Yang Junsong, Master of Feng Shui in the Tang Dynasty

Yang Junsong, founder of the Jiangxi School of Form Feng Shui, originally served as a court master of geomancy under Emperor Xizong of Tang. He rose to the rank of Grand Master of the Golden and Purple Light, overseeing the royal observatory, geography, astronomy, and geomancy. After the Huang Chao Rebellion, he took secret imperial Feng Shui manuals south to Ganzhou, Jiangxi, ending the royal monopoly on the art. He surveyed land for ordinary people and helped the poor, earning the names Yang the Savior of the Poor and Patriarch of Folk Feng Shui.