Moreover, Su Jiu knew that there was another very important reason about the Forbidden City, a reason that was rumored in the Feng Shui community.
There are rumors in the Feng Shui community that since the Qing Dynasty entered the country, there was a massacre, which can be said to have gathered the resentment of the people all over the world for a lifetime. Originally, they were satisfied with being a minority and did not believe in Feng Shui dragon veins and the like.
However, the Manchu shamans were unable to deal with the symptoms caused by the sky-high resentment. Later, a Feng Shui master came up with suggestions to let the emperor of the Qing Dynasty follow the path of the emperor, absorb the emperor's luck, and eliminate the resentment of the people in the world.
Suppressed in this place where dragon veins gather in the capital city.
Rumor has it that the great Feng Shui master and the Manchu shaman who took action jointly set up a shocking formation in the Forbidden City, using dragon veins to suppress the resentment of the people in the world.
This led to the prosperous dynasty of the mid-Qing Dynasty.
And this is how the resentment of the people in the world has been suppressed under the place where the dragon veins gather under the Forbidden City.
Regarding this information, Su Jiu didn't know whether it was true or false. He had seen it in some of the Su family's classics.
This rumor is also widely spread in the Feng Shui community, and any Feng Shui master with a little bit of inheritance knows this rumor.
Regardless of whether it is true or false, basically, Feng Shui masters do not move to the Forbidden City or go to the Forbidden City. Most of the reasons are this.
Later, coupled with hundreds of years of wronged souls, in the era of New China, the Feng Shui world retreated, and this became even more so.
Su Jiu pulled Fang Yuwen and walked along the stone pavement of the Forbidden City.
The high walls on both sides are more than ten meters high.
This is the deep palace compound.
The two walked leisurely, and the passage of the Forbidden City echoed with their footsteps.
One after another, in this dark night, in the quiet Forbidden City, people feel a little panicked.
The dark clouds in the sky are moving slowly.
The moonlight falls down.
This strange and quiet Forbidden City is sprinkled with a silvery color, giving it a sad and beautiful look.
"ah!"
While walking, Fang Yuwen suddenly screamed. The scream pierced the desolate beauty of the Forbidden City.
"Xiao Jiujiu, then, then, then there is a ghost!" Fang Yuwen held Su Jiu's arm tightly with both hands, facing Su Jiu in horror, pointing forward, and said.
Su Jiu was also startled by Fang Yuwen's sudden scream and followed the direction Fang Yuwen pointed.
At the corner of the palace passage ahead, a group of palace maids lined up, holding lanterns, and walked slowly in front of the two of them.
The light of the lantern seems a little dim, especially under the silvery white moonlight, which makes people's scalp feel a little numb at first glance, and seems to be mixed with a sense of gloom.
This group of palace maids walked not too slowly, and quickly disappeared from the sight of Su Jiu and Fang Yuwen.
"Don't be afraid! It's okay, I'm here, Xiaoyu!" Su Jiu also saw this scene. However, Su Jiu did not make any move. She just hugged Fang Yuwen, who was holding her arm tightly, and spoke to comfort her.
Such a scene had long been expected by Su Jiu. At this time, it was late at night and the moonlight appeared. It could be said that the sinister atmosphere in the Forbidden City began to become stronger.
During the day, the Yin evil spirit and the evil spirit of the Forbidden City are suppressed to death because of the tourists from all over China, who carry the Yang energy with them.
However, it is impossible at night, so it is normal for strange phenomena and dirty things to appear in the Forbidden City.
After being comforted for a long time, Fang Yuwen finally settled down.
Although Fang Yuwen comes from a Feng Shui family, she is not a Feng Shui master. Likewise, she is still a girl.
Therefore, it is normal to be afraid of these things.
"Okay! Xiaoyu, let's go! We can go out at the front." Su Jiu said comfortingly.
Remembering the layout of the Forbidden City is basically a homework that every Feng Shui master must do before becoming a Feng Shui master.
