ground diagonally and pointed straight at the sky.

Including Li Ding'an. At that time, he thought it was Huabiao, but it probably broke in the middle and was leaning against the wall.

After digging it out, I found out that only the upper half of this thing was broken, and the lower half was inside the nave, firmly planted on the ground, exactly at the axis of the royal city.

Who in the right mind would do this?

Except for the Feng Shui Warlock.

So there is no need to guess, these three pillars are the "key arrangements that can change the direction of the dragon's veins" as he previously deduced.

There is a high probability that there will be no other magic weapons.

Li Ding'an thought for a while, then pinched the intercom again: "Director Cheng, Director Cheng, when we cleaned the three halls, were there many cultural relics unearthed?"

"Not many, most of them are architectural cultural relics, and there are also wooden ones, such as beams, columns, and the mao components in between... Oh, there are also a few carved wooden boards, which look like the seat boards of a dragon bed, but It’s made of pine…”

"Are there any gold and stones?"

"There are several carved wall stones, with dragon patterns and auspicious clouds engraved on them... The metal objects are all weapon remnants, and no special runes were found engraved on them!"

Look, just say there is no magic weapon...

Li Ding'an was a little unwilling to give up: "Is there any detection underground?"

"We have explored geomagnetism, geosound, and geoelectricity, but there is no underground palace."

He wanted to grit his teeth: What's the point?

But just give up?
There is always a little bit of unwillingness...

"Director Cheng, when is the latest time that people can enter the three main halls?"

"For basic construction, it will take up to three or four days!"

"Then three days?"

“Basically no problem!”

"Okay, thank you!"

Li Ding'an let go of the intercom and took a long breath: "After get off work, go back to the hotel..."

Off work...now?
Shu Jinghao and Fang Zhijie looked at each other, then looked at their watches: It's only two o'clock?

Look at the sky again... right?

They are very sure that the sun does not rise from the west today...

"Let's go?"

Yu Huiyin blinked and they realized that Li Ding'an had walked more than ten meters away.

Really off work?
God opens his eyes...

……

It was windy at night, but luckily it wasn't very strong.

A group of people stood on the roof of the archaeological warehouse, pointing at the ancient city.

Lu Benzhi suggested that the archaeological cabin needs to be expanded, preferably to cover the entire ancient city.

It doesn’t need to be well built, just an ordinary steel roof truss structure, which is commonly known as a color steel panel house. It doesn’t need to have many functions, it just needs to be windproof and sandproof, otherwise there will be no way to discover it.

The local leaders also suggested that it be necessary to include Wai Guo?
This is the charm of cultural relics...

The group quietly entered the archaeological cabin, changed into protective clothing, and put on safety helmets.

The female deputy mayor had sharp eyes and hurriedly waved: "Teacher Li?"

"Dear leaders, Lu Yuan..."

Li Ding'an greeted one by one, "You are busy, I will go to the front and take a look!"

"Thank you, Teacher Li!"

"It should be..."

The four of them continued walking inside. Wang Yongqian and Zuo Peng got off the roof and followed.

"Teacher Li hasn't given up yet?"

Wang Yongqian said "ha": "Give up?" This is the most stubborn person, and he will not look back even if he breaks through the south wall.

But there were only so many cultural relics. Li Ding'an also looked at them and said they had little to do with the Feng Shui array. The rest are buildings, and there is no underground palace. This means that the ruins are basically this big, and after digging, there are only stones such as foundations.

What can I do if I don’t give up?
Wang Yongqian followed quickly and spoke earnestly: "After all, it is an imperial city. From a historical perspective, its significance is more profound than the Feng Shui ruins. You don't need to worry about it anymore."

Li Ding'an sighed: "I'm not bothered, I just took a look."

"Have you given up?"

"That's not true... Even if there is no big formation here, isn't there still one? I don't believe it anymore. Who can build a city in the north of Yinshan Mountain?"

Wang Yongqian shook his head: It’s hopeless...

