Chapter 74: The Opposite of Things

Master Zhang San once stole the Western Zhou ancient mound, from which found the lost thousands of years of Zhou Tian trigrams, so the 16 characters of the ancient trigrams as a guide, the art of Feng Shui yin and yang written in it, wrote a book of “sixteen characters of yin and yang, Feng Shui,” which “yin and yang, Feng Shui” each accounted for half of the yin and yang chapter is the occupation of the numerical arts, the reason for the creation of the wind and water in the chapter is a green crow! Dragon search, Feng Shui way, only this half volume, will cover the “search for dragons” and “points of gold” of the art of Mapping School, and will be the burial system of Chinese dynasties and burial customs in the great success, can be said to be “exhaustive study of the principles of heaven and earth, since the words of a family! It can be said that he has “explored the principles of heaven and earth, and made his own family’s words”.

In front of the face of four disciples, Zhang San master “sixteen words yin and yang feng shui secret art” to tear away half, leaving only half of the feng shui secret art, and the yin and yang secret art of the half book in the fire pot burned to ashes, the people were puzzled to ask the master in the end, this book of the sky what is so subtle, why would you want to burn it down? From now on, the world will no longer have the ancient trigrams of Zhou Tian?

Master Zhang San laughed and said: “Planting in the dry land, waterway boat, the top of the head of the people do not grow fruit, this is the heavenly principle of heaven, the rise and fall of the world has always been some deterministic, but who can peep through the mystery of it? Can only say that the flood or immortal, anyway, not our secular people should know, this heaven although the deep and subtle, but stay in the world is bound to woe people not shallow, only burned sacrifices to the sky is the right reason.” Then the remaining half of the remnants of the book, passed to the yin and yang eyes Sun Guofu, instructed: “the Feng Shui secret art of the gold touching schoolmasters, the magic is fantastic, probed all the north and south of the three dragon veins in the middle, leaving this half volume of the remnants of the book in the world, the future may still have its place, you have to be well stored, do not lose.”

Sun Guofu, the eye of yin and yang, quickly bowed to thank his master, and with tears in his eyes, received the remnants of the book, and then left his master’s door and traveled far away. Finally, Zhang said to the remaining “dust, Abacus, Iron Grinder” three people, it seems to touch the gold on the three of you on the ancient talisman, today is not an auspicious day, such as the time to pay homage to the master, and then wear the talisman awarded gold.

That night, Zhang three masters will his three disciples to the back of the hall, let them in front of the ancestor Cao Gong statue kneeling, kowtowed, incense, then each passed a touch of gold talisman.

Afterwards, they had to pass on the rules of the trade, equipment, palms and so on. Master Zhang first asked Abacus three people, do you know why the world since ancient times, there has been the business of backstabbing?

Abacus three brothers and sisters are also long involved in the world of the generation, broad knowledge, “all walks of life, each way of the countryside,” know very well, see the master asked, they scrambled to have to answer:

Under the sky there are three religions and nine streams, the three religions are “Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism”, nine streams refers to nine classes, which is divided into nine streams, nine streams, nine streams, nine streams, three religions and nine streams of various types of camps are very much, looking at a total of more than 360 lines.

The so-called “upper nine streams”, is a first-class Buddha two streams of fairy, three streams of the emperor four streams of officials, five streams of the six streams of business, seven streams of pawnbrokers eight streams of craftsmen, the ninth stream of the farmers are planting crops, which are serious business; nine streams of craftsmen in the more centralized, the number of the lower nine streams, that is, the playwrights, actresses and prostitutes, and so on.

In the three religions and nine streams derived from hundreds of industries, there was no “pouring” such a line, pouring belongs to the outside eight lines, the outside eight lines of “gold points, beggars, ringing horses, thieves, thieves, buckets, walk the mountain, leading the fire, picking up the water,” collectively called the “five lines of three”, in fact, in detail, here are several lines can be counted as “theft line”, but in the eight lines are separated to count, such as ringing horse is a clear thief, so can not be compared with the flying thieves and other types of dark theft.

As for “dumping”, occupying the word “earth” in the five elements, it is also a “thieving line” according to the reason, no different from “ringing horses and flying thieves”. It is no different from the “horse ringer, flying thief”, doing is to rob tombs and touch the gold move. To the high side, the bucket is considered robbing the rich to help the poor; to the low side, it is also a dead man’s fortune, to do damage to the Yin virtue of the collusion, a high and low, as if the mud.

