Chinese culture has a long history, broad and profound, after thousands of years of precipitation, the foundation is even deeper, becoming a valuable spiritual wealth for the sons and daughters of China.
Feng Shui is one of the unique national cultures of our country, which has a history of thousands of years, and many people nowadays attach great importance to feng shui, especially in the choice of cemeteries.
The ancients thought more superstitious, thinking that the feng shui of the cemetery affects the fortunes of future generations, with the development of the times, people now advocate science, but there are still many people who believe in it.
In the eyes of countless people, feng shui is a feudal superstitious doctrine, which is completely illusory. But from a certain point of view, feng shui is not exactly a wind and shadow, but closely related to life. Because Feng Shui contains a lot of architectural science and geological science, it has a certain practicality.
All in all, since feng shui can be passed down for thousands of years, there must be a reason for its existence. There are many famous feng shui masters in history, such as Yuan Tiangang, Liu Bowen, etc., and there is a more famous one, who is also known as the founder of feng shui by posterity, he is Guo Pu.
Guo Pu was born in the Western Jin Dynasty, witnessed the war in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and in order to give him a good living environment, his parents deliberately moved from Shanxi to Jiangyin, Jiangsu.
Guo Pu developed a strong interest in feng shui since he was a child, and when he grew up, he met the guidance of famous teachers, and based on his own research on feng shui, he also wrote the famous "Book of Burial", which discussed feng shui and its importance, and became the ancestor of Chinese feng shui culture.
As we all know, Chinese pay more attention to the affairs behind them, and they are very important to the tombs of their parents and relatives. In ancient times, many high-powered people would build mausoleums for themselves before they died, and some of the tombs were jaw-droppingly luxurious.
As long as the economy allows, ordinary people will also find a feng shui treasure for their parents to bury, and Guo Pu will naturally be no exception.
At the beginning, Guo Pu, with his talent, won the attention of the emperor and was incorporated into the court as an official. When he learned that his mother was seriously ill, he resigned his post and went home to take care of her.
But soon after his mother died, Guo Pu traveled all over Jiangyin to help her find a feng shui treasure land. Looking around, I finally looked for the bank of a small river.
Normally, the riverside should not be buried, because it is easy to seep water, and the soil is relatively soft, and it is likely to leak after a long time, and if it is serious, it will be washed away by the water.
Guo Pu's decision was immediately opposed by relatives and friends, but Guo Pu was stubborn and refused to correct it, so everyone scolded him for being an unfilial son.
But what people did not expect was that a few years later, a miracle occurred, the river was diverted, and the area around Guo Pu's mother's grave was turned into a fertile field, becoming a famous feng shui treasure within a hundred miles.
It is also recorded in the relevant historical sources:
"Pu took the mother's worries and left his post, buried in Jiyang, and went to the water for a hundred steps." Man speaks of near water, and pu says, "Immediately for the land." After that, the sand rose, and the tomb was full of mulberry fields for dozens of miles. ”
Of course, this does not mean that Guo Pu can pinch and calculate, and can predict the future. He was so confident mainly because of his knowledge of geography and hydrology.
Later, Liu Bowen of the Ming Dynasty also followed Guo Pu's example and buried his mother by the river, but unfortunately he was not proficient in geographical hydrology, resulting in his mother's grave being flooded a few years later.
Because of this matter, Guo Pu's reputation was so famous that many people rushed to let Guo Pu help them see feng shui, and the folk even spread legends about him, saying that he expected things to be like gods and had great powers.
In the second year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the general Wang Dun prepared to rebel. Because Of Guo Pu's fame, Wang Dun asked him to join the army as his own secretary. Before the start of the army, Wang Dun asked Guo Pu to divinate whether the operation would be successful. Who knew that Guo Pu actually told him that the army would be defeated, but unexpectedly angered Wang Dun, and as a result, he was killed at the age of 49. It is really regrettable that the originator of a generation of feng shui has ended up in such a fate.
However, guo pu's choice of a cemetery for his mother has only been recorded in some wild histories and folklore, so the specific situation remains to be examined.
After Guo Pu's death, his descendants said that his coffin left Jingzhou and disappeared into the long river of history, and no one knows where he was buried.
Many years later, the Jin Ming Emperor built a crown tomb of Guo Pu on the shore of Xuanwu Lake in Nanjing, and named it "Guo Gongdun", which has been preserved to this day.