IS presentations & Feng Shui

Before our Feng Shui lecture, we had IS presentations. We had to present what we found out about China and our experiences as well as our learning points and the future applications. It was really interesting to learn that some of us had different experiences here in Wuhan, though not entirely different and of course there were the usual similarities of experience like for example most of us talked about spitting and littering here as in Singapore it is illegal.   For the Feng Shui lecture, the lecturer first started talking about the various foods in different provinces of China like for example, the Shandong cuisine consists usually of clear, pure and non-greasy food and shallots and garlic are usually used as seasonings and soups are given to enhance Shandong dishes. Sichuan cuisine is usually spicy and pungent as they use a lot of chili, pepper and prickly ash. Fujian cuisines are known for their sweet, sour, salty and savoury taste and are usually known for their ‘pickled’ flavour. When the Feng Shui lecture started, we learnt that the ‘Qi’, meaning positive energy, has to flow in a straight direction from the front door to the back door and water flowing directly towards a house, away from a house or curving towards the house, are very auspicious. For study tables, they should never be placed facing an angle, should nnot be placed between 2 doors or 2 windows and should not be placed below overhead beams as it disrupts the ‘Qi’.  Your bed, on the other hand, should be placed on an unobstructed wall accessible from both sides diagonally across the floor. To be honest, I actually knew most of the things we learnt today as my mother is into Feng Shui and so I picked up some her knowledge of Feng Shui but I still listened to the lecture anyway to catch any new information that I could gain.