THE BRIEF HISTORY OF OUR FENGSHUI LINEAGE
There are many attempts to write a brief history of FengShui, molded according to individual needs and assumptions. We had shared herewith part of our course materials as pertaining to our histories and lineages. These may not be the facts as there are alot of historical accounts that required further validation. So, please take it as a story... This page may be updated from time to time...
Beginning of Time Period 混沌
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The Daoist scripture narrates that the universe that we knew today came from an earlier universe that has collapsed and died its natural death created an extreme black hole that in within, a channel 道 to create a new universe. The old consciousness of the dying universe lived on as a being, unlike beings that we understand. The Daoist personified Him as the Primordial YuanShi TianJun 元始天尊. A formless Thought only Being almost equal to an Almighty, He thinks therefore it Exist... A pitch dark universe existed TaiXuan 太玄. His job was done.
Then came another Being almost equal to an Almighty that sets thing in motion... The Daoist personified Him as the Primordial LingBao TianJun 靈寶天尊. He sets the ground rule initiated the Big Bang. The narration said, He opened the Heavenly Book of No Word 無字天書, thus WuJi Sheng TaiJi 無極生太極, the ultimate reality produces TaiJi began. TaiJi Sheng LiangYi 太極生两仪, TaiJi takes the Duality - Matter and Anti-Matter produced by the Big Bang resulted in an expending universe - the Primal Chaos, HunTun 混沌, where stars and planets were born. This period is known as the Supreme Beginning (太始) is born out of the Primal Chaos (混沌) singularity, to form the Original Fetus (元胎) which is the Supreme Ultimate (太極). Thereupon, His job was done.
It is the Heaven and Earth (天地) or the father and mother (父母) to the Supreme Yi (太易). Supreme Yi (太易) is never constant and ever changing. Such movement give rise to the Two Slices (兩儀) of YinYang (陰陽). Its dynamism is creation called the Supreme First (太初) who in return generates the 4 imageries (四象). These 4 imageries (四象) are HeTu (河圖) that is also called the Supreme Essence (太素) of all creations, notably Heaven, Man and Earth Three Talents (三才). Now comes the Pre-Historical Period.
Then came another Being almost equal to an Almighty that sets thing in motion... The Daoist personified Him as the Primordial LingBao TianJun 靈寶天尊. He sets the ground rule initiated the Big Bang. The narration said, He opened the Heavenly Book of No Word 無字天書, thus WuJi Sheng TaiJi 無極生太極, the ultimate reality produces TaiJi began. TaiJi Sheng LiangYi 太極生两仪, TaiJi takes the Duality - Matter and Anti-Matter produced by the Big Bang resulted in an expending universe - the Primal Chaos, HunTun 混沌, where stars and planets were born. This period is known as the Supreme Beginning (太始) is born out of the Primal Chaos (混沌) singularity, to form the Original Fetus (元胎) which is the Supreme Ultimate (太極). Thereupon, His job was done.
It is the Heaven and Earth (天地) or the father and mother (父母) to the Supreme Yi (太易). Supreme Yi (太易) is never constant and ever changing. Such movement give rise to the Two Slices (兩儀) of YinYang (陰陽). Its dynamism is creation called the Supreme First (太初) who in return generates the 4 imageries (四象). These 4 imageries (四象) are HeTu (河圖) that is also called the Supreme Essence (太素) of all creations, notably Heaven, Man and Earth Three Talents (三才). Now comes the Pre-Historical Period.
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Pre-historical Period 伏羲神農
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FengShui 風水 is a new term as it used to be called KanYu 堪輿, or by other names such as DiLi 地理, geography or the Earth Principle. During the reign of Three Sovereign 三皇, FuXi 伏羲, ShenNong 神農and NuWa 女媧, DiLi 地理 is used to locate villages and rivers as the priority. DiLi 地理 is all about forms 形勢. Along with this per-historical period, FuXi 伏羲 is known to create the Early Heaven BaGua 先天八卦. NuWa 女媧 created mankind from clay of the rivers. ShenNong 神農 cultivated a grower civilization. It is the civilization age of China. FuXi 伏羲 discovered the numerology of HeTu 河圖 from his observation of the YangTze 長江 River. It was said that a mystical creature QiLin 麒麟 in the form of a Dragon Horse emerged and engraved within its scales were polka dots map resemble what is known as HeTu 河圖. It was ShenNong 神農 who incorporated the use of the Early Heaven BaGua 先天八卦 into another less known form called the Middle Heaven BaGua 中天八卦. This form of BaGua is called ShenNong Gua 神農卦. With the passage of time, such arrangement has been lost and remains elusive. With these discoveries, these pre-historical emperors’ works remain as the starting point of Chinese Metaphysics.
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- SanFen 三 墳
- SanYi 三易: LienShan 连山, GuiChang 归藏, QianKun 乾坤
- The Chronicles of LienBu 太古河圖代姓紀
HuangDi’s Period 黄帝
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The battle of ZhuoLu 涿鹿之戰 between HuangDi 黄帝 and ChiYou 蚩尤 remains an inspiring tale as the epic brought about the creation of LuoPan 羅盤 and the Art of War 兵法from the Mysterious Lady 玄女, known to be the deity of KanYu.Therefore, KanYu is the Art of War 兵法. Many other revelations were bestowed upon HuangDi 黄帝 by the Mysterious Lady 玄女 such as the doctrines of medical compendium as in the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, HuangDi NeiJing 黃帝內經 and the original version of the Book of Mountain and Water, ShanHai Jing 山海經 which believed to have been extinct. Another legendary Emperor Yu the Great 大禹, mitigated the Great Flood 大禹治水. While mitigating the flood, a gigantic mythological creature of a Dragon Head Turtle emerged. Inscribed within are the dots at the turtle’s shell and forthwith resembles what is called LoShu 洛書also known as the Turtle Book, GuiShu 龟书.
Xia Dynasty witnessed the emergence of the study of LianShan Yi 連山易, stacking mountain Yi, the oldest form of YiJing 易經. By then, the original Art of War 兵法 would have been expanded into other forms liked QiMen 奇門. It was also in the Xia Dynasty that the astrological solar calendar was created based on the GanZi 干支system and was named the Xia Calendar. The Art of War is handed down from HuangDi 黄帝 to JiangGong 姜子牙, HuangShi 黄石公, Gui GuZi 鬼谷子, SunZi 孫子, SunBing 孫臏 and other notable strategists including ZhugeLiang 諸葛亮 and Liu Bowen 劉伯溫. It may take a different form but the fundamental principles are the divination doctrines of SanShi 三式 of QiMen 奇門, LiuRen 六壬 and TaiYi 太乙.
Xia Dynasty witnessed the emergence of the study of LianShan Yi 連山易, stacking mountain Yi, the oldest form of YiJing 易經. By then, the original Art of War 兵法 would have been expanded into other forms liked QiMen 奇門. It was also in the Xia Dynasty that the astrological solar calendar was created based on the GanZi 干支system and was named the Xia Calendar. The Art of War is handed down from HuangDi 黄帝 to JiangGong 姜子牙, HuangShi 黄石公, Gui GuZi 鬼谷子, SunZi 孫子, SunBing 孫臏 and other notable strategists including ZhugeLiang 諸葛亮 and Liu Bowen 劉伯溫. It may take a different form but the fundamental principles are the divination doctrines of SanShi 三式 of QiMen 奇門, LiuRen 六壬 and TaiYi 太乙.
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WenWang’s Period 周文王
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Alongside with the doctrine of SanShi 三式, the account of the Duke of Zhou 周文王while in imprisonment discovered his very own BaGua arrangement, known as WenWang BaGua 文王八卦 or Later Heaven BaGua, HouTian BaGua 後天八卦. The logic of this sequence is mysterious and continues to puzzle many scholars. It was also in this age that LianShan Yi 連山易has been transformed to Gui CangYi 歸藏易 which means return to its origin. The difference between these two Yi is found at the beginning of the Hexagram of Gen Mountain 艮 of the LianShan Yi 連山易 to Kun Earth 坤 of the Gui CangYi 歸藏易. Duke of Zhou 周文王refined his methodology of WenWang YiGua 文王易卦 and replaced both LianShan Yi 連山易 and Gui CangYi 歸藏易. Most doctrines have taken the basis of Early Heaven BaGua 先天八卦 as the principle and Later Heaven BaGua 後天八卦 as the applications. Reference was made to formula 理氣 FengShui based on the mathematical evolution which is rooted against SanShi 三式, astrology 命理, HeLuo 河洛 and YiGua 易卦. This mathematical model evolved independently in the corpus of Shu 書, Qi 氣and Gua 卦. Astronomers such as YiXing 一行, WuXiang 巫咸, ZiPing 子平, and ShaoYung 邵雍 applying such to made up part of the FengShui formula 理氣.
TaiGong’s Period 姜太公
The tale of Investiture of the Gods 封神榜 stated the fall of Shang where Duke of Zhou 周文王 and the legendary Jiang Ziya 姜子牙 or Jiang TaiGong 姜太公 were the integral characters alongside others liked NuWa 女媧, NeZha 哪吒, LeiGong 雷公, Taiyi ZhenRen 太乙真人 and ErLang 二郎. The central figure is Jiang TaiGong 姜太公 with his legendry 太公兵法 which was handed down to HuangShi 黄石公, Gui GuZi 鬼谷子, SunZi 孫子, SunBing 孫臏 and so forth. Jiang TaiGong 姜太公 early life remains a mystery. He was the apprentice of Yuanshi Tianzun元始天尊, one of the Three Pure Ones of the Daoist Pantheon. At the age of 72, he was bestowed upon HuangDi BingFa 黄帝兵法 and was instructed to remain a recluse until the day when the Duke of Zhou 周文王 came to seek his counsel. Therefore, he only uses a straight fishhook without bait, three feet above the water, for angling just to pass time 姜太公釣魚, 願者上鉤. Jiang TaiGong姜太公 foretold the duke of his kingdom will exist for 800 years and it is the Heaven’s Mandate to overturn Shang Dynasty. Thereupon Jiang TaiGong 姜太公 became the chancellor of Zhou and assisted Duke of Zhou 周文王in building his kingdom. HuangDi BingFa 黄帝兵法, a method known as QiMen 奇門 was used to dispelled off all counter attacks from the troop of strange non-human spiritual warriors with mystical power. This form of QiMen奇門 has been handed down as the Fa QiMen 法奇門which uses Daoist methods to one’s advantages. Jiang’s descendent took up the family name of Lu呂. The legendary Eight Immortal, Lu ChunYang’s 呂純陽 family line can be traced back to Jiang TaiGong 姜太公 and it is believed that the art of Fa QiMen 法奇門 may have survived through the Lu呂 lineage of demon fighters.
GuiGu's Period 鬼谷子
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In the Warring state period Gui GuZi 鬼谷子 or Ghost Valley Master came into being. Shrouded with mysteries and little was known about him, he was believed to have been the son of the ghost or the saint from the Ghost Valley. Either way, he obtained the transmission of TaiGong BingFa 太公兵法, mastered the art of the Five Elements and teachers to many notable students of the Qin Dynasty in the unification of China.
Qing WuZi's Period 青烏子
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Coming to Qing WuZi 青烏子, he was probably the only individual that has crystallize all fundamental of KanYu into writngs including the much talked about the Burial Classics or ZhangShu 《葬書》, DunHuang excavated Qing WuZi JiMai《青乌子脉诀》, ZhaiJing 《宅经》and others including the source book of other writing by later day masters such as YangGong.
HuangShi’s Period 黃石公
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Qin Dynasty revealed that the art of KanYu 堪輿 is used extensively in the Qin Tomb. Mercury was used to filled up the underground streams with huge cave dug, terracotta warriors molded, mountains literary built out of flat land and the concepts of “as above, so below” came into formation with the usage of white tiger 白虎and green dragon 青龍 as the embrace. Many of the KanYu 堪輿 knowledge were made to extinct by the burning of books. Theories which states that mountains are the forms or solidify Qi made by the gravitational force from the stars paved ways to link astrology and astronomy to geography or DiLi 地理 and collectively known as KanYu 堪輿, the study of Heaven and Earth. Huang ShiGong 黃石公 or Yellow Rock Master, also known as Huang DaXian 黃大仙, Master Red Pine 赤松子 is credited to have written QingNan Jing 青囊經, an authoritative work on the fundamental of FengShui. However, he is more known for his art of war or HuangShi BingFa黃石兵法 through his connection to Zhang Liang 張良, wanted man of Qin ShiHuang for the attempt of assassinating the Emperor.
Chance encountered of Huang ShiGong 黃石公 with Zhang Liang張良 at the Yishui Bridge with the pretext of dropping a shoe and subsequent missed appointments to test Zhang’s patient and humility, having Zhang being transmitted TaiGong BingFa 太公兵法. It was believed, 13 years later after his military accomplishment, Zhang visited Mount GuCheng to seek out Huang ShiGong 黃石公 only to find a huge Yellow Rock. A somewhat tenuous source from the Song dynasty claims that Zhang ordered that the TaiGong BingFa 太公兵法 be entombed with him upon his death in order to prevent its transmission to the unworthy, and that the work was only rediscovered in the Jin dynasty by grave robbers. An interpretation to the traditional theory is that the work was the product of the Jiang TaiGong 姜太公 disciples before Qi's conquest by Qin, in 221 BC. A third theory is that, rather than having anything to do with the Taigong, Huang ShiGong 黃石公 simply wrote the work himself. Another theory is that the work is a forgery dating from the Wei- Jin period. A final theory holds that the Three Strategies dates from the late West Han Dynasty and that it is the defunct HuangLao school of Daoism. Yet, he is better known as a war strategist then a FengShui master.
Chance encountered of Huang ShiGong 黃石公 with Zhang Liang張良 at the Yishui Bridge with the pretext of dropping a shoe and subsequent missed appointments to test Zhang’s patient and humility, having Zhang being transmitted TaiGong BingFa 太公兵法. It was believed, 13 years later after his military accomplishment, Zhang visited Mount GuCheng to seek out Huang ShiGong 黃石公 only to find a huge Yellow Rock. A somewhat tenuous source from the Song dynasty claims that Zhang ordered that the TaiGong BingFa 太公兵法 be entombed with him upon his death in order to prevent its transmission to the unworthy, and that the work was only rediscovered in the Jin dynasty by grave robbers. An interpretation to the traditional theory is that the work was the product of the Jiang TaiGong 姜太公 disciples before Qi's conquest by Qin, in 221 BC. A third theory is that, rather than having anything to do with the Taigong, Huang ShiGong 黃石公 simply wrote the work himself. Another theory is that the work is a forgery dating from the Wei- Jin period. A final theory holds that the Three Strategies dates from the late West Han Dynasty and that it is the defunct HuangLao school of Daoism. Yet, he is better known as a war strategist then a FengShui master.
