A piece of the original Elm tree from Nuerba's tomb at Yong Ling Mausoleum |
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On the itinerary for the first day of the Mastery Academy Imperial
China Excursion Series course was a visit to Yong Ling Mausoleum,
located some 3 hours drive outside of Shen Yang.
As we started to move away from the city, students began to
notice how the quality of the Dragons (Mountains) was starting
to change. From them till we reached the Yong Ling Mausoleum,
it was an eye-opening experience for the students as they began
to identify and pick out the various Mountain Luan Tou (Forms),
such as Imperial Seal, Huge Door, Greedy Wolf, Camel Mountain
and Sky Horse.
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Trying to spot the Dragon's Vein |
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Students excitedly peered out the windows of their buses, trying
hard to spot the various forms that had been discussed during
the briefing the day before and also, keeping an eye out for
the all important Dragons Veins and the chi powerspot, the Long
Xue or Dragon Spot.
The real Feng Shui fun started as we neared the Yong Ling Mausoleum.
The Yong Ling Mausoleum is the location of the tomb of Nuerba,
the grandfather of Nuerhachi. According to Chinese history,
Nuerhachi is man who unified the NüZhen tribes (later known
as Manchus). It was his son, Huang TaiJi who founded the Qing
Dynasty.
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At Yong Ling, which is one of the Early Qing Tombs, students
were first asked by Joey to go in their groups to conduct their
own analysis of the surrounding landform and to take measurements
using their Luo Pans. Everyone then met back to discuss their
findings with each other and to hear Joey's analysis of the
landforms and Feng Shui in the area.
Legend has it that the location of the burial ground was discovered
by Nuerhachi by accident. One day, whilst carrying an urn containing
the remains of his grandfather and searching for a suitable
burial spot, Nuerhachi paused at Yong Ling. He then placed the
urn of his grandfather's remains between the roots of an Elm
tree that was growing there. When he returned with a Feng Shui
master to examine the area, the roots had already wrapped around
their urn, making removal possible.
The Feng Shui Master noted the surrounding forms in the area
formed a superior structure, known today as Reverse Dragon Facing
its Ancestors. This highly unique and extremely special structure
is what enabled the descendants of Nuerba (Nuerhachi and his
son, Huang Tai Ji) to subsequently defeat the Ming Dynasty and
found their own Dynasty, the Qing.
As Joey pointed out during his briefing and analysis after
all the students had shared their own findings, Yong Ling demonstrates
how the right land form is essential towards achieving truly
potent and lasting Feng Shui.
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Along the way to Yong Ling, there are Flag and Drum Mountains,
symbolising armies and military might. The 'Sar' or embrace
around Yong Ling originates from Chastity Mountains, a pre-requisite
to creating Emperor class structures. In front, there are
prostrating Table Mountains in the distance. All these landform
elements create a superior structure (known as an Emperor
Formation) which propels the descendants of Nuerba to unify
the Manchus, defeat the Ming and create a Dynasty.
Nuraba's tomb and the Emperor Formation surrounding it gave
birth to a Dynasty that lasted almost 260 years (1644-1911)
and spanned 12 Emperors. Interestingly, the humps on the Mountain
behind Nuraba's tomb number precisely 12.
The Yong Ling Mausoleum is a perfect example of the environment
working 100 percent, focused in on one spot, that is the Dragon
Spot. It demonstrates how with the right land forms and superior
structure, Flying Stars pales in significance.
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HE TU A LA CITY: FENG SHUI FOR A CITY
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After lunch, we took a short 15 minutes to reach our next destination,
He Tu A La City, the seat of power of Nuerhachi and where the
Qing mustered up their forces to begin the assault on the Ming
troops.
Built by Nuerhachi as the first capital of the Qing (later,
Nuerhachi moved the capital of Qing to the city known today
as Shen Yang), He Tu A La City again provided the students
the opportunity to observe how forms in the surrounding environment,
such as the White Tiger Holding the Imperial Seal and the
position of the water mouth and the river, create potent and
powerful Feng Shui for an entire city.
At He Tu A La City, students were again asked to break up
into their own groups and to conduct their own analysis of
the area, using their Luo Pans.
Later, Joey showed the students how the embrace wrapped the
city and how to apply San He, San Yuan and Xuan Kong systems
to the Feng Shui of the city.
The critical feature of He Tu A La City is the land formation,
followed by the correct placement of the door, in this case,
the entrance to He Tu A La City. As Joey, in his inimitable
style summed it up: " Doing Feng Shui for a city is not
about measuring every single door and road. If the formation
is right, place door at the right place and Chi will flow
in."
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WHAT THE STUDENTS HAD TO SAY:
What I learnt to day is no matter how much formalism and
book work - when you get there, it's where you start again
- it's going back to basics again. What I've got to learn
is to recognise what I'm looking and to recognise what the
land is telling me - it's talking to me but not sharing with
me - I feel like I've gone right back to M1 again. The further
I get, the less I know - but it's there - it's proper Feng
Shui. If the land's no good, the land's no good.
JAYNE GOODRICK, UNITED KINGDOM
Doing the actual Feng Shui was wonderful - I was hopeless,
absolutely hopeless - I think I got the water mouth once -
but when you see it, it makes sense. I find it fascinating
. DIANE GROBLER, SOUTH AFRICA
I did feel the energy - I think I was very tense - the
harder I tried, the harder I couldn't find it. The mountain
actually looks like a Dragon and that is amazing, a special
feeling - I found the Dragon! RINA LEE, AUSTRIA
At first, I couldn't realise what are these designs -
I was trying to see the mountains in my country Greece but
could not see the resemblance to the drawings in the book
- this is the first time I have seen the embrace and it was
really amazing and the table mountain and the dragon and the
formations . IRENE, GREECE
I was too concentrated on the house, on the palace facing
and the reality is the opposite. I always thought the facing
means you have to face the water but if the whole land is
prosperous, it doesn't matter where you face. That was a big
shock to me. The formation is first then look at the house
. ALEX HO, U.S.A
All the time Joey stressed on big structure and now I
realise what it really means and what it means by San He and
when to use San Yuan formulaes and I could recognise all the
mountains finally and he was all the time telling me TTDI
has the huge door and I could not understand but today, straight
away I got it . MARGARET YIP, MALAYSIA
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