There is a very wonderful opponent scene in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms": Ome Boiling Wine on Heroes. Cao Cao asked Liu Bei, do you know the change of the dragon? Liu Bei pretended to be stupid and said that he did not know, Cao Cao touched his beard and smiled: "The dragon can be powerful and small, and it can rise and hide; the big is the clouds and spit fog, and the small is hidden; the rise is soaring between the universes, and the hidden is lurking in the waves... Dragons are things, heroes of the world! ”
This paragraph does not seem unusual, but it actually reflects that the worship of dragons in traditional Chinese culture has reached a level of "dragons everywhere". Cao Cao and Liu Bei just looked at the floating clouds that moved upstream that day, similar to the dragon, from the dragon to the hero, and in ancient times, there was another thing that would be involved with the dragon at any time, that is, the undulating mountains and rivers, from the satellite cloud map, is it really like that, as if the dragon is diving?
In the view of feng shui experts, the direction of the mountains and rivers is a series of "veins", those beautiful mountains and rivers that are undulating, are related to each other, and the twists and turns are like dragons. Kunlun Mountain is known as the "ancestor of ten thousand mountains" by Taoism, the total length of the mountain range is about 2500 kilometers, thousands of years ago was regarded by our ancestors as the "source of the dragon vein" of China, the next thing is very natural, Kunlun Mountain in the legend has become the residence of the gods.
In fact, the dragon vein or something, in the eyes of modern people may be too mysterious, if this thing can determine the rise and fall of the world as in the legend, what is the use of that person's efforts. We don't believe it, the ancients believed it, Zhu Yuanzhang's think tank Liu Bowen, full of belly wisdom and strategy, has the ability to "unify the country and mountains", he has an interesting story about "cutting the dragon vein".
Liu Bowen is actually named Liu Ji, the word Bowen, born in 1311 AD, although he was full of belly to learn, but in his early years, he was born at the wrong time, encountered the dark end of the Yuan, so dragged and dragged, Liu Bowen is 48 years old, he finally waited for Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang's own cultural level is not very high, but he is very willing to learn, but also willing to give real talents a chance, Liu Bowen observed for a long time, think that this person can achieve something big, so he offered him a "first destroy Chen Youyi, then destroy Zhang Shicheng" policy.
In 1368 AD, Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed emperor, and Liu Bowen finally waited for this moment for eight years, and he couldn't help but be very excited. However, Liu Bowen was too clever in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, and he knew everything about astronomical geography, saying that on the eve of the emperor, he also said that the Yingqi Star had appeared, that there might be disasters, that he wanted to commit crimes against himself, to deal with unjust cases, and to put an end to indiscriminate killing. Zhu Yuanzhang began to wonder if Liu Bowen could really predict the past and the future?
During Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, Liu Bowen had been deliberately suppressed by him, but it was rumored that one night Zhu Yuanzhang had a dream, dreaming that a golden dragon in the distant mountains soared up and rushed straight to the Golden Ruan Hall, crushing the temple to pieces. Zhu Yuanzhang woke up and felt that the content of the dream was really ominous, and asked Liu Bowen to explain what the signs were. What did Bowen Liu say? He said that this golden dragon poking hall meant that evil was brewing, and it was necessary to cut off the dragon vein of the world in order to prevent the Daming River and Mountain from being taken away by foreign names.
Ancient feudal superstitions are more prevalent, in the eyes of the emperor, the source of the ancestors' meritorious deeds is the "land of dragon rejuvenation", the soil is the dragon meat stone for the dragon bone, once the dragon vein is occupied, there is a possibility of rejuvenating the country. Zhu Yuanzhang did not allow anything to affect Daming's foundation, so he ordered Liu Bowen to go all over the world, to dig the ridge and vent the dragon's qi, but when Liu Bowen walked to Changbai Mountain, he no longer dug the mountain but turned around and left.
First, it is said that Liu Bowen arrived there and the sky was blizzard, and he took this as a warning from heaven and gave up digging up the dragon vein; second, Liu Bowen found that it was impossible to go against the sky with manpower, and if he insisted, he would definitely attract the condemnation of heaven, or go with nature and save his life. The Jurchen clan that later replaced the Ming Dynasty was indeed prosperous in the northeast, and in 1616 Nurhaci established the Golden Kingdom and became the King of Khan, and the Changbai Mountains were the Jurchen strongholds.
After Emperor Taiji established the Qing Dynasty, Changbai Mountain was regarded as the "Land of Longxing" in the Qing Dynasty, and the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty even once forbade Han people to enter and leave the northeast, and also built a "wicker edge" to isolate it. In fact, the ancient emperors would feel that the mountains were related to the rise and fall of the dynasty, not necessarily their own belief, but more for the purpose of deifying the rule, so that the new dynasty replaced the old dynasty became reasonable: You see, the heavens and mountains and rivers all said that we were doomed to replace the previous dynasty!
Therefore, many things that sound as mysterious as "dragon vein" are actually just in the service of human desires.