Mr. Feng Shui said that most of the business came from officials, and frustrated officials moved to their ancestral graves for promotion.

　　Feng Shui, once regarded as a feudal superstition, resurfaced in recent years under the banner of "traditional culture". Some local officials are superstitious about geomantic omen. In order to make their official career prosperous and safe, they ask the so-called masters to "point out the maze". The reporter found in interviews in many places that officials’ superstition of Feng Shui has become an open secret of officialdom. Some party and government officials lost their values, and instead of working hard for the people, they racked their brains on the issue of Feng Shui, causing great resentment among the masses.

　　Mr. Feng Shui: "Most of the business I take is official."

　　Sanliao Village, Meijiao Town, Xingguo County, Jiangxi Province is a well-known "Feng Shui Village". Zeng Qingwei, director of the village, said that there are more than 200 Feng Shui masters in the village all the year round, and most of them are profitable. Many people bought houses in Guangdong and drove BMW and Mercedes-Benz back in the New Year.

　　Zeng Xianbai, a 75-year-old villager with only a primary school education, makes a living by watching Feng Shui. In addition to nearby cities and counties, he often goes to Shanghai, Guangdong, Hunan, Fujian and other places to explore Feng Shui. He is one of the famous "masters" in the village. It is said that his family has an ancestral handwritten copy of Feng Shui "cheats", which is handed down from man to woman. The reporter said that he wanted to have a look, but he was rejected. Zeng Xianbai said: "Most of my business is official, mainly planning and design, including office furnishings, gate location, feng shui equipment purchase, etc., and my income ranges from hundreds of yuan to tens of thousands of yuan each time."

　　In a "Feng Shui Prediction Room" in Changsha City, Hunan Province, the reporter saw that there were many banners hanging on the wall, such as "Zhuge Re-embodiment", "Skillful Calculation" and "Breaking the World Directly". The 40-year-old "master" is tall and thin, wearing a near-sighted mirror, with Feng Shui books on his desk and a computer for predicting and watching Feng Shui. The business scope includes general forecast, date selection, lighting and feng shui adjustment, and the price ranges from 100 yuan to 33,000 yuan. "Customers are generally businessmen and officials. Relying on fortune telling and feng shui, there are four or five hundred thousand yuan in income every year. " The "master" said.

　　There is a "Goddess" in Wuli Bazhuang, Dangshan County, Anhui Province, which is located at the junction of the four provinces of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui. Many grassroots cadres often go to worship if they have any difficulties and puzzles, and there are often some cars with the prefix "Beijing" and "Shanghai" coming all the way to see Feng Shui. An insider revealed: "Many cadres in the county believe in Feng Shui very much. Sometimes people can’t find anyone when they go to the government to do things. When asked, they go to worship the gods."

　　Cheng Ping, a researcher in the Department of Social and Cultural Education and Research of the National School of Administration, once presided over the research group of "Investigation on the Scientific Literacy of County-level Civil Servants in China". According to the survey of more than 900 county-level civil servants who participated in the survey, it was found that only 47.6% of county-level civil servants were not superstitious, and more than half of them believed in physiognomy, duke of zhou, horoscope prediction and visa application. Some officials believe in superstitious activities even more than the general public. Cheng Ping said that some officials believe that Feng Shui can change their fortune, starting from a pragmatic mentality and holding an attitude of "preferring to believe in it".

　　A few officials: "It is better to praise well than to do well, and to praise well is better than to burn incense."

　　The reporter found that many officials always ask the advice of Feng Shui masters before seeking official positions, changing jobs, doing things, breaking ground, moving, etc., otherwise their hearts are not practical.

　　Liu Su, a professor at Hunan University, said that some cadres lack the ability to govern, and they are unwilling to go to the grassroots and go to the masses. They think about problems and do things without considering the interests of the masses, and their value orientation is distorted. As a result, they are influenced by Feng Shui and superstition. Because officials hold public power, superstitious geomantic omen has even expanded from personal behavior to the use of administrative power, building large-scale projects, wasting people’s money, and the masses are full of complaints.

　　In the middle of a T-junction in Gaoyi County, Hebei Province, a retired old-fashioned J-6 fighter plane was placed, and a small garden was built around it to block the main road, and the blocked road was facing the county compound. This is the result of the superstition of Feng Shui by Cui Xinyuan, secretary of the county party committee. The plane symbolizes promotion and wealth.

