What are the feng shui considerations for a Murraya paniculata bonsai?

  In recent years, bonsai collecting has gradually gained popularity. Besides preserving and increasing value, some collectors also believe that bonsai can bring good luck. In addition to collectors and enthusiasts collecting bonsai, ordinary citizens taking up “bonsai” has also emerged as a new trend, including quite a few young people. However, in the process of enjoying bonsai, people often overlook one important function of it, and that is the relationship between plants and feng shui.

  Murraya paniculata (orange jasmine) is a white-series plant belonging to the metal element in the Five Elements, that is, a plant with white bark, white flowers or white leaves. It regulates the human lungs, and its feng shui meaning is “sweetness everlasting,” so Murraya paniculata can bring good feng shui to the home, symbolizing that your family will be warm and sweet forever.

  In Shunde there is a century-old Murraya paniculata. According to the village elders, every summer, as long as the Murraya paniculata blooms, it will certainly rain in the few days before and after the flowering period. In the old days, Murraya paniculata was also a kind of medicinal guide used by the villagers, and many villagers would go to pick its leaves and then dry them for medicinal use. So for the residents of that village, it is not only a witness to history but also the village's “feng shui tree,” enjoying a very high status in the village. So where is the feng shui application of Murraya paniculata reflected?

  We all know that plants have spirituality, with closeness and distance among relatives, and are even more able to feel joy, anger, sorrow and happiness. Our Earth is a large magnetic field, a large qi field, and we live right in the middle of this magnetic field. A house is a small qi field, and the human body itself is also a “human body field.” Likewise, plants also have qi fields. People who practice qigong should know that when gathering qi from trees, they generally do not gather around young trees, because after gathering around trees as a group, the trees will appear exhausted, with drooping leaves.

  This is because plants contain the Five Elements, and between plants and among all things, under the action of fields, the microparticles of each object can influence one another and transfer and change one another. As for Murraya paniculata, it is a white-series plant belonging to the metal element in the Five Elements, that is, a plant with white bark, white flowers or white leaves. It regulates the human lungs, and its feng shui meaning is “sweetness everlasting,” so Murraya paniculata can bring good feng shui to the home, symbolizing that your family will be warm and sweet forever.

  However, plants have yin and yang, that is, yin and yang attributes. Sun-loving plants, if planted (placed) in a dark and damp environment, will become weak, produce no flowers, no fruit, or die. Murraya paniculata is a yang plant, so it should be placed in a sunny place; otherwise, if the plant grows poorly, it may ruin the feng shui and produce the opposite effect.