When one looks from afar, one is supposed to be able to see the perfect line-up of the village houses, shaped like a Chinese dragon, with very strong claws.
The village also has fortune-tellers who will offer to dissect your name, your zodiac sign, your birthday and wedding day.
And unless you follow a fortune-teller into the village now lined with newly erected mystic feng shui symbols and tablets, you will very likely be oblivious to the good omens, like how a water pond gathers good qi from the mountains and a family wall puts off evil spirits.
These fortune-tellers will imbue in you with time-honored rules of feng shui that may one day come in handy: Place an elephant in your house, it's the most auspicious animal; put a gourd at home, it gathers good fortune; if you have golden toad figurines, their mouths should face the safe so that you will accumulate more wealth.
There are so many rules. Unless one is a professional, one can't remember all of them. But there is one wise sentence to take away with you: Nobody but the gods can determine your fate, but good virtues work a very long way.
