What does the ancestral grave represent?

ancestral graves bury the graves of ancestors. The first fold of Yan 'an House, written by an anonymous source in Yuan Dynasty, says: "I'll burn a strange paper in that ancestral grave. If I want to be rich, I'll respect my ancestors." Ming Zhu Guozhen's "Chong Zhuang Xiao Piece, Bad Luck of the Tomb": "Li Ge learned nine from me, from his ancestors, two original brothers, and more than one descendant, which is both literary and expensive, and one is the most declining. Suspected ancestral graves have advantages and disadvantages, and they are reburied. " The third time in "A Brief History of Civilization": "My ancestral graves have been on the mountains for hundreds of years. Why don't you dig the graves and see the coffins?" Guo Moruo's "My Childhood" article 3: "In his meaning, he thought that our mother had taken up all the geomantic omen on the ancestral grave of the Du family, so she only sent it to our family." Mao Dun's "Frost Leaves Red in February Flowers" I: "The geography of our ancestral graves is good, but it is a pity that its shape is incomplete." According to the ancient legend of China, after death, the body of the immortal will turn into a puff of light smoke and go straight to the celestial world, which is called feathering. Smoke from the ancestral grave means that someone in the ancestors became immortal, and when the ancestors became immortals, they would naturally bless their descendants with good luck. Therefore, the smoke from the ancestral grave means good luck. This is a geomantic saying. The blue smoke is a kind of blue gas, an auspicious gas, and it is a sign of good luck. According to the past, it can be an official. Now many people have no ancestral graves, so it is not allowed. Guo Pu, an ancestral grave and a geomantic Jinn, wrote "The Book of Burial", "The burials are also angry, and after saying, the gas is scattered by the wind, and the boundary water stops. The ancients gathered together and stopped, so they called it geomantic." Feng shui and the grave have always been linked together. In the past, when people died, they asked Mr. Feng Shui (Kanyu's family) to choose the tomb site. If they were buried in a treasure trove of Feng Shui, their descendants would be prosperous, their official career would be prosperous, and they would be honored forever. If buried in the cave of the real dragon emperor, it will be terrible, and the emperor will be born. Although geomantic omen is suspected of superstition, the ancients just believed it. Therefore, the ancients were most afraid that their ancestral graves would be dug, and they made a taboo of geomantic omen. Looking for a treasure trove of geomantic omen and digging up their ancestral graves, the ancients took care of the ancestral graves very seriously, and the new graves also had to be filial for three years. In today's view, this is the ancient people's filial piety and respect for their elders. However, the ancients believed that this matter was related to family fortune and geomantic omen, so we should not be careless, and nothing on the grave could be moved. "Bai Xia Suo Yan" (Volume 5) said, "The Rui brothers are all born. Geng Yin, the heather tree on his ancestral tomb, has been used for more than a hundred years, and it was hacked for the grave keeper, causing great anger. In that year, the father and son were all sick. " Just a century-old pomegranate tree growing on the ancestral grave was hacked by the grave keeper, which led to the tragedy of family destruction. It's too strange to be credible. Some people have ruined the feng shui of their ancestral graves because they are too greedy for the "land of feng shui". In Ziwuyu (Volume 3), Yan Jiexi buried his wife Ouyang Bu, called dozens of feng shui visitors, and told him, "I am extremely rich, what can I hope for?" I only hope that you can choose your land and give birth to your children and grandchildren. " All guests are passive. Not a month later, a visitor came to the cloud: "If there is a cave in a mountain, bury it, and your children will live a long life and be in harmony with the public." Jiexi ordered a group of guests to see it. A guest said alone, "If you bury this place, your descendants will be expensive, but the pulse will be too late, and I am afraid it will be heard after the sixth and seventh generations." Everyone agrees. Jiexi bought it. When you open a hole, there is an ancient tomb, which is the seventh ancestor of Yan's family. Jiexi is terrible, and it is urgent to seal the knowledge. However, since then, Yan's family has declined greatly, and he has lost his membership. This matter is said by a famous descendant of Yan. After Yan Jiexi's wife died, she wanted to find her a treasure trove of geomantic omen, so as to ensure that future generations could be as rich and expensive as him. He found dozens of feng shui gentlemen under his door to choose a treasure land for him. A Mr. Feng Shui found him a treasure in less than a month. Yan Jiexi asked everyone to have a look and consult with him. Everyone said that this land is good, but the disadvantage is that it will take six or seven generations to get rich. Yan Jiexi believed this and bought the land. However, when digging the grave, an epitaph was found, which is still known as the ancestral grave of Yan Jia VII. Yan Jiexi was greatly surprised and quickly let people bury the soil. But it was too late, and the atmosphere leaked out, and the Yan family fell from then on. It is a coincidence that one dug up one's ancestral grave in search of a treasure trove of geomantic omen. Occasionally, the geomantic omen was also damaged.