Ming Zhao that’s what a life chart is called. We have the Eight Characters Ming Zhao and we also have the Purple Star Ming Zhao. These two remains the popular ones. It is a horoscope.
Now, when we say Zhao Ming, it takes on a different meaning. It refers to burial site and date selection when we entomb those who have passed on. It means to construct a destiny.
Zhao means to make, build, establish, form.
Ming means life, fate, command, grant, name, theme.
You may wonder at the word play. It has an interesting side to it. But of course what follows below is mostly my take on this. One is a destiny meaning something that is already fixed. The other, the latter, means the process of constructing.
But constructing what? The future apparently.
It is said that after one dies, how our body is placed is very important. Put in a good location and positioned nicely, the descendants will be blessed with great bounty. Now, if I bring in the law of reincarnation or what is often wrongly called rebirth, then this ‘to construct a destiny’ gets more interesting.
Somewhere in research and also in occult circles, it is believed that we tend to come back within the same environment. Generally within the same family. Here we go – ensuring a correct burial (not the music band, prayers and so forth but an auspicious grave at an auspicious time) takes care of one thing. And that would be for us to come back with the right Destiny, Ming Zhao, and reap the fruits of our hard work ( well, others actually did the digging).
This book is a translation of a text by FengShui Master Jiang Da Hong (ca1640) with my explanations and comments. The root text is a section on yang dwellings from his book “5 Songs of the Heavenly Principles”.