Sealing Zen is an ancient ritual. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info according to the "Historical Records of the Feng Zen Book" Zhang Shoujie "Justice" explained: "This Mount Tai built soil as an altar to sacrifice to the sky, the merit of retribution to the sky, so it is said to be sealed." This Mount Tai is removed from the ground on the hill, and the work of repaying the land is called Zen.

But the specific origin of Mount Tai Feng Chan can not be examined, because some people say that it began with Qin Shi Huang, some people say that it began with Fuxi, and some people say that it began with the Yellow Emperor, Emperor Yan, Yao Shunyu and the like, anyway, there are all kinds of legends.

Although there are various theories, the clear record should start with Qin Shi Huang. In the third year after the unification of the Six Kingdoms, the First Emperor toured the counties to the "first mountain in the world" - Mount Tai to seal the Zen, in order to show that he became the emperor at the command of heaven.

Repair the mountain road in Mount Tai and climb the mountain from the sun of Mount Tai. In the top of the Dai line to ascend the ceremony, and carved a stone to praise Qin De. The eulogy said, "When the emperor is on the throne, he will make a clear law, and his subordinates will repair it." Twenty has six years, and the world has been merged at the beginning, and it is not welcome. Personally patrol the distant Li people, Denzi Taishan, and look around the East Pole. From the minister's thoughts, the original cause, only praise merit. Then go down the mountain from the shadow of Mount Tai, and descend to the Zen Rite in Liangfu Mountain.

This up and down the mountain, the Dengfeng ceremony, the combination of the Zen ceremony is the first emperor's Mount Tai Feng Zen.

Feng Chan Many people think that it should be a big event for the emperor, a good thing, because being able to Feng Chan shows that the emperor is doing a good job, otherwise how can he have the face to Feng Chan to report the situation to the heavens.

But in fact, not only the emperor attaches great importance to the Zen, every emperor wants to seal the Zen in Mount Tai, even the ministers also want the emperor to be able to seal the Zen, of course, he can follow the emperor to do it.

Because if the emperor is enshrined in Zen, he will not only engrave an edict on the stone to praise his merits, but also engrave the names of the ministers who entourage him.

The emperor is the Son of Heaven, and Feng Chan is the emperor reporting to the heavens, and the names of the accompanying ministers and the work report are engraved together, which naturally means that the names of the ministers can also be seen by the heavens, and it can be regarded as a hot time to listen to the heavens.

Don't think this reason is funny, although in ancient times, although the strange power was confused, but that refers to the gods and monsters and immortals, and God is very marketable.

Like Sima Qian, who wrote historical records, his father Sima Tan was unable to follow Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to practice Zen due to illness, which was full of regrets for a lifetime. Before dying, he took Sima Qian's hand and cried and lamented, "Today's son will take over the thousand-year-old system, seal Mount Tai, and the rest can not be followed, it is fate and husband!" Destiny Bianfu".

Therefore, after Li Shimin ascended the throne as the emperor, in addition to the chaos in the first few years, no one mentioned the matter of sealing Zen, in the next few years, there were often ministers who asked for Feng Zen, wanting to follow the light and let God know his name.

First of all, in the fifth year of Zhenguan, the Chaoji envoy Li Xiaogong, the king of Zhaojun, and others went to the table, thinking that the four Yi tribes had been subjugated, and asked for a great gift of sealing Zen, but Li Shimin refused.

Immediately after the second year, someone once again asked Taishan to seal the Zen, this time the main force was replaced by Wu Yuanqing and his father Wu Shiyi.

