This is specially for Rudy, our I Ching expert. <br><br>A year ago, I mentioned that while I was climbing up a hill overlooking the West Lake in Hangzhou, I ...
Dear Tin-Kay,<br><br>I missed this spot!I never even heard of it after being in Hangzhou 3 times. I read your post a year ago but did not pay much attention to...
Tin-Kay and friends:<br><br>Qilin is more than just an obscure mystical animal in people's imaginations.<br><br>Have you forgotten that it is among the stone...
Thanks for the unique photo! It's the first time I have seen or heard about it!<br><br>According to the alignment of the yin and yang and the tadpole, the...
I am always confused with the titles of Chinese Emperors so much so that I always put their real names before their reigning titles. In this case it was Zhu ...
Dear Rudy, Tin-Kay SL:<br><br>Thanks to Rudy for the diagrams from SKQS, whcih confirm exactly with what I have from Wilhelm/Baynes and others. I feel that...
Thanks for the clarification Tin-Kay !<br><br>I have psoted 3 diagrams:<br><br>1. A map of Hanjou showing West Lake and the location of Baguatain. The name of...
Everyone knows about the Yin Yang Symbol.<br>Do you know the correct way to draw it?<br><br><a href=http://www.chinapage.org/astronomy/yinyangsymbols.html...
Dear Rudy<br><br>Thanks for posting the map. I have called the old Daoist temple wrongly as FuXingMiao ´_¿³¼q, thinking that it is the same name as ...
Dear All,<br><br>Ming got there first about the orientation of the trigrams. <br><br>My question now is why two Bagua? Was there evidence that the xiantian ...
Fantastic! <br>I marked up Rudy's map and posted it in the same photo folder, showing the line of sight from <br>FuXingGuan to BaGuaTien.<br><br>I am updating...
Please find 3 more diagrams on this subject. <br>The probable origin of the taijit circle can best be illustrated by Mengxi's 12 month hexagram chi diagram ...
Ever since I saw an artist in Chengdu (Sichuan) changing his face masks no less than six times, I have been very intrigued and impressed by this art. An ...
Dear Tin-Kay,<br><br>The movie, The Mask Man King, was shown<br>in SBS recently. My wife was in eyes whe she<br>saw his adopted daughter accidentally burned...
Dear Yoon-Ngan<br><br>I have missed that film. Can you please elaborate more so that I can borrow it from the shops. Was it in Mandarin or Cantonese? SBS ...
Dear Tin-Kay,<br><br>It is in Mandarin. The story happened <br>in the 1920s somewhere in Sichuan, I think.<br>Mask Man King desperately wanted a son so...