In Chinese culture, there are many legends about fengshui. In order to live and work in peace and contentment, the primitives were encouraged to practice choosing the living places and building the houses continuously. The instinct opinion about fengshui began to be put into the practice naturally. What’s more, it reacted against the new practice. At the same time, it was linked with the soul concept tightly. And the soul concept was continuously perfect.
The archaeology state clearly that all the citizens living in the Neolithic Ages had worshiped and sacrificed the ancestors with different degrees. All most all the dead had been buried trimly in the tombs of clan according to the descending birth order. Further more, with the developing of people’s living and production, the number of funerary objections was increasing. The main types of the graves were vertical hole and grotto. It indicated they were willing to date back to former life secretly and vaguely.
According to the archaeology achievements, annals documents and legends, the Chinese culture costume of burying in the hole had lasted for Spring and Autumn Period in Si Chuan province, Yunnan province, Gui Zhou province, Guang Xi province, Hu Nan province, Jiang Xi province, Fu Jiang province and so on. And it was followed by many ethnic groups such as Han nationality, Ba nationality, Yue nationality, Miao nationality, Yao nationality and so on. Before that time, it was popular to bury the dead in the grotto in Gan Su areas. And it was approved that it was developing from the Majiayao culture. It had made progress till the Qijia culture.
There is an ancient Chinese culture legend spreading in Si Chuan province. The legend has revealed that the primitives hoped to honor the ancestors in order to be blessed. It is a kind of xengsin concept. What’s more it is the mix of comforting the dead and mental atavism. In ancient Chinese culture, once the plague was ridden in a tribe. And a lot of the old had dead of the plague. However, the buried dead bodies were destroyed by the beast because the dead bodies were buried in a shallow grave. Therefore, the soul of these dead did not protect the black sheep of the family. And the disasters stroke among the living persons continuously. In order to save the clan members, A Dan, the leader of the tribe, sent his little brother A Duanteng to ask the remote ancestor, the old grandma, how to get rid of the disaster. A Duanteng had suffered a lot and finally found the old grandma. The old grandma told A Duanteng that they would not live a happy and peaceful life until the ancestors bodies had been protected well. Therefore, the clan member buried their ancestors’ bodies in the high grotto in the bluff. Thus the clan member had protected by the soul of the ancestors and they had lived in a happy and peaceful life.
Whether the represent of the old grandma is a person or a god has not been mentioned in the Chinese culture legend. Therefore I associated with the god of Xi Wangmu in “Shan Hai Jing” who was living in the Kunlun Mountains. The stone dens where the god of Xi Wangmu once lived in can be seen here and there. The legends of the old grandma and the god of Xi Wangmu have confirmed the former assumption of the writer. The concept that ancestors lived in the mountain had develop in the primitives’ realization deeply. The best way to comfort the dead and get the good luck from the dead is to bury the dead in the places where they set off. If the descendents where they lived was hard to bury the ancestors in the caves, so they buried the dead in a grave in the shape of the hole and mountains. And this is symbolic significance of dating back to former costume. At the same time, the ancestors had to been buried in the order of descendents birth order no matter the making or the placing.
The responsive readers may be aware of something about dating back to origin. The awareness linked with living and death circularly had been formed in building the ancestors’ graves in ancient times.