Valentine’s Day – Cards & Gifts! (14.2.2024)

Recording the designated event – which possesses whatever relevance we choose to import into it. Time to express the underlying affection that gels families together. Within traditional Chinese culture, Celtic Tribal culture and indeed Scientific Socialism, the ‘family’ has primacy over the individualism – the complete opposite to the exploitative ideology that underpins the terrible and horrific ideology of predatory capitalism, anarchy, fascism and Trotskyism! Individuality emerges from a caring family and a caring State! The working-class works for itself and should keep the fruits of its labour for the general development and benefit of society!

Family is the Esseence of Qi!

Year of the Green [Wood] Dragon Has Arrived! (10.2.2024)

It is time for Cards, red envelopes, coins, incense and banging the gong! The head of the household (me) – walks around the house banging a small gong over three-laps! The news is said to drive-out the old (stale) ‘Qi’ (Virtuous Energy) and welcome-in the ‘new’ energy – which in this year takes the form of a ‘green’ (wood) Dragon! As the Dragon is elusive, and given that I am embodying its Spirit at this precise moment – I do not appear in the photographs – and yet I am ‘everywhere’ throughout this ancient procedure!

35000 BCE - Dragon

Qianfeng Daoism: Enter the Dragon! (9.2.2024)

Considering how important the concept of the ‘Dragon’ is throughout Chinese culture – I was surprised just how haphazard the construction of its representing ideogram actually is. As this is my area of academic expertise, I could not believe what I was looking at! Consequently, it took me three-days to disentangle the mess that this ideogram seems to have gotten itself into. Having achieved this objective – I then unloaded the finished article onto the Qianfeng Daoist website I help to administer.

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