Dear all, have you heard some stories about "Feng Shui" or some other Chinese divination? I suppose they are intriguing and I wish to share some here.
In fact, you can find various Feng Shui masters in China. However, they seldom named themselves Feng Shui master on the table because such a skill is so sensitive.I would certainly like to hear them.
I've never met a genuine Feng Shui practitioner, only Westerners who adopt the title after doing an online course or with no training at all.
Would Feng Shui practitioners in China go through an apprenticeship?
I've never met a genuine Feng Shui practitioner, only Westerners who adopt the title after doing an online course or with no training at all. Would Feng Shui practitioners in China go through an apprenticeship?
Pay 1,500 UK pounds to be told you need to buy stuff from their shop. Yeah, riiight.I'm British but have lived in Hong Kong most of my life. We recently moved to a village house with 3 floors. My wife is Chinese and about 3 months after moving, she announced that she had employed a well-recommended "master" attached to the Wong Tai Sin temple to come and survey the house for its Feng Shui. It's not cheap, about 1,500 UK pounds.
I was a bit disappointed when he arrived as he was in normal western clothes when I was expecting a robe clad, shaved head monkish type. He didn't speak a word of English so my wife was the one to work with him. He is either a genuine psychic or a brilliant cold-reader because he knew all about our situation.
He went from room to room, making statements about what needs to change or what needs to be added to each room. My teenage son was, apparently, affected by his bedroom and we need to get a red wall hanging to counter its effect so he won't sleep in so much. I had to turn my desk 90 degrees to face away from a window. An armchair downstairs had to swap its position with the sofa. Lots of things like that. There was also a big list of things to buy and install in each room (all available at the temple shop). We got a money plant for the downstairs along with small statues of Fuk Luk Sau (Chinese Three Wise Men) and, oddly, an oil painting of a fully rigged sailing ship at sea. I needed a money frog, a statue of a boy holding a lotus leaf over a girl and a 5-storied pagoda statue for my desk while my son needed a 7-storied one. We also had to put a monkey statue downstairs, but a soft toy would do just as well, so that's what we have now.
It was an interesting experience. I can't say I have noticed any difference in the ether but we have more oriental statues and things now and I like the sailing ship painting.
Hello from another Hong Kong based poster! I had an ex who was told to get a painting of exactly nine carp for similar reasons, can't say we ever found one.I'm British but have lived in Hong Kong most of my life. We recently moved to a village house with 3 floors. My wife is Chinese and about 3 months after moving, she announced that she had employed a well-recommended "master" attached to the Wong Tai Sin temple to come and survey the house for its Feng Shui. It's not cheap, about 1,500 UK pounds.
I was a bit disappointed when he arrived as he was in normal western clothes when I was expecting a robe clad, shaved head monkish type. He didn't speak a word of English so my wife was the one to work with him. He is either a genuine psychic or a brilliant cold-reader because he knew all about our situation.
He went from room to room, making statements about what needs to change or what needs to be added to each room. My teenage son was, apparently, affected by his bedroom and we need to get a red wall hanging to counter its effect so he won't sleep in so much. I had to turn my desk 90 degrees to face away from a window. An armchair downstairs had to swap its position with the sofa. Lots of things like that. There was also a big list of things to buy and install in each room (all available at the temple shop). We got a money plant for the downstairs along with small statues of Fuk Luk Sau (Chinese Three Wise Men) and, oddly, an oil painting of a fully rigged sailing ship at sea. I needed a money frog, a statue of a boy holding a lotus leaf over a girl and a 5-storied pagoda statue for my desk while my son needed a 7-storied one. We also had to put a monkey statue downstairs, but a soft toy would do just as well, so that's what we have now.
It was an interesting experience. I can't say I have noticed any difference in the ether but we have more oriental statues and things now and I like the sailing ship painting.
Hello from another Hong Kong based poster! I had an ex who was told to get a painting of exactly nine carp for similar reasons, can't say we ever found one.
On a related note, did you have to do any kind of ceremony when moving in, to placate the ghosts?
Yes, I don't know why I cannot find the forum in the past several weeks.Do you have more stories to share about Feng Shui and divination?
Yes, I don't know why I cannot find the forum in the past several weeks.
It works today, so I can upload more stories now.We've had one day of slow loading pages, but the site has been up and running continuously.
I fear the problem is at your end.