The Lost Tomb : Tibetan Sea Flower

Chapter 46: Coffin Hanging Upside Down

This tomb seemed to have been turned over by some mischievous ghost, with the top of the tomb on the bottom and the bottom on the top. Poker-face remembered the process of opening the bluestone slate before and suddenly realized why such a strange structure was adopted. Generally speaking, the Han tombs they had seen before were all made of bluestone slabs that were covered with blue-green bricks, but they were completely reversed here. It turned out that what they dug up wasn't the top of the tomb, but the bottom.

Poker-face walked under something hanging upside down, raised the torch to get a better look at it, and found it was actually a coffin affixed to the top of the tomb.

After the four enlarged the hole and came down, they were also amazed, feeling that they had encountered one of the strangest tombs in the world. One of them asked, "Is it because an earthquake turned the whole tomb upside down that it's like this?"

Zhang Haike shook his head and pointed to the coffin and said, "Even if that were the case, it's impossible for the coffin to stick like that. It would definitely crack the ceiling if it turned a hundred and eighty degrees. Moreover, if there was a strong earthquake, there's no way the whole tomb would be turned over. The tomb has a loose structure and relies on gravity and pressure, so once there's a force to counter it, the weight of the tomb would be so heavy that the ceiling would surely collapse into a pile of broken tiles."

The man asked, "Then what's going on? Does that mean someone did it on purpose?"

Zhang Haike nodded. The Zhang family had also trained them on how to deal with some unknown things. Looking at these objects hanging upside down from the top of the tomb, there must be a very logical reason why the whole tomb was turned upside down. For this reason, he thought it had something to do with feng shui. The person next to him asked, "It's so strange. I've only heard of vertical burial, horizontal burial, and 'prone' burial, but 'prone' burial is just the body lying on its stomach in the coffin. I've never seen a whole tomb built like this before."

Zhang Haike wondered what kind of feng shui was like this. Was this the feng shui pattern he saw in ancient books that could only be found in one place? The others saw him muttering to himself and asked, "You usually have a lot of clever ideas and read a lot of books. Do you have any clues?"

Zhang Haike said: "When we talk about the feng shui of tombs, the primary purpose is to absorb the essence of heaven and earth, but there's no difference between taking from the earth, the sky, or underground. The spiritual influence of heaven and earth only passes through one body, and it's the same whether it passes through the front or the back. But if this tomb is placed in this way, it means that it regards the earth as the sky and the sky as the earth!"

Another man said, "Crap, do you mean this is the tomb of Chen Jinnan, the leader of the Heaven and Earth Society?" [1]

Zhang Haike slapped him and said: "The patriarch said we mustn't joke at times like this. If you don't take this tomb seriously, it won't take you seriously."

The man said: "It would be good if it doesn't take me seriously. I'll be really upset if it does!"

Zhang Haike said, "I've seen similar records in an ancient book. All of the mountains in this area grow toward the earth, not the sky. The feng shui master probably had to make the tomb look like this in order to conform to the mountain."

After listening to this, the others felt that it seemed reasonable. Poker-face then said, "In this case, there are still several questions. Mountaintops all point towards the sky, while the bottom faces the ground. This is true even for underground mountains because the topography is heavy and basically caves in, or can be made to cave in. If there are underground mountains nearby and the earth is the sky and the sky is the earth, then this section of the mountain may have sunk deep underground. According to common sense, the tomb should follow."