Feng Shui Legend of Ming Emperor's Mausoleum

Feng Shui stories about the Ming Dynasty are widely circulated in later generations, the most popular of which is about the Ming emperors' tombs, namely the Ming Tombs. The Ming Tombs, located in a small basin 40 square kilometers below Tianshou Mountain in Changping County, Beijing, are the largest imperial tombs in existence. Let's take a look at the Feng Shui legend of Ming Taizu Mausoleum with me.

Who gave directions to Zhu Yuanzhang's family feng shui in history?

According to the records of Ming History, Taizu Ji and Tianfu Guangji, Zhu Yuanzhang was born in poverty, also known as Xingzong, whose real name was Guo Rui, and he was born in Haozhou Zhongli (now Fengyang, Anhui). /kloc-at the age of 0/7, parents and brothers died one after another due to drought and locust plague. Neighbor Liu Jizu sympathized with him and gave him a cemetery so that he could bury his relatives. Since then, "I am helpless, but Huang Renjue is a monk". Later, the world met, competing for the Central Plains, and decided Jinling to become Dabao. So they honored the IV, built the tomb of Emperor Ren Zuchun in Fengyang, and ordered the Crown Prince to visit Sizhou (now Sihong County, Jiangsu Province) to worship his ancestors. Due to the age, it is difficult to confirm the exact location of the ancestral grave.

Therefore, the Crown Prince and his party had to stand on the city of Sizhou and look at the river to mourn. However, in the seventeenth year of Hongwu (A.D. 1384), on October 12th of the lunar calendar, the clansman Zhu Gui claimed to have found the residence and burial place of Zhu Yuanzhang's grandfather, and then announced a feng shui story:

Zhu Yuanzhang's grandfather was born in Jia Zhu Village, Tongde Township, Jurong County, Jiangsu Province. After the chaos in the world, I crossed the Huaihe River with my family and settled in Sizhou. Whenever there are weddings and funerals, the locals often push him to be the master of ceremonies. One day, he was lying in a pit under Yangjiadun behind his house. Suddenly, two Taoist priests came, an old man and a young man. The old man pointed to the place where Xizu was lying and said, "If you bury this place, there will be a son of heaven." The little Taoist asked, "How can I see it?" The old man said, "Don't believe me, you can try inserting a dry branch. It will definitely grow leaves. "

Then, call Zu up. Xizu pretended to be asleep after hearing their conversation. So, two Taoist priests inserted branches and left. Ten days later, Xizu went to see it early, and sure enough, dead branches sprouted and leaves were born. So he skillfully changed the bag, pulled out the raw branches and replaced them with dead branches. After a while, two Taoist priests came. When the old man saw that the dead branches were barren and Xizu was around, he became suspicious and pointed to Xizu and said, "This man must have replaced them." He turned to Xizu and said, "If you want to be fat, bury it here after you die, and your family will be the son of heaven."

And walked away. In the fourth year of King Tai (A.D. 1327), Xi Zu died and was buried there. Before the fief, it became his own grave. At the end of this year, the Zhujia family moved to the wooden yard in Xuyi County, east of Lizhong. One day, Zhu Yuanzhang's mother met a stranger, dressed in Huang Guan and Zhu Yi, and gave her a grain of Baiyao. This medicine shines brilliantly. If you swallow it, you will be pregnant. In the second year, that is, the first year of the Yuan calendar (AD 1328), a son was born in September. This is Zhu Yuanzhang. At this time, it was only one year before his grandfather was buried. Because Zhu Gui recognized the grave, Zhu Yuanzhang not only gave him money, ingots, gold, clothes and other things, but also appointed him a four-product official to worship the ancestral grave and promised his descendants to manage affairs hereditary.