The Gold-Digging Zhonglang General was ranked alongside the Gold-Touching Commandant and the Mound-Raising Celestial Official as one of the Three Official Tomb Raiders. The twenty-eight-character formula of the “Gold-Digging Zhonglang General” for locating tombs by the earth's divisions goes: “The Three Cycles and Nine Periods reveal the true dragon; the sun, moon, and five stars entwine in layers; water rests on one side, fields on the other; among the mountains of the second and fourth divisions, the hidden gate lies deep.”
