During the Song Dynasty, there was a writer named Liu Jingshu, who wrote a book called "Alien Garden", which contained such a record:
It is said that in Linqiong, Sichuan, there is a fire well. In our common sense, the well is of course a well, fifteen buckets of seven up and eight wells, how can there be a fire well? However, it is not difficult to imagine that the so-called fire well is a well that will catch fire.
This fire well is closely linked to the fate of the Han Dynasty. It is said that when the Han Dynasty was prosperous, the fire in the well was very strong, and when the pig was put in, it would be a roast pig with a fragrant head; but when it came to the Han Huan Emperor and the Han Ling Emperor, the national power declined, and the fire in the well gradually became smaller.
The ancients believed that the five elements were mutually reinforcing. Dynasties change, occupying one of the gold, wood, water, fire and earth. The Qin Dynasty was still black, because the ancestors had killed a black dragon. And the Qin Dynasty is water virtue, so the Han Dynasty that succeeded the Qin Dynasty, according to the theory, the Han Dynasty should be Tude, Tuke Shui, but Liu Bang thinks that he is the Black Emperor, Black, Northern Xuanwu, for water, so the Han Dynasty has become Water Virtue, the same as the Qin Dynasty, this Liu Bang is really strange, he is not beheading the White Emperor, he is the Red Emperor, the red is the color of fire! Of course, liu Bang's thought is that the world is this world, Lao Tzu is just taking over the class of the Ying family, there is no one to overcome anyone, just like when he saw Qin Shi Huang, he said, "The big husband should be like this", and when he ascended to the throne, this word came true!
When it came to Emperor Wudi of Han, the throne was stable, after the rule of Wenjing, the country became rich and rich, Emperor Wudi of Han advocated yellow colors, and the Han Dynasty also became Tude, loess, loess, this time it is really Tuke water. When Wang Mang came to wang mang, he sealed Han as Huode, which was used by Liu Xiu, and the Han Dynasty became Huode again. It sounds like the gold, wood, water, fire, and earth arranged by heaven, and everyone takes turns to be the dealer, in fact, it is just an excuse for the emperor, so this virtue of the Han Dynasty will be water, one will be earth, and one will be fire.
Therefore, it is also a matter of the Eastern Han Dynasty to say that the fire well foreshadows the fate of the Liu family in the Han Dynasty. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and the fire in the fire well was almost extinguished. At this time, a divine man came out, that is, Zhuge Liang of Liu Beisan Gu Maolu.
Zhuge Liang glanced into this fire well, it was really strange, and the fire was booming again. No wonder that in the three divisions of the world, Zhuge Liang assisted Liu Bei's father and son for a period of time. But by the time Jing Yao was in the first year, the fire in the well was already very weak. A few years later, Shu Han was annexed by the State of Wei.
In fact, the so-called fire wells of the ancients are natural gas wells.
Now that every household uses gas, how can this thing indicate the rise and fall of the Han Dynasty? But the ancients thought so, just like fortune telling, taking a few wooden sticks to calculate the fate of people, saying that all things are related to each other.
Linqiao is the first place in the world where natural gas was discovered.
According to records, in ancient times, this place was originally a desert beach, and some people found that there was salt water leaching out of the ground, so they dug a well on the spot to boil salt. The deeper the well, the more salt is produced, the people who dig up the salt must have been cheap, so everyone rushed to dig up the salt, and now we are doing the same, what is the fire, everyone is rushing to the bee, this is a good tradition inherited, how powerful are the people. As a result, a total of six wells were dug successively, arranged in a hexagonal shape, collectively known as "hexagonal wells".
One night, the night was very deep, lightning and thunder, it is estimated that everyone is difficult to sleep, suddenly, a thunderbolt fell down, the deepest well suddenly hula burst out of the flames, soaring several feet, those who could not sleep at night, all saw, this is a rare thing, everyone feared this fire, called it "divine fire", so the first fire well appeared.
In the eyes of the ancients, the fire well was mysterious, so it is not surprising to link the fire well with the fate of the Han Dynasty.