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- QingNan Jing 青囊經
JingFang's Period 京房
JingFang, from the Han Dynasty, born in present-day 東郡頓丘 , was an expert at making predictions from the hexagrams of the ancient Yi. A book on Yi divination attributed to him describes the NaJia method of hexagram interpretation, which correlates their separate lines with elements of the Stem and Branch system. Although better known for his work in musical measurements, he also accurately described the basic mechanics of lunar and solar eclipses. He refined the notions of NaYin with the astrological movement of the Sun and postulated the connection of the Moon to the Sun and expended the notion of NaJia as pivotal to the moon as a reflection to the Sun. He established the connection of the Moon to NaJia to Qi flow and rearranged his findings into the concept of Gua, Qi and Xiang. These sets of BaGua arrangement is known as JingFang BaGong Gua or JingFang 8 Palaces, now used in most of the XuanKong and WenWang Gua divination.
He was also an advocate of the theory that the light emanating from the spherical Moon (as seen from Earth) was merely a reflection of sunlight. This was known as the 'radiating influence' theory in ancient China, which stated that the light of the moon was merely the light reflected from the sun, and that the celestial bodies were spherical. This accurate theory was dismissed by the philosopher Wang Chong (27–97 AD), yet embraced by the mathematician, inventor and scientist Zhang Heng (78–139 AD).
Jing Fang stated:
“The moon and the planets are Yin; they have shape but no light. This they receive only when the sun illuminates them. The former masters regarded the sun as round like a crossbow bullet, and they thought the moon had the nature of a mirror. Some of them recognized the moon as a ball too. Those parts of the moon which the sun illuminates look bright, those parts which it does not, remain dark.
He was also an advocate of the theory that the light emanating from the spherical Moon (as seen from Earth) was merely a reflection of sunlight. This was known as the 'radiating influence' theory in ancient China, which stated that the light of the moon was merely the light reflected from the sun, and that the celestial bodies were spherical. This accurate theory was dismissed by the philosopher Wang Chong (27–97 AD), yet embraced by the mathematician, inventor and scientist Zhang Heng (78–139 AD).
Jing Fang stated:
“The moon and the planets are Yin; they have shape but no light. This they receive only when the sun illuminates them. The former masters regarded the sun as round like a crossbow bullet, and they thought the moon had the nature of a mirror. Some of them recognized the moon as a ball too. Those parts of the moon which the sun illuminates look bright, those parts which it does not, remain dark.
ZhuGe Liang’s Period 諸葛亮
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The traditions of WenWang YiJing 文王易經 has been carried down to JingFang 京房, a Han Dynasty scholar. Through his work, YiJing 易經 has been widely applied to match NaYin, JiaZi and the other astronomical bodies. One work of his is the JingFang’s Eight Palaces 京房八宫 applied to YiJing 易經 which provides the theoretical framework for the Out of Gua principles of XuanKong 玄空. His work has been taken as the fundamental work for the Monk YiXing一行 whom believed, to have created Greater Wandering Years methodology 大遊年法 or commonly known as the Eight Mansions 八宅. In the notable 3 Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮is credited as the inventor of QiMen 奇門 but the accounts of the Battle of Red Cliff displayed his ability in using QiMen 奇門 rather than inventing it. QiMen 奇門 must have existed long before as in the HuangDi BingFa 黄帝兵法. He lives in seclusion as an ordinary farmer nicknamed the crouching dragon, 臥龍. His ability in utilizing the 5 elements and BaGua 八卦 in his battle formations is astonishing and probably the most known calculated risks strategist of all time. He left the world with his art of war, apparently the bridged version of HuangDi BingFa 黄帝兵法 called 36 stratagems of Zhuge BingFa 諸葛兵法. Little is known about Zhuge Liang’s 諸葛亮 method of QiMen 法奇 as it could have been a mixture of Fa QiMen 法奇門 or the otherwise mundane SanYuan QiMen 三元奇門. In the study of the 5 elements, SanYuan QiMen 三元奇門 is the cornerstone to SanYuan XuanKong 三元玄空 where it is said, Heaven has 9 stars, Earth has 8 Gua and Human has 8 Doors. These doors are referred to the mysterious doors of QiMen 奇門.
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GuoPu’s Period 郭璞
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Court astronomers, beside calibrating time, played a role in divining auspicious burial. Geomancer GuoPu 郭璞 learn from his master Qiu TingHan邱廷翰, who has written The Secret Book of Jade Letters YuHan BiShu, where the source of the first principle, to barricade wind, then to receive water came into existence. The Burial Classics 葬書 is were the first word FengShui 風水 was found. Notwithstanding such, GuoPu 郭璞, as some claimed, did not write The Burial Classics 葬書. The annals of Jing only mentioned that GuoPu 郭璞 only copy or edited a number of classics but The Burial Classics 葬書 is not one of them. There is also no reference made by the literary works of one of his early disciple, Zhao, as his works had been extinct. By such, The Burial Classics 葬書 may have been the work of an anonymous author, credited to GuoPu 郭璞.
Tang Dynasty is the Chinese Golden Age of Civilization where the 100 schools flourished. The Silk Road opens China to all forms of influences. Many false doctrines were also created and distributed among the “barbaric” neighbors of the Tang’s court, including the Eight Mansions 八宅 thus, it had existed long before as the House Divination ZhaiBu 宅卜which based on the 8 Trigram 八卦. It is simple and fundamentally corrects, therefore a genuine FengShui method.
Tang Dynasty is the Chinese Golden Age of Civilization where the 100 schools flourished. The Silk Road opens China to all forms of influences. Many false doctrines were also created and distributed among the “barbaric” neighbors of the Tang’s court, including the Eight Mansions 八宅 thus, it had existed long before as the House Divination ZhaiBu 宅卜which based on the 8 Trigram 八卦. It is simple and fundamentally corrects, therefore a genuine FengShui method.
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At about this age of early Tang Dynasty, another interesting account is the art of ZiWei DouShu紫微斗数 (ZWDS) or the Purple Star Astrology, purportedly made popular by legendary Wudang Daoist ChenTuan 陳摶, who chance upon HuaShan master Lu ChunYang 呂純陽 or 呂洞賓Lu DongBin the immortal. When a Nestorian Monument of the Tang Dynasty was unearthed, it recorded the involvement of cross fertilization of ideas of the early Christian missionaries in China. The Nestorians are early Christians of Persian origins. One Nestorian by the name Alopen was an able translator who dutifully worked at the request of the Tang Emperor to translate the Gospel from Syriac into Chinese with the assistance from Lu ChunYang 呂純陽, whose labors were enshrined in the same Nestorian Monument as its author. Much of Lu ChunYang 呂純陽 early exposure to astrology has been deeply influenced by the Nestorian astrological framework, coupled by the Buddhist and Daoist background, enable him to formulate what is now known as ZWDS 紫微斗数. With all these discoveries, ZWDS 紫微斗数 remains the cornerstone theory of Lai BuYi賴布衣 of the Song Dynasty.
The Period of TuiBei Tu 推背圖
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Li ChunFeng 李淳風 and Yuan TianGang 袁天罡 are the two imperial masters of the Tang’s court well known for the creation of Tui BeiTu 推背圖, Map of Pushing Back. It is the documents of prediction of the Chinese Imperial Courts, originally existed in 2 scrolls. The upper scroll contains surreal drawings credited to Li ChunFeng 李淳風 whereas the lower scroll contains poem explaining the gist credited to Yuan TianGang 袁天罡. Both were believed to have been the masters of LiuRen 六壬. Yet incidents within court politics resulted in a bitter relationship between Li ChunFeng 李淳風 and Yuan TianGang 袁天罡. The authentic Tui BeiTu 推背圖 were finally “lost” overnight, leaving the fake version. With the disappearing of Tui BeiTu推背圖 both families went into exiles.
Li ChunFeng 李淳風 and Yuan TianGang 袁天罡studied under the teaching of the legendary Daoist LiBo 李播, whom was believed to have inherited LiuRen 六壬 from a strange dream of TaiShang LaoJun 太上老君 handed the Scriptures of LiuRen 六壬to the Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heaven 九天玄女 to be bestowed to LiBo. Upon receiving LiBo was awaken just to find that his wife has given birth to Li ChunFeng 李淳風. Together with Tui BeiTu 推背圖many other secrets of Heaven were also extinct.
FengShui formula 理氣 evolves over the numerology of HeLuo 河洛 is also believed to have its root in LiuRen 六壬. It was believed that HeLuo had extinct since Qin Dynasty only to be revealed by ChenKao, Late Tang Dynasty philosopher, who exposed the LongTu Yi 龙图易 (Dragon Map Yi) caused ripple across the Tang’s court resulted in schism between School of HeLuo, TuShu Pai 图书派 and School of Rebuttal of the Ancient, YiGu Pai 疑古派. The former led by ZhuXi 朱熹 and Cai YuanDing 蔡元定 remains the most reliable source of Chinese Metaphysics of which Yang JungSong 楊筠松, imperial librarian, believed to have been part of it.
Li ChunFeng 李淳風 and Yuan TianGang 袁天罡studied under the teaching of the legendary Daoist LiBo 李播, whom was believed to have inherited LiuRen 六壬 from a strange dream of TaiShang LaoJun 太上老君 handed the Scriptures of LiuRen 六壬to the Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heaven 九天玄女 to be bestowed to LiBo. Upon receiving LiBo was awaken just to find that his wife has given birth to Li ChunFeng 李淳風. Together with Tui BeiTu 推背圖many other secrets of Heaven were also extinct.
FengShui formula 理氣 evolves over the numerology of HeLuo 河洛 is also believed to have its root in LiuRen 六壬. It was believed that HeLuo had extinct since Qin Dynasty only to be revealed by ChenKao, Late Tang Dynasty philosopher, who exposed the LongTu Yi 龙图易 (Dragon Map Yi) caused ripple across the Tang’s court resulted in schism between School of HeLuo, TuShu Pai 图书派 and School of Rebuttal of the Ancient, YiGu Pai 疑古派. The former led by ZhuXi 朱熹 and Cai YuanDing 蔡元定 remains the most reliable source of Chinese Metaphysics of which Yang JungSong 楊筠松, imperial librarian, believed to have been part of it.
Qiu YanHan's Period 丘延翰
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Qiu YanHan 丘延翰 is known to have been the teacher to the legendary Yang YunSong 楊筠松. Legend state that he is the disciple of the Red Pine Master 赤松子, professing the knowledge of QIngNan Jing 青囊经, whom in return coming from the long lineages of masters such as GuoPu 郭璞, Yellow Stone Master 黄石公 and Qing WuZi 青烏子. Some claimed that Red Pine Master 赤松子 is indeed Yellow Stone Master 黄石公 and he is indeed, the legendary HuangLau XianShi 黃老仙師 or in Cantonese term, WongTaiXin 黃大仙, the Great Sage of Master Wong, who has attained immortal-hood or XianRen 仙人 or ShenRen 神人. Occasionally he was said to have been tutored with the knowledge of OceanHorn Classcis 海角经 by the very ancient deity of unknown origins - the Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heavens 九天玄女, XuanNu 玄女. The text state YuanNu 元女 instead, meaning the Lady of Originality - the very seed before the myriad things are born. Yet among all the doubtful pedigree, the term Yuan 元 as in YuanNu has been superfluously emphasized as the forefather of SanYuan, also known as the school of Facing 向家. The SanYuan FuJian schools buy this story. Historically, he was known to have mastered the KanYu writings of GuoPu 郭璞 at a very young age. He has left a legacy known as YuHan Jing, the Classics of Jade Envelope 玉函经 - the source code for YangGong 楊筠松 Fengshui. Unlike YangGong 楊筠松 who is known to be the forefather of FengShui master for both SanHe and SanYuan schools. Little is known about Qiu YanHan 丘延翰.
Qiu YanHan 丘延翰 being the contemporary to YiXing 一行, both had their hands in corrupting FengShui classics during the notorious Tang Dynasty so that the neighboring barbaric countries such as Korea and Japan will not prosper surpassing China. Such hideous act has also been the hallmark of modern contemporary masters that only wish to serve their masters with regardless to ethics and moral. Qiu YanHan 丘延翰 finally has to face his very own Karma. He found an emperor producing spot and owing to such, he was thrown into the prison. What happened thereafter, was claimed to be a faithful encounter with Yang YunSong, who is claimed to be responsible of freeing him. He left and started his very own lineage of FengShui, only to be survived by Qing BuZi, the Green Cloth Master 青布子, who sets out a totally different approach to FengShui and the forerunner of SanYuan DaGua.
Qiu YanHan 丘延翰 being the contemporary to YiXing 一行, both had their hands in corrupting FengShui classics during the notorious Tang Dynasty so that the neighboring barbaric countries such as Korea and Japan will not prosper surpassing China. Such hideous act has also been the hallmark of modern contemporary masters that only wish to serve their masters with regardless to ethics and moral. Qiu YanHan 丘延翰 finally has to face his very own Karma. He found an emperor producing spot and owing to such, he was thrown into the prison. What happened thereafter, was claimed to be a faithful encounter with Yang YunSong, who is claimed to be responsible of freeing him. He left and started his very own lineage of FengShui, only to be survived by Qing BuZi, the Green Cloth Master 青布子, who sets out a totally different approach to FengShui and the forerunner of SanYuan DaGua.
