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Chapter 351 The big compass on the top of the mountain

After a while, the iron plate was brought up.

It is about the size of a palm and fifteen or six centimeters in diameter. It has a center, scales, layers, and symbols. It is also written in Pasiba script.

Yes, it’s also a compass.

But it is still rusty, and I don’t know if there is a pan pool in the middle, if there is a pointer in the pool, and what direction it points to.

Including the handwriting above, it is also a bit blurry, and it is impossible to infer the specific content.

"Xiao Shu, compass!"

Shu Jinghao quickly opened the bag and took out the copper compass sent by Zuo Peng.

Li Ding'an directly clicked the two pieces together: they were exactly the same size.

Compare it separately: most of the engraved lines have no errors. They are also nine layers, and the disk is also divided into twelve equal parts.

There is only one thing: one piece is copper and the other is iron.

The only difference lies in different perceptions, to be more specific: Each school uses the "Shaking Dragon Sutra" and "The Suspicious Dragon Sutra" as the outline, and summarizes their own techniques of observing mountains and water, divining acupuncture points to divide gold, observing stars to locate and remove evil spirits. The formula for closing the mountain, and the complex and cumbersome algorithm for measuring good or bad luck.

Develop your imagination again: these two compasses and these copper coins all belonged to the same person before. Either it belongs to a lamasery, or it belongs to Tabu Nang, the ancestor of the herdsmen who sold the copper compass.

Whether there is any specific difference can only be known after removing the rust and translating the symbol information.

It can't be built on top of the Lama Temple, right?

After thinking about it, Li Ding'an handed the iron compass to Shu Jinghao: "Xiao Shu took it to the hotel to clean it first, and then contacted Teacher Gao and asked him to help translate it... Note that it is cleaning, not repairing, but try not to damage it. !”

As for its relationship with several other things?

"Shaking the Dragon Sutra": Hook clips are sand snails and caves, water indicates that the bright hall gathers a lot of Qi, the houses surrounding it are like a city wall, and the water surrounds the mountain to gather a nest.

I just don’t know where the two sections of the Taoist eight-treasure tiles came from.

To put it simply: there are many dragon lairs here, and as long as you find the right place to bury them, your descendants will surely produce princes.

As it happened, the compass seller's ancestor was Tabunang (referring to those who married the descendants of Genghis Khan, all nobles), and the ancestral money and compass were both ancestral.

"Teacher Li, I understand!"

It is also the earliest treatise on "Kanyu Studies". No matter which school it is, whether it focuses on theory or practice, all Feng Shui and Kanyu techniques after the Tang Dynasty are all derived from these two books as the core ideas.

What should I do?

We can only make it more complicated and try our best to prevent thieves from finding it... It is the same as the more complex the password of a safe, the safer it is...

There is another sentence from "The Suspicious Dragon Sutra": Wherever mountains and rivers turn, there must be kings living here.

You want to ask why it is so complicated?

Zhugu money is easy to guess: maybe some great lama or important person gave it to the lama here, and the lama kept it as a sacred object.

The river is winding, continuous, and endless, like a moat outside the city.

"Big tomb?"

Looking from a distance, both mountains and rivers look like rings.

From a Feng Shui perspective, this terrain is very special.

Zuo Peng followed closely...

……

"Oh, you said Qinglong Mountain Warring States Tomb... I know this: a bronze sword was unearthed and is now stored in the National Museum!"

Li Ding'an shook his head and hurried up the mountain.

Of course it is to prevent tomb robbers.

Li Ding'an pointed to the mountain again: "Zuo Bureau, go up and have a look!"

Zuo Peng was particularly excited, "Teacher Li, let me get your bag for you!"

It is not difficult to deduce the origin of this big coin: the main function of Yuan Zhenzhe Sanqian after it was minted was that Yuan Chengzong used it to reward ministers, and it did not circulate to the middle and lower classes, so it was rare and therefore expensive.

"Need not!"

This temple is not far from here, and most likely it is right above your head: Laodao Mountain.

After looking at it for a while, Li Ding'an sighed: "I don't know if the ruins exist yet, but I can't tell, there is a big tomb at the foot of the mountain!"

Goujia means surrounded by rivers, and snail means a circle of rings. The next two sentences are easier to understand... In short, in this kind of terrain, there are dragon caves everywhere.

The sky is blue, the white clouds are far away, and the grassland stretches as far as the eye can see.

Especially in the "Suspicious Dragon Scripture", it is almost as clear as a tomb robber's secret book for finding tombs.

The weather was great and the scenery was great.

Both books are written by the same author: Yang Yi, a state teacher and geologist in the Tang Dynasty, who also invented the Feng Shui compass.

But it can basically be judged that there must be a connection between the two compasses.

The mountains are vast, with varying heights, but with constant ups and downs, like a huge city.

Just this sentence: Wherever the mountains and rivers turn, there must be kings living here... Anyone who can read can understand what this means.

Zuo Peng was stunned for a moment, "Teacher Li, you don't know?"

"it is good!"

Later, they separated for some reason: for example, the lama dedicated the copper compass and some copper coins to Tabu Nang, or the Tabu Nang was rewarded to the Lama Temple.

