Download or read book Introduction to Zi Wei Dou Shu Si Hua Lineage written by Calvin Yap and published by Calvin Yap. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My journey in learning Zi Wei Dou Shu started as an accident. Zi Wei Dou Shu has been under my radar for longest time but I did not manage to learn it for various reasons until my friend and celebrity chef, Daniel Tay suggested that I go over to Malaysia to learn from Master Jessmond Ong and Master Ng. It was an eye opening experience for me. From there I bought an English book by Master Ng titled Flying Star Zi Wei Dou Shu. In that book, there is a foreword written by Si Hua Grandmaster, Kang Hui Huat. After some searching, I realised that Grandmaster Kang is from Singapore, and I managed to contact him. After meeting Grandmaster Kang, I decided to take private classes with him and subsequently completed his version of Si Hua Zi Wei Dou Shu.Zi Wei Dou Shu is a very complex system for destiny analysis but it has a high level of accuracy. It gives you multiple dimensions of analysis. I hope this book will give you some insights into Zi Wei Dou Shu. However, to actually learn and understand how to analyse Zi Wei Dou Shu, I would suggest that you attend a proper course. Lastly, the Zi Wei Dou Shu stars in this book are arranged by Palaces for easy reference.

Download or read book The Prosperity Sigma written by Y. M. Lim and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02-22 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prosperity Sigma is a “get rich self help” book, but of the metaphysical kind. Wealth and success are important aspects for most people. Many have worked hard for riches and fortune, but they always lead to variable outcomes, usually futile. Without knowledge of our destiny, we often fumble along in the darkness, believing that the future is but a mere figment of our mind and that by the sheer volition of our freewill, we can shape our own future. That is right to a certain extent if we do not place fate in the equation. Freewill does play a part in shaping our destiny, but fate is a predestined condition that is not apparent to most people. Using the most highly renowned and accurate system of astrology: Purple Star Astrology also known as Zi Wei Dou Shu, it will prove them otherwise; that fate is already cast in stone from the day that we are born, and that only with knowledge of fate can we then exercise our freewill effectively. This is a book that will help to improve your fiscal situation. The Prosperity Sigma is a treasure map that will help you identify the hidden pots of gold that you might pass by throughout the course of your life, as well as allowing one to navigate safely from potential pitfalls along the way. This book reveals the following:• 144 Types of Birth Template Profiles from Single Star, Double Stars and Empty Life Palaces for easy reference on financial strengths, weaknesses, career options, investment strategies and extensive insight of personality for individuals.• Identification of specific good and bad luck periods for important financial decisions and timings.• Detailed and thorough concepts of wealth in Zi Wei Dou Shu from stars to formations.• Special tools and techniques that can be used to test for affinity to wealth, perform assessment on potential partnership, and analysis of luck periods.• Secret and effective remedies for wealth enhancement and luck improvement.

Download or read book Foundations of Confucian Thought written by Yuri Pines and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious work focuses on the world of Chinese thought during the two and a half centuries directly preceding and partly overlapping the time of Confucius. Ideas developed by Chunqiu statesmen and thinkers formed the intellectual milieu of Confucius and his disciples and contributed directly to the intellectual flowering of the Zhanguo (Warring States) era (453-221 B.C.E.), the formative period of the Chinese intellectual tradition. This study is the first attempt to systematically reconstruct major intellectual trends in pre-Confucian China. Foundations of Confucian Thought is based on an exploration of the Zuo zhuan, the largest pre-imperial historical text. Relying on meticulous textual and linguistic analysis, Yuri Pines argues that hundreds of the speeches of Chunqiu statesmen recorded in the Zuo zhuan were not invented by the compiler of the treatise but reproduced from earlier sources, thus making it an authentic reflection of the Chunqiu intellectual tradition. By tracing changes in ideas and concepts throughout the Chunqiu period, Pines reconstructs the dynamics of contemporary political and ethical discourse, distilling major intellectual impulses that Chunqiu thinkers bequeathed to their Zhanguo descendants.