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YangGong’s Period 楊筠松
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Along with Tang’s megalomaniac ambitions and destined to collapse, Yang JungSong 楊筠松 stole the only copy of YuHan BiShu and went into exile in JiangXi. He is believed to have escaped with his assistant Liu JiangDong 劉江東, an aristocrat of the imperial court. He was ordained as a monk and camouflaged within the community. His presence helped the community and was “knighted” as Yang the Savior of the Poor, Yang JuiPing 杨救贫. With three disciples, a FengShui community called SanLiao 三僚 Three Huts was built. He spent his life teaching and refining the art. He wrote the Green Satchel Profound Saying, QingNan AoYou 青囊奧語, Jade Ruler Classics, YuChe Jing 玉經 and Heavenly Jade Classics, TianYu Jing 天玉經. These writings prescribed the methodology of FengShui conform to the Burial Classics 葬書. Yang’s method put a stop to the applications of FengShui by Divination ZhaiBu 宅卜. Instead, he used the Sundial to derive his Heaven Plates in the arrangement of 12 growth stages, an insignia of SanHe 三合 or Three Combinations.
Thus, Yang YunSong became the Father of FengShui. Among his disciples, LiaoYu 廖禹, LiuQian 劉謙, Zhang WenDe 曾文迪, stood prominent. He continued to refine on YangGong’s method and wrote Green Satchel Preface 青囊序, an attempt to clarify YangGong’s work in his elder years. By that time, other classics were written and credited to YangGong 楊公 himself, namely HanLong Jing 撼龍經 and YiLong Jing 疑龍經 with a doubtful literary style. Collectively, these doctrines were the basis of post YangGong method. To distinguish “authentic” YangGong method, it is called GuFa 古法 while the post-YangGong phenomenon is called XinFa 新法. Yet, such divergence is again, politically motivated.
There are 2 versions to the History of Great Grandmaster Yang JungSong 楊筠松.
The first version as most of us were told, the Great Grandmaster Yang JungSong, the official historical logbook 《南安府志》 reads: “Yang JungSong 楊筠松, citizen of Dou Zhou 竇州, was an officer during the reign of Xi Zhong 僖宗. He was in charge of Spiritual and Feng Shui Affairs. He reached the highest position of Golden Purple Light Prosperity Minister 金紫光祿大夫. When rebels headed by Huang Cao 黃巢 broke into the capital city, he cut short his hair and fled to Mount Kunlun 昆侖山."
The second version as rarely known, the Great Grand master Yang JungSong 楊筠松 was never be found in the official historical records of the Historian. There was however, a very small position held by him as a prison warden. Fate has brought him to encounter a prisoner who is a well versed FengShui master known as Qiu YanHan 丘延翰. In an attempt to help this prisoner to escape, he was taught YuHan Jing, the Classics of Jade Envelope 玉函经. The Great Grandmaster Yang JungSong 楊筠松, as the warden, later shown a partly decomposed corpse to the Emperor, convincing his majesty that the deceased is indeed the FengShui master Qiu YanHan 丘延翰 that has been condemned to death. Predicting that his deception may not last forever, he took an incident in the palace to flee to FuJian.
Which one is real?
Thus, Yang YunSong became the Father of FengShui. Among his disciples, LiaoYu 廖禹, LiuQian 劉謙, Zhang WenDe 曾文迪, stood prominent. He continued to refine on YangGong’s method and wrote Green Satchel Preface 青囊序, an attempt to clarify YangGong’s work in his elder years. By that time, other classics were written and credited to YangGong 楊公 himself, namely HanLong Jing 撼龍經 and YiLong Jing 疑龍經 with a doubtful literary style. Collectively, these doctrines were the basis of post YangGong method. To distinguish “authentic” YangGong method, it is called GuFa 古法 while the post-YangGong phenomenon is called XinFa 新法. Yet, such divergence is again, politically motivated.
There are 2 versions to the History of Great Grandmaster Yang JungSong 楊筠松.
The first version as most of us were told, the Great Grandmaster Yang JungSong, the official historical logbook 《南安府志》 reads: “Yang JungSong 楊筠松, citizen of Dou Zhou 竇州, was an officer during the reign of Xi Zhong 僖宗. He was in charge of Spiritual and Feng Shui Affairs. He reached the highest position of Golden Purple Light Prosperity Minister 金紫光祿大夫. When rebels headed by Huang Cao 黃巢 broke into the capital city, he cut short his hair and fled to Mount Kunlun 昆侖山."
The second version as rarely known, the Great Grand master Yang JungSong 楊筠松 was never be found in the official historical records of the Historian. There was however, a very small position held by him as a prison warden. Fate has brought him to encounter a prisoner who is a well versed FengShui master known as Qiu YanHan 丘延翰. In an attempt to help this prisoner to escape, he was taught YuHan Jing, the Classics of Jade Envelope 玉函经. The Great Grandmaster Yang JungSong 楊筠松, as the warden, later shown a partly decomposed corpse to the Emperor, convincing his majesty that the deceased is indeed the FengShui master Qiu YanHan 丘延翰 that has been condemned to death. Predicting that his deception may not last forever, he took an incident in the palace to flee to FuJian.
Which one is real?
Post-YangGong Period
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One of these methods is called QianKun National Treasure or QianKun GuoBao 乾坤國寶.In Taiwan; it is called Dragon Gate 8 Formations, LongMen BaDa Ju 龍門八大局. This method is the SanYuan三元approach to Landform in a Flatland context. It concerns the definition of door placement based on the water flows not breaking the Early and Later Heaven Gua sequence. It also introduced the idea of the middle Heaven Gua based on the Later Heaven’s Later Heaven Gua. It remains a formula based 理氣 system with certain principles contradict landform 形勢 principles.
Apparently, this method was claimed to have been the original Classics of Jade Envelope 玉函經. Due to the imperial stature of Classics of Jade Envelope 玉函經, it was elevated to the name of National Treasure 國寶. However, the birthplace of this method was in FuJian instead of GanZhou and therefore, it took a SanYuan approach and was renamed Dragon Gate Eight Formations (LMBDJ) 龍門八大局. The Classics of Jade Envelope 玉函經 was largely attributed to Qiu YanHan 丘延翰 lived around 650CE and both served and insulted the Tang Emperor Yang XuanZhong (712-756CE).
The FuJian School of FengShui claimed that the Great Grand master Yang JungSong 楊筠松 was never be found in the official historical records of the Historian. There was however, a very small position held by him as a prison warden. Fate has brought him to encounter a prisoner who is a well versed FengShui master known as Qiu YanHan 丘延翰. In an attempt to help this prisoner to escape, he was taught YuHan Jing, the Classics of Jade Envelope 玉函经. The Great Grandmaster Yang JungSong 楊筠松, as the warden, later shown a partly decomposed corpse to the Emperor, convincing his majesty that the deceased is indeed the FengShui master Qiu YanHan 丘延翰 that has been condemned to death. Predicting that his deception may not last forever, he took an incident in the palace to flee to FuJian. Therefore, LMBDJ or QKGB was born in FuJian. However, the Great Grand master Yang JungSong 楊筠松 was born in 843CE and to some account Qiu YanHan 丘延翰 must have lived at least 200 years before he could tutor him.
This method of LMBDJ or QKGB was made popular in Taiwan by the so claimed direct descendant of YangGong, the grand master Yang CangHua 陽藏華 circa 1860. He wrote the one and only book titled QianKun National Treasure (QKGB) 乾坤國寶 and became and FengShui Idol in the 19 century Taiwan with a large following. Modern schools started to mushroom taking the pages out of his work while some deliberately added other fringe techniques into it to make it even more complicated. Some even conducted FengShui tour taking iconic FengShui places liked the original shop of Ding TaiFung 鼎泰豐 to showcase the real application of LMBDJ or QKGB.
With regards to the shady history of this technique, this masterpiece by Yang CangHua 陽藏華 apparently it was written taking the pages of YiLong Jing 疑龍經 and HanLong Jing 撼龍 經 to be expended with a whole loads of other jargon to make up the bulk.
The other methods such as propagated by Wang CheYing, Zhao JiuFeng 赵九凤 and Ye JiuShen 叶九升 via Earth Principle Five Verses, DiLi WuJui 地理五诀 which is believed to be modern day water dragon application and water fountains placement.Lack of understanding of the Five Verses such as Dragon, Embrace, Spot, Water and Facing, 龍砂穴水向, resulted in many bankruptcy cases as the real application is only applied to landform 形勢.
Apparently, this method was claimed to have been the original Classics of Jade Envelope 玉函經. Due to the imperial stature of Classics of Jade Envelope 玉函經, it was elevated to the name of National Treasure 國寶. However, the birthplace of this method was in FuJian instead of GanZhou and therefore, it took a SanYuan approach and was renamed Dragon Gate Eight Formations (LMBDJ) 龍門八大局. The Classics of Jade Envelope 玉函經 was largely attributed to Qiu YanHan 丘延翰 lived around 650CE and both served and insulted the Tang Emperor Yang XuanZhong (712-756CE).
The FuJian School of FengShui claimed that the Great Grand master Yang JungSong 楊筠松 was never be found in the official historical records of the Historian. There was however, a very small position held by him as a prison warden. Fate has brought him to encounter a prisoner who is a well versed FengShui master known as Qiu YanHan 丘延翰. In an attempt to help this prisoner to escape, he was taught YuHan Jing, the Classics of Jade Envelope 玉函经. The Great Grandmaster Yang JungSong 楊筠松, as the warden, later shown a partly decomposed corpse to the Emperor, convincing his majesty that the deceased is indeed the FengShui master Qiu YanHan 丘延翰 that has been condemned to death. Predicting that his deception may not last forever, he took an incident in the palace to flee to FuJian. Therefore, LMBDJ or QKGB was born in FuJian. However, the Great Grand master Yang JungSong 楊筠松 was born in 843CE and to some account Qiu YanHan 丘延翰 must have lived at least 200 years before he could tutor him.
This method of LMBDJ or QKGB was made popular in Taiwan by the so claimed direct descendant of YangGong, the grand master Yang CangHua 陽藏華 circa 1860. He wrote the one and only book titled QianKun National Treasure (QKGB) 乾坤國寶 and became and FengShui Idol in the 19 century Taiwan with a large following. Modern schools started to mushroom taking the pages out of his work while some deliberately added other fringe techniques into it to make it even more complicated. Some even conducted FengShui tour taking iconic FengShui places liked the original shop of Ding TaiFung 鼎泰豐 to showcase the real application of LMBDJ or QKGB.
With regards to the shady history of this technique, this masterpiece by Yang CangHua 陽藏華 apparently it was written taking the pages of YiLong Jing 疑龍經 and HanLong Jing 撼龍 經 to be expended with a whole loads of other jargon to make up the bulk.
The other methods such as propagated by Wang CheYing, Zhao JiuFeng 赵九凤 and Ye JiuShen 叶九升 via Earth Principle Five Verses, DiLi WuJui 地理五诀 which is believed to be modern day water dragon application and water fountains placement.Lack of understanding of the Five Verses such as Dragon, Embrace, Spot, Water and Facing, 龍砂穴水向, resulted in many bankruptcy cases as the real application is only applied to landform 形勢.
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Saga of the Time Master 時師 and Earth Diety 地仙
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Time Master School 《時師派》is always the antagonistic school of Earth Deity School 《地仙派》. For example in the Green Satchel Mysterious Saying 《青襄奧語》 it states, “Understand XuanKong, there are only within the Five Elements, understand this method no need to apply NaJia, 明玄空，只在五行中，知此法，不須尋納甲。”, knowing very well NaJia 《納甲法》is always the integral part of the Time Master School 《時師派》.
Time Master School 《時師派》is always recognised as the blue blooded pedigree of Chinese Metaphysics including the three ancient arts 《古三式》. They came from the long line of master astronomers since the day of YiHang 一行, credited to have invented Eight Mansions FengShui《八宅風水》, to be passed on to the “Babarians” to ShaoYung 邵雍, who inherited the secrets of JingFang’s京房 Eight Trigram. Their premise are always rooted on the school of numerals and imagery 《象數法》. Because they have the patronage of the imperial families, they were given all sorts of precise instruments to calibrate the Heavens and mapping against the Earth to ascertain the luck of Human. Earth Deity School 《地仙派》are known to call them playing the guessing games as in House Forecasting《宅卜》 with inconsistent outcomes.
GuTuo 辜託 （aka JingDao the monk, 靜道和尚）, believed to come from the Northern Song 北宋, who happened to have “written” a SanHe treatise called Entering Earth Eye《入地眼》has nothing whatsoever to do with SanHe 《三合》Four Major Water Mouth Method《四大水口法》but has everything to do with NaJia 《納甲法》as in Assistant Star Water Method《輔星水法》and Huang ShiGong 3 Nobles 6 Auspicious 《黄石公三吉六秀》. These methods are all heavily annexed to the Flipping Trigram Methodology 《翻卦法》befitting the Time Master School 《時師派》.
The Flipping Trigram Methodology 《翻卦法》is also the core techniques of Eight Mansions FengShui《八宅風水》. As reviewed in the Book of Harmonising the Time and Space《協紀辨方書》, these methods are collectively called Wandering Years Method《流年法》. As why it is called Wandering Years Method《流年法》is everyone’s guessing. Here you can gauge how confused and how corrupted are the sources that had been compiled by the reviewer and compiler of the Qing’s Book of Harmonising the Time and Space《協紀辨方書》.
The point of contention here is GuTuo 辜託 （aka JingDao the monk, 靜道和尚）claimed to be a direct disciple to Green Clad Daoist 青衣子, who came from the lineage of Qiu TingHan 邱廷翰. Indirectly, Qiu TingHan 邱廷翰 was believed to be the teacher for Yang YunSong 楊筠松, the founder of both SanHe 《三合派》and SanYuan 《三元派》schools of mainstream FengShui. In the same book of Entering Earth Eye《入地眼》, GuTuo 辜託 lambasted the use of Heaven Plate天盘, indirectly saying Yang YunSong 楊筠松 is crap!
Ancient and Current Map Book of Records《古今圖書集成》, written in the Qing period, gave a totally different account. It was written that Qiu TingHan 邱廷翰, as being rumoured, to have been taught by Zheng WenCang曾文辿. Such put Qiu TingHan邱廷翰 to be on par with Lai BuYi 賴布衣, the third generation of Yang YunSong’s 楊筠松 disciples. Another Qing’s period crap!
In regardless of who is who in the long line of obscure lineages, something that is very unlikely for the Confucius Chinese who upheld historical account and ancestry to the dot, retrospectively it was observed that Lai BuYi 賴布衣, Qiu TingHan邱廷翰, Green Clad Daoist青衣子, GuTuo辜託 and by the same token, Zhang JiuYi 張九儀, whom had studied under Jiao RenShan 焦仁山, were all Heavenly Star School《天星派》followers – the hallmark of Time Master School 《時師派》.
