What is a ancestral grave?
Ancestral graves are places where ancestors' remains are buried or stored. This place can be wild, residential, cemetery, columbarium and other places. The landscape environment around the place where bones are buried or stored (stored) and the environment composed of vegetation are the geomantic environment of ancestral graves. Thousands of years of geomantic practice have proved that the geomantic environment of ancestral graves is closely related to the fate of everyone in later generations. Although contemporary science cannot fundamentally explain its internal reasons, no one can deny the existence of the objective fact that the geomantic environment of ancestral graves is closely related to the fate of everyone in later generations. Here, I only hope to understand and explain this problem through some rational thinking.
Ancestral graves and geomantic omen
Guo Pu, a native of the Jin Dynasty, said in the Book of Burial that "the burials are angry, and after the words, the gas is dispersed by the wind, and the boundary water stops. The ancients gathered and stopped, so it was called Feng Shui. " Feng shui and the grave have always been linked. In the past, when people died, Mr. Feng Shui was asked to choose a tomb site. If they are buried in a treasure trove of geomantic omen, their descendants will flourish, their careers will flourish and they will always be admired. If it is buried in the cave of the real dragon emperor, it will be terrible, and the emperor will be born. The ancients were most afraid that their ancestral graves would be dug up, which was taboo. The ancients took great care of the ancestral graves, and the new graves had to be filial for three years. In today's view, this is the filial piety of ancient people to their elders. However, the ancients thought that this matter was related to family wealth and geomantic omen, so it should not be careless, and nothing on the grave could be moved. "Lock the Eyes under the White" (Volume 5) says: "Swiss brothers are born. Geng Yin, a heather tree on his ancestral grave, has been in existence for more than 100 years, and was seriously injured by the grave keeper by illegal logging. That year, both father and son were ill. " A century-old pomegranate tree that grew on the ancestral grave was cut down by the grave keeper, resulting in the tragedy of family destruction and death.