Shadow of the Tomb Raider: A Complete Record of the History of Tomb Raiders in China

Chapter 71 The Ancestral Grave Digging Event in the History of Chinese Tomb Raiders (5)
Next, we will see whether Lai Buyi's prophecy can really become a reality. In 1851, Hong Xiuquan, the sixth generation descendant of Hong Gongsan, launched the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising in Guangxi, which shocked China and the world. It swept half of China and made Tianjing its capital. He became the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. prophecy.But Lai Buyi's prophecy was not fully realized, because Hong Xiuquan had only been the king of heaven for 600 years, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom failed.The reason, some people say, is because the Qing government sent people to dig up Hong Xiuquan's ancestral grave.

After the outbreak of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising, all the way was like a broken bamboo, which caused great panic for Emperor Xianfeng. On the one hand, he issued an edict to stabilize people's hearts; Excavations in Guiping County, Guangxi... All prefectures and counties have been ordered to conduct open and secret investigations to ensure that the tombs of the first traitor and the three generations of traitors were dug and destroyed, and all of them were chiseled off after sitting on the mountain, so as to eliminate the flames and punish them. Big scorpion.After Mou Chongling, the magistrate of Hua County, received the order, he was ordered to urgently dig up the grave of Hong Xiuquan's ancestor.Although Hong Xiuquan's ancestral tomb was destroyed, perhaps because the aura of king accumulated in Furongzhang was too strong, Hong Xiuquan was the "king of heaven" for 13 years until he died of illness.Although the Qing government did not immediately stop the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement after excavating Hong Xiuquan's ancestral tomb, it gave itself the opportunity to survive for decades.

In order to claim the title of emperor, dig up the ancestral grave

The degree of superstition of Fengshui in ancient China can be seen from the "digging ancestral graves" incidents before the Ming Dynasty.In fact, the Manchu Qing Dynasty also paid special attention to geomantic omen. For example, the divination and selection of the sites of the Eastern and Western Tombs of the Qing Dynasty were full of mysteries.The emperors of the Qing Dynasty also did things like digging up ancestral graves and destroying people's feng shui.For example, in the folklore, Qianlong stole the nanmu from the Ming Mausoleum, which subjectively completely destroyed the emperor Long Yun of the Ming Dynasty with the surname Zhu.

When history entered the period of the Republic of China, "digging ancestral graves" still happened from time to time, and even appeared on some important people in the Republic of China.

Yuan Shikai, the president of the Republic of China, was very particular about Feng Shui.The largest peasant uprising that broke out after the Revolution of 1912 was the "Bai Lang Uprising". It was initiated by Henan people Bai Lang, Li Hongbin, and Song Laoren in 1914 to oppose Yuan Shikai's rule. The uprising failed in [-].

In the early years of the Republic of China, there was a severe famine in the rural areas of Henan Province. In addition, Zhang Zhenfang, the governor of Henan Province, extorted and extorted money.Bai Lang united with Li Hongbin, Song Laoren and other leaders of the green forest, and was promoted as the leader.Based in Muzhuxia, Wuyang County, they put forward the slogan of "fighting the rich and helping the poor". In the summer of 600, Bai Lang took advantage of the Beiyang army's transfer from the southwestern part of Henan Province, and led his troops to attack Tang County and Yucheng, and the momentum grew.After the outbreak of the Second Revolution, Bai Lang went south in September to capture Zaoyang, Hubei, and occupied the county seat for 1913 days. In November, they captured Baofeng County. In January 9, Bai Lang led 11 people to wipe out the government troops entering western Henan, crossed the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway, and successively attacked Guangshan, Huangchuan, Shangcheng, Lu'an, Huoshan and other counties in Anhui Province.Yuan Shikai dismissed Zhang Zhenfang, sent Duan Qirui, chief of the army, concurrently as the governor of Henan, and mobilized more than 11 people to carry out the encirclement and suppression.Bai Lang broke through the siege of the Beiyang Army in Huoshan, conquered Laohekou in Hubei in one fell swoop on March 1914, and wiped out more than 1 enemies.Here, Bai Lang convened a military meeting and decided to go west to Shaanxi and Gansu to seize Sichuan as his base.Commander Bai Lang drove into Shaanxi, captured Shangnan and other places, and once approached Xi'an.It then proceeds westward along the Weishui River and enters Gansu Province from Long County.Brothers and Elders Associations in the Shaanxi area joined in one after another, and the team was replenished.Taking advantage of the momentum to capture Tianshui, the army entered the Gannan area.He wanted to enter Sichuan from this point, but was blocked by the Sichuan army.The Bailang army has been fighting on the move for a long time, with insufficient supplies, the main force is exhausted, military discipline is lax, and the leaders, big and small, are homesick.So I decided to turn back to my hometown in Henan along the original route.The officers and soldiers pursued and intercepted them. Bai Lang's army fought hard all the way and suffered heavy casualties. By the time they returned to Lushan and Baofeng in Henan, they were completely defeated. At the beginning of August, Bai Lang led hundreds of people to fight against the official army in Lushan Shizhuang. He was wounded and died.

