Deciphering why Zhu Yuanzhang was buried in water: the mystery of underwater tombs
The mystery of the underwater tomb turned into the sea, and the sea turned into the sea. Since the Ming Zuling was discovered, the surrounding area has been full of legends. 1963, Hongze Lake suffered a severe drought, and the water level dropped to the lowest point in history. Some large stone statues appeared from the water. These stone statues lie staggered in the mud. They are carved into images of unicorn, lion, saddle horse and officials, military commanders and eunuchs. After expert research, it was confirmed as the Ming Zuling.
Ming Zuling is located on the west bank of Hongze Lake in Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province. It is the cenotaph of Zhu Yuanzhang's great-grandfather and the actual burial place of his grandfather. To tell the truth, the location of Ming Zuling is not ideal. It is not on the edge of mountains and big mounds, but in the hills and hilly land called "nine hills and eighteen depressions" At that time, Master Liu Ji and others knew that the location of Ming Zuling was not perfect for thousands of years. According to the definition of ancient geomantic theory, the terrain of geomantic treasure-house depends on three wonders and four responses. The three must be mountains, waters and cases; Front, back, left and right are four responses; There are sand guards around, and the so-called "sand" is the earth and stone in the mountain; There must be Los Angeles, which is composed of mountains or water and surrounds it. There is a mountain facing the mountain in the distance, and there is a mountain nearby. Taking the mountain as Los Angeles, it is best to form four situations: left green dragon, right white tiger, former suzaku and later Xuanwu. If there are no mountains around, but there is Ma Pingchuan, we can make use of the water potential to make Zeguo the most important and become a dragon (water dragon). There is not much beauty around the Ming Zuling except a water town.
Since the geomantic omen here is not good, why didn't Zhu Yuanzhang find another auspicious soil to bury his ancestors? Actually, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to, but this is the actual burial place of his grandfather. If you want to move the grave, it will inevitably vent your anger and affect Daming Jiangshan. So we can only build Zuling here. In order to solve the problem of bad geomantic omen, a large-scale geographical transformation was carried out when the mausoleum was built, and the depression was buried and the repair was insufficient. Digging rivers and piling up mountains, artificially creating the necessary landscape of feng shui elements such as sand, water, recent cases and halls has formed a standard treasure house of feng shui.
It has become a treasure trove of feng shui. Why was Ming Zuling buried at the bottom of the lake for more than 300 years? Is it the congenital deficiency of Feng Shui that failed to protect the Ming Zuling from the destruction of heaven and earth? Was it an accidental natural disaster, or was it man-made that inevitably caused the flood? Some people think that the flood in the Ming Zuling is actually only three points of natural disasters and seven points of man-made disasters. What the hell is going on here?
The location of the Ming Zuling
Explain that in the seventh year of Hongzhi (A.D. 1494), Liu Daxia built the Taihang levee to block the north branch of the Yellow River and make the south branch seize the Huai River and enter the sea. After that, the river began to be disordered, the middle and lower reaches of the Huaihe River flooded year after year, and the ancestral graves suffered floods. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Pan Jixun, the prime minister and minister of river industry, put forward a new strategy of "storing Huaihe River and brushing Yellow River" for water control. He advocated storing water in dikes and opposed dredging tributaries to open new rivers. Instead, it is necessary to "build dikes to control water, attack sand with water" and "attack sand with water and control water with water". He believes that "the water is slow, the sand stops when the water is slow, and the river is full when the sand stops." Water of all sizes ranges from the sand surface to its height. Hydration is very fierce. When it is fierce, it is necessary to brush it with sand, and the sand is brushed deep into the river. If you ask for water, you must come from the bottom of the river and be humble. Damming water and attacking sand with water. If the water on both sides does not overflow, brush it directly at the bottom of the river. Certain principles are an inevitable trend. The reason why this combination is more and more divided. " What a good theory, saving money and effort, saving worry, with the flavor of conquering the enemy without fighting, can move people's hearts, and finally win the support of Ming Shenzong.
It's a pity that people are not as good as nature. No matter how you collect the power of the Huaihe River, it also lost to the Yellow River. The surging Yellow River was turned back with the help of the Huaihe River. What can you call going into the ocean and never coming back? Soon, a large amount of sediment was deposited at the Qinghe estuary, and the riverbed of the Huaihe River near here was also enlarged due to the backward flow of the Yellow River, which weakened the impact of Huai water. When encountering resistance, it retreated, and the sand stopped with the waves, and the sediment carried by Huai water stopped depositing at the Qinghe estuary. Huaishui can't brush the Yellow River, nor can it enter the sea from the mouth of the Qing River. When it entered the old lake, it built a high weir, so Huai water had to overflow. "It didn't take long for it to flood, and Wang Hui was still over the embankment and merged into the lake. Then it goes up in summer and autumn, endlessly. The mighty dragon sand shocked the mausoleum, and the disaster in Zhangzhou was one year old. " .
