Wednesday 18 March 2015
Tuesday 22 July 2014
Favourite Stories from the Water Margin 1 - Stealing the swan feathered armour
When Song Jiang, the protector of Justice and leader of the gallant faternalty at the Marshes of Mt Liang Shan was confronted by the defeat of Famed General Hu Yuan Zhao's linked mail chain formation army calvary , It was Cash marked Leapord Tang Long who stood up in proposal for an army formation of bared lances of spooked sickle spear lances to defeat the foe . He then presented his design of the hooked lances handed down from his ancestors and instigated that the only right person who could teach their army to use it was General Xu Ning, the golden spear expert. Immediately, Lin Chong the Panther head and commander of the spears who knew of him stood up and supported his idea. To induce General Xu Ning up their brigandary strong hold however, required a brilliant plan to steal Xu ning's priceless family heirloom and precious Swan feathered armour . This piece of armour was a very uniquely exquisite golden plated breast plate made out of fine swan feathers in laid and embedded with in the breast plate making the soldier invincible to the penetration of arrows and spears .It was of extreme exquisite workmanship. So Wuyong the second-in-command and brilliant star military strategist devised his plan of action. It required Yang Xiong the Placid who knew Xu Ning's residence and flee on the drum Shi qian , the skilled burglar to do the job. Both of them did their job merticulously and successfully bringing General Xu Ning and his family up their mountain stronghold .
General Xu Ning remonstrated against their trickery and initially refused to join them but was persuaded by Wu yong and Lin Chong that his expertises and contribution was very vital to saving them from the peril of the Song calvary and joing them in service was a very merticious and righteous act . General Xu ning thus relented. He imparted his knowledge of the bared lances and knowledge of military warfare to Song Jiang's regime and the foe of the Song Calvary was brilliantly defeated .
Personal significance of this story to me :
1. Highlights my love for Chinese arts and military culture combined into one as the swan feathered amour is a pricelss work of art besides being an equipment of war and defence
2. That lawlessness , the lewd and stealth and strategy all have their merits to play in accomplishing something resourceful and saving people
3. A brilliant plot and tactical tale of heroic valour,deliverance and gurrella warfare of the mashes against a regular imperial army .
It was for his reason that Chairmn Mao Zhe Dong was so inspired by the water margin as it gave him a good background in national heroism and gurrella tactics.
Wednesday 12 February 2014
Saturday 23 November 2013
The Chinese educated Jade emperor venerator at the Singaporean Kellock road Coffeshop
I am not really interested in following any spefic philosophy and against any quest for any knowledge of the truth and any meaningful purpose to life . This is largely due to the fact that I am a follower of the chinese legalist militant power autocratic school of thought such as sun bin and han fei in which a highly militant power society is all about power and the rule of law and who has the right to hold power . The same is for Emperor Qin shi huang and Li si who is a legalsit and it was his advice and opposition aginast confucionsm and other religions and philsophies that led to the burning of confucious ethics because Confucionism is basically about civil administration and the rule of the ideal benevolent ruler .
I am both a devout Song dynasty Jade emperor worshipper as well as very pre-clusive free-thinker charasmatic worshipper of the new creation church pastor Joseph prince prosperity gospel . God to me is merely and only a methaphoric spiritual reference of a higher or greater power beyond the universe . I do not personally and theologically accept and believe in that some kind personal creator of the universe and lovingly heavenly father god of all that exist high in the sky and I only propritate by Divine sovereign grace and will for good luck and health and get to eat something special and exotic to eat so I am not at all seriously spirituially committed myself to following any spiritual values and pathways of discipleship .
It all came about one day when I was rushing in town to attend a career expo in the WTC and hurried looked for a place to have my lunch and my father dropped me into the Kellock Road coffeshop where we ate a bowl of teochew minced meat mushroom abalone mee pok. It was totally by chance that I fell into conversation speaking in mandarin with a Chinese educated person who sat with us on the same table and he told me that he was a jade emperor venerator free-thinker . Since this incident , I consequently did my own research into the popularity of Song dynasty jade emperor worshipping cult of Empeor Hui Zhong , the water margin, Qigong astral projections and astral dreaming and whenever I want something special to eat in town , I only need to project all my creative self-visualisation powers to the Jade emperor and will be able to find something special and exotic to eat anywhere and whenever I am in town to satisfy my overally self-assertive power egocentricity .
