For Chen Zicai (pictured right), a young Hong Kong feng shui master, his business is a fashionable one. Recently, some businessmen in Beijing invited him to provide some feng shui consultations. He wore brand-name clothes and had a fashionable haircut, quite different to the usual image of a geomancer.
My niece, Fan Fan, graduated from university a year ago and recently fell in love. For most parents, this would be reason for joy, but her mother has been trying to separate them.
Gao Feng invited a feng shui practitioner to his house after becoming frustrated with his business investments. He had been skeptical about the practice, but decided to give it a try after listening to friends' recommendations.
Early every morning, Xiao Xiaoxue rides to his workshop at the foot of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge. He puts on a conspicuous yellow jacket and at 8:30 am leads his team on a routine maintenance examination of the bridge.
All I could see was fear. Technically, the sight of the lake's surface rushing up at me from 100m below was surging through my pupils, whizzing along my optical nerves and registering in my brain as visual information. But it seemed like a remote unreality as I plummeted dozens of meters per second towards what seemed to be certain death. The instant I jumped, primordial terror overwhelmed and short-circuited all ken.
The year of the pig is coming to an end and many couples have had their babies, as planned. In China, people believe a baby born this year will be lucky, prosperous and fertile.
Trusting with caution is very important, says Christine Mar, executive director of the Hong Kong-based Children's Medical Foundation (CMF), as she looks back on her decade of charity work on the Chinese mainland.
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