The gold detectives are naturally not comparable to casual thieves, what they do is to steal treasures from ancient tombs to help the poor, and they can afford to “steal also have the way”, and they have always been well-known in the world, only because since ancient times there were many poor people and few rich people, and the rich were too rich, and the poor were too poor, which is why there were a few “thieves” in the eight lines of the foreigners. The only reason for this is that there are several “thieves” in the outer eight lines, who specialize in “acting on behalf of heaven”.

Mr. Zhang shook his head and said, “You said that this line of work is “to do justice to heaven”, but misinterpreted the meaning of the “way of heaven”, and the “touching of the gold” is not so, the world’s people are poor and rich, rich and poor. There are rich, rich or poor, this is destined to come, where to use the horse thieves to do the right thing for heaven? This is just an excuse for them to kill the rich and rob the rich.

Pouring is a grave robbing and digging hook, why do people do this business? Only because of the dynasties advocate generous burial, any one mausoleum tomb, from the date of construction, it will cost the people endless blood and sweat, not only the burial of countless treasures, but also to kill the martyrdom of buried alive, even building mausoleum craftsmen are also hard to escape the disaster of extermination.

We must know that heaven has tolerance, heaven has the virtue of good life, any tomb owner is the life of the founding of the king or the rule of the world’s ministers, as long as the death of the netherworld on the extravagance of too much, will certainly lose the virtue; then most of the tomb site selected in the feng shui treasure, will be the creation of heaven and earth dragon vein according to the existing, will be the taboo of the ghosts and the gods, heaven has never blessed this generation.

The bucket this line of work, should be the cycle of heaven, no matter how deeply buried in the mountains and mounds, also early to be the disaster of the bucket, a reward for a reward, which is exactly the place where heaven does not die, so touching the gold bucket, is not just robbing the hair of the ancient tombs, robbing the rich to help the poor so simple, but also implicitly with the road in the rise and fall of the reasoning.

As if we are the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Qianlong rule when the country rich people, how the heyday, but now it is really internal and external problems, full of holes, looking to play the end of the so-called thing will be reversed, there has been a time of prosperity, will naturally have a period of decline, to the end is a “life”.

Furthermore, from the world by craft to eat on the various trades and industries, can not be simply divided into 360 lines, “360 six” is a generalized figure, including the three religions and nine streams and outside the eight lines, and even according to the most traditional sayings in the mountain scripture, “thirty-six famous mountains, seventy-two big mountains! The most traditional saying in the mountain scripture is “36 famous mountains, 72 big mountains”, and these sayings of dividing various trades and professions are different from place to place, so the saying of “72 trades and professions, the king of touching the gold” may not be accurate, and you can’t be proud of it.

In Master Zhang’s hometown, since ancient times, there is a folk saying that “the world’s nine men and eighteen craftsmen, do not do things inverted bucket life”. That is to say that there are many kinds of business in the world, all better than the tomb raiding, eighteen craftsmen according to its order, the song is: “gold, silver, copper, iron and tin, rock and wood carving tiles and paints, gabion umbrellas dyeing decoupage, shaving and playing flower crystal.” There are rules between the craftsmen, craftsmen dining together, according to the eighteen craftsmen in order of seating, shall not be overstepped. When working in the employer’s house, when the project entered a certain stage or served a particular person, they all held ceremonies and sang hymns, and the employer had to give them money. Such as tailor “open cut”, rock mason “step on the bridge”, shaving craftsman to the groom’s hair or for the baby shaving hair, have a ceremony, and sing praises. Carpenters and masons have more ceremonies in the process of building houses, and there are many opportunities and types of hymns to sing, such as the song of starting a house, the song of putting up a beam, the song of opening the mouth of a beam, and the song of inaugurating a new house.

