To Classic Or Not To Classic

There have been noble attempts to reveal ancient woodblock classics into the mainstream English literature especially found in the era of Tang and Qing Dynasty. These are the two dynasties that are notorious in producing fake classics to misguide the general public or has been misguided to produce simplified method for the emperors own consumptions. It was during the Tang Dynasty that the Tang Emperor issued fake method for the barbarians (a term that was used to denote foreigners) with little idea that such screwed up method may find its way back to mainland China for the emperor’s descendents’ own use.

By heaven’s will, Grandmaster Yang JunSong packed his bag and ran off with classics from the Imperial library causing witch hunt all over middle kingdom, that his line of family would need to change their surname to others in disguise to escape the tyranny of the beheading blade. With his aide, Liu JiangDong and his two other disciples reside in part of GuangZhou now called Yang XianLing, Yang JunSong has to enter monkhood for posterity to start all over again his quest for real method of FengShui called the YangGong method, stem from the use of the 12 growth phases instead of BaGua PaiLong Fa or method of Eight Gua arranging of the dragons.

During the early Qing and the later Ming Dynasty, Grandmaster Jiang DaHong began to make his presence felt. He is not the inventor of SanYuan method. He is indoctrinated heavily by the Dao and naturally incubates a method close only to himself for fear of exposing Heaven’s will. In historical account, he had 6 known disciples who inherited part of his knowledge in fragments, causing later schisms among the school of XuanKong. His brushed commentary of DiLi BianZheng grouped in the collection of the Qing Dynasty four treasuries, is laden with cryptically worded that is not YangGong method at all.

It was at the reign of QianLong, that Chinese Metaphysics were given the second lease of lives. The emperor recruited masters among the Hans to teach the Manchurians the art of FengShui. With the dilemma of fear to impart such knowledge to the Manchu and the fear of potentially beheaded by the emperor for disseminating fake method, the Hans recreated theories based on half truth. It was these half truth theories that were believed to be ended up in these woodblock classics from the early QianLong period, now available in the English language. No doubt it is a classic by default, but the contents are very much disputable as it is neither genuine YangGong nor JiangGong method. Even with the original author, Zhang BingLing’s very own credentials are very much questionable.