"Huh? Cloud Gate was created by Xu Xiake? I asked.

Uncle Xu shook his head and said, "Xu Xiake is the ancestor of Cloud Gate, but Cloud Gate was not created by him. ”

"Not him? Who's that? ”

"At that time, Xu Xiake relied on a pair of legs, traveled all over the land of China, during which there were not only magnificent mountains and rivers, but also inaccessible frontier exotics, footprints all over 16 provinces, and finally lasted 30 years to write the immortal work of "Xu Xiake's Travels", which was called "strange people through the ages", and had the name of "reaching the unknown of the people, exploring the unknown". Even today's China Tourism Day is set on the opening day of "Xu Xiake's Travels". Uncle Xu said, "However, although Xu Xiake is very remarkable, he is not the founder of Cloud Gate. The real founder of Cloud Gate is named Luo Mianzheng, who is Xu Xiake's township. When he was born, Xu Xiake had already passed away for many years. But the person he admires the most in his life is Xu Xiake, and he has read through the book "Xu Xiake's Travels" repeatedly, and even memorized it in his chest. As an adult, Luo Mianzheng followed Xu Xiake's example and vowed to travel to every corner of China. Unlike Xu Xiake, Luo Mianzheng does not like to go to those well-known places, but repeatedly sets foot in those unknown places to explore the secrets. The more mysterious and dangerous it became, the more he was interested, and many times he narrowly escaped death, but even so, he remained determined to do so. Like Xu Xiake, he also recorded all the strange things he saw and heard along the way in the book, called "Mian Zheng Notes", which is mainly dangerous and mysterious. In his later years, he often lamented that life was too short, and that there were still many mysterious places in this world that he had grown old before he could set foot in them. In order to make up for his regrets, he founded a sect and founded Cloud Gate, wanting future generations to fulfill his last wish. Luo Mian is worshipping Xu Xiake as the ancestor of Yunmen, and considers himself a disciple of Xu Xiake. And the word 'Cloud Gate' is taken from the meaning of 'traveling all over the world'. ”

Later, the development of Cloud Gate became more and more prosperous, and at its peak, there were as many as 300 people in the Gate, but later it gradually withered. At the beginning of the establishment of Cloud Gate, it was originally to find the unknown scenery in the world and make it public to the world. But later some people found that the more hidden the place, the more a lot of wealth was hidden, and the sect that was originally just traveling through rivers and mountains gradually became a sect of exploration, seclusion, and treasure hunting. In order to survive the expedition, different self-defense techniques were derived from it, which were divided into four genres, namely auspicious clouds, flowing clouds, floating clouds and stratus clouds. The most conspicuous, flowery cloud on your piece of jade is the auspicious cloud, which is your grandfather's genre. This vein is good at the method of yin and yang feng shui, and can avoid evil and change life and luck. The remaining three doors, Liuyun is the scattered pattern on the jade, known for the mechanism spell, I heard that the mechanism made by this door is comparable to the wooden ox and flowing horse of Zhuge Wuhou back then, and it can also condense water into ice, summon fire out of thin air, very powerful. The puffy cloud is the carved pattern with only a thin layer of clouds; The medical skills of the Fuyun faction are very powerful, especially the method of detoxification. As for the Stratus faction, it is very mysterious, this faction is good at the method of inviting immortals, and can invite the immortals they worship, and use the power of the immortals to subdue demons and subdue demons......"

"Uncle Xu, you know very clearly!" I say.

Uncle Xu smiled: "These are all things that your grandfather told my father back then, and then my father told me about it." Of course, there are also some that are the result of my later investigation of Cloud Gate......"

"Did you investigate?" I asked.

"Curious! Ever since I heard about Cloud Gate, I've always been interested in this organization and want to know more about it. Uncle Xu said, "Later, I found your family, and after asking, I found that your father didn't understand anything at all, and Uncle Pei didn't pass on his skills to his son, but let you, the grandson, inherit the mantle." ”

I scratched my head and said, "It's not an inheritance, it's just because I'm weak when I'm small, so my dad gave me this piece of jade from my grandfather for self-defense." As for the feng shui physiognomy that I know, I have seen it from books. ”

"That jade is really on your body." Uncle Xu smiled and said, "As long as you wear this piece of jade, you are the heir of Cloud Gate." ”

"By the way, Uncle Xu, in addition to knowing feng shui, my grandfather can also use some spells to exorcise evil spirits and catch ghosts, are these things also the techniques of the Xiangyun faction?" I asked.

"This technique of exorcising evil spirits and catching ghosts was indeed unique to Xiangyun at the beginning of the establishment of the Cloud Gate faction, but later the other three factions also learned some more or less, but they were not as proficient as Xiangyun." Uncle Xu explained, "However, the art of feng shui is also unique to Xiangyunmen. ”

"Is this unique? Now people who understand Feng Shui are everywhere! I said disapprerovingly.

"The root of modern Feng Shui is the Book of Changes, which is also the foundation of modern Feng Shui." Uncle Xu said, "But you know what, this statement is not accurate. ”

"How can that be accurate?" I asked.

In fact, the root of modern Feng Shui is not the Book of Changes, but the Book of Changes. Because there are three books of the Book of Changes, namely "Lianshan", "Returning to Tibet", and "Zhou Yi". "Lianshan" is said to have been created by the first monarch of Pangu after the opening of the world, while "Returning to Tibet" is a Shang Dynasty I Ching ......," said Uncle Xu.

"Then why do we usually only hear the names of "Zhou Yi", but rarely hear the names of "Lianshan" and "Returning to Tibet"?" I asked.

"Because 'Lianshan' and 'Gui Zang' were lost before the Han Dynasty......," Uncle Xu said.

"Then what does this have to do with the feng shui of Xiangyunmen?"

"The difference between the feng shui techniques of Xiangyunmen and other feng shui techniques is this, other feng shui techniques are derived from "Zhou Yi", and the feng shui techniques of Xiangyunmen are derived from "Lianshan"!" Uncle Xu said.

"I see!" I nodded. After understanding the origin of Xiangyunmen's feng shui, I continued to ask about Yunmen.

Uncle Xu then explained to me: "Because Yunmen was divided into four factions, and the opinions and opinions between each other deepened day by day, so in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, Yunmen was completely divided, and the four factions developed separately until now. However, it is said that these four factions are divided, but they all admit that they are the children of Yunmen, and they all consider themselves orthodox, and there are also open and secret battles between them, so they are not friendly with each other......"

"So where are all the people of these four gates now?" I asked Uncle Xu.

"No one knows about this. Because the people of Cloud Gate are very well disguised on weekdays, they will not expose their homes unless they have to. Uncle Xu said, "But I think that since the people of Yunmen have inherited Xu Xiake's spirit of 'reaching what people have not reached, exploring the unknown', they naturally also like to explore, and I think it will be more likely to see them in the expedition team." Of course, there are also some Cloud Gate people who live the life of ordinary people. ”