　　At the end of April 2010, Cui Xinyuan was removed from the post of county party secretary. The head of the local taxation bureau of a county in southern Jiangxi moved back and forth in several nearby counties, but he was not promoted for nine years. The geomantic master said that because the ancestral grave was not well-chosen, he went to Sanliao Village in Xingguo County to ask the geomantic master for advice, and thought that "good geomantic omen" was a shortcut to promotion.

　　Wang Guoqing, secretary of the Party Committee of Xinmin Town, Fuxin Mongolian Autonomous County, Liaoning Province, said that behind the "Feng Shui complex" of officials is the lack of faith. There are indeed a few grassroots cadres who are convinced that "it is better to praise well than to do well, and to praise well is better than to burn incense."

　　In addition to seeking official luck, the hope of avoiding disasters is also a major motivation for officials to believe in Feng Shui. A "feng shui master" in Hunan told reporters that officials who believe in feng shui usually come to the door to ask for the practice of painting symbols, put "amulets" on their desks or themselves, and some people may move a "treasure land" to their ancestral graves to keep him safe and relieve their great mental stress. This has led to the phenomenon of "burning incense and worshiping Buddha while corrupting".

　　In an interview with Lingao County, Hainan Province, the reporter learned that the county party committee and government compound in this county blocked the main entrance to the west, built a building on the original site, and opened another door to the south on the side. The local people told reporters that Wu Guanghua, former secretary of the county party committee of Lingao County, and others were sentenced to prison for corruption. Later leaders believed that the former official career was not smooth because there was something wrong with the office building, because looking out from the government gate, the Lingao County Public Security Bureau and the People’s Procuratorate were not far away, just like two guns on their heads, which boded ill for stroke of bad luck. Although the feng shui pattern was changed, Chen Chuangfu, the later county party secretary, was also dismissed because of corruption. The local people said: "I don’t believe in ghosts and gods, and ghosts and gods don’t help corrupt officials."

　　Whether you can be promoted is done, not calculated by Mr. Feng Shui.

　　Although party and government cadres are superstitious that geomantic omen is not the mainstream, its influence is extremely bad. The spread of these cadres’ belief crisis will endanger the party’s mass base and run counter to the construction of a clean and efficient service-oriented government. Some cadres, masses, experts and scholars suggested that the party’s mass line education and practice activities should be taken as an opportunity to let Feng Shui superstition go down the altar.

　　-opposing feng shui superstition and strengthening ideals and beliefs are the basis for eliminating the "feng shui complex" in officialdom. He Xingliang, a counselor of the State Council and a researcher at the China Academy of Social Sciences, said that because there is still a lot of room for survival in the society, it just fills in the gaps of some officials’ beliefs and even rushes to it, and this trend should be stopped. Party member cadres who watch geomantic omen and engage in feudal superstitious activities, disrupting the order of production, work and social life, will be punished once they are found, and they will be given disciplinary sanctions according to their harm.

　　-Open authorization process and transparent selection of cadres are the prerequisites for eliminating the "feng shui complex" in officialdom. Seeking official luck is the main inducement of the "feng shui complex" in officialdom, which actually reflects the irregular and opaque reality of cadre selection in some places. Zhou Lin, secretary of Wanli District Committee of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, suggested that when selecting leading cadres, we should not only look at what he said and did in public, but also look at what he did in private, so as to make the whole authorization mechanism open and transparent and bask in the sun, thus blocking the first barrier of officials’ geomantic superstition.

　　-Taking the mass line well and accepting the supervision of the masses is the guarantee to eliminate the "feng shui complex" in officialdom. The mass line is the lifeline of the party. The promotion of officials is done, not calculated by Mr. Feng Shui. "When can the grassroots and the masses more test and decide the promotion of cadres, and when can the Feng Shui complex disappear?" Ouyang Feng, secretary of Yizhang County Committee of Hunan Province, said that to resist the official geomantic superstition, we should give full play to the powerful supervisory power of the masses, investigate the incidents of individual cadres’ geomantic superstition reflected by the masses, and give a timely reply to the society. (Reporter Qi Zhiming, He Wei, Zhao Yingquan, Ye Chao, Cheng Zilong)