Download or read book The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East written by Adam C. Schwartz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1899 more than 73,000 pieces of inscribed divination shell and bone have been found inside the moated enclosure of the Anyang-core at the former capital of the late Shang state. Nearly all of these divinations were done on behalf of the Shang kingsand has led to the apt characterization that oracle bone inscriptions describe their motivations, experiences, and priorities. There are, however, much smaller sets of divination accounts that were done on behalf of members of the Shang elite other than the king.First noticed in the early 1930's, grouped and periodized shortly thereafter, oracle bone inscriptions produced explicitly by or on behalf of "royal familygroups" reveal information about key aspects of daily life in Shang societythat are barely even mentioned in Western scholarship. The newly published Huayuanzhuang East Oracle Bone inscriptions are a spectacular addition to the corpus of texts from Anyang: hundreds of intact or largely intact turtle shells and bovine scapulae densely inscribed with records of the divinations in which they were used. They were produced on the behalf of a mature prince of the royal family whose parents, both alive and still very much active, almost certainly were the twenty-first Shang king Wu Ding (r. c. 1200 B.C.) and his consort Lady Hao (fu Hao). The Huayuanzhuang East corpus is an unusually homogeneous set of more than two thousand five hundred divination records, produced over a short period of time on behalf of a prince of the royal family. There are typically multiple records of divinations regarding the same or similar topics that can be synchronized together, which not only allows for remarkable access into the esoteric world of divination practice, but also produce micro-reconstructions of what is essentially East Asia's earliest and most complete "day and month planner." Because these texts are unusually linguistically transparent and well preserved, homogeneous in orthography and content, and published to an unprecedentedly high standard, they are also ideal material for learning to read and interpret early epigraphic texts. The Huayuanzhuang East oracle bone inscriptions are a tremendously important Shang archive of "material documents" that were produced by a previously unknown divination and scribal organization. They expose us to an entirely fresh set of perspectives and preoccupationscentering ona member of the royal family at the commencement of China's historical period. The completely annotated English translation of the inscriptions is the first of its kind, and is a vibrant new source of Shang history that can be accessedto rewrite and supplement what we know about early Chinese civilization and life in the ancient world. Before the discerning reader are the motives, preoccupations, and experiences of a late Shang prince working simultaneously in service both for his Majesty, his parents, and hisown family.

Download or read book Chinese Character Manipulation in Literature and Divination written by Anne Kathrin Schmiedl and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chinese Character Manipulation in Literature and Divination, Anne Schmiedl analyses the little-studied method of Chinese character manipulation as found in imperial sources. Focusing on one of the most famous and important works on this subject, the Zichu by Zhou Lianggong (1612–1672), Schmiedl traces and discusses the historical development and linguistic properties of this method. This book represents the first thorough study of the Zichu and the reader is invited to explore how, on the one hand, the educated elite leveraged character manipulation as a literary play form. On the other hand, as detailed exhaustively by Schmiedl, practitioners of divination also used and altered the visual, phonetic, and semantic structure of Chinese characters to gain insights into events and objects in the material world.

Download or read book Qi Men Dun Jia Made Easy written by Calvin Yap and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was a student of Chinese Meta-Physics for many years before I mastered the art and started teaching. I understand the difficulties in learning this art, and as such, the purpose of writing this book is to simplify the art for easy learning. In this book, the Qi Men Dun Jia chart is dissected into layers, and each layer is explained step by step. In addition, the concept of "Reference Point" is introduced so that students will be able to easily understand and interpret the Qi Men Dun Jia chart. The QMDJ Calendar and 1080 charts are available at the back for easy reference. A word of caution is that Qi Men Dun Jia covers a lot of areas and this book only presents the tip of the iceberg. I have also made it simpler to learn by stripping out the advanced concepts. However, these advanced concepts are important to mastering Qi Men Dun Jia, and will be covered in depth in my class. I hope that this book will help you get started with Qi Men Dun Jia.

Download or read book Chinese Mathematical Astrology written by Ho Peng Yoke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though there are a number of well-written works on Chinese divination, there are none that deal with the three sophisticated devices that were employed by the Chinese Astronomical Bureau in the eleventh century and for hundreds of years thereafter. Chinese experts applied the methods associated with these devices to both weather forecasting and to the interpretation of human affairs. Hidden by a veil of secrecy, these methods have always been relatively little known other than by their names. The first work in any language to explore these three methods, known as sanshi (three cosmic boards), this book sheds light on a topic which has been shrouded in mystery for centuries, having been kept secret for many years by the Chinese Astronomical Bureau.

Download or read book Inscribing Jingju Peking Opera written by David Rolston and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the most influential mass medium in China before the internet reaching both literate and illiterate audiences? The answer may surprise you...it’s Jingju (Peking opera). This book traces the tradition’s increasing textualization and the changes in authorship, copyright, performance rights, and textual fixation that accompanied those changes.

Download or read book Birth of an Empire written by Yuri Pines and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 221 BCE the state of Qin vanquished its rivals and established the first empire on Chinese soil, starting a millennium-long imperial age in Chinese history. Hailed by some and maligned by many, Qin has long been an enigma. In this pathbreaking study, the authors integrate textual sources with newly available archeological and paleographic materials, providing a boldly novel picture of Qin’s cultural and political trajectory, its evolving institutions and its religion, its place in China’s history, and the reasons for its success and for its ultimate collapse.