The love hate relationships of the Earth Deity School 《地仙派》and the Time Master School 《時師派》 has even made the FengShui history murkier. Many attempts had been made to reconcile such and as a result, SanYuan FengShui 《三元派》was born!
Time Master School 《時師派》is always recognised as the blue blooded pedigree of Chinese Metaphysics including the three ancient arts 《古三式》. They came from the long line of master astronomers since the day of YiHang 一行, credited to have invented Eight Mansions FengShui《八宅風水》, to be passed on to the “Babarians” to ShaoYung 邵雍, who inherited the secrets of JingFang’s京房 Eight Trigram. Their premise are always rooted on the school of numerals and imagery 《象數法》. Because they have the patronage of the imperial families, they were given all sorts of precise instruments to calibrate the Heavens and mapping against the Earth to ascertain the luck of Human. Earth Deity School 《地仙派》are known to call them playing the guessing games as in House Forecasting《宅卜》 with inconsistent outcomes.
GuTuo 辜託 （aka JingDao the monk, 靜道和尚）, believed to come from the Northern Song 北宋, who happened to have “written” a SanHe treatise called Entering Earth Eye《入地眼》has nothing whatsoever to do with SanHe 《三合》Four Major Water Mouth Method《四大水口法》but has everything to do with NaJia 《納甲法》as in Assistant Star Water Method《輔星水法》and Huang ShiGong 3 Nobles 6 Auspicious 《黄石公三吉六秀》. These methods are all heavily annexed to the Flipping Trigram Methodology 《翻卦法》befitting the Time Master School 《時師派》.
The Flipping Trigram Methodology 《翻卦法》is also the core techniques of Eight Mansions FengShui《八宅風水》. As reviewed in the Book of Harmonising the Time and Space《協紀辨方書》, these methods are collectively called Wandering Years Method《流年法》. As why it is called Wandering Years Method《流年法》is everyone’s guessing. Here you can gauge how confused and how corrupted are the sources that had been compiled by the reviewer and compiler of the Qing’s Book of Harmonising the Time and Space《協紀辨方書》.
The point of contention here is GuTuo 辜託 （aka JingDao the monk, 靜道和尚）claimed to be a direct disciple to Green Clad Daoist 青衣子, who came from the lineage of Qiu TingHan 邱廷翰. Indirectly, Qiu TingHan 邱廷翰 was believed to be the teacher for Yang YunSong 楊筠松, the founder of both SanHe 《三合派》and SanYuan 《三元派》schools of mainstream FengShui. In the same book of Entering Earth Eye《入地眼》, GuTuo 辜託 lambasted the use of Heaven Plate天盘, indirectly saying Yang YunSong 楊筠松 is crap!
Ancient and Current Map Book of Records《古今圖書集成》, written in the Qing period, gave a totally different account. It was written that Qiu TingHan 邱廷翰, as being rumoured, to have been taught by Zheng WenCang曾文辿. Such put Qiu TingHan邱廷翰 to be on par with Lai BuYi 賴布衣, the third generation of Yang YunSong’s 楊筠松 disciples. Another Qing’s period crap!
In regardless of who is who in the long line of obscure lineages, something that is very unlikely for the Confucius Chinese who upheld historical account and ancestry to the dot, retrospectively it was observed that Lai BuYi 賴布衣, Qiu TingHan邱廷翰, Green Clad Daoist青衣子, GuTuo辜託 and by the same token, Zhang JiuYi 張九儀, whom had studied under Jiao RenShan 焦仁山, were all Heavenly Star School《天星派》followers – the hallmark of Time Master School 《時師派》.
The love hate relationships of the Earth Deity School 《地仙派》and the Time Master School 《時師派》 has even made the FengShui history murkier. Many attempts had been made to reconcile such and as a result, SanYuan FengShui 《三元派》was born!
QianKun GuoBao aka LongMen BaDa Ju Period 乾坤國寶/龍門八大局
Apparently, this method was claimed to have been the original Classics of Jade Envelope 玉函經. Due to the imperial stature of Classics of Jade Envelope 玉函經, it was elevated to the name of National Treasure 國寶. However, the birthplace of this method was in FuJian instead of GanZhou and therefore, it took a SanYuan approach and was renamed Dragon Gate Eight Formations (LMBDJ) 龍門八大局. The Classics of Jade Envelope 玉函經 was largely attributed to Qiu YanHan 丘延翰 lived around 650CE and both served and insulted the Tang Emperor Yang XuanZhong (712-756CE).
The FuJian School of FengShui claimed that the Great Grand master Yang JungSong 楊筠松 was never be found in the official historical records of the Historian. There was however, a very small position held by him as a prison warden. Fate has brought him to encounter a prisoner who is a well versed FengShui master known as Qiu YanHan 丘延翰. In an attempt to help this prisoner to escape, he was taught YuHan Jing, the Classics of Jade Envelope 玉函经. The Great Grandmaster Yang JungSong 楊筠松, as the warden, later shown a partly decomposed corpse to the Emperor, convincing his majesty that the deceased is indeed the FengShui master Qiu YanHan 丘延翰 that has been condemned to death. Predicting that his deception may not last forever, he took an incident in the palace to flee to FuJian. Therefore, LMBDJ or QKGB was born in FuJian. However, the Great Grand master Yang JungSong 楊筠松 was born in 843CE and to some account Qiu YanHan 丘延翰 must have lived at least 200 years before he could tutor him.
This method of LMBDJ or QKGB was made popular in Taiwan by the so claimed direct descendant of YangGong, the grand master Yang CangHua 陽藏華 circa 1860. He wrote the one and only book titled QianKun National Treasure (QKGB) 乾坤國寶 and became and FengShui Idol in the 19 century Taiwan with a large following. Modern schools started to mushroom taking the pages out of his work while some deliberately added other fringe techniques into it to make it even more complicated. Some even conducted FengShui tour taking iconic FengShui places liked the original shop of Ding TaiFung 鼎泰豐 to showcase the real application of LMBDJ or QKGB.
With regards to the shady history of this technique, this masterpiece by Yang CangHua 陽藏華 apparently it was written taking the pages of YiLong Jing 疑龍經 and HanLong Jing 撼龍 經 to be expended with a whole loads of other jargon to make up the bulk.
The FuJian School of FengShui claimed that the Great Grand master Yang JungSong 楊筠松 was never be found in the official historical records of the Historian. There was however, a very small position held by him as a prison warden. Fate has brought him to encounter a prisoner who is a well versed FengShui master known as Qiu YanHan 丘延翰. In an attempt to help this prisoner to escape, he was taught YuHan Jing, the Classics of Jade Envelope 玉函经. The Great Grandmaster Yang JungSong 楊筠松, as the warden, later shown a partly decomposed corpse to the Emperor, convincing his majesty that the deceased is indeed the FengShui master Qiu YanHan 丘延翰 that has been condemned to death. Predicting that his deception may not last forever, he took an incident in the palace to flee to FuJian. Therefore, LMBDJ or QKGB was born in FuJian. However, the Great Grand master Yang JungSong 楊筠松 was born in 843CE and to some account Qiu YanHan 丘延翰 must have lived at least 200 years before he could tutor him.
This method of LMBDJ or QKGB was made popular in Taiwan by the so claimed direct descendant of YangGong, the grand master Yang CangHua 陽藏華 circa 1860. He wrote the one and only book titled QianKun National Treasure (QKGB) 乾坤國寶 and became and FengShui Idol in the 19 century Taiwan with a large following. Modern schools started to mushroom taking the pages out of his work while some deliberately added other fringe techniques into it to make it even more complicated. Some even conducted FengShui tour taking iconic FengShui places liked the original shop of Ding TaiFung 鼎泰豐 to showcase the real application of LMBDJ or QKGB.
With regards to the shady history of this technique, this masterpiece by Yang CangHua 陽藏華 apparently it was written taking the pages of YiLong Jing 疑龍經 and HanLong Jing 撼龍 經 to be expended with a whole loads of other jargon to make up the bulk.
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Lai BuYi’s Period 賴布衣
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Another XinFa 新法 development worth explaining is that of Lai BuYi 賴布衣, Song Dynasty’s flamboyant scholars. It was believed that Liu JiangDong 劉江東was send to collect some medicinal herbs which were not found in JiangXi. While collecting these herbs, he was bitten by a snake. Fate has brought Lai BuYi’s father, Lai FengGang 賴風岡 to rescue Liu JiangDong 劉江東and as repayment for his kindness; Liu taught Lai FengGang 賴風岡the knowledge of KanYu. Liu 劉 was a contemporary of YangGong and he had no prior knowledge of YangGong method 楊公法. This is the fundamental knowledge of Lai BuYi 賴布衣. It is said that Lai BuYi’s exceptional knowledge of astronomy 斗数 and Purple Star 紫微helps him to create what is known as the Human Plate 人盘中针 of the SanHe LuoPan. In later years, Lai BuYi married the daughter of Zhang Wen De 曾文迪. It is from his father in-law that the authentic YangGong method was taught to Lai BuYi and made him the third in line of YangGong 楊公 lineage.
The development of Lai BuYi 賴布衣 method is somehow different and to categorize Lai BuYi’s method 賴公法as XinFa 新法 is an understatement. Very much landform based, LaiGong 賴公法 method is based on the embrace 砂 and the effect of the asterism TianXing 天星to the peak of the embrace ShaShou 砂手 in relation to the meridian spots Xue 穴. In fact, by his method, locating of the meridian spots is simplified by virtue of extending embrace and retreating mountain. His writing Urging officer scroll, Chui GuanPian 催官篇remains unprecedented in adding other layers to the original YangGong method 賴公法. The Greater and Lesser Wandering Years 大小遊年法 methods are part of the Assistant Star methodology 辅星法 which is fundamentally Heavenly Star Methodology 天星形勢法.
From then, FengShui threshold has reached a point of geocentric sporadic development. SanHe 三合 School consists of YangGong 楊公法 and LaiGong 賴公法 remained as the mainstream SanHe School, while the rest lesser known schools are the subsets.
The development of Lai BuYi 賴布衣 method is somehow different and to categorize Lai BuYi’s method 賴公法as XinFa 新法 is an understatement. Very much landform based, LaiGong 賴公法 method is based on the embrace 砂 and the effect of the asterism TianXing 天星to the peak of the embrace ShaShou 砂手 in relation to the meridian spots Xue 穴. In fact, by his method, locating of the meridian spots is simplified by virtue of extending embrace and retreating mountain. His writing Urging officer scroll, Chui GuanPian 催官篇remains unprecedented in adding other layers to the original YangGong method 賴公法. The Greater and Lesser Wandering Years 大小遊年法 methods are part of the Assistant Star methodology 辅星法 which is fundamentally Heavenly Star Methodology 天星形勢法.
From then, FengShui threshold has reached a point of geocentric sporadic development. SanHe 三合 School consists of YangGong 楊公法 and LaiGong 賴公法 remained as the mainstream SanHe School, while the rest lesser known schools are the subsets.
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SiMa TuoTuo 司馬頭陀
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SiMa TuoTuo 司馬頭陀, was known mainly by his water method in FengShui, SiMa ShuiFa《司馬頭陀水法》that uses the 12 growth stages, 12 ChangSheng《十二長生法》, that is known to have been originated from YangGong. From his other writing such as the Mysterious Aperture Threshold Song《玄關同竅歌》, we are able to recognize that he is indeed the disciple of YangGong. However because the true knowledge of the Mysterious Aperture Threshold was not made known, a lot of practitioner assumed that they are indeed different from the YangGong’s method. As an individual, little was known about him. Named SiMa 司馬, TuoTuo 頭陀 was his ordained name, mean a monk. There were at least 2 known conflicting history pertaining to him. The first being that he was a KanYu master living in the Tang Dynasty circa 618-907AD. The second being that he was a court official in the Song Dynasty 1077-1100 AD. Some even annexed his name as another person by the name of PuAn Zen Master 普庵禅师. The protagonist who thought that SiMa TuoTuo 司馬頭陀 is an officer of the Song Dynasty and that is not true. HuangLong Temple 黃龍寺, located in XiuShui County, Jiangxi Province, is one of the five major Buddhist monasteries, attributed to him. It was also the site personally selected by him during the Tang Dynasty. There are still historical records in the temple that describe his experiences with HuangLong Temple 黃龍寺. It can be proven that he is more than a hundred years earlier than the birth of YangGong 楊公. Whoever he may be, he left his legacy besides the above said as 8 Methods of Burial《司马头陀论葬八法》, being the 8 dragons having the 8 formations to bury in, resulted in 64 configurations.
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連珠經內起雙山，
滿盤長生非等閑， 識得陰陽顛倒用， 水之禍福泄機關。 |
Pearl String (AiXing) Classics within raised Double Mountain,
The Ring (LuoPan) fulls (contains) of Growth (12 ChangSheng) not necessary ascend or descend, Knowing YinYang (One knows) Topsy Turvey (Dian Dao) application, Water is auspicious or calamity if leak from the portal (not locked). |
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ShaoYung’s Period 邵雍
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Around the same era of Song Dynasty, ShaoYung 邵雍, an expert of YiJing 易經, he refined the application of FuXi YiGua 伏羲易卦and WenWang YiGua 文王易卦, into what is commonly known as the ShaoYung arrangement, a precursor to the modern day XuanKong DaGua 玄空大卦 which is the XiangShu Xue 象數學 or the School of Imagery and Numerology, as opposed to YiLi Xue 義理學 or the School of Philosophy and Logics. He refined WenWang YiGua文王易卦 without the dependency of the yarrow stalk or copper coin casting and created the MeiHua YiGua梅花易卦 or Plum Blossom Yi Methodology, which is also a precursor to the modern day XuanKong YiGua 玄空易卦 with the method of casting rooted to affinity and synchronicity.
The founding of MeiHua YiGua 梅花易卦 is by chances. Apparently throwing the ceramic pillow at a rat revealed a hidden note, stating the predicted event long before it happens. The note led ShaoYung 邵雍 to the pillow maker only to be greeted by a gentleman that at such time and date, someone will approach him to seek about the maker, when he has passed on just barely a week. Upon the meeting, ShaoYung 邵雍 learnt that the gentleman was instructed to hand over a book on YiJing 易經 to him and in return, ShaoYung predicted the exact location of the maker’s treasure enabling the gentleman to a windfall. Such book was believed to have been the records of the LianShan Yi 連山易 and the Gui CangYi 歸藏易, fundamental ingredients of the WenWang YiGua 文王易卦.
