Liu Bowen, whose real name was Liu Ji, was a politician, military strategist, and writer in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. He is also the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty, and has made countless meritorious contributions to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty by Zhu Yuanzhang. It is rumored that Zhu Yuanzhang admired Liu Bowen and never called him by his name, but respectfully called him "Old Mr." In official records, Liu Bowen was a secret assistant of Zhu Yuanzhang, who learned five cars, was proficient in strategy, was good at the art of war, and made important contributions to the founding of the Ming Dynasty. In folklore, Liu Bowen is a mysterious figure who is familiar with astronomical calendars, five hundred years before and five hundred years later. It can be seen that in the folk, the common people have regarded him as a god and man.
However, what Xiaobian wants to introduce today is another skill of Liu Bowen, that is, the art of slaying dragons. Among them, "dragon" refers to the dragon vein, because in ancient times, feng shui was extremely valued, so wherever there is a dragon vein, it will be regarded as a feng shui treasure where emperors can appear. The birth of the new emperor symbolizes the demise of the old emperor and is the last thing the emperor of the dynasty wants to hear. And for Zhu Yuanzhang, he eagerly hoped that the Ming Dynasty could survive for thousands of generations, so Zhu Yuanzhang has always attached great importance to the matter of cutting the dragon vein.
Once Zhu Yuanzhang had a nightmare at night, in which the northeast direction was red. Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked and confused, so he asked Liu Bowen to interpret his dreams. Liu Bowen calculated that 200 years later, there would be enemies in the northeast to take away Daming's Jiangshan. The stakes were high, so Liu Bowen did not dare to tell Zhu Yuanzhang the truth, otherwise Zhu Yuanzhang would have killed all the people in the northeast, innocent or not.
Although the truth can be hidden, things still have to be done. So Liu Bowen asked for orders to travel all over the country to find the location of the dragon vein. One day, Liu Bowen came to Lanzhou City, and when he looked around, he suddenly found that the Yellow River was rushing away, and the two mountains in the north and south were facing each other across the river. The water vapor in the Yellow River gradually merged with the fog of the north and south mountains. Liu Bowen was suddenly shocked, aren't the two mountains in the north and south exactly two dragons?
The dragon head in the south is in Gaolan Mountain, and the dragon head in the north is in Kyushu Tai, and the two dragons intersect and will produce the true dragon Tianzi. Therefore, Liu Bowen swung his sword towards the Gaolan Mountain, and the connected mountains were cut out of the gap. After that, people called Liu Bowen's dragon slaying the place of da huo da, the tail of Gaolan Mountain was called Longwei Mountain, and the place where the dragon's blood flowed was called Hongshan Root.
After that, in order to preserve the splendid rivers and mountains of Daming for more than three hundred years, Liu Bowen repeatedly cut off the dragon vein for Zhu Yuanzhang. According to legend, as many as ninety-nine of the hundred dragon veins were cut off by him. But then again, breaking the dragon vein is not a good job, and it will be punished by heaven. As a result, Liu Bowen's descendants seemed to be cursed, and a son was persecuted and fell into a well due to the conflict between the government and the government. Another son, because the Yan king Zhu Di usurped the throne, vowed not to enter the dynasty, and bluntly said that the King of Yan would write the annals of history forever with the usurpation of the throne. He was later arrested and imprisoned, where he committed suicide.
What Liu Bowen and Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect was that they worked so hard to cut the dragon vein, and as a result, 200 years later, the Great Qing still rose and the Ming Dynasty still perished. Maybe it's because the dragon vein in the east hasn't been removed! However, in the eyes of later generations, the so-called "dragon vein" is actually an ancient superstitious word. The real reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty was the corrupt rule of the ming dynasty's descendants, not the mountains.