Fengshui practitioner believe that every city/country has its vein. For beijing this is the Dragon Head. During Mao Zedong times, lot of ancient buildings were demolished except the Dragon Head.
I was very excited about this visit because this place is the most actsy tourist spots in China. What is so *bah bai* about this dragon head. First of all, its not open to visitor everyday and there are no fix period to which they will be open to public. In Fengshui terms, when its TIME to accept visitors, they will open and in Commonsense terms, they like to open whenever they like.
That morning, we were initially going to visit the Pandas but half way through the journey, Guide Li was informed that the Dragon Head is open for public for that day so we U-turn back for this!
Further more, unlike others tourist spot which are administrated by China Tourism Department, this Dragon Head is administrated by Geological / Fengshui Department. This building is old and on some of its bricks are names of the factory. This names are 'printed' on it for quality control proposed during ancient times.
I have seen this BIG LION Stepping on the SMALL LION statues almost in every historical site but still wonder what does it means. I must have concentrate too much on photo taking and not listening to the guide.
This is the only place where photography, videotaping and even sound recording are prohibited inside a tourist spot. anyway its aint suppose to be a tourist spot, its a Geological Department.
I thought I gonna see some amazing fengshui stuffs or meet some really 'kin-yaw' fengshui sifu. At the end, its the same old story of trying to sell us stuffs! aiy0~y0!
The Sifu, kononnya usually don't give lecture to visitor but due to too many visitor he has to help out and he kononnya like Malaysia Pulau Tioman ( Just like all those who sell us stuffs, they know a bit about Malaysia).
So the sifu continue with his fengshui abilities, he shake a hand of a tour-member has predicted he is into transportation than he read the face of a boy and predicted he is into music. Both are right! Sai lei Woe!
After approximately 40minutes, we were brought to the buy "Pi-siu" the iPhone of Fengshui but none of the tour-member bought a single one. Too bad, the guide must be damn pissed off because he could make a lot from here because one statue can cost up to RMB20k!
I was very excited about this visit because this place is the most actsy tourist spots in China. What is so *bah bai* about this dragon head. First of all, its not open to visitor everyday and there are no fix period to which they will be open to public. In Fengshui terms, when its TIME to accept visitors, they will open and in Commonsense terms, they like to open whenever they like.
That morning, we were initially going to visit the Pandas but half way through the journey, Guide Li was informed that the Dragon Head is open for public for that day so we U-turn back for this!
Further more, unlike others tourist spot which are administrated by China Tourism Department, this Dragon Head is administrated by Geological / Fengshui Department. This building is old and on some of its bricks are names of the factory. This names are 'printed' on it for quality control proposed during ancient times.
I have seen this BIG LION Stepping on the SMALL LION statues almost in every historical site but still wonder what does it means. I must have concentrate too much on photo taking and not listening to the guide.
This is the only place where photography, videotaping and even sound recording are prohibited inside a tourist spot. anyway its aint suppose to be a tourist spot, its a Geological Department.
I thought I gonna see some amazing fengshui stuffs or meet some really 'kin-yaw' fengshui sifu. At the end, its the same old story of trying to sell us stuffs! aiy0~y0!The Sifu, kononnya usually don't give lecture to visitor but due to too many visitor he has to help out and he kononnya like Malaysia Pulau Tioman ( Just like all those who sell us stuffs, they know a bit about Malaysia).
So the sifu continue with his fengshui abilities, he shake a hand of a tour-member has predicted he is into transportation than he read the face of a boy and predicted he is into music. Both are right! Sai lei Woe!
After approximately 40minutes, we were brought to the buy "Pi-siu" the iPhone of Fengshui but none of the tour-member bought a single one. Too bad, the guide must be damn pissed off because he could make a lot from here because one statue can cost up to RMB20k! 
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