Feng Shui Collection: 500 Feng Shui Common Senses You Should Know

Chapter 24 Masters (2)
"Book of Jin·Han You Biography" records that Han You avoided a bloody disaster based on his premonition.Bian Hong, a native of Xuancheng, Anhui Province, worked in Guangyang (now Jixian County, Hebei Province), and his mother returned home due to illness.When Han You traveled to Guangyang, he planned to stay at his house.It was already evening at that time, Han You went to Bian Hong's house to have a look, and couldn't wait to tell his entourage to pack up his luggage and leave Bian's house immediately.The entourage declined and said: "It's getting dark, and there are still dozens of miles to go, why bother to hurry?"Han You said: I seem to see the blood of many people on the ground here, and I have a premonition that disaster is about to come.The entourage begged hard, and his friend Bian Hong tried to persuade Han You to stay, but Han You didn't move, so he left in a hurry.At night, Bian Hong suddenly fell insane, strangled his two sons with a rope, killed his wife, wounded his father and maid, and fled home.A few days later, people found that he had also hanged himself in the woods in front of the house.

418. How Xiao Ji used Fengshui to predict the demise of the Sui Dynasty

Xiao Ji's experience is richer, and his life is more tactful.Xiao Ji lived through four dynasties and fifteen emperors in his life. When he was young, he was a noble child of the Qi and Liang clan in the Northern Dynasty.Maybe it's because his experience is too rich and the situation is extremely delicate, so he has created his cunning and smooth personality.With his attainments in Yin-Yang and Five Elements, he became Emperor Wendi's royal Fengshui master in the end.

In the early days after he entered the Sui Dynasty, because he belonged to foreign nobles, he was very excluded and did not go well politically. "Northern History" records: "Auspicious nature is lonely, not ups and downs with Gongqing, and not in harmony with Yang Su, so he is driven away, depressed and frustrated." Yang Su was a hero of the Sui Dynasty and looked down on Xiao who changed his master three times. Ji; in front of Yang Su who covered the sky with one hand, Xiao Ji had to bow his head and be a man. Therefore, he studied behind closed doors, but he was "knowledgeable and versatile, especially good at yin and yang arithmetic". At last the chance was offered to him.He found that Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty "loved the theory of Zhengxiang, but he wanted to do it but didn't make progress, so he pretended to be charming and charming."In the 14th year of Emperor Kaihuang (594), Xiao Ji wrote a letter to Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty. It was destiny.This sycophantic flattery made "the joy of reading, and five hundred paragraphs of gifts", thus establishing his political status.

Later, Xiao Ji became a celebrity around Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty. "Sui Shu Biography of Xiao Ji" records that Xiao Ji exorcised ghosts for Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty.For a period of time, the East Palace was often haunted by ghosts, and it was rumored that there were rat demons making trouble.Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty ordered Xiao Ji to go to get rid of evil spirits.Xiao Ji set up a divine seat in the Hall of Xuanci, muttering something, and after a while, there was indeed a return wind from the ghost gate of Gendi, sweeping away the seat of the prince.Xiao Ji used peach soup and reed fire to suppress the wind, and the wind stopped immediately.Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty believed that Xiao Ji had subdued ghosts and evil spirits, so he trusted him even more.

Soon, Empress Xian died, and Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty ordered Xiao Ji to choose a cemetery.After repeated investigations, Xiao Ji finally selected a piece of auspicious land, saying "the year of divination is two thousand years, and the world is predicted to be two hundred", which means that if calculated by year, this tomb can protect the Sui Dynasty for 2000 years, and if calculated by lineage , which can ensure the Sui royal bloodline to be passed on for 200 generations.Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty was skeptical about the technique of geography, and said: "I think that good and bad luck lies in human affairs, not in the cemetery. When Gao Wei, the empress lord of the Northern Qi Dynasty, buried his father, he chose a place to bury him. How can this be explained? Just like the cemetery of my ancestors, if the cemetery was said to be inauspicious, I would not be the emperor of the Sui Dynasty; what about death?"

