Why did Lu Rongting, the "King of Guangxi" in the Republic of China, call himself "Guan Di descended to earth"?
"Guanyin holds a dream" turns around.
Lu Rongting is a famous warlord in modern China and the first warlord in Guangxi. He was born in Xionglei Village, Wuming County, Guangxi. 1859. His parents died when he was a child. At the age of 8, he worked as a child laborer in an umbrella shop in the city. Lu Rongting was soon kicked out of the house because the boss's wife was mean. Since then, Lu Rongting has lived on the streets, staying at home everywhere, entering casinos or stealing, and living in Guanyin Pavilion in the village at night without a place to live. There is a coffin in Guanyin Pavilion. He turned the lid of the coffin upside down as a bed board. I often fall to the ground after falling asleep at night without knowing it. He thought Guanyin Bodhisattva was blessing him.
At that time, there were many street children in the county, so Lu Rongting organized them to steal them and then took them to Guanyin Pavilion to divide the spoils. /kloc-One day when he was 0/6 years old, he stole clothes from the yamen. When the chief found out, he went after him. He hid in the coffin of Guanyin Pavilion and fell asleep. He dreamed that Guanyin Bodhisattva instructed him to go to the south at night, and he would go far away, saying that there would be a good life there. After waking up, Lu Rongting quickly climbed out of the coffin. Hungry, he ran to an umbrella shop to beg for food. Unexpectedly, it leaked out. Fortunately, the shopkeeper hid him in a water tank to escape the government's arrest. That night, the shopkeeper gave him fifty coppers and a few Jin of glutinous rice to let him escape. Lu Rongting jumped from a wall more than twenty feet high in Cheng Nan, but he was safe, so he left Wuming County overnight and ran to the south.
Strangely, after Lu Rongting fled south, he survived several times and turned defeat into victory. From then on, Lu Rongting believed in superstition and believed that Guanyin Bodhisattva was protecting herself. Because Guanyin Bodhisattva wears white clothes, he also likes to wear white clothes. 19 12 years, Lu Rongting, who had been the governor of Guangxi, returned to his hometown of Wuming County. The first thing he did was to build a large building, rebuild Guanyin Pavilion and build Guanyin Pavilion next to the county government. The completion of Guanyin Pavilion coincides with the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva on June 19th of the lunar calendar. Lu Rongting held a grand celebration, which attracted people from all over the world to watch.
Portrait on the exorcism tablet
From then on, Lu Rongting believed in geomantic superstition. After Yuan Shikai usurped the throne, Lu Rongting defected to Yuan Shikai. When Yuan Shikai awarded him the title of "General Ningwu", Lu Rongting immediately decided to build a Ningwu village in his hometown to consolidate his family property. In order to find a good feng shui for Ningwuzhuang, he specially invited an immortal, who is the father of Mo Jingyi, a subordinate of Lu Rongting. It is said that his feng shui is very good and effective. The immortal found a good place for Lu Rongting, four miles south of Xionglei Village, where he was born. It is said that there is Long Mai here. Bury your ancestors in this place near the mountains and rivers, and you will be the emperor. Lu Rongting was very happy to hear this, so he bought this land of geomantic omen, built Ningwu Village here, and put the memorial tablet of his ancestors here for sacrifice. Lu Rongting even built himself a four-and-a-half-foot-tall bust with a pair of couplets on the left and right, which read: "I'd rather all the generals go to see the chief, and all the troops serve our people." .
Another interesting thing also shows that Lu Rongting is superstitious. Since Yuan Shikai proclaimed himself emperor, there have been waves of anti-Yuan waves. Lu Rongting, who has always been in have it both ways, saw that this big tree was about to fall, and he also started a plan against Yuan to overthrow the imperial system. Lu Rongting and Shen, Tan, Mo Rongxin, Wei and others swore allegiance to Yuan in Ningwuzhuang. When they set up the incense table and were swearing in front of avalokitesvara, Lu Rongting's daughter-in-law happened to break in because she was looking for something. Lu Rongting immediately flew into a rage and shouted, "What are you doing here? Disaster! Get out, get out! " Then he said to his subordinates, "This time it doesn't count, start again, start again." Then he swore again.
At that time, there was a local legend in Guangxi: there was a river outside the west gate of Wuming County, which was often haunted. People walked along the shore and accidentally fell into the river. Moreover, there are many suicides there, and the river is swift. Few people were saved alive from the river. Suspected ghosts and gods, many local gentry invited Taoist monks to exorcise demons. Hearing this, Lu Rongting recognized his "extraordinary identity" and ordered someone to build an exorcism monument engraved with his own head. This monument is one meter high and two feet wide. It is engraved with not only the portrait of Lu Rongting, but also the inscription he wrote to win the battle: "The young and strong are shaking Guangdong clothes, mighty and fierce, holding a demon sword in the left and a gun in the right, and ghosts and gods are hiding from others."
Guan Gong killed all the Longzhou chickens.
It is said that in Longzhou, Guangxi, the fiercest ghost is called "Gu", and the people always have to kill chickens to get blood for this monster, so "Gu" is also called "Chicken Ghost" locally. Lu Rongting learned of this situation and thought that he was "Guan Di descended to earth" and had the ability to contain "Fa". He ordered all the local chickens to be killed, and chicken blood was not allowed. He can only carve his portrait on the exorcism tablet to curb the "Dharma", and at the same time, he has built many buildings and made many statues, which made the chicken fly and the dog jump in Longzhou area for a while. 10 In late June, the war between Guangdong and Guangxi broke out, and in July, 1 2000, all the ministries in Guangxi were successively defeated. After Lu Rongting escaped, the local people hated what he did, either throwing his portraits and statues into the river or paving the road for passers-by to trample on every day.
13 1 month, Lu Rongting led his troops to the border of Hunan and Guangxi to receive weapons and ammunition donated by Wu. Tan, a subordinate, was ordered to set up a stone tablet engraved with Lu Rongting at Qiaotou Ferry along the way in Hunan. Lu Rongting thinks this can be used to enhance his prestige in the army, and it also shows Gui Jun's domineering attitude towards the people of Hunan. But it didn't last long. Wu, Zhang, Cao Kun and other Beiyang armies fought back against Gui. For these "tigers and wolves", how can Gui Jun be an opponent? Tan made a raid in Changsha and ran away without any resistance. Hunan people hated Gui Jun's actions and threw stone tablets into the river one after another. Lu Rongting's great strength is lost in the eyes of Hunan people.