"Rough destiny" or "Meng ying" 命硬

In traditional Chinese society, there is a saying of "meng ying 命硬".  It literally means as "hard or rough destiny".  

For examples, after someone has married, his or her spouse died unexpectedly soon after OR a new baby was born and his parents soon suffered major misfortune or even death.  Consequently, this person or baby lives a miserable and lonely life.  People may comment the person or baby involved as "meng ying".  This implicitly accuses the person and baby "jinxing" their close relatives and themselves.

Another scenario would be:  you may find some old people survive through wars, famines, severe illness/ injuries and misfortune, their family members are mostly dead, yet they still are alive but alone and may be even in destitute.  Due to improvement of social welfare in modern societies,  a modern version would be the same old people survive alone in institutions when all or most of their family members have died. 

A more colloquial use of  "meng ying"  is to describe someone who escapes major disaster like being the  the lone survivor of an airplane crash or battalion during wartime.

Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as "meng ying" in Bazi.  The closest concept to "meng ying" is "strong daymaster with no support 身旺无依".    This means a chart has a very strong daymaster (DM) with no wealth and power stars to drain it (but failing to become a special profile chart).   This chart type usually associated with monk/nun/ Daoist or clergy people in traditional society and poor/ destitute people in modern society

CHARACTERISTICS OF "ROUGH DESTINY" CHART

1.  The daymaster has relatively indomitable survival ability or "unsinkable"-- hard to die.  S/he suffers frequent setbacks and misfortunes, but s/he usually can overcome or escape from death in catastrophes.

2.  It implies "jinx", especially "loneliness jinx", jinxing self, parents and family members.  DM is also likely a loner in nature.  The "loneliness" here refers to the lacking of family relationship because DM's family members are either dead or separated.  

There are two types of "rough destiny":

a.  Solitary rough destiny (孤独命硬):  This is the "strong daymaster with no support 身旺无依"  type mentioned above.  Summary meaning is:  being poor and alone and likely with longevity.

b.  Prosperous rough destiny (富贵命硬):  This also has a strong DM chart but with good structure and/ or favorable luck periods.  DM is alone eventually (jinxing family members) but s/he enjoys wealth and fame/ power with big ups and down in life.  China's late Chairman Mao is an example of this type.

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Bazi: "Liu Hai" or "6-harms" secrets 六害

Today is your lucky day!  You will find the rarely published secrets of "6-harms 六害" (or "6-prosecutions").

"6-harms" are derived from "6-combinations".  "Harm" happens when a branch A stops another branch B from combining with branch C.  For example, Wei combines with Wu.  Zi clashes Wu.  Zi is considered "harming" Wei.  In short, "harm" stops the union of 2 other elements.

There are six pairs of "harms".  Below are the pairs and its corresponding "symptoms": 

1. Yin and Si (tiger-snake)--  chronic illness to DM, esp. if chart is strong in metal
2. Mao and Chen (rabbit-dragon)--  lack patience/ endurance, get angry easily if the daymaster (DM) is strong, if weak, may have disability
3. Wu and Chou (ox-horse)-- same as rabbit-dragon
4. Zi and Wei (rat-ram)--  jinxing children
5. Shen and Hai (monkey-pig)-- chronic illness to DM, especially if chart is strong in metal.
6. You and Xu (rooster-dog)--  face is easy to have pimples
7. Month branch "harm"--  lonely life, especially for female
8. Day/ hour pillar "harm"--  beware of injury/ disability during old age

The above 6 pairs of animals are also used for mate-selection--- avoid these "6-harms" animal pairs or the couples are likely living in disharmony (Chinese poem below listing undesirable animal pairs for marriage)

白馬怕金牛，羊鼠一旦休。

蛇虎如刀錯，免龍淚交流。

金雞怕玉犬，豬猴不到頭。

Classic Bazi texts do not give much coverage or importance to 6-harms.  They consider it is less powerful than 6-clashes.  Some schools even treat it as almost nothing to worry about.  However, we found that under certain conditions, 6-harms could cause serious damages than 6-clashes. 

 If the "harm" is within the natal chart, it usually related to DM and his/ her close relatives.

"Harm" comes from luck period can sometimes be worse than clash.  Many people who are sentenced to death are usually have "yang-knife" meets "harm" (from luck period).  So be careful with there is a "harm" element coming from luck period.

Generally speaking, DM with with "harm" in natal chart, usually lives a lonely life, separated from his/ her children and has shortage of money, especially for females.

A "harm" is positive when a combination is unfavorable.  Conversely speaking, a "harm" can cause serious problem when a combination is favorable.  The effect of a "harm" must be examined with the whole natal chart with luck periods to determine its overall effect.

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Who can live in a haunted house or house with bad Feng Shui?

Haunted house refers to houses with supernatural events like ghost disturbance.  House with inauspicious Feng Shui is a building in which the residents suffer bad luck, illness, misfortunes, accidents and the like.  Certain groups of people can live in these houses without suffering any negative effect.  In terms of Feng Shui, we say these people's energy field (qi) is strong enough to overwhelm the negative energies or "sha-qi" (killing energy).

The people below can handle or live in houses with ghosts or bad Feng Shui:

1.  Military people
These include soldiers who handle weapons and direct combat.  It does not include support people like mess cooks or military people who only do civilian duties.  Military people posses strong "sha-qi" because of handling weapons that take lives away. 
2.  Butchers and hunters (also executioners)
These people kill animals like pigs, horses, rams, deer, cows and the like.  They carry "sha-qi" like the military people that spirits and ghosts are afraid of.  The used butcher knives and guns are good enough to scare spirits away. 
3.  True religious people
People like priests, monks, nuns and so on.  This does not include those who are not sincere and use religion as a front for other purposes.
4.  Congregation of young people like a youth hostel or dormitory
Young people are strong in "yang" or positive energy that can neutralize negative or "yin" energy like ghosts.
5.  Individuals who are strong in "yang energy"
People who are not afraid of walking in the dark and with unusual high level of courage are said to have a high level of "yang energy".
6.  Individuals who have "hard" lives
People who either have a tough destiny of "hard" or poor lives or those who have a Bazi chart that jinxes people around them.
7.  Righteous people
Ghosts and spirits will not violate people who are like a sage or who have not done any negative thing or who do righteous activities all the time.

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