Chinese Gold Ingot Story

by Jakob Jelling (www.fengshuicrazy.com)
labels/categories : World of Gold, Myth and Curious.



Chinese peoples in the past have long story for using gold ingots as a currency. Almost every Chinese emperors had created their gold ingot currencies for dynastie's transactions. They used to have a shape comparable to a boat, being this symbolic of the richness transportation from one point or person to another. This symbol is mainly used up till now.

Feng shui also use Chinese gold ingots to add the element metal where necessary for balance and harmony, besides, strongly used for the purpose of wealth and fortune, because gold ingots itself symbolize wealth, abundance and prosperity. Actually, they are seen as the main prosperity and wealth symbolism objects. Therefore, whenever a person is looking for improving his income or his prosperity, gold ingots might be the best way to achieve it. By placing gold ingots in your house, especially with other wealth deities such as Fuk Luk Sau Chai Sen Yeh will exagerrate the effect, which is attracting wealth and prosperity to your home, as well as you might attract it directly to you if you carry them with your self.


According to feng shui, gold ingots should be placed at a strategic spot which has an important significance for money and where the element metal is necessary. For example, you should not place gold ingots in a fire element area or that might actually end up causing you problems rather than being a help. One ideal place for your gold ingots to be is the southeast since, according to feng shui, it is the area which represents wealth.

Besides the gold ingots it selves, there are many different amulets and objects which contain gold ingots as part of their design. One of the most known ones is the wealth vase, which, as its name describes, is a vase containing gold ingots as its main or only constituent.