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

Chapter 9 The Mystery of Site Selection for "Feng Shui Treasure Land": Tomb Robbery and Feng Shui (4)
However, Xiaozong's "Zhongxing Shengshi" was not only short-lived, but Xiaozong's courage was far less than that of the emperors in the early Ming Dynasty.For example, Li Guang, the eunuch, used talisman prayers and other left-handed techniques to confuse Xiaozong.Zhang Jin, the censor, handed over the impeachment to Zhongye Gentleman, but Xiaozong ignored it.Later, Li Guang committed suicide in fear of crime.For another example, the Zhang family of the later family was domineering. Xiaozong ordered Xiao Jing, the supervisor of ceremonies, and Tu Xun, the servant, to investigate and deal with them. They acted impartially and offended the Zhang family, and Empress Zhang was furious.Xiaozong didn't suppress the later family, but he just felt wronged and made peace with it.Due to Xiaozong's gentleness in dealing with affairs, he could not punish the powerful decisively. During the Hongzhi period, the situation of princes and relatives embezzling people's land was still serious.According to statistics in the second year of Hongzhi (1489 A.D.), the total number of farmlands in Shuntian Prefecture reached 332, covering an area of ​​more than 33000 square meters.

Even so, Emperor Xiaozong's government was relatively clear compared with the previous and subsequent emperors.

After the death of Emperor Xiaozong of Ming Dynasty, Emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty began to plan the mausoleum of Emperor Xiaozong of Ming Dynasty. At that time, Li Jie, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, Ni Qian, the deputy of the Qintian Supervisor, and Dai Yi, the eunuch of the Rites Supervisor, recommended it to Ming Wuzong after inspecting various places. Shijiatai.Xu Tianxi, a member of the right staff of the engineering department, also suggested to Wu Zong that he send someone who is skilled in ventilation and water skills among the courtiers to go for double vision.He said to Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty: "If you have any doubts, move the text to Jiangxi and other places urgently. Seek warlocks widely, visit famous mountains, and ensure that the main force is strong, the atmosphere is gathered, the water and soil are deep, the acupuncture points are correct, and the power is complete. As Confucianism and Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty said, the common people can worship the gods and pray for the help of the country." At the suggestion of the ministers, Ming Wuzong sent people to Shijiatai to investigate, and finally decided to build Xiaozong's mausoleum there.

Tailing was officially launched on June 18, 140th year of Hongzhi.At that time, various craftsmen and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers were mobilized. Four months later, the Xuan Palace was completed and Xiaozong was officially buried in the mausoleum.After another six months, the ground buildings of the cemetery were all completed.The entire mausoleum building includes: "Jinjing Baoshan City, Minglou, and Liuli Zhaobi each, a stone stele with a holy name, two Zhang [-] around Luocheng, three one-character gates, one incense hall for five chambers, left and right chambers, paper There are two furnaces each, one palace gate and three chambers, one divine kitchen, one sacrificial room, and fire room, five bridges, one divine palace supervisor, one divine stable, and one orchard.”

Although a lot of manpower was used and careful planning was done, various unexpected situations were encountered during the construction of the Tailing Mausoleum. When Zhongzai was excavating the golden well of Xuangong, there was a spring gushing out: "The water hole is like a giant cup, and it keeps spraying upwards."Yang Ziqi, the head of the Ministry of Officials, saw it with his own eyes and reported it to the court truthfully.In the ancient concept of Feng Shui, it is considered auspicious to have water coming out of a golden well.As a result, Tailing must be relocated.Li Xing, the supervising eunuch at that time, was very favored by Wu Zong. He was very annoyed when he saw someone put forward opinions on the tomb repair he was in charge of.So he secretly ordered people to block the spring, and Shangshu said that Yang Ziqi was "slanderous and arrogant". Wu Zong ordered Yang Ziqi to be imprisoned in Jinyiwei Prison regardless of indiscriminate injustice.

Seeing this, other informed officials dared not bring up the matter again, let alone intercede for Yang Ziqi.Coincidentally, at this time a newly appointed county magistrate, Qiu Tai from Putian, came to the capital and saw that there was a lot of discussion about this matter in the capital, so he went to Shu and said: "Ziqi is very beneficial in comparison, and there is water in the Tailing Mausoleum. The whole country is cloudy. If you don’t say anything at this time, in case someone who speaks after Zigong’s funeral will be discouraged if you want to open it, you will hold hatred forever if you don’t open it. Now it depends on whether there is water or not. The eunuch Xiao Jing escorted Yang Ziqi to Tailing to inspect and verify together.Yang Ziqi expected that Li Xing and Li Bing would block the spring, so he went here to write a poem before leaving in the morning:
The sound of the ban drum yuan dawned late, and stood on the west bank of the Meridian Gate for a long time.

The people of Chu cry in their arms, but the country of Qi is idiot to worry about the sky.

The group discussion has been public and must be the first fact. The public does not speak but knows it.

Yin Qin asked the envoy of Shanling, who would resolve the doubts with the imperial court.

