Yin house Feng Shui: Feng Shui for burial and graves

Hey guys, welcome to Learn Feng Shui, where you'll learn Feng Shui from a classical point of view, taking out the myths and superstition. If you like weekly tips as well as fun folklore tales, you'll enjoy learning Feng Shui with me. Hey guys, continuing on our spooky theme, I'm going to be talking about Feng Shui for burial. So a Feng Shui actually originated with burial, and this is called the Yin House Feng Shui or Feng Shui for, you know, the person that is the ultimate Yin, right? No longer has yang left in them, and they all have passed.

And so this Yin House Feng Shui was actually practiced by Feng Shui masters, and eventually they started kind of realizing, hey, we can bring this into our homes to make our homes prosperous. Also, so it kind of translated from being used for burial and graves to then being brought into the home. In Asian cultures, this can start years ahead of time where they actually hire the master, and they pick the most auspicious spot for them so they will be ready when they pass away. So again, this is something that's years in the making, and can actually take quite a long time to find the perfect spot for you. A lot of the same basics apply from Yin House to Yang House Feng Shui.

So when selecting a location for a grave, they will start out using land form just like they do when you're looking to purchase a home. So it's believed that this is, you know, the most important aspect of Feng Shui in both Yin House or burial and Yang House for the living. Other factors are the actual orientation of your body in the grave, and the way the grave is like, you know, facing so like North-Authese West, just like in a home, you want the grave to be facing a good way in your body to be in a position in a good spot. Another thing that is highly considered is date selection. So both for the ceremony in the burial and date selection for the actual positioning of the headstone, which needs to also be positioned in a good direction.

It is said that sometimes disputes among relatives occur because a burial is supposed to be auspicious or lucky to the descendants, and sometimes it might be on a luckier day for one, you know, one child or grandchild or whatever, and less lucky for the other one so they kind of dispute over that. And also it is said that sometimes they will wait up to two years to bury the body, so maybe they'll do like a cremation instead, although it's best to keep the bones intact, I've heard, but they'll end up doing a cremation, and then they will actually bury the ashes on a good day years later. The position of water is also a consideration in Yenhauser, Feng Shui for burial, just like it is in Feng Shui for your home, so there's certain positions that water is more auspicious and lucky, and there are certain positions where it can actually activate a negative energy, so the water position is considered also. So there's a couple different considerations also for a cheap flow, so again the sunlight is a very big factor. It does state, and I can't remember where, but I'm referencing my article that I wrote on the blog post, that if you select a spot that's really dark in very Yenha, that there will be fewer male ospreings and the generations of females, that you know, per se, you will be sad, and so you're supposed to, for that reason, avoid the very in environment, and then include it's like, concreting and repaving over the burial site, but instead putting grass on top of it, which is very hard in southern states, like Florida and Louisiana where they have a really low like water table.

It's even hard in states, sometimes I feel like no matter where you bury. Once you hit underground, it eventually gets a water accumulation in the coffin, it's just kind of part of, part of, you know, nature taking over, so, and this is generally hard to do in some states, so you could take that as you will, and you know, adhere to your state's laws, you know, but it does also kind of address the fact, too, you're supposed to sweep the burial grounds like twice a year, and generally there's festivals in Asian cultures to do this, I'm usually called the tomb sweeping days, and then there's days that they will put offerings out or venerate the ancestors, and also you're supposed to keep your tomb and everything in good repair, free of cracks. There really is a big checklist when it comes to functue for burial, so if this is something you're interested in, I suggest you find a functue master that specializes in doing this Yenhouse Functue. Again, just like for the house for the living, it's basically impossible to find a house that's perfect functue, so sometimes we just work with the best we got and we take it from there. So since we talked about functue for burial, I'm going to introduce you to another concept here, this is something called Xingji, and it's actually functue for living burial, so let me explain a little bit here, friend, arm reserved, immediate.com, which I'll link to below, it explains here that functue for living burial, called Xingji, is a branch of functue that seeks to harness the energy of an auspicious site for the betterment of the person who's, who buys that plot, and so what happens is you actually put like in a jar, you'll put your nails, your hair, and some personal items, and the article states here that since functue is rooted in this idea of a cosmic trinity, the energy of the universe, the earth, and people that Xingji is one of the aspects that represents the spiritual or the universal part of functue, and that we're using the energy of the universe and the earth to benefit us, whether it's for like health, wealth, longevity, marriage, harmony, or even avoiding misfortune.

