What is the ancient village transformed by Liu Bowen without suffering for thousands of years and with abundant talents?
Now, let's look at an anecdote about Liu Bowen.
There is an ancient village in the southwest of Wuyi County, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, which was originally remote and unknown. But after a person's transformation, it has become famous, attracting countless tourists to stop and watch for many years, and many archaeologists and historians often come to investigate and explore. Why does a small ancient village have such great charm?
This ancient village is called "Yuyuan Ancient Village" or "Yuyuan Taiji Xiang Xing Village". This ancient village is "ancient" because it was founded in the Southern Song Dynasty. According to historical records, Yu De, a Hangzhou native who gave lectures in Songyang in the Southern Song Dynasty, died and his son Yu sent the coffin back to Hangzhou. It was already dark when he passed by. When looking for someone to check in, there was a magical scene in the coffin parked by the stream, which was actually entangled in the wisteria on the ground.
Yu Yi was pleasantly surprised. She felt that this place must be a treasure trove of feng shui, so she boldly made the decision to bury her father on the spot. Later, Yu Yi, famous for his loyalty and filial piety, set up a wooden house beside the tomb and became a "grave keeper". Later, Yu Yihe and a local girl actually got along for a hundred years, and their descendants have passed on for more than 30 generations.
However, Yuyuan Village has good mountains, good water and good scenery, and the only bad thing is the continuous floods and droughts. To this end, the villagers are very upset, but there is nothing they can do.
Sun Yulai, the fifth generation of Yuyuan Ancient Village, was a classmate of Liu Bowen and was a close classmate and friend. I want to appreciate and admire Liu Bowen's super talent. Later, I heard that when Liu Bowen, who helped Zhu Yuanzhang lay a national foundation, resigned and retired to his hometown in order to "avoid disasters", Yu Lai took the initiative to visit Liu Bowen and asked him to help "transform" the geomantic omen in his hometown to eliminate disasters.
See is a former classmate friend, Liu Bowen didn't refuse. In A.D. 1349, Liu Bowen came to the scene with Yu Lai. After careful investigation, he was full of praise for the ancient village of Yuyuan Garden. It turns out that the Yuyuan Ancient Village is surrounded by eleven hills and the spirit of "Ling Rui", and it is a rare land of geomantic omen in the world. However, because the streams in the village were too straight and "hard", Ruiqi was taken away, so it had to be rebuilt urgently.
Liu Bowen then designed to turn the village stream into a winding stream. Specifically, the mountain stream that originally flowed from the southeast of the village passed through the village in the east-west direction until it reached the foot of the western hill of the village, then turned north to the entrance of the village and flowed to the field outside the village in an S-shape.
The S-shaped stream and the surrounding mountains have greatly changed the whole ancient village-forming a huge Tai Chi map. S-shaped flow is just a dividing line between yin and yang fish, which divides the field into "Tai Chi two instruments". Tai Chi map is placed at the entrance of the north village to block the cold air and "evil spirits" in the north and form an "air dam" to prevent the auspicious spirit in the village from leaking out and keep it.
In addition to reforming the flow direction of streams, Liu Bowen also made design plans for the buildings in the village. There are 28 halls arranged in the shape of gossip, corresponding to 28 stars, arranged according to the general orientation of East Black Dragon Seven Nights, North Xuanwu Seven Nights, West White Tiger Seven Nights and South Suzaku Seven Nights. More subtly, the Yu ancestral hall, located at the head of the West White Tiger, happened to be built on the word "Dou" in the Big Dipper.
Three years later, the renovation project was completed. As a result, it's time to witness the miracle. Since then, Yuyuan ancient village has not only suffered from drought, flood and fire. Moreover, the village is empty of people and money, and the village officials and nobles emerge one after another, which goes without saying. There are more than 293 people, including Shangshu, Doctor, Fu Tai, Magistrate, Jinshi and Juren, and there are countless painters and doctors, which are considered as the "land of geomantic omen" with outstanding people.
Yuyuan Ancient Village, because of Liu Bowen's "finishing touch", is full of talents, and its reputation is naturally getting louder and louder, attracting countless tourists and experts to visit and explore the ancient village.
Through the research of modern scientists, this paper gives the reasons why there is no drought and flood fire after the transformation of Yuyuan ancient village. It turns out that the ancient village of Yuyuan Garden is surrounded by mountains, with only a small gap in the north. The whole village is like a bottle with a small mouth and a big belly, and a stream flows directly out of the village from the bottleneck. During the rainy season, after every heavy rain, the water on the mountain pours into the stream, and the flow of the stream suddenly increases. Because the outlet is narrow and the stream is straight, the discharge speed of the stream is extremely fast, and a large number of streams will be stranded at the bottleneck in a short time, which will lead to overflow and flood disasters.
However, Liu Bowen skillfully used the terrain to change the mountain stream into an S-shape, which increased the length and volume of the stream, relieved the pressure and slowed down the discharge speed of the stream. At the same time, there are also "Seven-Star Temple" in the village, which are located in the upper vegetable garden, the big vegetable garden, the Liufengtang, the edge of the Shuidutang, the lower field, the upper spring and the lower spring, and are distributed in the shape of a big dipper, forming the layout of "the sky attracts 28 nights". These seven ponds play the role of drought resistance, water storage in flood and fire extinguishing in fire.
Therefore, it is not surprising that there has never been a natural disaster in this village in the past 700 years.
Experts can't explain the mystery of the Yu family's talented people. However, the elders of the Yu family revealed their personal mystery and mystery for a simple reason: Yu's ancestral hall happened to be located in the seven-star "Doukui" composed of Tian Xuan, Heaven and Tianquan, and "Doukui" was also called wenchang star. "There are stars in the sky, temples on the ground, and blessed people on the ground", and the earth shows the sky, and heaven, earth and people are one. Perhaps this is the secret of Yu Yuan's longevity.
If we walk into the ancient village of Yuyuan Garden now, we can see the trace left by Liu Bowen-Taiji Map everywhere. At present, there are as many as 395 well-preserved ancient buildings in the ancient village. In all kinds of architectural decoration, Tai Chi pictures are very common, up to 400.
Among the many places of interest in Yuyuan Ancient Village, there is also a dream-fulfilling resort-the Cave Master Temple, which was built in the Southern Song Dynasty. The temple is famous for its two grand temple fairs on the 13th of the first month and the 26th of June every year.
The 13th day of the first month is the "Dream Festival" every year. During the day, the village should organize folk entertainment activities and look forward to the prosperity of six livestock and the bumper harvest of crops in the coming year. At night, people enter the main cave temple and lie on the floor, hoping to have a good dream.
Every year on June 26th of the lunar calendar, villagers kill pigs and sheep in the main temple of cave dwellings to worship, so as to ensure good weather and prosperity. The village also invited the troupe to perform a costume drama for three days and four nights, which is customarily called "June Opera".
Strangely, it always rains in Yuyuan Ancient Village during performances every year, or even it doesn't rain for a long time, which is still a mystery.
It is reported that there are more than 30 unsolved mysteries like this in Yuyuan Ancient Village. For example, there is a well called "meteorological well" near the "business building" in the village. When the weather is clear and the water is clear, it will rain when the well water becomes turbid. Nine carp on the truss of the ancient building "Shengyuantang" will change color with the climate change. ...
All these require further research and exploration by relevant experts in order to solve these incredible unsolved mysteries.