Why can Konglin in Shandong keep snakes away and crows away?

The ancients attached great importance to funerals, and thought that "things die like things live". In the Spring and Autumn Period, rites and music collapsed, which also led to the wind of heavy funerals. "Lu's Spring and Autumn Festival" contains: the country is vast, the family is rich, and the burial is thick. Confucianism advocates "ruling the world with filial piety", and after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "ousted a hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone", the concept of heavy burial as filial piety became more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Confucius was a saint, but his funeral was very simple. Confucius' Family Notes mentioned the death of Confucius: Give! Why are you late? Give a dream to the past and sit between two trees. Xia Houshi's funeral is above the East Order, but it is still in the hustle and bustle; Yin people were buried between two trees; Then it was sandwiched between the host and the guest ...

Confucius had a dream that he was sitting between two carriers. The carrier was the pillar in front of the hall, which was the place where the Yin people put the coffin. Confucius was a descendant of the Yin people, so he had a premonition that he was going to die. Confucius stayed in the country before he died. He explained the affairs, and Zi Gong asked him why he didn't.

Both the ancients and the modern people pay attention to returning the fallen leaves to the roots, which is a kind of inheritance engraved in the bones. Although Confucius didn't say it clearly, when Lu Xiagong came to mourn, Zi Gong said that Confucius was not reused by Lu, and it was not polite for him to mourn. In the final analysis, Confucius was benevolent, but he could not fulfill his ambition. He was ashamed to return to Lu before his death.

After the death of Confucius, he could be given a heavy burial with the financial resources of his protege, but Confucius still wanted a thin burial. "The funeral of Confucius is not for the public." Gong Xihua was a disciple of Confucius, and he presided over the funeral of Confucius. When he was buried, Confucius contained japonica rice and precious shells, and Confucius wore royal clothes.

Confucius, the official of the State of Lu, was not highly valued, but it was also in line with etiquette to wear royal robes. He wore an elephant ring around his waist: "Those who wear an elephant ring are ivory and literary, and they have already spoken and written articles; And for the ring, it shows that the cultural and educational circles are endless. "The elephant ring also indicates Confucius' life.

according to the Zhou dynasty, the coffin of the son of heaven is four-fold, that of the duke is three-fold, and that of the doctor is two-fold. The coffin of the son of heaven is eight inches thick and that of the doctor is six inches thick. Confucius' coffin was five inches thick, which was in line with Confucius' identity in terms of the rules of the rites of Zhou. After the burial, all the disciples mourned for three years, and only Zi Gong kept it for six years.

At the beginning, Confucius was the only tomb in Konglin, and its specifications were very simple. With the growing status of Confucius, Konglin was rebuilt many times in later generations. In the third year of Yongshou in the Eastern Han Dynasty (157), Lu Xiang-Han built the tomb of Konglin, and a sacred gate was built in front of the tomb, but at this time Konglin was just "a hectare of woodland".

In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the planting of trees was expanded in Konglin, and the tomb of Konglin was rebuilt during the reign of Xuanhe in the Song Dynasty. In the second year of Yuan to Shun (1331), Konglin built a fence, and in the tenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1377), the size of Konglin was expanded to 3, mu, and it was even expanded to 2 million square meters during the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty. The scale of Konglin was also constantly changing with the dynasties.

In addition to the cemetery of Confucius, descendants and disciples of Confucius are also buried here. Besides Confucius, the oldest one should be Mrs. Yu, the daughter of Qianlong, who married Duke Yansheng and was buried in Konglin, and Kong Lingyi, one of the four families in the Republic of China, was also buried here.

It's said that it's magical for Kong Lin to "catch no snakes" and "catch no crows". Don't all these animals know that Confucius is a saint, so they don't bother him? In fact, it is not, but the ancients considered the identity of Confucius when rebuilding the Confucius Forest. In order to prevent these unclean things, a lot of cinnabar and sulfur were used, so snakes would avoid them far away.

Most of the trees planted by Kong Lin are trees such as regular script trees and juniper trees, to show the long history of the ages. It happens that crows don't like these trees very much, and they have to sigh, what great wisdom of our ancestors!