后天派 - LATER HEAVEN SCHOOL OF SANHE EIGHT MANSIONS 三合八宅

SANHE EIGHT MANSIONS ?

We wrote this early last month and guess what, we actually found one school claimed lineage of Eight Mansions back to the Qin and Han Dynasty… No Joke! We are very close to some other schools claim Eight Mansions back to the Zhou Dynasty…Very interesting observation on Eight Mansions... garnishing a stale plate, we asked?
 
Just because someone taught BaZhai and claimed the originality back to the Tang Dynasty, it is called SanHe BaZhai 三合八宅... If someone else is teaching BaZhai and claimed originality since Zhou Dynasty, what would it called? Where do BaZhai 八宅 comes from? The Classics of Dwelling 皇帝宅经？Since when SanHe 三合 plays with GuaQi 卦气？

How to establish the House Gua 宅卦？ Sitting 坐 or Seating 座？Where to measure, Door 门？What make one think the door is the 玄關 or it is entirely different thing such as the Entry Foyer? Has anyone actually measure House Gua 宅卦 by standing 3 feet away from the door or from the middle of the property? If that true try measure a shopping mall using BaZhai with all the doors and a huge space that you can't even see the door... Which door sitting do you use as your ZhaiGua 宅卦？ 

How do you assign your BaZhai Qi map 八宅氣圖 to the floor plan, pie versus grid? Simply smacked into your floor plan and repeat the same for the floor above? 

Why BaZhai ShengQi 八宅生氣 is TangLang Wood star 貪狼木星 not TangLang Star One White Water star 貪狼一白水星？Use BaZhai remedy using 5 elements interplay 五行生克？ Must be joking... What makes FuWei 福位 better compared to WuGui 五鬼? Perhaps, how do you raise FuWei, sitting or facing?

If we think that BaZhai 八宅 is like Shen's Flying Star 玄空飞星 and pretend all the apartment units share the same chart based on the sitting and facing of the entire building, how many "client" had this "master" betrayed?

The questions simply does not end here... it only shows how confused practitioners are with regard to this system...if one cannot truly grasp the actual application to this techniques, better denounce Chinese Metaphysics and do stamp collecting instead. Don't waste time learning from the academies...

Saying that, we found - Later Heaven School of Yang Dwelling 后天派阳宅, the one school that merge eight mansions with SanHe… so technically they should be called, SanHe BaZhai 三合八宅 instead…

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THE HISTORY

​Later Heaven School of Yang Dwelling 后天派阳宅 was claimed to be originated in the Qin and Han Dynasties. It also claimed to be as the same lineage as the HuangShi Gong ancient FengShui 黄石公古风水 system (Wow… even predates Yang YunSong). Contradictory to its pedigree as claimed, it has really nothing to do with Later Heaven BaGua (surprise... surprise!). The term Later Heaven only referred to as the teaching that came much later incorporating the “original” eight mansions and SanHe Four Major Water Mouths.
 
The history of the practice was rather murky but some school claimed it has been continued in the mainland China via secret communications post cultural revolution (can you believe that?). When the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan in 1945, it was brought to Taiwan by the sole lineage holder, the late Li HuShan 李胡山仙师 at that time. In Taiwan the arts developed further or rather flourish (whatever go to Taiwan will flourish).
 
The FengShui of the YinYang Dwelling based on Later Heaven School of Yang Dwelling 后天派阳宅 was derived from Daoism (any kind of FengShui that derived from Christianity please let us know). In the Qing dynasty, this knowledge was published in the form of books during the middle period of the dynasty, QianLong era (now, whatever deemed popular during this era must be taken with a large pinch of salt). It has been spread throughout. Before and after the 1980s, cross-strait relations eased, and the late Li HuShan 李胡山仙师 returned to his root back to China, but the lineage before him was somewhat difficult to trace (very convenient truth). He was survived by his daughter’s side of the family but since they had already married out into other families, and no other relatives that survived were around, his knowledge was due to be lost in time. At that time, the late Li HuShan was in his very old age. In order for the arts to be handed down for posterity, Li HuShan was willing to accept disciples elsewhere.

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THE ​METHODOLOGY

​Zhou WenWang 周文王 founder of the ZhouYi 周易 appointed Jiang TaiGong 姜太公 as the Royal Advisor 国师. Jiang emphasise on YinYang 阴阳 and Five Elements 五行.