Pan Jixun's water control policy has been "tested" in practice and should be re-tested. At this time, it is not too late to change course. Unfortunately, at this time, the general plan of water control is no longer water control, but has become a tool for court disputes and a weapon to safeguard its power and authority. To this end, he not only got rid of the obstruction of opposition, but even fabricated a lie, saying that Zuling "pines and cypresses, protecting sand as before." Even after twenty years of Wanli, he still insisted on his own opinion and listed the discussion of diversion as a disease, which added pain to Chen. At this time, it is an indisputable fact that the flood in Huaisi area is still imminent.
I really don't know whether Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors were spiritual or not. Why did he look at such ministers as Pan Jixun with almost disdain? After the ancestors were buried underground, they were silently swallowed up, which doomed the Ming Zuling to sink underwater for more than 300 years, and also doomed future generations to lament its ups and downs like mourning the Six Kingdoms and Epang Palace.
According to common sense, since Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors were honored as emperors and queens, they should build their burial places and build mausoleum buildings according to the system. However, according to historical records, Zhu Yuanzhang only added titles in the early years of Hongwu, and did not build ancestral graves. What are the historical reasons behind this? It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang was poor when he was young, and his place of residence moved again and again, so that he didn't know the exact burial place of his three generations of ancestors. Therefore, he had a great effort to find the burial place of Zuling.
According to historical records, Zhu Yuanzhang was told that his ancestral grave was in Zhu Jiaxiang, Tongde Township, Jurong, and Zhu Yuanzhang believed it, that is, "Long live the mountain, build roads with teachers, and Taizu bowed down." Unexpectedly, he only knocked on the head, and the Long Live Mountain was divided into deep streams in the middle! He can't help getting angry ―― is this my ancestor? How can he not stand my worship? So he "severely punished the speaker" and thought that this was not the place where his ancestors existed. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang recalled that the second sister had said that his grandfather's grave was in the area of Laolingzui in Sizhou, but it was still impossible to inspect it. In the seventeenth year of Hongwu, by chance, Zhu Yuanzhang finally found the true location of Zuling. It is said that Zhu Gui, a cousin of Zhu Yuanzhang, and his grandfather moved from Zhu Jiaxiang to Sunjiagang in the north of Sizhou. Through a visit to his hometown, Zhu Yuanzhang finally learned that his grandparents were buried in Yangjiadun in the north of Sizhou. This ancient tomb was named after the tomb of Yang Jun, a doctor in the Song Dynasty.
Is this really the real burial place of Zhu Yuanzhang's grandparents? Or is it created out of thin air because of political needs? In the hundreds of years after the Ming dynasty, there was a phenomenon that people ignored intentionally or unintentionally, or no one dared to say it. That is, since Zhu Yuanzhang was so eager to find his grandfather's burial place, he found it, and spent so much time and money on large-scale construction, and even let the state reserve, which could not be used casually, serve as the general manager and supervisor of this ancestral grave. Why didn't he worship and kowtow here after being built in the ancestral grave like Jurong? Are you afraid that a head will break into a deep stream? Did Zhu Yuanzhang ever doubt this ancestor? Is Zhu Guixian's picture true? Zhu Gui said that Yangjiadun is the location of the ancestral tomb, which was proved by many people. What about these people? Is he here for a pet or a hereditary position? The only difference from others is that Zhu Gui is smarter, more serious and more like that. However, Zhu Yuanzhang, who has always been suspicious and intelligent, especially knows that his ancestors have been displaced and buried, I am afraid I can't help but watch.
Then why did he believe Zhu Gui, named Yangjiadun Long Live Mountain and set his ancestral grave on this long Huaihe River? Perhaps Zhu Yuanzhang was also depressed, because he knew very well that Jurong Long Live Mountain was not fake? However, in order to prove that the Ming Dynasty was the ancestor of "accumulating virtue, rewarding diligence by heaven, and being brilliant for ever", in order to confuse the audience and prove that this emperor had an ancestral "gene", which was determined by heaven, others could not be a good emperor if they wanted to. So he had to make such a mistake.
Among the stone statues in the mausoleum, the first two pairs are Kirin, the last four pairs are lions, and then Huabiao, Tianma, waiter and so on.
The Legend of the Ming Zuling has opened the door to the history of China. You will find that in the history of China, legends of emperors playing politics abound, such as Chen Sheng's midnight divination, Liu Bang's sword-wielding to cut the white snake, Liu Bei's escape from the white sheath, Zhao Kuangyin's Xianglong Shengrui and so on. Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Zuling is just a continuation of the brilliant means of the above-mentioned historical politicians.
Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors were poor and wandering around for generations, and there was really no place to stand. His grandfather Zhu Chuyi, in his 60s, lives in Guzhou and raises pigs for a wealthy family in Shuanggou Town. This water man claims to be half a lake, and Shuanggou East reaches Hongze Lake in India, all of which are his land. Zhu Chu's family set up a shack and lived in Sunjiagang by the lake, raising pigs and clearing land for the rich man to make a living.