Chinese Culture (General)

1. This lady warrior is wearing a majestic Dragon Chinese Opera Costume. 2. Can you see the dragon's face near her lower abdomen area? 3. This photo was taken sometime in the 1950's in Penang, West Malaysia. 4. What a pity if the photo was in colour! Wow... Truly majestic .... and beautiful handcrafted piece!

Traditional Chinese Festivals are all based on dates of the Lunar Calendar. Similarly, Chinese birthdays are also based on the Lunar Calendar dates. At Geomancy.net, we believe in continuing this tradition by doing all analysis based on the Lunar Calendar System and not the Hsia or Xia Li Calendar. I call the Hsia calendar, a calendar of convenience. (Although, some references are made during computation i.e. the season on the Hsia calendar). Ultimately, the Lunar calendar method is fully used to convert one's Year, Month, Day and Time of birth to the Lunar calendar. The main flaw of the Hsia calendar system (or Hong Kong method) is that it is unable to detect a `blind'…

This article is quite interesting: 1. The article mentions that China was the only developing country that contributed to a 1 percent mapping of human genome. 2. How China is making an effort to map the genome of pigs or porkys. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, The dragon year only begins on 5th February 2000. I believe, the 2000 couples got married has to do with millennium celebration. Warmest Regards, Cecil

1st October 2020

Dear Anon, In my personal opinion, these small magnets are the least of our worries (in terms of applying Feng Shui). It is quite common to find even coca cola small magnets or other colorful ones placed on the fridge. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Some business prosper during the Chinese 7th month...

Dear Anon, The moon is important to the Chinese: 1. If we look carefully, it is the `second' half of the Yin and Yang "symbol". Where the moon represents Yin and the sun Yang. 2. Often in the past, when I was young my mum will say, the 15th day of Lunar month and out of curiosity, I would at the evening peer in the sky and true enough, it is the full moon. Thus, sometimes, when I do not `refer' to the Chinese calendar, one could easily tell when the 15th day of an " X month " roughly is. 3. Again, you are correct to say that the Chinese give a `lot of significance to the moon'. As many members have heard how often the word " Lunar Calendar " has been uttered. 4. The " Lun…

Common to find a display space selling all sorts of Chinese sausuages and "waxed" meat e.g. waxed duck, waxed pig meat, waxed chicken, etc...

Dear Anon, In my country, and in my opinion, the statement is no longer true for the following reasons: 1. Good quality inlaid pearl furniture especially if they are `old' are considered `antiques' and very expensive. 2. Many people nowadays (especially the middle class) can only afford `imitation' antique furniture without the pearl inlay. 3. I remember when I was young, my parents used to bring us to my auntie's parents home in Orchard Road (Singapore). Her father is a Chinese physician and I remembered clearly the beautiful pearl inlay set against many dark coloured wooden furniture. I recalled seeing motifs of leaves, flowers etc... They are really lovely. I do recall…

Hi Master, I’ve a few burning questions. I’m collecting keys on 27 April 2020. Does that consider moving in? 28 April 2020 seems to clash with Goat, my partner is goat, can he enter the apartment on 28 April 2020. 29 April 2020 seems to be the best day of moving, can I shift non-personal stuff on 27 and 28 April and leave it at the courtyard? We are buying a new altar for Guan Yin, which item should I shift over first to set up? Am I allowed to remove her lights and etc while Guan Yin is around? I told the company to deliver the altar on 28 April 2020. How to I know how to calculate the auspicious time to move Guan Yin…

Dear Anon, I agree with you on the statement. In the past, this was the case. One reason for this is because, if one is rich or influential, I guess, the genes are considered (I am not sure how to call it but generally) the genes are considered `better' genes and the offsprings are `suppose' to be more intelligent. Well, the above is just a general saying and if it incurs the wrath of anyone here, than I apologise. It is just one of those `theories' I read and kept in my mind...:) In Singapore, it is now no longer possible for Chinese to marry and take on a second wife. The penalty: `Going to Jail'. Therefore, for a `FINE' country like Singapore, this acts as a deterrent…

Dear Anon, 1. In my opinion, this may not be necessary true. (If we only look at the `western violin'). 2. The Chinese have many different `wind instruments' and in my opinion, the violin is more a `western' instruments. There are `Chinese violins' and need not be in the shape of the western violin or the material used. The Chinese also have a keyboard type wind instrument `Qin' with many strings and they use their fingers to play on. Much like a guitar but flat and more strings parallel to each other. Others include `Pipa' instruments. There are quite alot of CDs on music played on these instruments. Others include, instruments with snake skins and animaal hairs (strings…

I can choose which facing direction for my house every second, every minute, every hour and every day. Can your house do so?

Thank you. 1)After my husband bring all stuffs to the new home, can I come help him to unpack and arrange stuffs? 2) is it ok for my husband to arrange chairs and table when I'm not in the house? 1. Frankly this has nothing to do with Feng Shui. 1.1 There are so many Chinese dialect groups with such a diverse range of individual or even perculiar practices. 1.2 More important, you have to check with your husband's matriach or mother. As often, such things are governed by the mother. 1.3 Thus if your husband's mother gives you blessing to do so.. then go ahead. 1.4 If you ask, even if I said okay, can easily be overruled by the matriach or hubby …

Chinese weddings become infused with Western traditions, traditional Western wedding gifts are more acceptable than before though the couple will rarely have a registry or release a list of wanted gifts. Be careful when selecting a gift and beware of what not to buy.

I am not too sure about Taiwan and Hong Kong but I believe it is most likely true. In Singapore, previously, one would get a compound fine of e.g. $200/- for a first offender i.e. pay the $200 fine. Just recently, one no longer will be able to get a compound fine but rather, must appear in court. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Hi! One must remember that Chinese cuisine is very ancient and most ingredients in Chinese diet are well established through historical precedent. Both Tomato and Potato were only added to the European diet since Christopher Columbus brought them back from the "New World" As Cecil has put it, the need for potato is not there in the Chinese diet. India, conversely has absorbed both these two "New" items completely into her cuisine. Interestingly enough Chinese cuisine has embraced the use of capsicum (peppers & chilli - not black or white pepper)types of vegetables totally. The capsicum vegetables also came from the "New World" as did corn(maize) and Tobacco. Robert …

Dear Anon, 1. So far, if I can recall, no Chinese, who represent China has got a nobel prize. Anyway, I may be wrong about this. 2. One interesting thing to note thou is that in one of my books, I believe it was the Applied Feng Shui book, I mentioned that because of the Chinese hexagram or 8 x 8 combinations, one Nobel prize winner mentioned that he attributed his discovery to this: 2.1 This is where he jointly discovered the DNA structure which is based on 8 x 8 or the 64 hexagrams. 2.2 Another person said that the same 64 hexagram lead to the discovery of the binary numbers in computer language. 3. Chinese which has more than 4,000 year civilization, has quite an amazi…

The Malaysian Prime Minister's view about why Malaysia is not afraid of China's rise to power.... The morale of the story: Like all (most) people in the world; Yes, there are suicides.. but NO, Chinese don't strap themselves with explosives and blow-up themselves AND THE INNOCENT.

In Singapore, it is very common to find food offerings by hawker vendors (or stall holders). The stall holders would serve a plate (sample) of their food that is for sale on that day to the Gods (deity) in the hope to drum up business. (Location: Coffeshop next to the Kovan Residences (just TOP).

In one of Bruce Lee's film... he was outside a building and he kicked and destroyed a sign that says " Dogs and Chinese"....