Compared with Bian He, who presented beautiful jade to the king of Chu in the Warring States Period, he thought that he had done a foolish thing to worry about.Now, I don't know who in the court can clear up this innocent injustice for him.The officials were also worried about Yang Ziqi, fearing that he would be murdered by Li Xing.

Xiao Jing escorted Yang Ziqi to Qin Ling, and Li Xing led a group of thugs to arrive.At this time, Li Xing had already blocked the spring.When they saw Yang Ziqi, they scolded Yang Ziqi severely, and then whipped him.Xiao Jing quickly stopped them and said to them: "Whether there is water or not, you can see it immediately. Why do you do this?" He also said to Li Xing: "Scholar officials can be killed, but not humiliated."

After returning to the palace, Xiao Jing reported the lack of water in the Tailing Jinjing.The Empress Dowager Wang (Empress Xianzong) heard about this incident in the palace, and delivered a decree saying: "If there is no water, it is enough, why sinners!" Yang Ziqi returned to his post and avoided a catastrophe.

In fact, even though the Tailing Jinjing did not produce water, from the perspective of "feng shui", the location of the tomb does have many places that do not meet the "auspicious soil" conditions.For example, Liang Fen once commented on the geomantic omen of the Tailing Mausoleum in "Illustrations of the Emperor's Mausoleum": "The giant stone on the top of the mountain is covered by the earth mountain. The veins of the spiritual realm actually grow under it, covering the mountains outside the Tianshou Mountain. It is confusing and messy. It is not right, the acupoints are ruthless, and they cannot be used as a place for bows and swords. What's more, there is nothing to see in front of the southern barrier of the Black Ridge. In Xianzhuang, the water of Huiling comes from the left, and the water of the cone stone comes from the right. Although the two waters It merges, surrounds the south stream, and disperses when it flows....The place of the palace is unspeakable, but it can be known!" Tan Qian also said in "Guoyan": "Tailing is adjacent to the stream, which runs for several miles, and the system is humble. Those who know the narrow pass will know that the place is inauspicious."

The buildings of the Tailing Mausoleum in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty were already damaged. "Illustration of the Emperor's Mausoleum" records the situation of the Tailing Mausoleum, "the left and right gates are broken today, and stones are built to block the gates."

Since then, the cemetery buildings were repaired in the 52th to 1785nd years of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1787~[-]). The repairs were the same as Maoling except that the three gates were changed from glazed flower gates to brick ice tray eaves gatehouses.Its current situation is more serious than that of Maoling.

Shunzhi personally selected Qing Dongling
The Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty is located in Zunhua City, Hebei Province, 125 kilometers west of downtown Beijing.The Eastern Mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty was built along the remaining veins of Yanshan Mountain, with Changrui Mountain in the north as the back, Jinxing Mountain in the south as Zhaoshan Mountain, Huanghua Mountain in the west as the right side, Yingfei Daoyang Mountain in the east as the left auxiliary, and Xidahe in the west. It flows east and west with the Malan River in the east, protecting this rare treasure land of geomantic omen.

When the emperors of the Qing Dynasty selected and surveyed the mausoleum site, they used the traditional Chinese "feng shui" theory as the basis, and deliberately pursued the situation of mountains and rivers that "the sand and water in the dragon's cave are beautiful and not harvested, and the situation is rational, and the auspicious and salty are prepared", so as to achieve "heaven and man". Unity" imagery.Qing Dongling is the best embodiment of this concept.The eagle on the east side of the mausoleum is flying upside down like a green dragon lying on a pan, all facing west, just like the left assistant; the Huanghua mountain on the west is like a white tiger dominating the east, just like the right bi.Relying on Changrui Mountain, the dragon sows the phoenix (zhù), and the jade palace is like a Jinping green barrier; the Chaoshan Jinxing Mountain is shaped like a bell, with its end arched to the south, like a wat (hù) facing the court.Anshan Mountain Yingbi Mountain is round and upright, located between the backing mountain and the Chaoshan Mountain, like a jade case in front of it, which can be relied upon; Shuikou Mountain, Xiangshan Mountain and Yandun Mountain face each other, across the south of the mausoleum area, shaped like a gate, guarding the pass .The two rivers of Malan River and Xida River surround and flow together, looking forward to affection; the hall surrounded by mountains is vast and open, graceful and unobtrusive.This naturally created landscape of mountains and rivers forms a posture of guarding, embracing, and bowing to the mausoleum embedded in it, which is really a rare geomantic treasure.

The Eastern Tombs of the Qing Dynasty is the most important tomb group of emperors and concubines in the last dynasty of China. It is also the largest and most complete ancient imperial mausoleum building in China. Mausoleum of Emperor Qianlong, Yuling Mausoleum of Emperor Qianlong, Dingling Mausoleum of Emperor Xianfeng, Huiling Mausoleum of Emperor Tongzhi, four empress mausoleums of the East (Cian) and West (Cixi) Empress Dowagers, five concubine gardens, and one princess mausoleum, totaling 14 burials Queen and 136 concubines.

The address of the Eastern Qing Mausoleum was determined by Emperor Shunzhi, so why did Emperor Shunzhi build a mausoleum in Zunhua, Hebei?

