How legendary are Yuan Tiangang and Tashi Lee?

In Longling Cave, we talked about Li's tomb, which is full of dangers and traps. Among them, arranging tombs by gossip on Sunday is full of danger. One careless wrong step is a dead end, which makes people who touch gold suffer a lot and almost be wiped out. Who is Li in history? What is the legend of Yuan Tiangang, who is contemporary and eponymous with him and writes "Pushing Endorsement" with quotations?

Li Tang's royal family respected Taoism very much, and Emperor Taizong and Li Shimin also attached great importance to the study of Huang Lao. Yuan Tiangang and Li are examples of the reuse of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. The other two are highly accomplished in the art of strange doors. Under the command of Emperor Taizong, they compiled the Map of Pushing the North, which predicted the national luck of later generations for the Tang Dynasty. Because it is too mysterious, most of them have not been decrypted, and now they are circulating in the world.

Then, let's break through the clouds of history and enter the legendary lives of these two great men in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

A pushback picture that has always been talked about.

(1) The legendary psychic Yuan Tiangang.

Famous metaphysical scholars in the Tang Dynasty included Li, a great teacher, and Yuan Tiangang, a master of divination.

Yuan Tiangang, who is famous for divination, is said to have served as a county magistrate in the Sui Dynasty. When the Sui Dynasty was about to perish, he resigned early and dodged a bullet. Later, in the name of divination, it spread all over the fields. Emperor Taizong especially loved talents, so he accepted him as a counselor and made suggestions for himself.

The Journey to the West mentioned an able man bound by immortals and mortals, that is, Yuan Shoucheng, who is Yuan Tiangang's uncle. In Journey to the West, he can calculate secrets and hours when it rains. His divination is profound and ingenious. It can also be reflected from the side that, influenced by the history of Yuan Tiangang, Wu Cheng'en of the later Ming Dynasty shaped Yuan Shoucheng's divination ability with his own historical image and family stories. In history, Yuan Tiangang also served as an official of the Qin Dynasty.

Yuan Tiangang movie and television image

The interesting story about Yuan Tiangang in unofficial history is that he was sent to Sichuan by Li Shimin to visit Long Mai.

He came to Langzhong, Sichuan Province, and it is estimated that the so-called kingly image has reached the southwest. In Langzhong, Panlong Mountain, with its size, is like a Wolong and a Phoenix Mountain, and its shape is like holding the top of the Phoenix high. It seems that the two mountains will become dragons and phoenixes. Yuan Tiangang used a special method to measure the conformity of Long Mai. After finding the place, Yuan Tiangang immediately ordered people to cut off the junction of Panlong Mountain and Long Mai, which means that the neck was broken and it was broken at the crossroads of Long Mai, so that it was no longer derived, thus ensuring that Li Tang could not rule the new emperor.

Yuan Tiangang used hexagrams to measure the emerging Long Mai for Emperor Taizong in Sichuan, and then broke Long Mai in a special way. This is, of course, recorded by unofficial history. Perhaps there is no such legendary miracle in the history.

According to unofficial history's records, in Tang Gaozong period, influenced by Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu Zetian at that time, Yuan Tiangang explored and built Luoyang, the capital of East China, and went to explore the location of Luoyang in order to show the majesty and capital of East China.

Wu Zetian was bewitched by Yuan Tiangang in the films and TV works such as Di Renjie series and Four Heavenly Kings, and had the intention of becoming king. In the TV series De Renjie, Yuan Tiangang is a villain, who planned a big plot for Wu Zetian to move the capital to Luoyang with the intention of usurping the throne. In the cartoon "Painting Rivers and Lakes", Yuan Tiangang became the person who tried the elixir for Li Shimin and gained the ability of immortality. However, he became a villain, but he spent his whole life hoping that Li Xingyun, the son of Tang Zhaozong, could restore the Tang Dynasty.

The Image of Yuan Tiangang in Animation

All this is just a dramatic image of Yuan Tiangang, so don't take it seriously. For example, Yuan Tiangang in the Di series is not. According to official records, Yuan Tiangang died as early as around 634 AD, that is, when Emperor Taizong was still in power, Yuan Tiangang had already died. How can there be a story about fiddling with the situation of Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian? So unofficial history can only be said to be unofficial history, and drama can only be said to be drama. Just be happy on weekdays.

