Smart number of Bu Shou

Mr. Guo didn’t like his name, so last year he went to find a sifu for a name change. But till now he still did not use that new name, because he doubt that the sifu make a mistake.

The problem came from a word “慕” of his name, Mr. Guo feels that this word should belongs to 15 strokes, but the sifu count it as 17 strokes.

Mr. Guo said, he did ask sifu about this matter, but sifu did not explain it clearly, just told him that this is something mysterious… that outsider won’t understand it. Overall, this new name is a good name.

“Honestly, I didn’t have much confident on that fella!” Mr. Guo said. Then he smiles at me and said: “But today got this opportunity, want to ask sifu take a look on my name, whether is good or not?”

He said really easy enough, but from a real Xing Ming Xue perspective, it needs time to calculate, to see a good or bad on a name, is not simply take a look on a name, can so magically immediate judge that name! So I answer him: “To see this name suite you or not, must go through a detail calculation before can get the answer. So even me also can’t immediately answer you.”

“But the word “慕” you mentioned just now, it’s really belongs to 17 strokes from Xing Ming Xue perspective. You treat it as 15 strokes, because you forget one thing, that the Bu Shou of “慕” is not 4 strokes, but 6 strokes. So “慕” should consider 17 strokes. Regarding stroke of Xing Ming Xue, many people also have misunderstanding, so though you are no exception, but it’s fine.”

Mr. Guo smiles awkwardly, and said: “O, that was it, did not think that I’m the one who make mistake!”

Indeed, many person who self learn Xing Ming Xue, lots of time also like Mr. Guo, can’t make clear certain word’s correct strokes, then mistakenly calculate it.

The reason of such misunderstanding is because certain words’ actual strokes were different from what we usually write. To be more detail, is because these words consist of Bu Shou, where strokes of Bu Shou mostly were different with our normal hand write.