Was wondering anybody perform 'yap for' for moving into house? If yes...can share how?

You looking at Pray? or refer to those dinner?

I just did mine last because my MIL insist we 'move' to the house on 1st Jan for feng shui purpose.

My MIL, colleagues and friends all have all sorts of 'creative' ideas:

Before the moving day.
1. clean the house
2. prepare mix of rice and salt and throw them around the house, especially the corners. Leave them for 24 hours or more before clean them.
3. prepare wood/charcoal, rice, cooking oil, salt, vinegar, sauce & tea. Place them near the sink or in kitchen. Symbolize you have all the neccessaries (sorry, I have problem spelling neccessary).

On the moving day:
1. avoid quarrel and disputes
2. Do or hold auspicious/meaningful items when walk into the house. My brother in law insist we roll a pineapple from the main door into the house before stepping in. Some said throw shillings, some said bring ang pows, oranges of lokam.
3. On the lights and fans.
4. Boil water
5. Cook something to eat. For me I went for the easiest - tong yun.
6. Invite some family members and friends over and enjoy food. We ordered pizzas.
7. Turn on musics and TV, if any.
8. After that leave at least one light on for 3 days.

Lowlowc...i was suggested some of the above also..but no pineapple hha..and no family to help..

My friends ask me to burn the charcoal in the 'Lou' dunno how to say in English. Then carry into the house. Then only can carry the salt etc...

Phoenix..no pray..just move in..

Stove...

congrats bro,

i did mine last friday, basically most of the above mention same but no pineapple

i have to hang the red textile myself & burn the charcoal in the 'tan Lou', carry and put in middle of the house for a while, then move to kitchen to boil water & soup for the whole day

the item no 8 different, need to turn on every lights, a/c, fan for 3 days but i only on for the 1st night cause the tnb meter record about 200 unit used

Does all this thing bring any meaning to your house?

Skng03, wanted to check with u on the tan Lou. With fan on, will the fire be too big? U mean u use the tan Lou to boil soup aarr...can it? I bought a super mini one only...coz heavy to carry..

And need to bring the tan Lou walk around the house first?

As for the salt, sauce etc...I was told to bring in the same day as move in day, not before. Which would be the correct thing to do...anybody hv any idea?

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Added on January 10, 2012, 9:13 amOzak traditions, we all hope that it'll bring peace and 'ji li' and it also proves that ure the owner moving in

This post has been edited by @Adele: Jan 10 2012, 09:29 AM

I understand that all this thing will bring whatever good thing to the house and owner. But I see the list is so long that I wonder each of this thing do bring any meaning or not.

Like

1. avoid quarrel and disputes -> what this mean?
2. Do or hold auspicious/meaningful items when walk into the house. My brother in law insist we roll a pineapple from the main door into the house before stepping in. Some said throw shillings, some said bring ang pows, oranges of lokam. --> what this mean?

and so on and on.

hey guys, i moved in my new house without doing anything mentioned above... what will happen to me?? im a single guy living alone, i bought everything necessities, once done n ready, i just move in lol... only had a simple open house inviting frens n relatives.

Let me try to explain,

1. clean the house - self explainary.

2. prepare mix of rice and salt and throw them around the house, especially the corners. Leave them for 24 hours or more before clean them. - chase away the evil occupying the corners.

3. prepare wood/charcoal, rice, cooking oil, salt, vinegar, sauce & tea. Place them near the sink or in kitchen. Symbolize you have all the neccessaries (sorry, I have problem spelling neccessary). - already explained.

On the moving day:
1. avoid quarrel and disputes - so that people staying in the new house have good relationship

2. Do or hold auspicious/meaningful items when walk into the house. My brother in law insist we roll a pineapple from the main door into the house before stepping in. Some said throw shillings, some said bring ang pows, oranges of lokam. - pineapple means profit, orange/lokam means gold. sdo this means increase owner's wealth.

3. On the lights and fans. - dark place attract the unseen. so lights up to chase them away (if any).

4. Boil water - use the stove, water = live.

6. Invite some family members and friends over and enjoy food. We ordered pizzas. - to increase the human qi.

7. Turn on musics and TV, if any. - to live up the environment , quiet place also attract the unseen i guess.

8. After that leave at least one light on for 3 days. - same as 3

This post has been edited by katijar: Jan 10 2012, 10:20 AM

Since we are talking about this, start another discussion about people that have its house FS audit.

In Feng Shui term, the most important is to get the house Gua, occupant Gua (Life Gua) to match with timing for house move in.

There are few method for date selection, very basic is using the "Thong Seng" book and go temple to find a good date, this is the most basic date selection, the more advance is to match with house sitting, and find a good timing, which limit the good date it have, some house may be advice not to move in on specific year (That is you believe).

A good date/timing does not mean you get super result, a good timing may give you a head start, or making you better luck or meet more helpful people.

If this is too superstitious, just ignore my comment above.

i bot the small size one too as this is just for "yap for" purpose. the tan lou come with a timber frame, don't throw away that frame else u can move it once it heated up

as for the salt, cuka, sugar..... i bot all new one so bring in before move in. was told my my old man can bring whatever new thing 1st, so basically i bot almost everything new and when move in day, just bring over my old wok, pots, plate, fork, knife....and some shirts & and valuables.....just 1 load in my honda odyssey, no hire lorry..

ozak, me & wify want as simple as we can, is not us wanted to follow all this long list but just to pleased/ show respect to our old gens, what they say just follow lor

Not that I wanted to do these, but to avoid in laws and family nagging later, I did it. 1st, avoid dispute. It's a feng shui saying like don't brinv or create negative vibe to ur new home. Concept is the same as when during chinese new year we are to avoid quarreling.

Also the usual concept on why chinese wear red, bring lokam when visiting ppl, give ang pow during cny. Cos it means auspicious and luck. Bringing these into house also means bringing wealth and luck into the house cos oranges, lokam usually link with illusion of gold.

Not trying to sound like lillian too, since coincidently I have all these things lying around (happen to have oranges in my fridge and just got 2012 red packets from company), no harm bringing them to the house. As for the tan lou, since I don't have and not planning to buy one, I just skip it.. I'll admit the pineapple is overly done, but it's fun to play with it. Also my hubby loves eating it, no harm buying one for rm1.50.

Sometime very hard not to follow right? This thing just too many to follow. Which each person will create a creative way over the time and generation.

I believe in science and logic where probably will intepret to another meaning and not logic too for me.

No worry hann, shouldn't be any problem. It's just a tradition.

Btw in term of FS, it is strongly related to Scientific which is related to Energy Flow (Joule) in the environment

Yup, I believe in FS. It sound mystery science more to me.

Yeah me 2

This post has been edited by leeyung: Jan 10 2012, 12:20 PM

Do you follow the Tong Shu move in date? or Actual FS move in date?