��Feng Shui History--The Story of Today's Xuan Kong Da Gua��
�@�@In the 19 century, there is a San He(�T�X)Feng Shui Master, And his name was Shen Zhu Reng. In winter of 1871, when Shen was 23, he found a grave site with Ren sitting (����) and Bing facing(�V��), and completely beautiful forms around it. This was an uncommonly good site. He gathered the famous San He masters from Hang Zhou (Xi Hu���), but except those from Jiang Dahong's school (Xuan Kong Da Gua). Eighty masters inspected the site, and all said that it was an auspicious place.
�@�@An official heard about the site and bought it, for a very high price. Shen was very disappointed for a long time that he didn't get the site. The official buried his parents there. When they dug the grave and opened the earth, the pattern in the soil looked like the Tai Ji diagram (the yin-yang symbol), making Shen even more depressed for missing the opportunity.
�@�@The Chinese believe that an auspicious grave site brings good fortune for three generations. However, after burying his father, the official lost his job, and died on the return trip. The family also fell to poverty. All the masters of Hang Zhou were gathered to reinspect the site. They still said it was an auspicious place. They could not explain the disasters.
�@�@Some time after this, Master Shen took a trip with his brother-in-law, Hu Bo'an. He saw that Hu had a book in his suitcase by Jiang Yao (a disciple of Jiang Dahong - these two Jiangs are not related, and they have different characters for their name). The book said that structures built during Period 1, with ren sitting and bing facing, or bing sitting and ren facing are fuyin. Fuyin means that the 5-yellow evil star is in the central palace, and that it flys in an ascending pattern. This is always inauspicious and would explain the grave's disasters, as the burial was during Period 1. However, the book did not explain the details of the theory.
�@�@Shen bought some wine, and invited more than 30 masters to discuss these findings. None of them could explain this theory.
�@�@In the past, Shen had looked over xuankong theory, although not carefully. But now he studied Jiang Dahong's books. However, he still could not understand the theory. As was the style among fengshui masters, Jiang wrote in a way that the meaning was not clear unless a master added some oral instruction or explanation.
�@�@In 1873, when Shen was 25, he went with Hu Bo'an to visit Zhang Zhongshan's descendants. Zhang was a famous fengshui master from earlier in the 19th century, already deceased. Shen and Hu stayed for several months, but the descendants would not leak even one character of information to Shen. They offered a lot of money to borrow the book that Zhang had written, -Zhai Duan (House Judgement)-. also known as -Yinyang Erzhai Luyan (Yin Yang Two House Record of Effective Results)-. This book was said to reveal the secrets of the Seventh Star Robbery method.
�@�@Shen and Hu were allowed to have the book for twenty-four hours. They copied the whole book and returned it. Shen spent a year giving the book painstaking consideration, but still did not understand.
�@�@One day, while studying the Yijing, Shen began to play with the Luoshu diagram. He suddenly realized that 5 did not have to be in the central palace, the other numbers could also fly there as well. Shen had found the key to unlock xuankong fengshui. He was able to put together what he had read in Jiang Dahong's books, along with everything else.
�@�@Shen took out his brush and wrote -Di Li Bian Zheng Jue Yao (Fengshui Discriminate the Correct Selection Essence)-(�m�a�z�륿�n���j�E���) , -Ling Zheng Jing�@Yi Jian (Mysterious City Essence of Righteousness Notes)-, and -Di Li Zhu Shu Wei Zheng Kao (Fengshui Various Books Investigation of the False and the Correct)-.
�@�@Shen had come to the conclusion that San He practitioners did not understand that the center of the Magic Square could change with the time period, etc., and could only conceive of having 5 in the center. This, he felt, was their big mistake.
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