From the beginning of time, our Guardians in the Heavens have been busy enduring the perplexities of our Earthlings' sinful ways of living and that we seek too much pleasure.
We should be grateful and honoured by the doting attentions showered upon us as the Earth is no more than a mere speck of dust in the Universe.
When our Guardians' perplexities reach neurosis point, they try to enlist the help of Prophets or Seers to convey their messages of Displeasures or Desires.
The humans chosen for this purpose usually have been odd-balls in society with idiosyncratic tendencies. One was so recalcitrant that the Heavenly Powers arranged for him to be swallowed by a whale.
I guess it must be very uncomfortable inside the gastrointestinal passages in a whale because when the whale, probably equally in discomfort, spat him out, he obediently and quickly headed to the destination he was instructed to preach the message at and did so faithfully.
Chinese Seers tend not to be directed to a particular place as they could rely on dissemination gadgets to spread the messages burdened upon them, economically, effectively and widely during the given times. Books back then were rare and prohibitively expensive. And the literacy rates of the masses were extremely low.
They ingeniously used tiles and cookies that are loaded up with addictive incentives to encourage assiduous absorption of the pith of the messages.
The tiles are "Pai Gow", the concept of which has been introduced in my earlier posts and the cookies, the Fortune Cookies, of course.
In "Monkey US President " post, I tried to explain how Chinese Seers in their intricate Geomancy readings found 2016 to be propitious to a President Donald Trump. To pitch the explanations at a layperson's level of understanding, I employed the technique adopted by Selena Gomez in the movie, "The Big Short".
Selena used a casino Black Jack game to illustrate how sophisticated Derivatives/Swaps operate in Complex Financial Markets. She has followed in the footsteps of "Pai Gow" in using Black Jack as a didactic medium to disseminate the understanding of core principles, in this case, of esoteric financial products in Complex US Markets.
The promulgations of the Chinese Seers would then be efficaciously disseminated through the Fortune Cookies, according to Chinese Americans.
Americans in having their "Chinese" look forward to the desert ritual of breaking open a Fortune Cookie for their "Tyler Henry" moments of indulging in some fun clairvoyance.
I first heard about Fortune Cookies from one of these sources but I can't really remember which as it was so long ago. It was either from the movie, "Flower Drum Song" or the TV series "Charlie Chan" or "Green Lantern".
I first heard about Fortune Cookies from one of these sources but I can't really remember which as it was so long ago. It was either from the movie, "Flower Drum Song" or the TV series "Charlie Chan" or "Green Lantern".
I checked with my Mom who is now 93 years old on whether she has heard of Fortune Cookies from her surroundings growing up or from her ancestors or the innumerous relatives back in China. The answer, a flat NO !
Some Chinese restaurateurs in the US through fortuitous encounters with their American patrons' fascination over this desert amusement probably decided to represent it as an ancient Chinese tradition. It was more likely to have been a ritual slovenly copied from a Japanese temple tradition of o-mikuji.
This is a coy testimony to the protean nature of the Chinese who have chameleon like adaptabilities to let other cultures believe what they are pleased in believing about the Chinese.
Mr Trump, you are justified in your inklings about Chinese shrewdness and our abilities to out-negotiate Americans.
A Gigantic Epiphany about you, Mr Trump, is in the Cards which account for your uncanny knowledge of the Chinese.
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