In that era full of superstitions, Emperor Wen of Sui uttered these words full of philosophical dialectics, and he lived up to his reputation as a virtuous monarch.In order to persuade Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Xiao Ji persuaded Emperor Wen with the principle of looking at Qi from the technique of xiangdi: "On the sixteenth of last month, in the northwest direction of the Queen's Tomb, in the second half of the night, black clouds with a radius of five or six hundred steps rose from the ground to the sky. At the same time, in the A tent of banners, chariots and horses appeared in the southeast. This phenomenon did not disappear until dawn. According to the analysis of the "Funeral Book", this is a sign of great auspiciousness and boundless descendants." Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty was skeptical about this flattering, and in the end it was According to Xiao Ji's opinion, although he is a generation of virtuous emperors, he doesn't know Xiao Ji's ulterior motives in choosing this tomb.It turned out that Yang Guang had colluded with Xiao Ji in advance for all this.

After Xiao Ji withdrew from the hall, he quietly said to his family member Xiao Pingzhong: "Today I divination the location of the mausoleum for the queen, and the crown prince sent the left guard to lead Yu Wenshu and said to me: You must choose the mausoleum so that the prince will be crowned as soon as possible." The court is a prerequisite. He also promised that if he is established as the emperor, he will repay me with glory and wealth. I said to the crown prince: Four years later, you will definitely come to the world."

Zhong was a little puzzled by this explanation, Xiao Ji said his word tricks: "'Bu Nian Erqian' is just a deformation of the word 'Thirty'; Take the homonym of "Second Generation". The fortune of the Sui Dynasty will not be too long, and only the biography of the two generations is true." Later, Xiao Ji's words came true, and the crown prince came to the throne for Emperor Yang of Sui, Yang The emperor was tyrannical and died in the 32nd year of the Sui Dynasty.

In the biography of Xiao Ji, eight works of Xiao Ji "parallel to the world" are recorded. They are: "Golden Sea" in thirty volumes, "Xiang Jing Yao Lu" in one volume, "Zhai Jing" in eight volumes, and "Funeral Sutra" Six volumes, twelve volumes of "Music Book", two volumes of "Emperor's Health Preserving Prescription", one volume of "Xian Shou Ban Yao Jue", and one volume of "Tai Yi Li Cheng".All eight works have been lost.

419. How Shu Chuo Proved the Burial Site for Prime Minister Yang Gongren

Shu Chuo, a native of Dongyang (Jinhua, Zhejiang), was a very famous Fengshui master in the Tang Dynasty.At that time, Yang Gongren, a high-ranking official in the court, was serving as the Minister of the Ministry of Officials. He wanted to rebury his parents' graves near Chang'an, the capital, for worship and management.

These people were all well-known Fengshui masters at the time. Yang Shilang couldn't tell who was the real master, so he paid each land master to find a land for their parents, and returned to the mansion to meet and report after one month.So the masters split up and went back to Fuchu after the one-month period expired. Everyone offered their best acupoints.Five or six people have their own advantages and disadvantages, and the masters practiced both methods, and no one was convinced when they talked about the world, and Yang Shilang couldn't decide what was right and wrong, so he thought of a good way when he returned home.He called a few relatives and rushed to the acupuncture points set by the geologists overnight, opened the acupuncture points about a foot deep, took a bag of soil, recorded all the geographical features in a small book, sealed it together with the small book, and transported it. After returning home, Yang Shilang made a mark, hid the small record book, and mixed it with a bag of soil from the ground in the back garden. Then he called several Feng Shui masters and asked them to use the soil in the bucket to place all the records in the bucket. Explain the geographical situation and topography of the place where the soil was taken, and explain whether this place is a good cave, whether it can be prosperous, etc., so as to compare it with the original record.

After analysis, the other masters couldn't figure it out. Only Shu Chuo believed that there were three places in the few bags of retrieved soil that could be used as acupuncture points, and set the levels of wealth and wealth. The actual conditions recorded are all consistent, and he wrote a funny poem about the soil taken from the back garden: "In the black, there are green and foggy clouds, and the air passes through the two holes. Injury to future generations, the soil is moistened to grow flower roots."The other Feng Shui masters were all amazed at Shu Chuo's magical skills, and felt ashamed. They took Yang Shilang's reward and left without making a sound.

After the other Fengshui masters left, Shu Chuo said to Yang Shilang: "The tomb I selected will have grain below five feet deep from the well. If you can get a bucket of grain, it will be rich land. Bao Yang Shilang's family has been rich and powerful for generations. Yang Shilang is very impressed by Shu Chuo's Fengshui skills. After hearing this, he immediately went to the capital with Shu Chuo and came to the acupuncture point Shu Chuo was looking for. Continue to dig holes down, when digging to a depth of seven feet, found a small hole, and then gently dug a hole nearly two feet square inside, there are as many as seven or eight buckets in the hole, the shape is very similar to grain Seeing this scene, Yang Shilang fell to the ground in admiration. So Yang Shilang buried the bones of his parents in this cave.

