Xiling Maze Chapter 16 The Mysterious Entrance (Part II)
Compass positioning, although I studied it for a while when I was in college, but the real sense of mastery, in fact, I was already able to master it when I was a child. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
I don't know if my dad knows it, but the reason why I studied archaeology was not the result of his coercion and temptation, and the real enlightenment teacher should be my grandfather.
He used to be known as "Mr. Geographic", who specialized in supporting his family by showing graves to the dead. It was because of this craft that his children did not die from the severe natural disasters in those years.
Speaking of which, my dad still didn't get his true biography, but I realized the true meaning of finding the dragon and fixing the hole.
Later, because I studied archaeology, I began to reject these feudal superstitious activities, so I thought that I could deliberately forget them, but just like your heart never follows your ideas, it is impossible for me to deliberately forget those things that have been memorized in my blood.
The Jinyutang compass he gave me has become my favorite "toy" since I was a child.
"To use the Feng Shui compass, you must establish the concept of the eight directions. The traditional concept of the eight directions: facing the south, the left hand is east, the right hand is west, and the back is north, which is the direction of the "four positives". The southeast between the east and the south, the southwest between the south and the west, the northwest between the west and the north, and the northeast between the north and the east are the directions of the "four dimensions". The four squares and the four squares are collectively called the "eight directions". ā
I began to fiddle with the compass, and after the Tai Chi, the next step was to set up the eight directions.
The compass is based on the central point of the Taiji, making two lines perpendicular to each other, dividing a plane into four parts, and then dividing each part into two parts, so as to obtain eight parts of equal size.
Each one represents a direction, and the eight directions are east, southeast, south, southwest, west, northwest, and north.
The compass further divides each direction into three equally sized directions, forming twenty-four directions, which are called "twenty-four mountains" in feng shui.
The compass is divided into two parts: the "inner disk" and the "outer disk". The inner disc is circular, also called a disc, and the disc can be rotated to symbolize the circle of the sky. The outer plate is square and also called the square plate, and the square plate is fixed to symbolize the place.
The center of the inner plate is the "Heavenly Pond", which is a circular symbol of Taiji. The bottom color of Tianchi is generally white, and there is a red line at the bottom, which is used to determine the north-south direction, and there are two red dots on the left and right of one end, representing the "sub" direction of due north, and the other end representing the "noon" direction of due south.
Next, the "meridian" should be adjusted.
The bearer stands in the Tai Chi position of the counter and lays the compass flat in his hand or on the ground. When measuring the bearing, you must turn the inner disc until you turn to the Tianchi, and the point of the red line and the direction of the compass coincide exactly. At this time, one end of the compass with a circle points to the "sub" position due north of the earth, and the opposite end points to the "noon" position due south of the earth. For example, if one end of the line is pressed on the word "A", the other end must be pressed on the symmetrical word "Geng", which means "sitting east to west".
The compass in my hand roughly determined that this ancient Shu tomb is sitting in the north and facing the south, but it is not sitting in the north and facing the south of the mountain, it is biased to the southwest, so I can't figure out what is going on.
In previous archaeological excavations, tombs with a similar bias have indeed been discovered.
For example, during the archaeological excavation of the famous Stone City site in Xinjiang, some burial styles are basically upright limbs with different head orientations, and the archaeological explanation is that their heads are facing the place where they came.
According to the analysis of relics such as the unearthed "Kaiyuan Tongbao" and the box-type wooden coffin, the age of the cemetery is the Tang Dynasty, and it is speculated that as early as the Tang Dynasty, there has been such a large tomb in the direction of the mountain.
I can grasp the other directions with the compass, but the position of this entrance is that the compass has never been able to set the direction, as if it has been disturbed by something.
The old man saw that I was embarrassed, suddenly appeared in front of me, looked at me and said, "I don't want to talk about this matter, I don't know if it is to help you or hurt you." Since you want to go in so much, and we have nowhere to go anyway, then I will tell you everything I know about adult beauty. ā
"The name Yin and Yang Realm is what outsiders say about this place, but they don't know what it really means to be isolated from the world, that is, to cut off all contact with the outside world. If you want to find the entrance to the ancient Shu Kingdom and the tomb of the Shu king, you have to rely on the stone statues on it. Every day at about ten o'clock in the morning, when the sunlight passes through the dense fog and the projection of the mountain to form a certain angle, the tomb entrance of the Xishu royal city and the royal tomb will naturally appear. ā
He looked at the blind bear, "That's why I told you to see your own creation." It's cloudy, it's raining, just like today's sun is the best time to open the entrance. For the rest, I'm sure his compass has told him. ā
The blind bear asked, "What fucking time is it?" ā
I looked at my watch and said, "It's almost ten o'clock!" ā
We were glad that we were about to find the entrance to the royal tomb when we found that the snow on it began to collapse continuously.
Anzi was the most alert, and he said, "It's not good, they must have come down, we have to find the entrance quickly." Otherwise, when Lin Zhengyi and his gang find us, it will be more than lucky. ā
They all looked at me, and in an instant I was overwhelmed by the pressure. But there is no way, if I drop the chain now, I am not the only one who will die, they will all die here.
I followed the method that my grandfather taught me when I was a child, and added the trick that the old man had just said, combined with the phantom of daylight, and sure enough, I found a dark grid in the abdomen of the stone statue on the top.
I motioned for them to lift me up, and the blind bear had the greatest strength, and the most stocky, so naturally he became the object of my foot.
However, there were ten thousand reluctances in his heart, although he was willing to bend down in order to enter the ancient tomb, but he still muttered in his mouth, "You kid hurry up, don't step on Lao Tzu's body, if you want to pay compensation, at least eight figures, do you know how to work?" ā
I didn't speak, I just wanted to quickly climb up and open the mechanism, after all, if the people above came down, we would definitely have no way back.
When I got up, when I cleared the snow that covered the statue, I was stunned by what was revealed.
I can't tell what this carved thing is. If it's a dragon, it doesn't have horns on its forehead. If it's a snake, but it has many feet and legs. And the whole body is covered with folds, more like an enlarged caterpillar.
The old man spoke, "It is the ancestor, that is, what we southerners now call the silkworm god. ā
"After the Yellow Emperor defeated Chiyou, the silkworm god came to offer her spit silk to the Yellow Emperor to celebrate the victory of the war. When the Yellow Emperor saw this beautiful and rare thing, he was full of praise! Seeing that the Yellow Emperor cared so much about the people of the world, the silkworm god was deeply moved, and she did not hesitate to pull the horse's skin and turn into a silkworm, spitting out yellow and white silk from her mouth. At this time, the Yellow Emperor was also very moved, and immediately sent someone to give the silkworm to Yuan's wife. The ancestor is the most noble queen of all women, both virtuous and kind, after she heard about this, she personally put the silkworm on the mulberry tree, every day carefully tended and raised. Later, the son of the Yellow Emperor named after him, which is the ancestor of the Shu Kingdom I just said, silkworm cong. ā