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misterfengshui.com 風水先生 Newsletter volume 7 April 5th -May 5th 2006-The Chinese Month of Dragon FREE FENG SHUI ITEMS - misterfengshui will give away items such as Chinese Paintings, Decorative Ornaments, Figurines every month for newsletter subscribers (up to five per month while stock last)-check out our newsletter for winners! This month winners are: 1. Celene Keyes (NY, USA) 2. Sofie Christensen (Hong Kong) 3. Kenny KueMing (Canandaigua, USA) 4. Lim Beng Jin (Malaysia) 5. Paulo Mendes (Portugal) Please forward me your FULL and accurate address, postcode inclusive, and allow time for delivery! CONGRATULATIONS! New Book coming out soon!-Improve Your Quality of Life with the Power of Feng Shui, next month! -This book explores the power of universe not as something you do, but as energy that you are part of it. Feng Shui (Wind 風風風 and Water 水水水))) 「 氣 乘 風風風 則 散 ， 界 水水水 則 止 」. In English, this sentence literally means, “Energy is dispersed by wind while stagnated by water,” which implies the relationship of energy, air, and water. From this relationship is derived the study of Ham Yu, or today’s popular term, Feng Shui. This study can be divided into two parts: landforms and energy. Feng Shui is based on the physical environment to bring balance and harmony to your life and family. We often use many Feng Shui principles subconsciously, or without being aware of it. Take a minute to ponder these topics to ensure you understand the powerful meaning behind them. In the process, you will probably recognize that these ancient wisdoms are more common sense than superstition. Change Chinese believed that earth’s magnetic field forces are in constant movement in accordance with planetary bodies’ movement, and the energies related to the time dimension do not stay the same. For instance, Saturn and Jupiter come into a new alignment every 20 years and such an occurrence will result in changes of magnetic field forces. These changes thus filter down to earth and human beings. In Feng Shui, the time element is crucial. No person, home or office enjoys good cycles or bad 852-2873-6859 (Fax) misterfengshui.com 風水先生 cycles forever. Different cyclical patterns of energies have different weaknesses and strengths depending on the Period at hand. -we do not believe in lucks but opportunities. I have received lots of request from subscribers, especially from South East Asians, requesting that I write more on Chinese Names, this issue, I will be focusing more on Chinese names and for the Westerners please comprehend as much as you can. Do you know that Chinese surnames (last name) totaled 10,129? According to The Greater China Surname’s Dictionary, compiled by Chan Lik Pu, over a 30-year period of work since 1960. Among them, 8,000 surnames were from Han’s race while approximately 2,000 were minorities. In today’s China, approximately 3,000 Han’s surnames are still around. Top Ten Surnames in Beijing (total surnames 2,225) 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 王 李 張 劉 趙 楊 陳 徐 馬 吳 Wang Li Zhang Liu Zhao Yang Chen Xu Ma Wu (10.6% ) (9.6%) (9.6%) (7.7% ) Approx. 5% Approx. 5% Approx. 4% Approx. 4% Approx. 4% Approx. 3% Top Ten Surnames in Taiwan (total surnames 1,694) 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 陳 林 黃 張 李 王 吳 劉 蔡 楊 Chen Lin Huang Zhang Li Wang Wux. Liu Cai Yang Approx .7% Approx 6 % Approx 6 % Approx 6 % Approx. 5% Approx 5 % Approx 4 % Approx 4 % Approx 4 % Approx 4 % Below is the table of most popular surnames (top 100) in China according to China Population Statistic: The top 20 accounted for more than half of Chinese population while the top 100 accounted for 87% of Chinese populations. Rank Surname Rank Rank Surname Rank Surname Rank Surname 1st 李李李 Li 2nd 王王王 Wang 3rd 張張張 Zhang 4th 劉劉劉 Liu 5th 陳陳陳 Chen Rank Surname Rank Rank Surname Rank Surname Rank Surname 6th 楊楊楊 Yang 7th 趙趙趙 Zhao 8th 黃黃黃 Huang 9th 周周周 Zhou 10 th 吳吳吳 Wu Rank Surname Rank Rank Surname Rank Surname Rank Surname 11th 徐 Xu 12th 孫 Sun 13th 胡 Hu 14th 朱 Zhu 15 th 高 Gao Rank Surname Rank Rank Surname Rank Surname Rank Surname 16th 林 Lin 17th 何 He 18th 郭 Guo 19th 馬 Ma 20 th 羅 Luo 852-2873-6859 (Fax) misterfengshui.com 風水先生 Rank Surname Rank Rank Surname Rank Surname Rank Surname 21st 梁 Liang 22nd 宋 Xong 23rd 鄭 Zheng 24th 謝 Xie 25th 韓 Han Rank Surname Rank Rank Surname Rank Surname Rank Surname 26th 唐 