Chapter Fifty-Six: The Mystery of the Mystery Thousand Dragons Spit Water
Need, there are Fu, Guangheng, Zhenji, Li Shi Dachuan.
The meaning of the first few sentences in this hexagram has been deciphered by Ling Xuan, and the last sentence is also not difficult to understand literally, in which the benefit represents the benefit, and the wading is wading across the river, and this river naturally refers to the land of the great river, and it can also be extended to the difficulty and danger.
Connecting these four words together, it means that it is conducive to crossing the great rivers and rivers, and the Lishu Dachuan is the code of action in the I Ching, and the best time to take the initiative to attack is called the Lishi Dachuan.
While the meaning of these four words is obvious, I can't imagine how they relate to the place where the statue is hidden.
"After the rain, the ...... of the river is relishi"
Yi He pondered for a while, then suddenly raised his head thoughtfully and asked us.
"Have you ever heard of a thousand dragons spitting water?"
Thousands of dragons spit water? So what?
Shen Lang didn't bother to think, anyway, he knew that he couldn't think of an answer, so he leaned over to Yi He and asked directly.
"I haven't heard of it, what is that thousand dragons spitting water, does it mean that there really are dragons in the world?"
Yi He looked at Shen Lang's face full of disgust, he broke free from Shen Lang's arm, and explained to him helplessly.
"If you want to ask me if there is a real dragon in this world, I really don't know, but it is true that the dragon spits water, it is in the Forbidden City, and it still exists today."
Xue Nan may not be able to stand Shen Lang's appearance, she stepped forward and drove Shen Lang aside, probably because Xue Nan left too deep an impression on Shen Lang when they met for the first time, resulting in Shen Lang still having the sequelae of that time, even if he may not be weaker than Xue Nan now, as long as he sees Xue Nan, he still can't help but be frightened.
With Xue Nan's movements, Shen Lang fled in panic, and everyone laughed when they saw it, Xue Nan didn't expect that he had such great power, and after being stunned for a moment, he began to play and urge.
"Yihe, don't sell it, what the hell is that Qianlong spitting water, I've never heard of rumors that there are real dragons in the Forbidden City."
Yi He couldn't help but ask questions when he saw Xue Nan, so he stopped pretending to be profound, and began to explain to us what the so-called Thousand Dragons spit water was.
"The so-called Thousand Dragons spitting water is not actually a real dragon, but a spectacle in the drainage system after a rainstorm in the Forbidden City."
Then, seeing that we were still puzzled, he began to tell about this so-called spectacle.
The Forbidden City, that is, the Forbidden City, is the royal palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties, located in the center of the central axis of the capital, is the essence of the ancient Chinese court architecture, it takes the three major halls as the center, there are more than 70 large and small palaces, more than 9,000 houses, it is one of the largest and most complete wooden structure ancient buildings in existence.
Because the ancient times paid attention to the unity of heaven and man, with the stars in the sky and the capital planning corresponding, the legend says that the Emperor of Heaven lives in the Ziwei Palace in the north, and the emperor of the world because he claims to be the Son of Heaven who is ordered by the sky, so his residence should symbolize the Ziwei Palace to correspond to the Emperor of Heaven, and because the palace belongs to the royal forbidden land in ancient times, ordinary people can not enter, so it is called the Forbidden City.
The land of Kyoto is bordered by the Bohai Sea in the east and the Yan Mountain in the north, and the terrain is high in the north and low in the south, so the water direction is also from east to south, and the ground of the Forbidden City also takes advantage of this topography, and the overall trend is also high in the north and low in the south, and there is still a slope. Go to Audiobook.com
At the beginning of the construction of the Forbidden City, the designers were worried that there would be a large amount of water after the rainstorm, and this water would inevitably affect the palace where the emperor lived, so they carried out a very accurate measurement of the drainage system, and finally through this precise design and fine construction, the perfect use of the slope left by this set aside to ensure the perfection of the drainage system here.