After the news spread, Shu Chuo was regarded as sacred by the ruling and opposition parties, and there was an endless stream of people who invited him, and the search for Longbu's cave was all the rage.

420. How the Xingpai Master Yang Junsong was Murdered

Yang Junsong, named Yi, courtesy name Shumao, nicknamed Yunsong, was born in Douzhou.Born in Tang Wenzong Taihe eight years (834), died in Tang Guanghua three years (900).Yang Junsong was the national teacher of Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty, and his official position was Doctor Jin Ziguanglu. He was in charge of Lingtai Geography and was a famous geomancer and Fengshui expert in the Tang Dynasty.Because he used geography and Fengshui to practice in the world and make the poor rich, so the world called him Mr. "Jie Poverty", and later generations also called him "Yang Ji Poverty".

Yang Junsong is the author of "Shaking the Dragon Classic", "Suspecting Dragon Classic", "Qing Nang Austrian Language", "Tianyu Jing", "Dutian Baozhao Jing" and other books.Yang Junsong has an extremely lofty status in geography and geomanticism, comparable to Mencius's status in Confucianism. All his works are classics in geography and geomantic omen, so Yang Junsong is also honored as Yang Gong by later generations. .

Yang Junsong devoted his whole life to Fengshui to help the poor, but unfortunately he was killed by politicians in his later years.In his time, the Tang Empire had declined, and the feudal princes ruled over him.The prince who ruled Qianzhou (now Ganzhou, Jiangxi) was Lu Guangchou. He had long had the ambition to dominate the world, so he proclaimed himself king and called him King Lu.In order to realize his dream, Lu Guangchou asked Yang Jiupin to divination the heaven and earth for him. After the divination was obtained, he reburied his mother.At the banquet to thank Yang for helping the poor, Lu Guangchou asked Yang whether there is still a heaven for saving the poor?Yang Jiupong replied: "Eighteen faces at a table, and the emperor will emerge from each face."Lu Guangchou didn't want others to get the land of heaven and compete with him for the world, so he poisoned his wine.After Yang Jiupin noticed it, he immediately took his apprentice home. Unfortunately, when the boat arrived at the Yaokou Dam in Yudu, the poison occurred. It's dead to the mouth!Enmity must be reported.Before he died, he told Zeng Wentun to lobby Lu Guangchou to install a water reel in Moche Bay, Ganzhou, and to dig a well at the crossroads, so that he would be the emperor for generations.Zeng Wenxun was puzzled and asked about the mystery.Yang Jiopin explained that Mochewan Andu hit Lu Wang's back alone, a well was opened at the crossroads, and Lu Wang hanged himself.Digging wells in different positions broke Ganzhou's "Heavenly Spirit" in terms of Fengshui and suppressed Lu Guangchou.Later, Lu Guangchou really had a carbuncle on his back, the pain was unbearable, and he hanged himself to death.

421. How did Futu Hong tell Zhang about the divination of the house?
Master Hong, a monk whose ancestral home is Huangzhou (Huanggang, Hubei), is good at yin and yang arithmetic, and is known as "Futu Hong" in the world.According to the "Taiping Guangji" of the Northern Song Dynasty, when Wu Zetian was in power, Master Hong helped Zhang Shuo (Yan Gong) to buy a house in the southeast of Chang'an, the capital, and warned: "The northwest of this house is the most royal land, so be careful not to use it here. Borrow soil." A month later, Master Hong said to Duke Yan that the weather in this house suddenly became so deserted, someone must have taken soil from the northwest corner, Duke Yan and Master Hong went to the northwest corner to check, and sure enough there were three places where soil was collected The pits are more than ten feet deep.Master Hong was shocked and said: "What a disaster! It's just a matter of making the father rich and honorable. After 20 years, all the kings will not live forever." Yan Gong asked in surprise: "Can you fill it in?" It is not connected. If you fill it up today, it is like a person has hemorrhoids. Even if you have other people to fill it up, it will be useless.” Later, Zhang Jun and Zhang Ji, the sons of Duke Yan, were appointed high officials by An Lushan. After the rebellion was put down, Zhang Jun was After being executed, Zhang was exiled.As it said.

