Tips for the KITCHEN

Do

  • Do use round or oval tables to represent family harmony and equality.
  • Do arrange your kitchen with a wall behind the stove, rather than placing the stove on an island or peninsula. The wall provides a solid, continual support for the prosperity of your family. If you are not planning to remodel soon, use decorative stove covers or screens to create a wall-like effect.
  • Do hang a metal wind chime with five hollow rods over your stove to double your money.
  • Do put away any cleaning supplies after their use in the dining room or kitchen. Cleaning activities should not be mingled with nutrition.
  • Do keep the kitchen garbage can out of sight.
  • If you have a galley kitchen, in which the stove and the sink share the same counter, do put a ceramic pitcher or fruit bowl between them.
  • Do choose a home with a stove that has a wall behind it, as your family's prosperity needs such support.
  • Do put wooden kitchen utensils in the E, SE, or S, and metal items like pots and pans in the W, NW, or N.
  • Do tape a natural quartz crystal on the side of your telephone to activate more calls
  • If your stove is on an island or peninsula and lacks a wall behind it, do place a glazed ceramic vase or pitcher on the counter behind it.
  • Do stimulate the yang energy of your kitchen with the use of both natural and artificial light, and light, bright, cheerful colors on the walls.
  • Do tuck a red envelope with three Chinese coins into the bottom of the rice container or potato bin. This brings abundance and wealth.
  • Do store all cleaning supplies out of sight, so that they don't "clean out" your beneficial energy of prosperity and abundance.
  • Do put images of fruit anf other food in the E area of your dining room to represent the sustenance and abundance that you want to attract to your home and table.
  • Do store your knifes out of sight in the kitchen drear or cabinet to minimize family friction
  • Do store all cleaning supplies out of sight, so that they don’t “clean out” your beneficial energy of prosperity and abundance.
  • Do decorate your dinging room wall with a painting or picture with abundant food, fruit or wine.
  • Do hang a metal wind chime with five hollow rods over your stove to double your money.

Don't

  • Don't keep an aquarium in your kitchen. Since the kitchen is in the domain of fire and is nourished by wood, the element of water will douse your prosperity.
  • Don't have the stove and sink too close together on the same counter, as water destroys fire, and thus symbolically destroys the family's wealth.
  • Don't position the stove and the sink directly across from each other, as water will destroy fire and this represents destruction of your family's wealth.
  • Don't leave your kitchen cabinet doors open while you're cooking-the edges of the doors emanate sha energy.
  • Don't arrange your home so that you can see the kitchen as you enter the front door of your house. If you do, you will be preoccupied with be preoccupied with food and may find yourself battling weight problems.
  • Don't place your refrigerator in the wood areas of E and SE. Although this major appliance stores and preserves food,which provides nutrition and is normally associated with E, it is manufactured out of metal,which destroys the wood element.
  • Don't stick chopsticks vertically into a bowl filled with food. Standing up like this, the two chopsticks portend bad luck, as they resemble sticks of incense placed at the feet of a deceased person at a wake.
  • Don't let your kitchen burners get dirty or encrusted with spillover food from your cooking. Clean burners help bring wealth to household.
  • Don't cover your kitchen walls with dark-colored paint or wallpaper. Your kitchen need to be a place of light and energy to activate good health.
  • Don't let your kitchen burners get dirty or encrusted with spillover food from your cooking. Clean burners help bring wealth to a household.
  • Don't add a "dirty" kitchen(one where you do deep frying, ect.), as this represents a division of your family's wealth.
  • Don't position the stove and sink directly across from each other, as water will destry fire and this represents destuction of your famil's wealth.
  • Don’t let your kitchen burners get dirty or encrusted with spillover from your cooking. Clean burners help bring wealth to the household
  • Don't have the stove and sink too close together on the same counter, as water destroy fire, and thus symbolically destroys the family's wealth

In General

  • Lotus seeds are included in cold or hot soups and are cooked and ground into fillings for baked buns, steamed buns, pastries, delicacies, and desserts. A symbol of fertility, the seeds portend offspring if many show up in your soup!
  • To ensure your family's continued prosperity and abundance, place three antique or silver coins in a lucky red envelope at the bottom of your rice container. Change the envelope before each Chinese New Year.
  • The female head of household should place her seat in the South-West, as this direction represents motherhood.
  • Shades of red-representing prosperity, hapiness, and longevity-matched with greens-symbolizing good health, family, abundance, and harmony-are popular combinations for Chinese dining rooms and restaurants.
  • To prevent quarreling in a household, do not have the elements of fire (e.g. a stove) an dwater (e.g. a sink, refrigerator) right next to each other, as in a kitchen island or peninsula configuration.
  • Store your knives inside drawers rather than in a wooden block on the counter, because exposed knives cause quarresls and fighting.