According to folklore, Yuan Shikai, in order to suppress Bai Lang's rebellious army and curb its momentum, listened to Mr. Feng Shui's nonsense and robbed Bai Lang's ancestral grave in Baofeng County, Henan Province.It is said that Bai Lang's ancestral tomb was buried in Niuwo Baodi, which is as good as Tao Kan's ancestral tomb in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), courtesy name Weiting and nickname Rongan, was born in Xiangcheng, Henan Province, and was a well-known figure in modern Chinese history.He served as the emperor of the Chinese Empire, the first president of the Republic of China, the leader of the Beiyang warlords, the prime minister of the Qing cabinet, and the governor of Korea. On March 1, 1912, after Yuan Shikai took office as President, he ordered the dissolution of the National Assembly, the implementation of the monarchy, and the change of Yuan to "Hongxian".It is said that Yuan Shikai's "Emperor's Dream" happened from the feng shui of the ancestral tomb. Mr. Feng Shui helped Yuan's family take care of the problems in the feng shui of the ancestral tomb.

Things have to start with Yuan Shikai's experience. Yuan Shikai was born on August 1859, the ninth year of Xianfeng (22).He has a short stature, a thick neck and short legs, and he walks with a straight splayed gait. According to folklore, he is the reincarnation of the "toad" in the "Ten Rites of Xishan".Yuan Shikai was frustrated in the examination field when he was young, and at the age of 7000 he abandoned his writing and joined the army.He once traveled east to North Korea with the army to suppress the rebellion.After the First Sino-Japanese War, he was recommended by Li Hongzhang to train the new army at Xiaozhan, and mastered an armed force of more than 1908 people.Since then, it has gradually been relied on by the Qing court. In [-], Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi died one after another, Puyi succeeded to the throne, and Prince Chun Zaifeng was regent.Zaifeng hated Yuan Shikai very much because of his opposition to many of Yuan Shikai's New Deal measures, and because of the [-] coup (he believed that Yuan Shikai betrayed the reformers, causing Guangxu to be imprisoned to death by the Empress Dowager Cixi), and he hated Yuan Shikai very much. After becoming regent, he immediately relieved Yuan Shikai of all errands; Unlucky, he returned to Henan due to illness, first lived in seclusion in Hui County, and then transferred to Anyang.

Yuan Shikai was very superstitious since he was a child, and he often looked at relatives and asked divination and calculated Feng Shui when doing things.Yuan Shikai superstitiously believed that the reason why he was excluded might be a problem with the feng shui of the ancestral tomb, so he asked a feng shui master to "consult" the ancestral tomb.After looking at it, the Feng Shui master said that Yuan Jiazu's tomb is where a real dragon knots a hole, which is beyond words.But because of the walls built around the "Dragon Cave", "the dragon's body is restrained, its air veins are blocked, it cannot flourish, and it suffers setbacks instead."The most urgent task is to tear down the wall of the ancestral tomb. Yuan Shikai believed it, so he sent someone to tear down the wall of his ancestral tomb, so that the ancestral tomb looks more correct, more powerful, and the dragon veins are more prosperous.There is an allegorical saying among the people: "Yuan Shikai digs the head of the grave - the ancestral grave is not correct." It is about this matter.Yuan Shikai asked people to tear down the wall, and three years later he really became the "emperor".This should be Mr. Feng Shui's suggestion to improve his level. Yuan Shikai's officialdom was frustrated because he had conflicts with Prince Jin Zaifeng.After Zaifeng became regent, he naturally wanted to squeeze him out.Yuan Shikai was born in Xiangcheng, Henan, but he was buried in Nanyang after his death. It is said that it was related to his three-year seclusion.

