The History of Feng Shui – Burial Feng Shui

My first real introduction to Burial Feng Shui was 2006 on a Feng Shui tour of China.

I had read in my early studies on the subject and theory of Burial Feng Shui back in 1995, yet it wasn’t until I travelled in China in 2006 and studied with a local Feng Shui Master in Chongqing that the subject got my attention.

It was an introduction that made me say… “Hmm, really? I need to learn more!”

What is Burial Feng Shui?

It’s an involved practice, which includes finding and selecting auspicious burial sites, precise measurements to get the tombstone facing the exact right direction and date selection to specific moments in time.

Yin House Feng Shui is applied to burial practices. It is the original Feng Shui and dates as far back as 1100 B.C.

According to the ancient Chinese, good Yin House Feng Shui influences the “luck” of one’s children and when done correctly lasts for several generations. It is believed that the effects of Yin House Feng Shui have more influence, are stronger and last longer than Yang House Feng Shui. Yang House Feng Shui being Feng Shui for the living.

My Real-World Introduction to Burial Feng Shui

Chongqing is a city in China located at the meeting points of the Yangtze and Jialing Rivers.

In 2006, this was the location of the world’s largest hydropower project, the ‘Three Gorges Dam’. While it was under construction (on the Yangtze River), 1.2 million people were relocated and displaced. 13 cities, 140 towns and 1350 villages were flooded in the process.

At the time of construction, Local Feng Shui experts had massive concerns about how the change in topography would energetically affect the surrounding lands.

They were also concerned about what the flooding of the graves would mean to the families.

If you were rich or the government deemed grave occupants famous or important enough, they were lucky enough to get re-buried.

The Feng Shui Master I was studying with did Yin House Feng Shui and he was personally involved in the Feng Shui aspects of relocating hundreds of graves.

He explained what he was seeing time after time. In the sites where the Feng Shui was good, the lineage and descendants of those who were buried were doing well and the sites where the Feng Shui was “windy, wet and considered poor”, the bones had actually disappeared along with the descendants.

Feng Shui and Western Burials

I asked what Feng Shui thought of scattering ashes. He said the classics clearly stated that whether the person is cremated or not does not matter. Rather, it is important that the ashes or body be actually buried in a location considered good Feng Shui so that when a body was buried with good Feng Shui, the descendants did better in life than the ancestors. Again – something that made me go hmmm.

The practice of Yin House Feng Shui is not just limited to China either. In Vancouver, you will find Feng Shui burial sites that have been approved by a local Master selling for upwards of $100,000.00.

These days, it is not uncommon in Asia for ancestors to be reburied by descendants seeking to improve their fortunes.

On one level, the whole practice is hard to fathom. Yet, since my trip in 2006, I have travelled a few times to China and Malaysia to study the Feng Shui of prominent grave-sites and temples.

My continued studies and personal experiences of burial sites that have good Feng Shui validate the truth of Burial Feng Shui and the direct correlation it has to the current descendants.

Regardless of your personal beliefs, the topic of Burial Feng Shui is an interesting one.
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