Four generations of charts, dates and wood.
I am Fu Banxian. My family has practised Meishan folk tradition in western Hunan since the Republican period, and has carved wood for four generations. This site is where I write down what that actually involves — plainly, and with the limits stated.
Six areas of work
Each section opens with the essays written most recently in it. Start wherever your question is.
BaZi & Birth Charts
A birth chart read as a description of temperament and timing — not a forecast.
- The Ten Heavenly Stems: A Plain-English Start to BaZi→
- Dayun and Liunian: How Traditional Chinese Timing Actually Works→
Marriage & Dates
Compatibility readings and date selection, and the practical conversations underneath them.
Explore Marriage & Dates →Career & Decisions
Work, money and the timing of a change — including the part parents play.
Explore Career & Decisions →Home & Landscape
Doors, kitchens, bedrooms, damp walls and the lie of the land.
- Damp Old Houses: Five Things to Check Before Anything Else→
- Door, Stove, Bed: The Three Basics of Home Feng Shui→
Folk Ritual
Meishan practice, household altars, and the carved objects that serve them.
Explore Folk Ritual →Woodcarving
Six hundred years of carving on the southern slopes of the Xuefeng Mountains.
Explore Woodcarving →How a reading works
No subscription, no automated output. Every reading is done by hand, and you get it in writing.
Send the details
Birth date, and the hour if you know it, for everyone involved. For a house, a floor plan and photographs. For a date, the rough window and the people concerned.
I read the material
Charts are calculated from the traditional calendar, then read against the question you actually asked. Most readings take three to five days; larger ones longer, and I will tell you which before starting.
A written answer
You receive a written reading with the reasoning shown, plus a short call if you want to discuss it. If the question is outside what this material can honestly address, I will say so and not charge for it.
Six hundred years on one mountain range
Fushi woodcarving began in the Song and Yuan dynasties and is still cut on the southern slopes of the Xuefeng Mountains. Two works define the line: forty-eight carved panels restored at Furong Tower in the 1980s, and a seven-year root carving now held by the Huaihua Museum as a Grade-One National Cultural Relic.
- Five categories — decorative, display, temple, ritual and giant root carving
- Seven stages — from timber selection to the final wax
- One family line — four generations, still working
How I frame this
Three commitments that shape everything on this site, and a scope note.
Tradition, described honestly
Where something is a traditional claim rather than a testable one, I say so. Where practitioners disagree, I say that too. A system is not weakened by admitting what it cannot do.
No promises about outcomes
I do not sell luck, cures or guaranteed results, and I do not use fear to close a conversation. If a ritual or a reading is not the right tool for your situation, you will hear that first.
Safety and law come first
Structural problems, wiring, illness, contracts and land use belong to qualified professionals and to regulation. Traditional advice never overrides them, and on this site it never claims to.
Ask a specific question
A reading is only as good as the information behind it. Tell me what is actually going on — the dates, the city, the decision you are stuck on — and I will tell you whether this material can help, and what it would cost.
Replies usually within two working days. English or Chinese.
- magicolors@gmail.comBest for enquiries from outside China.
- fubanxian1958Preferred for clients in China and for Chinese-speaking enquiries.
- Based in
- Huaihua, Hunan, ChinaOn-site house and land readings within Hunan.