Chinese Traditional Wisdom for the Study of Knowing People II (中華智慧知人學 II)–Lecture 1

Minda and I attended Prof. Pang’s (彭泓基教授) course named “Chinese Traditional Wisdom for the Study of Knowing People II” (中華智慧知人學 II) again. Lecture 1 was held on 23^rd Aug 2025. Due to the large amount of content, the course started half an hour earlier. 

In the first lecture, Prof. Pang briefed his content coverage and focused on application of different divination (術數占卜) to predict people’s characteristics. He said “Life is about learning how to be a human being.”

Many classmates joined online and onsite. Prof. Pang mentioned that the candle is used to represent the essence, energy and spirit. The candle's "shape" is a metaphor for the human's "essence", "fire" is a metaphor for "energy", and "light" is a metaphor for "spirit". (用蠟燭比喻精氣神，蠟燭的「形體」比喻為人的「精」，「火」比喻為「氣」，而「光」比喻為「神」。 )

Then he said “Learning to be a good person is a lifelong process.” And then he briefed some key points and they were to learn to admit mistakes, learn to be gentle, learn to be tolerant, learn to communicate, learn to let go, learn to be moved, and learn to survive, etc.

After that he reviewed Yin and Yang and the Five Elements (陰陽五⾏).

Prof. Pang explained the basic concept of the relationship among heaven, earth and man (天地人).

And then he employed five elements to explain different people’s characteristics and their relationship.

He also demonstrated how to calculate the combination and conflict (合與沖)

Finally, a person’s journey is like a life cycle, with different conditions at different stages.

Lastly, the art of observing people based on the Eight Characters(八字命理的觀人術) were discussed. 

Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches (天幹地支) were reviewed again. Then he used different example to let us know the relationship among different eight characters (八字) and how others affect you based on five elements.

At the end, he demonstrated how powerful Generative AI is. Deep Seek for Eight Characters Numerology Analysis (八字命理分析) were discussed.

After class, Minda and I had lunch with her family this time.

Reference:

彭泓基教授 - https://www.master-insight.com/author/penghongji/

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