In the early summer of the 17th year of Ming Chongzhen (Public Relations 1644), under the guidance of Wu Sangui, the general of the Ming Dynasty stationed in Shanhaiguan, Dorgon commanded the Eight Banners Army across Shanhaiguan, defeated Li Zicheng's peasant army, and quickly captured Beijing.In September of the same year, Fulin, the ninth son of Huang Taiji, who was only 6 years old, arrived in Beijing. The first year of Shunzhi.At the beginning of December in the seventh year of Shunzhi (1650 A.D.), Dorgon fell off his horse and was injured while hunting outside Gubeikou. He died in Kara City soon after.The 14-year-old Emperor Shunzhi finally got rid of the shackles and began to rule in person.Since Emperor Shunzhi entered the customs and sat in the palace in Lidu in Beijing, his mother, Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, and uncle Dorgon sent people around to choose the mausoleum. They all took a fancy to the treasure land of Malanyu. After returning to Beijing to report to the emperor, Emperor Shunzhi was very happy and said that he would go to inspect it in person.

In 1651 AD, one day in the eighth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, Fulin (Shunzhi), the ancestor of the Qing Dynasty, brought his ministers and attendants to the Malanyu territory of Zunhua to hunt.The trip of Emperor Shunzhi was called hunting, but it actually shouldered an important mission. It was related to the foundation of the Qing Dynasty in the future. "Treasure Land", build a royal cemetery, let the Qing Dynasty continue, and rule the country for thousands of years.

According to unofficial records, when Shunzhi and his party came to Fengtai Mountain near Malanyu Town, Shunzhi came to a high slope, climbed up and looked far away.Looking north, there are many mountains and mountains, and there are endless greenery.The sun is shining in the wild, and the purple mist is misty.The mountains and rivers are really magnificent, and the scenery is natural.There is a pool of clear water in the east and west, which is sparkling and flowing slowly, resembling a perfect golden Ou.

Emperor Shunzhi couldn't help but express his sincere admiration for the surrounding environment.He got off his horse, chose a sunny place on Fengtai Ridge, and prayed to the sky very devoutly. Then he found a piece of land with good geomantic omen and water, and said to the courtiers on the left and right: "This mountain is lush and lush, and it can serve as a place for my longevity palace." " So he ordered the accompanying ministers of geology and officials of the Qin Tianjian to set up a compass, and use the mystical machine of yin and yang and five elements to calculate according to the eight trigrams and 24 mountain directions.The subordinate officials and warlocks have already seen the emperor's mind, and feel that this place is indeed majestic and extraordinary: the north of Changrui Mountain is called "Houlong", the eagle on the east side is flying down to the mountain and it is Qinglong; Huanghua Mountain is the White Tiger; Jinxing Mountain, which is shaped like a bell in the south, is Chaoshan Mountain; Yingbi Mountain in the distance is Ananshan Mountain; the Malan River and Xida River flow around, embracing feelings.Seen from above, the Eastern Tombs of the Qing Dynasty have a landscape pattern of "surrounded by mountains and water, with yin and yang".Surrounded by green mountains, it forms a posture of guarding, embracing, and courting. It is really a rare geomantic treasure.Therefore, he said to Shunzhi: "The emperor is a sage, and he has a deep understanding of the land search. Looking at the branch method today, you can see that the dragon veins come from the Taihang. Also. Look at the mountain like a five-bai standing shift, finger peaks waving hands, writing three peaks, like a golden cup, shaped like a silver vase, just like a lotus with thousands of leaves, it is really an auspicious place!" So Shunzhi general He took off the white jade wrench finger worn on his head, lifted it down the hillside, and said: "The point where it lands is defined as the acupuncture point." So the officials made piles at the place where the wrench finger stopped to mark it.Later, the first mausoleum of the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty was really built here, that is, the Xiaoling Mausoleum of Emperor Shunzhi.

To a certain extent, Xiaoling Fengshui embodies the scientific site selection and the brilliant architectural technology of ancient Chinese.The Xiaoling Mausoleum is backed by the main peak of Changrui Mountain, and the left and right wings are natural sand mountains. The whole mausoleum is high in the north and low in the south.In order to prevent the tomb from being destroyed by mountain torrents during the flood season, the Xiaoling Mausoleum was not only reinforced with piles under the building, but also built a complete set of drainage system.On the ground, the natural sloping terrain is used to set up drainage ditches to make the rainwater drain smoothly.The water in the mausoleum area is collected under the Shenlu Bridge outside the Longen Gate through the open ditches and underground ditches, and then drained out by the waterways on both sides.

Although Emperor Shunzhi personally selected the site of the mausoleum, he did not start construction immediately.Because the Qing soldiers entered the customs not long ago, the foundation was established, and the wars continued frequently. The entire west, south, and southwest of China were still in the life-and-death struggle between the Qing soldiers, the small imperial court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and various armed forces.Under such circumstances, Emperor Shunzhi focused on state affairs and never built his own mausoleum until the Kangxi Dynasty after his death.

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