Li Shimin wanted to pretend to be forced, he said that the Qing generation all regarded Fengzen as an imperial event, but I didn't want to. If the world is peaceful, the home gives people enough, although it is not sealed Zen, how can it hurt! In the past, the first emperor of Qin sealed Zen, and Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty did not seal Zen, how could later generations think that Emperor Wen was not as virtuous as the first emperor! And sweep the earth and sacrifice, why bother to climb the top of Mount Tai, seal a few feet of soil, and then you can show its sincerity! ”

Li Shimin's words mean that I am so awesome, not that others say that I am awesome, but that I am really awesome, can I not say that I am not awesome without Mount Tai Feng Zen? Definitely not. You all say that Mount Tai Feng Zen is the prosperous age of the emperor, anyway, I don't think so. When Qin Shi Huang sealed Zen Taishan, Emperor Wen of Han did not seal Mount Tai, and no one dared to say that Emperor Wen of Han was not as good as Qin Shi Huang. Because the world was healthy when Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty was in good health, and the people had no worries about food and clothing, even if they did not seal the Zen family, they were also good emperors.

Li Shimin just said beautiful words, be modest, I'm very indifferent, I don't care about those vanity.

As a result, I pretended to be stupid, and I wanted to push the boat down the river to accept Feng Zen's invitation after saying beautiful words.

Because in ancient times, it was like this, I should come down as soon as others said nothing, and the ministers had to keep their intentions when they resigned from the emperor, and then pretended to agree reluctantly after several times.

After Li Shimin finished saying beautiful words according to the convention, the ministers continued to play with great interest, and Li Shimin pretended to agree helplessly, but Li Shimin forgot that he still had the ancient mirror Wei Zheng and the old Wei under his hand, and pretended to be forced to play off. Lao Wei wrote on his head that he said that I don't agree.

Li Shimin was angry, Lao Tzu was humble, why do you take it seriously, why don't you agree, do you think Lao Tzu's credit is not high enough? Or is the virtue not deep enough, or the Tang Dynasty is not stable enough, or the Siyi has not surrendered, or the grain has not been harvested, or the country has no Fu Rui?

Li Shimin was not modest anymore, and directly questioned Wei Zheng with his merits.

Wei Zheng nodded honestly and said that His Majesty had done it.

Li Shimin was even more angry, since Lao Tzu has done it, why can't he seal Zen?

Li Shimin pretended to be modest, pretended to be forced to pretend that he couldn't go on, and asked angrily, but he ran into the nemesis Lao Wei, who was afraid of him at all, and explained: "Although Your Majesty has these six, after the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the household registration has not been restored, and the warehouse is still empty...... The reward is not rich, and he is not tired of the hope of distant people; Give the year after year, and do not compensate the people; If you worship a false name and suffer real harm, Your Majesty will use it! “

Bang, bang, a series of reasons smashed down, and directly scolded Li Shimin back.

Since Zhenguan pretended to play for six years, no minister has mentioned the matter of sealing Zen for several years, maybe everyone also thinks that the emperor is unreliable, Lao Tzu kindly asked you to seal Zen and you still take the fight, but Wei Zheng was scared, then we are not busy with this heart.

It has been delayed until this year, in the eleventh year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin visited Luoyang, this guy is closer to Mount Tai, and finally a minister mentioned the matter of sealing Zen again.

With the previous lesson, Li Shimin didn't pretend to be forced to fight, and agreed without saying a word, and then immediately ordered the secretary and young eunuch Yan Shigu, the doctor Zhu Zihao, and Wei Zheng and Yang Shidao The two prime ministers jointly studied the matter of sealing Zen, and finally ruled by Xuanling, the left servant of the head of the hundred officials.

After the matter of sealing the Zen was decided, many people were dispatched to start building the road, especially the road up and down Mount Tai, and the altar was built.

Old man Wei may have been worried that the emperor would be complacent because he did not dissuade the emperor this time, so he began to frequently write to the emperor to advise. One of the most famous is the exhortation that was later called the Ten Thoughts of Emperor Taizong.

Although Wei Zheng listened to such an excerpt at this time, but because of the matter of sealing Zen, Wei Zheng did not dissuade him, and Li Shimin accepted the advice very face-saving, saying that if there must be a change, he would be encouraged, and he also pressed a paperweight on the head of the imperial case to say that he must often see it in the future and always be vigilant.