In 1644, as the Ming Dynasty fell, the last emperor hanged himself in the Forbidden City.

But before he did, his astronomers burned something.

Not gold. Not maps. Not military secrets.

Books.

Specifically, copies of the Huang Li. The Emperor’s Almanac.

They knew what was coming. The Qing would take the palace. And whoever controlled the almanac controlled the timing of everything that mattered.

When to crown a new emperor. When to launch campaigns. When to negotiate treaties.

The wrong date could fracture a new dynasty before it even began.

So they burned it. To keep it out of enemy hands.

That’s how valuable timing was. Worth more than treasure. Worth dying for.

The book they were protecting? It would eventually become what we now call the Tong Shu.

The Book That Chose Empires

Most people think the Tong Shu is some folk calendar. Lucky dates for haircuts. Superstition for old people.

They’re wrong.

The Tong Shu didn’t start in villages. It started in palaces.

It was called the Huang Li. The Emperor’s Almanac. And it was guarded like nuclear codes.

Why?

Because emperors used it to decide when armies marched. When marriages happened. When construction began. When to negotiate. When to retreat.

The wrong date could lose a war. The right one could unite a kingdom.

This wasn’t luck. This was infrastructure.

The imperial astronomers, the Heaven Watchers, spent their lives tracking the movement of Qi between Heaven and Earth. They recorded star patterns, shadow angles, elemental flows.

They built this book from observation. Not belief. Observation.

And for centuries, only the emperor had access to it.

The Scholar Who Broke the Lock

Then during the Han dynasty, someone leaked it.

A court scholar. His name is lost to history, but his decision wasn’t.

He looked at the Huang Li and realized something dangerous:

These patterns don’t just apply to emperors. They apply to everyone.

So he did what every good rebel does. He simplified it. Stripped out the imperial formulas. Kept the essential timing patterns. Made it readable for common people.

He called it the Tong Sheng. “The Book of All Victories.”

And he distributed it to villagers.

Some say he fled the palace. Some say he was executed. Either way, the book survived.

And it kept evolving. Farmers added harvest cycles. Merchants added trade dates. Families added wedding customs and funeral rites.

By the time it reached common households, it had become the Tong Shu. A living document. Passed down. Marked up. Used.

The Problem No One Talks About

Here’s what happened next.

The book survived. But the knowledge didn’t.

Generations passed. The formulas got simplified. The context got lost. The why behind the dates disappeared.

People kept using the Tong Shu. But they stopped understanding it.

They’d flip to a date. See “auspicious for signing contracts.” Sign the contract. Wonder why it still fell apart.

Or they’d avoid a day marked “inauspicious” and miss an opportunity that was actually perfect for them.

The book became a checklist. Not a system.

And that’s the biggest problem with the Tong Shu today. People have it. But they don’t know how to actually use it. Not to its full extent.

They’re reading the surface. Missing the structure underneath.

Why This Matters Now

The Tong Shu isn’t a fortune-telling tool. It’s a timing system.

It doesn’t tell you what will happen. It tells you when conditions are aligned for certain actions.

When to start. When to prepare. When to push. When to pivot.

More importantly, it shows you the hidden dangers. The energetic collapses you can’t see coming. The days that look fine on paper but will drain you dry.

And here’s what I’ve learned over the past three years of studying, applying, and teaching the Tong Shu:

Most people fail not because they’re doing the wrong thing. They fail because they’re doing it at the wrong time.

You’ve seen this. The product launch that flops in March but would’ve crushed it in October. The pitch that gets ignored in summer but lands in winter. The relationship that implodes because someone pushed too hard, too fast.

Bad timing doesn’t feel like bad timing. It just feels like failure.

And you blame yourself. Your offer. Your execution.

But the Tong Shu knows better.

Because everything is time and energy.

Get the timing wrong, and you burn energy with nothing to show for it.

Get the timing right, and the same effort produces ten times the result.

What I’m Building

I’ve spent close to three years deconstructing the Tong Shu. Not the surface-level dates found in bookstores. The underlying formulas. The mechanics. The why behind the system.

And I’m teaching it.

Not as folklore. Not as spirituality. As applied metaphysics.

The Tong Shu Masterclass is where I unpack the system that emperors used to run empires and that families used to navigate life.

You’ll learn:

• How to read energetic conditions for any given day
• When to launch, negotiate, sign, travel, or stay still
• Why certain months activate certain outcomes (and others kill them)
• How to see hidden dangers before they cost you
• How to stop wasting effort on misaligned timing

This isn’t about lucky dates. It’s about strategic alignment.

And if you’ve ever felt like you’re doing everything right but nothing’s landing?

This is probably why.

The Tong Shu survived dynasties, wars, revolutions, and modernization for a reason.

Because it works.

And the people who know how to use it don’t guess. They prepare. They see what’s coming. They move when the energy supports them.

Everything is time and energy.