Sino-Japanese geomantic warfare

Historically, China people have long recognized the important influence of the environment on human beings. It was not until the pre-Qin period that Feng Shui came out as a theory. During the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the theory of geomantic omen was gradually improved, and famous geomantic omen such as Guan Ju and Guo Pu appeared. The Book of Burial written by Guo Pu was regarded as a classic of Feng Shui theory by later generations, and Guo Pu himself was regarded as the founder of Feng Shui by later generations.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the theory of geomantic omen developed further, forming two schools-Jiangxi Situation School and Fujian Rationalism School. Yang Junsong, the founder of Situational School, wrote The Book of Doubting Dragons and The Preface of Clearing Capsule, which laid a solid foundation for the further development of Feng Shui theory. The Ming and Qing Dynasties were the heyday of geomantic omen, and various geomantic omen works appeared like mushrooms after rain, even to the extent of flooding.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, floods, droughts, locusts and other large-scale famines triggered large-scale peasant uprisings in various places, especially in Li Zicheng. /kloc-in the first month of 0/644, Li Zicheng ascended the throne in Xi 'an and proclaimed himself emperor. On April 25th of the same year, Dashun Army captured Beijing, ending the 267-year national movement of the Ming Dynasty.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635), Li Zicheng put forward the general plan of "dividing troops and attacking the war on all sides", and led his troops, Zhang and others to capture Fengyang in Nanzhi. In order to break the Long Mai of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng dug up the ancestral graves of the royal family of the Ming Dynasty, burned down the "Imperial Temple" that Zhu Yuanzhang lost in that year, destroyed the Ming Zuling in chaos and destroyed Long Mai of the Ming Dynasty on a large scale. Since then, the Ming Dynasty has become more devastated and crumbling.

Emperor Chongzhen was furious when he learned this, and asked people to dig Li Zicheng's ancestral grave. 1642, Shaanxi Governor Wang Qiaonian received a tip-off from Emperor Chongzhen, and he immediately ordered Bian Dashou, magistrate of Mizhi County in Yan 'an area, and others to go into the mountains to find the graves of Li Zicheng's grandfather and father. Digging graves for the 18th generation ancestors of Li Zicheng, not only did a ditch with a width of 20m and a depth of 5m be dug between the big and small ridges above the original site, but people were also ordered to "gather bones and burn us" and "cut down all the trees around 1300". It is hoped that this method will break its "dragon spirit" and vent its "king spirit", so that "thieves will commit crimes themselves" and the building will be on the verge of collapse.

However, this move of Emperor Chongzhen did not work. In the same year, the invading army captured cities in Henan and launched an invincible attack on Tongguan, aiming at Xi 'an. Two years later, Dashun Army captured Beijing and Chongzhen hanged himself. However, Li Zicheng didn't sit in the hot dragon chair. More than 40 days later, he was defeated by Ning Guan fighters and the Qing army under Wu Sangui, and finally died.

Aside from the war, policy and other factors, some people speculate that this is because Li Zicheng and Chongzhen dug into each other's Long Mai, hurt each other, and defeated the other Long Mai, resulting in both losses and embarrassment.