Bad feng shui can doom an Army.
While Gen. Du Yuming was making defensive preparations, he decided to set up his forward headquarters in a Chinese-style enclosed courtyard (siheyuan), with a tree in middle.
An aide instantly recognized the ominous portent: an open-air /1
While Gen. Du Yuming was making defensive preparations, he decided to set up his forward headquarters in a Chinese-style enclosed courtyard (siheyuan), with a tree in middle.
An aide instantly recognized the ominous portent: an open-air /1
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courtyard, chock-full of Soldiers of his HQ confined by masonry on all four sides, seemed to be analogous to an encircled army with no hope of escape.
He explained his unease to Gen. Du Yuming, who sympathized his perspective, but liked the house in which the courtyard was /2
He explained his unease to Gen. Du Yuming, who sympathized his perspective, but liked the house in which the courtyard was /2
situated. Inexplicably, he addressed his aide’s concerns by having the tree in the courtyard axed down and out of sight.
That just makes it worse, the aide explained in protest—getting rid of the tree, thereby leaving the courtyard barren except the Soldiers there, now means /3
That just makes it worse, the aide explained in protest—getting rid of the tree, thereby leaving the courtyard barren except the Soldiers there, now means /3
that the encircled army won’t have any organic life form to subsist upon, thus dooming it to starvation.
Gen. Du Yuming had enough of his aide’s protestation. He wasn’t going to move.
The rest of history—suffice to say, the aide was prescient. That was exactly what happened. /e
Gen. Du Yuming had enough of his aide’s protestation. He wasn’t going to move.
The rest of history—suffice to say, the aide was prescient. That was exactly what happened. /e
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