What does Yuan Shikai's Feng Shui legend mean?

In other words, Yuan Shikai is superstitious. The legend is as follows:

When Yuan Shikai was in trouble with the imperial system, he built a toilet on the left side of xinhua gate. Liu Chengyu, a member of the old regiment, then a member of Parliament and director of the National History Museum of the Kuomintang government, wrote a book "History of Poems of Hong Xian", which recorded the scandal and antics of Yuan Shikai's claim to the emperor with his own eyes and ears. After the book is completed, please ask Zhang Taiyan, a master of Chinese studies, to make a preface. After reading it, Zhang said, "The article is good and the poem is well written, but we should also add the fact that Yuan built a toilet in Xinhua Palace." Very much in favor of Zhang's proposal, and then he added a song:

Not to mention gongsun, Lu can pollute the emperor.

Don't smile before the wax torch turns to ash, Pei Gong goes to the toilet in Hong Men.

Zhang Taiyan clapped his hands and laughed after reading it, saying it was a good poem, so he began to preface Liu's book.

Why did Yuan Shikai repair the toilet on the left side of Xinhua Palace Gate? That's ridiculous.

In the center of Beijing, there is a group of magnificent ancient buildings with many halls and pavilions. This is the famous Forbidden City in Beijing, also called "ouchi", which is famous at home and abroad. It is the most outstanding and brilliant oriental building with Chinese classical style in the world and the largest palace in the world.

Beijing was once the capital of the Yuan Dynasty. Ming Taizu Hongwu wanted to build its capital here in the early years, but changed Daxing House to Beiping House. In two years, Beiping Zhongshu Province was established, and in three years, it was named the Prince of Yan. In the first month of Yongle in Ming Taizu, Li Zhigang, the minister of rites, and others said: "Since the emperors of past dynasties, they have either put on clothes to pacify the world or joined the unification from foreign princes. Where traces are left, they are all worship of ascension. I am eager to see that the chief secretary of Beiping actually delivered Xinghua to the emperor, and it is appropriate to follow the system of Taizu high school capital and establish it as Kyoto. " At this point, Beiping was regarded as Beijing, and Beiping House was changed to Shuntianfu. During the three years when Judy, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, proclaimed himself emperor, she immigrated hundreds of thousands of people from nine provinces including Nanjing, Zhejiang and Shaanxi to Beijing five times. In the fifth year of Yongle, Judy sent Taining Hou Chen Gui to preside over the construction of the Beijing Palace. Its scale design is based on the Forbidden City in Nanjing. It was built in the former site of Dadoukou in Yuan Dynasty, but it moved nearly 400 meters from north to south. This palace is built on the central axis of the ancient city of Beijing, and it is 8 kilometers long from Yongdingmen in the south to the Bell and Drum Tower.

The buildings of the Temple of Heaven in the Imperial City are mostly round, and the buildings of the Ditan are mostly square, and its basic concept also comes from the round place. Obviously, this shape is related to the ancient world view. The ancients in China divided the sky into four areas to observe the stars when observing the astronomical phenomena. Among them, the stars in the east are imagined as dragons, tigers in the west, birds in the south and turtles and snakes in the north. These are four elephants. In the Ming Dynasty, the north gate of Beijing Miyagi was called Xuanwu Gate, and Xuanwu Gate was a tortoise and snake, hence its name.

