Chapter 163: Rumors in the Countryside
China's feng shui metaphysics is said to come from the river map, Luo Shu, Fu Xi according to the river map of the gossip, used to calculate the calendar, predict good luck and evil, Dayu from the Luo Shu to improve the gossip, the system zuò out of the congenital, acquired gossip, descendants will be sorted into the "Hong Fan Chapter" that has been handed down to this day.
Feng Shui metaphysics is actually separate.
Metaphysics is a theory, a kind of thought, mainly the study and interpretation of "Laozi", "Zhuangzi" and "Zhou Yi", etc., flourished in the Wei and Jin dynasties, is the main philosophical trend of the Wei and Jin dynasties, is a philosophical and cultural trend of thought that emerged from the fusion of Taoism and Confucianism.
Feng Shui is the specific application of metaphysics, which is originally the art of Xiangdi, that is, the method of on-the-spot inspection of geography, called geophysiognomy, or Kanyushu, which is used to select methods and principles such as palace and village site selection and cemetery construction, and later developed to find funeral terrain. Feng Shui began to be associated with folk magic in the Qin and Han dynasties, and the five techniques of life, divination, and phase are all related, and basically constitute the hexagram derived from the Book of Changes, which is divided into the yang house phase method of watching the door well stove and the phase method of looking at the yin house. The term feng shui was seen as early as Guo Pu in the Jin Dynasty: "Qi is dispersed when it rides the wind, and the boundary water stops." The ancients gathered to make it not disperse, and the line made it stop, so it was called feng shui. ”
Feng Shui metaphysics emphasizes the harmony of yin and yang and the harmony of the five elements. Heaven and earth have two qi of yin and yang, gold, wood, water, fire, earth five elements, gold round wood straight water curved fire tip earth, look at the pattern to know yin and yang, look at the terrain to divide the five elements.
Wu Di has a deep attainment in Feng Shui metaphysics, and originally knew a lot of terrain at a glance, but this continuous mountains and rivers with dragons entering the sea and dragons coiling made him hesitate for a while. From a rough look on the other side of the Yuan River, this mountain and river seems to be a treasure of feng shui, but when you dig deeper, you find that the dragon's qi is completely locked, showing a great omen.
It's just that in the metaphysics of feng shui, there is a saying that yin and yang are combined, good luck and evil depend on each other, and blessing and evil coexist, and Wu Di can't draw conclusions for a while without in-depth field investigation.
Seeing Wu Di's brows frowning slightly, Jiao Daren asked: "Ah Ye, you will say that the feng shui here is excellent, and then you will say that it is a great omen." What does that mean exactly? ”
Wu Di pondered for a moment and did not speak.
Ling Feng thought for a moment and asked, "Ah Ye, do you mean that?" This mountain was originally a place of excellent feng shui, but for some reason, it has become a place of great evil? ”
Wu Di shook his head and remained silent, obviously thinking about some difficult question.
Night. Ling Feng and his party spent the night at a fellow villager's house on the mountainside.
The night in the countryside is very different from that in the city, when it comes to night, it is basically pitch black, and the dim lights are scattered in every house in the village, and there is basically no light between the houses. It's the first month of the year, and many young people who have gone out to work have gone home for the New Year, and the village is a little more popular, but if it is any other time, there are only the old people and children left behind in the village.
After dinner, Ling Feng and the others sat on the open floor outside the house and chatted with the villagers.
"Fellows. Do we have any fun here? Jiao Daren stood up and smoked cigarettes to the villagers gathered on the empty floor in turn.
"Yo, King Hibiscus, it's a smoke."
"Well, that's good."
The fellows took the cigarettes and lit them separately, and after a few puffs, they chatted casually.
Hongjiang was an important town in Xiangxi before the liberation, but after the liberation, the development lagged behind due to various reasons, and now there is only one ancient shopping mall that is slightly famous. This small mountain village has underdeveloped transportation, and the people in the village rarely see outsiders, so many villagers gather in the empty flat after dinner to watch the excitement.
"We are here, except for the mountains and the mountains. What a good place to play. An elderly man said as he took a puff of his cigarette.
"yes, yes."
Many villagers echoed in unison.
"Don't you have a general's tomb here?" Ling Feng asked, Yao Chen snuggled up to him tightly, and looked at the people chatting in the empty area with interest.
Some young people also mixed in with the crowd. Most of them were secretly looking at Yao Chen. Yao Chen's beauty is rare even in many big cities, and her cute demeanor from time to time kills a lot of eyeballs. It's just that she only has the person sitting next to her in her eyes.
"Hehe, General's Tomb? I don't know when it was handed down. Anyway, we've only heard about it, and no one in the village seems to have seen it. An elderly man said.
"Didn't you hear that bandits had been to us before?" A young man said unconvinced. He hoped that his words could attract Yao Chen's attention, but he was destined to be disappointed.
"Oh?"
Jiao Daren and Ling Feng's eyes lit up, and they glanced at each other covertly.
"Bandits? Are you saying that in the late Qing Dynasty, people from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom came here? Ling Feng asked.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Rebellion swept through most of China, shaking the rotten Qing dynasty from its roots. Originally, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was very promising to be completely pushed to the Qing Dynasty, but the struggle for power and profit at the top, especially after the "Tianjing Incident", the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom finally declined.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement also flourished in Hunan, and it is not surprising that he has been to Hongjiang, but what makes Ling Feng strange is that it seems that there is no record of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the local chronicles of Huaihe, or even in the local chronicles of Hongjiang.
"Niu Wazi, what do you know, talking nonsense here." An old man scolded the young man who had interjected earlier.
"I've just heard it, I heard it from Ah Qiang Ye when I was a child." The cow baby stalked his neck and defended.
"Listen to it, believe it." Ling Feng stood up with a smile and sent out a circle of cigarettes, and asked, "Uncle Li, has the long-haired of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom ever been to the village?" ”
Uncle Li, the old man who scolded Niu Wa before, took the cigarette and said, "No one in the village has ever seen a hairy ghost. ”
Ling Feng asked again: "What is the situation with Ah Qiang?" ”
Uncle Li sighed and said, "Ah Qiang is the oldest old man in our village, and his father is said to have led the way for Changmao, and then he is gone. ”
Ling Feng said strangely: "Uncle Li, didn't you say that no one in the village has ever seen a bandit?" ”
"yes, no one in the village has ever seen long hair." Uncle Li took a puff of his cigarette and said, "Ah Qiang's father was the best fisherman in the village, but he suddenly disappeared one night, and Ah Qiang should have been a doll at that time." Later, when Ah Qiang Ye grew up, he told the people in the village that a lot of long hair came that night, escorted many big boxes, and forced Ah Qiang's father to take them into the mountain, and no one has seen Ah Qiang's father since then. ”
Wu Di suddenly interjected: "Since there were many people who came that night and escorted a large number of goods, how could no one else in the village have seen it?" ”
Uncle Li said: "So we don't believe it, but Ah Qiangye's father is indeed missing." ”
Wu Di asked again: "Was there anyone else missing in the village that night?" ”
Uncle Li shook his head and said, "No." ”
Wu Di frowned and fell silent. (To be continued.) )