Tang 26th 馮 Feng 27th 于 Yu 28th 董 Dong 29 th 簫 Xiao Rank Surname Rank Rank Surname Rank Surname Rank Surname 30th 程 Cheng 31st 曹 Cao 32nd 袁 Yuan 33rd 鄧 Deng 34 th 許 Xu Rank Surname Rank Rank Surname Rank Surname Rank Surname 35th 傳 Fu 36th 沈 Shen 37th 曾 Zheng 38th 彭 Peng 39 th 呂 lu Rank Surname Rank Rank Surname Rank Surname Rank Surname 40th 蘇 Su 41st 盧 Lu 42nd 蔣 Jiang 43rd 蔡 Cai 44 th 賈 Jia Rank Surname Rank Rank Surname Rank Surname Rank Surname 45th 丁 Ding 46th 魏 Wei 47th 薛 Xue 48th 葉 Ye 49th 閻 Yan Rank Surname Rank Rank Surname Rank Surname Rank Surname 50th 余 Yu 51st 潘 Pan 52nd 杜 Du 53rd 戴 Dai 54th 夏 Xia Rank Surname Rank Rank Surname Rank Surname Rank Surname 55th 鍾 Zhong 56th 汪 Wang 57th 田 Tian 58th 任 Ren 59th 姜 Jiang Rank Surname Rank Rank Surname Rank Surname Rank Surname 69th 范 Fan 61st 方 Fang 62nd 石 Shi 63rd 姚 Yao 64th 譚 Tan Rank Surname Rank Rank Surname Rank Surname Rank Surname 65th 廖 Liao 66th 鄒 Zou 67th 熊 Xiong 68th 金 Jin 69th 陸 Lu Rank Surname Rank Rank Surname Rank Surname Rank Surname 70th 郝 71st 孔 Kong 73rd 白 Bai 74th 崔 Cui 75th 康 Kang Rank Surname Rank Rank Surname Rank Surname Rank Surname 76th 毛 Mao 77th 邱 Qiu 78th 秦 Qin 79th 江 Jiang 80th 史 Shi Rank Surname Rank Rank Surname Rank Surname Rank Surname 81st 顧 Gu 82nd 侯 Hou 83rd 邵 Shao 84th 孟 Meng 85th 龍 Long Rank Surname Rank Rank Surname Rank Surname Rank Surname 86th 萬 Wan 87th 段 Duan 88th 雷 Lei 89th 錢 Qian 90th 湯 Tang Rank Surname Rank Rank Surname Rank Surname Rank Surname 91st 尹 Yin 92nd 黎 Li 93rd 易 Yi 94th 常 Chang 95th 武 Wu Rank Surname Rank Rank Surname Rank Surname Rank Surname 96th 喬 Qiao 97th 賀 He 98th 賴 Lai 99th 龔 Gong 100th 文 Wen 852-2873-6859 (Fax) misterfengshui.com 風水先生 - WHAT IS FACE READING? “To examine a person, we must first examine his heart, to examine his heart, we must first examine his face” by Song dynasty’s Chan Pur, a famous Face-Reader. Face and palm readings, as well as aura and vocal energies, are used to analyze and predict a person life’s destiny. Often requiring the rare ability to read subtle energy, these unique observational techniques are still practiced today. The ancient Chinese believed that a person’s face is inborn and will reflect his or her heart and thoughts. Much of the communication within our peers is nonverbal. Members understand the shared common body language but do not need language to communicate. The generic approach tells us that human will inherit certain traits and attributes from parents or ancestors. Our height, weight, color of skin, eyes, and vocal to name a few are affected by genes and as a result certain patterns will emerge and the cycles of universe will repeat itself. Face reading tries to capture such patterns and predict the futures events that might occur in a person’s journey of life. For instance, when a person is born with thick eyebrow, more often than not such person’s parent also with thick eyebrow and the reverse is also true. Eyebrow like any other area of our face is closely related and affected by the functionality of our body parts and organs especially kidney. Person born with thick eyebrow is said to have strong kidney or in western words healthy and functional kidney. Person with thick eyebrow (will explain in details later) is rather active and aggressive and such person has higher sex drive than normal fine eyebrow person. Due to his adrenaline rush, such person is eager to satisfy his gratification with many partners other than his wife. As for female, due to the same reason, she might not have the patient for details and as such, she is rather weak in fine and details works. A person who is constancy working outdoor with sunshine or cold weather will logically have rough skin as opposed to an office person that has higher chance of a smooth skin. Western psychology has determined that our thought electrical wave is radiated through the upper skin of our body and reflected to our whole body parts and organs. Over time, such conditions will filter through and certain structures and patterns will emerge, as our cell memory is formed. Such structure will then be reflected by our face textures. With few thousand years of Chinese Statistically approaches of face reading, I am sure your will find such techniques amaze you. Please write to [email protected] Your letters and comments are always welcomed! -Kerby Kuek 852-2873-6859 (Fax) .
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