Dear Master Cecil

Recently, my husband bought the deities. We do not know where to display it. Is there a meaning of it. It just attract us and heard that to display at dinning room or living room. Fuk Luk Sau or Smiling Buddha isit best to display facing out at the entrance door. I would loves to knowfrom your experience where do I display it.

Thank you in advance. Bye then

Regards

Sophia

Dear Sophia,

Ideally, it is common to place the Fu Lu Shou in the living room. Often, it is placed on the display shelf or display table facing one's sofa in the living room.

Here, the idea is that we can "look at it".

Please take note that for the Chinese, placement of the figurine is based on the way we (Chinese) read a sentence in a Mandarin book.

Thus, imagine that you are now facing the figurines:

-the tallest figurine should be in the middle.
- search for the old man usually in yellow robes holding a red peach. He should be on the left side of the tallest figurine. And the one that looks like holding a "fan" should be on the extreme right of the tallest figurine.

For figurines, tryto AVOID:

-Place them sharing the same wall as the toilet
-Placing them facing the dining table - we do not want to eat while the "gods" droodle in saliva looking at the food.
- Try not to face the main entrance door - we do not want to "employ" them to guard our door!

The figurines can be placed facing or looking out of a window e.g. in the living room.

For the smiling Buddha, many Chinese face the main door i.e. when one opens the main entrance door, one is "greeted" by the smiling Buddha as it "in no way seems to look like a guardian of the door.

Warmest Regards,
Cecil

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On 6/15/2004 11:50:53 AM, Anonymous wrote:

Dear Master Cecil

Recently, my husband bought

the deities. We do not know

where to display it. Is there

a meaning of it. It just

attract us and heard that to

display at dinning room or

living room. Fuk Luk Sau or

Smiling Buddha isit best

to display facing out at the

entrance door. I would loves

to knowfrom your

experience where do I display

it.

Thank you in advance. Bye then

Regards

Sophia