So basically what it includes is a person putting their nail clippings, some of their hair, and some personal items into a jar, and sometimes like a Ziploc bag, and it's really just a small little burial plot that's about two square feet, and they bury it in this auspicious site that's said to capture the Qi, and it's said to benefit them. Once only used by empires to consolidate their power and position, many proponents and believe us a functue are now embracing Xingji also. So anyone from like celebrities to just regular people are doing this, although they're much of the literature on Xingji centers on it being so-called live burial, the same plot is later used for the person's remains, and he actually prefers the site devoid of human remains or gravesites, so he actually doesn't use this the gentleman they interviewed for this article. Yeah, I kind of wonder about that. You have a living, you know, you're living self, but you have a part of yourself, your nail clippings, your hair, and some personal affects, and you're putting it in as place for this auspicious energy.

I don't think you probably want it mixing with the Yin energy of a burial plot too. So it's just another aspect to consider. Would you consider Xingji or living burial? I don't know how I feel about it, and I haven't learned much about it, so I'd definitely be willing to, you know, learning a little bit more and seeing, talking to somebody who has done this to see if it works. Today's folklore Friday comes from the Star.com, which I'll link to below, and the title of the article is called No Peace for the Dead, Chinese City Order's Demolation of Illegal Toons.

So just like with many, many other practices, fungish way has not been excluded from scams, and that also includes people scamming for burial plots. That's right, fungish way master in China, this was a couple years ago, actually got caught for selling illegally land that he deemed good fungish way spot. I'm so let's get into this article and with the craziness and zoo. Authorities in Southeast China have ordered the demolitions of hundreds of illegally built tombs. As the president's campaign to combat illicit and environmentally harmful construction projects continued to gather momentum.

The municipal committee of the Communist Party of Fuzu, which is the capital of the Fuzhian province, ordered governments at all levels to remove such graves built in the city and return the states to their natural site. The announcements came after on Friday reported that a huge number of illegal burial sites have been developed and mountainous areas and that many of them had damaged the environment and posed a threat to local drinking water sources. The report highlighted a development on Nanying Mountain in the Jiangtaing Township of Fuzu, where it is said that there are more than 100 luxury tombs under construction. In the worst case, as much as 100 square meters are at 1076 square feet of forest has failed to make room for them. While in other areas, whole reservoirs have been surrounded by unapproved graves sites it says.

So local authorities had granted its developers permission to develop a scenic spot for the public on about 2.8 hectares in 2006. So hectares is a unit of measurements about 10,000 square meters. The company could just continue to extend it and they added the villa's gardens and even a museum. So in a separate case, an official was actually detained on corruption charges related to the villa project being developed without the permission of the government. So yeah, corruption is even in Feng Shui.

Here from the New York Post.com, it says an article self-proclaimed Feng Shui Masters scam a client out of about a million dollars to which she is suing him for. Here she hired him to bring a harmony to her apartment and she was booked out of about a million dollars in allegedly fake Chinese antiquities and burial plots. So after assessing her apartment, he told her that they needed all kinds of valuable antiques and all this stuff to bring good Feng Shui to their home. So please don't ever do this. Don't be duped into buying a bunch of crap.

Remember, Feng Shui is more about the way your space is receiving Qi flow and holding on to it than it is about items. And so the best Feng Shui is actually that unseen. So you won't detect it, you know, it's a desk in a good position, a couch in a good position, up your bed in a good position. That is Feng Shui. So not so much about what is in there.

He also scammed her out of about $120,000 for two tombs. So he sold her these tombs. It's totally a good Feng Shui. And she found that they only cost about $18,000 each. And so she like, you know, talk about a markup, right?

So I always recommend people go to different like guild websites, a Feng Shui Association website. And I might do a quick little write up on that or something. Because I don't want anyone to be ever taken advantage of even the Feng Shui master. I said he under Mr. Jinson Go.

He relates the story that when he first came to Feng Shui, it's the reason he started doing it is because he hired a Feng Shui master. He paid him a lot of money. And there was items that he bought that there were so unnecessary. You know, who's supposed to like bury certain items and all this kind of stuff. It's not necessary.

And so again, you know, go to like the Feng Shui Association website, go to Feng Shui Guild website, go to Feng Shui Research Center website. There's a lot of good websites. Anybody that's on Facebook or like social media that has like J.Y. in front of their name, they're usually associated with the Joey Yap research, you know, the institute. And so yeah, go check those people out.

And of course the Feng Shui Guild, which I you know, talk about a lot. So yeah, don't get scanned. Don't buy a bunch of crap from Feng Shui masters, although you should compensate them for their time. And you know, they're skilled. They should not be selling you tons of items.

They can even recommend you put items up. You know, the ones that practice item placement. But they're generally not going to be like selling you a bunch of items. And they're not going to tell you that they're like ancient Chinese items. Yeah, don't fall for that.

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