Only one person survived the tragedy at Zhaoqing in China’s Guangdong province (Picture: Creative Commons/Flickr/KanWu)

A feng shui master was buried alive by a mudslide moments after declaring a cemetery plot ideal for a client.

Zheng Guoqiang, a high-profile expert in the art, had been asked to find some ‘good land’ for De Meng to be laid to rest after his recent death.

However, the 55-year-old, described as the ‘go-to’ person for celebrities, was engulfed by the slide along with seven others.

Just seconds earlier, he had been speaking of how the vibrations and location were perfect for a burial, according to reports.


The dead included two of Mr De Meng’s relatives, a Taoist named Wu and three cemetery workers.



The sole survivor of the tragedy at the cemetery in Zhaoqing, Guangdong province in China, remains in a stable condition in hospital.

A friend of Mr Zheng’s, metaphysician Lee Chengze, told TomoNews he was ‘puzzled’ as to why he had decided to visit the cemetery as that particular Sunday ‘was a bad day’ to go there.

China’s southern provinces were battered by huge rainstorms last week, with at least ten dying in Guangdong alone.

Feng shui is widely used in China to plan buildings to bring harmony.