1. Guo Pu and the Burial Book Guo Pu (AD 276 -324) was born in the Jin Dynasty, with a pure word and a good reputation in Hedong. According to historical records, there was a gentleman named Guo in Hedong who was good at divination. Guo Pu learned from him, and this gentleman taught him nine volumes of Green Bag Book. Qingnangshu is an ancient book about Feng Shui. Guo Pu read the book "Green Bag" and was proficient in astronomy, five elements, divination, etc., with a high level, which even Jing Fang, a famous Yi-ology scholar in Han Dynasty, and Guan Ju, a mathematician in the Three Kingdoms period, could not surpass. Later, a master named Zhao Zai in Guo Pu stole his Qingnangshu and burned it before he could read it. According to legend, Guo Pu once sent an envoy to Xiangtu to build Wenzhou City. According to the records of Zhejiang Tongzhi and Wenzhou Fuzhi, Guo Pu summarized the construction of Wenzhou City, saying that "the first city is located in Jiangbei, and Guo Pu called it by borrowing soil, which is light and crossing the river". After weighing, it is considered that Jiangnan Ji began to build a city. Today's geological exploration confirms that the geological situation in Wenzhou city is indeed better than that in Jiangbei. From these records, Guo Pu should be proficient in Feng Shui. The Book of Burial was written by Guo Pu before, but whether it was really written by Guo Pu has been controversial. The formation of this book may be in the Song Dynasty, but this book is based on the works of the previous generation, and the "scripture" quoted in it has an earlier generation, which may be related to Guo Pu. After the book of burial was written, it was highly valued by some famous scholars and mathematicians. Later, some alchemists added some contents to the book, with a maximum of 20 articles. In this way, the content of the Book of Burial becomes impure and complicated. Cai is a famous Yi-ology scholar, proficient in ancient mathematics, and a student of Zhu. He felt that these twenty "burial books" were a bit miscellaneous, and they had been sorted out, and twelve books were deleted and eight books were left. Wu Cheng, a famous Yi-ology scholar in Yuan Dynasty, further sorted out the book and divided it into internal chapters, external chapters and miscellaneous chapters. Liu, a disciple of Wu Cheng, made comments. Later, mathematicians highly praised the theory of Funeral Book and renamed it Funeral Classics. As we all know, the most important and core part of a learning or school in ancient times can be called "Jing". For example, the most important document of Confucianism is the Five Classics, and the first one is the Book of Changes. The most important documents of Taoism are called Tao Te Ching, South China Ching and so on. These documents, called "Jing", should meet the following conditions: they have solved the theoretical premise or the most basic problem of this school or this subject, and constructed the theoretical system of this school. Then, since The Book of Funeral can be called the "classic" of Feng Shui, let's see whether it meets such conditions, or whether the Book of Funeral solves the theoretical premise or basic problems of Feng Shui and constructs the theoretical system of Feng Shui. First of all, let's take a look at the premise or basic problems of Feng Shui. 2. Three Premises of Feng Shui (Basic Problems) Yu Xixian, a professor in Peking University, believes that Feng Shui has three preconditions or basic problems: First, a certain place is more conducive to building houses or graves than other places. Or: Why is one place luckier than others? Why are some places auspicious and some places evil? Second, once this place is acquired and occupied, people living in this place or descendants of ancestors buried in this place will be affected by this place. Or: Why do descendants of ancestors buried in Jidi or people in Jidi get good luck? How can I get good luck? Third: auspicious places can only be obtained by investigating this place according to the principle of geomantic omen. Or: What is the principle of Feng Shui? Third, the answer to the first question in "Burial Book" Why is one place more auspicious than other places? Why are some places auspicious and some places evil? The answer in "Burial Book" is simple and to the point, in a word: use anger. See the original text: scene: the yin and the husband, alas (mourning, three sounds, meaning whistling) for the wind, rising to the clouds, falling to the rain, walking on the ground and angry. ..... Five elements on the ground, hair all things. Note: Yin and Yang are the vitality in the earth. Therefore, it is the wind that rises to the clouds and falls into the rain. How can people who raise everything in the world be so evil? Five qi is the qi of five elements, which is another name for anger. The husband divides yin and yang and analyzes the five elements. Although it was transported from the sky, it was actually transported from the ground. Everything is man-made, everything is man-made, and mountains and rivers converge. This passage means that there are two kinds of qi in underground operation, one is angry and the other is murderous (or dead). Harmony of yin and yang, the five elements of qi, running underground, for anger. The angry ancients also became
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