There is a resting place for the dead in Luoyang, and many people ask to be buried here after death. What's the secret?
There is a saying among the people in our country, which is called "Born in Suzhou and Hangzhou, buried in Beimang with death". "Born in Suzhou and Hangzhou" is mainly because Suzhou and Hangzhou are located in the south of China. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "there is Suzhou and Hangzhou under heaven". In "Looking at the tide of the sea and winning in the southeast", Liu Yong did his best to describe the grand scenery of Suzhou and Hangzhou with "winning in the southeast, being a metropolis with three capitals and flourishing Qiantang since ancient times". Today, we are going to talk about "dying in Beimang", because there are too many unknown secrets hidden here.
summary of beimang mountain
beimang mountain was originally called Mangshan mountain, and it is called beimang mountain because it is located in the northeast of Luoyang, Henan province. It starts from Sanmenxia in the west and ends at Yishui River in the east, stretching for more than 4 miles from west to east. This mountain is the tail of Longshan Mountain, and it is a treasure trove of geomantic omen in China. Therefore, since King Chengyang was buried here in the Eastern Han Dynasty, later generations of officials and ministers have regarded this place as the first choice for graves.
there are many villages here, which are surrounded by mountains and waters and have a pleasant climate. In addition, many princes and celebrities were buried here in history, so the culture of "born in Suzhou and Hangzhou and buried in Beimang" gradually formed. Thanks to the unique natural and cultural conditions here, it has formed the characteristics suitable for farming, health preservation and tourism.
The peculiarity of Mangshan
First of all, its geographical location and city are quite special. Luoyang, known as the 13th ancient capital of China, is also known as "the five ancient capitals of China" with Xi 'an (Chang 'an), Kaifeng (Bianliang, Bianjing and Tokyo), Beijing (Beiping, Jingshi) and Nanjing (Jinling, Jianye and Jiankang).
from the eastern Zhou dynasty to the Tang dynasty, many feudal monarchs took a fancy to Luoyang's location in the central plains, its easy manipulation of the world and some military factors. Moreover, as a big city developed earlier in the Central Plains, this place has created an extremely prosperous economy, so many feudal monarchs like to regard this place as the capital of a country.
Secondly, there have been many famous historical events here. For example, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when eunuchs made an insurrection, Liu Xie (later Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty, but at that time it was still Chen Liuwang) took refuge here on his back, so a very famous nursery rhyme "Hou Feihou, King Fei Wang, rode away from Beimang in thousands" was handed down.
For example, during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, during the military confrontation between the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty, Warrior Lanling Gao Changgong, the general of the Northern Qi Imperial Clan, led 5 troops to win the "Great Victory in Northern Han Dynasty" here, and Warrior Lanling became famous in World War I.. For example, at the end of Sui Dynasty and the beginning of Tang Dynasty, Wang Shichong and Shi Biao assembled more than 1, troops here to fight the "Battle of Northern Mang". In short, there are countless, and so on.
Thirdly, the particularity of geomantic omen. In geomantic omen, Beimang Mountain is called the remaining veins of Kunlun Mountain (Zulongshan), Qinling Mountain and Xiaoshan Mountain by them, and it is called one of the 72 blessed places of Taoism in China. Moreover, Luoyang is bred by four rivers, such as Jishui and Luoshui, which makes Beimang Mountain a unique and unique resting place for souls, and many people ask to be buried here after death.
literary records and myths and legends about Beimang Mountain
Numerous literati and poets have written the legend of Beimang Mountain with literary works.
