Deciphering "Yin House" Feng Shui: Why do China people build high graves to worship ghosts? []

These three concepts are the deep soil for China's folk "haunted houses". With the division of "Yin House" and "Yang House", the theory of "divining tomb" appeared a little later than "divining tomb", which was the earliest practice of geomantic omen in Yin House. "Zhou Li" said: "Wang was buried in July, and the tomb was buried first." "Filial piety?" Mourning "said:" Predict the ominous sign of his family and feel at ease. "Among them, the house omen refers to the cemetery. Zhou Li recorded in detail all kinds of official positions in charge of this burial method. For example, Xiao Zongbo, in addition to being in charge of the memorial of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the temple, also wants to "predict the burial omen", and so does Fu. It's just, at first, I wore it. It means to bury a sign, you must dig the ground first and seal it in the middle, no matter how good or bad it is. Just then, the sign began to wear. In addition, there is an official position called Toast: "Toast in charge of the cemetery, distinguishing its trillion areas and drawing. The first king was buried in the middle, and Zhao Mu was around. The princes lived around before, while the great scholars lived behind, each with his own family. Anyone who dies in the army is not allowed to enter the trillion-dollar area ... please ask Fu Fu to drive the body away. It is also long, and its degree is the mound tunnel ... the tomb site, and the tomb area is forbidden. Anyone who sacrifices to the grave is a corpse. All princes and ministers buried in graves are forbidden to mark them. "In today's words, the explanation is: the undertaker takes care of the burial place of the king, determines the boundary of the grave omen, and draws the terrain and the position of the hills and ridges for preservation. The tomb of the former king is in the center, divided by Zhao Mu, and if the descendants of the king are princes of Guinea, their tombs are placed in front of the king's tomb.

If the descendants of the king are scholars, their graves are placed at the left and right rear of the king's tomb, and the location of the graves is arranged according to the family system. No one who died in the war is allowed to be buried in this grave. Those who made outstanding contributions were buried in front of the tomb. The height of the grave ridge and the trees planted are measured according to the title. After the big funeral, the date was set, that is, the burial slaughter was measured and the Shangdi was dug as a cave. When the cemetery was buried, it was a corpse. When the cemetery is dug, graves and tunnels are built according to the specified height and length, and coffin utensils are provided. According to experts' speculation, the "existing day" here should be the day of leave, not the day of burial. "Harmony" is the time when the cemetery officially began to be excavated. Besides Xiao Zongbo and Tsuzuka, there is also a grave doctor who is also responsible for all kinds of funerals. It can be seen that the importance attached to the funeral at that time mentioned the height of etiquette.

As mentioned at the beginning of this section, all nationalities in the world have had a view of the soul after death. Why only China has such a strong concept of "Yin Zhai"? It can be traced back to the unique ancestor worship and etiquette of China people. It can be said that the latter is the catalyst for the prevalence of yin houses. In fact, for all China people, ancestor worship is an essential part of their lives. Respect for ancestors is not only manifested in filial piety to living parents, but more importantly, filial piety to dead ancestors. Therefore, although Confucius himself holds the atheistic view of "I don't know life, I don't know death", Confucian thoughts such as "ceremony", "filial piety" and "benevolence" objectively laid by Confucius have contributed to the development of "Yin House". In particular, Confucius' reply to my "three-year mourning" has a great and far-reaching impact. More interestingly, it is said that the tomb platform also originated from Confucius, such as The Book of Rites? "On Duke Tan" records that Confucius said in his defense that he buried his parents together: "I have heard about it in ancient times, but the tomb is not a grave, and this hill is also. People can't be enlightened when they die in the southeast and northwest. So I sealed it and worshipped it for four feet. " After Confucius, Xunzi further developed "ceremony" as the truth of paying attention to raising life and death. The so-called "owners will live and die together." (1) He also said: "undertaker decorated the dead with life, and elephants gave birth to them to send them to death." Wells advocate thick coffins and heavy burials, so tall graves will increase. Serialization of related books