Recently I have watched an
interesting Youtube video that I want to share with my readers. In essence,
this is a conspiracy theory accusing the Chinese Government is using Feng Shui
to destroy the prosperity of Hong Kong, causing all the current riots and problems.
In which it has been going on for more than half a year and have no quick
ending in the new year!
I do not want to discuss any political matters in this
blog site so that I will concentrate on some of its reasoning in Feng Shui
aspects.
The chief complaint is the Government put up two recent
"symbolic" structures that have been causing all the problems
primarily based on the ideas of "luan tao" Feng Shui [巒頭风水].
The first one is a massive structure used to divert the
traffic in the central business district for whatever reason. This structure
intends to look like a poisonous serpent head, and the flow of traffic around
it looks exactly toxic fume split out from the serpent's mouth (see picture 1).
Picture 1
The second one is the Hong Kong observation wheel at
the AIA Vitality Park, located at a prime piece of land facing the Harbor.
According to the so-called Feng Shui observation, which referred to as a
"pearl" [明珠] (see picture 2 below).
The third structure mentioned in this context is the
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Interestingly, many Feng Shui
masters in Hong Kong claimed it looks like a turtle [靈龜]. (see picture 3). So,
the Feng Shui theory behind the existence of these three massive structures is
that it resembled of the phenomenon the poisonous serpent, the turtle is
fighting for the "pearl," which causes much havoc and destruction in
Hong Kong!
Picture 3
Whether it makes sense or not, I will leave my readers
to decide. Here I want to offer my few cents of observation in this discussion.
Technically speaking, we do have the concept of
"calling out the symbol and representation" [ 呼形喝象] of a particular
landscape formation or a physical form and structure in Feng Shui, which is a
fundamental idea in "luan tao" Feng Shui [巒頭凤水]. It contains
three elements which are "shape" [形], "meaning" [意],
"chi" [氣]. In this case, the traffic diversion structure looks like a
poisonous serpent's head ("shape," "meaning"). The flow of
the traffic in front of the structure looks similar to the toxic fume splitting
out from the serpent's mouth (" chi").
One thing I want to point out is the above based on
imaginative and abstract observations by the Feng shui masters. A typical
example of this idea is the formation of the Four Celestial Animals, i.e. green
dragon on the left [左青龍], white tiger on the right [右白虎], red phoenix at the
front [前朱雀], the black turtle at the rear [后玄武].
In my personal opinion, I believe that the observation
wheel does have some Feng Shui implications in this instance. The moving of the
wheel represents the chi is scattered, which considered not auspicious. If my
readers are interested in this topic, you can refer to another article on my
blog site when I am commenting on the Feng Shui of the new Apple's headquarter.