422. How Zeng Wentun Persuaded Yang to Save the Poor and Settle in Sanliao

Zeng Wenxun, a native of Chongxianli, Ningdu, Jiangxi (now in Ji'an, Jiangxi Province), was born in the third year of Huichang (843) of Emperor Wuzong of Tang Dynasty, and was a disciple of Yang Junsong.He has written "Preface to Qing Nang", "Preface to Tianyu Jing", "Q&A on Yin and Yang", "Looking for the Dragon", "Bafen Song" and other works.

Zeng Wenxun studied since he was a child, and originally wanted to pass the imperial examination to become an official. Because of the war, he lived in seclusion in the Huangtan Temple in Chongxianli, Du County, to study. Follow him to learn geomancy.

Yang Jiupin travels around the world with no intention of stopping, but Zeng Wentun wants to find a piece of auspicious land for himself to settle down.One day, Zeng Wenxun found out that Sanliao was a good place, so he told his master Yang Jiupin that he had found a place "with a gold plate and jade seal in front, and a parasol shade in the back". If he lived there, his descendants could be officials for generations.Yang Jiupin went over and saw that it was indeed a fertile basin surrounded by mountains and water. There was a long pinnacle in the middle of the basin, a parasol-shaped pine tree at the back of the basin, and a huge round boulder under the tree.He told Zeng Wenxun: "This is indeed the place where our Kanyu people lived for generations. You can see that there is a compass suction stone in front of you, and a package in the back. You live here, and generations of descendants carry a compass and carry a package on their backs when going out."

Yang Junsong and his two disciples lived together in a thatched hut in the middle of the basin. They called the hut "Liao", and the master and his disciples were three huts, and the people nearby called it "Sanliao" (now Writing San Liao).

423. How Fan Yuefeng Plans Taining City
Taining was built as a town in the second year of Qianyuan (759) of Emperor Suzong of Tang Dynasty, and the name of the town was naturalized.In the fourth year of Baoda (946) in the Southern Tang Dynasty of the Five Dynasties, Guihua Town was changed to Guihua Field.In the first year of Zhongxing (958), Guihuachang was promoted to Guihua County.It was the beginning of Taining County.This Fengshui master is Fan Yuefeng from Dongchuan (now Yunnan).

Fan Yuefeng came to Taining to check the situation of the mountains, survey the direction of the streams, and travel all over the county. According to the direction of the mountains and rivers, combined with the historical origin and cultural background of the county, he used the theory of traditional Chinese geomantic omen to serve Taining. A long-term development plan has been formulated for Ning's future urban construction.The plan is to move the city site to the east by more than 500 meters, and move it to the foothills on the east side of Lufeng Mountain.

After the site of the city is determined, it is time to dig wells and open the urban underground waterway. After all the public infrastructure is in place, the construction of street dwellings and the relocation of the city begin.When Fan Yuefeng was excavating the underground waterway, he also built a dam on the Beixi River to introduce the river water into the sewer. It can not only solve the washing of citizens, but also play a fire-fighting function. When there is a flood, it can also divert part of the river water to alleviate the disaster. It's a classic.Fan Yuefeng's sewer design is also in line with the ancient Fengshui theory. After the city was relocated, Guihua County "prosperous people and rich humanities." The people of the ancient town credited Mr. Fan with this credit. They are honest, well-organized households, and those who live in their huts can have children and grandchildren.” Therefore, every family consciously abides by the urban construction rules and maintains drainage facilities. If someone builds a house that affects the underground ditch, he will be condemned by the neighbors.

424. Why He Pu Chooses a Cemetery for Jiang Wencai

He Pu (922-1019), courtesy name Lingtong, nicknamed Qianzhai, and late Zixia old man, wrote "The Essence of Lingcheng".In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, He Pu, the national teacher of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was demoted for offending the emperor. He went to Lingshan to live in seclusion in the fourth year of Song Taiping Xingguo (979).He Lingtong had a close relationship with Jiang Wencai, the sixth ancestor of Xiaojiang. Jiang Wencai once donated 50 mu of land to build Biyun Nunnery in Lingshan for him.In order to thank Jiang Wencai, He Lingtong decided to choose Jiangwan as a good sun base for him.

He Lingtong believes that Jiangwan is very conducive to the reproduction and development of the clan, and he instructed to fill in the gap between Houlongshan and the pen tip to connect the dragon vein; then build a strong barrage along the river outside Shangjie Village , forcing the river to move south and turn north; finally, five camphor trees were planted around the village in the shape of plum blossoms to protect Yangjiji, and two wells were dug in the village to subdue the "fire" peak on the opposite bank.

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