In the old China, both the masons and tilers were craftsmen with specialized skills, and the craftsmen held their own skills and made a living independently. Few of them had stores, but most of them were itinerant operators or laborers. “They are busy farming and earn money in their spare time. Walking around the countryside, commonly known as “do on the work”, the owner in addition to food and drink, another payment, so there are “days dry and hungry craftsmen” said. Specific living conditions, the formation of “art is not lightly passed on” custom. The conditions for passing on the art are harsh, and it is very difficult to learn the art. If there is a unique skill, it can only be passed down from family to family, not to outsiders. In some cases, it is stipulated that the skills should be passed on to men but not to women, which is called the “family division”. To learn from a master, you must first seek a master, that is, ask friends and relatives to make a deal, and then recognize the master only after obtaining consent. Recognize the master, by the parents of the learner to organize a banquet, invite the master to the home, accompanied by intermediaries, negotiated learning conditions, and then to the master’s home to pay homage to the master: to the industry of the master tablet salute, and then pay homage to the master, and finally pay homage to the master’s wife. One day of the master, lifelong father, master and disciple as father and son, the master’s children to brother and sister. Three years from the master, the master generally only care about food and clothing, do not pay wages. Participating in the master is more popular in some handicraft industry. The so-called teacher, that is, after the completion of the apprenticeship period, with the master outside to do labor for a year, to take part of the wages, and the rest left to the master to express the grace of the teachings. There is also a little bit of the original craft people to learn from the master of the art is called to participate in the master. In the handicraft industry, every year there are sacrificial rules. All over the Lu Ban Temple, Zhang Fei Temple, are the gathering place of worship. Each industry has its own patriarch, wood and tile work to Lu Ban, sewing to Xuanyuan, gold, silver, copper, iron and tin to Taishang Laojun, slaughter industry to Zhang Fei as the grandmaster.

These ancient traditional crafts in the rural areas still exist today, the details, are not simpler than the craft of touching the gold, so that there are people outside, outside the sky, a mountain is always higher than a mountain, can not be taken lightly, or not paying attention, we have to smash the “gold inspector” of the license plate.

Abacus brothers and sisters three people, all know that the master Zhang three masters of the study of the sky, the chest of all things, no skill is not fine, nothing is not good, and is good at occupying the trigrams deduction, they said these words, seems to have a deep meaning, a moment failed to understand, only to kneel on the ground to listen to the teachings.

Zhang three masters and told the origin of the gold miner, and finally said to a variety of rules and regulations of the line, he said that the gold miner has never been divided into master and disciple, I passed to you to find the dragon know-how and the art of gold fixed points, which is the division of the apprentice, but wearing the gold miner to go to the tomb together with the bucket, it can not be counted as a master and disciple and brothers, and can only be regarded as a life tied to the “companion”, that is, partners! “But if you wear the talisman and go to the tomb together, then you can’t be considered master and disciple or master and brother. You three brothers in the future to go out to fight, one can not be bad rules of the trade, the second can not be greedy for fame and fortune, insulted the name of the gold touch, the third to take care of each other, what are the big things and small things, all diligently discuss.

The reason why so instructed, because Zhang three masters know him very well these disciples, they each have their own strengths and weaknesses, dust since childhood, good at light body art, can fly over the wall, touching the gold means is even more powerful, but he is compassionate, not hard under the hand, some indecisiveness, can not act on the spot, which in the grave robbing line is a big taboo.

That iron grinding head is also a skill, bold, not afraid of ghosts and gods, on the killing of goods on the hook he is a connoisseur, but on the body of the bandit too heavy, temperament fire on the fire, do things more hastily, is a head of trouble.

And Abacus is proficient in Yi Li five elements, is a tomb robber, and know the world all kinds of strange FangZhi, although he is clever, careful and cautious, but unfortunately this person’s hands can’t, like the dust and iron grinding head on the kung fu, are not halfway out of people can be practiced, want to learn the “turn over the head of the high”, must be from the age of three in the hot pot of medicine in the bath! The hard work must be practiced from the age of six at the latest. Jin Abacus came from a family of merchants and businessmen, and had been well-bred since childhood and had never practiced hard work.

So Zhang three masters let the three of them as a companion, complement each other’s strengths and weaknesses, be sure not to act alone, and then the “whirlwind shovel, black donkey hooves, golden steel umbrella” and other artifacts should be passed down to the three apprentices to keep in mind that the six words “together is life, divided is death.

These things are accounted for, Jin Abacus and other three people will be considered a real “gold lieutenant”, the future of the three people will be ganged up to go out to fight, the next morning Jin Abacus got up early, did not take the other two brothers, alone to give the master to ask for peace.

The original Jin Abacus has been very curious, why the master of the “sixteen words of yin and yang secret art” destroyed half of the book, only the remnants of the book to the yin and yang eyes of Sun Guofu, want to go out of the mountain before asking for a clear, because this matter is certainly not as simple as the three masters Zhang said at the time.

Master Zhang is drinking tea, listening to Abacus asked about this section, did not immediately answer, but asked Abacus how to see?

