Liao River

Sanliao Village

Sanliao village in Xingguo, the first village of geomantic geography and culture in China, is located in Meijiao Town, Xingguo County, Jiangxi Province, surrounded by mountains and bright like tai chi.

Sanliao village has many strange ancient tombs and ancient ancestral halls of different shapes. These are feng shui works of various periods since the Song Dynasty, which contain rich feng shui knowledge. Donghua and Xizhu temples stand in the East and west of the village. Seven ponds with different shapes are located in the village. For the whole village, they also have special Feng Shui significance. Therefore, Sanliao village can be said to be a living Feng Shui Culture Museum.

Sanliao village is the birthplace of Chinese Hakka feng shui culture. Its feng shui culture history has lasted from the end of Tang Dynasty to now. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Dr. Jin Ziguang Lu, Si tianjianzheng and feng shui master Yang Junsong (named Yi, No. saving the poor) with his disciples Zeng Wenshan and Liao Xuan selected Sanliao as a geomantic treasure land and lived in seclusion here for more than 20 years, thus creating a precedent of geomantic culture in southern China. Sanliao Yang Gong geomantic is known as “Gan school geomantic”.

Since the ancestors of Zeng Wenshan and Liao Xuan were the masters of Yang Gong, the villagers with the surnames of Zeng and Liao in Sanliao village have inherited unique knowledge from generation to generation, so there are a large number of national teachers in previous dynasties. Since the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty for more than 1000 years, there have been 24 national teachers and 72 Ming teachers (among them, 36 are in white, and the emperor directly granted the title of doctor of Qin Tianjian). Sanliao Village is well-known at home and abroad. Therefore, Sanliao village is praised as “the first village of feng shui culture in China”.

For thousands of years, the feng shui culture of Yang Gong in Sanliao has been widely spread not only in Chinese folk, but also abroad.

SANZU Hall

It has always been a local custom among the people to set up temples and altars to commemorate and worship their ancestors and pray for national peace and security. Sanliao village people also adhere to this ancestral custom. For a long time, the Yang Gong temple built by Zeng family only worships Yang Gong and Zeng Gong, while the Yang Gong temple built by Liao family worships Yang Gong and Liao Gong. Yang Gong, Zeng Gong and Liao Gong have never been worshipped together. In order to realize the purpose of worshipping Yang Gong, Zeng Gong and Liao Gong together, Zeng’s descendants planned to raise funds for the construction of a new Yang Gong ancestral temple – SANZU hall.

Zeng’s national teachers and Ming teachers in previous dynasties

Zeng Wenyun (854-916 A.D.), named Jiyu and named Yizhen, is the ancestor of Feng Shui of Zeng family. He was born in the middle of the Tang Dynasty and aged Jiaxu. He was relegated by Yang Gong, the third Liao. He originally lived in Xiaoyun village, Quyang Township, Jiangxi Province. His brothers wentren and Wendi ranked second. Zhu Huata, the initiator of rejuvenating the country, is called Earth fairy among the people. Choose Zhu Huata to rejuvenate the country; He has written books such as the Dragon hunt, the muddy water classic and the eight minute song.

Zeng Congzheng, No. shaotan, a descendant of the official document of the three lieutenants, was a Feng Shui national teacher in the Ming Dynasty. In the fifth year of Yongle (1407), he was ordered to go to Beijing to build the longevity Mausoleum of the empress dowager, and looked at the situation in Kyoto. After eight years of success, he granted Dr. Lingtai, the imperial heavenly supervisor, and returned home on leave. A plaque inscribed by the Emperor: “the founding teacher”. Later, he was ordered to go to Beijing for the second time, spend the Imperial Palace, build jiuzhentun military fortress for the great wall of the Ming Dynasty, and was promoted to “qintianjian Wupin lingtailang”.

Zeng Bangmin, named Luoshan, is a generation of geographical leaders. At the age of bingshen in Jiajing, the emperor took the prime minister to build the Longevity Palace, which is now one of the Ming Tombs. With success, he granted the doctor of the imperial heavenly supervisor, entered the Royal seven grades, and gave a gold plaque to return home. Wen said: Jiangxi Zeng’s son, who can compare his knowledge? He has a hidden Qingxiang Sutra in his belly and a clear eye for female stone carp. Call the mountain and stop drinking water. It’s great to succeed. You also care about your achievements. You have nothing else to give to the south. Si Yan makes a note. Return home to rebuild dunxu hall, donate your own field as the sand for the meeting of turtles and snakes at the water outlet, and make a stone arch bridge to lock it, so as to form a ridge away from the sky in the midst of water and fire. The work dies before it is completed. I ask you to finish the unfinished work.

