Chapter 64, the ghost of Kang Yuen
This day was October 2nd, and during the National Day holiday, Tu Su returned to his aunt's house. After all, it is a relative, it is impossible not to move, and after moving out to live by herself, it feels much more natural for the little girl to go back to her aunt's house.
At about ten o'clock in the evening, you Fang walked into Kang Yuen from the north gate, and as soon as you entered the gate, there was a large area of water between the two streams of Yat Sen Road, and the end was stretched out in an arc, which was the "tip of the sword" of the central axis of CUHK. The terrain pointed directly at the sword shape is too sharp, and the tip of the sword can be slightly softer with a piece of water, so that it will not be rigid and forceful, and there is a combination of rigidity and softness.
If there is no water at the entrance, then the oncoming landscape will give people a strong sense of oppression, not like a university but like a courthouse. You Fang couldn't figure out why the central axis of Sun Yat-sen University's campus would form a pattern of a sword, becoming the pivotal position of the Great Feng Shui Bureau far beyond the scope of this campus.
The history of this campus can be traced back to a hundred years ago, but the main architectural pattern was gradually formed after the founding of the People's Republic of China, perhaps just a coincidence, or perhaps after the main style was established, the construction of this style over the years has followed this style, and such a feng shui bureau has gradually formed intentionally or unintentionally. The eight major places of Yanjing are secretly in harmony with the feng shui formation, and the same is true for the causes.
The central axis symmetry is a representative structure of classical Chinese architecture, and You Fang has seen a lot in Yanjing, but the central axis of Kang Yuan is obviously another matter: first of all, it is not the symmetrical center of the campus structure, and the architectural distribution of Kang Yuan is not a left-right symmetrical style. Secondly, this central axis is largely "empty", a straight road that runs through front and back, and is surrounded by surrounding buildings and trees.
The first building in this terrain is guilty of the "gun brake" in feng shui, and the specific feng shui bureau here is a more powerful "sword brake" than the gun brake, which is precisely the legendary haunted Lingnan Hall.
The water surface can gather yin and return to yang, and the water surface located at the tip of the sword can play a role in harmonizing yin and yang, and it feels very comfortable to walk in from the north gate during the day, and there is also a sense of invigoration in the spirit. But at night, the yin qi on this water surface is obviously on the heavy side, and such an empty and straight area also attracts the yin qi flowing on the Pearl River outside the north gate, which is very sharp and can cause an inexplicable sense of trance depression.
When You Fang walked over towards the "tip of the sword", Qin Yu, who was hidden in his waist, also let out a slight sound, which was not a warning, but a resonance with the earthly environment, even if he didn't use spiritual sense, he could hear it directly in extremely quiet conditions.
After the water surface, after passing through a meadow, facing the Lingnan Hall, from the perspective of architectural feng shui, it is equivalent to a screen to block evil, like the tip of the sword piercing into the yin qi, and the exposed sword body demarcation position is precisely the Lingnan Hall, there is a sense of yin and yang division. The site is suitable for the construction of landscape buildings that commemorate or symbolize surnames, but it is not suitable for habitation. Even if you look at the north gate from here during the day, the terrain is not high, but you have the feeling of looking down from a high place.
What a heavy! It is not surprising that this place is "haunted", and the building is now replaced by a glass curtain wall structure, which somewhat reflects and diverges the conflict of subconscious sense.
He didn't stop and continued along the road on the left side of the central axis. After the pavilion, the statue of Sun Yat-sen, and the Huaishi Hall, Yixian Road is combined into one at the "sword handle", and the left side is the Liberal Arts Building, which is the second place where the legend of Kang Paradise is haunted and more fierce.
What a heavy yin qi! Qin Yu made another sound, which was slightly different from the slight sound just now, it was a low sobbing softness. The yin qi here is naturally not as strong as in the ancient tomb of Luoyang, but the contrast with the surrounding environment is relatively large, otherwise it cannot be used as a teaching building. Yang Qi and popularity are not a big problem when they are strong, but it is easier to concentrate when studying here.
