Feng Shui On Ancient Mausoleum Location

The burial culture has a long history, the content is broad and profound, especially the emperor mausoleum, because the supreme emperor of social status, not only in the grand architectural scale than the minister tombs, and more features of the mysterious. Therefore, the ancient imperial mausoleum is not only the highest grade form was grave, and concentrated in the political system at that time, the ritual, and architectural art and other aspects of the content, is the ancient hierarchical important performance and "death and fully reveal life" concept. Feng Shui, also known as geomancy, summed up the people in the long-term production and living in and around the tomb of residential environment choice theory. People think the residence and tombs of the geographical situation can be good or bad fortune family influence individual, imperial mausoleum, Feng Shui is good or bad will affect children, the replacement of dynasties, the rise and fall of the country. So the emperors for their mausoleums are paid more attention, at the cost of life energy, invest huge human, material and financial resources to select the best tomb site, building momentum majestic, magnificent tomb. Research the relationship between the two is more important significance to the mausoleum system, political system, burial customs, etc.This article is formed by Fengshui thought and the development from the perspective of the theory of the Qin and Han Dynasties, Tang and Song Dynasties, the Ming and Qing Dynasties mausoleum for location thought under review, sort out the different periods of mausoleum location relations between Ideological and geomantic thought.Embryonic ancient Fengshui thought very early development of Feng Shui, thought can be divided into embryonic development, the pre-Qin period, the Qin and Han Dynasties of Sui Tang and Five Dynasties, song and Yuan Dynasties prosperity during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the shaping and popularization of five stages. Effect of early tomb site is mainly affected by the etiquette, since the formation of the system theory, the mausoleum site has influenced greatly.During the Qin and Han Dynasties tomb site mainly follow the etiquette, influenced by geomantic thought is smaller, generally in the high open open platform. Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor mausoleum, the layout of the cemetery affected range of good and bad thoughts, the Western Han Dynasty mausoleum "burying in country effects are the north" thinking of the larger, mainly in the tomb site Bu selection under the influence of bad influence and modeled by range of capital construction. The Wei and Jin Dynasties regime change frequently, once a thin burial system, feng shui theory in this period is extremely complex, the mausoleum is located in the capital of nearby mountainside or the foot of the mountain, the effect is not much. During the northern and Southern Dynasties, especially the Southern Dynasty Mausoleum of Qin and Han Dynasty burial of the multiple recovery system in the Eastern Jin Dynasty after the formation of feng shui theory, the effect of increased. The mausoleum of the system with all the mountain for the mausoleum, mountains and rivers, began to pay attention to current situation around the cemetery.Tang Ling eighteen mainly by the Western Han Dynasty Emperor Mausoleum "because of Shan Ling", especially the Western Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasty, changed during the Qin and Han Dynasties mausoleum and the choice of things to sit north to south, and Feng Shui landscape situation around the environment as the key object of investigation; Gongyi song Ling Bu selection theory "surname Lee.", tomb site in the low-lying place, tomb site gradually institutionalized. System of Fengshui Theory in this period for the effects of the location of the mausoleum of greatly increased.The Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum and the Beijing Ming Dynasty Tombs location, the greatest degree in accordance with the principle of "dragon, sand, water, check point, vertical" Bu Xuanling access, regardless of Ling group or individual mausoleum for "dragon, sand, water, to the point," the geographical situation has strict requirements. The location of Eastern Xiling inherited the Ming ", but the basic geographic five tactic" more careful, but also on the tomb site environment "at the gas","test soil",this period of Fengshui theory and the tomb site selection most closely, the greatest impact. Ming and Qing Dynasties this effect in detail, whether tomb site group or individual mausoleum site, reflect the closed ideal pursuit, exhibit systematic, institutionalized mausoleum site thought and careful.The mausoleum of refractive index change location for deeper Fengshui theory dependent the Emperors Tomb environment for perfectionism pursuit of the heart, the tomb itself with the surrounding natural environment of the perfect fusion, showing an extreme perfectionist ideal environment of the pursuit of tomb site selection.