The founding of MeiHua YiGua 梅花易卦 is by chances. Apparently throwing the ceramic pillow at a rat revealed a hidden note, stating the predicted event long before it happens. The note led ShaoYung 邵雍 to the pillow maker only to be greeted by a gentleman that at such time and date, someone will approach him to seek about the maker, when he has passed on just barely a week. Upon the meeting, ShaoYung 邵雍 learnt that the gentleman was instructed to hand over a book on YiJing 易經 to him and in return, ShaoYung predicted the exact location of the maker’s treasure enabling the gentleman to a windfall. Such book was believed to have been the records of the LianShan Yi 連山易 and the Gui CangYi 歸藏易, fundamental ingredients of the WenWang YiGua 文王易卦.
Contemporary of ShaoYung 邵雍, ChengYi程頤, Cheng Hao 程顥, SiMa Guang 司馬光and ZhangZai 張載 were heavily influenced by the teachings of Zhou Dunyi 周敦頤 on the Confucian ethics and concepts from the YiJing 易經 with Daoist metaphysics based on the idea that the many are ultimately one. These collaborations are known to be the famous six of the Song Dynasty and such has a greater influence to Xu RengWang, who was believed to have developed XuanKong 玄空 and passed on his teachings orally.
In the development of astrology which formally bias towards the Year Pillar as in the ShenSha BaZi 神煞八字 method, Xu ZiPing 徐子平 revolutionized another systematic approach using the Day Stem as the reference point instead. Such system was later known as ZiPing BaZi 八字子平. Others believed that ZiPing 子平 is not a person but a school name after the epitome of blessed to the future generations. So, all FengShui methods discovered before Song Dynasty, ShenSha 神煞 methods are to be applied.
《觀物吟》邵雍
<Observation of Matter Chants> ShaoYung
這首詩不簡單啊！邵雍先天易學的總綱，可以說就是這首詩。大家都知道，邵雍有一部易學巨著叫《皇極經世》，講的是大宇宙的演化規律，並對人類社會大的歷史演變格局，用易學思想作了相當精彩的描述。 《皇極經世》全書六十四卷，分為“觀物篇”、“觀物內篇”、“觀物外篇”三大部分，而其核心精神，就體現在《觀物吟》這首詩上。我們這裡先把這首詩寫下來:
This poem is not simple! The general outline of Shao Yong’s Early Heaven Yi can be said to be this poem. Everyone knows that Shao Yong Early Heaven Yi called "The Emperor's Universe", which is about the evolution of the great universe, and has made a wonderful description of the historical evolution of human society. The six volumes of the book "The Emperor's Classics" are divided into three parts: "Observation Matter Scripts", "Observation Matter Internal Scripts ", and "Observation Matter External Scripts ". The core spirit is reflected in "Observation Matter Chants". The poem is as follows:
耳目聪明男子身，
Ear Eye ever bright male body
洪钧赋予不为贫。
“HongJun”endowed upon me never in poverty
须探月窟方知物，
Have investigate the “moon” determine its location this matter
未蹑天根岂识人。
To tread carefully the root of Heaven only people know
乾遇巽时观月窟，
Qian to Xun hour observe moon position
地逢雷处见天根。
Earth meeting Thunder see Heaven’s root
天根月窟常来往，
Heaven’s root Moon position forever related
三十六宫都是春。
36 palaces forever spring
In the development of astrology which formally bias towards the Year Pillar as in the ShenSha BaZi 神煞八字 method, Xu ZiPing 徐子平 revolutionized another systematic approach using the Day Stem as the reference point instead. Such system was later known as ZiPing BaZi 八字子平. Others believed that ZiPing 子平 is not a person but a school name after the epitome of blessed to the future generations. So, all FengShui methods discovered before Song Dynasty, ShenSha 神煞 methods are to be applied.
《觀物吟》邵雍
<Observation of Matter Chants> ShaoYung
這首詩不簡單啊！邵雍先天易學的總綱，可以說就是這首詩。大家都知道，邵雍有一部易學巨著叫《皇極經世》，講的是大宇宙的演化規律，並對人類社會大的歷史演變格局，用易學思想作了相當精彩的描述。 《皇極經世》全書六十四卷，分為“觀物篇”、“觀物內篇”、“觀物外篇”三大部分，而其核心精神，就體現在《觀物吟》這首詩上。我們這裡先把這首詩寫下來:
This poem is not simple! The general outline of Shao Yong’s Early Heaven Yi can be said to be this poem. Everyone knows that Shao Yong Early Heaven Yi called "The Emperor's Universe", which is about the evolution of the great universe, and has made a wonderful description of the historical evolution of human society. The six volumes of the book "The Emperor's Classics" are divided into three parts: "Observation Matter Scripts", "Observation Matter Internal Scripts ", and "Observation Matter External Scripts ". The core spirit is reflected in "Observation Matter Chants". The poem is as follows:
耳目聪明男子身，
Ear Eye ever bright male body
洪钧赋予不为贫。
“HongJun”endowed upon me never in poverty
须探月窟方知物，
Have investigate the “moon” determine its location this matter
未蹑天根岂识人。
To tread carefully the root of Heaven only people know
乾遇巽时观月窟，
Qian to Xun hour observe moon position
地逢雷处见天根。
Earth meeting Thunder see Heaven’s root
天根月窟常来往，
Heaven’s root Moon position forever related
三十六宫都是春。
36 palaces forever spring
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JingLuan’s Period 吳景鸞
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In the Song Dynasty period, it is observed that another court astronomer, Wu JingLuan 吳景鸞, maverick of his time in expounding the philosophy of SanYuan 三元. Having honed by the legendary Daoist ChenTuan 陳摶, SanYuan 三元 is largely based upon Daoist methodology of time dependency. SanYuan 三元 refers to the concept of Cycles, or Yuan 元, that permeates all aspects of lives. The idea of Jing, Qi and Shen 精氣神, a concept that was borrowed from the Daoist philosophy, is applied to Shu, Qi and Gua 書氣卦. For example, what is known as XieZi 些子is indeed referring to the application of children Gua 子女卦 of the SanYuan Hexagrams, categorized into heaven, earth and man, each representing a Yuan, or cycle which could be perceived as time in a bundle of 180 years. Such is also called, ZiBai 紫白 or the Purple White.
JingLuan 景鸞 believed to have written among others, the Ode to Mysticism, Xuan JiFu 玄机赋, a short passage manuscript about star combinations of Purple White and the Secrets of XuanKong. He wrote in a spirit of ZhaiBu 宅卜based on Eight Mansions camouflaged in the language of the Purple White 紫白, which is the Nine Stars of the North Dipper. As a script 紫白诀, it was believed to have been authored by a Yuan Dynasty Monk - Talking Eye Master, which was later, compiled by Qing Dynasty, Yao TengLuan. The uncertainty of authorship of Purple White Script 紫白诀, in the similar fashion applied to Xuan JiFu 玄机赋 which were ripped off from the last chapter of Entering Earth Eye, RuDi Yen入 地眼 called Original Essence Classics, which were written by GuTuo of the Zhou Dynasty.
Liked other court astronomer before him, Wu JingLuan 吳景鸞, favors of the emperor in his frankness had expired. Upon serving his prison term, he spent the rest of his life in secluded cave of BaiYun. His knowledge was survived by his daughter. All his writing such as Xuan JiFu玄机赋 and LiQi XinYin 理氣心印 was said to have been lost for another 500 years before it is accidently unearth by Ming Dynasty FengShui scholar, Xu ShanJi 徐善継whom later passed on the knowledge to Daoist Master WuJi 無極道人. It is him that taught Jiang DaHong 蔣大鴻 the original essence of XuanKong. Blended with other knowledge from WuYi DaoRen 武夷道人 and Wu TianZhu 吴天柱, Jiang formulated his own version of XuanKong embodied in DiLi BianZhen 地理辨正.
JingLuan 景鸞 believed to have written among others, the Ode to Mysticism, Xuan JiFu 玄机赋, a short passage manuscript about star combinations of Purple White and the Secrets of XuanKong. He wrote in a spirit of ZhaiBu 宅卜based on Eight Mansions camouflaged in the language of the Purple White 紫白, which is the Nine Stars of the North Dipper. As a script 紫白诀, it was believed to have been authored by a Yuan Dynasty Monk - Talking Eye Master, which was later, compiled by Qing Dynasty, Yao TengLuan. The uncertainty of authorship of Purple White Script 紫白诀, in the similar fashion applied to Xuan JiFu 玄机赋 which were ripped off from the last chapter of Entering Earth Eye, RuDi Yen入 地眼 called Original Essence Classics, which were written by GuTuo of the Zhou Dynasty.
Liked other court astronomer before him, Wu JingLuan 吳景鸞, favors of the emperor in his frankness had expired. Upon serving his prison term, he spent the rest of his life in secluded cave of BaiYun. His knowledge was survived by his daughter. All his writing such as Xuan JiFu玄机赋 and LiQi XinYin 理氣心印 was said to have been lost for another 500 years before it is accidently unearth by Ming Dynasty FengShui scholar, Xu ShanJi 徐善継whom later passed on the knowledge to Daoist Master WuJi 無極道人. It is him that taught Jiang DaHong 蔣大鴻 the original essence of XuanKong. Blended with other knowledge from WuYi DaoRen 武夷道人 and Wu TianZhu 吴天柱, Jiang formulated his own version of XuanKong embodied in DiLi BianZhen 地理辨正.
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Liao JunQing's Period 廖均卿
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Liao JunQing (1350-1413) originated from SanLiao Village 三僚村. The chief consultant FengShui master for the YongLe Ming Emperor Tomb, knighted as the Heavenly Admirable Chief of the Spiritual Altar Imperial Officer 欽天監靈台博士. This Imperial Master is also in charge for dotting the meridian spot for the Forbidden City BeiJing when the Emperor decided to relocate the main capital from NanJing to BeiJing. He may be responsible of creating a missing corner at the Qian sector of the Forbidden City. On matter of his lineage, he is believed to have been the 3rd generations of YangGong lineage studied under Liu JiangDong or LiaoYu. The JiangSi FengShui masters or GanZhou gentlemen are very proud of associating with him as the imperial FengShui master for the emperors' tombs and Palaces.
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BoWen’s Period 劉伯溫
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“You can conquer a country on horseback but you cannot rule one on horseback”, epitomized the contributions of the Han scholars in the development of Yuan Dynasty. Many Han intellectuals liked Guo ShouJing 郭守敬 continues to serves by constructing astronomical observation devices liked the gnomon, the square table, the abridged or simplified armillary, and a water powered armillary sphere called the Ling LongYi. Guo ShouJing 郭守敬 improved astronomical devices for more accuracy recording time and mapping celestial bodies. Kublai Khan ordered the calendric reform headed by Guo ShouJing 郭守敬. 27 observatories throughout China were built to gain thorough observations for their calculations. In 1280 Guo ShouJing 郭守敬 completed the calendar, calculating a year to be 365.2425 days, just 26 seconds off. Throughout his life he also did extensive work with spherical trigonometry. The 28 asterism plate was the results of these discoveries.
DunHuang 敦煌 excavations revealed much of the Turtle Book, GuiShu 龟书 was in the primitive form of Purple and White without names and without numbers. XuanKong Purple White 玄空紫白 were believed to have been originated then and were widely used in battle formations using QiMen 奇門. Some scholars believed that Purple White 紫白 were only given names by the Yuan court before it evolves into YuanKong 元空, changed name to XuanKong 玄空.
Liked Guo ShouJing 郭守敬, Liu BoWen 劉伯溫 served the Yuan Court to a point that the corrupt practices of the imperial courts forced him to assist Zhu YuanZhang 朱元璋, a former White Lotus Cult, to overthrow the Dynasty back to the hands of the Han in the Ming Dynasty and only to be repaid by his own death in denial. Liu BoWen 劉伯溫 was known for his strategy in military warfare using metaphysics and was believed to be the holder of the real transmission of QiMen Art of War 奇門兵法. He was believed to have written the seminal work called Di TianSui 滴天髓or Heaven Marrow Essence on BaZi which also applied in XuanKong Purple White 玄空紫白.
The legacy of Di TianSui 滴天髓 is rooted in the interpretation of the Heavenly Stems in imagery terms. When it is read against the backdrop of XiangShu Xue 象數學, BaZi 八字, Purple White紫白 and QiMen 奇門 can all be given a new perspectives. It was a time when FengShui is applied in the construction of the Forbidden City some said is “designed” to be total FengShui failures. The conscious attempt of the FengShui masters to include an obsolescence devise that will purge the entire Imperial family into the gutter. The mysterious glitch at the Northwest sector is the answer for the Qing invasion.
DunHuang 敦煌 excavations revealed much of the Turtle Book, GuiShu 龟书 was in the primitive form of Purple and White without names and without numbers. XuanKong Purple White 玄空紫白 were believed to have been originated then and were widely used in battle formations using QiMen 奇門. Some scholars believed that Purple White 紫白 were only given names by the Yuan court before it evolves into YuanKong 元空, changed name to XuanKong 玄空.
Liked Guo ShouJing 郭守敬, Liu BoWen 劉伯溫 served the Yuan Court to a point that the corrupt practices of the imperial courts forced him to assist Zhu YuanZhang 朱元璋, a former White Lotus Cult, to overthrow the Dynasty back to the hands of the Han in the Ming Dynasty and only to be repaid by his own death in denial. Liu BoWen 劉伯溫 was known for his strategy in military warfare using metaphysics and was believed to be the holder of the real transmission of QiMen Art of War 奇門兵法. He was believed to have written the seminal work called Di TianSui 滴天髓or Heaven Marrow Essence on BaZi which also applied in XuanKong Purple White 玄空紫白.
The legacy of Di TianSui 滴天髓 is rooted in the interpretation of the Heavenly Stems in imagery terms. When it is read against the backdrop of XiangShu Xue 象數學, BaZi 八字, Purple White紫白 and QiMen 奇門 can all be given a new perspectives. It was a time when FengShui is applied in the construction of the Forbidden City some said is “designed” to be total FengShui failures. The conscious attempt of the FengShui masters to include an obsolescence devise that will purge the entire Imperial family into the gutter. The mysterious glitch at the Northwest sector is the answer for the Qing invasion.
