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The puzzling problem is that if you pay attention to the place names in China, you will find that there are only two Beijing terms on the map of China, namely Nanjing and Beijing, and they often have a strong sense of north-south symmetry. Outsiders are most interested in visiting Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. After the visit, have you ever wondered where the majestic Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City came from? Some people say: Do you still need to ask? This is special. Yes, it is very special. The question is who did it? What was it built for? Is it so easy to build such a magnificent ancient building? Does it have original models or drawings or something like that? We can answer these questions briefly: Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City in Tianjin are actually copies or clones of the Ming Palace in Nanjing. Here comes the problem again. According to this statement, Nanjing Ming Palace Museum is the biological parents or original match of Beijing Forbidden City. But in Nanjing, many people will ask this question: It is said that the Ming Palace in Nanjing is very big, and even foreigners who have experienced Nanjing say it is the largest palace in the world in the Middle Ages; Nanjing was the largest city in the Middle Ages. But why not? Didn't you see the shadow of the Ming Palace Museum today? In addition to some intact ancient city walls, there are some broken city walls and bricks. From this, people may even question: Is there really a grand palace in Nanjing? Maybe some old Nanjing people will tell you that today's former site of the Ming Palace is the place where the Ming Palace was established. It was built on the basis of filling the lake. Later, the Ming Palace Museum was destroyed. So who destroyed it? When was it destroyed? In addition, if you pay attention to China's building regulations, and the United Imperial Capital and Imperial Capital throughout the ages in the United States, you will find that the capital regulations in the south of the Ming Empire are very special. It is not a standard square in China, the traditional capital of the United States, but its shape is irregular. Why on earth is this? Let's talk about the Ming Palace in Nanjing first, and then explain the capital. Four Mysteries of the Forbidden City in the Ming Dynasty More than 600 years ago, on the fourth day of the first month of Hongwu, a few months before the founding ceremony of the Ming Dynasty was held, a brand-new and magnificent palace was built in the southeast corner of the ancient city of Nanjing. What is the new palace like? Let's listen to its owner Zhu Yuanzhang's comments on this new palace. In the twenty-five years of Wu, that is, the year when Prince Zhu Biao died, the 65-year-old Zhu Yuanzhang put it this way: I have ruled the world for decades, and everything has been done according to the ancient times. There is only Miyagi before and after, and the situation is not called. I want to move to the capital, but now I am old and tired. The world is new, but you are not. I don't want to work for people. There are still some disappointments, so we have to resign ourselves to fate! I only wish to learn from this heart and bless my children and grandchildren. He said that he had been running the world for so many years, and everything was in accordance with the rules of the ancients. It's just that the palace is not well built. The front is high and the back is low, and the terrain is asymmetrical. Then, it seems that the bad of the palace is attributed to the place where the capital is built. He wants to move the capital, but because he is old and weak, and the world is just peaceful, it is really difficult for Huijie to make people who have just survived the war suffer again. He believes that the rise and fall of the dynasty has its own destiny, and only asks God to see his sincere heart and benefit future generations! Zhu Yuanzhang's speech was to express his true thoughts and prayers with trepidation when offering sacrifices to God. From this inner monologue, it is not difficult to see that he seems to be very critical of Nanjing, the capital, and full of regrets for the new palace-Nanjing Ming Palace. The question is: Why did such a clever, hardworking and perfect emperor do such a thing? There is also a folk saying that the terrain of the Forbidden City in Ming Dynasty is high in front and low in the back. According to China's ancient geomantic omen, it means that ancestors relied on themselves and had no foundation to rely on, which is related to Zhu Yuanzhang's own experience; What I said earlier is the great cause of future generations. Later, Ming Di, who acceded to the throne twice in Nanking, competed for the throne. can

This is unique in the site selection and construction of the Forbidden City in China, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who is very independent and unique, accepted it. Why is this? 2. Mystery: The location of the Ming Palace Museum is in the east of the whole Nanjing city wall. This is contrary to the site selection of ancient Miyagi in China. From Zhao Gong to Zhou Chengwang, it is almost the custom of ancient emperors to build palaces in the center of the world. However, Zhu Yuanzhang's acceptance of No.1 senior official also violated the ancient system. Why on earth is this? 3. Mystery: Nanjing City broke through China's square rule. Miyagi is located in the north-central part of the capital. According to local conditions, according to the actual geographical situation and defense needs, the whole city is in an irregular shape with narrow north and south and slightly narrow east and west. Since ancient times, almost all palaces have been square. There are many examples, for example, the old imperial cities of An and Luoyang in the west are square, while the Forbidden City in Nanjing is irregular. From the map, we can see that Nanjing City in Ming Dynasty started from Lion Mountain at the top of the mountain and extended to the central gate, then went around Xuanwu Lake to the Ming Palace Museum, then to Guanghuamen and then to Zhonghua Gate. At first glance, the shape of this capital is very similar to Zhu Yuanzhang's strange face. Some people even say that Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty relied on Zhu Yuanzhang's face. Is that really the case? Mystery 4: Judging from Zhu Yuanzhang's lifestyle and style, the newly-built Miyagi and Imperial City are huge in scale and magnificent, which seems to be related to Zhu Yuanzhang's frugality. Then why? Mystery-all because of superstition of dragon gods and good feng shui. For the first three of the above four mysteries, I personally think that the construction of Nanjing capital in Ming Dynasty broke through the ancient system and was unique. This strangeness seems inexplicable, but in fact it all comes from Zhu Yuanzhang, which is a superstition. That