In addition, there are Zeng shiqilang, Zeng Yi, Zeng Wei, Zeng Huanqin, Zeng Yuetang, Zeng Heng, Zeng Hui, Zeng Hebin, Zeng Yongzhang, Zeng Guorui, Zeng Ruzhi, Zeng Heqiao, Zeng Hexi, Zeng Yinglong, Zeng Deqi, Zeng Bing, Zeng Chengji, Zeng Yinggen, Zeng Han, Zeng Juhong, Zeng Jushi, Zeng Weilie, Zeng Rimao, Zeng Zongliang, Zeng Guohui, Zeng Kangzhao, etc, The footprints of these feng shui masters are almost all over the north and south of the river. Almost every famous place in China has three Liao Feng Ming masters’ feng shui works spread to this day.

Snake temple

Snake shaped ancestral hall is a ancestral hall of Zeng family. The ancestral hall was built under a snake like ridge in Houlong mountain in the north of Sanliao village. The whole ancestral hall was designed with the characteristics of snake. Behind the ancestral hall, a seven grade earth slope piled up manually is called a flower platform to gather gas. The flower platform naturally connects with the surrounding environment, quite like a winding lying snake. Yang Junsong Feng Shui focuses on the situation. Architectural design and terrain pay great attention to the matching of form and meaning. Because there are two huge ancient camphor trees on the back flower platform, people in Sanliao village call the snake shaped ancestral hall “golden snake hanging tree”. The drinking name is not only vivid, but also complement each other.

Side tiger tomb

The tiger shaped tomb on the side is the tomb of Sanliao Zeng’s family. The owner of the tomb is Duke Yuping of the Song Dynasty, also known as Duke Wudao. He is the 18th generation grandson of Duke Wen. His name is cunyuan, Cunxin and cunde.

This tomb is easy to find behind Sanliao village. There is a wrapped stone behind the tomb and a giant maple on the north side of the tomb. The inscriptions of the tomb are as follows: Zeng Yuping, the 18th ancestor of the Song Dynasty, was buried under the maple tree in Yangao, riding a Dragon Cave in the shape of a tiger, Shen Shanyin Xiang and Geng Jia, Geng Yin shared gold. It was rebuilt on the auspicious day of may at the age of Gengchen in the 25th year of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty.

It is said that in the early days of Sanliao Zeng’s family, the men of the 18th generation were handed down alone, and the people were not prosperous (it is said in the seal of Yang saving the poor that “money and grain in the early generation did not prosper”. Since the construction of this magnificent tiger shaped tomb, Ding SuiXing, a Zeng surname, has developed. Tiger shaped tomb can protect future generations. It is a masterpiece of the three Liao feng shui masters. The Earth Spirit is quite magical.

The tomb is built in the shape of a mountain, giving people the feeling of a tiger lying on a mountain bag. Just after the tiger shaped tomb was built, except for the long house sun rending Xingwang, the second and third houses sun were not very smooth. Later, two additional steles were built on the left and right sides of the tiger head, which means “opening the tiger’s eye”. It was really strange. Since then, all houses sun have gradually prospered.

Eight sceneries of Liao River

According to the ancient genealogy of Zeng’s family, Liaoxi Wencong, the “Eight Sights” were named by Yang Gong himself. He said to his disciple Zeng Gong: “Although Liao River is remote, the landscape is especially beautiful. You can climb the Gongjun mountain, walk on a treadmill, travel alone in the rock, enjoy the late green of the southern forest, watch the morning clouds in the eastern Valley, see the evening photos of the western mountains, listen to the fishing songs of Beipu, meditate on the water and Longtan in Linfen, lie on a treadmill of dragon beads to understand the mystery, cultivate an acre of land in the south to nourish food, and drink the dragon spring to cook tea. You can have endless joy in the rest of your life. It can be said that you are satisfied and die without regret.”

Nowadays, Sanliao village is a national 4A tourist attraction. Because of its unique feng shui culture, it is praised as “the birthplace of Kanyu culture” and “the first village of Chinese feng shui culture” by the Yi scholars at home and abroad. The well-known Sanliao village has attracted a large number of overseas Hakkas, who have come all the way to Sanliao to explore the mystery.