The building is in the shape of a "gong", wide in the north and narrow in the south, and its gate does have problems, the main entrance of the design is not in the right direction, and the problem comes from the back of the building. Its position as the "Xuanwu Mountain" in the Feng Shui Bureau is completely "empty", and to the north is the largest green space in the center of Kang Yuen Yuan, where the grass and towering trees are spread very openly, and the air of the secluded forest gathers, and the blade of the sword along the side of the central axis goes straight to this building.
The environment of this building gives people a subconscious feeling, the most obvious is the word "secluded", from the perspective of feng shui, it is a "reverse backlash" - it makes people feel that there is a void behind it. People who walk at night have experience, and when there is really someone behind them, it is not the most terrible, and what is even more terrible is that there is a void behind it, and it always feels like someone when there is no one. This kind of environment can easily lead to all kinds of illusions, and it is not surprising to say that this place is "haunted".
I checked out two haunted places in succession, and sure enough, they were all exquisite, but they were nothing for the tour party. Along the way, the spiritual sense was used to test the earth's qi, and the wandering party walked very slowly, and it was almost zero o'clock at this time. He walked back through the central axis to the right, and in a short time, he came to Yongfangtang, which is said to be the most haunted, and stood on the "Eighteen Sages Square" in front of his door.
Here, You Fang's expression became very strange, as if he wanted to laugh but frowned. What is the Feng Shui Bureau here? It's nothing, it's not a game at all!
I don't know who designed this building, but the main entrance is actually such a structure: the center is a convex arc, the left and right wings stretch out diagonally forward, and the wall facing forward is also a convex reverse arch. Looking from the front door, there are three arcs connected together.
In addition, the steps in front of the main entrance are very high, and you have to look up to see the door, and the width gradually narrows up to the front of the door, making it appear very steep visually. The left and right sides of the building are straight, and the angles between the curved wall and the front are as sharp as a knife's edge.
The sharp corner on the right side of Yongfangtang is pointing to the liberal arts building, which is called "chongsha", which is very taboo in traditional feng shui, and planting trees is also one of the ways to resolve it slightly, but you can't plant coconut trees! The coconut tree has only a straight trunk with a leaf crown on top of it, and there are no branches, which are inserted there like chopsticks or a stick of incense, which does not play a blocking role and looks awkward.
The correct approach should be to transplant weeping willows, locust and other plants with very lush branches, very soft branches, and shady surnames, the higher the growth, the better, as long as the tree does not exceed the height of the building, and the distance from the sharp corners of the building is not less than the height of the tree. It is likely that a few coconut trees here were planted by some people who are not willing to believe in feng shui and have heard of this kind of exquisiteness.
However, these two sharp corners are only minor faults made by this building from the perspective of feng shui, and as for the statement that "when it is completed, the sharp corners point to the dead plants and trees in Kang Yuen Yuan", it is all exaggerated and false. The main problem lies in the positive structure.
If it is praise for the sake of praise, it can always be far-fetched and full of rhetoric, for example, someone praised Yongfangtang like this: "Its appearance is a big white bird, its wings are like open arms, and it embraces an eclectic big heart; It is like an open book, from here out of the eighteen sages shining in the dust of history. "-I can really poke words, but what You Fang saw with his own eyes is not this feeling at all.
If you want to hug a person, you should have your arms outstretched, your chest blank and your palms folded inward. If you open your arms, your palms are outward, and your head is forward, it's not that you want to hug anyone, but like you accidentally fell into a pit and are crawling out, and you don't like someone in front of you to block it. The front shape of Yongfangtang is three reverse arches that come out, giving people this feeling.
Sometimes, don't look at the general shape, the difference in details will lead to the opposite meaning of architectural feng shui.
The effect of this structure on the earth's atmosphere is not convergence, but reflection and divergence in the direction of the head-on and both sides, it is a white smooth surface, and the effect of this divergence and reflection is more intense. If you are a very sensitive person, when you are unsettled, you will have the illusion of being pushed back by the building when you walk up the steps; When you walk down the stairs, you will have the illusion of being pushed forward by your shoulders in the corner of your eye.
Walking this sixty steps, it feels relatively long when going up, relatively short when coming down, if you don't pay enough attention or your mind is uncertain and your steps are vain, it's really easy to count wrong, go up and go down more than one or two steps, which is also one of the "ghost stories" here.
