Based on the idea of "being worshipped by our ancestors" and "being blessed future generations", ancient China attached great importance to ancestral tombs. "Digging people's ancestral tombs" was a serious crime to kill nine clans, and it was also a great virtue that was lacking for eight lifetimes in reason.
According to historical records, Wu Zetian punished the rebel minister Xu Jingye by "digging the ancestral grave". The rare cursive "Sang Luan Tie" that has been passed down through the ages is the masterpiece of the past, which is "hard to the heart and liver" because of the destruction of his ancestral tomb, and the brushwork gushed out. It can be seen that the ancestral tomb cannot be moved easily and cannot be dug!
So, as a very superstitious , why did Yuan Shikai dig up his own ancestral grave?
Things have to start with Yuan Shikai's experience. He has been very superstitious since he was a child and often looks at people and asks about fortune tellers when doing things. Five short figure, thick neck and short legs, and straight eight-character steps. According to folk legend, he was reincarnated as a toad among the ten evil spirits of the West Mountain.
22-year-old Qian Wen joined the army and once followed the army to the east to suppress the rebellion. After , he was recommended by Li Hongzhang to Xiaozhan to train a new army and mastered an armed force of more than 7,000 people. Since then, he has gradually been relied on by the Qing court.
But the good times did not last long. Prince Chun Zaifeng After the regent, he hated Yuan Shikai very much, believing that Yuan Shikai betrayed Reformation , causing Guangxu to be imprisoned and died by Empress Dowager Cixi, and all Yuan Shikai's errands were lifted. Yuan Shikai knew that the situation was not good for him, so he said he was afraid to return to Henan.
Yuan Shikai believes that the reason why he was excluded may be that there was a problem with the feng shui of the ancestral tomb. asked Fengshui master to look at it and concluded that the wall around the ancestral tomb hindered the prosperity of the dragon energy, so he sent someone to tear down the wall of his ancestral tomb, hoping that his career would be smoother in the future.
Yuan Shikai's superstitious practices are not just this one. When he was the president of the Republic of China, someone recommended him the talented Wu Dingchang as the Chief Finance Minister. But Yuan Shikai believed that the man could see his cheeks behind him. Cao Cao is such a bone shape and cannot be valued, so Wu Dingchang only became the director of a mint.
He has a jasper-carved teacup given to him by the King of Korea, and he likes it very much. One day, the tea boy accidentally broke it while delivering tea, awakening Yuan Shikai who was sleeping soundly, scolded the tea boy loudly and asked the tea boy what was going on. The tea boy said timidly: I just saw that the person who was sleeping in the bed was not the president, but a jade clawed golden dragon. After hearing this, Yuan Shikai's anger disappeared and he gave it to the tea boy with a valuable thing, and said to the tea boy: Don't tell others about this.
1914, a servant from the Yuan family’s ancestral tomb far away from Xiangcheng, Henan came to Beijing to report that a wisteria grew beside the tomb of Yuan Shikai’s biological father, Yuan Baozhong, and was winding and shaped like a dragon. An astronomer also presented Yuan Shikai, who had come to Beijing in , and could arrive in Beijing in a month. With the appeal of all walks of life, Yuan Shikai finally decided to be emperor.
There are many different opinions about Yuan Shikai's motive for becoming emperor. There is a widely circulated folk legend. says that Yuan Shikai had calculated his fortune and his fortune was indescribable, but his life span was not long when he was 58 years old. If you can pass, you will die. The method of cracking is to "proclaim the emperor and ascend the throne."
Yuan Shikai became the emperor of the Chinese Empire, but this emperor's dream lasted for only 83 days and then it was shattered. Yuan Shikai died of illness at the age of 57...