Abacus said half jokingly, the master of your temperament, disciple too understand, never like are handsome celebrities, reckless heroes, most dislike is those fake text sour vinegar Taoism Mr., I think it must be the yin and yang eyes of this fake Taoism does not attract the master to see, so only gave him half of the book, so he went home to the book all day to keep the book worry, think of the head of his head he can not think of the other half of the book of the wonders of the.

Zhang San master nature is open-minded, and the relationship with the golden abacus and unusual, there is nothing to hide from him, said bluntly: “In fact, the teacher I am also a school of Taoism heart, only from the refusal to preach Taoism. But to be honest, you this master brother yin and yang eyes Sun Guofu, really not suitable to do the gold feeler, ‘sixteen words yin and yang secret art’ is my life’s work, that day destroyed half, only left half a volume of residual books to him, that is also do not want us to feel the craft of the gold in this way extinct.”

The original reasoning, Zhang Sanji has previously said, and now detailed, the roots of the secret art of gold touching lies in the “Yi”, the way of life and change for the “Yi”, so the “Yi” only said that the birth of the grams, and how can that “birth”?

The so-called “life”, one refers to survival, the second refers to prosperity, Zhang San master in the Western Zhou tomb, peeped the ancient hexagrams of the Zhou Dynasty, and found that the machine number is infinite, coupled with his life of repeated encounters, learned a lot of skills in the body, so wrote this “sixteen words of yin and yang feng shui secret,” the world’s “yin and yang, Feng Shui,” the reasoning are given to the “situation” of the yin and yang. The reasoning of the world’s “yin and yang, feng shui situation” have been elaborated, that is to say, originated in the Han Dynasty of the art of touching the gold, passed on to the generation of Master Zhang San, has reached an unprecedented peak.

But the law of development of things in heaven and earth, there are ups and downs, there will be a decline in the rise, Zhang San masters know the ancient trigrams, naturally understand this layer of reasoning, which is like the sun to the middle of the sky, the light shines on everything, but after noon, the daylight will become more and more dim, and gradually fall into the western mountains; to the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, the moon is full in the sky, but the next will be from the surplus to the loss.

Tao of heaven in the creation of the theory of change, to put it simply is “the opposite of things”, things develop to a certain stage, will go to the other extreme, so how can we control the decline? The only way to control the decline is to “hold on to the broken” only, which is Zhang San master destroyed half a volume of “sixteen words yin and yang feng shui secret art” of the reason.

Although the secret art of touching the gold is from the Han Dynasty, in fact, in the Zhou Dynasty, there is a prototype, thousands of years and by successive generations of the touching the gold lieutenant gradually improved, in the earliest ancient feng shui art, gradually fused with the “Star of the sky feng shui, Zen feng shui, eight house mirror, Jiangxi Situation Zong feng shui ……”, the collection of all the great feng shui techniques. Produced a collection of Feng Shui in one of the great success of the “dragon secret” and “points of gold”.

Waiting for the “sixteen words yin and yang feng shui secret art” out of the world, which covers a wider range, even the roots of feng shui secret art – Zhou Tian Gu Gua have, poor study of heaven and earth and everything, can be called the ghosts and gods of the art of unpredictability, there is no longer any room for evolution, should be a sign of the opposite of the extreme, from then on, touching the gold mysticism can only be gradually weak and the end of the drop.

To say a most shallow Li Zi, “touch the gold” is specializing in grave robbers, if there is no tomb, that touch the gold lieutenants naturally does not exist, this generation of ancient tombs are dug out of the theft of the empty, in the future is not the only time to cut off the incense, and then there is no touch the gold of the inheritance of the lineage?

So Zhang San master destroyed half of the yin and yang art, only to the descendants left incomplete half of the “sixteen words yin and yang feng shui secret art”, in order to let the future of the gold touching lieutenants, can still have revitalization of the forward progress of the room, so as not to be from the birth of a change of grams, by the creation of the envy of the severity of the “touching the gold” of the name.

Zhang San Chain knows that grave robbing is a life-threatening activity, and it is not appropriate to pass the book of “16 Characters of Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Art” to Abacus and others, so he specially left it to Sun Guofu of Yin-Yang Eyes, so that he can pass down the Feng Shui secret art of “The Golden Toupee” to the next generation, and maybe there will be a revitalization period in the future.

Jin Abacus listened to the heart convinced, secretly praised Zhang three masters see through the world of physics, the same day he was with the iron grinding head, the dust three people, resigned from the teacher’s door out of the mountain, do the gold touching bucket business.