The mystery of heaven and earth

The preface to The Mystery of Heaven says: At the end of Yuan Dynasty, Liu Bowen met a monk named Tie Guan and learned fortune-telling from him. Write down their questions and answers, that is, the number of iron crowns But what is clear is that Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the Yuan Dynasty to establish the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng destroyed the Ming Dynasty, and Wu Sangui led the Qing soldiers into the customs. Most other words are incomprehensible. A discerning person can see through it at a glance. This passage is nothing more than to supplement Liu Bowen's prediction of the future and fabricate a magical teacher. The book says: "The cow has two tails, the moon is parallel to the moon, and there is a ruler hanging on the wood, which is God." This means that Zhu Yuanzhang founded the Ming Dynasty. Niu Sheng's two tails are the word "Niu", and the word "Zhu" is made by flipping the back. Hanging a ruler on a wood is a stroke made by adding a stroke and a horizontal stroke to the top of the word "wood", which is slightly like a carpenter's folding ruler and is still the word "Zhu". "parallel eye Moon" refers to the word "Ming" in the Ming Dynasty. He also said: "For more than 200 years, it is the year of a thousand children and grandchildren. The population spits fire and smoke comes from the nose. In boxing, men wear women's clothes and women wear men's clothes. Jiangshan has changed again. " Speaking of Chongzhen, the grandson of Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty, it was overthrown by the Qing people. Four sentences, such as "the population spits fire", are obviously copied from Tibetan poems, with slight textual changes. Men wear women's clothes, which is changed by "wearing two clothes". Women wear men's clothes, that is, Manchu women wear cheongsam, which is equivalent to Han men wearing robes. This iron-crowned monk is called Zhong Zhang. Song Lian's Zhang Zhongchuan said: He said he met a stranger and told his fortune. He is not a monk either. It is about the failure of the imperial examination, traveling around the world, wearing an iron hat, and attracting attention. Zhu Yuanzhang once asked him to predict state affairs and "recite dozens of languages", but what he said in these dozens of languages was not recorded and verified. Later generations took advantage of this loophole and used it as an excuse to forge this text. The number of iron crowns said that he predicted that Zhu would become emperor at the end of the Yuan Dynasty by dividing words, which is a fabricated lie.