Nanjing's theory of breaking Long Mai

It is said that after Qin Shihuang unified the Central Plains, he began to tour the whole country and came to a place called "Moling" (literally meaning horse farm, where "Mo" was a forage for horses at that time), which is today's Nanjing. He saw a purple gas in the air, because in ancient times purple was also a symbol of the royal family ("the heavenly palace was called the purple palace" and the emperor was the son of heaven), and Qin Shihuang imagined that his Qin dynasty could last forever, so he thought that purple gas was the royal gas, and a person would be born here to compete with him for the world in the future, so he ordered the "Huaishui" at that time to be connected with the Yangtze River. That is, to cut off Long Mai to vent the king's anger, this river was later called Qinhuai River. In fact, that purple gas is a kind of ore on the Purple Mountain that reflects back to the clouds under the sunlight. As for the tiger sitting on the dragon plate, there are different opinions. One of the more popular ones is "Zhongshan dragon plate, stone sitting on the tiger plate". Legend has it that Zhuge Liang first said this statement. It is said that as early as 333 BC, Chu Weiwang destroyed Yue, built a city in Qingliang Mountain today, and buried gold to suppress the royal spirit.

At the end of Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang started to fight, and Confucian scholars Feng Guoyong, Tao An and Ye Dui advocated taking Nanjing as the world. "Biography of Feng Guoyong in the Ming Dynasty" records that Feng said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Jinling is the capital of emperors, and it is fundamental to pull it out first." Zhu Yuanzhang once ordered Confucian scholars to compose poems for Zhongshan, and Deng Boyan said: "The foot stands four poles, and Zhongshan is a dragon." This is a poem that highly praises Nanjing as an emperor. Zhu Yuanzhang exclaimed loudly, and Deng Jianyi thought that Mao was angry and scared to death.

Zhu Yuanzhang listened to the advice of Confucian scholars, and Liu Ji and others carefully built Nanjing. Volume 21 of Records of the Ming Dynasty records the construction of walls and palaces by Zhu Yuanzhang in the twenty-sixth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1366): "In August, the Kangcheng was built. At the beginning, the old city of Jiankang controlled the great river in the northwest, and entered Baixiamen in the east, which was far away from Zhongshan, while the old city was in the city, because Yuannantai was a palace and slightly humble. Shang ordered Liu Ji and others to make a new palace in the sun of Zhongshan, two miles outside the lower gate of Lebai in the old city. Therefore, a new city was built, with the toe of Zhongshan in the northeast extending for more than fifty miles. The regulation is magnificent, and it is based on the mountains and rivers. "

the feudal literati in the Ming dynasty believed that there were only two places in the world that could be the capital of emperors, one was Nanjing, and the other was Beijing. Textual research on the old news under the sun quoted the Ming Dynasty's Collection of Yang Wenmin as saying: "The situation of mountains and rivers in the world is magnificent, and it can be Kyoto, so it is better than Jinling. If the terrain is generous and the traffic jam is dangerous and solid, there will always be people who are in the wilderness of the Central Plains, and there is no more Yan Ji. Although Yun Chang 'an has a solid letter, Luoyi is among the best in the world, and it is the capital of emperors, which is the foundation of peace for hundreds of millions of years. Mo Jinling and Yan Ji are also. " Therefore, there has always been a dispute over whether to build the capital of Beijing or Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty. Later, Ming Chengzu finally moved to Beijing, but he still left a central organization in Nanjing to take charge of southern affairs.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also has a dispute over whether to make Beijing its capital or Nanjing its capital. Hong Xiuquan insisted on making Nanjing its capital, thinking that Nanjing is connected with three Chu, controlled by three rivers, surrounded by mountains, surrounded by the Yangtze River, with the image of dragons and dragons in Zhong Fu and the shape of a tiger in Shicheng. In 1853, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom made Nanjing its capital. In 1864, it was captured by the Xiang Army, and the peasant revolution was defeated. Many historical works believe that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom should not make Nanjing its capital, but should be determined to explore the North and take Beijing directly to win national victory. Deciding the capital too early can only make the revolutionary will decline.

Mr. Feng Shui has described the trend of Long Mai in Nanjing. Li Sicong said when he talked about the search for dragons in Nanjing in Miscellaneous Works of Kanyu: "If the dragon of the ox head in Nanjing starts from Wawu Mountain, from Lushan Mountain in the east to Piaoshuipuli, Hengshan Mountain, Yuntai Mountain, Jishan Mountain and Zutang Mountain are born with the twin peaks of the ox head, it will be especially rich in Saturn. A branch on the left, from Wu Shan to Xishan Bridge, comes back to the elbow and goes up, giving birth to mountains and hills. A branch on the right gives birth to Cuiping Mountain, which starts from rotten stone hills, starts from Zhuxi Temple and ends at Andemen, giving birth to geomantic omen, which is a mysterious art with a long history in China. It is also known as Qingwu, Qingniao and Qingnang, and the more academic statement is called Kanyu. Feng Shui is not a subject, but a knowledge of China. Its foundation comes from the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements. There are quite a few comments and controversies about Feng Shui. Some people think that Feng Shui is a comprehensive science in China, which combines the observation of environment, geography and health with a long history. Some people think that Feng Shui is a superstition in the old world, which hinders the creativity of China people in architectural design and interior design. Yuhuatai, from the front to the frame, stops at the door above the gangmen. " This set of statements is so complicated that we must not stick to it.