The secret of ghost blowing out the lantern to find the dragon

The movie "Ghost Blowing the Lamp: The Secret of the Dragon" has been extremely popular these days. It is reported that the box office has exceeded the 1.3 billion mark. The Feng Shui formula for dividing gold and acupuncture points in the film has made the audience exclaim that it is full of mystery and professionalism. Full. But is it really professional?

Come, Master Tianyi will take you to analyze and start our journey of seeking Dragon Feng Shui knowledge.

First of all, let’s take a look at the formula for dividing gold and fixing acupuncture points that Hu Bayi, the protagonist of August 18, repeatedly talks about: looking for the dragon and dividing the gold to see the entangled mountains. One entanglement is one level of barrier. If there are eight dangers in closing the door, the yin and yang and the eight trigrams will not appear. Where does this come from? These sentences come from the classic Feng Shui work Shaking the Dragon.

Shaking the Dragon Chapter 5: Lian Zhenxing’s original text: Looking for a hundred thousand dragons to see the entangled mountains, one entanglement is one level of barrier. If there are thousands of locks on the door, there must be a prince living here.

The screenwriter made changes and changed it to say that closing the door has eight dangers and does not produce the Yin Yang Bagua pattern. This change is not good.

In Feng Shui, it can be said that the Five Elements and Eight Diagrams are all over the place. It is not the eightfold risk of closing the door that prevents the formation of the Yin and Yang Bagua shapes. Even if you have no risk, the Eight Diagrams are still there. It does not increase because you have one more risk. One hexagram is not missing one hexagram just because you are missing one important risk.

Secondly, the seemingly high-level Feng Shui reasoning in the movie also has common sense errors. Hu Bayi, played by Chen Kun, holds a compass in his hand while reciting the deduction: the entrance is a horse, and the horse is Li. The hexagram of a rat meeting a horse is Kanli, a sheep meeting a horse is Kunli, a dog meeting a horse is Qianli, and Shangqian Xia Li Jian Shengmen, Xugou is the exit.

This is not right.

There is a noun Shengmen here. What is Shengmen? Shengmen is one of the eight gates in Qimen Dunjia. The Eight Gates are the eight different directions determined by Qimen Dunjia according to the Eight Diagrams, which are: Open Gate, Rest Gate, Life Gate, Injury Gate, Du Gate, Jing Gate, Shock Gate, and Death Gate.

Among them, the Shengmen belongs to the earth. Just after the beginning of spring, all things revive, the Yang energy returns, and all things grow in the earth, so the ancients named it the Shengmen. The Sheng Gate is an auspicious direction, corresponding to the Gen Palace in the northeast, and the earthly branch is Ox or Tiger. However, in the movie, Hu Bayi and his friends walked the Gan Square, which belongs to the dog, and the Gan Square actually opens the door.

Third, regarding the issue of hanging coffins. Both Chinese folk custom and Feng Shui recognize the law of resting in the grave. The hanging coffin in the opening credits of the movie "The Secret of the Dragon" really gave me a sense of visual freshness.

But this is not in line with the principles of Feng Shui. Generally, the coffins touch the ground more often. There is no archaeological precedent for this method of hanging the coffins in mid-air with iron ropes. Some friends may say that China has hanging coffins. Okay, let’s talk about the hanging coffin.

Taiping Yulan records that there are thousands of hanging coffins on half the cliff, which means hanging coffins. The hanging coffin means that the position of the coffin is higher than the ground, such as opening a hole or setting up a bracket on a cliff, and the hole or bracket is suspended high on the ground, which is called a hanging coffin.

We can see from the picture above that even if it is suspended in the air, there will be something to rely on, such as setting up wooden piles, wooden frames, earth platforms or bronze platforms to support the coffin.

Like in the movie, the coffin is locked and hung in mid-air with iron ropes, which gives people a very strange feeling. This is not a way of letting the deceased rest in peace, but rather like locking the deceased to suppress it. Comparing the wealth and splendor of the tomb owner in the movie, this is unlikely.

Of course, the coffin owner mentioned in the movie is a princess from the Liao Kingdom. Whether ethnic minorities would do this remains to be investigated. Of course, there are things that are right in the movie. For example, the origin of the ghost blowing out the lantern mentioned at the beginning.

People light candles and ghosts blow out lanterns. This is an undisclosed secret of one of the four legendary tomb robbing sects - the Gold Touching Sect. It means that when you enter the tomb, you must first light a candle in the southeast corner before it can be opened. If the candle goes out in the coffin, you must exit quickly without taking anything.

According to legend, this is a contract between the living and the dead passed down by the ancestor. It has been passed down for thousands of years without exception. The formula is as follows:

Hand out the seal of the mound, touch the golden talisman, and move mountains and mountains to find the dragon;

People light candles, ghosts blow out lanterns, survey and fight to find star peaks;

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There are countless mercury spots, bright utensils, and dragon towers and treasure halls;

There are sunken coffins and bronze coffins. If the eight characters are not hard, don't approach them.

Vertical burial pits, box graves, moving mountains and unloading ridges to walk around;

Red clothes are fierce, smiling faces corpses, it is better to listen to ghosts cry than to laugh.

So why should candles be lit in the southeast corner of the tomb? Because the southeast is the Sunda position, it is explained by the plum blossom number. The Sunda position represents the direction of ghosts and gods. Pointing candles at the Sunda position can communicate with ghosts and gods.

This is a setting in the novel. According to the original author Tian Xia Ba Chang, he checked the Feng Shui books. Fortunately, the screenwriter did not modify it randomly, otherwise he might make another mistake.