The group continued walking inside.

At Li Ding'an's request, the sand and soil in the three main halls were basically cleared, and preliminary additions were made, making it basically ready for further excavation and research.

The palace tiles have long since disappeared, the roof of the palace has collapsed in many places, and beams, rafters, etc. are scattered everywhere, but the main body is intact and the palace walls are still straight.

Entering the middle hall, Li Ding'an held his arms carefully around the middle pillar.

At the bottom is the Xumizuo, a square column that is two meters square and about one meter in diameter.

There are star maps on all sides, and together they form the Luo Shu:

"Shangshu": Fu Xi rules the world, dragons and horses come out of the river, so he writes...

"Yi Zhuan": Rivers produce pictures, Luo produces books, and sages follow them...

This is the earliest record in the Hetu Luoshu. Confucians believe that from then on, the ancients entered civilization from a state of ignorance.

What do you mean?
It means that these two pictures are the origin of Chinese civilization: the ancients' understanding of geography, celestial phenomena, the universe, nature, as well as directions, time, seasons, agricultural times, and even the origin of writing, all came from here.

There are a lot of similar statements recorded in "Shangshu", "The Analects", "Book of Rites", "Guanzi" and so on.

I don’t know if it’s true, but Li Ding’an at least knows that these two pictures are the source of astrology, yin and yang, magic and metaphysics: Fuxi got Heluo and transformed Bagua, and King Wen got Bagua to transform Yi Jing.

Whether you are engaged in astronomy, geography, building a city, studying prophecy, feng shui, or even fortune telling, all theoretical basis comes from here.

It doesn’t matter whether your ancestor is Guo Pu, Yang Yi, or Lai Buyi, whether you study the Burial Sutra, the Dragon Shaking Sutra, or the Qing Nang Book, which theory you are based on, whether it is Yin and Yang, the Five Elements, the Six Yao, The Bagua corresponds to the celestial phenomenon of which wall, whether it is Ziwei, Shaowei, or Taiwei, all included here.

To borrow another sentence from "Shangshu": Dayu controlled the floods, and the tortoise carried Luoshu...Yu collected the gold of Jiu Mu, cast Jiuding, and divided the nine states...

No matter what your dragon veins are, these two pictures are the ancestors!
Li Ding'an stared at the pillar, as motionless as a stone sculpture.

So, what other magic weapon is needed?
The entire royal city is in line with Feng Shui, and it is controlled by Heluo. Every palace and every wall is a magic weapon...

The others looked at each other.

After a long time, Wang Yongqian poked him: "Hey, hey... Li Ding'an?"

"what happened?"

"Don't stand there stupidly. What if a brick falls?"

Where are the bricks?

The scaffolding on the top is clothed like a spider web, and covered with three layers of protective netting, so that not even a grain of rice can escape...

Li Ding'an looked up and patted the dust on his hands: "Go back!"

"Ah...don't you see the pillars in the front hall and the back hall?"

"Don't look at it."

The river picture is the body, and the Luoshu is the function... This is the Luoshu, and the other two pictures must be the river pictures.

Just three star maps, nothing interesting...

He turned around and walked out, and a group of people filed out.

Wang Yongqian breathed a sigh of relief: "Give up?"

What to give up?

The city is used as the formation here, but it does not mean that the city will be the formation in the next place.

Probably overseas, but what if?
No matter what, you have to do some research to find out the approximate location.

"We'll come back after Director Cheng has basically cleared the inner city area, but it will probably take at least ten or twenty days... just in time to go home for the New Year!"

Hearing this sentence, Fang Zhijie and Shu Jinghao almost burst into tears: Teacher Li, thank you, is it possible that you still have the concept of "Chinese New Year" in your consciousness?
They thought they would have to accompany Li Ding'an here to blow the northwest wind during the Spring Festival...

Of course not.

Li Ding'an is stubborn, but not stupid: He doesn't care about himself, so he can't let so many people eat sand with him during the Chinese New Year, right?
At this moment, there are more than a hundred people in this place...