The spectacle of a thousand dragons spitting water in Yihe's mouth is one of the masterpieces of this drainage system, and it is located in the three most important halls of the Forbidden City.
The so-called three halls, that is, the Taihe Palace, the Zhonghe Hall and the Baohe Palace, these three halls are the main buildings of the Forbidden City, standing on the triple white marble dragon pier, this dragon pier is made of large pieces of white marble, majestic atmosphere, full of royal style.
Each layer of the pedestal of this dragon pier is carved with Sumeru seat, on the Sumeru seat is horizontally placed a large rectangular stone strip called the ground jacket, between the ground pillars stand a pillar of hope, and then a railing is installed between the pillars, a drainage hole is chiseled out under the railing, and there is a stone carving head under each pillar, that is, the so-called dragon head in the water spit.
There are a total of 1,142 stone carved crests on the whole dragon pier, and there are round holes between the two lips of the crest, which communicate with the hole under the pillar at the same time, and at the same time, when it is built, the table is deliberately designed to be slightly higher than the surrounding areas.
Because the design of the table is higher than the periphery in the middle, so whenever the rainstorm occurs, the rainwater gathered on the dragon pier will naturally flow to the surrounding area of the bottom of the terrain, so as to enter the head of the cockroach and then spray out from the head of the cockroach, due to the special angle of its design, the rainwater sprayed out by the head of the cockroach is a parabola, and when more than 1,000 cockroaches erupt at the same time, it forms the magnificent spectacle of the dragon spitting water in the mouth of Yi and the mouth.
It turns out that this is the so-called Qianlong Spitting Water.
After listening to Yi He's description, I began to imagine the ingenious and exquisite design in my mind, and I couldn't help but admire the wisdom and craftsmanship of the ancients, but while sighing at the wisdom of the ancients, I couldn't help but wonder, what is the relationship between this mechanism of spitting water and our current situation?
Xue Nan seemed to be thinking with me, and she was more anxious than me, so she couldn't help but open her mouth again to play and ask.
"Yihe, no matter how magnificent and exquisite this thousand dragons spit water, what does this have to do with the hiding place of the statue?"
"Sister Nan, these two places may not be unrelated."
It was not Yi He who spoke, but Shen Lang, who had always been ignored by us, and it was rare for him to listen carefully to Yi He's narration, with thoughtful eyebrows.
"Listen to what Yi He said, this thousand dragons spit water is a specially set up mechanism in the Forbidden City for drainage, only heavy rain or heavy rain will trigger it, and then the rain will be discharged from the faucet in a parabola, due to the particularity of this setting, so the arc trajectory of the rain sprayed by the thousand dragons is fixed."
"And this dragon spitting water is actually a stone carving of the head of the mantle, if I remember correctly, during the day, under the leadership of Yong'an, we traveled all over this Huanghua Temple, and there seemed to be a few mantle heads next to the palace of the king that day!"
After listening to what Yi He said with Shen Lang, I lowered my head and thought about what the two said.
There is actually a dragon head in this Huanghua Temple!?
I have always laughed at the so-called coincidence, since Yihe said that Qianlong spits water, and there happens to be the head of the dragon mentioned in this spectacle, it seems that someone must have done it deliberately.
The so-called benefit of the big river, the big river is the big river, but think about it from another angle, the rivers are all watery places, and the excess water can also be understood as the land of the big rivers, thinking of the prerequisites for rainfall inferred by Chunting, Yi He's conjecture about the water spit out of the dragon, and Shen Lang's unintentional discovery of the dragon's head head during the day, these clues seem to be able to be connected into a line.
Torrential rains, claw heads, dragons spitting water, parabolas, waterlogged places......
Thinking of this, my eyes lit up, perhaps what this hexagram implied was the waterlogged land formed by the rain spewing out of the head of the claw located next to the Heavenly King's Hall after the rainstorm!