The ancients also divided the starry sky into three areas, namely Ziwei Garden, Taiwei Garden and Tianshi Garden. After the Forbidden City, it was called the Forbidden City, named after Ziwei Garden. Donghuamen, Xihuamen, Left Yemen, Right Yemen and Duanmen are also names derived from astrology. When describing Qiu Yuan in Historical Records, Tian Guan Shu Wu said: "Qiu is the court of three lights. Converse twelve stars, princes: West, general; East, phase. " Therefore, the Palace Museum is adjacent to Wenhua Hall in the east and Wuying Hall in the west. The south gate of the inner city of Beijing starts from Chongwen in the east and Xuanwu in the west. These names and positions are consistent with the historical records. Among the Twenty-eight Hostels, the space between the Pleiades and Soapy is called Tianjie, so the street in front of Tiananmen Square was also called Tianjie in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Jia Xinglian said: "Feng Shui used to be called' Kanyu', and the word Kanyu first appeared in the book Huainanzi written by Liu An, the king of Huainan. This is not to say that Feng Shui began at this time. At this time, he didn't mention anything except' heaven is like heaven, tunnel is also'. The heaven mentioned is another person's annotation. Next, Huang Shigong in the late Qin Dynasty and early Han Dynasty passed it on to Pinus densiflora. Huang Shigong is Sean's teacher. What Mr. Huang Lao passed on to Akamatsu was the Qingnangjing. Who passed it on to Huang Shigong? Some people say that Confucius is a saint, some people say that Duke Zhou is a saint, and some people say that it belongs to the Yellow Emperor. Are these all ten thousand streams? What is the adaptation of Huang Shigong's Qingnangjing? Nobody knows. However, the main branches and gossip symbols can be traced back to Fu Xishi. Who did Akamatsu pass the Qingnangjing to? There is no record. In the Jin Dynasty, Guo Pu got books. As a result, a student in Guo Pu stole a book and burned it before reading it. This "Qingnangjing" will have feathers. Later generations only learned the book Qingnangjing from the Biography of Guo Pu, and I don't know what its content is. "

Hearing this, Yuan Shikai said, "Didn't Jiang Dahong of the Qing Dynasty fill the Qing Capsule Sutra?"

Jia Xinglian said: "Not only in the Qing Dynasty, but also in the Tang Dynasty, Yang Junsong also wrote" Qingnangao Yu ". It seems that Yang Junsong also read the Qing Capsule Sutra. This is a bad account of the origin of Feng Shui. However, since Yang Junsong, works about Guan Yu have appeared like snowflakes. There are many Feng Shui books in the bookstore, such as Qingnang Jing, Funeral Jing, Yaolong Jing, Suspected Dragon Jing, Qingnang Aoyu Jing, Tianyu Jing and Du Jing. But the final conclusion is that we still don't know who our ancestors were. If we use the most popular explanation method, we will still blame He Lv's ancestors on the Yellow Emperor. Our history of trust can only be traced back to the Yin and Shang Dynasties, and all the parts before the Shang Dynasty were known by legends. Among them, it experienced a great flood era. How many years have passed from the Yellow Emperor era to the middle of the Shang Dynasty? There is no credible evidence. "

Hearing this, Yuan Shikai interrupted Jia Xinglian and said, "It's been more than a thousand years."

Jia Xinglian said, "That is recorded in the history books. According to the chronology, at least 400 thousand years. We can't easily assert that mankind has never had a more advanced civilization than now. Perhaps after several degrees of high civilization, human beings were destroyed by their own civilization several times, and then started again several times. Let's take a look at the ancient legend that the son of heaven can drive a cloud. What feather covers the cloud? There are planes in the world now. If this statement is possible, then China's ancient academics, including Feng Shui, developed from dry branches and gossip, have a head. "

Yuan Shikai was very interested and listened carefully. Jia Xinglian went on to say: "What we usually call Feng Shui, according to my income over the years, should be called Feng Shui and human feelings. China ancient geomantic omen, from the content, should be divided into two parts, one part is about chaos, and the other part is about the management of orientation and harmony. How to explain the chaotic situation, in layman's terms, is to investigate the water and soil structure related to human beings, such as the situation of mountains and rivers or the structure of buildings. Investigate what structure is suitable for human habitation and what structure can be of spiritual and material benefit to human beings. Now some reformist intellectuals, after receiving some western education, completely deny the heritage of their ancestors and impulsively accuse Feng Shui of being an absurd theory of ghosts and gods. In fact, the existence of ghosts and gods remains to be studied, and geomantic omen including magnetic field theory should not be dismissed as absurd. To say the least, it is absolutely impossible for the ancients to complete such a complicated and profound Feng Shui project without any origin. Therefore, you must not take a casual attitude towards Feng Shui. " Jia Xinglian heard Yuan Shikai squint carefully at this point, and went on to say more plausibly: "Since the reform, some China people have received modern education, thinking that China's cultural achievements have nothing but outstanding literati works, historical sites, antiques and great scholars left over from various dynasties. As for the view of Feng Shui, I don't think so. Huang Shigong's Qingnangjing was only a work in the late Qin Dynasty and early Han Dynasty, while Yang Junsong's Yaolong Classic was only a product of the Tang Xizong era. The contents of these books have nothing to do with foreign civilizations and alien creatures. In fact, the study of Feng Shui did not originate from Huang Shigong in Han Dynasty or Yang Junsong in Tang Dynasty. Their work is the further improvement of this system and learning theory. "

Yuan Shikai interrupted Jia Xinglian and said, "China has a long history, and many precious cultural heritages don't know where they came from."

