How cruel was Wu Zetian who always dug up people's ancestral graves?
In the past, people attached great importance to the so-called feng shui of ancestral graves. The phenomenon of digging graves caused by "digging ancestral graves" became a unique scene in the history of tomb robbing in ancient China. In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the eunuch Yu Chaoen came up with the crooked idea of digging up Guo Ziyi's ancestral grave. There has always been a feud with Yu Chaoen. The "New Tang Book Biography of Guo Ziyi" records that "he was destroyed by his favorite minister Cheng He Yu Chaoen in a short period of time. During the crisis, he was sent to the army outside, but he sent him a letter. He took it and left that day. He didn't have the courage to look at him, so he couldn't stay there.
Tubo Lingzhou was destroyed, and Chaoen sent someone to send his father's tomb, but it was stolen. The purpose of curbing Guo's career was achieved by robbing ancestral tombs, but he failed and was sued by the emperor instead. The Feng Shui theory in the Sui and Tang Dynasties reached a new peak under the promotion of famous figures in the Wei and Jin Dynasties such as Guo Pu, and a number of outstanding figures such as Yang and others emerged. Therefore, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, people paid special attention to the feng shui of ancestral graves, and new theories emerged.
"Digging ancestral graves" and "bad feng shui" simultaneously became powerful means of punishing rebels at that time. Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in Chinese history, used this method to punish Ye Jing for rebelling against Chen Xu. Zhang Kun of the Tang Dynasty wrote "Chao Ye Qian Zai" to record this incident: Tang Gong Xu Jichu was buried, and the proverb goes: "The red bird is bright, and the descendants are prosperous." After hearing this, Zhang Jingzang said privately: "The people who occupy the middle are too much. The so-called red bird is sad, the coffin is "See the ashes in the sun." After Sun rebelled against Yangzhou, his younger brother Jingzhen replied: "When Ye Jing was born, he dug a turtle under the tree and it looked like a cloud." The order is kept secret, and this seems like a big change. “When God is angry, his body is burned in the coffin, and the ashes must be returned. Also from "Chaoye Qianzai", Hao, who was Prime Minister Li Zhishi, was also sanctioned by Wu Zetian. Hao was buried, and a scholar passed by his tomb and sighed: "Bury the dragon horns. It must be embarrassing. Later, something happened to Hao's grandson, which caused trouble to Wu Zetian, and they "burned his coffin, "Burn his body." "According to historical records, Hao was dug up and humiliated after his death, which should have nothing to do with Feng Shui. However, Prime Minister Hao, who was not as ambitious as Wu Zetian as emperor at the time, strongly protested against this, which made Wu Zetian resentful.
He was the leader of the Huangchao Peasant Rebel Army in the late Tang Dynasty and one of the madmen in the history of tomb robbing in China. In 881 AD, he captured Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, established the State of Qi, and changed its name to Jintong. As for the pirates from the Tang emperors, the "Daqi" Feng Shui they built was destroyed and poached by the court. The incident happened in the third year of Zhonghe reign of Emperor Xizong of Tang Dynasty, and there was a secret report. There is "Huangchao Valley" near Niushan in Jinzhou, which is Huangchao's treasure land. If the weather in Huangchao is bad, the mountain will be dug. According to the Song Dynasty book "Wang Ming and Qing's "Wai Piao Hou Lu", Li Yizhen believed it and sent thousands of people to dig up Niushan. After digging for several months, Niushan was destroyed.
A stone bucket was unearthed, with a yellow monster inside and a three-foot-long sword on it. Huang Chao was defeated and soon committed suicide. In fact, this is not credible. The defeat of Huangchao had nothing to do with Li Yi's digging of Niushan. After three years of neutralization, the Huangchao rebels were exhausted. On the eighth day of April that year, the Tang army entered Chang'an from Guangtai Gate. Huang Chao was invincible and burned the palace to escape. Since then, the war has been defeated everywhere. There were also many people in the Tang Dynasty who did not believe in the good and bad fortunes of Feng Shui. Yao Chong, a famous minister of Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, was one of them. , when the ancestral hall collapsed during the Kaiyuan period, Li Longji was planning to go to Luoyang, the eastern capital. People around him considered traveling unlucky and inappropriate. Yao Chong thought to himself: "I heard that the Sui Dynasty took Fu Jian's old temple to build a temple, and the Tang Dynasty took it. In addition, the memorandum of understanding