The head and feet direction of rural burial tombs. In our rural hometown, the tombs are buried with the head facing up towards the top of the mountain and the feet facing each other.

From the perspective of Feng Shui culture (rather than Feng Shui skills), there are two factors that affect the head direction of tombs: first, topography; second, folk culture. The method of upside-down burial in the imperial tombs of the Song Dynasty has been controversial, which shows that these people were influenced by traditional Feng Shui techniques such as "Five Sounds and Surnames" and did not study the funeral system of the Song Dynasty carefully. The rulers of the Song Dynasty advocated Zhou rites, and the funeral system was carried out according to Zhou rites. For example, no mausoleum was built before death, and the burial must be done 7 months after death. These were all the reasons for the hasty construction of the Song emperor's mausoleum. So the burial method of the Song Emperor's mausoleum with the head facing north to the Luo River and the feet to the south Songshan Mountain is obviously imitating the Zhou Dynasty. We know that the tombs of Zhou Dynasty kings are located in the Zhouyuan area. Zhouyuan is adjacent to the Wei River to the north and the Qinling Mountains to the south. The tombs of the Zhou Dynasty are also buried upside down with their heads facing the Wei River and their feet facing the Qin Mausoleum. The Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang is also adjacent to the Li Mountain in the south and the Wei River in the north. Then there is "Buried in Beimang", which originally means "Buried at the northern foot of Mang Mountain", which means head resting on the Yellow River and pedaling on Mang Mountain, such as several imperial mausoleums in the Eastern Han Dynasty: Emperor Guangwu's Original Tomb, Emperor An's Gong Mausoleum, and Emperor Shun's Xian Mausoleum. Mausoleum, Chongdi Huailing, Lingdi Wenling and so on. This kind of inverted burial method can also be seen in the burial customs of other ethnic minorities, such as the Gelao people. "Hengmiao pours over Gelao" refers to this kind of inverted burial method. I have conducted field measurements and found that the imperial mausoleums of the Song Dynasty were aligned with the meridian direction of Bingzi and Bingwu, which means it was about 6 degrees to the left of the true meridian. This is obviously consistent with the "Five-yin surname Li" saying that the surname Zhao belongs to "Jiao" and belongs to wood. Logically, it should be eastward. However, the magic number is forcibly assigned to the "Renshan Bingxiang" belonging to the north-south direction, which is inconsistent with the field measurement of Zishan. There was another big discrepancy in the afternoon. Strictly speaking, the construction regulations for the Song Emperor's Mausoleum are "near" due south. This orientation method is the "near-positive" concept we talked about in the last class. It is the same reason as Beijing's central axis which is more than 2 degrees to the left. They all mean "infinitely close to prosperity, but not reaching the peak of prosperity" to avoid "prosperity and decline". This is the traditional Feng Shui method of regulating Qi (managing the "right" Qi). ——Excerpted from "Liu Dashi's Feng Shui"

From this point of view, the burial method in your hometown should be the local custom, and there is no problem.