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Friday, April 1, 2016

The coolest "nail-tomb" in Beijing 北京“最牛钉子坟”

I had written "A pain in the rear Feng Shui" in 2011-- the "nail households" and "nail tombs" whose owners and residents had refused relocation of their properties in face of new development.
http://kenlaifengshui.blogspot.com/2011/10/pain-in-rear-feng-shui.html

Recently, there is a report of the "Coolest 'nail tombs' in Beijing" in the internet. There are two tombs in the middle of a new main road in the Shun-yi district 顺义区 of Beijing. These tombs occupy 30 square meters or two-third of the width of this road.

One tomb is quite old with the burial of a Red Army martyr. The other tomb is pretty recent. The tomb owners refuse to relocate these tombs because of low compensation.

The road is an east-west direction road forming a "road-clash" or "chong" to the tombs. In terms of Feng Shui, this is worse than being surrounded by tall buildings.

With a "nail household" or "nail tomb" being surrounded by tall buildings, residents or descendants will suffer dwindling luck and fortune gradually. But with road-clash to the house or tomb, they may suffer serious accidents or sicknesses resulting in deaths. It will happen within 3 to 6 years.

It is unwise for the nail tomb owners to hold out the relocation. Disasters may happen before they get their money.

Below are other examples of "nail tomb" and "nail house" sitting in the middle of a main road:

Few could imagine these "nail tombs" and "nail houses" phenomena could happen in Communist China with its all-encompassing government and local bureaucrats. Here in USA, even a small city government can "rezone" a private property as public area and buyout any nail house/ tomb with the power of "eminent domain". The owners may sue the government in court but expensive legal fees are likely to scare them away.

For more info on road-clash and form Feng Shui, you may want to take my "Advanced Visual Form Feng Shui" video correspondence course.
http://isfengshui.blogspot.com/2015/11/advanced-visual-form-feng-shui.html

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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

"A pain in the rear" Feng Shui

In English, we have expressions like "a pain in the rear" or "a thorn in one's eye" to represent something or people that make someone extremely uncomfortable but yet cannot remove it openly or easily. The equivalent expression in Chinese is "the nail in one's eye" (眼中钉, yǎnzhōngdīng).

The massive land development and building boom in China has created a new category of residence called "nail households" (釘子戶 dīng zi hù) or holdouts from land developers' buyout offers. Most of these "nail households" dislike the low offers or resist the corruption due to official and land developer alliance.

The pictures below show what Chinese netizens termed "Coolest nail household in history" (史上最牛钉子户) in 2007. Even CNN had reported this incident in international TV news.

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"Nail household" is not a monopoly in China. The following is the famous "nail household" of a Japanese-American family living in Anaheim, California, USA, next door to the "happiest place on earth"-- Disneyland. The family refuses to sell out to Disney for decades.

Below is a group of "nail households" in the middle of a major traffic throughway and surrounded by tall buildings.

Wait! How about dead people? Yes, China also has "Nail Tomb" (坟墓钉子户). Descendants of the tomb refuses to relocate the tomb for land developer. Here is an example:

"Nail Tomb" surrounded by tall residential buildings. All the "dragon veins" are cut.

"A PAIN IN THE REAR" FENG SHUI
The "nail households", if they preserve and keep staying in their isolated houses will win the battle but lose the war, especially the Feng Shui war because:

nail households are likely surrounded by new and tall buildings. It create a subconscious feeling of being suppressed and lacking prosperity
dwindling luck because earth qi tends to migrate to newer structures
sickness and misfortune because qi is blocked by tall buildings surrounding them