While talking, several people left the hall.

Each group worked in an orderly manner, collecting cultural relics, cleaning streets and alleys, and taking photos and drawings.

The peripheral engineering team is reinforcing the wind protection fence, and it seems that they want to build a warehouse from the same spot.

The leaders haven't left yet and are standing outside the apse, talking among themselves.

They are probably discussing the stone pillar that sticks out of the roof of the palace: for example, whether to move it, repair the main hall, and use it as a "relic capital of the Tang Dynasty" as a gimmick, or keep it to echo the ruins of Qinglong Mountain and expand its influence.

Perhaps because he saw Li Ding'an, he was just about to turn back the way he came when the intercom rang and Lu Benzhi's voice came out: "Ding'an, what do the pillars in the hall say?"

"That's the star pillar. You can also use it as a magic weapon of the Feng Shui array: He Tu is the body, and the main element is Chang, on the left and right, representing the origin of the two dragon veins in the north and south. Luo Shu is the function, and the main transformation is in the middle, representing the combination of the two dragons. Veins, the square and the circle hide each other, yin and yang embrace each other, and use each other..."

"So complicated?"

Immediately, Lu Benzhi paused, "What did you just say that He Tu is on the left and Luo Shu is in the middle? The direction of the stone pillar in the apse should be on the right, but when I looked at it, it looked like Luo Shu on the pillar? Oh, There is also the front hall, which is also Luoshu..."

Li Ding'an was suddenly stunned: The three star pillars are all Luoshu?
impossible.

Since there is Luoshu, there must be Hetu.

The Hetu represents generation, and the Luo Shu represents evolution. No matter in any classics or doctrines, no matter in which aspect it is applied, these two pictures complement each other and are indispensable.

If it is changed in Feng Shui: the river diagram represents heaven and yang, the Luoshu represents earth and yin...there is Luoshu but no river diagram, which means there is only earth and no sky...but there is no earth from heaven?

The lonely yin does not grow, the lonely yang does not grow... Without yang, what formation are you setting up?

"Lu Yuan, please wait a moment, I'll go over and take a look..."

Before he finished speaking, he turned around and ran away.

It was really running, like a puff of smoke.

By the time the others chased after him, Li Ding'an had already walked around the pillar and looked around three times.

That's right, it's Luo Shu...

Shouldn't it?

"Lv Yuan, do you have any photos of the stone pillars in the front hall?"

"Have!"

Lu Benzhi opened his phone and handed it over.

That’s right, it’s still Luo Shu!
What about Hetu?

Li Ding'an looked around.

In fact, there is no need to look at it at all: the three main halls and even the entire royal city were cleaned by Cheng Ming himself. The only parts that are not part of the original architecture or the main structure are these three stone pillars.

The question is, is it all Luo Shu?

But what about Hetu?

"Xiao Shu, aerial photos of the ancient city!"

Shu Jing was so busy that she turned on the computer.

Gengzi belongs to earth, water and earth are in the same hexagram, dragon and water are linked together, Xin and Ren gather together to gather Chen... Yes, it corresponds to the Ziwei Yuan among the Three Yuans, which is grand and majestic.

But if it corresponds to the celestial phenomenon, the entire Ziweiyuan is just the bottom middle point in Luoshu...

There is no river map anyway.

But there can’t be none.

The question is, where to go?
He stared at the pillar, frowning...

After a long time, Li Ding'an's eyes lit up: "Director Cheng, please arrange for technicians, as well as drilling rigs, probes, and metal detectors..."

"Ah?" Director Cheng was stunned for a moment, "Teacher Li, where are you looking?"

"Under the main hall!"

Li Ding'an took a long breath: "I suspect there should be another formation below!"

And it must be a big formation.

In other words: don’t have too many magic weapons.

Otherwise, how could it be worthy of the title "River Picture"?
(End of this chapter)