Chapter 14: The Mansion of the Hidden Phoenix
The old Chen name is Chen Shide, there are five brothers and sisters, he is the second, and he is also the heir of the old mansion of the Chen family, the old house of the brothers and sisters is also together, and the four two- to three-storey buildings surround a courtyard house that can rarely be seen in the south, especially on the Jiangnan Plain. His siblings have both bought commercial houses in the town and occasionally return to the countryside to live. Only Chen Shide has been living in the countryside, and although his business is in the bustling Shanghai, he has to drive back to the countryside every day.
Jiangnan dwellings are generally built on flat dams, after all, in the alluvial plains of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, there are almost no undulating terrain. Therefore, no matter where you walk in the plains of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, as far as the eye can see, there are houses lined up in straight lines. The dwellings I saw in this town were built on open plain dams – quite simply, the terrain was not undulating at all. However, what makes me curious and puzzled is that the courtyard house of the old Chen family is built on a gently undulating slope! Because of this slope of about 20 degrees, his house is at least about 5 meters above the surrounding houses. In the open land of this plain, I looked at the only undulating terrain, and the old Chen family was built on this slope.
As soon as I got out of Lao Chen's car, I walked onto the bridge of a nearby river and looked carefully at Lao Chen's house. Because his house is located on a very rare slope in the Jiangnan Plain, facing the wind on all sides, along the slowly undulating terrain around it, it gathers and closes on the foundation of the old Chen family, and looks from afar, as if a big bird is about to flutter its wings and fly, forming a "Phoenix House" described in the holy book "Dong Xuan" of the Wuheng Sect. This foundation is really a gathering of wind and water, and the weather is thousands, which is very suitable for building a yang house. "Phoenix House" is divided into golden phoenix, bright phoenix, hidden phoenix, sub-phoenix and other momentum, symbolizing the auspicious situation of the foundation of the yang house. In our feng shui secret arts, "dragon house" and "phoenix house" are the most auspicious titles for the foundation of the yang house, the so-called "open the door to welcome the dragon, the backyard perched on the phoenix", the corresponding head of the dragon house is a rich and noble family, can produce the princes and princesses, the main merit is noble, and the yellow is soaring; The corresponding head of the Phoenix Mansion is a rich and abundant family, with a wide range of financial resources and business access to the world.
There is also a foundation in the feng shui status of both the "dragon vein" and the "phoenix vein", which is extremely rare in the world "dragon and phoenix house", my master cloud gully across the world for more than 60 years, all over the world, but also only saw two dragon and phoenix houses, all of them are brocade clothes and jade food, the official does one person under the ten thousand people, and the business is a chain of the world.
Choosing the most suitable house for the family to live in is an extremely profound knowledge of Feng Shui. In economically developed areas such as the Yangtze River Delta, due to the shortage of land, people's residential land is almost strictly approved, and people have long ignored the foundation of feng shui. However, in the vast and sparsely populated and economically backward hinterland, the people attach great importance to the foundation of their houses. In the mainland, the first procedure for a man-made house is to ask a feng shui master to find a so-called feng shui treasure of yang house. It's a pity that in today's world, there are very few feng shui masters who can really interpret the veins of mountains and rivers, which is also destined to the inland economy will never be able to catch up with the coastal areas - otherwise, the inland feng shui masters will find a high-quality foundation for every household, and the family's business will be prosperous, and the economy will be greatly invigorated. There is no longer such a thing as a "large-scale development of the western region."
From the perspective of topography, the feng shui foundation of Lao Chen's family is a "hidden phoenix", that is, this phoenix cannot soar into the sky, but accumulates momentum in the earth's veins for a long time. The diving phoenix is not a high-grade yang house with both auspiciousness in the phoenix mansion, but in this alluvial plain of rivers where feng shui is extremely difficult to find, the "hidden phoenix" is already an extremely rare auspicious feng shui. Therefore, the descendants of the Chen family are flourishing and fruitful, and all of them have prosperous businesses, although they are not big businesses, they are enough to make a fortune, and they are known far and near. Speaking of which, both the Dragon Mansion and the Phoenix Mansion will be in charge of the same thing, that is, the officialdom of the Dragon Mansion is politically developed, and the Phoenix Mansion Owner's financial resources and business are smooth. But not the two can only keep their own masters, that is, the family of the Dragon Mansion is big as an official, but it can also do well in business; And the family of the Phoenix Mansion has done business all over the world, but there are also people who can serve as officials and politicians. There is no contradiction or conflict between the two, and China has been "the integration of government and business" since ancient times, and the close integration of the two is also destined to the current situation in China, a socialist country with great characteristics.
Therefore, the old Chen family has been in business for generations and has developed business, but for hundreds of years, no one has ever been an official in ancient times, eating the people's grain, and today's civil servants eating taxpayers and eating financial allocations, which is indeed a very abnormal phenomenon. At the end of the day, as Lao Chen himself said, his family has not been able to produce a scholar for hundreds of years, after all, reading articles and fame is the fundamental way to become an official. And his son is not stupid, but he has been defeated repeatedly in the college entrance examination, coincidentally only a few points away every time!
The biggest difference between my Wuheng sect and ordinary Feng Shui masters is that we never use tools such as compasses, measuring tapes, ink fountains, etc., we only rely on our eyes and the seventh or eighth sense of spiritual consciousness. The construction concept of Chinese folk houses has always been to pay attention to the "heaven and round place", that is, the hall house, the main house and the dormitory are built on the square axis of the green dragon, white tiger, vermilion bird and xuanwu on the foundation. No matter which room, it should be closely connected to the square axis and form a unified and organic whole. For example, if there is a problem with the foundation of the family's Yang house, almost all the rooms of the house group deviate from the square axis, once it deviates, the main life is still there, and the bias is weak. In today's economically developed area of Shanghai, how can people still pay attention to these feng shui concepts? Almost all of them are allocated by the government in a unified manner, and every household is closely connected, so there is no big problem in doing so, because "the wind and water gather, and Kowloon wins the heir; The dragons have no head, and the phoenix does not perch", which means that every household is close to each other and occupies feng shui, which is equivalent to no feng shui. Without Feng Shui, everyone's destiny is not limited by the foundation of the house.
However, the big mansion of the old Chen family is independent of the undulating slopes, but exclusive to feng shui, and his ancestors are all people who believe in feng shui, so I can see at a glance that the construction concept of these houses of his family is very consistent with the feng shui vein. Therefore, the fate and future of his family have also been greatly affected by the Yang Mansion.
I walked around the inside and out, and I already had a rough idea in my mind. It's just that when I went in and out of his house, his family didn't believe that I was a good and promising young man with a good demeanor who did this, and he didn't wear a robe or a crown in this business, but wore a fashionable windbreaker and suit. For a while, they looked at me with strange eyes, which made me very uncomfortable. Finally, I walked into the courtyard and asked Lao Chen, "Has the innermost hall of your house not changed its orientation over the years?" ”
Lao Chen replied: "Yes, that hall is our descendants to worship the ancestors, every New Year's festival, the ancestors' death, our Chen family descendants have to sacrifice there, since our ancestors chose this foundation, hundreds of years after our house has been rebuilt, but the ancestral sacrificial hall has not been touched, we have inherited the ancestors' wishes, still keep the hall there." ”
I shook my head and said, "Your family has not been able to produce a scholar or an official for hundreds of years, and it is the ghost in that hall that has prevented your family from soaring to the top. ”
Lao Chen was shocked.