Yuan Shikai believed in Fengshui theory and the art of fortune-telling very much, and even decided that his choice of employing people should be based on appearance.After the Revolution of [-], Yuan Shikai was appointed as the President of the Republic of China, and someone recommended Wu Dingchang, who was quite talented, as the Chief Financial Officer.But Yuan Shikai thought: "You can see the gills on the back of this person, Cao Cao is such a bone." Talented but not reused, Wu Dingchang later only became the director of a mint.

Yuan Shikai had a teacup carved from fine jasper given to him by the king of Korea, and Yuan Shikai liked it very much.Once, a tea boy brought tea to Yuan Shikai. Seeing that Yuan was still sleeping soundly, he looked straight at President Yuan on the bed. His eyes blurred after looking at him for a while, and the more he looked, the more blurred his vision became. .When Yuan Shikai woke up and saw that the teacup was broken, he angrily reprimanded the tea boy loudly and asked what happened to the tea boy.The tea boy said timidly: "Just now I saw that the one sleeping on the bed was not the president, but a big golden dragon with jade claws. The golden dragon was shining all over and was about to take off into the sky." Unusually calm, he took a valuable item from the bed as a gift to the tea boy, and said to the tea boy, "Don't tell anyone about this."

In 1914, the tomb of Yuan Zu's tomb in Xiangcheng, Henan Province came to Beijing to report that a wisteria grew beside the tomb of Yuan Shikai's biological father Yuan Baozhong, which was more than ten feet long and twisted like a dragon.After hearing this, Yuan Shikai rewarded the tomb Ding heavily, and repeatedly asked him not to talk about it with outsiders.For this reason, Yuan Shikai also sent his eldest son Yuan Keding back to his hometown to verify the authenticity. Yuan Keding wrote in Xiangcheng: "The vines grow so fast that they are thicker than a child's arm, and the color is as fresh as blood, or the destiny is at stake. This is a good test! "Yuan Shikai was overjoyed after reading the letter, and wrote back asking his son to recruit graveyard men and build walls to guard against cattle and sheep trampling on them.

At that time, an astronomer in Beijing also submitted a letter to Yuan Shikai, saying that he had watched the sky for many days and nights, and found that after the third watch, there was an emperor star shining brightly at a certain latitude. After careful exploration, he found that it was Xiangcheng, Henan.Now the emperor star has come to the north, and it will arrive in Beijing in a month. The complacent Yuan Shikai finally decided to proclaim himself emperor under the "vigorous appeal" from all walks of life.

In order to break his family's fate of not exceeding 57 years old, he moved his ancestral grave to the shore of Huanshui, five miles outside the north gate of Anyang City, Henan Province.This was originally the place where Yuan Shikai "lived in seclusion" after he was demoted.In order to appease Yuan Shikai, Empress Dowager Cixi once named this place "Yangshou Garden".Yangshou Garden is a garden built by Yuan Shikai when he lived in Huanshang Village (now Anyang) in Zhangde, Henan Province after he left the field.Covering an area of ​​200 mu, it has a built-in garden, which draws water from the Huan River, a long stream, and beautiful mountains and forests. It is known as a famous garden in the North.There are 27 buildings with eight landscapes represented by Yangshou Hall, Qianyi Hall and Wuliu Thatched Cottage in the garden.The architectural feature is a combination of Chinese and Western, unique, with high cultural research and ornamental value.It was later destroyed by war.This Yangshou Garden has a peculiar terrain, with low-lying surroundings and a raised central part, it looks like a big turtle lying there from a distance.So at that time, the common people said that Yuan Shikai was the reincarnation of a soft-shelled turtle. People called Yuan Shikai "Old Yuan", but they actually referred to him as "Old Turtle".These far-fetched legends are not credible at all, but they reflect the likes and dislikes of the people from one side, and a few popular allegories also record an anecdote in modern Chinese history.