Because the layout of the Forbidden City itself is a huge Feng Shui bureau.
Every Feng Shui bureau and every Feng Shui aura blessed by emperors of the past dynasties has been accumulated over hundreds of years. With the help of the Qi of the Emperor and the Qi of the Dragon Veins, the great Feng Shui bureau itself is a typical teaching book.
Feng shui knowledge textbook.
Therefore, Su Jiu naturally knew the layout of the Forbidden City.
With Fang Yuwen, he quickened his pace and walked along the passage of the Forbidden City several times before arriving at a tall wall.
This tall wall was the outermost wall of the Forbidden City. Su Jiu knew clearly that the base of this wall was nine and a half meters high, and together with the eaves of the wall, it was more than ten meters high.
Regarding the height of this fence, it actually strictly follows the Feng Shui pattern.
The base of the wall is nine and a half meters, which means the height of the ninety-five meters. The original height of the wall was this high, and the eaves of the wall were added later.
Why was it added? There is an allusion to it.
Rumor has it that Zhu Di planned to set the total number of rooms in the palace at 10,000, but on the fifth night after he passed the imperial edict, he suddenly had a dream, in which he dreamed that the Jade Emperor summoned him to the Lingxiao Hall of the Heavenly Palace.
The Jade Emperor's face was full of anger, and Emperor Yongle didn't know what was going on.
Later, when I asked, I found out that it was because the 10,000 palaces in the Forbidden City that he wanted to build exceeded the 10,000 in his Heavenly Palace. So he said: "Jade Emperor, please calm down. I have offended many of you. I am an ordinary mortal."
How can the number of palaces in this world exceed that of your palace in heaven!"
When the Jade Emperor heard what he said, he had a smile on his face and said: "That's right. I will give you a 'Sky Stone' to control the palace and courtyard. You can also invite seventy-two earth evil spirits and a hundred beasts to protect you."
This is the imperial city in this world, so that the weather can be smooth and the country and the people can be safe! Can you remember that?"
Zhu Di quickly thanked him. When he raised his head and looked at the Jade Emperor again, there was no trace of him. It turned out to be a dream.
After Emperor Yongle woke up, he quickly sent an order to summon Liu Bowen into the palace and told him what he had dreamed about from beginning to end.
Liu Bowen was stunned when he heard this: "The Jade Emperor is someone you can't offend, so you should obey him! His heavenly palace has ten thousand rooms, so let's build it with nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine and a half rooms."
Not only does he lose the face of the Jade Emperor, but he also loses the grandeur of the royal family and the dignity of the emperor!"
In less than four years, the Forbidden City was completed, and Liu Bowen asked Emperor Yongle to inspect it in person.
I walked around the palace for a long time and felt very happy.
The Forbidden City is built in a magnificent manner, with carved beams and painted buildings. It is magnificent, the Meridian Gate is tall and majestic, and the Fengtian Hall (renamed the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Qing Dynasty) is spacious and majestic. Compared with the Jade Emperor's Lingxiao Hall, it is really not much different.
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Suddenly Zhu Di remembered the "heavenly stone" given by the Jade Emperor to suppress the palace and the seventy-two evil spirits and one hundred beasts he wanted to invite. He asked Liu Bowen where they were placed.
"Long live, don't be too busy. I'll take you through them one by one." Liu Bowen said and took him to the imperial road behind the Huagai Hall. Pointing to a huge rectangular stone carving, he said, "This is the piece of stone given by the Jade Emperor to control the palace."
The 'Sky Stone' in the courtyard is called the 'Yunlong Step Stone', with nine giant dragons leaping among the flowing clouds. It is the largest stone sculpture in the palace, weighing tens of thousands of kilograms!"
"Okay! Okay!" Emperor Yongle then asked, "Where are the seventy-two evil spirits?"
"You can't see it now. I sent them to the seventy-two ditches below the palace to prevent the little devils underground from causing trouble and ruining the feng shui of the palace!"
