About this archive

What this site is

This is a free public archive of articles by Lü Wenyi, author of the WeChat public account “Shikongren Coordinates” (时空坐标) and founder of the Lü School of Shikongren (吕氏时空人).

The purpose is simple: to keep these articles intact, and to make them findable and readable by people who would otherwise never encounter them. No charge, no course sales, no commercial use of any kind.

Where the content comes from

• Every article comes from the WeChat public account “Shikongren Coordinates” and is attributed to Lü Wenyi.
• Copyright remains with the author and the publishing platform. This site has no commercial relationship with the author.
• Each article carries its source, author and a link to the Chinese original.
• Only publicly published articles are included. No student information is archived.

A note on the translations

The English section is a human translation, not machine output. These articles concern Chinese metaphysical arts — Bazi (八字), feng shui (风水), Liuyao (六爻) — whose technical vocabulary has no settled English equivalents. A literal rendering produces sentences that are grammatically English and conceptually empty.

Our approach is therefore two-layered:

• Keep the term. Pinyin on first use — tiangan dizhi, yongshen, tiaohou — so the term can be checked against the Chinese original and against the wider literature.
• Explain the function. What the term actually does in the system, in plain English, before it is used in an argument.

A glossary of core terms accompanies the translations for this reason. Where the author is arguing rather than describing — and he usually is — the argument is carried over intact, including the passages that attack his own tradition. Nothing has been softened to make the material more palatable to a Western reader. Where a passage has been condensed, this is stated in a translator's note at the head of the article.

The Chinese original remains the authoritative text.

Disclaimer

This site archives material for the study of traditional Chinese culture. The views expressed are the author's own and are offered for reference only. They constitute no advice and should not be used as the basis for any decision. Readers should judge independently and bear their own responsibility.

If the author or a rights holder believes any archived item should be removed, please make contact through the WeChat account “Shikongren Coordinates” and it will be handled immediately.

About the Lü School of Shikongren

The Lü School of Shikongren is a system of prediction and feng shui founded by Lü Wenyi. Its stated premise is science, logic and observed fact, and it approaches traditional prediction through the relation between person, time and space — drawing a hard line between folk, psychological and entertainment readings on one side, and natural-scientific reasoning that can be verified, repeated and falsified on the other.

Its principal components include:

• Lü School Natural Science Feng Shui — form, qi-principle and numerical method cross-checked against one another, replacing single-formula judgement.
• Lü School Natural Science Bazi — fate graded by “manifest energy / latent energy,” with improvement sought simultaneously across time, space and behaviour.
• 300 Unconditional Judgements — maxims verified repeatedly over thirty years of practice that carry no conditions of use.
• The 290 Configurations, the 24 Returning-Soul Configurations, and the Three Circulations — advanced technical series.
• Date selection, Liuyao, Qimen, Meihua Yishu, Shenbing Qimen, physiognomy, character analysis, dream interpretation, stock analysis and some ten other specialisms.

The author's own stated distinction between this system and most of what circulates as “metaphysics” is whether an inference can be made logically coherent and repeatedly tested against fact, rather than resting on intuition, experience or associative imagery.

About the author

Lü Wenyi (吕文艺) is the founder of the Lü School of Shikongren. He holds a diploma in geography, a bachelor's degree in Chinese literature and an MBA, and lived for many years in Beijing and Hong Kong.

For the eight years before 2015 he was invited to teach a comparative course — “Natural Science Feng Shui versus Traditional Humanist Feng Shui” — on the Yixue and Architectural Feng Shui master's and doctoral programme at Beijing Normal University.

For more than thirty years he has held to three principles in his work — science, logic and objective fact — and has taught publicly at no charge for most of that time.