In the past, Mr. Feng Shui stabbed a grave, first looking for dragons and sand, then stabbing a hole with a hairpin, and finally setting the direction of the twenty-four mountains with a compass, which really pointed.
After the hole is pierced, Mr. Feng Shui will tell his family when to break the ground and move the grave, and then take the money and leave. Mr. Feng Shui won't wait until the grave is actually moved. )
So how do you write down these instructions from Mr. Feng Shui?
Then it is necessary to establish "back soil".
As a result, a cemetery first appeared "Houtu". Generally speaking, family cemeteries are chosen on their own cultivated land. After the country implements the household contract responsibility system, cemeteries are generally chosen in their own "private plots", which are generally long and have "back soil" standing on them. Let me mark it with a picture:
Although this picture is inferior, it can't be found online. )
Each row represents the same generation of brothers and three rows represent three generations. As can be seen from the picture, Houtu is at the top, usually standing at the upper right of the cemetery, and the direction of Houtu monument is the direction of all coffins after burial.
For example, some family cemeteries are larger and more people are buried. Future generations may not remember the direction of the ancestral grave, so they can't dig it up, can they? So "Houtu" can play a role.
Therefore, the "back soil" should be built before the grave is tied, and the "back soil" has the function of orientation identification.
In ancient times, unmarried people were not allowed to enter the ancestral graves, because if this person was not married, there would be no descendants, so he was free below, which reduced the status of his brothers (brothers, cousins). This kind of behavior of "occupying the toilet without defecating" will of course be banned, so he said that "bachelors enter the ancestral grave, and their children and grandchildren are poor."
There is another situation, because the land is generally long, there are more and more people, and the acupuncture points in the cemetery are not enough, so it is necessary to move the grave, re-select the acupuncture points and set up the back soil.
Second, the "Houtu" god is in charge of the nether world of the earth.
I have read a lot of China's books about gods, and I can almost conclude that "Hou Di" is a goddess, not a male god, and it appeared very early, and it is a remnant microcosm of matriarchal society. "Hou Di" is in charge of the nether world and the destination after death, which is quite similar to the land gods in other civilizations, such as Gaia, the mother of the earth in ancient Greece.
Some people equate the "Houtu" god with the land god, which is wrong, because the position of the "Houtu" god in the system of gods in China is far higher than that of the land god.
When the ancients swore or swore, they often said: "The sky is above and the earth is below", which shows the high status of the earth.
Therefore, the establishment of "Houtu" is nothing more than the hope that ancestors can get peace under the protection of "Houtu" God.
Third, "thick coating is used to distinguish between men and women" is sheer nonsense.
Some people think that it is sheer nonsense to use "Houtu" to distinguish between men and women. In the funeral etiquette of ancient Han nationality, unmarried women were not allowed to enter the ancestral graves, and married women were buried with their husbands. So how to distinguish between men and women?
Fourth, "supplementary backing" is even more nonsense.
Mr. Feng Shui's duty is to find dragons to find holes. If you can't find the dragon, what is Mr. Feng Shui? This land is not good in geomantic omen, so change it. Is it necessary to use the town object as the backing? Nonsense.