At the beginning of 1916, Yuan Shikai restored the monarchy and was named Emperor Hongxian.Proclaiming the emperor broke the dream of various warlords to be in power. Cai E, the former governor of Yunnan, led the national defense army to go north to challenge Yuan. Yuan Shikai announced the abolition of the imperial system on March 3 in order to avoid the split of the country. Yuan Shikai died of illness on June 22. .

After Yuan Shikai died of illness, he was buried on the north bank of Huanshui River in Anyang City, Henan Province in accordance with his last wish of "burying me on Huan".

Chinese dragon veins have geometry

Our country is a mountainous country. Many mountains are majestic and majestic. Sometimes they go straight into the blue clouds and are surrounded by clouds and smoke; The figure is gone.The dragon is the totem of the Chinese nation.Feng Shui uses the way of image thinking to call the winding and galloping mountains with myriad images as dragon veins, which is a very appropriate analogy.The dragon mentioned in Feng Shui refers to the dynamic momentum of mountains.The geological term for mountains is surface folds.Although there are no mountains on the large alluvial plain, there are still complex surface folds under the ground, but the surface folds there are not visible on the surface. That is to say, there are dragons in the plain, but they are hidden under the surface. Don't reveal yourself.

The mountains are gradually uplifted under the action of the ground stress formed by the combination of the gravity of the cosmic stars and the high temperature and pressure deep in the earth, and the credit of the long-lasting erosion of the surface water.Therefore, wherever the mountains are majestic, they are areas where high energy fields are distributed on the earth's surface, and they are also areas where water sources are relatively abundant.The high-energy field distribution on the surface is generally consistent with the orientation of the mountains.This kind of energy field is called "Dragon Qi" in Feng Shui. Dragon Qi is a comprehensive field composed of complex components such as ground stress, ground electric field, ground gravity, and star gravity.

Dragon Qi is good and bad.Whether the strength and frequency of this energy field is consistent with the threshold value required by human physiology and psychology is the main criterion for dividing evil spirits and anger.The dragon qi that is harmful to human physical and mental health is called "bale qi", and the dragon qi that is beneficial to human physical and mental health is called "angry".

Feng Shui emphasizes "funeral qi", so how to find qi?Through long-term observation and summarization, the sages of Fengshui focused their research on the relationship between the shape and direction of mountains and Fengshui, and explored it for thousands of years, and finally formed a basically complete set of usage in the Jin Dynasty. Focusing on the theory and method of finding anger, Guo Pu's "Funeral Book" is a summary of the problem of finding anger.Yang Junsong in the Tang Dynasty, on the basis of inheriting the essence of Guo Pu's theory, combined with his long-term practical experience in geology, wrote two monographs on searching for dragons, "The Classic of Shaking the Dragon" and "The Classic of Doubtful Dragons".Yang Gong's Erlong Jing is the main classic and theoretical basis for geomancyists to search for dragons, and it has become a must-read book for all geomancy learners.

According to the analysis of feng shui experts, the dragon veins in China are in the state of westward and eastward. It is the place where the dragon drinks water and exits.These two regions will form a new dragon vein in China in the future.

There are three major dry dragons in China, bounded by the Yangtze River and the Yellow River. The dry dragon south of the Yangtze River is called Nanqianlong, the dry dragon sandwiched between the Yangtze River and the Yellow River is called Zhongqianlong, and the dry dragon north of the Yellow River is called Beiqianlong.The three main dragons are all branches of the southern dragon in Kunlun Mountains.Therefore, Kunlun Mountain is the common ancestor of all dragon veins in China.The three main dragons are the general outline of the branch dragons at all levels. If you want to find out the ins and outs of the dragon veins, you must first understand the distribution area and basic direction of the three main dragons, and then you can recognize the dragon ancestor.

The area where Peganosaurus is distributed includes Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Gansu, Shanxi, Hebei, Liaoning, Jining, Heilongjiang and other provinces.