He YeYun's Period 蝨母仙
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He YeYun 何野云, born at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, was originally a Daoist. He is proficient in metaphysics and was active in the early Ming Dynasty, participating in the Red Turban Army 红巾军 led by Chen YouLiang 陈友谅 and later fought for the uprising army led by Zhu YuanZhang 朱元璋 and Liu BoWen 刘伯温, as the Military strategist. His succumbed to terrible lost in the "Poyang Lake War" from April to July 1363, thus refusing to take up any position in the imperial palace of Zhu YuanZhang 朱元璋 in forming the Min Dynasty. He abandoned his original birth name Zou PuSheng 邹普胜 to take up an alias as resemblance of “wild crane cloud, 取野鹤云之意” in the name of He YeYun 何野云, to travel around the world (southern China), making a living as a wandering metaphysics geomancer.
During the HongWu Period of the Ming Dynasty 明洪武年, He YeYun 何野云 arrived at the boundary of ChaoZhou Prefecture - mainly ChaoYang, dispensing Yin FengShui for the villagers there and in no time, shot to fame. Along with his skill, he has had done even more philanthropist works. Succumbed to his earlier failure at warfare, he grew into a strange character to only help the desolate, thus many well to do people avoided him. At this time, as he was a fallen angel, he confided to himself that the world was a sorrow state. After winning the war, Zhu YuanZhang 朱元璋only thinks of wealth and prosperity. Which general would not succumb to wealth and prosperity? With less wealthy patronage, he lived in voluntarily poverty and finally took the form of a bagger. The more he helped the poor, the worse his conditioned be and sometimes, he had to vent his anger to Heaven by screaming repeating his stance and frustration.
From then on, He YeYun 何野云 put on the cloak of a bagger and continued his Daoist in exile life, and there are many legends related to him. When an outsider sees fleas on his cloak, they called him "the saint of mother fleas”, "虱母仙". It is said that after his death, the Jade Emperor 玉皇上帝 raised his spirit as a water god looking after the Chaozhou River. In this way, from Zou PuSheng 邹普胜 to He YeYun 何野云, and then to the saint of mother fleas 虱母仙, it was how people of the ChaoZhou River would want to remember him transforming from a mortal to an immortal. This is the origin of the ChaoShan folk worship of the saint of mother fleas, 虱母仙.
During the HongWu Period of the Ming Dynasty 明洪武年, He YeYun 何野云 arrived at the boundary of ChaoZhou Prefecture - mainly ChaoYang, dispensing Yin FengShui for the villagers there and in no time, shot to fame. Along with his skill, he has had done even more philanthropist works. Succumbed to his earlier failure at warfare, he grew into a strange character to only help the desolate, thus many well to do people avoided him. At this time, as he was a fallen angel, he confided to himself that the world was a sorrow state. After winning the war, Zhu YuanZhang 朱元璋only thinks of wealth and prosperity. Which general would not succumb to wealth and prosperity? With less wealthy patronage, he lived in voluntarily poverty and finally took the form of a bagger. The more he helped the poor, the worse his conditioned be and sometimes, he had to vent his anger to Heaven by screaming repeating his stance and frustration.
From then on, He YeYun 何野云 put on the cloak of a bagger and continued his Daoist in exile life, and there are many legends related to him. When an outsider sees fleas on his cloak, they called him "the saint of mother fleas”, "虱母仙". It is said that after his death, the Jade Emperor 玉皇上帝 raised his spirit as a water god looking after the Chaozhou River. In this way, from Zou PuSheng 邹普胜 to He YeYun 何野云, and then to the saint of mother fleas 虱母仙, it was how people of the ChaoZhou River would want to remember him transforming from a mortal to an immortal. This is the origin of the ChaoShan folk worship of the saint of mother fleas, 虱母仙.
He YeYun's beggar's robe has another tale. During an evening of heavy thunderstorms, He YeYun draped and soaked in the rain seek refuge in an abandoned temple. Hungry, thirsty, tired and exhausted with very little rest, he pondered upon his sheer bad luck not picking the right leader to follow, against his master's advice. Seated below the altar table, he unconsciously dozed off.
Appear before him, a maiden of celestial origin came forward with unearthly grandeur and spoke to him, "why should you sulk over your defeat? Are you not bestowed the ability to peep into the Heaven's will? Didn't you realized that it is the Heaven's mandate that Zhu YuChang must be ascended on the throne?". He YeYun suddenly aware of this and begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel. The maiden continue to bestow upon him groups of fleas, telling him that unlike mortal, these magical fleas enable you to be full, they are also your battalion of army and should you need to command the magical assistance, the flea will do the bidding for you. True enough the following day, he woke up and found himself outbreak of fleas and he can do all sort of magic with these fleas. He later realized that throughout the night the celestial maiden spoken to him was indeed the Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heaven 九天玄女 as her statute was just on the altar.
From that incident He YeYun didn't change his robe and live like a stinking bagger till his final day. It was said that during his final day, while staying with his benefactor, while drunk, a servant mistakenly took his robe to wash. When he realized that his robe was clean and his army of fleas were gone, his days were numbered. True enough, he didn't live long thereafter.
Appear before him, a maiden of celestial origin came forward with unearthly grandeur and spoke to him, "why should you sulk over your defeat? Are you not bestowed the ability to peep into the Heaven's will? Didn't you realized that it is the Heaven's mandate that Zhu YuChang must be ascended on the throne?". He YeYun suddenly aware of this and begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel. The maiden continue to bestow upon him groups of fleas, telling him that unlike mortal, these magical fleas enable you to be full, they are also your battalion of army and should you need to command the magical assistance, the flea will do the bidding for you. True enough the following day, he woke up and found himself outbreak of fleas and he can do all sort of magic with these fleas. He later realized that throughout the night the celestial maiden spoken to him was indeed the Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heaven 九天玄女 as her statute was just on the altar.
From that incident He YeYun didn't change his robe and live like a stinking bagger till his final day. It was said that during his final day, while staying with his benefactor, while drunk, a servant mistakenly took his robe to wash. When he realized that his robe was clean and his army of fleas were gone, his days were numbered. True enough, he didn't live long thereafter.
His lineage was carried through by his disciples and clansman from ChauZhou to the southern region of Taiwan and Thailand, being a state with many ChaoZhou immigrants. By the time his folk legend arrived in Taiwan, a person by the name of Fan JingLang 范金郎, born towards the end of the Qing dynasty took He YeYun's reputation as the Saint of Mother Fleas 虱母仙, to dispose his FengShui services and many legendary tombs such as the ramping ox grave, the pretty maiden looking at the mirror grave and the flocking crane grave were attributed to him. He was immortalized as one of the patron FengShui saint of Taiwan.
In Taiwan he has dotted many graves and one being the strangest called the fighting Ox grave. The entire tomb stone was tilted to ramp over the opposite earth deity temple. His lineage can still be found in Taiwan, Thailand and even Malaysia. We found one old master at the ripe age of 70s still in pink of health using his method to do FengShui, in the southern tip of Johore. While in Thailand, an entire clan is dedicated to his lineage, practising his teaching called the mysterious Geng...
In Taiwan he has dotted many graves and one being the strangest called the fighting Ox grave. The entire tomb stone was tilted to ramp over the opposite earth deity temple. His lineage can still be found in Taiwan, Thailand and even Malaysia. We found one old master at the ripe age of 70s still in pink of health using his method to do FengShui, in the southern tip of Johore. While in Thailand, an entire clan is dedicated to his lineage, practising his teaching called the mysterious Geng...
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Emergence of the Pre-SanYuan Era 赣州新法
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YangGong may have been the forefather of both SanHe and SanYuan. Within SanHe School itself, known as the gentlemen of GanZhou 赣州, there are 2 antagonistic methods. One called themselves as Old Method 古法 the other, the New Method 新法. Old Method 古法 do not need to define Mountain Method 山法 or Water Method 水法. Their approach is simple based on two 24 mountain rings. Besides the spot, everything else is measured using the Heaven Plate. New Method 新法 is complex as it also employs other later days grand-master's theories. This school is represented by Hu ShunShen 胡舜申 through his writing – Earth Principle New Methods 地理新法. The Old Method 古法 School shuns Earth Principle New Methods 地理新法. as it is believed to have been lost. Only a hand copied version was known to have been kept in Korea. The pedigree of this copy is debatable as any FengShui manuscripts deported to alien states outside Imperial Tang are all fabricated false knowledge.
One example is the Earth Study Penetrating Mountain Resurfacing Earth Correct Transmission 地理穿山透地真传 is quite a modern classic authored by Grandmaster Zhang JiuYi claimed to have lived in the Qing period as the royal tomb supervisor and acclaimed to have been from the lineage of Grandmaster Lai BuYi, famous for the method of 砂派 or the school of embrace. Contain within this classic is the application for using the 72 dragon earth penetrating mountain and the 60 dragon earth resurfacing mountain.
It is a common understanding that SanYuan is the offspring of SanHe but very little is known of the bridge of how SanYuan is born out of SanHe. Both mainstream schools share closely knitted fundamentals where the 60 JiaZi, notably the hallmark of SanHe, at one point became the 64 Gua, the hallmark of SanYuan. Historically speaking, YangGong, being the forefather of KanYu only has one school. As time passes by, schism arises and this One School is separated into GuFa Pai 古法派 or Old School and XingFa Pai 新法派 or New School. Unlike the former, the later has been generally known as SanHe. This later school includes many other forms of techniques and methodologies not found in GuFa 古法 to a degree it is so confusing and complicated that a new form of KanYu is consolidated, not invented, and was branded as SanYuan, predominantly the birth of the 64 DaGua Ring 大卦盤.
XinFa 新法 proud of having knew the secret of these 60D. While the GuFa 古法 thinks that it is absurd to "pull down your pants to fart". The 3 rings of 60D is never to be found in the modern SanHe LuoPan. The only traces left was the 60D attached to the Human Plate 人盤. It was 'extinct' since. Later XinFa 新法 morphed it into the early SanYuan School. These 3 rings of the 60D paved the method now, known as the 64 SanYuan DaGua. XinFa 新法 continues to surprise us with many pre-SanYuan theories that may not have been widely known before to the mainstreams. In this instances, we are able to see how the SanYuan proponent actually adopted the 3 kinds of Gua 三般卦 into its SanYuan DaGua methodology. They singularly distilled the Obscure Heaven 60D as the pre-cursor to the currently known SanYuan DaGua Heaven Plate. Even more surprising, SanYuan DaGua actually adopted the Yao Application Methodology 用爻法 as their analysis of the 5 relationships. The techniques of the Six Jia Flying Palaces 六甲飛宫, not only to obtain the Son Father Wealth and Officer 子父財官 positions, but to identify the palaces of Salaried (Officer) + (Speedy) Horse + Noblemen 祿馬貴人 positions. Generally, identifying such would enable one to acquire wealth 財 through high positions or nobility of being an Officer 官. As it goes, pre-SanYuan adopting Gods and Killing Methodology 神殺 in judging the embrace 論砂, meaning if there is any significant mountain peaks at the location of Salaried Horse Noblemen 祿馬貴人, it is deemed to have fulfilled such conditions. Gods and Killing Methodology 神殺 are astrologically biased.
The employment of QiMen 奇門 in the interpretation of the 60 Obscure Heaven Gua 渾天卦. The YangGong New Method School XinFa 新法 has given us a new perspective as to how pre-SanYuan theories had included QiMen 奇門 into the equation and making them as complicated as “Rocket Sciences” of their era. Apparently this tapestry makes the core knowledge of YangGong method into disarray and somehow lacked the simplicity and originality of the YangGong old method 古法派. It has given such an obscure aftertaste as though YangGong, himself is not able to consolidate the art and science of FengShui, but to adopt wholeheartedly, the full bloom methods of his time - QiMen 奇門 into his formulation. While investigating this matter, the author strongly believed that such inclusions may have been done by others, not having the entire knowledge of the true genuine YangGong methods and trying their very best to make up for the lack of knowledge into a collective whole now called - The YangGong New Method School, XinFa 新法.
One example is the Earth Study Penetrating Mountain Resurfacing Earth Correct Transmission 地理穿山透地真传 is quite a modern classic authored by Grandmaster Zhang JiuYi claimed to have lived in the Qing period as the royal tomb supervisor and acclaimed to have been from the lineage of Grandmaster Lai BuYi, famous for the method of 砂派 or the school of embrace. Contain within this classic is the application for using the 72 dragon earth penetrating mountain and the 60 dragon earth resurfacing mountain.
It is a common understanding that SanYuan is the offspring of SanHe but very little is known of the bridge of how SanYuan is born out of SanHe. Both mainstream schools share closely knitted fundamentals where the 60 JiaZi, notably the hallmark of SanHe, at one point became the 64 Gua, the hallmark of SanYuan. Historically speaking, YangGong, being the forefather of KanYu only has one school. As time passes by, schism arises and this One School is separated into GuFa Pai 古法派 or Old School and XingFa Pai 新法派 or New School. Unlike the former, the later has been generally known as SanHe. This later school includes many other forms of techniques and methodologies not found in GuFa 古法 to a degree it is so confusing and complicated that a new form of KanYu is consolidated, not invented, and was branded as SanYuan, predominantly the birth of the 64 DaGua Ring 大卦盤.
XinFa 新法 proud of having knew the secret of these 60D. While the GuFa 古法 thinks that it is absurd to "pull down your pants to fart". The 3 rings of 60D is never to be found in the modern SanHe LuoPan. The only traces left was the 60D attached to the Human Plate 人盤. It was 'extinct' since. Later XinFa 新法 morphed it into the early SanYuan School. These 3 rings of the 60D paved the method now, known as the 64 SanYuan DaGua. XinFa 新法 continues to surprise us with many pre-SanYuan theories that may not have been widely known before to the mainstreams. In this instances, we are able to see how the SanYuan proponent actually adopted the 3 kinds of Gua 三般卦 into its SanYuan DaGua methodology. They singularly distilled the Obscure Heaven 60D as the pre-cursor to the currently known SanYuan DaGua Heaven Plate. Even more surprising, SanYuan DaGua actually adopted the Yao Application Methodology 用爻法 as their analysis of the 5 relationships. The techniques of the Six Jia Flying Palaces 六甲飛宫, not only to obtain the Son Father Wealth and Officer 子父財官 positions, but to identify the palaces of Salaried (Officer) + (Speedy) Horse + Noblemen 祿馬貴人 positions. Generally, identifying such would enable one to acquire wealth 財 through high positions or nobility of being an Officer 官. As it goes, pre-SanYuan adopting Gods and Killing Methodology 神殺 in judging the embrace 論砂, meaning if there is any significant mountain peaks at the location of Salaried Horse Noblemen 祿馬貴人, it is deemed to have fulfilled such conditions. Gods and Killing Methodology 神殺 are astrologically biased.