Tao Yuanming, a great poet in Jin Dynasty, said, "Once he is a hundred years old, he will return to Beimang Mountain." Tao Yuanming is a famous hermit and poet in Chinese history, and noble people like him regard Beimang Mountain as an excellent place to be buried. Bai Juyi also said, "The virtuous and the foolish, the noble and the lowly all die together, and the tomb of Beimang Tomb is high and craggy. In ancient times, I was so alone that I sang before I died. "He expressed his lament about the life of drinking now and getting drunk now, and at the same time regarded Beimang as synonymous with funeral culture. Yuan Haowen, however, said in the Yuan Dynasty, "Drive the horse to the north of Mangyuan, and it will take a long time. Thousands of rich people have fallen into this mountain. "The so-called mountain refers to Beimang Mountain.
Beijiang has left many touching legends. According to legend, Lao Tzu quietly came to Beimang Mountain and built a Tai Chi Eight Diagrams Furnace to mobilize the spirituality of heaven and earth with eight people. After 9981 days of careful refining, he finally refined the elixir. I tasted one of them, and instantly took off all the bones and became immortal, so I touched his green cow with an elixir, and then he stepped on the green cow and went out of the valley of letters in the north of Mangshan Mountain.
"Hometown of the Dead"
Because there are too many dead spirits buried in Beimang, here are some well-known figures from several dynasties. In the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu, the former mausoleum of Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty, established the Eastern Han Dynasty with Luoyang as its capital after Liu Xiu's uprising, and was buried in Beimang after his death.
It is reasonable to say that ancient emperors chose tombs as excellent places to admire the world with mountains and rivers at their backs. However, the original mausoleum is an uncharacteristic place, which is not easily destroyed by the Yellow River. Because he was buried with only a few funerary objects and the location was scientific, his mausoleum was relatively well preserved.
during the three kingdoms period, the first mausoleum of Cao pi, the emperor of Wei Wen. Cao Pi's first Yangling Mausoleum was chosen in a "no food place in Qiuxu" in the east of shouyangshan. He built such a mausoleum in a place like this, in order to let the descendants after hundreds of thousands of years not know the existence of this mausoleum. Cao Pi has made great achievements in his life, and he has been in office for seven years, with the title of Huang Chu.
His funeral concept mainly inherited his father Cao Cao's "thin funeral concept", so he is a staunch supporter of thin funeral culture. There are no treasures hidden in the tomb. He thinks that the thick burial is clearly tempting those with malicious intentions, and his father's move of setting up a captain who touches gold and a corps commander who sends a hill touches him deeply.
During the Northern Wei Dynasty, the tomb of Emperor Xiaowen Yuan Hong (Tuoba Hong). Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty was a famous politician and reformer in China. His reform greatly promoted the great integration of the Chinese nation and left a colorful page in the history of China's economic, political and cultural development.
In the 18th year of Taihe (AD 494), Emperor Xiaowen ordered the capital to be moved from Pingcheng in the north to Luoyang in the Central Plains, and carried out reforms in Luoyang. Later, in the twenty-third year of Taihe (AD 499), he collapsed in the journey to the south. Because the final Ningling Mausoleum of Emperor Wen Zhao of Emperor Xiaowen is about 1 meters away from Changling Mausoleum, the locals commonly call these two mausoleums "big and small tombs".
Some people have made a rough statistics on the number of tombs here: there are eight in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, five in the Eastern Han Dynasty, one in the Cao Wei Dynasty, four in the Northern Wei Dynasty, five in the Western Jin Dynasty, and one in the later Tang Dynasty. Together with the tombs of the princes and ministers, there are thousands of them. If the tombs of ordinary people are added, the number may reach hundreds of thousands.
As an important representative of funeral culture in China, Beimang Mountain has been mentioned countless times in literary works. Because it is located in a treasure trove of geomantic omen, there are more than twenty emperors' tombs and thousands of ministers' tombs buried here, and there are many mysterious myths and legends circulating here and excellent geographical location, so it is called the "hometown of the dead" in China.
Nowadays, there are many ancient tombs here, so it is a major feature of this place. If we want to understand the history and culture of our country, then funeral culture must be an unavoidable topic, and when it comes to funeral culture, we must avoid Beimang Mountain.