Yuan Shikai was very superstitious throughout his life, so why did he dig up his own ancestral grave?

First of all, Yuan Shikai did not actually tear up his ancestral tomb, he just demolished the wall surrounding the ancestral tomb.

Yuan Shikai did this because he was very superstitious. When he was powerful, he had already had the idea of ​​​​tampering with the Qing Dynasty, and then according to the Feng Shui master's words, he had his ancestral graves removed.

Yuan Shikai has actually been very superstitious since he was a child. When doing things, he often looks at fortune-tellers, asks divination, and calculates Feng Shui. At that time, Yuan Shikai was forced to go home to recuperate. Yuan Shikai stubbornly believed that there must be a problem with his ancestral tomb, so he invited a famous Feng Shui master to test the Feng Shui of his ancestral tomb to solve the problem. Said: "The Yuan family's ancestral tomb is the place where the true dragon's den is formed, which is extremely precious. However, because a wall was built around the dragon's den, the dragon's body was restricted, its Qi channels were blocked, it could not flourish, and it suffered setbacks. The top priority was to tear down the wall of the ancestral tomb. "Yuan Shikai immediately believed it. After all, he himself had been exposed to these aspects of knowledge for a long time, so he felt that what the Feng Shui master said was reasonable, so he sent people to tear down the walls of his ancestral tomb to make it look more correct and dragon-like. The momentum makes the dragon vein more prosperous. Then there was a saying among the people: Yuan Shikai dug into the grave to find that his ancestral grave was not in the right place.

Yuan Shikai was actually very superstitious about Feng Shui and fortune-telling. When Yuan Shikai became the President of the Republic of China, someone recommended the talented Wu Dingchang to him as the Chief Financial Officer. So Yuan Shikai summoned Wu Dingchang, but his face did not look good. Yuan Shikai thought that the cheeks could be seen on the back, and Cao Cao had such a bone appearance. He was talented but could not be reused. Wu Dingchang later only became the director of a mint. From this incident, we can intuitively see how powerful Yuan Shikai's superstition is.