The employment of QiMen 奇門 in the interpretation of the 60 Obscure Heaven Gua 渾天卦. The YangGong New Method School XinFa 新法 has given us a new perspective as to how pre-SanYuan theories had included QiMen 奇門 into the equation and making them as complicated as “Rocket Sciences” of their era. Apparently this tapestry makes the core knowledge of YangGong method into disarray and somehow lacked the simplicity and originality of the YangGong old method 古法派. It has given such an obscure aftertaste as though YangGong, himself is not able to consolidate the art and science of FengShui, but to adopt wholeheartedly, the full bloom methods of his time - QiMen 奇門 into his formulation. While investigating this matter, the author strongly believed that such inclusions may have been done by others, not having the entire knowledge of the true genuine YangGong methods and trying their very best to make up for the lack of knowledge into a collective whole now called - The YangGong New Method School, XinFa 新法.
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XueXin Fu's Period 雪心賦
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XueXin Fu 雪心賦 was believed to have been attributed to Bu Yingtian 卜應天 of the Tang Dynasty, he came from the pedigree of Ganzhou 贛州 Jiangxi 江西 Province. He gave up the Minister of Ceremonies and became a Daoist, then was believed to have written this book, but he was not known to many. This book became well-known since Ming Dynasty due to the praise given by another famous FengShui master of that time by the name of Xu Shike 徐試可, who wrote that Xue Xin Fu is the best landform FengShui classic to have. Strangely from the way it was written, it did not reflect the literary style of the day. Xu Shike 徐試可 himself wrote the compendium of the Chinese LuoPan such as LuoJing Ding MenZhen 《羅經頂門針》 and may have bump into this book while researching and documenting the rings of the LuoPan during the Ming Dynasty. On another account, the meaning of Snow as in Snow Heart Poem could mean to wash away all the shames that has been left over by the charlatans of FengShui of his day and to start again liked the pureness of white of the snow, that to someone else may be taken as cooling effect to the heart. Together with the other 2 books such as HanLong Jing 撼龍經 and YiLong Jing 疑龍經 were attributed to YangGong, they form the basis of QianKun GuoBao 乾坤國寶 or Dragon Gate 8 Formations, LongMen BaDa Ju 龍門八大局. These strictly, were not genuine FengShui textbooks.
DaHong’s Period 蔣大鴻
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SanYuan 三元 School further developed into other sub schools notably XuanKong 玄空. Jiang DaHong 蔣大鴻 during the end of the Ming Dynasty is credited to have popularized SanYuan XuanKong 三元玄空. XuanKong 玄空 is believed to had existed much earlier in the Yuan Dynasty by the name of YuanKong 元空. YuanKong having the word Yuan 元 may pose identical to the Yuan court thus warrant a change to XuanKong instead. Such term was said to have been borrowed from Zhang Wen De (曾文迪) Green Satchel Preface青囊序, where the phrase - the intercourse of Ci-Xiong 雌雄 or male (Yang) and female (Yin) come together in XuanKong was found. The profound XuanKong which is as tiny as a grain and as large as the universe became the fore runner where any constraints of YangGong 楊公法 and LaiGong 賴公法 method could be resolved with XuanKong. By the same token and due to the shrewd nature of Jiang and his hesitation for 30 years to test out its techniques for fear of breaching the Heaven’s will, he had only 6 disciples.SanYuan XuanKong 三元玄空 remains the most confused method of all time.
Jiang has annotated the original doctrines of FengShui by HuangShi 黄石公, YangGong 楊公 and ZhangGong 曾公 in the collections called Earth Study Discern Truth, DiLi BianZhen 地理辨正, a fundamental doctrine for SanYuan XuanKong 三元玄空. Owing to its secrecy, Jiang’s lineage has been survived by a handful of trusted disciples namely, DuanMu GuoHu 端木國瑚 (ShangYu), Fan YiBin 范宜賓 (DianNan), Zhu XiaoHe 朱小鶴 (SuZhou). Yin YouBen 尹有本 (XiangChu), Cai MinShan 蔡岷山 (Guang Dong), Zhang ZhongShan 章仲山 (Wu Chang). Jiang’s intention of keeping his disciple together via distribution of his inheritance in piecemeal such as his manuscript, LuoPan, Oral verses, journals, assets and others among his disciples resulted in further schisms and disunity. Among these schisms, Zhang’s lineage 無常派 was recognized to be the genuine transmission of Jiang as compared to the others.
Jiang has annotated the original doctrines of FengShui by HuangShi 黄石公, YangGong 楊公 and ZhangGong 曾公 in the collections called Earth Study Discern Truth, DiLi BianZhen 地理辨正, a fundamental doctrine for SanYuan XuanKong 三元玄空. Owing to its secrecy, Jiang’s lineage has been survived by a handful of trusted disciples namely, DuanMu GuoHu 端木國瑚 (ShangYu), Fan YiBin 范宜賓 (DianNan), Zhu XiaoHe 朱小鶴 (SuZhou). Yin YouBen 尹有本 (XiangChu), Cai MinShan 蔡岷山 (Guang Dong), Zhang ZhongShan 章仲山 (Wu Chang). Jiang’s intention of keeping his disciple together via distribution of his inheritance in piecemeal such as his manuscript, LuoPan, Oral verses, journals, assets and others among his disciples resulted in further schisms and disunity. Among these schisms, Zhang’s lineage 無常派 was recognized to be the genuine transmission of Jiang as compared to the others.
QianLong’s Period 乾隆
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The Manchu era marks another milestone in the field of Metaphysics after the Tang Dynasty with the calibration of the Chinese Time and Calendar. By the time of the Qing Dynasty, the art of determining Time and locating auspicious spots went another round of overhaul where it is determined that the Chinese Time and Calendar has went out of synchronicity with the actual planetary movements. Warrants a makeover, QianLong invited the Jesuit Priest in getting the department of astronomy and astrology in placed for a big revision. As a result, the book under the imperial order named XieZi BianFang Shu 協紀辯方書 or the Treatise on Harmonizing Times and Place was written with the collections of ancient metaphysical text, annotated by court astrologers, debated by imperial metaphysics and historians, audited and verified by astronomers and others. An imperial invitation was made during the time to hand in all forms of records related to FengShui and Astrology to be compiled but as with everything from the Manchu’s perspective, most Han families carrying the genuine FengShui lineage may not be so easily given up their rightful inheritance. So cloned or watered down version were in place as substitutes.
As the result, history repeated itself. Faked and the watered down version were included such as the BaSha HuangGuan and BaLu HuangGuan. Not to mention BaZhai MingJing 八宅明镜, another classic claimed to be written in the Qing Dynasty. These theories are end user techniques laden with limitations and assumptions, part of a complete techniques of FengShui such as YangGong 楊公法 and LaiGong 賴公法.
Around this time also, BaZhai 八宅 or 8 Mansions FengShui makes a comeback with the following literature easily available such as The Complete Book of 8 Mansions 八宅造福周書 by Huang YiFeng 黃一鳳 around 1610, Golden Light/Ray Dipper Arrival Classics by Jin WenRong around 1779, 3 Essentials of Yang Dwellings 阳宅三要by Zhao JiFeng 赵继峰 around 1786, 8 Mansions Bright Mirror 八宅明镜 by Daoist RuoGuan 箬冠道人 around 1789. The intriguing matters are these literatures at times; contradict one another owing to its unverified source.
This period marks the popularity of Manchu FengShui practitioner such as Zhang BingLing with his methods of Water Dragon classics mixed with Eight Mansions Door placement with the Nine Dragon method of landforms completing macro and micro FengShui analysis based on what he called SanHe 三合, whereas from the place of origin, he could have well been a SanYuan 三元practitioner.
It is therefore, prudent to acknowledge the background of lineages coming from this era especially when modern day practitioners claimed to have been descendants or lineage holder of Qing Imperial FengShui masters. There have been good literature about the error in the LuoPan rings since the Qing dynasty which we inherited today. Good lineage would amend their LuoPan rings to take such into effects. Thus any LuoPan designed by the FengShui practitioners usually display his knowledge on the subject matters. It is the key of his understanding of the arts.
As the result, history repeated itself. Faked and the watered down version were included such as the BaSha HuangGuan and BaLu HuangGuan. Not to mention BaZhai MingJing 八宅明镜, another classic claimed to be written in the Qing Dynasty. These theories are end user techniques laden with limitations and assumptions, part of a complete techniques of FengShui such as YangGong 楊公法 and LaiGong 賴公法.
Around this time also, BaZhai 八宅 or 8 Mansions FengShui makes a comeback with the following literature easily available such as The Complete Book of 8 Mansions 八宅造福周書 by Huang YiFeng 黃一鳳 around 1610, Golden Light/Ray Dipper Arrival Classics by Jin WenRong around 1779, 3 Essentials of Yang Dwellings 阳宅三要by Zhao JiFeng 赵继峰 around 1786, 8 Mansions Bright Mirror 八宅明镜 by Daoist RuoGuan 箬冠道人 around 1789. The intriguing matters are these literatures at times; contradict one another owing to its unverified source.
This period marks the popularity of Manchu FengShui practitioner such as Zhang BingLing with his methods of Water Dragon classics mixed with Eight Mansions Door placement with the Nine Dragon method of landforms completing macro and micro FengShui analysis based on what he called SanHe 三合, whereas from the place of origin, he could have well been a SanYuan 三元practitioner.
It is therefore, prudent to acknowledge the background of lineages coming from this era especially when modern day practitioners claimed to have been descendants or lineage holder of Qing Imperial FengShui masters. There have been good literature about the error in the LuoPan rings since the Qing dynasty which we inherited today. Good lineage would amend their LuoPan rings to take such into effects. Thus any LuoPan designed by the FengShui practitioners usually display his knowledge on the subject matters. It is the key of his understanding of the arts.
In Search of Pedigree 古今圖書集成
According to the summary of the contents of Ancient and Current Map Book of Records 《古今圖書集成》of the Tang and Song Dynasties, a manuscript compiled in the Qing Dynasty, prescribing the lineage of GuangZi Sect of YangGong FengShui 江西風水派 consist of
- Patriarch Yang YunSong 祖師楊筠松;
- Patriarch Yang YunSong 祖師楊筠松 passed over to the Second Generation, Zeng WenChang 曾文遄, Fan YueFeng 範越風, Li BoShao 厲伯紹, Liu Ye劉淼, Ye Qi葉七, Shao Tingjian 邵庭監
- Zeng WenChang's 曾文遄 third transmiission to Lai WenJun 賴文俊 and Zeng ShiQi曾十七; according to Fan Yue's biography of Su CuiMing 蘇粹明, Fang ShiJiu 方十九, Zhang WuLang 張五朗 and Qiu YanHan 丘延翰
- Lai WenJun 賴文俊, fourth transmiton to Ding Wei 丁珏, Liu Yu 劉雍
- Ding Yi 丁珏 fifth transmission to Bu YingTian 卜應天; Liu YuChuan 劉雍傳, Li PuZhao 李普照
- Bu Yingtian sixth transmsson to Liu Yong 廖禹
- Liao Yong seventh transmission to Sun ShiNan 孫世南; Li YuCai 李玉才, Wang YingYuan 王應元
- Sun ShiNan eighth transmission to Lai BaiFa 賴白髮, Zeng DaoLi 曾道立, Wang YingYuan 王應元, Xie Jie 謝蚧
- Lai BaiFa 賴白髮 nineth transmission to Li Yaxi 李雅鵲
- Li Yaxi 李雅鵲 ten transmission to Zhong KeChau 鐘可朝
- Zhong KeChau 鐘可朝 11th transmission passed on to Tang YueJiu 唐九倦 and Chen Xiyi陳希夷 (both Tang and Chen entered the Song Dynasty).
- … to the 20th transmission
- Thereafter, not worth to mention…
Age of Flying Star, the Shen’s Experience
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XuanKong Flying Star 玄空飞星 is a relatively new school made available by the writings of Shen JuRen 沈竹礽 and Tan YangWu 谈养吾. Both of these Flying Star icons are not born within the family of FengShui masters in the Republic Era. They were in fact, serious researchers and practitioners. Shen, a bilingual SanHe 三合 practitioner of the 19 century, adopted by an English fortune hunter, in 1871 found a burial spot for his beloved mother whom he strongly believed would be an auspicious spot rarely are found for a century. He invited like minded 80 SanHe practitioners from HanZhou to inspect the spot only to be given absolute blessings that it is indeed a rare auspicious spot. The county official heard about the rare spot and mobilizing his might and finance, he bought over the site and caused much depress to Shen. Upon burial at the spot, the county official had his great misfortune which ends up losing his life.
When such news broke out, all the HanZhou masters re-gathered to inspect the site. None could explain the reason as to why. Urging to find out more, Shen took a trip with his brother in-law and by chance he saw a book by a JiangYao expounding the principles of XuanKong. No details we explained. He bought over 30 odds XuanKong masters to explain such but to his disappointment, none could enlighten him but one as suggested to be of Zhang ZhongShan 章仲山 family. He made another trip to Zhang’s family and paid handsomely for a peek of the book, for only 24 hours, apparently the journal of Zhang named Zhai Duan (House Judgement) also known as YinYang ErZhai LuYan (Yin Yang Two House Record of Effective Results), which were believed to be a faked version. Shen and his brother in-law copied it word by word. The cryptic verses made understanding of the text difficult even with Shen’s background as a Yi scholar.
