When pronounced as 'ai', it is a kind of perennial plant. Or beauty. Or a family name.<br><br>When pronounced as 'yi', it means 'remorse'.<br><br><br>Previous ...
Dear SL and Rudy,<br><br>I agree with both of you to advise the student to stay away from feng shui. <br><br>I hate discussing feng shui with the "laymen" and...
Dear Rudy,<br><br>I have friends who are at the director level in Hong Kong government. They believe in feng shui ( inspite of their academic background ) and ...
Dear friends, <br>I am introducing a rare good book by my friends from Yale. Few people know about the Spanish civil war, and even fewer people know that...
This info and everything else posted here has contributed more towards my education than I could have possibly imagined.<br><br>This kind of information is ...
Zhao means "to call", while shao is the name of a dukedom during the Zhou Dynasty. Unless you are a student of Chinese history, there is no need to worry about...
Rudy<br><br>There is an American gemtleman called Jim Kin interested in I Ching at SL's Asiawind World Forum. He has put up an interesting post, which is ...
Magic squares is the theme of a book by Cliff Pickover. It should be out some time in 2002. It has examined all sorts magic squares. I can do any square with ...
Dear Friends,<br><br>This is outside Chinese culture, but just some observations. In my experience, sons can resemble father or mother, but daughters look ...
Dear SL,<br><br>The answer may be the sons carry the family name whereas the daughters do not. There are still many places in China and Hong Kong that family...
Dear James:<br><br>The concept of gua is not based on the quantity, but on the significance of the change itself. <br>In other words, when any one of the yan...
Rudy,<br><br>This should be an important series to reveal the true, least distorted classical books as they were first published. We all know that Laozi ...
It's my cut and paste job which resulted in the truncation of the name.<br><br>Yap! I am looking forward to reading volume 1 of this 6 vol series. The price of...
Rudy,<br><br>there's this question about the ritual performed prior to reading the "Gua".<br><br>Do you know the purpose? Or that you have never heard of that...
SL<br><br>Interesting comment "Did the imperial systems of the world know about this when they only handed the throne to the sons? Obviously not. But why the...
In the Photo section, Rudy posted I Ching/Yi Jin Diagrams. In it are many important scientific mathematic and astronomical discoveries.<br><br>I commented on ...
Hi James:<br><br>May be you can tell us what your area of interest is on Yi Jing. <br><br>What you have learnt so far?<br>What are your objectives in the near ...
