Using Feng Shui as a weapon, the most brutal Feng Shui war in history
Historically, the Chinese have long recognized the important impact of the environment on human beings. It was not until the Pre-Qin period that Feng Shui emerged as a theory. During the Three Kingdoms, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, Feng Shui theory was gradually improved, and famous Feng Shui masters such as Guan Ren and Guo Pu appeared. The "Book of Burial" written by Guo Pu was praised by later generations as a classic of Feng Shui theory, and Guo Pu himself was also respected by later generations as the founder of Feng Shui.
In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Feng Shui theory was further developed, and two major factions were formed - Jiangxi Situation School and Fujian Liqi School. The "Suspicious Dragon Classic" and "Qingnang Preface" written by Mr. Yang Junsong, the founder of the Situation School, laid a solid foundation for the further development of Feng Shui theory. The Ming and Qing dynasties were the heyday of Feng Shui, and various Feng Shui works sprung up, even to the point of flooding.
In the late Ming Dynasty, floods, droughts, locust plagues, etc. caused widespread famine, which led to large-scale peasant uprisings in various places, among which Li Zicheng's army was the most powerful. In the first month of 1644, Li Zicheng ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor in Xi'an, and the country was named Dashun. On April 25 of the same year, the Dashun Army captured Beijing, ending the 267-year national destiny of the Ming Dynasty.
In the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635), Li Zicheng proposed the strategy of "dividing troops into directions and attacking in four directions", and led his troops with Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and others to capture Fengyang, South Zhili. Li Zicheng cut off the dragon vein of the Ming Dynasty, dug up the ancestral tombs of the Ming royal family, burned the "Huangjue Temple" where Zhu Yuanzhang had been abdicated, completely destroyed the Ming ancestral mausoleum, and massively destroyed the dragon vein of the Ming Dynasty. Since then, the Ming Dynasty has been even more depressed. Shaky.
After Emperor Chongzhen learned about it, he was furious and asked someone to dig up Li Zicheng's ancestral grave. In 1642, Shaanxi Governor Wang Qiaonian received a secret order from Emperor Chongzhen. He immediately ordered the magistrate of Mizhi County, Yan'an Prefecture, Bian Dashou and others. People went into the mountain and found the graves of Li Zicheng's grandfather and father. The graves of eighteen generations of Li Zicheng's ancestors were dug. Not only did they dig a trench 20 meters wide and five meters deep between the large and small ridges on the original site, but they also ordered people to "burn the bones" and burn the surrounding "large and small ridges." More than 1,300 trees were all cut down." It is hoped that this method can be used to cut off its "dragon energy" and release its "king energy", so that "the thieves' power will be broken by themselves", thereby saving the building from collapse.
However, Emperor Chongzhen's move did not work. In the same year, the Chuang army captured various cities in Henan, advancing invincibly towards Tongguan and directly aiming at Xi'an. Two years later, the Dashun Army captured Beijing, and Chongzhen hanged himself. However, Li Zicheng was still hot on the throne, and more than 40 days later, he was defeated by Wu Sangui's Guan Ning cavalry and the Qing army, and eventually died.
Regardless of war, policy and other factors, some people speculate that this is because Li Zicheng and Chongzhen dug each other's dragon veins, hurt each other, and cut off each other's dragon veins, causing both sides to lose, which is sad.