Chapter 45 Chapter 43 Perspective on Feng Shui Complex of Some Officials

As a folk belief, Feng Shui may not have much harm, but as a belief of officials, it is a very terrible thing to use their power to forcibly drag it into the field of public life. In recent years, Feng Shui, which has long been regarded as a feudal superstition, has begun to show its tenacious existence and vigorous vitality in various ways.Behind its gradual growth, it is not difficult to see a spectacular industrial development, which is in fierce conflict and game with modern society. According to the reporter's investigation, this "feng shui craze" has spread to all levels of society, and even some government officials have used public funds to pay for public opinion surveys.Relevant experts believe that officials' superstitious belief in Fengshui is extremely harmful and seriously damages the image of the government. This needs to be paid great attention by relevant departments, and the "fengshui complex" of officials should be solved with institutional rationality.

The art of feng shui has existed in our country for thousands of years, but it has always been in a humble position and is not accepted by the mainstream culture of our country.What is Feng Shui?Refers to the geographical situation of residential bases, cemeteries, etc., such as the terrain, the direction of mountains and rivers, etc. The explanation of Fengshui in "Ci Hai" is: also known as "Ganyu", a Chinese superstition. As the saying goes, "Feng Shui turns around in turns", this Feng Shui technique seems to have "turned" in recent years and brought good luck to be sought after again. At the beginning of September 2006, there was a news that was no different from a violent storm, which instantly caused a noise and commotion in the Internet world and the media zone-a professor of Nanjing University was going to hold a training course on "Architectural Fengshui Culture".Subsequently, a debate broke out in the domestic academic circles about whether Feng Shui is the quintessence of the country or a superstition, which pushed the "Feng Shui craze" to a climax again...

In any case, a realistic situation is that although there are many debates about Feng Shui in academic circles, and Feng Shui industry has no legal status in the field of business and ideology, from Beijing to the southeast coastal cities to the northwest border, the "feng shui fever" in recent years has become more and more popular. It is popular in all social classes.In particular, a large number of real estate developers regard Feng Shui as a realistic proposition in actual operation. Of course, the "feng shui craze" has also made feng shui masters popular figures, and some well-known feng shui masters even hold the title of investment consultant in several companies.Under the advantages of Internet communication, one after another "Masters of Yi Xue", "Ganyujia" and "Environmental Planners" have emerged and spread all over Beijing, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Heilongjiang, Fujian, Zhejiang and other provinces and cities, becoming a new culture and culture. business landscape.

The reporter's investigation found that in this "feng shui fever", the most striking thing is the "group of party and government officials" among believers.According to a person in the Feng Shui industry, among the individual clients they receive, apart from entertainers and business executives, they are government officials.It is said that "office Feng Shui is extremely popular in some government agencies". "Whether Fengshui can affect people's fate is not certain, but I'd rather believe it." In an interview, a person in charge of a unit in Beijing told reporters, "According to Fengshui masters, office Fengshui Pay attention to the layout of office items, the most important thing is the position and direction of the desk of the "leader", followed by the position of the financial and cash register safe, and the third is the position of the desk of the person in charge of the important department."

Because some officials have a psychological dependence on Feng Shui that "it is better to believe it", so around us, such a strange phenomenon often occurs: some government departments have to change the layout of the office every time the leader is changed. The first thing to do is to find a feng shui master to check the orientation of your office building and office, and some even make a big fuss about the buildings of the entire department.But generally only when things get bigger, will they become the target of public criticism. According to the reporter's understanding, one of the most famous cases of officials believing in Feng Shui comes from Hu Jianxue, the former party secretary of Tai'an City, Shandong Province.Someone once predicted that Hu Jianxue could become vice premier, but he lacked a "bridge" in his life.He therefore ordered that the planned national highway be diverted across a reservoir and a bridge built over it.However, he had no chance with the vice premier after all, but was sentenced to death with a reprieve by the Shandong Provincial Higher Court because of his corruption and bribery crimes.

Among the "fallen horse" officials, there are not a few who have Hu Jianxue's "hobby". In 1999, when the new office building of the Shenyang Intermediate People's Court was about to be completed, the administrative office of the court sent a report to the president Jia Yongxiang to ask a Feng Shui master to determine the specific moving date.After Jia Yongxiang's approval, the hospital spent 30,000 yuan on Mr. Feng Shui.After Mr. Feng Shui selected the "auspicious day", Shenyang Intermediate People's Court officially moved to the new building.However, shortly after the opening of the new building, Jia Yongxiang was "double regulated" by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

In addition, officials who believed in feng shui were similar to the "lost horse" officials, including Cong Fukui, the former vice-governor of Hebei who burned incense and chanted scriptures in his residence, and Wu Yan, the former director of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau of Tunchang, Hainan, who used Bodhisattva instead of the party group to decide personnel arrangements, and so on.If the above-mentioned incidents only represent individual actions, then the incident of "replenishing Fengshui" by the former leaders of Jiaokou County, Shanxi Province, which was once a sensation and was severely investigated, is a typical representative of collective belief in Fengshui——

At the beginning of 1994, Fang Jihua, secretary of the Jiaokou County Party Committee, and Li Laifu, the county magistrate, invited a Feng Shui master to Jiaokou County to see "Feng Shui".After some investigation, the Feng Shui master said that the "feng shui" of the county party committee compound is not good. "Evil Object" and "Official Promotion Talisman" and so on.Under the guidance of a feng shui master, scenes of absurd dramas were staged: in the dead of night, dozens of party and government cadres knelt in front of the incense table, and buried peachwood bows and arrows, bronze mirrors, and promotion talismans in the county party committee compound; Li also used various excuses to rebuild the detention center, build a new archway, and built a useless parapet wall on the roof of the county party committee compound, so as to be one head higher than other buildings...