A breakthrough came, when he realized that Yi changes would not have fixed the 5 permanently in the center of the LoShu and thus a Flying Star model was found. With this understanding he reinvestigated the so called 4 classics of XuanKong, interpreted them accordingly in flying star perspective and recorded down his finding in his journal. He did not live long to see his work published. Publication came in the form of ShenSi XuanKong Xue 沈氏玄空學, by his grandson. Another expanded versions were published subsequently with more cases and annotations included. Thus, XuanKong Flying Star School was born.
About the same time, little is known about Kong ZhaoSu. Kong studied SanHe and SanYuan from more than 20 masters in his lifetime and acquired the WuChang’s 無常派 transmission. When the Purple White script 紫白诀, has been available by Yao TengLuan, it is Kong’s 孔who has set out a methodology on Sheng 生 and Wang 旺that has given Purple White its flavors, known as ShengWang Scripts 生旺诀 which has not been widely used to interpret the upper scroll of the Purple White script 紫白诀 which were conveniently replaced by Sheng JuReng 沈竹礽 with the concept of 3 Cycle 9 Period 三元九運 of timeliness for the Flying Star School 飞星.
When such news broke out, all the HanZhou masters re-gathered to inspect the site. None could explain the reason as to why. Urging to find out more, Shen took a trip with his brother in-law and by chance he saw a book by a JiangYao expounding the principles of XuanKong. No details we explained. He bought over 30 odds XuanKong masters to explain such but to his disappointment, none could enlighten him but one as suggested to be of Zhang ZhongShan 章仲山 family. He made another trip to Zhang’s family and paid handsomely for a peek of the book, for only 24 hours, apparently the journal of Zhang named Zhai Duan (House Judgement) also known as YinYang ErZhai LuYan (Yin Yang Two House Record of Effective Results), which were believed to be a faked version. Shen and his brother in-law copied it word by word. The cryptic verses made understanding of the text difficult even with Shen’s background as a Yi scholar.
A breakthrough came, when he realized that Yi changes would not have fixed the 5 permanently in the center of the LoShu and thus a Flying Star model was found. With this understanding he reinvestigated the so called 4 classics of XuanKong, interpreted them accordingly in flying star perspective and recorded down his finding in his journal. He did not live long to see his work published. Publication came in the form of ShenSi XuanKong Xue 沈氏玄空學, by his grandson. Another expanded versions were published subsequently with more cases and annotations included. Thus, XuanKong Flying Star School was born.
About the same time, little is known about Kong ZhaoSu. Kong studied SanHe and SanYuan from more than 20 masters in his lifetime and acquired the WuChang’s 無常派 transmission. When the Purple White script 紫白诀, has been available by Yao TengLuan, it is Kong’s 孔who has set out a methodology on Sheng 生 and Wang 旺that has given Purple White its flavors, known as ShengWang Scripts 生旺诀 which has not been widely used to interpret the upper scroll of the Purple White script 紫白诀 which were conveniently replaced by Sheng JuReng 沈竹礽 with the concept of 3 Cycle 9 Period 三元九運 of timeliness for the Flying Star School 飞星.
Age of Flying Star, the Tan’s Experience
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Tan YangWu, a native of JiangSu studied SanYuan XuanKong 三元玄空with his relative, Yang JiuRu, aged 70s, believed to have been the far relative of Zhang ZhongShan 章仲山, at a very young age of 19. With this knowledge he established a SanYuan Mythology Research in Shanghai advocating SanYuan XuanKong 三元玄空. By then he was a much sought after XuanKong Flying Star 玄空飞星 master on his own right practicing along side of his full time profession as a chief editor to a local newspaper. He published a numbers of books on XuanKong 玄空 namely, in 1923: "Da XuanKong LuTou: Great XuanKong Penetrating Path "三元地理玄空路透, ("TanShi SanYuan DiLi Da XuanKong LuTou"). This book contains all of the flying star charts from Period 1 to Period 9 in all of the 24 directions. This is an explanation of all 216 of the standard charts without using any of the Replacement Star charts. It also dealt with the theory of Yang Feng Shui (living) and Yin Feng Shui (graves). In 1924:"Da XuanKong ShiYan: Great XuanKong True Effectiveness" 三元地理玄空實驗, the second book contains some case studies, which were previously posted to the list. This book concentrated on the practical experiences, analysis and research that he had carried out and observed over the years. "DiLi Bian Zheng Xin Jie: Earth Study Discern Truth Identify and Correct Errors New Explanation" ( DiLi BianZheng ). Tan did not know that what he wrote in the third book was the explanations of the rhyme Pai LongJue 排龙诀 and used the SanHe basic theories to explain Jian DaHong’s DiLi BianZheng .
The turning point came when he realized that the Flying Star 玄空飞星 method he applied to grave FengShui had issues every three years.Regrettably he seeks out solutions from the WuChang lineage but was turned away. Remorse over the matter, he spent his days contemplating in a Daoist temple where he met a Daoist master Lee ChenXu of Jiangsi. The old Daoist pointing out to him the old meaning of the accurate translation of XuanKong 玄空, just from a different perspective. He was amazed with this new found theory which he called, LiuFa六法, that he contemplated for another 8 years. He placed an advert calling back his entire previous jobs with an apology that he had erred and he is willing to make the correction for free. By this time, such a “U-turn” has caused a rift among his students and the saga between Flying Star against LiuFa 六法 has begun.
At a ripe age, burdened with failing eyesight, many of his students parted ways with an ever increasing burden of supporting his aged parents and young children and the uncertainties of war has caused his publications on LiuFa 六法 delayed. With the help of his student, Zhao JingYi, from HongKong, his writing XuanKong BenYi 玄空本義 was finally published, although not without its setbacks.
After the war, two of Tan’s student, HongChoon 宏船法師 and SuiBeng remains an icon of XuanKong 玄空 FengShui in Cameron Highland and Phor KarkSi Bright Hill Singapore. However, a question remains, as to why wouldn’t Tan YangWu puts his FengShui in placed rather than suffering such ill fated faiths till his death?
At a ripe age, burdened with failing eyesight, many of his students parted ways with an ever increasing burden of supporting his aged parents and young children and the uncertainties of war has caused his publications on LiuFa 六法 delayed. With the help of his student, Zhao JingYi, from HongKong, his writing XuanKong BenYi 玄空本義 was finally published, although not without its setbacks.
After the war, two of Tan’s student, HongChoon 宏船法師 and SuiBeng remains an icon of XuanKong 玄空 FengShui in Cameron Highland and Phor KarkSi Bright Hill Singapore. However, a question remains, as to why wouldn’t Tan YangWu puts his FengShui in placed rather than suffering such ill fated faiths till his death?
Contemporary Age of XuanKong DaGua 玄空大卦
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XuanKong DaGua(XKDG) 玄空大卦 is a component of XuanKong, just liked Flying Star 玄空飞星. Believed to be a pet technique of Zhang ZhongShan章仲山 (Wu Chang), XKDG is the application of GuiChang Yi 歸藏易 and LianShan Yi 連山易 to the 64 Hexagrams applied to FengShui. Its principles stem on Early Heaven Gua as the body with Later Heaven Shu as the application, to prick out its HeTu GuaQi 卦氣 and acknowledging its gynecology GuaYun 卦運 through the use of Parent and Child Hexagram, FuMu XieZi 父母些子 to hasten prosperity and to avoid pitfalls. The generalize idea of XKDG is to matched Heaven, Man and Earth through conjunctions of Dragon, Mountain, Facing and Water, LongShan XiangShui 龍山向水 to achieve the ideal composition of One Singular Pure Gua Formation, YiGua ChunQing 一卦純清. Unlike 3 Cycle 9 Period 三元九運, an XKDG time dimension is only 2 Cycle 8 Period 二元八運 instead. Likewise with the other methods of XuanKong, XKDG also remains one of the most confused systems in the XuanKong fraternity.
XKDG is not without its own set of limitation as some believed that it is the most unpractical ways to fine tune FengShui while the others claimed it to be the most guarded secret of XieZi 些子.In the contemporary sense, XKDG is the lineage method of two notable family of the late Zeng ZiNan 曾子南of Taiwan famed for its XieZi 些子 while the other family of Chen BeiSheng 陈倍生 of HongKong famed for its MiaoPai 妙派. Yet, there are also others inclusive of Tan YangWu 谈养吾 method where it is mixed with Flying Star 飞星 and the sort. Others mixed XKDG with QiMen DunJia 奇門遁甲.
Although Zeng ZiNan 曾子南 did not say that his method is XKDG but SanYuan DiLi, undoubtedly from his writing, there is some similarity. No matter what it is named, such is just a strange thing, when one investigated further, XKDG is the micro view of BaZhai 八宅.The ultimate question was are we not going back to ZhaiBu 宅卜FengShui?
Although Zeng ZiNan 曾子南 did not say that his method is XKDG but SanYuan DiLi, undoubtedly from his writing, there is some similarity. No matter what it is named, such is just a strange thing, when one investigated further, XKDG is the micro view of BaZhai 八宅.The ultimate question was are we not going back to ZhaiBu 宅卜FengShui?
Revivalism of YangGong Old Method 古法派
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The late grandmaster Li DingXing, was the head of the GanZhou largest school of YangGong FengShui establishment. He coined the word YangGong GuFa or YangGong Old Method as a branding to distinguish his teaching from the rest of "merry man" FengShui masters earning their livings in SanLiao villages nearby, whom he unapologetically called JiangHu masters (similar to our Bolehland Conmasters). He received his art from his uncle Li SanSu, whom inherited the arts from a long lineage of YangGong practitioners back to the Qing Dynasty as the Imperial FengShui masters. He published a number of books notably the 49 rings of the Chinese LuoPan Explained, where within it, he disclosed, censored and sarcastically bombarded others as JiangHu masters. It is also from his writing that most of us outside the circle of the GanZhou school came to know about YangGong method and one of the Bolehland Conmaster actually begged under his feet to be taught only, later to become the traitor of his own school
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NAKED EYE METHOD 長眼法
Naked Eye Method 長眼法. This Form School 形家 YinYang Methodology 陰陽法 enable a practitioner to determine the auspiciousness 吉 or calamity 凶 of a site without the use of LuoPan 羅盤 by employing Dragon 龍, Tiger 虎, Phoenix雀 and Turtle 武 to evaluate landform and uses form 形 to remedy any shortcoming. According to one school founded in Taiwan by the Mud Eel Master 泥鳅師, it has nothing to do with Qi flow 氣流法 and it is a standalone technique. However, one LiuFa 六法 school claimed otherwise that it is originated from a fixed Gua 定卦 perspective and Mud Eel Master 泥鳅師 school only have divination technique 斷絕 and did not have the Yi principle 易理, therefore not a complete transmission. In fact, both the Mud Eel Master 泥鳅師 and LiuFa 六法 school incorporated this technique once called YangGong’s 楊公 Heavenly Heart Methodology 十道天心法 that uses the Cross Line 十道 reference of a human body 人體 as a mean to measure landform 形家 with the aid of a walking stick 長. That is where the name Naked Eye Method 長眼法 comes about. Unlike the Golden Lock Jade Portal 金鎖玉關, it does not really based on the entire eight trigram 八卦 and LoShu 洛書. Instead it is based on the Four Imagery 四象, YinYang 陰陽 and HeTu 河圖 numerology. Therefore it is sometimes called Four Imagery YinYang Techniques 四象陰陽法. Coupled with Passerby YinYang 過路陰陽 that has a close proximities to XuanKong Gua 玄空卦, Naked Eye Method 長眼法 can be incorporated with the permutation of the eight trigram 八卦 to determine Who, When and How an event would occur based on landform.
A short introduction of this school originated from the Monk Master 和尚師, rather an absolute generic name for a founder of a great school of FengShui. Zheng QingFeng 鄭清風, as a young turd has been spending his youth in the mountain attending to goats and cows and having the affinity to meet this Monk Master 和尚師, that was famed to have been following the retinue of Chiang KaiShek 蔣介石 at that time, defeated by the Communist to retreat to Taiwan. In a sunny morning Monk Master 和尚師 has taught Zheng QingFeng 鄭清風 the art of Naked Eye Method 長眼法 through the various burial grounds around that area. With confident, the young Zheng QingFeng 鄭清風 approached other masters that have been dotting graves around the area, while providing accurate and sharp predictions to the many grave sites, he managed to carve his name in the industry at his time. He was later known as Snail Master 泥鮴師 owing to his casual habits of catching eels in the countryside. This school was survived by the current contemporary lineage holder in Taiwan and due to the quick nature of summing up the FengShui of a grave or a premise, it was widespread through Singapore, Malaysia but not HongKong, surprisingly.
A short introduction of this school originated from the Monk Master 和尚師, rather an absolute generic name for a founder of a great school of FengShui. Zheng QingFeng 鄭清風, as a young turd has been spending his youth in the mountain attending to goats and cows and having the affinity to meet this Monk Master 和尚師, that was famed to have been following the retinue of Chiang KaiShek 蔣介石 at that time, defeated by the Communist to retreat to Taiwan. In a sunny morning Monk Master 和尚師 has taught Zheng QingFeng 鄭清風 the art of Naked Eye Method 長眼法 through the various burial grounds around that area. With confident, the young Zheng QingFeng 鄭清風 approached other masters that have been dotting graves around the area, while providing accurate and sharp predictions to the many grave sites, he managed to carve his name in the industry at his time. He was later known as Snail Master 泥鮴師 owing to his casual habits of catching eels in the countryside. This school was survived by the current contemporary lineage holder in Taiwan and due to the quick nature of summing up the FengShui of a grave or a premise, it was widespread through Singapore, Malaysia but not HongKong, surprisingly.
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Thirteen Families 13家
Rarely had one heard of these genuine FengShui masters that had inherited the arts since time immemorial. They comprises of families that had practiced these from one generations to another. Their clienteles ranged from the royalties to commoners. They operated as a cult with a huge followings comprises of multi national conglomerates and some may be associated with the so called - Chinese Freemasons. Most of these families had prospered themselves and no longer practicing the art. The families operated in a well organized fashion having their very own "Librarian" so as to keep the knowledge of the 13 families in perpetuity. Each of these families control one aspect of the arts ranging from SanHe to SanYuan, with one specializes purely on date selections. They need no advertisement to promote themselves. They were very well known in person within the clans they live with. As all of them had left China during the cultural revolution onslaught, they prospered overseas having footholds in Taiwan, Thailand and even Malaysia. As far as they are concerned, XuanKong 玄空, in their opinion is never a Genuine Technique.
