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In ancient oriental society, during the time where no proper academia was present: no schools for children to learn basic skills, people relied on teachings that is passed down from one generation to another, to get an understanding of the world around them. Throughout the years, in a time where apes started to walk as upright man, humans took an interest in understanding the world around us…..

I - Ching Basics (5000 years of tradition)

What is I Ching? (pronounced “Yi Jiing”)

Since early orientals first stepped and lived on mother earth, they have been interested in engineering and mathematics. Till this day their decendants still excel in the fields that involves mathematics and engineering. Let us first look at one of the ancient scripts which sparked the development of chinese medicine, design, culture and literature.

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Although data presented here is not entirely 100% accurate, I will try to explain as precise as possible for the readers understand more about oriental culture, history and development in the ancient world.I welcome comments and suggestions for the following topics mentioned here.If you find any data which is inaccurate or contains different versions / interpretations of anything mentioned please let us know.

Introduction

In ancient oriental society, during the time where no proper academia was present: no schools for children to learn basic skills, people relied on teachings that is passed down from one generation to another, to get an understanding of the world around them. Throughout the years, in a time where apes started to walk as upright man, humans took an interest in understanding the world around us. They took notes via symbols and passed on the skill from one generation to another. The data that was captured by roaming hermits/herbalists/explorers/etc was collectively complied to form a basic theory of life, This was the I - Ching. The collection of information was done mainly under the current order known as Tao Jia(House order of Tao or a.k.a Taoism pronounced as “Dao”). The word Tao represents a couple of meanings (Tao as in “Meaningful”, “Path”,”Leading to”,”Way”,”Reason”,”Absolute”). The word itself signifies “Order” and classification to everything around us.

By far, this set of order can be also know as representation of science in the ancient world. From this set of basic fundament rules, spawned the development of Chinese medicine (measuring the human structure/flow/components), Agriculture (measuring change in time and seasons), Architecture (measure of structure ,minerals and materials), Living Methods (Measure of Lifestyle and Health) and Prediction (Measure in changes using statistics). All the above have origins of I - Ching (which acts like a theory), and several well knowned areas which are currently accepted by the rest of the world are acupuncuture, feng shui and face-reading.

I-Ching, Wu Ji, Tai Ji

First there was emptiness / void known as wu ji. From wu ji derived the tai ji which is formed by positive(yang) in the darker shade area and negative(yin) white area. Ancient orientals believed that everything is formed by positive and negative: Yes and No. Sun and Moon. Day and Night. Male and Female. There should also be a balance to everthing for the natural environment to exist: the co-existance of the polarities to form balance. The idea of balance is mainly applied to the understanding and intepretation of the eco-system which oriental ancestory have spent most of their time in.

The vertical line divides the tai ji into 2 parts: on the left half showing extreme positive(yang) fading to minimal positive(yang) and on the right half showing extreme negative(yin) fading to negative(yin).

The 5 elements known as Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water (木，火， 土， 金， 水) is what the orientals believe that governs the cosmic forces.

Therefore enbarking any of the oriental traditions require one to start of from the 5 elements and then branch off to the other arts such as Feng Shui, Chinese Medicine, Divination, Face reading and many others.

The 5 elements live in harmony; supporting and controlling one another. In this study, we have to understand the growth(生), control(克), use(歇) and the balance of all the elements. As we can see around us, there are many different kinds of materials, such as rocks, gases, plastics, glass, so how is it possible that there is only 5 elements in the oriental basics? Well, everything we can see around is classified under the 5 elements, and for example glass and rocks are minerals that is derived from the earth, thus it will be classified as a metal element.

At this time, i have yet found a way to convert from Solar to Lunar and vice-versa.

Information i have gathered currently shows that the lunar date is using movements of the moon which is someone irregular and only has consistency that may only lasts for 100 years. At this time, so far lunar dates which is the Nong Li (which current chinese new year is celebrated) is gathered from the astronomical observatory. eg in hong kong.

There are some basic information that one should understand. And these are rules that one should not be confused about.

1) The chinese calendar uses both Solar (Sun) and Lunar (Moon) phases to calculate the date. Thus its commonly known as a Luni-Solar Calendar.

2) There are 2 month cycles in the chinese calendar. One uses Solar (Sun) positions to calculate and the other uses moon phases to calculate.

3) Bazi uses only the solar calculation. and Zi wei dou shu on the other hand uses both the solar and lunar months.

4) Gregorian calendar is the current western calendar that is acknowledged universally. And most birth dates uses this.

5) The solar month will result the year starting at the 4th or 5th of gregorian Feb.

6) Lunar Month Phase Chinese Calendar is also known as Nong Li (Farmers Almanac), Chinese Lunar Calendar.

7) Solar Month Phase Chinese Calendar is also known as Min Li (Public or Commoners Calendar).

for more rules, please refer to chineseastrologyonline.

by MG Lim

References

National University of Singapore

http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/calendar/cal2.pdf

http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/calendar/chinese.html#dragon

http://chineseastrologyonline.com/clc/LunarCalendar.htm

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1. its out of date
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3. its easier to maintain with a blog
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So where is the old site? it is still accessible at www.fengshuicentre.com/jcms . The decision to move over to a blog has be long and tedious, and I hope it will give me more time to update the site in terms of content, rather than just functionality. Good riddance.