Bai Jianping is an old master craftsman who devoted himself to studying traditional feng shui in the 1970s. He possesses orthodox secrets for locating dragon veins and auspicious burial sites, as well as the principles of the Eight Trigrams for reading the flow of qi. He keeps his knowledge among ordinary people and never flaunts it.
In the late 1990s, his son, Bai Xiaotian, was born, and the old and new eras became utterly divided.
The old man clings to old rules, old books, and an old compass. He travels the mountains and rivers on foot, identifies dragon veins by sight, and uses the Eight Trigrams to determine the fortunes and misfortunes of all eight directions.
Bai Xiaotian was born in the internet age: open-minded and modern, bold yet meticulous. He inherits the family’s esoteric knowledge, but is not bound by ancient methods. He brings the old and new together, breaks with superstition, and seeks the truth of the land’s vital currents.
Father and son travel across the mountains and rivers of China.
They use the Earlier Heaven Eight Trigrams to determine the source of dragon energy, and the Later Heaven Eight Trigrams to assess the surrounding terrain and waterways in all eight directions. They determine auspicious sites, seek dragon veins and read their courses, study mountains to judge homes, and survey land to change people’s fortunes.
There are no supernatural fantasies here, only the real forces of mountains and rivers, the patterns of human habitation, and the principles of qi between Heaven and Earth.
Along the way, they survey feng shui, break sinister formations, dispel baleful yin energy, and save the fortunes of homes.
They travel north and south, brave mountains and rivers, and feast on delicacies from every corner of the land.
When high-rises cover dragon veins, roads sever the earth’s vital currents, and modern buildings shatter the patterns of ancient methods, the last orthodox folk feng shui master, together with his post-90s apprentice, will save Chinese feng shui from being utterly forgotten by the times!