“Well done!”
"Look again at the glazed ornaments on the ridge of the palace. They are dragons, phoenixes, lions, celestial horses, roosters, bullfights, xiezhi, and suanni. Some fly in the sky, run on the ground, and swim in the water. There are some.
There are those who pray for rain and those who ward off evil spirits.”
"Needless to say, this is the beast you invited? Everything Liu Aiqing does is in compliance with the Jade Emperor's wishes. I will reward you generously!"
Zhu Di finally asked: "Are there nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine and a half rooms in this palace?"
"Exactly!"
"Where is the half room?"
"In a side room on the west side of the back court."
"Okay! Okay! Let me see if the Jade Emperor has anything else to say."
When Liu Bowen said nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine and a half, his heart trembled. In fact, the number of halls in this palace was not really nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine and a half.
It turned out that when he went to various places to purchase wood and stone, he saw that the lives of the people were becoming more and more miserable, but the emperor was building a large-scale construction project. How much money would it cost?
So I deliberately changed the designed drawings, so that hundreds of fewer rooms were built, and more than 8,000 rooms were actually built.
He thought, the Forbidden City is so big. Who can count how many palaces there are? I will tell you how many there are.
So he reported nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine and a half to Zhu Di. Emperor Yongle believed him and rewarded him with a lot of gold and silver.
From then on, the saying "there are 9,999 and a half houses in the Forbidden City" spread. The actual number is not exact, it is just a legend.
At present, the total number of rooms in the Forbidden City, including palaces, halls, buildings, studios, pavilions, and pavilions, is 8,707. So where is the legendary half room?
When you visit the Forbidden City and look south from the Arrow Pavilion outside Jingyun Gate, you will see a two-story green glazed tile building surrounded by the courtyard wall. That is the Wenyuan Pavilion where the Sikuquanshu was stored in the Qing Dynasty.
Just to the west of the attic, there is a unique thing. It is different from ordinary pavilions. The distance between the two pillars is not more than ten feet. Instead, the distance between the two green pillars is only about five feet, which is half of the Forbidden City.
The room is right here.
The rumored story did not end here. One day, the emperor had a whim and sent someone to count the rooms in the palace. As a result, something happened after this count.
Yes, the results of the counting were not as many as Liu Bowen said at the beginning. After the emperor heard about it, he sent people to count three times in a row.
Not that much.
At this time, the emperor was angry.
Everyone knows that deceiving the emperor is a crime of deceiving the emperor and will lead to the death of the nine tribes.
However, as the national advisor at that time, Liu Bowen's status was not comparable to that of ordinary ministers and officials.
The emperor also knew that he could not do anything to the imperial master.
After calming down in my heart, I thought about it and went to find out exactly what the Imperial Master was thinking.
Before meeting the Imperial Preceptor, the emperor's personal eunuch naturally told the Imperial Preceptor about the emperor's anger.
When Liu Bowen met the emperor, he had already made a decision in his mind.
After some narration, it was found that they did not build that much back then, but these materials were built on top of the wall to maintain the dignity of the Nine-Five-Year Plan.
Seeing that the emperor heard his explanation, he still seemed to care that he had deceived him in the first place.
Liu Bowen's heart moved and he suggested another way.
If you are not satisfied with ten, the walls of the Jade Emperor in heaven are only ninety-five. We can increase the height of the wall to break the number of ten. In this way, we will be stronger than the Jade Emperor in heaven.
When the emperor heard what Liu Bowen said, he immediately agreed.
The feng shui bureau in the palace has been established, and the layout cannot be easily changed to build a house.
What's more, there are so many houses, so this is the only way to do it.
Since then, the walls of the Forbidden City have changed from nine to five to ten.
Su Cong and Fang Yuwen stood under the wall and looked up at the wall, which was more than ten meters high.
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ps: There is an allusion, so let’s just write a big chapter!