Yongfangtang faces the sword-shaped central axis on the side, the sword is the soul of a huge feng shui bureau, it will diffuse the sharp sword intent in front of the reflection, divergence and spread, the turbulence on the lawn in front of you can be imagined, even if it is a sunny and windless weather, it will cause people inexplicable chaos and noise.
Perhaps in order to dispel the sense of disobedience in this environment, someone erected eighteen bronze statues around this lawn, with Sun Yat-sen, Cai Yuanpei, Zhang Taiyan, Liang Qichao, Kang Youwei, Deng Shichang, Huang Zunxian, and Wei Yuan on the left. On the right are Lin Zexu, Zhan Tianyou, Qiu Jin, Tan Sitong, Yan Fu, Feng Zicai, Rong Hong, and Hong Xiuquan.
It is indeed one of the ways to calm the atmosphere of the people who set up a statue of a very prestigious figure in history, but it can't be this kind of plastic method. This is not a guard of honor! Not only did it not dissolve the disturbance of the earth's qi, but it greatly increased the chaos of the environment's earth's qi.
The statue of the ancestors is very particular, and it cannot be randomized. If it is for people to pay respects, its first mistake is to violate the principle of "respecting people as people, and one place is not for two offerings", because not far from the campus, there is already a commemorative statue of Sun Yat-sen. If it is to enter a temple, the hall of the Mahavira is dedicated to the three-body Buddha or the three Buddhas, and when you arrive at the matching hall, how can it still be these three after the incense case? If you respect the statue as a real person, you should not make this mistake.
The impact of this mistake on the environment is secondary, the key is that the "people" are wrong, these statues can calm the ground under their feet, but the disturbance between them is extremely violent. You Fang walked here, unfolding his spiritual sense, as if he was torn by many torrents in the whirlpool, and almost had the feeling of a mouse falling into the oil pot.
If it weren't for the fact that the spiritual sense exercise was already quite hot, he really wouldn't dare to start it easily here.
Why is this happening? Originally, the statue was nothing more than a carving of building materials, but it was formed and placed, and it is the easiest of all the objects to form a unique caste. Countless people who have seen it, the image given to it spiritually is the person it represents, and the spiritual surname of the object is given by countless people, and this process is called "enlightenment".
The consecration ceremony of the Buddha statue in the temple, the chanting and blessing of the monks, symbolizes that the Buddha statue is not only a clay wooden tire but also the form of the Buddha. Statues on other occasions also have a natural consecration process. This is in front of the teaching building of the Department of History, and the spiritual resonance aroused by countless past teachers and students in front of the statues is the image of the historical figures they represent.
There is also a principle for the statues of the ancestors, you can't take it for granted that some people are listed together, respect people as people, and see if these people themselves can get together? It is as big as pointing out the country and crisscrossing the world, and as small as getting together at a table to eat hot pot and rubbing mahjong.
On this occasion, such conflicts as the differences between Zhang Taiyan and Sun Yat-sen in his later years are nothing. Some of the eighteen people have a traditional teacher-student relationship, but they are in the wrong position, and the students themselves would never dare to stand like this, which is not the most serious problem. With the respective identities and positions of Lin Zexu, Kang Youwei and Hong Xiuquan, Sun Yat-sen and others, can they get along so peacefully? This is the most serious conflict.
If these statues "come to life", they will have to fight! Of course, the statue itself will not become a living person, but the disturbance and conflict between them are extremely intense, and You Fang's spiritual sense is very clear. In this kind of environment, especially when the popularity is very weak at night, it is really easy to have all kinds of illusions, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the first supernatural place in Guangzhou.
As for why this place was designed and built like this, it was not the main concern of You Fang, he came to investigate the feng shui and earth. Seeing this scene, I only sighed in my heart, if it was a real scholar like Wu Pingdong who made a plan, there would never be such a building on campus.
At the same time, he was also very happy, because here and now was the cultivation place he was looking for, where he could sit and watch, and be able to directly refine his spiritual consciousness in the extremely fierce and complex conflict and disturbance of the earth and qi.