Zhongqianlong, including Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan, Hubei, Anhui, and Shandong provinces.

The area where Nanqianlong is located includes Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Taiwan, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu provinces.

The overall direction of the three major dragons is generally from west to east to the sea, and some extend to islands on the continental shelf.In the process of extending from Kunlun Mountain to the east, the three main dragons branched and split the veins all the way, giving birth to branch dragons of all levels, and thousands of caves of wealth and large and small bureaus. , like stars scattered, dotted all over the land of China.

Among the three major dry dragons, the division of Northern Dragon and Central Dragon is largely consistent in ancient and modern times, but the Southern Dragon has not been reached a consensus.Yang Junsong, a great geographer in the Tang Dynasty, believed that the five prefectures of Suzhou, Songjiang, Jiaxing, Huzhou, and Changzhou are the flattest in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions; the dragon veins of Jiaxing and Songjiang originate from the branch of Gumu, branch off at Phoenix Mountain in Hangzhou, and zigzag along the northeast of the river. Then it disappears, and suddenly rises at Gaoting, entering Haining and Haiyan; walking a little in the middle are Chongde, Tongxiang, Jiaxing, Xiushui, Jiayang, Pinghu, Songjiang, all in Xiyu and other nine peaks, opened by Taimao Lake boundary .Those who walk a little outside, from Shanghai to Wusong and Jiangkou; those who walk westward along the coast and inward, there is Tiaoshui, and all cities and counties are branches of Ximu.The dragon veins of Huzhou originate from the Dongmu branch and become Lin'an and Yuhang; starting from Anji, passing through Wukang and Gui'an, and finally ending in Wucheng, Limo in Guangde and Yixing is the end of the dragon.Changxing Bian Mountain is the end of the Great Dragon, both of which are branches of the Southern Dragon.Changzhou is a branch originating from Jingkou, connecting Danyang, and Piling, which is faintly bulging on the plateau, is connected with Jinling, and its branches are Fujiao and Xishan. With a radius of 45 miles, it goes eastward and slightly southward from Tianping Mountain, crossing Jinshan Mountain.And Jinshan came out of Lion Mountain.Lion Mountain came out of Suo Mountain again, and from then on it was a plain to the east.Thirty miles later, it was gathered as the capital of Wu. Danyang and Wujin met at Binjiang, and then branched to Jiangyin; along the river to the east and south, Yushan appeared, and there was Changshu.To the north is Dajiang, to the south is Kunhu Lake, and in the middle is the plain; to the southeast is Kunshan, to the east is Jiading, Taicang also ends at Wusong and Jiangkou.

However, Liu Bowen of the Ming Dynasty said: The Nanlong lineage, after traveling eastward along the river from Mount Emei, did not know the end at the beginning.After surveying from Tongzhou Fanhai, it was discovered that the mountains around Haiyan were the end of Nanlong.Because although Tianmu Mountain is a mountain on the right side of Zhejiang Province, the mountain does not stop, but winds up, with Yizhe on the right and Tiaoshui on the left, until it ends between the Qin Dynasty and the long wall of sea salt.Therefore, the mountains of Pingsong are regarded as dragons, the Yangtze River, Huaihe River, and Sishui are embraced on the left, the mountains of Qingshao are regarded as tigers, and the water of Cao'e in Zhejiang is encircled on the right, all facing Haiyanzhou.The meridian energy at the back goes out from the east of the lake, with North Korea and Japan as the shores, making Nanlong the largest dry dragon.

It should be said that the conclusions of Yang Junsong and Liu Bowen are very reasonable.But the Southern Dragon did not stop at Shanghai or Haiyan. The real Southern Dragon vein continued to extend into the sea in Fujian, and it has not yet come to an end after reaching Taiwan Island.

Mountains are the momentum of the dragon, and water is the blood of the dragon. Therefore, the dragon's veins cannot be separated from mountains and water.Since ancient times, the land surrounded by mountains and rivers has been a treasure land of geomantic omen.Even if you put aside the concepts of Feng Shui and Dragon Veins, anyone who grows up and lives in such a beautiful environment is not a kind of harmonious and happy enjoyment.

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