"Not the tomb of the Warring States Period, the tomb of Princess Chen of the Liao Dynasty and her consort?"

Zuo Peng pointed eastward, "It's right next to Qinglongshan Reservoir, not far from here, only five kilometers..."

Li Ding'an was stunned for a moment: I am a professional picker, and I have done some research on antiques. Why do I need to know about irrelevant tombs?

Don’t think that just because I lead an archaeological team out into the field, you think I am a professional archaeologist. To be honest, this is really my first time.

So let alone here, he didn't even count how many tombs he had excavated in the capital, let alone those from the Liao Dynasty?

But what surprised him was not this, but the tomb where Princess Chen and Fu Ma were buried together... I just mentioned the Wang Cemetery, what is this if not the Wang Cemetery?

The key thing is that the terrain of the reservoir is exactly the same as what is said in "Shaking the Dragon Sutra":

An inch of high water is a mountain, an inch of low water is a circle.

The entanglement of water is like the entanglement of mountains, and it is as entangled as a real dragon.

……

Looking at the specific terrain: He didn't know where the tomb was, but with such a large reservoir, it was difficult for him to see it: several rivers, winding around and flowing into the lake.

Looking further to both sides, there are several small hills at both ends of the reservoir. Not surprisingly, before the reservoir was built, that area was a series of hills. The water flows around the hills in many "S" shapes...each bend, Aren’t they all like curled palms?

It's like a dragon's lair...

No...this isn't right.

I had basically never come into contact with Feng Shui or Kanyu before. I only studied a little bit in order to study the compass, and at most I only had a superficial understanding of it.

Can't we find the big tomb with just such a superficial knowledge?

Thinking about it carefully, Li Ding'an couldn't help but laugh: How could it be so easy?

The reservoir is two kilometers long from north to south, and there are hills in the north and south. The total length is nearly four to five kilometers. It is still difficult to find a tomb within the four to five kilometers range.

Furthermore, the Liao Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty coexisted, and Feng Shui at that time was in its infancy, and there were not so many encryption methods.

Try placing tombs from the Ming and Qing dynasties?

The hills are five kilometers long from north to south. According to Feng Shui theory, the dragon's pulse energy can stretch ten miles, which adds up to ten kilometers.

There are many schools and complex algorithms. If you summarize them, it feels like there are dragons' lairs everywhere within a ten-kilometer radius. But without secret formulas and algorithms, do you know which one is bad and which one is good?

I accidentally buried the wrong person...

Forget it, get down to business.

Li Ding'an shook his head and looked around: "Left Bureau, where is the foundation of the wall?"

Zuo Peng came to the edge of the cliff and pointed down: "Here it is!"

Li Ding'an looked around and saw Haojiakong: Xuankong Temple?

There is a ramp on the hanging edge, which twists and turns downward. There may have been stone steps before, but it has been a long time and there is only a rubble path.

Not only is it steep, it is also extremely narrow, less than one meter wide, making it difficult for two people to sit side by side.

Further down, about ten meters away, there is a protruding rock, eleven or twelve meters long, but still very narrow, only about three meters.

If you look carefully, you can see the remaining stone foundations and some bricks and tiles on the ledge.

But it's so far away that nothing can be seen, and it's on a horizontal plane. You can't even see the words carved on the rock platform clearly.

"Zuoju, what's carved on the cliff?"

"It's only the fourth year of Emperor Tong's reign. The others are too blurry to be identified!"

"Have you found any relics?"

"Except for the wall foundation and brick fragments, nothing more was found!"

"more specific!"

"The foundation of the wall is a stone foundation, only a little higher than the ledge. The bricks and tiles are made of yellow mud..." "No red tiles?"

"no!"

"Is there any tile?"

"nor!"

Zuo Peng thought for a while, "I thought at the time that the rock platform might have broken and the temple collapsed with the rock platform and was buried at the foot of the mountain. But first, I thought it was of little value. Second, there were too many rocks falling on the mountain and the risk factor was too high, so I didn't excavate it." …”

It's just an isolated temple in the mountains. It's not a religious holy place. There's no big city nearby, so there's no value for research.

But you can think about it: it was built during the reign of Jin Xizong, and it should have been a Taoist temple at that time, so it is engraved with "the fourth year of Emperor Tong" (the reign name of Jin Xizong). In the Yuan Dynasty, Mongolian herdsmen migrated here and turned it into a lamasery, so they worshiped Zhugu coins.

In the Ming Dynasty, it may have been converted into a Taoist temple, so there are tiles with eight treasure patterns. Then in the Qing Dynasty, it was converted into a Lama temple... The compass and copper coins in Tabu Nang, the ancestor of the herdsmen, should be presented by the lama... …After that, the rock platform broke and the temple was buried…”

"Yes, this is the most reasonable inference!"

"It's just speculation, it's best to go down and take a look!"

Li Ding'an took a look and said, "The stone path is too steep and the cliff is too deep... Just wait for two days and wait for Lao Ma to free up manpower to drive a safety stake on the top of the mountain. I will go down and take a look!"

"Trouble Teacher Li!"