is to say, more than 600 years ago, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, deliberately chose the new palace in the so-called leading place at the southern foot of Zijin Mountain-Yanque Lake in order to occupy the so-called Dragon Spirit. More generally, everything is caused by superstition. At this point, some people may ask: Is there a basis? From the perspective of traditional geomantic omen in China, yes! Feng Shui is called Feng Shui in academic circles. According to the ancients, it can be regarded as a prominent place on the ground; This is a low-lying place on the ground. Another example is heaven; I don't understand, tunnel. So the so-called integrity of the ancients is to study the way of heaven and earth. But why is the study of honesty called the study of Feng Shui? Because the fundamental purpose of studying Feng Shui is to study Qi. Qi was a special substance in ancient times. Both the Eight Difficult Classics and the Emperor's Internal Classics say that qi is the foundation of human beings. So what is the relationship between Qi and Feng Shui? Our ancestors thought: qi will disperse when it rides the wind, and it will stop when it reaches the water. The ancients gathered instead of gathering, so it was called Feng Shui. The method of geomantic omen is to draw water first, then hide the wind. People explain: when there is no water, the wind comes and the air dissipates; With water, the gas stops and the wind stops, so the word feng shui is the best in geography. Among them, the land with water is the best, and the land with hidden wind is the worst. Since Feng Shui seems to belong to nature, what does it have to do with us humans? I ching: the stars drive the weather, the mountains and rivers drive the earth's atmosphere, the weather is clear, the earth's atmosphere is cloudy, yin and yang intersect, heaven and earth are dense, and everything breeds. According to Huangdi's Neijing, human residence is the hub of yin and yang and the mode of interpersonal relationship. It is good to conform to it, but don't go against it. This tells people to conform to the spirit of nature, thus forming various understandings of spirit in China traditional society. Chinese medicine pays attention to color and blood gas; Buddhists emphasize integrity; Taoism emphasizes the belly god of health preservation and practice; The pursuit of Chinese opera is moistening qi; Pursuing concentration and calmness in the field of painting and calligraphy; The literary world pays

Before the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Wu Wang built a new palace in Nanjing. He appointed an upright master Liu Ji to inspect and choose this place. When he founded the capital, he took Wang, Xu Cunren, Li Sidi and other famous scholars who were proficient in Feng Shui to his hometown for a walk. It was this Feng Shui master named Wang who once described the technique of Feng Shui at that time: the people who spoke geography in later generations can be divided into two situations: one is the method of ancestral temple, which started in the middle of Fujian, originated from far away, and ended in the Song Dynasty, with Wang as marshal. In this way, the Lord divines in astrology, positive and negative, and don't be wrong. Use pure five-star gossip to determine the way to make a living. I learned it from Fujian, Zhejiang, and it is seldom used today. Jiangxi's method originated from Yang Junsong, Zeng Wen, Lai Dayou, Xie Ziyi and others, who were particularly good at learning. In order to say that the situation is dominant, the original role, that is, where to stop, focuses on the collocation of dragons, caves, sand and water, regardless of other taboos. His scholarship is prosperous today and is respected by the people all over the country. According to the above historical data, there are two main schools of Feng Shui in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty: one is Fujian School, which worships Wang Weizu, a master of Feng Shui who lives in Songyuan Town in seclusion. The theory of this school is mainly based on regulating qi in ancestral temple, so it is also called regulating qi method or ancestral temple method. The other school is Jiangxi School, which was founded by Yang Junsong, a geomantic master who lived in Jiangxi at the end of the Tang Dynasty. School theory is based on mountain situation, so it is called chaos head method or situation method. Fujian School focuses on the establishment of indoor and outdoor orientation pattern, Jiangxi School focuses on site selection and shape selection, while Jiangxi School or Toutou School, which was highly praised by powerful people in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties, focuses on site selection and shape selection. The Toutuo school pays attention to five steps in site selection and shape: hunting dragons, inspecting sand, watching water, acupuncturing and orienting. The specific requirements are that the dragon should be true, the sand should be beautiful, the water should be abundant, the hole should be square and the direction should be auspicious. In August 1366, in the 26th year of Nanjing Yuan, the site of the new palace was selected. Liu Ji, a famous geomantic master, chose the address of the new palace for Zhu Yuanzhang in this way. Looking for a dragon, it goes without saying that it is Purple Mountain or Zhongshan, which belongs to the main dragon in the south of the Yangtze River. Chasing sand mainly depends on whether the mountains around Yingcheng belong to Zhongshan, Zhu Long. There are Jubaoshan in the south of Yingcheng, Sanshan in the west, Lulongshan in the northwest and Shogun Mountain in the northeast. Even near Zhulongshan, there are Fugui Mountain and Fuzhou Mountain, surrounded by mountains, which are in line with the top grade of tea and sand. The water view is mainly to examine whether there is a water system that embraces the capital. According to China China, Wanling, Qian Shan and Kunlun Mountains in the west are Zushan and Dragon. It stretches from west to east, and the Yellow River and the Yangtze River divide the dragon into three parts from north to south, forming three big dragons: the North Dragon in the north of the Yellow River, the Middle Dragon between the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and the South Dragon in the south of the Yangtze River. Liu Ji once said: Kunlun Mountain is the ancestral home of Kaohsiung, and the three major lines are South and North. Kyushu has many attitudes, but both fine and coarse are beautiful, and evil is poor. Yingnan is just in the land of Nanlong, with the Yangtze River in the north and Qinhuai River in the south, which conforms to the law of water viewing. The key point is to find the Dragon Cave, which was later selected by Liu Ji and others as the Yanque Lake at the southern foot of Zijin Mountain. As for the orientation, we should pay attention to the auspicious direction and the cases before and after the site.