One of Yuan Tiangang's achievements recorded in real history and handed down from generation to generation is "Pushing the Cup" and "The Five Elements Picture Book", which describes the ancient knowledge about five lines of gossip in detail. However, TuiBei is his most famous work handed down from generation to generation. Pushing a Cup is a detailed book that Emperor Taizong ordered Yuan Tiangang and Li to predict the national fortune of the Tang Dynasty with divination.

In Li's deduction, the fate of the Tang Dynasty after two thousand years was calculated. It was not until Yuan Tiangang pushed Li on his back that Li stopped. Yuan Tiangang persuaded Li not to reveal the secret, or to stop early, and Li also stopped. Because of this, their detailed comments on each image are named "Push North Map".

Push-back diagram

(2) Li, a famous astronomer and meteorologist in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Speaking of Li, after all, he is an official, a famous astronomer and Yi-ology scholar in the Tang Dynasty. He was also proficient in divination and calculation, and made outstanding contributions to calendar astronomy and meteorology in the Tang Dynasty. His posthumous work Zhan Si Zhan is the earliest work in the history of world meteorology. At the same time, he and Yuan Tiangang deduced the national fortune of two thousand years after the Tang Dynasty, and preserved the Map of Pushing the North.

Li's most outstanding achievements should be his accomplishments in meteorology, hydrology and astronomy. He used what he learned all his life to improve the arithmetic method handed down from the previous generation and the armillary sphere of the Jin Dynasty, making the astronomical observation more detailed. In the Tang Dynasty, observing the celestial phenomena was a way to predict disasters. At that time, the Yellow River often suffered from floods, and the Central Plains often suffered from locusts. Therefore, observing the celestial phenomena can predict the occurrence of some natural disasters, so as to build flood control dikes and other water conservancy measures in advance to prevent the Yellow River from flooding. At the same time, the observed astronomical results will be reported to the imperial secretariat, and then distributed to areas where locust plague may occur, so as to harvest early and avoid locust plague. Among them, Li has played an important role in many reforms. In Li's classic book Yisi Station, there are many ancient sages' knowledge about astronomy and meteorology, including the earliest description of wind classification in the world. It also shows the infinite wisdom of the ancient working people.

Heaven and man are one. /Man is an inseparable part of nature.

Li and Yuan Tiangang are contemporaries. As both of them were famous figures in a special divination by Emperor Taizong and Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin ordered them to speculate on the national fortune of the Tang Dynasty, and unofficial history rumored that they had worked out the national fortune of the Tang Dynasty more than two thousand years later, which was tantamount to spying on secrets.

There are some information on the Internet about the divination notes calculated by Li and Yuan Tiangang, which is supposed to be a prediction in today's era, or even the era of artificial intelligence technology in the next few decades, but the content is unknown.

Recently, Li's tomb was also mentioned in the TV series Longlingdong, which was popular on the video platform. All kinds of exquisite organs and dangerous traps in the play all reveal the visual achievements transformed from the unique Yi-ology.

All directions in the tomb are arranged by special gossip, as well as the unique names and settings of special schools such as life and death fields. Adventurers who touch gold are also familiar with the hidden meaning. However, in front of a father-like person with a special status like Li, these thieves who broke into the tomb naturally had nothing to do with special fur, so apart from that, most people who touched gold and robbed money died in the tomb.

Although the exquisite fortifications built by Qimen are not as spectacular as the wonders of nature, they are also the most brilliant representatives of the most advanced human resources built by craftsmen who hide the knowledge of Qimen gossip. The real tomb of Li, in today's Shaanxi Province, is not as bizarre and dangerous as described in movies, TV plays and novels. Now only the tomb site and broken tombstones are left, and the epitaph handed down from the Tang Dynasty is still there. There are not many mysterious legends, but today it has become an important cultural relic protection site.

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After Li's death, he and Li Zhi posthumously named him a surname, so later generations also called him a surname Li.

Yuan Tiangang and Li are both masters of knowledge and skills, and they have contributed their whole lives to the rule of Tang Dynasty. They were not only masters of Qimen School, but also contributors to the country and society at that time. Perhaps people at that time were after fame and fortune, but they just tried their best to consolidate the prosperous Tang Dynasty with their merits and abilities. There were such courtiers in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, which was also the gospel of the times and rulers at that time.

There are many talented people all over the country, and their poems and popularity will last for hundreds of years. Every era has people who are called "heaven and earth" by later generations. As today's descendants, we should learn from the excellent knowledge of predecessors and sages, cultivate our own abilities and become useful talents.