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anywhere and whenever I am in town. This is because the Jade Emperor is the official ruler of heaven and responsible for the orderly nature of the cosmos and auspicious energies in line with the vegas star of the east of the solar energies of the sun so I propritate it and only it for everything in life to fall into place for me and only for me alone to satisfy my overly power egocentricity .
Wednesday 23 October 2013
The lore of city God worship
City God worship had been observed since Medieval Chinese history when towns and cities and dykes were built. This was more so in the later Song dynasty with development in astral naval shipping , water astronomal clocks and engineering and the agricultural reforms of Minister Wang An shi . Then there is the strange story of Dee gong Ann or strange cases of Famous Tang dynasty Dee gong or Judge dee who sought an oracle from the city God temple .
As a Chinese legalist scholar , I know that the city God is one of the Chinese legalist gods besides Guan gong and Shang di the astral great bear for militant power because Chinese legalism is about determining the rule of law and the preveledges of the political elite in power and control . What I love about the city god lore is that the city god as a link to the astral world is has a police jurisdictive and legal authority to watch over the people and report to the Jade emperor by deceiding on rewards and punishment and human welfare and protection of the population. So this necessitates the making and offering of all sorts of scarifical food offerings and exotic festival auspicious pastries to appease the heavens for luck and grace . It is also a very good opportunity to eat some exotic tasty treats .
China since its civilisation always had been confronted with problems in relation to power and population control and industrialisation and this problem has only become more exacabated in our post modern times with numerous human rights issues and consumerism on the rise . Singapore is only but a micro minizarise world dominated by a semi-behanine benevolent autocacry of a one party dominated mad rat race society . It was under such prevalent circumstances where our mainland forebears resorted to their own devices of city God worship to voice for some justice and peace and protection from upstairs ! http://chinesetemples.blogspot.com.au/2006/07/23-seng-wong-beo.html
Chinese Temples: 23. Seng Wong Beo 都城隍古庙
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Any tips for male/ female on prayer in this temple? I'm quite confused when some say male should pray anti clockwise before reching back to the
Tuesday 22 October 2013
Veneration of Leizu in Suzhou folklore in relation to silk and shipping
The thunder god was one of the principle gods worshipped in association with magic where the taosit monks came with gongs and drums to perform its rites and this practise is still going on in Taiwan today. The chinese Lei gong is actually the Indain transplanted Rain god Varapni just as the greeks had Zeus. Nordic myths had Thor all with same features of a demi-god with wings and a hammer .
The Chinese minister of Thunder Wen Chung is the agent of Lei zu, wife of the yellow emperor . She was the goddess of horticulture and silk-weaving as she taught the people agriculture, rearing animals and making clothes . Thus in Suzhou, local folklore and religion is the worship of Lei zu relates to shipping and silk textile industries and farming. The thunder queen's thunder commands the changes in weather patterns determines food and supply for shipping and bales of silk transported across the grand canal into Jiang su where the silk textile is regionally produced . This was a custom observed during late Min g and Qing times when by prominent families of Shipping pursers were court purveyors of silk clothings for the imperial royal family. This was illustrated in the dream of the red chamber where Xue Pan was the son of a wealthy imperial court purvoyer of the Illustrious Ning mansion.
Lei zu the thunder queen had many children with the Yellow emperor who was the original acclaimed mythical ancester emperor of the chinese race associated with the royal astral equatorial realm . Chang yi was the eldest of many who settled in henan which denotes the settlement of the Chinese civilisation at the Yang zi. This is the evidence that original chinese native religion is thunder worship in association with river dragon empeor worship due to its locomotive settlement at the river deltas. It is not the result of a helio-centric society which contributed to monotheism unlike the Jews and the middle east races which crated the Shang dim lore that came much later post warring states literature .
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