Yuan Tiangang, I believe everyone has seen it in many film and television dramas. His appearances often contain a sense of mystery. He can understand the secrets and see through the future. The most famous is the strange book "Tui Bei Tu". Predicting a series of major events involving emperors, generals and ministers thousands of years after the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, as well as predicting the changes brought to China by 5 legendary women, can be described as the world's most wonderful book. Yuan Tiangang, a very famous figure at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, was interested in him from the royal family to the common people.
According to the historical records, Yuan Tiangang should be just a feng shui master or a wise warlock, because the accuracy rate or prediction accuracy is very high when telling others, so soon He became famous and was summoned by Tang Taizong. Speaking of how accurate Yuan Tiangang's outlook is, according to relevant historical records, Yuan Tiangang has accurately calculated the fate of many important officials of the early Tang Dynasty, including Du Yan, Wang Gui, Wei Ting, Dou Gui, and Ma Zhou. Et al. These related records are recorded in the "New and Old Tang Shu" and other official history, so in terms of credibility, they are still very high.
Yuan Tiangang not only calculated the hexagrams for the important officials of the Tang Dynasty, but also calculated it for Wu Zetian. The history books recorded the story of Qianling's site selection. After the death of Emperor Gaozong of Tang in Luoyang, Chen Ziang and others The manpower recommended to set up a mausoleum in Luoyang, but Wu Zetian, in order to respect Gaozong's last wish of Changan death and no hatred, decided to choose Jidi on the Weibei Plateau in Guanzhong. Soon the court selected two famous alchemists across the country. One was Yuan Tiangang, and the other was Taishiling Li Chunfeng. When Yuan Tiangang took the decree, he searched both sides of the Yellow River, but he did not find a place of interest. Later he came to Guanzhong and came out to observe the celestial phenomenon in the middle of the night, but only one spot was seen. The mountain was so purple that it happened to intersect with the Beidou. Yuan Tiangang decided that this was a treasure, so he hurried up the mountain to find the right direction, but for a while, he couldn’t find anything to mark, so he took out copper coins and placed them on the ground. After the floating soil, he went down the mountain and returned to his life.
Since Yuan Tiangang is so accurate in fortune-telling, has he ever calculated a hexagram for himself? One day, Gao Shilian asked Yuan Tiangang, what kind of official position you can achieve in the future, Yuan Tiangang is not positive He answered, instead, he said that he would die soon in April. Sure enough, Yuan Tiangang passed away in April, which also reflected that Yuan Tiangang had long thought of his ending. As for whether Yuan Tiangang became an official or not, there are different opinions. Some people say that he was once a county magistrate. In today’s Sichuan area, but we think from a normal way of thinking. After all, Yuan Tiangang is just a metaphysician or an onmyoji. As an astronomer, being an official might really have nothing to do with him.
At the beginning, Yuan Tiangang was called into the palace for his physiognomy, and he is unlikely to have other advantages. Therefore, he may only be a manager in the palace or engage in research on astronomy, and mysterious aspects. He was also a small official and a small official, because of his specialty, he had the opportunity to have contact with Fang Xuanling, Gao Shilian and other important officials of the Zhenguan Dynasty.
It is conceivable that Yuan Tiangang is not a god, but a very famous alchemist.