You Fang bowed in front of each bronze statue, then walked to the steps of Yongfang Hall and sat down, pranayama and contemplated, gradually expanding his spiritual sense, and integrating into the conflict of things and the disturbance of earth qi in this space, like a fish swimming in a pot of oil.
The night was very deep, and there was no one around Yongfangtang, and it was extremely quiet and gloomy. However, the feeling of the You Fang is like being in the midst of stormy waves, and this place is not big or small, and it is exactly the range that the You Fang can extend to fully expand his spiritual sense. However, to expand the spiritual sense to the limit, not to be tempered by the strong conflict between the castes and the original spirit, but also not to be disturbed by the drastic changes in the earth's qi, it requires very deep concentration and physical strength, and at the same time, it is necessary to control the spiritual sense to a very subtle degree.
Although sitting still, the rapid consumption of physical strength and energy cannot be seen on the surface, which is not like the usual practice of cultivating qi and regulating the mind, but a kind of test and tempering. You Fang deeply felt that he first cultivated his inner kung fu to reach the realm of "responding to touch and feeling with his feelings", and the idea of first seeking control and subtlety and then seeking strength when exercising spiritual sense was completely correct.
Although I know that this idea is a shortcut, it is also difficult to follow, it is just in line with the situation of the wanderer itself, at least when many people first exercise their spiritual sense, it is relatively easy to pursue strength, but it is much more difficult to control subtlety.
He didn't know how long he had been sitting still, an hour, maybe two hours, when he felt a sudden "relaxation", and the strong conflict of things and the disturbance of the earth's qi around him seemed to stop abruptly in an instant. It's not that the environment has changed, but that You Fang's own perception of the environment has changed, and the spiritual sense is still the spiritual sense, but it has entered another state, as if it has pierced an invisible layer of window paper, and what you see suddenly opens up.
Liu Li once asked him: "If you can't see, hear, touch, think about anything, but you don't die, you don't fall asleep, and you are very awake, then who are you?" At that time, you could only imagine, but could not answer, but now you have an intuitive experience.
Of course he is still him, and when Liu Li asked, the literal meaning turned out to be "wrong"! For example, his spiritual sense can sense everything, not only is it not disturbed by the disturbance of the earth's qi, but it can also clearly perceive the changes in the environment, as if he has become a calm observer in it. - Genshin appears!
The consciousness of the primordial spirit can be heard, seen, and touched, but it is a pure, clear state of internal and external sense. At this time, the spiritual consciousness is the divine consciousness, which has been refined to the extreme to reach a state where it is no longer "quenched". As long as he doesn't take the initiative to disturb and operate the earth's qi in the environment, if he only extends his divine sense to sense, he will not be "quenched". Not to mention here, even on the Tianxin Stone of the Temple of Heaven Mound, this is the minimum realm of a master.
Reaching the realm of the appearance of the primordial spirit, the spiritual consciousness naturally turns into divine consciousness, not that the primordial spirit will not be injured again, but can clearly perceive the state of the self, if it is injured, it is clear what is going on. It is not that the consciousness is no longer affected by the environment, but the disturbance of the environment can only affect the extent of its extended sense, and the consciousness is always clear within its reach.
No wonder Liu Li said: "Only after the spiritual consciousness is transformed can you have direct spiritual communication with the spirit surname of the artifact." ”。
As soon as he thought of this, You Fang did not regain his skills, but unfolded his divine sense to carefully sense the surnames of the eighteen statues in front of him, as if he had seen eighteen powerful "people" with his eyes closed. However, as soon as the divine consciousness was expanded to the limit, You Fang's heart was suddenly horrified, and he almost didn't hurt the Yuan Shen who had just appeared!
There is no clear standard for a person's boldness, and some people are not afraid of ghosts at all, and they are not afraid of anywhere, because they know that there are no ghosts in the world. If one really pops up, do you think he's afraid? You Fang dared to go to such a place in the middle of the night to practice, because he knew at a glance what the so-called haunting was all about, so he didn't take it seriously at all.
But as soon as the divine consciousness unfolded, he suddenly found that there were eighteen bronze statues around it, and nineteen "people" appeared!
(To be continued)