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Day 6: Dragon Patching for the Dynasty
Reported by Bernice Low
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After an extensive exploration of the tombs of the Ming Emperors, it was a change to the Qing Dynasty for the students of the Mastery Academy China Excursion 2005.
Unlike the Ming Emperors, who are mostly all buried in a single large cemetery in Changping, the Qing Emperors had two main tomb complexes in the
vicinity of Beijing: the Eastern Tombs and Western Tombs.
The Western tombs contain the tomb of one of the most famous Qing Emperors, Emperor Ying Zheng and also the tomb of the last 3 Qing Emperors, Jia Qing,
TongZhi and Guang Xu.
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The first stop on the journey was the tomb of Emperor Ying Zheng.
Students were truly put to the test with this particular tomb, as the mist surrounding the mountains made it quite difficult to assess the mountains
surrounding the area. Still, the students sportingly made the best of the situation and tried their best to figure out the Feng Shui.
During his analysis, Joey pointed out to the students that while walking the mountains was about seeing the mountains, sometimes, you also have to be a
bit practical. “Use what you can see, don’t be fixated on what you can’t see” he told the students, pointing out that in modern urban audits, they would face
the same obstacle that the mist posed today. High buildings, roadways, houses would all obscure their view in an urban environment. The trick pointed out Joey
to the students, was to trust what you can see and work with what is visible.
Emperor Ying Zheng was the first emperor to be buried in the Western Qing Tombs. The tomb is set into a dragon vein but has a closer than normal table mountain.
This is deliberate and not a flaw – the objective was to produce quicker and more immediate results, thus, benefiting his son, Emperor Qian Long’s reign.
The table mountain is also one of Earth Transforming Metal Star (Liu Tu Gua Ge), thus indicating treasure and wealth. The reign of Emperor Qian Long was
indeed one of the most prosperous periods for China, economically and culturally.
Yin House Feng Shui: Recycling not permitted
The second tomb to be visited by the students after lunch, was the tomb of Emperor Dao Guang. He was the grandson of Emperor Qian Long. His tomb was
originally constructed elsewhere in the Western Tombs complex but had to be moved to its present location after the previous tomb was found to have a
leaking underground palace.
Students all clearly picked up the weak Zuo Sha (Dragon) side of the embrace and the strong Fu Sha (Tiger) side. This signals the beginning of the rise of
woman power in the Qing Dynasty and a run of increasingly inadequate Emperors who followed on from Dao Guang. The You Sha embrace also has a very unique
‘peeping tom’ (Tan Tou Feng) formation, indicating an abundance of emotional issues that plagued the Qing Emperors that followed on.
What they didn’t pick up, as was pointed out by Joey, was that in fact, the tomb is positioned on a vein that lacks the proper protection at the rear.
This is a dragon that turns and extends horizontally. A vein that moves in this form, as described in Ru Di Yan or the Entering Earth Eye Classics,
is called ‘Huang Jie’ formation. A Ghost Mountain (Gui Shan) is needed to protect the rear of the meridian spot from Sha Qi. But this particular tomb does
not have a Gui Shan. The Zuo Sha embrace is also too low and was not compensated for by more buildings on the left side of the tomb structure, which would
have helped in terms of the small tai qi perspective.
Finally, Joey pointed out that the Zuo Ann Shan actually has a nice 5 Leaf Lotus (Wu Lou Lian Hua) formation but the problem is that the tomb has
been positioned so that the 5 leave lotus formation is on the You Sha side and is in fact, a close 5 leaf lotus, thus indicating women exercising power
subtly and behind the scenes.
Finally, the Emperor made a mistake of utilising an existing vein, “the leftovers” rather than finding a new vein and instead of patching the Dragon,
they simply made the situation worse.
The moral of the story, as the students learn, is “don’t milk the same cow twice”. The Ming Emperor’s paid the price of failing to make suitable efforts
to patch their Dragon. The Qing Emperors eventually fell into the same trap. Thus, both Dynasties met with ignominious ends.
Today marks the end of the first part of this year’s China Excursion series and some of the students will be leaving. To commemorate the friendship
and fun everyone has had these last 7 days together, traveling in the bus talking BaZi and Feng Shui, and trying to figure out the Feng Shui puzzles
posed by the various practical audit sites, a rambunctious evening of great food and live music, was on the cards. By the end of the evening, everyone
was on their feet and dancing to the fantastic music, a great end to an exciting and challenging China Excursion 2005.
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