What is "Stone Mother"? Why didn't the ancient emperors want to dig the "stone mother" when they built tombs?

Foreword

Time only explains how to make people old, unbelief and passionate, long hatred for leaving the pavilion, teardrops of spring clothes and wine are easy to wake up.

Birth, old age, sickness and death are normal in the world. The true destination of human beings is the tomb. This is irreversible for everyone. No matter how glorious and wealthy and honor one has in his lifetime, in the end, he will only be with the loess. Although death is inevitable, people always hope to have eternal life. In the past, some people sought all kinds of magical medicine for immortality. Qin Shihuang was obsessed with "alchemy" and left behind "Xu Fudong". The legend of "crossing". But in ancient times, princes and generals were most afraid of encountering something called "stone mother" in order to build their own tomb. Why?

Things you don’t want to see when building a tomb

Ancient emperors are rich and powerful. In order to build their own tombs, they must carefully plan. The whole looks like a palace. "After the legend did not work, they began to focus on the construction of the tomb. In just a few decades in their lives, as princes and generals, they naturally hope that their tombs will also be beautiful and beautiful. After all, this is their ultimate destination. At all costs, we spent a lot of money to find some ordinary people, and gathered tens of thousands of craftsmen to build it for dozens of years.

The project is too big and needs to be prepared before construction, so at the beginning, a good foundation is needed. According to people's tradition, the right time and place are the best feng shui treasures, but in ancient times there was no giant equipment , To be able to easily dig the land, everything requires manpower, if once the ground is broken, then all this is no longer possible, the ancient emperors are most afraid of encountering such a thing when building a tomb-"stone mother", if you dig At this point, all the meticulously prepared work was wasted.

The origin of the stone mother

According to the "Chinese Dictionary", the "stone mother" is the "stone girl". The person who sees this thing means that there will be children in the future, but what we are going to talk about This stone mother is the legendary "Water Essence Stone", also known as the "spring stone". Most people may not understand that the existence of the "stone mother" is actually formed by a stone that has been immersed in the ground for thousands of years. Its appearance means that there must be water in the ground.

Therefore, when the ancient emperors built the tomb, when the tomb was near the end, once the tomb was dug, it meant that there was water in the ground. In order to avoid the tomb from being eroded by the groundwater, I had to choose another place and start over. Again, this is about to be another huge project.

Has anyone encountered this before?

In the historical annals, there is such an emperor whose luck is very bad. He has encountered the "Mother Stone", then what happened to him? It turns out that this emperor is Emperor Daoguang, he is from the Qing Dynasty The eighth emperor, Daoguang Emperor initially chose the tomb in the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty. It was because of the excavation of the "stone mother" that the previous tomb was forced to be discarded. Finally, the site was re-selected and built in the Western Tomb of the Qing Dynasty.

When Emperor Daoguang succeeded to the throne in 1821, a decree was issued shortly afterwards. The content was as follows: order the two princes to choose Raodouyu to establish auspicious land in Dongling. After 6 years, in 1827, Dongling Baohuayu was successfully completed. When I was happy about it, unfortunate things happened. In September of the same year, Empress Xiaomucheng passed away, and Emperor Daoguang buried her in the east. Mausoleum, not long after this incident, I did not expect an accident in Dongling Baohuayu. It turned out that the tomb of Empress Xiaomucheng was soaked in the ground due to the inflow of groundwater.

Because of this, Emperor Daoguang was very angry, so he sent someone to investigate the matter, and what was the problem, but the groundwater backflow is a natural phenomenon and cannot be avoided because Dongling Baohuayu is almost close to the water source. Later, only other addresses can be selected for construction. Later, someone found out that someone had dug up the "stone mother" during the construction process, but the two princes did not take it seriously, nor immediately reported the incident to Emperor Daoguang. After the continued construction, the entire tomb was destroyed. .

Paper can never contain fire. Emperor Daoguang punished those responsible. At the suggestion of Mu Zhanga, Emperor Daoguang chose to build the tomb in Xiling. Unexpectedly, Emperor Daoguang spent a lot of time on the construction of the tomb. Two consecutive tombs spent a total of 2.4 million taels of silver. This is a huge sum of money, surpassing Emperor Qianlong and Empress Dowager Cixi.If the two princes were in charge of any point, it would not have caused such an accident. The existence of the "Mother Stone" has never been confirmed, and no one has discovered the true face of the "Mother Stone". The tomb of Emperor Daoguang may be For other reasons, it happened to be like that. Everything may be accidental. The origin of "Mother Stone" has not yet been explained by professional personnel.

Reference material: "Picking mulberries, time only helps people grow old"

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