Why did Zhu Yuanzhang bury his ancestors in the water?

Heaven doesn't care about the nobility of the emperor's ancestors. Huge floods are still rolling in, making the holy land that the woodcutter and the shepherd boy are afraid of instantly become Zeguo. Those loyal civil servants and military commanders also fell down in succession in this flood, sleeping soundly in the mud and gradually disappearing into obscurity. Ming Zuling has become a distant legend. There is a "big tomb head" in Hongze Lake, which is a story occasionally mentioned by people in that area.

Zuling underground palace entrance

Mulberry field turned into the sea, and the sea turned into mulberry field. Since the Ming Zuling was discovered, the surrounding area has been full of legends. 1963, Hongze Lake suffered a severe drought, and the water level dropped to the lowest point in history. Some large stone statues appeared from the water. These stone statues lie staggered in the mud. They are carved into images of unicorn, lion, saddle horse and officials, military commanders and eunuchs. After expert research, it was confirmed as the Ming Zuling.

Ming Zuling is located on the west bank of Hongze Lake in Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province. It is the cenotaph of Zhu Yuanzhang's great-grandfather and the actual burial place of his grandfather. To tell the truth, the location of Ming Zuling is not ideal. It is not on the edge of mountains and big mounds, but in the hills and hilly land called "nine hills and eighteen depressions" At that time, Master Liu Ji and others knew that the location of Ming Zuling was not perfect for thousands of years. According to the definition of ancient geomantic theory, the terrain of geomantic treasure-house depends on three wonders and four responses.

The three must be mountains, waters and cases; Front, back, left and right are four responses; There are sand guards around, and the so-called "sand" is the earth and stone in the mountain; There must be Los Angeles, which is composed of mountains or water and surrounds it. There is a mountain facing the mountain in the distance, and there is a mountain nearby. Taking the mountain as Los Angeles, it is best to form four situations: left green dragon, right white tiger, former suzaku and later Xuanwu. If there are no mountains around, but there is Ma Pingchuan, we can make use of the water potential to make Zeguo the most important and become a dragon (water dragon). There is not much beauty around the Ming Zuling except a water town.

Zhu Yuanzhang was able to establish the Ming Dynasty, and he also fought with the Mongols, Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang. And it is "winning the country in one fell swoop." However, Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral grave was buried in a treasure trove of geomantic omen. It used to be thought that when the Li Zicheng Rebels attacked Fengyang, they destroyed Zhu's ancestral grave and ruined its geomantic omen, which was called "breaking".

Since the geomantic omen here is not good, why didn't Zhu Yuanzhang find another auspicious soil to bury his ancestors? Actually, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to, but this is the actual burial place of his grandfather. If you want to move the grave, it will inevitably vent your anger and affect Daming Jiangshan. So we can only build Zuling here. In order to solve the problem of bad geomantic omen, a large-scale geographical transformation was carried out when the mausoleum was built, and the depression was buried and the repair was insufficient. Digging rivers and piling up mountains, artificially creating the necessary landscape of feng shui elements such as sand, water, recent cases and halls has formed a standard treasure house of feng shui.

It has become a treasure trove of feng shui. Why was Ming Zuling buried at the bottom of the lake for more than 300 years? Is it the congenital deficiency of Feng Shui that failed to protect the Ming Zuling from the destruction of heaven and earth? Was it an accidental natural disaster, or was it man-made that inevitably caused the flood? Some people think that the flood in the Ming Zuling is actually only three points of natural disasters and seven points of man-made disasters. What the hell is going on here?

Explain that in the seventh year of Hongzhi (A.D. 1494), Liu Daxia built the Taihang levee to block the north branch of the Yellow River and make the south branch seize the Huai River and enter the sea. After that, the river began to be disordered, the middle and lower reaches of the Huaihe River flooded year after year, and the ancestral graves suffered floods. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Pan Jixun, the prime minister and minister of river industry, put forward a new strategy of "storing Huaihe River and brushing Yellow River" for water control. He advocated storing water in dikes and opposed dredging tributaries to open new rivers. Instead, it is necessary to "build dikes to control water, attack sand with water" and "attack sand with water and control water with water". He believes that "the water is slow, the sand stops when the water is slow, and the river is full when the sand stops." Water of all sizes ranges from the sand surface to its height. Hydration is very fierce. When it is fierce, it is necessary to brush it with sand, and the sand is brushed deep into the river. If you ask for water, you must come from the bottom of the river and be humble. Damming water and attacking sand with water. If the water on both sides does not overflow, brush it directly at the bottom of the river. Certain principles are an inevitable trend. The reason why this combination is more and more divided. " What a good theory, saving money and effort, saving worry, with the flavor of conquering the enemy without fighting, can move people's hearts, and finally win the support of Ming Shenzong.

It's a pity that people are not as good as nature. No matter how you collect the power of the Huaihe River, it also lost to the Yellow River. The surging Yellow River was turned back with the help of the Huaihe River. What can you call going into the ocean and never coming back? Soon, a large amount of sediment was deposited at the Qinghe estuary, and the riverbed of the Huaihe River near here was also enlarged due to the backward flow of the Yellow River, which weakened the impact of Huai water. When encountering resistance, it retreated, and the sand stopped with the waves, and the sediment carried by Huai water stopped depositing at the Qinghe estuary. Huaishui can't brush the Yellow River, nor can it enter the sea from the mouth of the Qing River. When it entered the old lake, it built a high weir, so Huai water had to overflow. "It didn't take long for it to flood, and Wang Hui was still over the embankment and merged into the lake. Then it goes up in summer and autumn, endlessly. The mighty dragon sand shocked the mausoleum, and the disaster in Zhangzhou was one year old. " .

Pan Jixun's water control policy has been "tested" in practice and should be re-tested. At this time, it is not too late to change course. Unfortunately, at this time, the general plan of water control is no longer water control, but has become a tool for court disputes and a weapon to safeguard its power and authority. To this end, he not only got rid of the obstruction of opposition, but even fabricated a lie, saying that Zuling "pines and cypresses, protecting sand as before." Even after twenty years of Wanli, he still insisted on his own opinion and listed the discussion of diversion as a disease, which added pain to Chen. At this time, it is an indisputable fact that the flood in Huaisi area is still imminent.

I really don't know whether Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors were spiritual or not. Why did he look at such ministers as Pan Jixun with almost disdain? After the ancestors were buried underground, they were silently swallowed up, which doomed the Ming Zuling to sink underwater for more than 300 years, and also doomed future generations to lament its ups and downs like mourning the Six Kingdoms and Epang Palace.

It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang did not want to bury his ancestors in the water, but was limited by the terrain and some weather factors, which made the mausoleum an underwater castle. Faced with this problem, Zhu Yuanzhang came up with many countermeasures, but in the end, the Ming Dynasty was submerged in history.