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Day 4 – Zeng & Liao, Disciples of Grandmaster Yang
Last update: 16th April 2008 12:19pm (GMT+08:00)
Reported by Sherwin Ng.
15th April 2008 (Tuesday)
There are two things you need to know about Grandmaster Yang Yun Sung.
First of all, he is honoured and remembered today as the ‘Father of Feng Shui’ because without him, books like ‘Green Satchel Classics’, Yellow Emperor’s Mansions Classics and ‘Heavenly Jade Classics’ will not be available to public today – it would be confined in the royal palace libraries; secondly, upon escaping the royal police, he found and settled in this place now called ‘San Liao’ village. Here, he taught two disciples Zeng and Liao, and subsequently, Feng Shui teachings were passed down from one generation to another within the family surname.
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 We are here today at ‘San Liao’ village. Literary Arts lined the way into the village. The locals call this the Luopan Formation where in fact, its technical term should be a Spiral City.
One of the first sites was a tomb of the Zeng family. It sat directly on a vein! But the spot had two problems: the vein coming down was too steep; the left embrace was too short. But the Zeng’s knew their Landform Feng Shui. An artificial embrace was added to the original natural one. A deep pool of water was used to stop the rushing Qi. The tomb is now protected and it can receive the vein directly. Brilliant but simple.
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 Next we were off to see a house, which lived a family with 5 sons. The locals call this formation the Snake salivating the Pearl formation, due to the curve vein release from the source dragon. Story has it that all the sons did well (the house is in fact, sitting on another vein) except the second son. So Feng Shui master Liao was called in to rectify the code red. In the study of San He landforms, the Table Mountain corresponds to the second child of the family – lo and behold, the Table Mountain at this spot was a too low and the Bright Hall sloped down as well. The solution was simple – build a wall! Not only does this solve the sloping Bright Hall, it doubles as a retaining wall for Qi. What about the original low Table Mountain. Another stroke of brilliance – Master Liao used the ancestral urn at the altar to tap into it.
Winner takes all.
Another Zeng ancestral tomb sat on a ‘Tiger Head’ vein, aided by massive left and right ‘Broken Soldier’ embraces. It tapped into the distant macro Water Mouth, guarded by the lion Animal Star. A superior water mouth regulator mountain. At the height of their power, Zeng descendants were imperial Feng Shui advisors.
Next, we were off to see what the Liao descandants were up to. Our first stop at the other side of the village – the ancestral gravesite.
Now of course, within a cluster of gravestones, one spot stood out. While the embraces were slightly lower than the previous Zeng Tiger spot, this one here sat on a stronger vein, with a more prominent ‘Ru Yi’ Table Mountain - distinction. Our seasoned participant/instructor, Master Di Grobbler from South Africa, was quick to quip that these embraces were a smaller replica of the previous macro ones – the Yin within the Yang.
The group was then led to the top of the hill, a fairly steep climb, to analyze the release of vein. This was one of the occasions where the application of the 60 Dragons and 72 Dragons was demonstrated.
The memorial hall built by the Liao family for GM Yang shed light as to why the Liao family is slightly more prominent even til today in places like Taiwan and Hong Kong – from this side of town, the Literary Arts had turned into a Huge Door, the star of wealth-creation. Perhaps Master Hung, our instructor from Kuala Lumpur, said it best: ‘I’ll take this one anytime!’
One question remains – was Grand Master Yang escaping imperial police and found this place here to hide. Or did he retire here willingly to teach Feng Shui?
While the landforms are mighty, they are admittedly slightly less-than-perfect. Although Literary Arts do produce high and brilliant scholars, it lacks the nobility bestowed by a Greedy Wolf, or power from the Military Arts. Not to mention the lack of Huge Door mountains to help with the finances. Instead we found many Rewards stars that typically produce farmers.
Oh well, maybe Grand Master Yang opted for the simple life. He found two great students indeed in Zeng and Liao, and their families live on to pass down his tale and wisdom.
Tomorrow: actual works from the Grandmaster himself.
What Participants Say About the 2008 Excursion:
Cheers,
Sherwin Ng
Reported by Sherwin Ng.
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