Many of us only know Luban, but we don't know the Book of Luban. And the "Book of Lu Ban" is a book that Lu Ban has written with his life's energy. Lu Ban's real name is GongLuban, and he is a legendary figure in China's Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period. Born in the country of Lu, he was intelligent and studious from an early age, and grew up to become a world-famous craftsman. Because ancient China was very particular about academic inheritance, it was a pity that Lu Ban's good skills were lost, and at that time he wrote down what he had seen and learned in this book, but it was repeatedly banned in later generations.
The ancient Chinese idea of heavy peasantry is at work
In the pre-Qin era, the reason why there was a hundred schools of thought and contention in the academic situation was because at that time the politics were scattered, the imperial court had no restrictions on speech, everyone thought what they liked, and did what they loved, and this loose academic environment greatly stimulated the development of all walks of life, and the carpenter industry where the public loss class was located was also the same.
He can rely on his own craftsmanship to eat, rely on his own wisdom to innovate, and make things that others can't do, such as the cloud ladder for siege and war is invented by Lu Ban, whose technology makes him very popular among various princely states, and everywhere he goes, he is enshrined as a guest.
The popular Luban attracted the worship of countless people, and at that time, many people gave up their livelihood to learn from Luban. But this is very unfavorable for the rulers, the ancient Chinese society for thousands of years was an agricultural society, the emperor nobles and officials are not productive, they all have to rely on taxes to eat, to put it bluntly, a large number of peasants at the bottom of China feed the upper nobility.
But because luban's grand duke was selfless, he published the technology, everyone went to learn from his carpenter work, there are easy ways to make money who is still willing to farm, and the reduction of the number of peasants will make the agricultural taxes paid by officials reduce, coupled with the various impacts will greatly shake the foundation of the ancient agricultural society, the whole country will be difficult to operate, so the attitude of successive rulers since Luban to the "Book of Luban" is vigorously suppressed, and even the people are divided into four classes, such as soldiers, farmers, industrialists, and merchants. The purpose is not to prevent the people at the bottom from giving up farming for a living.
The witches in the Book of Luban were feared by the emperors
The ancient people's understanding of science was not as clear as that of the current people, and the people of feudal society were very afraid of ghosts and gods. The "Book of Lu Ban" written by Lu Ban contains many such things, according to the "Book of Lu Ban" covers a very wide range of content, the whole book is divided into three volumes, the upper volume is recorded in some craftsman skills and life tricks, but the middle and lower two books recorded are very different.
Although few people have read the middle and lower volumes now, the legend about it has survived. At that time, Lu Ban often worked outside because of the nature of his work, but he was very homesick, and at that time, Lu Ban's wife was pregnant, so Lu Ban built a flying kite, and often rode it home to visit his wife. And his wife also remembered the spell, and quietly flew up to the sky to play in Luban's absence, but unfortunately she just happened to have signs of childbirth, but she did not know that the flying kites could not be stained with blood, so it caused the flying kites to fail and fall from the air.
The grieving Lu Ban wrote a blood letter and swore that if future generations learned this book, they would cut off their children and grandchildren. The above story is not necessarily true, but the witchcraft in the "Book of Lu ban" is widely known, you know, the ancient imperial family is the most taboo of witchcraft and these things, eager to eliminate these things, just like the Western Han Dynasty Emperor Wudi launched the plague of witchcraft, tens of thousands of people died, even their own princes died in that disaster, and the "Book of Luban" recorded a large number of these things, it is really the source of all evil, so it was forbidden by successive rulers.
The Feng Shui part of kanyu in the Book of Luban cannot be mastered by the people
The middle and lower volumes of the Book of Luban not only contain the art of witchcraft, but also contain the Taoist techniques and blessing methods of the pre-Qin era, as well as some strange things, in short, they are all-encompassing. But the most important thing for the emperor in the book to remove witchcraft is Kanyu, which generally exists among a very small number of people, who want to be invisible and do not serve the emperor specifically.
Just like the dragon vein that prevails in each dynasty and each generation, and the art of kanyu is used to observe the celestial signs and the trend of the mountains and rivers, so as to determine the direction of the dragon vein, and the strength and stability of the dragon vein determines the life span of the feudal dynasty, really false we don't know, at least the ancient emperors think so, they believe that the dragon vein affects the fate of the dynasty, so there can be no loss, and the "Book of Luban" has a large number of records of the art of kanyu, if these spread to the people and enemy countries, they are learned by people with hearts to destroy the dragon vein of the country. It was a great calamity, so the ancient emperors ordered to prohibit the circulation and study of the Book of Luban in order to avoid the occurrence of such a thing.
Of course, there is also the fear that a large number of military technologies in Luban's book will flow into the people and endanger their rule. Generally speaking, the fundamental reason why the Book of Luban was banned was that the rulers banned overdeveloped folk technology in order to maintain their rule.