At that time, master Liu Ji 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 not many beautiful things around the Ming Zuling except a water town.
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, which was not enough to repair. Digging rivers and piling up mountains, artificially creating landscapes necessary for geomantic elements such as mountains, water, recent cases and mingtang, has made the so-called treasure house of geomantic omen.
In the seventh year of Hongzhi in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1494), the middle and lower reaches of Huaihe River were flooded year after year, and the ancestral graves were constantly flooded. Some people advocate "harnessing water with water", that is, using the water stored in the Huaihe River to keep back the water from the Yellow River. 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, the riverbed of the Huaihe River near the Ming Zuling was also heightened by the yellow water flowing backwards, so the Huaihe River could not brush the yellow water, and the old road of the lake was built with a high weir, so the Huaihe River had to overflow, resulting in the Huaihe River flooding the Ming Zuling in the summer and autumn rainy season every year.
According to common sense, since Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors were honored as emperors and queens, they should build their burial places and mausoleum buildings according to the system. However, according to historical records, Zhu Yuanzhang only added titles in the early years of Hongwu, and did not build ancestral graves. What are the historical reasons behind this? It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang was poor when he was young, and his place of residence moved again and again, so that he didn't know the exact burial place of his three generations of ancestors. Therefore, he had a great effort to find the burial place of Zuling.
In the seventeenth year of Hongwu (1384), an accidental opportunity finally enabled Zhu Yuanzhang to find the true location of the ancestral grave. Zhu Gui, Zhu Yuanzhang's cousin, and his grandfather moved from Zhu Jiaxiang to Sunjiagang in the north of Sizhou. Through a visit to his hometown, Zhu Yuanzhang finally learned that his grandparents were buried in Yangjiadun, north of Sizhou.
Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors were very poor and drifted away from home for generations. It's really a place with no tiles on the top and no foothold on the bottom. His grandfather Zhu Chuyi, in his sixties, lives in Guzhou and feeds pigs to a rich man named Shui in Shuanggou Town. This water man claims to be half a lake, and Hongze Lake in Shuanggou is all his family's land for several miles to the east. Zhu Chu's family set up a shack and lived in Sunjiagang by the lake, raising pigs and clearing land for the rich man to make a living.
There is a pier behind Sunjiagang Village called Yangjiadun. There is a hole in the dock. One late autumn, Zhu Chuyi, who kept pigs here, hid in the depression on the dock to take shelter from the wind. He was surprised to learn that the mountain is surrounded by water, followed by majestic green hills and in front of the vast Hongze Lake. In fact, it is a part of Long Mai. Whoever is buried here after death is the emperor of later generations. The old man wanted to keep this place for himself, so he kept this secret from now on, even to his family, until he died, and he told his son to bury himself here.
Open the door to the history of China, and you will find that in the history of China, legends of emperors playing politics abound, such as Chen Sheng's midnight divination, Liu Bang's sword to cut the white snake, Liu Bei's escape, Zhao Kuangyin's auspicious longevity and so on. Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Zuling is just a continuation of the brilliant means of the above-mentioned historical politicians.
But there is one thing worth pondering. The geographical location of Yangjiadun is obviously not a treasure trove of geomantic omen. Why did it become the legendary land of Long Mai? And why did Zhu Yuanzhang create such a legend?
This is still related to the origin of Zhu Yuanzhang. His throne was knocked down from the bottom by himself and his brothers. He has no prominent family background and bloodline capital worth showing off. In history, emperors who started the imperial industry in past dynasties were almost stronger than Zhu monk who herded cattle and cleared temples. Qin Shiwang Ying Zheng, Wendi Sui Wendi, Taizong Li Shimin and Yuan Shizu Kublai Khan were not emperors or aristocratic families. Even Liu Bang, the curator of Emperor Gaozu, is at least the first in the local area. Although Liu Bei, the master of Shu, makes a living by selling straw sandals, he always pretends to be a descendant of the royal family. One of Cao Cao and Sun Quan is an official, and the other is a military family. For Zhu Yuanzhang, it felt like a beggar who was spurned. Suddenly, he made a fortune and began to wear fine clothes, but he always felt that others' eyes were strange. In desperation, in order to create a heaven and earth for his emperor, prove that he was endowed by God, and flaunt that his lineage is the same as that of Heaven, and to defeat the psychological advantage of the old aristocratic family at that time and change the disadvantage of political consciousness, the grass-roots emperor Zhu Yuanzhang finally had to invite his ancestors out for some deification and publicity. Therefore, although there is not much excitement in Zuling, Zhu Yuanzhang can't move Zuling to other places.