This Sunday 9 October is Chong
Yang festival 重阳节! It's not a "branded" festival, unlike Mid-Autumn or Winter Solstice, but it is super important, especially in terms of Chinese
culture and fengshui.
What
you need to know first is that Chong Yang is an extremely auspicious
occasion. And you can leverage prosperity from the heavenly time. You can do 3 things: 1. have yourself a piece of Lotus
agarwood (read here); 2. place your crystal mountain (read here); 3. wear TWO Double Dragon jadeite rings.
ONE Double Dragon jadeite ring is awesome. Wear it on your middle finger for wealth, last finger for benefactors...but since it's the double "9", double yang festival, might as well take the heavenly chance to DOUBLE your Double Dragon ring, right?
But of course, there is more to it than a symbolic celebratory cause. Let's go back to the "Book of Changes 易经"...
The Book records 64 hexagrams (六十四卦), each foretelling the possibilities of future. A form of divination. But it is actually a form of empirical science -- we can talk about this next time. Each hexagram 卦 composites mainly of 2 parts of "eight trigrams 八卦". Let's have a visual understanding, these are the "eight trigrams 八卦":
Have another set of these, stack any 2 of them together, you get a hexagram 卦. For instance, I get a Dui 兑 on top and a Li 离 below, I get this hexagram 卦:
There's a new name for the combination. This is Ge 革卦. You might also get the same "eight trigrams 八卦" for top and bottom. Say, instead of a Dui 兑 on top, both top and bottom are Li 离:
Then you have this. But what has this to do with Chong Yang...double yang, what happens when 2 ultimate yang "eight trigrams 八卦" combines?
Qian 乾 refers to the skies, the patriarch. Qian is the ultimate yang, the tai-yang 太阳. And when 2 Qian combines:
The first hexagram 卦, this Qian 乾卦. Fully yang, even the look of it seems fierce. The ancients left parables to expound the meaning of Qian 乾卦, not too easy to understand, so I am just going to quote a couple of lines here:
In the entire parable, there are no less than 4 dragons mentioned. How many dragons do you have now?
And since wearing ONE Double Dragon jadeite ring prospers you either wealth or benefactors, why not have TWO, and have both wealth and benefactors?
Especially since we are in the Chong Yang 重阳 season. Perhaps "it is the time for the great man to emerge from obscurity..."
Huat double! Huat more!
-- Kan Ying Loong, Executive Director
ONE Double Dragon jadeite ring is awesome. Wear it on your middle finger for wealth, last finger for benefactors...but since it's the double "9", double yang festival, might as well take the heavenly chance to DOUBLE your Double Dragon ring, right?
But of course, there is more to it than a symbolic celebratory cause. Let's go back to the "Book of Changes 易经"...
The Book records 64 hexagrams (六十四卦), each foretelling the possibilities of future. A form of divination. But it is actually a form of empirical science -- we can talk about this next time. Each hexagram 卦 composites mainly of 2 parts of "eight trigrams 八卦". Let's have a visual understanding, these are the "eight trigrams 八卦":
Have another set of these, stack any 2 of them together, you get a hexagram 卦. For instance, I get a Dui 兑 on top and a Li 离 below, I get this hexagram 卦:
There's a new name for the combination. This is Ge 革卦. You might also get the same "eight trigrams 八卦" for top and bottom. Say, instead of a Dui 兑 on top, both top and bottom are Li 离:
Qian 乾 refers to the skies, the patriarch. Qian is the ultimate yang, the tai-yang 太阳. And when 2 Qian combines:
The Qian hexagram, the symbol of heavens predicates supremacy, potentiality and perseverance. The dragon is lying in wait. The dragon appears in the fields. It is time for the great man to emerge from obscurity...And the rest of the passage just kept talking about the behavior, transformation and greatness of dragons. No other parts of the Book was "dragon" so intensely highlighted. The suggestion of this Qian 乾卦, this double yang hexagram, can't be more obvious: are you with the dragons?
(乾，乾为天，元亨，利贞。初九，潜龙勿用。九二，见龙在田，利见大人……)
In the entire parable, there are no less than 4 dragons mentioned. How many dragons do you have now?
And since wearing ONE Double Dragon jadeite ring prospers you either wealth or benefactors, why not have TWO, and have both wealth and benefactors?
Especially since we are in the Chong Yang 重阳 season. Perhaps "it is the time for the great man to emerge from obscurity..."
Huat double! Huat more!
-- Kan Ying Loong, Executive Director
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