Jia Xinglian said: "The biggest disadvantage of China people in learning is secrecy. Ten years ago, I watched Feng Shui with a Mr. Li. Mr. Li has a homemade hole feeler. This is the first time I have seen an unprecedented hole probe. This ruler is made of metal. I followed him to a hillside, where there were many graves, five of which were small graves side by side, and the other two were big graves. Judging from the scale of these graves, it is obvious that they belong to a big family. People who can see feng shui can know from the nearby mountain-shaped water potential that this place is a place to knot holes, but it is not easy to find the right time. These graves all come from this cave, but unfortunately they are all crooked. Mr. Li asked me to explore the real hole with his hole feeler. According to his instructions, I tried it in two big graves and several surrounding places. Finally, I walked to the low wall of five small graves and took two steps on the low wall. A strong suction attracted the ruler handle in my hand. This is the real loophole. " Speaking of which, Jia Xinglian took a deep breath when he saw Yuan Shikai's eyes wide open. Then he added: "Mr. Feng Shui needs time and energy to find a real cave, and he needs real eyesight and judgment. I didn't expect this acupoint ruler to be so magical. I asked Mr. Li how to make a hole ruler, but unfortunately he kept it a secret. "

Yuan asked urgently, "Is there any way to save it?"

Jia Xinglian said, "There is a way. As long as a toilet is built on the left side of Xinhua Palace to collect dirty air, the problem can be solved. "

Yuan Dao said, "It's really indecent to repair the toilets there."

Jia Xinglian said: "The existence of elegance is a watch, and the inner one depends on qi. What if Qi is not prosperous? " Jia Xinglian cited the example of Mount Li in Shaanxi. Jia Xinglian said: "Mount Li in Shaanxi is a beautiful place, but this beautiful place is a dangerous place." Jia Xinglian listened carefully to Yuan Jian, and then said, "Before the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, Xuanzong built a palace in Lishan Mountain, and often took ladies to bathe and have fun, but he was not clear about the Anshi Rebellion, so later emperors and ministers linked Lishan Mountain with the Anshi Rebellion and regarded it as a dangerous place. Li Zhan, the 16th emperor of the Tang Dynasty, didn't believe that he wanted to take a hot spring bath in Lishan Mountain, and his ministers rose up to remonstrate. Zhang Quanyu, the admonition officer, bowed down and said, "Yesterday, I was lucky to be killed by a dog. Qin Shihuang buried Mount Li, and the country died; Xuanzong Palace Li Mountain and Lushan Mountain were in chaos; The first emperor was the lucky star of Mount Li, but he died soon. " Li Zhan didn't listen, but went to Lishan Hot Springs. Unexpectedly, a year later, he was slaughtered by eunuchs and died at the age of 18. At that time, courtiers said, Zhang Quanyu's words have come true! Jia Xinglian paused and said, "Mount Li is beautiful and smelly, and Xinhua Palace is beautiful and smelly. Xinhua gate repairs toilets, which is filthy. "

Hearing nodding, Yuan went into the "Palace" and reported Jia Xinglian's luck to Yuan Shikai, especially when it came to repairing the toilet on the left side of Xinhua Palace. Xinhua Palace was renamed by Emperor Hongxian Yuan Shikai. It is really unsightly to build a toilet next to this magnificent palace gate now. But he thought that he claimed to be the empress dowager, and the voice of opposition was so loud that he was trapped in Jiao Wai, so that he could not consider many things for the imperial plan. So Yuan accepted Jia Xinglian's suggestion and built a toilet on the left side of Xinhua Palace Gate under Jia's guidance.

Although the toilet has been repaired, the anti-Yuan voice is getting louder and louder all over the country. Yuan Shikai only had an emperor dream for 83 days, and then he died. However, the absurd matter of repairing toilets at Xinhua Palace Gate has become a joke for future generations.

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