I don't like to read books, especially classical Chinese, and even if there are vernacular annotations, I don't bother to read them. Of course, Tanzi is the same as me, and he is not interested in books at all. He walked around and saw that it was not interesting, so he simply sat aside and looked out the window boredly. I also set my sights on a map attached to the wall. That map was a map of China, and in addition to the labels of provinces and cities, it also showed China's mountains and rivers, large and small, in great detail. There are some that I have never heard of.

I was there visiting Professor King's office, and Professor King sat at his desk scratching his head and muttering to himself from time to time.

"The literal meaning of the latter sentences is not difficult to understand, there are stars in the sky, but there are no mountains on the earth to correspond, in order to seek the eternal stability of the country, a palace was erected as a mountain range, and since then the aura has been extended, and the blessings have continued."

But what do these numbers really mean? Is it latitude? Longitude? Or what is the password? ”

"What does this ancestor of a thousand dragons, the source of Wanxiu refer to?"

Listening to Professor Kim's whispering in my ears and looking at the map in my eyes, a glimmer of inspiration crossed my mind. But this inspiration was fleeting, and no matter how much I tried to find it in my head, I couldn't find it.

"Two, nine, four, three, five, seven, six, eight...... Two, nine, four, seven, five, three, eight, six......" I also silently recited these three sets of numbers over and over again, and my eyes were always on the map. Finally, that little bit of inspiration came back to my mind.

Immediately afterward, I shouted, "I see, these numbers are nine-square grid numbers!" The altar jumped up, rushed to my side, and asked vigorously: "What nine-square grid?" What is the nine-square grid? ”

My words were like waking up a person in a dream, and Professor Jin also shouted repeatedly: "Yes, yes, yes, it is indeed the number of nine squares, but it is only because of the reading and writing habits of the ancients that it is different from today, so it has become like this." I said, "Why are these numbers so familiar?" ”

The number of the nine palaces is the number of heaven and earth generated as recorded in the Book of Luo. Before the Song Dynasty, the description of Luo Shu was only explained in words, and it was not until Chen Shu that the pattern of Luo Shu was proposed. Zhou Zhenluan of the Northern Zhou Dynasty said: "The nine palaces, that is, two or four are the shoulders, six or eight are the feet, the left three are the right seven, the nine shoes are one, and the five are in the center." "These numbers are exactly the same as the ones I took with my camera, except that the word "one" is missing.

"That's right, it's the number of nine squares!" At this moment, another man walked in through the door, in his fifties, with gray hair.

"You're ......" I looked at the person who came, and I was a little surprised.

The man laughed and asked, "You are Xiao Pei, right?" I'm Jin Dexiang, didn't Lao Xu introduce you here? ”

I was taken aback by the jar: "Are you Professor Kim?" And what about him? We asked, pointing to Professor Jin from before.

Jin Dexiang said: "My surname is Jin, Gejin Jin, his surname is Jin, Jin Zijin, we are an associate professor here, and I also study history and archaeology. "Only then did I figure out that the professor that Uncle Xu said was surnamed Jin, not Jin.

"But why is there a 'one' missing?" Professor Jin on the side asked puzzled.

Professor Jin pointed to the map and said to Professor Jin, "Actually, I have discovered this problem a long time ago, you see! ”

Professor Jin stared at the map for a long time and couldn't figure out why, so he asked, "Professor Jin, what are you asking me to see?" ”

Professor Jin said: "If you divide all the large mountain ranges in China into regions, what do you think they are? ”

Professor Jin gestured back and forth on the map with his hand a few times, and he immediately understood: "It's a nine-square grid!" ”

"That's right, it's Jiugongge!" Professor Jin said, "Isn't that written in words? "There are stars in the sky, but there are no mountains in the earth", and the so-called "nine stars in the sky, nine palaces on the earth" are completely one-to-one correspondence. The Nine Stars, the Greedy Wolf Star, the Giant Gate Star, the Lucun Star, the Wenqu Star, the Lian Zhen Star, the Wuqu Star, the Broken Army Star, the Left Auxiliary Star and the Right Bi Star, are exactly the number of the Nine Palaces. ”

Professor Jin pointed to the map and explained it to us.

"Professor Jin, aren't these things feng shui? How do you know this? "I asked a little incomprehensibly.

Professor Jin said: "Although we are doing archaeology, archaeology and fighting are actually the same. Confidant refers to our own professional knowledge and skills, so what about knowing the other, in addition to knowing the characteristics of the tombs, palaces, and cultures of previous dynasties, we must also know where they are. For tombs, if you want to know where there are ancient tombs, how can you determine where there are tombs without learning some feng shui? Then he took me to a bookcase, pointed to the books inside, and said, "Look, I have bought a lot of these books to study ancient feng shui!" ”

When I looked, there were a lot of feng shui books in the cabinet, such as "The Book of Burial", "The Book of Shaking the Dragon", "The Book of the Water Dragon", "The Book of the Green Bag" and so on.

I smiled and said to Professor Jin, "Professor, I really didn't expect you to understand Feng Shui. ”

Professor Jin laughed and said, "Now that even tomb robbers have begun to learn feng shui to find tombs, so those of us who do archaeology all day long can't be left behind!" ”

"Let's get down to business, it's still important to get down to business!" With that, we turned our attention back to the map.

Professor Jin said: "If you look at the distribution of China's mountain ranges, there are roughly nine regions. 'Twenty-four is the shoulder', the second is the Tianrui Star, the lower pair is the Changbai Mountains, the lower is the Tianfu Star is four, the lower is the Tianshan Mountain Range, the lower is the Tianshan Mountains, the sixth is the Tianxin Star, the lower is the Wuyi Mountain, the eighth is the Tianren Star, the lower is the Himalayas, the third is the Tianchong Star, the lower is the Kunlun Mountains, the seventh is the Tianzhu Star, the lower is the Dabie Mountains, the 'Five Centers in the Middle', the Heavenly Bird Star, the lower pair of the Qinling Mountains, and then there is the 'Dai Jiu Sho One', the ninth is the Tianying Star, the lower Ying Mountain Range. ”

Tanzi also seemed to understand a little, but he still pointed to the other mountains on the map and asked Professor Jin, "What about the other mountains on the map?" You are like the Great and Small Khing'an Mountains, Tanggula Mountains, Hengduan Mountains or something. ”

Without waiting for Professor Jin to reply, I explained to Tanzi: "Do you remember that I told you that the mountains in Feng Shui are called dry dragons? ”

The jar nodded and said, "Of course I do!" ”

"The dry dragon is divided into the main dragon and the branch dragon, referred to as the main dragon and the branch dragon. The mountain I just talked about is the Zhenglong, and the other mountains are the Zhilong relative to these nine mountains. I said.

"That's not right!" The altar said, "What is Tanggula Mountain, the big and small Xing'an Mountains, which one is not longer than Dabie Mountain, which one is not bigger than Dabie Mountain, how can Dabie Mountain become a dragon, and they can't become it?" ”

"That's because these nine mountains correspond to the nine palaces and nine stars in the sky, and the nine palaces are the number of heaven and earth, so they are called Zhenglong, and the other mountain ranges do not correspond to the nine stars, so they can only be Zhilong compared to the nine mountains...... Of course, they're dragons for smaller mountain branches! I explained.