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264 Site selection for the tomb

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    In the end, I don't remember which one arrived home first.  Because, I don't really believe in the so-called "getting rich or prospering career".  At that time, the reason why they participated in the fierce competition was entirely out of respect for local customs.

    As long as you are participating in the "Huajiatang", after returning, without exception, you must step over the fire, otherwise you will not be able to enter the house.  Soon, everyone returned one after another.  "Huajiatang" was the last major memorial ceremony in the morning, and after it was completed, it was already past eleven o'clock.  Therefore, next, all relatives and friends will directly sit down to eat.

    After lunch, it indicates that the most important activity in the whole funeral affairs is about to begin.  There has always been a saying in China that "put into the ground and be safe", and my father emphasized that he wanted to buy a "twelve-stage" coffin, in fact, he wanted to "bury in the ground and be safe".  Therefore, the entire obituary will also enter into obscurity with the death of the father.  Relatives and friends who came to his father's funeral, as long as there were no special circumstances, usually waited until his father was buried before leaving.

    Burying into the soil is also commonly known as "burial".  The time of burial is very particular, so before that, Yin Yang has specially selected auspicious days and good days for this purpose.  Today is the auspicious day chosen by yin and yang, so father will be cremated in the early morning of this morning.  As for the good time, it will be this afternoon.

    Since it is buried in the soil, a pit is needed.  Just like the huge wooden coffin requested by the father, the earth pit required is definitely huge.  Therefore, the group of coffin bearers had to dig the huge earth pit in advance.  Of course, this hole was not dug casually.  The location of the earth pit will also be the location of the ancestral grave.  Therefore, this position is also very particular.  If the choice is good, then the ancestral grave will grow well.  If the ancestral graves grow well, the offspring will be able to prosper.

    The site selection of this ancestral grave involved a lot of Feng Shui knowledge.  For Feng Shui, I only know the surface.  Anyway, according to Yin Yang, this ancestral tomb must either rely on the mountain (the mountain means finding a "backer", if there is a "backer", then there will be no worries whether it is in the underworld or in the yang world), or it depends on the water.  It may be related to the psychic power of water, or it may be related to the fact that people¡¯s lives cannot be separated from water, so people have a closeness to water in the subconscious), or rely on the road (the road is a place that leads in all directions, it is close to the main road, and it is natural  can thrive).  Our place is a plain, and we cannot find a mountain to rely on; my family is located in a rural area, and we cannot find roads extending in all directions; in the end, the only choice we have is water.  And my family has a piece of farmland that happens to be close to a stream, so Yin Yang chose the location of his father's tomb next to the stream.  In fact, almost all of my family's ancestral graves are concentrated here.  Even the ancestral graves of nine out of ten people in our team are here.  In the minds of our team members, that piece of geomantic treasure land is quite rare.

    Of course, in order to avoid disputes, it is better to consider the family's field as much as possible for the father's tomb.  After the address is determined, the next thing to consider is the orientation.  If there is a mountain, it is natural to rely on the mountain; if there is a road, it is better to face the main road; if it is water, it is better to face the flowing stream; of course, if there is no mountain, no road, and no water, then it is better to face the east  .  The creek next to my farmland runs from east to west, so in the end, my father's tomb was determined to be north-south.

    After the address and location are determined, the people who carry the coffin can start to break the ground.  Although there are a lot of people, they have to dig for a long time.  After all, such a large coffin would not work without enough width and depth.  They carried shovels and teapots, and under the guidance of Yin Yang, they started to work in full swing.  After all, the time has already been chosen, and it is not to be missed.  Therefore, they must complete all the work of digging the pit before the hour comes.

    ? While everyone was digging the pit, someone had already been sent to load the lime powder with a three-wheeled battery car.  After the pit was dug, everyone began to carefully sprinkle lime powder around and on the bottom of the pit with the lime powder they brought in.  It is estimated that this lime powder is used for moisture-proof and disinfection.  With these lime powders, the decay time of the wooden coffin must be delayed.  Of course, for people who have not been cremated, the disinfection effect of this lime powder is very important.  However, these are far inferior to the anti-corrosion and anti-theft technologies of the ancients.  Therefore, from the perspective of burial procedures and handling methods, human beings must have regressed somewhat.

    At this point, the huge project of digging the pit is considered complete.  Next, is "jump pit".  "Leaping into the pit" is also a peculiar custom here.  "Leaping over the pit", as the name suggests, is to jump over the dug earth pit.  Of course, there are only a few people who need to jump, and they are the few descendants who have the closest relationship with their father.  First, those who need to jump are all men, from which we can once again see the shadow of patriarchal thinking in feudal society;Firstly, men who are older than their father never need to jump;  sons and uncle¡¯s sons) and father¡¯s godsons, and those of a later generation such as my nephew, there is no need to jump.

    "Jumping into the pit" is by no means a test of your physical fitness.  The pit is rectangular, and when you jump, it doesn't let you jump from the wide side to the other side, but from the long side to the other side.  Such a long distance, not to mention ordinary people, even professional athletes may not be able to jump over it.  Therefore, at the beginning of the "jump pit", two coffin bearers waited in the deep pit.  When someone jumps into the pit, these two people will put him into the pit first.

    As my father's only son, I was the first one to "jump into the pit".  The old man in his eighties told me in advance that at the moment of jumping, that is, the moment when the two of them carried me into the pit, he must throw a handful of coins into the pit.  Therefore, early on, I stuffed the pockets of my filial piety with coins.  When I jumped down, I grabbed a handful full and threw it out fiercely.  It's a pity that the dirt pit is really too big, full of coins, but after spilling, they are so sparse that it is almost hard to detect.  As long as these coins are lucky enough to be preserved, then maybe hundreds or thousands of years later, they will also become cultural relics!

    While I was thinking wildly, the coffin bearer said: "You don't need to worry. You are not the master. 'Yuekeng' is just going through the motions for you." After finishing speaking, the two coffin bearers  They lifted me up from the other side.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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