City of good feng shui

Bailu village has more than 60 ancestral temples of gray tiles and white walls, believed to bring good qi, or energy, from heaven. ¿ Photo from China Daily

When you are in Ganzhou city, you eat, breathe and sleep the intricacies of feng shui – something that would be good to know as we usher in the Year of the Horse.

IT’S mystic, according to believers. That feng shui thing. For example, the direction of the mansion door of a house could influence the life of a family. It could drain a family’s entire fortune or guarantee high-ranking bureaucracy jobs for generations to come. In Bailu village, or the village of egrets near Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, villagers opt to err on the side of caution.