Although it is difficult to determine what proportion of party and government officials believe in Feng Shui, it is not difficult to find that behind some "fallen" officials, many of them are swaying the figure of "master". The reporter learned that these officials are superstitious about feng shui, and it has become an "open secret" to pay the bills with public funds.A person in the Feng Shui industry told reporters: "It is easier for these officials to earn money, because they can be reimbursed with public funds, and they will not feel bad about how much they spend." For this reason, some Feng Shui masters have specially set up purses for the convenience of officials paying with public funds. company.

At present, in mainland China, apart from naming, the Feng Shui industry has not yet obtained a legal status.Operators usually adopt two strategies when applying for a business license with the industrial and commercial tax authorities. One is to register as a cultural exchange company or a similar name, and to carry out Feng Shui activities in the name of "real estate information consultation"; In the name of the company, but in the actual operation process beyond the scope of business to engage in numerology and feng shui activities. It can be said that "officials" and "feng shui" are two seemingly irrelevant symbols, but once they are connected together, they have some thought-provoking meaning.So, why are some officials so obsessed with the superstition of "Feng Shui"?

In the interviews, many people believed that the reasons why officials believe in Feng Shui are extremely complicated. In addition to the superstitious elements of officials, it also reflects the officials' strong "official standard" utilitarian mentality. absence. Officials believe in feng shui because of their strong utilitarian mentality. "To make money from officials, we must understand their psychology and grasp their strong utilitarian mentality." A person in the Feng Shui industry once said frankly to a reporter, "First of all, they are not very confident about their future, and they are always worried that they have already lost their lives. The power, wealth and status gained will be ruined. Secondly, most of these officials are greedy and dream of gaining greater power and status." "Officials' belief in feng shui also reveals that there are serious deficiencies in the reward and punishment system for officials in our country, such as the imperfect employment mechanism, lack of transparency, etc. Therefore, some officials entrust their uncertain official careers to feng shui to make up for their spiritual emptiness "Professor Li Chengyan, a doctoral supervisor at Peking University's School of Government Administration, believes, "As an official, it is normal to hope to be reused and promoted. , what to do must be investigated and dealt with, all are clearly regulated, open and transparent, and this ideal of officials can be brought into the track of rational development.” The reporter's investigation found that corruption and greed are often behind the "fallen horse" officials' superstition in Feng Shui.Because he was afraid that some criminal facts would be exposed, he hoped to seek the blessing of fate and gods by believing in Feng Shui.Because of greed, I always want to climb up, and I am always afraid that one day I will lose my throne, so I will do everything possible to keep my power, and even perform all kinds of smoky and superstitious Feng Shui farce. As a folk belief, Feng Shui may not have much harm, but as a belief of officials, it is a very terrible thing to use their power to forcibly drag it into the field of public life.Relevant experts believe that officials have taken the lead in believing in Feng Shui, which has caused a very bad influence on society, and it is time for this problem to be resolved. In the interviews, many people believed that officials' superstitious belief in Feng Shui has the following three hazards.First of all, looking at feng shui for public funds will damage the good image of the party and the government in the eyes of the public.Secondly, the private use of public funds directly damages the interests of the country.Officials who ask people to look at Feng Shui are basically spending money from the public to seek personal prayers.The more prosperous the feng shui business, the greater the loss of public interest.Third, add fuel to the flames and add firewood to the fire of Feng Shui.Officials frequently appear in feng shui places, although personal preference is not ruled out, but it is easy to play a certain "demonstration" role.Their obsession is more likely to be used by "feng shui masters" as a live advertisement to solicit business. "In the past, as long as witchcraft was not illegal, the government's attitude was relatively tolerant." Professor Wang Qinghuai of the Information Science Department of China Public Security University believes, "But now the problem of Feng Shui is more serious, and it has invaded the political circle. Some officials have become superstitious and even use Feng Shui Bewitching the masses to cause trouble and sabotaging the country's economic construction plan." "After all, the 'scientific nature' of Fengshui has not been recognized by the society, but it is an objective fact that some charlatans wandering among the people use the name of Fengshui to specialize in bluffing and defrauding money to collect money." Li Chengyan believes , "Officials are in charge of public power and public responsibility. Therefore, it is not only a professional norm for the state to create a more rigorous, open and transparent employment system for this occupation, so that it can accept more rational and sunny scrutiny. , but also the requirement of the entire social order, a rational necessity.” Therefore, it is far from enough to just make moral judgments about the phenomenon of officials' superstitious belief in Feng Shui. We should go through the fog of superstition to find the root of the system.Relevant experts believe that the fundamental measure to eliminate this phenomenon lies in the construction of the cadre appointment system, ideological education and the overall social atmosphere.Officials should establish a correct outlook on life and believe in healthy and upward things; in the appointment of cadres, people with bad ideas should not be given any chance; to increase ideological education, one should not say one thing and do another. "The fundamental!