The Commoner’s Records of Qingwu

I'm a poor country boy from the Loess Plateau in China's far northwest. Back in 1999, desperate to scrape together money for my family's medical bills, I followed a man missing half his little finger into the secretive world of folk feng shui.

I went from a brash kid in my early twenties to a middle-aged man weathered by the years. I've traveled far and wide, from a cursed village by a river in the northwest to the eerie old homes of Shanxi merchants, and then to a deadly trap deep in the Qinling Mountains. Fortune-tellers, treasure hunters, unscrupulous construction bosses, tomb robbers willing to risk their lives… I've seen every side of this strange and varied world.

If you're interested, brew a pot of strong tea, pull up a little stool, and let me tell you the stories I've gathered as a folk feng shui practitioner.