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Classical divination is a self-consistent closed loop of judgment, verification, and hexagram theory; modern divination is an open system in which verification is independent of hexagram theory. The gap is structural, not technical — and any search for closed-loop predictive power inside an open system is bound to fail.
Read the scrollClassical divination is a self-consistent closed loop of judgment, verification, and hexagram theory; modern divination is an open system in which verification is independent of hexagram theory. The gap is structural, not technical — and any search for closed-loop predictive power inside an open system is bound to fail.
At Jianxia Village near Nanchang, Elder Tuo buried Elder Liu of Zixi in a site the villagers laughed at — “Immortal Side-Palm.” Three centuries of silence, then a clan of jinshi and ministers. On form-naming, timing of life-qi, and the geomancy that turns death into life.
A systematic survey of Wangshan Earthen Fort (Wangshan Tuku) on Wangshan Hill in Datangping Township, Xinjian District, Nanchang: a large Qing residential/manor complex of the Cheng official clan, where tuku is the Jiangxi vernacular for a large grey-brick tile-roofed house. Form-method principles for dwellings and tombs are continuous; this report therefore includes a yang-dwelling form-method configuration analysis alongside history, architecture, and clan culture, while attributing the family’s long flourishing chiefly to farming-and-reading tradition and family rules rather than to the dwelling’s siting alone.
A systematic survey of the tomb of Wang Hua—illustrious ancestor of the Huizhou Wang clan and Duke of Yue of the late Sui and early Tang—on Yunlan Mountain, She County. Treated as a burial and analyzed by yin-dwelling form method; the historical record is grounded in the Old and New Tang Histories, the Comprehensive Mirror, and Luo Yuan's Xin'an Gazetteer.
A systematic feng shui study of the Hu Clan Ancestral Temple in Longchuan Village, Jixi County, Anhui—covering clan origins, historical development, genealogies of notable figures, temple architecture as form method, village landform configuration, and the critical examination of legend against documentary evidence. The survey follows a principle of corroboration rather than falsification.
A systematic survey and in-depth study of the Xu Family Kiln (Xujiayao) in Jingdezhen's old city. A Ming–Qing private-kiln settlement and workshop site—mixed industrial and residential—not a burial. The report aims not to prove or refute legend, but to corroborate it with gazetteers, archives, and physical remains; only explicit contradiction is rejected.
A systematic investigation of the "Five Dragons and the Pearl" topography at the heart of Jingdezhen's old city: Zhushan as the raised "pearl," five surrounding ridges as the "dragons," and the guardian-mountain status of the Imperial Kiln. Analyzed as urban form and yang-dwelling feng shui, not as a burial site.
This report takes the Tomb of Zhu Gui on Liantongshan, Wuyuan, as its proper subject, correcting the toponymic confusion in the label "Huangdun Tomb of Zhu Gui." The tomb of Zhu Gui (the "Lord of Chayuan"), ninth-generation ancestor of Zhu Xi, lies at Liantongshan in Wuyuan (present-day Liantongshan, Xiangtian Village, Rancheng Subdistrict, Wuyuan County); Huangdun is merely the Zhu lineage's ancestral-homeland memorial site, not Zhu Gui's burial place. Drawing on Luo Yuan's Xin'an Gazetteer, Zhu Xi's preface to the Wuyuan Chayuan Zhu Genealogy, Cheng Shangkuan's Eminent Clans of Xin'an, genealogies, official heritage notices, and local gazetteers, the report clarifies identity, burial site, form principles, and the history of repairs, and corrects both the misnamed title and the personal-name variants Huan/Gui.
A systematic investigation of the tomb of Cheng Lingxi (Duke Zhongzhuang), illustrious ancestor of the Huizhou Cheng lineage and celebrated general of the Chen dynasty. Treated as a burial site and analyzed through yin-dwelling form principles, drawing on standard histories, gazetteers, and Song–Ming Huizhou sources.
An ancestral yin-dwelling tomb of the twenty-fifth-generation Longchuan Hu lineage, at the eastern mouth of Taiji Hu Village in Fuling Town, Jixi County, Anhui. Locally known as “the Imperial Tomb” for its alleged geomantic affinity with imperial siting, this report centers on form-method (xingfa) analysis, with historical, legendary, and genealogical source criticism.
A village feng shui survey of the tradition that the Southern Tang Imperial Preceptor He Lingtong sited and planned Jiangwan, an ancient Xiao-Jiang clan village in Wuyuan. The aim is neither to prove nor to overturn the legend, but to seek corroborating sources and remains; only where evidence clearly contradicts the tradition is it rejected — elsewhere the legend is provisionally retained as cultural heritage and landscape narrative.
An independent study of the Humang Li ancestral site (“Folded-Centipede Form”) in the “strange acupoints / transmitted doubts” fascicle of Dili Renzi Xuzhi — the famous place where Elder Guto (later also called the monk Jingdao, attributed author of Rudiyan Quanshu) is said to have sited the acupoint and then been slain by a thunderbolt. The case pairs with the Zixi Liu “Immortal Offers the Palm” site in the same classic and can be read alongside it.
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