Download or read book Envisioning Eternal Empire written by Yuri Pines and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious book looks into the reasons for the exceptional durability of the Chinese empire, which lasted for more than two millennia (221 B.C.E.-1911 C.E.). Yuri Pines identifies the roots of the empire's longevity in the activities of thinkers of the Warring States period (453-221 B.C.E.), who, in their search for solutions to an ongoing political crisis, developed ideals, values, and perceptions that would become essential for the future imperial polity. In marked distinction to similar empires worldwide, the Chinese empire was envisioned and to a certain extent "preplanned" long before it came into being. As a result, it was not only a military and administrative construct, but also an intellectual one. Pines makes the argument that it was precisely its ideological appeal that allowed the survival and regeneration of the empire after repeated periods of turmoil. Envisioning Eternal Empire presents a panoptic survey of philosophical and social conflicts in Warring States political culture. By examining the extant corpus of preimperial literature, including transmitted texts and manuscripts uncovered at archaeological sites, Pines locates the common ideas of competing thinkers that underlie their ideological controversies. This bold approach allows him to transcend the once fashionable perspective of competing "schools of thought" and show that beneath the immense pluralism of Warring States thought one may identify common ideological choices that eventually shaped traditional Chinese political culture

Download or read book Hawai i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture written by Victor H. Mair and published by Latitude 20. This book was released on 2005-01-31 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hawai‘i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture is a collection of more than ninety primary sources—all but a few of which were translated specifically for this volume—of cultural significance from the Bronze Age to the turn of the twentieth century. They take into account virtually every aspect of traditional culture, including sources from the non-Sinitic ethnic minorities.

Download or read book The Works of Li Qingzhao written by Ronald Egan and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous translations and descriptions of Li Qingzhao are molded by an image of her as lonely wife and bereft widow formed by centuries of manipulation of her work and legacy by scholars and critics (all of them male) to fit their idea of a what a talented woman writer would sound like. The true voice of Li Qingzhao is very different. A new translation and presentation of her is needed to appreciate her genius and to account for the sense that Chinese readers have always had, despite what scholars and critics were saying, about the boldness and originality of her work. The introduction will lay out the problems of critical refashioning and conventionalization of her carried out in the centuries after her death, thus preparing the reader for a new reading. Her songs and poetry will then be presented in a way that breaks free of a narrow autobiographical reading of them, distinguishes between reliable and unreliable attributions, and also shows the great range of her talent by including important prose pieces and seldom read poems. In this way, the standard image of Li Qingzhao, exemplied by a handful of her best known and largely misunderstood works, will be challenged and replaced by a new understanding. The volume will present a literary portrait of Li Qingzhao radically unlike the one in conventional anthologies and literary histories, allowing English readers for the first time to appreciate her distinctiveness as a writer and to properly gauge her achievement as a female alternative, as poet and essayist, to the male literary culture of her day.

Download or read book Linguistic Engineering written by Ji Fengyuan and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mao and the Chinese Communist Party won power in 1949, they were determined to create new, revolutionary human beings. Their most precise instrument of ideological transformation was a massive program of linguistic engineering. They taught everyone a new political vocabulary, gave old words new meanings, converted traditional terms to revolutionary purposes, suppressed words that expressed "incorrect" thought, and required the whole population to recite slogans, stock phrases, and scripts that gave "correct" linguistic form to "correct" thought. They assumed that constant repetition would cause the revolutionary formulae to penetrate people's minds, engendering revolutionary beliefs and values. In an introductory chapter, Dr. Ji assesses the potential of linguistic engineering by examining research on the relationship between language and thought. In subsequent chapters, she traces the origins of linguistic engineering in China, describes its development during the early years of communist rule, then explores in detail the unprecedented manipulation of language during the Cultural Revolution of 1966–1976. Along the way, she analyzes the forms of linguistic engineering associated with land reform, class struggle, personal relationships, the Great Leap Forward, Mao-worship, Red Guard activism, revolutionary violence, Public Criticism Meetings, the model revolutionary operas, and foreign language teaching. She also reinterprets Mao’s strategy during the early stages of the Cultural Revolution, showing how he manipulated exegetical principles and contexts of judgment to "frame" his alleged opponents. The work concludes with an assessment of the successes and failures of linguistic engineering and an account of how the Chinese Communist Party relaxed its control of language after Mao's death.

