Chapter 15: Site Selection

The train to Shaanxi Province didn't leave until 9:10 o'clock, and we waited until 9 o'clock to get on the train after buying the train tickets, and we lived separately from Uncle Ming. Five people living in a carriage must not be able to live in, the carriage has four beds at most, so Uncle Ming chose the carriage for two people, and I chose the three.

Soon after getting on the train, the train departed, and it took at least half a day to travel from Beijing to Shaanxi. During this period, I also went to Uncle Ming's carriage to discuss some plans with him. The fat man and Luo Bald were bored in the carriage and wanted to go out for a walk, but there were too many people outside. When the fat man saw that I was back, he asked me to tell him about Qianling, and I was bored, so I told him some things that my grandfather told me back then. I said to them, "Then I will tell you about the location of the Qianling Tomb, after Tang Gaozong died of illness in Luoyang, Chen Ziang and other people set up a mausoleum in Luoyang, but Wu Zetian decided to choose an auspicious place in the Weibei Plateau in Guanzhong in order to comply with Gaozong's last wish of "returning Chang'an, and there is no hatred in death". Soon, the imperial court selected two world-famous scholars across the country, one was Yuan Tiangang, a Sichuan astrologer, and the other was Li Chunfeng, the Taishi Ling who was in charge of yin and yang and astronomical calendars in the palace.

After Yuan Tiangang received the order, he searched both sides of the Yellow River, but he didn't find a piece of his favorite. Later, when I came to Guanzhong, I came out in the middle of the night to watch the celestial phenomena, and saw a mountain with purple air rushing to the sky, which happened to intersect with Beidou. Yuan Tiangang thought it was a treasure land, so he hurriedly ran up the mountain to find the right direction, but he couldn't find anything to mark for a while, so he took out a copper coin and put it on the ground and covered it with floating soil, and then went down the mountain to return to the dynasty to restore his life.

Another feng shui master, Li Chunfeng, received the order and traveled eastward along Weishui to find the treasure land. One day at noon, when the sun was shining, he saw a strange stone mountain suddenly appearing on the land of Qinchuan: from the south to the north, it seems that a young woman is sleeping naked under the blue sky and white clouds. What made him even more amazing was that the young woman's legs were slightly apart, and there was a clear spring flowing endlessly all day long! Li Chunfeng was greatly surprised, so he hurried up the mountain, took the meridian with his figure, put gossip with gravel, pulled out the needle and plunged into the soil at the intersection of the two fishes, and then went down the mountain to return to the court.

Wu Zetian heard the two of them say that they would choose auspicious land in the same direction and send someone to review it again. After the minister came to Liangshan, he found this place and picked up the floating soil, and he was so shocked that he didn't stand up for a long time, it turned out that Li Chunfeng's hair needle was pierced in the eye of Yuan Tiangang's copper coin!

Since it is a treasure land of feng shui, what are you waiting for, Wu Zetian ordered to start construction immediately, and soon repaired the Qianling Tomb and buried Tang Gaozong, and later Wu Zetian followed her husband to be buried in the Qianling. The topography and landform of Qianling completely conform to the perfect combination of yin and yang, heaven and earth. Dry is the sky for the yang, Kun is the earth for the yin, and the yin and yang are combined, and all things are born. In the "Book of Burial", it is said: "The mourner is also angry." Tibetan wind gathers qi, water is the top, so the burial person is the green dragon on the left, the white tiger on the right, the red bird in the front, and the Xuanwu in the back. When I said this, the fat man muttered to himself, "Such a good feng shui treasure must have a lot of precious treasures buried in it." "The biggest shortcoming of the fat man is greed for money, if it wasn't for me in Chu Jing's tomb last time, the fat man would have returned to his place long ago.

I said to the fat man, "What if there are so many treasures in it, can you take them all away? Don't forget that they are Captain Jin, not to mention that the mechanism there must be very sinister." As soon as I said this, the fat man was quiet, and then Luo Bald said, "I have heard of Zhou Ye, and some ancients pointed out that Liangshan Feng Shui is good, but it is good for yin and not good for yang. Wu Zetian chose this place as the mausoleum to bury himself and Tang Gaozong, for the prosperity of the descendants of the Wu family. And the following points were made:

First, the dragon vein of Qianling and Taizong's Zhaoling is cut off, if ordinary people are buried here, they can prosper for three generations, but if the emperor is buried here, I am afraid that after three generations, the country will be in danger. It is true that the Tang Dynasty has changed from prosperity to decline since Tang Xuanzong, and Wu Zetian has only been in power for three generations at this time.

Second, the head of the dragon vein of the Tang Dynasty was in Jiujun Mountain, and Taizong was buried here, living in the head of the dragon and making the Tang dynasty prosperous, but Liangshan was the tail of the dragon vein of the Zhou Dynasty, and the tail gas would decline.

Third, the north peak of Liangshan is the highest, and the two peaks in front are like **. The whole mountain shape looks like a young woman lying flat from a distance, and the breast peak is towering. This is a typical place of good yin, yin qi is pervasive, not conducive to yang, and the main peak of Liangshan is straight and beautiful, belongs to Muge, the two peaks in the south are smooth, belong to Jinge, although the three peaks are upright, but look very flat from a distance, belong to the soil phase, Jin Kemu, native gold. Building a mausoleum under the main peak will inevitably cause the yin energy to overwhelm the yang energy. The reason why Wu Zetian usurped power and ruled the world is related to her choice of the mausoleum here.