YinYang 阴阳 has three Qi 三气 or SanCai 三才– Heaven, Human and Earth, such as: -


1. Yang Dwelling (Human) emphasis is on Growing Qi 生旺之气.
 
The Growing Qi 生旺之气 is dependable on the Eight Mansion Auspicious Stars 八宅吉星 arriving at the door sector based on the sitting of the mansion 宅座. Therefore, a mansion’s Gua 宅卦 can be different from the Door Location Gua 门卦 and produce a different eight mansions star 八宅星 arriving at the door. The other theories on eight mansions八宅 are of no different from those that are available in the market but how they determine the mansion’s Gua 宅卦, which later it is taken as main star 主星 instead, is a closely guarded secret as it must be derived from the Floor, as a result from the Building and in return of such as a result from the environment or land form.

2. Land form (Earth) related to Portal Prosperous Qi 关旺之气;
 
Landform (Earth) and by the same token, Yin Dwelling are assessed differently. The Portal Prosperous Qi 关旺之气 is dependable on the SanHe Four Major Water Mouth Auspicious Stars 三合四大水口吉星 matching the Facing of the Grave 阴宅向. Some variant within the same school, however promoted the Sitting Mountain坐山 instead must be produced by the 4 major water mouth formation 三合四大水口. Therefore, a Yin mansion’s Gua 阴宅卦向 or land form are derived upon the 4 major water mouths 24 mountains sub division into:

1. Host Star 主人星,
2. Nobleman Star 貴人星,
3. Wealth Star 財星,
4. Longevity Star 長壽星,
5. Heaven Stem Killing 天干煞流,
6. Earth Branches Killing 地支煞流.

 
As to how they derived such subdivision, is obviously from the 12 Growth Phases Double Mountain narrowed down to the 3 mountains - governed by one Gua. These are also called Three Mountains Six Line consideration 三山六线. The question again is how you measure the “portal” 关 that is yet, another closely guarded secret.
 
Having establish Facing, the opposite is sitting. The 24 mountains plate (External Plate – Heaven Ring) each mountain has its own Five Elements. They called this the the BaGua gold division 八卦分金 that are divided into metal, wood, water, fire, and earth – 5 Elements or they nicknamed it as the  Five Lines – 五线, (so that it sounds sexy, maybe). In their lineage LuoPan it was colour coded. Some explained that these Five Lines – 五线 were derived from XuanKong Five Great Element 大玄空五行 (Very strange?). 24 mountains XuanKong Five Great Element 大玄空五行 determines the 4 major water mouth formation 三合四大水口 (please don’t panic … calm down, more surprises to come).

3. Temples (Heaven) has the power to Prosper and to Dissolve 杀旺之气.
 
This school took the general view that only temple can receive Killing Qi杀旺之气 of any kinds. The Prosper and to Dissolve 杀旺之气 is dependable on the Eight Mansion Inauspicious Stars 八宅凶星 arriving at the door sector based on the sitting of the mansion 宅座 or more appropriately the main star 主星. Therefore, a mansion’s Gua 宅卦 or main star 主星 can be different from the Door Location Gua 门卦 and produce a different eight mansions star 八宅星 arriving at the door and temple would prefer to tap into inauspicious star instead. Because temple is usually taken as an entire building, the conditions govern land form also applies.

Furthermore there are the classifications to the art of application as in Stillness 静, Floor 楼, Deity 神, Work 工, Wind 风 as these are the closely guarded secrets terminologies of where and how to measure the reference point, main star 主星. Each typology require different reference points such as: -

1. Stillness 静, apply to Flat Layout – Plan or detached landed house. The Room as Host 以房为主.

1. A house that is stand alone is metal element.
2. A house Gua 宅卦 is not dependable on sitting 坐山 to rise FuWei 伏位 (base on Eight Mansion Bright Mirror) or door location 门向 to rise FuWei 伏位 (base on Yang Dwelling Three Necessities).
3. The “House owner” 宅主 is not the “owner of the house” 宅的主人, so there is no such thing as Life Gua 命卦.
4. The "House owner" 宅主 is not the "Main Room or the Grandest/Largest Room" of the house, so there is no such thing as the House Gua 宅卦.
5. The "Owner" refers to the main star 主星 of the house, meaning the star 星 that was sent to the house after the house was built. It is also called the main star主星 or the palace star 宫星. By the same token, the main star 主星 is set in the year the moment the entire building is built.
6. The main star 主星 can be said as the useful god 用神 of the House, just like those apply to BaZi.  Saying that,  main star 主星 is a separate entity from the FengShui "structure" of the house. 
7. With the main star 主星 established, only the other stars for the other rooms or spaces can be established and the 5 elemental interplay can also be evaluated thereof.
8. Because the main star 主星 is not the Sitting Mountain 坐山, the Later Heaven School approach for example, will not necessarily be sitting Kan Mountain and have the result of sitting Kan Mountain and having to open Kan Door.
9. In application, there are 64 permutations of the main star 主星 to be used and such increase flexibility.
10. A landed house priority is the branches 地支 and has to take into consideration of external land forms such as water structures and the establishment of the correct sitting.

