My Feng Shui researches 1 - Master Yeung’s Temple
Date 2012/3/19 17:40:00 | Topic: Master Chung's Articles
| My Feng Shui researches 1 - Master Yeung’s Temple Temple
When I was in the junior high school, I read a very good article which topic is “Studying and traveling”.
The author used Chong Tsz’s autumn water chapter as the introduction, which is a story about a frog in the well talked about the ocean where the frog never been there. It is same as the summer insect to talk about the winter.
The author also argued with some scholars who were only sitting on their desk to read the books without doing the research by traveling. His conclusion is both study and on field research should need to be balanced. Otherwise it is not the solid knowledge.
I agree with the prospective of this author. Therefore when I learnt Feng Shui, I did a lot of field research which included the history, masters, famous people grave and house & etc. Especially my Feng Shui master also had the same idea and we went to do the research every month before I move to Canada. My master named it as “Feng Shui Yau Chung 風水遊蹤 – Feng Shui Travelling”. This kind of travelling already becomes as part of my life, once I have the time and I will continue my journey, no matter where I am.
I remember one day my master mention to me that he wanted to do the research on Master Yeung’s Temple in the pass. I organized the trip with one of my rich classmate who had a factory in China and he prepared his van for this purpose.
We were total 8 people gathering in the Lo Wu and drove to JiangXi province, because we did not have the exactly address of Yeung’s Temple, we need to ask the local people where it was. It was because Feng Shui was related to superstition; it was prohibited in China on that moment. Most of the local people were hesitated to answer our enquiry. We were directed from one place to another place, we hired some local Feng Shui master to lead us to Yeung’s temple but also fail. Those temples we visited were not our target.
The local Feng Shui master below was the one we hired to lead us to Yeung’s temple but the temple he showed was not the one we were looking for
Two days before the ending of our journey, we found a Yeung’s Temple which belongs to Yeung Luk Long who is the famous military general in Sung dynasty. (His history can be read from this link, http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%A8%E5%BB%B6%E6%98%AD .) All of us were so frustrated, my rich classmate advised to pray in that temple to ask this military Master Yeung to lead us to the Feng Shui Master Yeung’s temple. All of us were very sincere to pray in this temple.
I saw the whole galaxy very bright on that night in the court yard of our hotel. I got a mystery feeling when watching those stars. It seems that I was driving a space ship across the galaxy.
The next day after the breakfast, we had no idea where we went. I recommended visiting the downtown area because I wanted to buy some calligraphy.
After we got into the book shop, I was looking for my calligraphy and my classmate suddenly saw a Feng Shui master story book was displayed in the counter. We took it out to read the book and wondering why this book would be showed on the counter. At the same moment there was another local visitor who was paying attention on our conversation. We started to ask him about the address of Yeung’s temple because we got a feeling that he may know. He answered us he did not know on the beginning but after we explained to him about our intension and then he told us. We followed his instruction and finally we found the right temple.
We talked with the Feng Shui masters in the village of Yeung’s temple and they told us it was so hard for them to keep the Feng Shui books in the Cultural Revolution moment but luckily they kept it in the vat to cache it underground. They asked some testing question to qualify our lineage before they bring us to see their Master in charge and showed us the Feng Shui books and their Lo Pan – compass. They told us we were the first Feng Shui group from Hong Kong to visit them.
The photo below was the local master in Yeung’s Temple who asked some testing question to qualify our lineage
We did a special ceremony in the temple and the local Feng Shui master showed us the graves which done by the previous famous Feng Shui master Tseng before we left the village.
In the returning journey, I was thinking that if we were not praying in the military Yeung’s temple, we had not met the guidance in the book shop, could we have a chance to find the right location? If we were not staying in the JiangXi province for a few days to get used of the people’s dialect, could we be easily to communicate with those masters in the village? Everything happen was a coincidence and it seems there were some reasons behind.
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