Macro-analysis of Hongcun geomantic omen

Hongcun was founded in the Southern Song Dynasty in Shao Xi (A.D.1190-1194). It used to be the place where the king lived, which lasted for more than 900 years. Backed by Yangzhanling and Leigang Mountain. In the remnant veins of Huangshan Mountain, there is a very high terrain and an excellent feng shui situation.

Settle in Leigang Mountain

Hongcun is mainly where the Wangs live. According to legend, Wang was the sixty-first member of the Xin 'an Department during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty (A.D.11), and his name was Wang (word Shunxian,no. Qing Tang). My ancestral home is in Xin 'an Tangmo, and my family is doing business in Jinling for a living. My family is well-off. However, it was looted by fire several times, and all its wealth was destroyed at the same time. After preserving Wang's genealogy and the portrait of his late master, Shun returned to his hometown with his wife. When he passed by, he looked up and saw Leigang Mountain with dense trees and vitality, so he decided to stay in Leigang Mountain and start a new business.

Feng shui situation

Looking at Hongcun carefully, Huangshan has reached this point, and the outside has become a big garden of Wei Zi, surrounded from left to right. One of them ran near Longjiang and got results, while the other one and the white tiger became Xiaowei Purple Garden Bureau. Among them, the dragon is powerful and smooth, and there is a goldfish in front, which is watertight. The whole situation in Shu Lang is round and wide, with a close ranking, beautiful scenery and interesting water.

Settle at the foot of the mountain

The Wangs settled here after Shun became a public official, but at first they just lived in the messy head behind Hongcun. However, in May of the first year of Jingyan in the Southern Song Dynasty (1276), there were two consecutive rainstorms in the local area, which led to flash floods and the Xixi River flooded, and diverted south around the village. As a result, the wedding bed under Luan's head was greatly expanded, and the Wang clan talents on the mountain began to live down the mountain one after another. Because the ancestors experienced the pain of several fires and also had the actual need of drinking water irrigation, they needed to be close to the water source. The concrete embodiment of its survival wisdom also accelerated the birth of Hongcun, a model of Feng Shui Yang Zhai.

Geomantic concept

In the mid-Yuan Dynasty, Wang Xuanqing (A.D. 1298- 1369), the seventy-fourth ancestor of the Wang family in Hongcun, resigned in middle age and lived in seclusion in his hometown. Because the Zushan industry is the pillar, the timber business is quite prosperous. He usually helped the poor and was a famous businessman in northern Yunnan at that time. He also made many scholars and scholars, and he is a wise man in society. One day, I visited Leigang Mountain with several guests. An old man carefully examined the geographical features of Hongcun and made a suggestion to Xuan Qinggong: There is a natural cave in the middle of the village, which is inexhaustible in winter and summer. The water is crystal clear and can wash the soul. Ganquan in the village is the essence of rain and dew, and its nature is soft. If it is expanded into a pond, storing the water of the inner yang, locking the fire of Ding, and the harmony and prosperity of Yin and Yang, it is really a good foundation for developing the village water garden. Xuanqing thought it was very reasonable, so he recorded it in the genealogy and passed it on to future generations.

Feng shui regulation

During the Yongle period in the early Ming Dynasty, Sun Wangxin (1374- 1424), the official of Xuanqinggong, was named Siqi. Wang Siqi served as an official outside, and Hu Chongniang, the old lady and the children did housework, and presided over the establishment of a concert hall for the people.

In the early years of Yongle, Si Qi resigned and returned to Li. One day, looking through the genealogy, he saw his grandfather's last words "opening a natural cave in the village" and made a careful investigation on the spot. Spring eye fruit in front of the music Syria hall, dare not make a move. He heard that Haiyang Hekeda Jun is famous for his Buddha, so he was hired three times to "read the mountains and rivers and examine the context in detail" and made a blueprint for expanding the base site of Hongcun and expanding the village water system centered on the caves and springs in the village.

He also wrote a note: "Take Xixi to dig a hole around the village house. Its long flow is nine bends, flowing through ten bays, and the water is cross-flowing. Third, the official spit before noon, from west to east, wash your heart with water. * * * praise brocade rust, but it is both sources, and the peaks fall into the pond, which will surely lead to the extension of the family, and the descendants will be trillions.

Bull-shaped pattern

According to the guidance of geomantic omen theory, Hongcun people designed the village layout as an ox, with mountains as its head, trees as its horns, bridges as its legs and houses as its body. In order to keep the cow alive, they dug a canal nearly 1,000 meters long according to the digestive system of the cow, which attracted mountain spring water to flow in front of every household. Then expand a Gu Quan in the village into a pond of more than 1,000 square meters as a tripe, and dig a South Lake of several thousand square meters at the edge of the village as a tripe; Hongcun's ingenious water system not only improves the living environment, but also adds aura to Niuxing Village.