 
2. Floor 楼, apply to the multi-storey building. Star as Host 以星为主, Yang Dwelling multi-storey have a separate set of 5 elements (HeTu).

1. A house that is multi-storey, rising upward is wood element.
2. A multi-storey building emphasis in the stem天干 and door placement become important together with internal 5 elemental arrangement.
3. A multi-storey building sitting and facing do not need to establish from the BaGua direction nor the 64 Gua direction or positions. It only required the establishment of the double mountains set of 4 cardinals such as 壬子, 甲卯, 丙午, 庚酉 and the 4 ordinals such as 艮寅, 巽巳, 坤未, 干亥, 4 Yin Stems Palaces such as 乙辰, 辛戌, 丁未, 癸丑 and 4 Yang Stems seating positions of 巳丙, 庚申, 亥壬, 寅甲, 16 positional formations to establish sitting  坐 and facing 向.
4. If the length of the house is longer than a certain ratio and the door is open on the narrow side, the heaven and earth Gua position 天地卦位 will be reversed. Therefore, it is necessary to patch up thus it is called patching the destiny 补卦称之为运步 of the BaGua position of the house.
5. Even the location of the door for every unit within the multi-storey maybe the same but the luck of the said units are different. Floor five elemental assignment is based on HeTu (Stem Qi). Therefore, Floor 1 owner star 主星 is the same as 6 owner star 主星, 3 with 8, 4 with 9 and 2 with 7.

3. Deity 神, apply to temple. Flipping Trigram as Host 反卦为主.

1. A temple that emphasis on the furnace or the joss urn and therefore it is fire element.
2. Similar to a House, who is the the main star 主星 for the temple.
3. A temple which is usually landed is taken to be evaluated with its surrounding.
4. ​The Temple is able to turn calamity into auspicious, so the main door can tap into the inauspicious eight mansions star 八宅凶星.

 
4. Work 工, apply to the entire factory building, BaGua as Host 以八卦为主.
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1. A factory, office or shops (generally commercial, service and industrial) that transform raw materials to product is water element.
2. Similar to a House, who is the the main star 主星 for the "factory". The factory owner 宅主 is not necessary the “owner of the factory” 宅的主人, so there is no such thing as Life Gua 命卦 neither has it any House Gua 宅卦.
3. The "Owner" refers to the main star 主星 of the factory, meaning the star 星 that was sent to the factory after the factory was built. It is also called the main star主星 or the palace star 宫星. By the same token, the main star 主星 is set in the year the moment the entire building is built.

 
5. Wind 风, apply to Yin Dwelling or Graves, the 9 stars communication as Host 以九星沟通为主 based on the transformation 5 elements to establish facing in obtaining water. In other word, using the SanHe Four Major Water Mouth 三合四大水口 to establish facing or producing the sitting of the grave.

1. Grave burying the corps or the final destination of every seasons is earth element.
2. Yin Dwelling is separated into Mountain 山and Land 地.
3. Flatland 平洋, Highland 山顶 and Midland 半坡半岭, all has different applications.
4. Burial methods 葬势、Burial based on the 5 stars 葬五星、water burial 葬水、burial based on the heavenly star methods 葬天星 are all different in applications.
5. Mountain Dragon 山龙 and Water Dragon 水龙 must be clearly discern.
6. YinYang two Qi 阴阳两气 must be clearly discern，in within conform to Heavenly Star天星 method to receive blessings 福，connecting YinYang two Qi only able to receive water establish facing立向 and reclining mountain and push killing Qi 收山出煞.

​Each classifications to the art of application has its own methodology. If you understand well each of these methodologies, you will understand the secrets of the 3 Yi三易, namely ZhouYi周易, LianShan Yi 连山易, GuiChang Yi 归藏易. LianShan Yi 连山易 and GuiChang Yi 归藏易 are known as the mid heaven Gua. As the application of this art vested in how you identify the useful god 用神 as it is called the main star 主星, it is therefore how you apply the mid heaven Gua 中天卦 to control (later heaven 后天) what is uncontrollable (early heaven 先天). 