Download or read book After Confucius written by Paul R. Goldin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Confucius is a collection of eight studies of Chinese philosophy from the time of Confucius to the formation of the empire in the second and third centuries B.C.E. As detailed in a masterful introduction, each essay serves as a concrete example of “thick description”—an approach invented by philosopher Gilbert Ryle—which aims to reveal the logic that informs an observable exchange among members of a community or society. To grasp the significance of such exchanges, it is necessary to investigate the networks of meaning on which they rely. Paul R. Goldin argues that the character of ancient Chinese philosophy can be appreciated only if we recognize the cultural codes underlying the circulation of ideas in that world. Thick description is the best preliminary method to determine how Chinese thinkers conceived of their own enterprise. Who were the ancient Chinese philosophers? What was their intended audience? What were they arguing about? How did they respond to earlier thinkers, and to each other? Why did those in power wish to hear from them, and what did they claim to offer in return for patronage? Goldin addresses these questions as he looks at several topics, including rhetorical conventions of Chinese philosophical literature; the value of recently excavated manuscripts for the interpretation of the more familiar, received literature; and the duty of translators to convey the world of concerns of the original texts. Each of the cases investigated in this wide-ranging volume exemplifies the central conviction behind Goldin’s plea for thick description: We do not do justice to classical Chinese philosophy unless we engage squarely the complex and ancient culture that engendered it. An electronic version of this book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched, a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. The open-access version of this book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which means that the work may be freely downloaded and shared for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author. Derivative works and commercial uses require permission from the publisher.

Download or read book The Transformation of Yunnan in Ming China written by Christian Daniels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the Ming state transformed the multi-ethnic society of Yunnan into a province. Yunnan had remained outside the ambit of central government when ruled by the Dali kingdom, 937-1253, and its foundation as a province by the Yuan regime in 1276 did not disrupt Dali kingdom style political, social and religious institutions. It was the Ming state in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries through its institutions for military and civilian control which brought about profound changes and truly transformed local society into a province. In contrast to other studies which have portrayed Yunnan as a non-Han frontier region waiting to be colonised, this book, by focusing on changes in local society, casts off the idea of Yunnan as a border area far from civilisation. Chapters 1, 2, and 5 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Download or read book Practical Application of Qi Men Dun Jia written by Calvin Yap and published by Calvin Yap. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was recorded in the Chinese history that Qi Men Dun Jia, together with Da Liu Ren and Tai Yi Shen Shu are the highest Three Arts or Three Styles in Chinese Meta-physics. It was said that these Arts can only be practice by the Emperor or their advisors. Commoner will be executed if being caught practicing it. Qi Men Dun Jia is known as "King of Art and Art of King" because it is regarded as the best of breed in Chinese Meta-Physics (King of Art). During the ancient Chinese history, Qi Men Dun Jia can only be practiced by the King (Art of King). Throughout the history of China, Qi Men Dun Jia has played a significant role in shaping China; from the very first emperor Huang Di all the way to Mao Zedong. This book is written with lay person in mind. More than 80 Qi Men Dun Jia charts are used to illustrate the following: Divination - General Matters divination - Marriage/Relationship - Career - Business Matter and Wealth Opportunity - Products/Services - Sickness - Exam/Test/Study/Interview - Fengshui condition of a house - Finding empty parking lot or seat - Accuracy of information For each type of divination, good and bad formations are being presented and explained in detailed. For example, for Marriage/Relationship, how to see problem in marriage, who is rejecting who etc. For sickness, how to identify sickness and how to use the information to find a doctor that can help to cure the sickness. Application - General Matters application - Asking favor from boss - Negotiation with boss - Interview - Proposal submission - Business negotiation How to use the power of Qi Men Dun Jia to ask favor from boss, how to be successful in interview, proposal submission and business negotiation.

Download or read book The Hidden Laws written by Y. M. Lim and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hidden Laws is a book on Flying Star Zi Wei Dou Shu, undoubtedly the most powerful astrological tool of all times. The third in the series of Zi Wei Dou Shu writings has come a full circle at the heart of the Wheels of Fate where the Laws of Four Transformations resides in. The trajectories of the Transformed Flying Stars are the very Kinetics that turns the Wheels of Fate. The Practical aspects of this book allows the reader to wield the immense power of clairvoyance; to have deep insight into the different aspects of life in the past, present and future with astonishing degrees of accuracy and information.• This book provides a balanced and rational perspective on the contradicting theories of the different Flying Star Schools with highlighted examples.• All manners of transformations are covered in this book ranging from Birth Transformers to Self Transformers and Outflow Transformers.• Step by step procedures explained for crucial Flying Star methods like Setting of Tai Ji positions, Transformers Relays, Heaven and Man as One, Trajectories through the different Period Charts, etc.• Highlights of potential mistakes committed by practitioners e.g. clash conditions, dynamics between Internal and External Palaces, Subject and Object, Lu and Ji.• Metaphysical and philosophical theories are explained for every principles and methodology that is utilized in Flying Star Zi Wei Dou Shu.• Charting guide that spans into Month Periods, Day Periods and Time Periods.• This book also addresses existential questions on Life, Death and the Universe.