"It should be..." Li Ding'an nodded, "What else is there?"

"That's basically it...oh yes..."

Zuo Peng slapped his forehead and said, "There is also an altar!"

"Go and see!"

……

It's quite far away, the temple site is to the south of the top of the mountain, and the altar is in the middle of the top of the mountain, more than 200 meters apart.

The top of the mountain is large and flat, just like flat land. There are exposed rock formations, but there are no rocks. Some places are even cut very flat, which is obviously man-made.

The cover is very lush, with weeds, shrubs, mushrooms, and a few withered oat seedlings and highland barley.

"Has anyone planted land on the top of the mountain?"

"It was planted. It is probably the seeds left at that time, but the age cannot be determined..."

Li Ding'an nodded: "But the harvest is definitely not very good!"

"really."

Because of lack of water...

While talking, the two people walked to the top of the stage.

Zuo Peng rubbed it with his foot, revealing a stone foundation: "Teacher Li, this is it!"

You call this an altar?

A rectangular stone platform is about two meters long and more than one meter wide. It stretches to the first three square meters. It is not even an altar, let alone an altar. At most, it is just a sacrificial table.

It was all compacted soil, overgrown with weeds, and there was a holly plant, indicating that there were holes in the stone foundation.

Li Ding'an squatted down, picked up a stone chip and scraped the soil on it.

The stone surface is relatively flat, with no words or lines, but there are many stone pits about the size of a thumb, but arranged in different ways.

And it's very deep, a full five or six centimeters.

Li Ding'an looked at it for a while and then stood up again. After walking around the stone platform a few times, he looked at the sky again.

"Kind of like...an observatory?"

"For stargazing!"

"Correct!"

Li Ding'an scratched a few times with a stone chip and said, "These three pits connected together are the Wei constellations, these two stars are the virtual constellations, and these four stars are the female constellations..."

Zuo Peng was a little confused: "Twenty-eight constellations?"

"Yes... but the star map doesn't seem to be complete. It's just that the observatory is a bit small, and I feel like I can't see much!"

"Not small!" Zuo Peng kicked at the side again, "Teacher Li, there are more over here!"

There is another piece, exactly the same size.

Zuo Peng kicked down again: "There is also one next to it... a total of twenty-eight pieces, built in a circle around the center of the top of the mountain!"

Li Ding'an was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to say.

Did you just say that this observatory is small?

If calculated based on this distance, the radius is more than thirty meters and the area is nearly three thousand square meters?

How big is the ancient observatory in Beijing?

Secretly surprised, Li Dingan squatted down.

That's right, they are exactly the same, densely packed craters, if they are connected randomly, they are like a star.

If you don't run away, it's a star observatory. If you add 28 yuan together, there will definitely be no shortage of constellations, only more.

I just don’t know why the hole was dug so deep?

It feels like something has been inserted, such as a pole or a flag.

After looking at it for a long time, feeling that he had no clue, Li Dingan straightened up and said, "Zuo Bureau, is this the gossip you are talking about?"

"That's not it...the gossip is here!"

Zuo Peng walked in, taking only five or six steps, and pointed at his feet: "Teacher Li, look!"

It is a round stone foundation, slightly smaller, about one meter in diameter.

There is no hole on it, but there is a word in the center. If you identify it carefully, it seems to be "Gen"?

One of the Eight Trigrams, Shan Gua?

The words are in the middle of the stone plate, with no hexagrams or even traces of lines.

It is certain that it either disappeared due to weathering or wear, or it was not engraved.

"Any more?"

"There's another piece directly opposite!"

Zuo Peng walked forward again, this time a little further, walking more than fifty meters.

It's still a round stone foundation, about the same size as the previous one. There are also writings on it. It seems to be a field?

There is no such hexagram in the Bagua, whether it is an innate or acquired hexagram.

If you look carefully, you will see that the stone foundation is quite worn, and there should be lines up and down.

It's probably the word "Shen".

There is still no hexagram in the Bagua, only "Kun".

But based on the orientation, Gen and Kun are adjacent to each other, so it is impossible for them to run directly opposite each other?

It’s weird anyway…

Li Ding'an looked around: "Are there any more?"

"There was another piece. The writing was very clear, but it was broken into many pieces. It was cleaned up at that time."

"What word?"

"state!"

Well, another Kun hexagram?

Shouldn't it?

"Where is the location?"

"Here!" Zuo Peng took one more step, "Along with this 'field'?"

"Are you sure it's Shen?"

"Sure!"

This is strange.

It doesn't look like Bagua, but it looks a bit like Twenty-Four Mountain Directions?

That is, the twenty-four methods in Kanyuology are represented by four hexagrams, eight stems, and twelve branches, among which are "Gen", "Kun", and "Shen".

It just so happens that "Gen" is opposite Kun and "Shen" is next to "Kun", and there are only characters and no hexagrams...

Hmm... wrong?

Twenty-four mountain directions...

Li Ding'an was suddenly stunned and almost spit out a mouthful of blood: What kind of gossip is this?

It’s not an observatory at all…

What the hell is this compass...a compass as big as the top of the mountain!

(End of this chapter)