Who is Yang JungSong 楊筠松?

There are 2 versions to the History of Great Grandmaster Yang JungSong. 

The first version as most of us were told, the Great Grandmaster Yang JungSong, the official historical logbook 《南安府志》 reads: “Yang JungSong 楊筠松, citizen of Dou Zhou 竇州, was an officer during the reign of Xi Zhong 僖宗. He was in charge of Spiritual and Feng Shui Affairs. He reached the highest position of Golden Purple Light Prosperity Minister 金紫光祿大夫. When rebels headed by Huang Cao 黃巢 broke into the capital city, he cut short his hair and fled to Mount Kunlun 昆侖山." 

The second version as rarely known, the Great Grandmaster Yang JungSong was never be found in the official historical records of the Historian. There was however, a very small position held by him as a prison warden. Fate has brought him to encounter a prisoner who is a well versed FengShui master. In an attempt to help this prisoner to escape, he was taught YuHan Jing. The Great Grandmaster Yang JungSong, as the warden, later shown a partly decomposed corpse to the Emperor, convincing his majesty that the deceased is indeed the FengShui master that has been condemned to death. Predicting that his deception may not last forever, he took an incident in the palace to flee to FuJian. 

Which one is the reliable version?

History of FengShui

Got it from somewhere and trying to reason this,

"The Cosmic Breath is the ultimate essence of the supreme TaiQi where it produces the bipolar perspective of existence for which these can be viewed as quadripolar manifestation of BaGua used in FengShui in the forms of the Five cosmic breath of bipolarity genders forming numerous school of FengShui thoughts, some emphasize on River Log systems of congenital and reformed BaGua methaneumarics for the benefit of humantics anthropocosmo by means of metascincetistic neorolinguistic fusion into geomantics alogarithms symbolical study of Imperial FengShui… and the sort..."

Very original… more hilarious then the FengShui classics… Anyway, that is beyond the point. 


We attempted to put up a brief history of FengShui based on fragmented pieces here and there. Such history can be so distorted as its sometimes bias towards a superiority of a certain lineages. Mainstream history of FengShui easily traced back to Yang JunSong, has so many versions, compounded with all sorts of hearsay and jargon such as: -

1. Some believes that Lai BuYi is the direct disciple of YangGong, while others differ.
2. Similarly,  Liu JiangDong, as some may associate him as the contemporary of YangGong, while others claimed that he is one of YangGong's disciple.
3. Classics are subjected to be copied, modify, re-authored and simply claimed to have been written by someone else or even anonymous authorship made research into the history of FengShui difficult. Scholars ended up disagreeing based on literary style.
4. Classical sources were written in a poetic manner where style takes precedent over substances and thus made legibility and understanding difficult. Hand copied versions through the ages resulted in many human errors added up to its inaccuracy.
5. Historical account of book burning by insane emperor and dictator made cross references of ancient knowledge difficult with unknown source.
6. Dispute among lineages within the same school created many other versions, modified to suit one's interpretation.

There are some consistency within these diversities such as: -

1. Methods were actually scriptures kept in the imperial library as the most authentic version and sages  whom are the keeper of the imperial archive benefited.
2. Unofficial sources from strange individuals of unknown origin may sometimes bridges the missing link.
3. Time tested methods such as land form principles take precedent over formula. All others are just good in theory bad in applications.
4. Sages of different times have their roles and they are remembered based on their deeds and not their words. 

We brought to you some of the findings of the historical aspect of FengShui and this version is an ordinary one subject to further refinement. Should there be any constructive criticism, we would like to hear from you and improved accordingly. Drop us an email, we shall give you the access password.

 

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