These were summarized as "The wind and rain, the wonders of the mountains and the seas, the long flowing of water, the rivers and its banks, are of the one family"「呼风唤雨、山海奇观、源水长流、江河一家」. (In other words, all those things that made your head spins).

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THE ​CRITIQUES

​1) Eight Mansions 八宅
 
Later Heaven School of Yang Dwelling 后天派阳宅 demonstrated how watered down and superficial the Eight Mansions 八宅 that are circulated in the masses to date, such as the popular Yang Dwelling Three Necessities 《阳宅三要》, Yang Dwelling Great Formation 《阳宅大成》 and so on, these are the many false books for the public consumption. It claimed that during the Tang Dynasty, YiHang一行 forged a Fake FengShui book to be given to the barbarians for posterity. As a result of these fake doctrines, eight mansions as we knew today were all fake techniques.

When Eight Mansions brought down to the Qing Dynasty, a book called Eight Mansions Bright Mirror ​八宅明鏡 was written. A house Gua 宅卦 is dependable on sitting 坐山 to rise FuWei 伏位.  A house Gua 宅卦 is the reference point to determine the East and West groups of the eight mansions. No regards were given to the external effects of the land form and they are purely formula. It has not taken into consideration of the LianShan Yi 连山易 and GuiChang Yi 归藏易.

2) Four Major Water Mouth 四大水口

Yin House: It is available in YangGong FengShui 楊公風水, but it is not enough. It is necessary to include the application of LianShan Yi 连山易 and GuiChang Yi 归藏易, that is, after consideration such, only 48 gold divisions 分金  can be used and the 72D 龍 are rendered useless.

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CONCLUSION

On the onset, when we investigated this branch of FengShui school, it looks like this school salvages all the other FengShui popular methods available and somehow stitched them together and give it a new name called Later Heaven School 后天派. It lacked the finest and the elegant of a complete doctrine of which can easily be traced from the evolution of the LuoPan rings. 

However, this school attempted to garnish the stale plate of eight mansions by giving us a different perspective at defining the reference point, instead of the House Gua 宅卦 or the Life Gua 命卦, it introduces to us, a relatively new term - Main Star 主星 that almost vividly remind us of XuanKong Flying Star 玄空飞星. The definition of this Main Star 主星 is almost liked catching the Useful God 用神 of the House 宅. Different context will warrant different means to catch the Useful God 用神. As a result, given the context of Stillness 静, Floor 楼, Deity 神, Work 工, Wind 风, the Main Star 主星 or reference points are all different. It became a flux. This is only true when you investigate the notion of a House 宅. So, a  House 宅 is not only define by its sitting and facing alone, but how the Main Star 主星 distributes its natal eight mansion chart and such give rise to 64 possible permutation, reminded us of 64 DaGua 大卦.  But saying such, they don't actually use Gua 卦 as their reference point. Instead they use Stem and Branch 干支. 

​On land form, this school borrowed YangGong FengShui 楊公風水 Four Major Water Mouth 四大水口 minus the 72D. On top of it, they apply another layer of Three Mountains Six Line consideration 三山六线 that is obtained via the 12 growth phases. It may also progress into the full fledged 24 Heavenly Star Method  天星, to evaluate the Main Star 主星. 

​Having understood such, lets look back at these initial questions: -

We had now know that there is this branch of BaZhai 八宅 from Qin and Han Dynasties that is named Later Heaven School 后天派 that purportedly merge SanHe 三合 with GuaQi 卦气 and it is called SanHe BaZhai 三合八宅.

There isn't a need to establish House Gua 宅卦 or even Life Gua 命卦. The BaZhai Qi map is established via the Main Star 主星 that is almost liked catching the Useful God 用神. 

The Main Star 主星 is predetermined by the time the building is completed. However for every floor the effects will be different due to the HeTu floor elemental interplay 五行生克.

Because it is technically a SanHe BaZhai 三合八宅, therefore BaZhai ShengQi 八宅生氣 is TangLang Wood star 貪狼木星 not TangLang Star One White Water star 貪狼一白水星.

SanHe BaZhai 三合八宅 is unfortunately, liked Shen's Flying Star 玄空飞星 and pretend all the apartment units share the same chart based on the Main Star 主星... only the other qualifying factors liked external land form and floor elemental interplay, door locations altered its degree of prosperity or calamities, as the case maybe.

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