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 The Blue Mansion A Study in the Change of Periods The Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion, a.k.a. the Blue Mansion in Penang Malaysia www.cheongfatttzemansion.com was built in the late 1800, according to Traditional Chinese Feng Shui principles, and is a good study of how the change in Time (Periods), impacts the luck of Space (the building). Cont...  Mrs. Lin Lee Loh-Lim is the author of “The Blue Mansion – The Story of Mandarin Splendour Reborn”, describes this building as follows: “The Mansion, dazzling in its original indigo-blue, incorporates 38 rooms, 5 granite-paved courtyards, 7 staircases and 220 windows. Master craftsmen were imported from China, in the 1880's and again in the restoration in the 1990s. The paradigm Chinese Courtyard House has been embellished with Chinese timber carvings and porcelain cut & paste decorative shard works as well as Gothic louvered windows, art nouveau stained glass panels, Stoke-on-Trent floor tiles and Scottish cast iron works. It is an edifice of impressive delicacy, awesome in its "Feng Shui" subtleties and is an extraordinary tribute to the construction and design skills of the past. The inner city mansion was acquired in 1990 in an extremely dilapidated state. A Grade One restoration has been carried out and has culminated in the project being judged the winner in the UNESCO Heritage 2000 Awards. 'History was preserved by meticulously applying extensive research on the architecture, traditional artisan skills and materials to the restoration' - has had enormous impact and influence on the preservation movement in Penang - and serves as a model for the restoration projects throughout the city of Georgetown and indeed, the broader region.'”. In Xuan Kong Feng Shui teachings, there are the Three Cycles and Nine Periods, every twenty solar years comprise of one Period, and every Three Periods one Cycle. When a building is being constructed, there is interaction between the Heaven, Earth and Human Qi, corresponding with the Time aspect, and Space – compass orientation of the building; and when that building is completed, it is liken to a newborn infant, with its own unique pattern of Qi, i.e. the Natal Chart of the structure, similar to a person’s Destiny Chart. The Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion was constructed during the Period 2 (1884 – 1903), when I visited the mansion in 2003, I took the compass reading of the Facing of the building, which read Xun (134 degrees), so the Natal Chart would be as follows: 
Since the building was designed according to the Traditional Chinese Feng Shui principles, we can see the Feng Shui Master had angled the whole building to the desired compass degree, in order to tap into the most auspicious Ruling Yang Qi, represented by the #2 for the Period 2, which comes from the southeast direction; and the most auspicious Ruling Yang Qi #3 for the Period 3, coming from the east. Mr. Cheong Fatt Tze, his eight wives and his sons enjoyed fame and fortune during these forty years. But from Period 4 onwards, the mansion was in a steady decline in its fortunes, it became a derelict rooming house for squatters; because during those Periods, there was no easy access for the Ruling Yang Qi to the most commonly used front entrance of the mansion. It is not until during Period 7, the mansion was purchased by Mr. Laurence Loh, a local architect and his wife Mrs. Lin Lee Loh-Lim, both dedicated conservators. They spent years of restoration work on the mansion in loving details, and restored it to its former glory. Permission was granted by Mrs. Lin Lee Loh-Lim in related material from her book “The Blue Mansion – The Story of Mandarin Splendour Reborn”. Articles are of the copyright of Teresa Hwang solely, any reproduction, duplication and transmission of the articles are to have prior written approval by the author.
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