One of Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum's fung shui masters told the estate trial he had helped Wang 'plant a life base' in a cave in Guangxi to bring her luck.
Master Yu Chi-lun testified for the late billionaire's Chinachem Charitable Foundation, which is contesting the will, on his services to Wang on 'planting a life base', to bring good health. He also described reading her ba zi - which literally means 'eight characters', and refers to the year, month, day and hour of a person's birth as expressed in four pairs of characters.
He said he planted a life base by writing the person's name and ba zi on a stone puppet that is placed in a stone coffin along with personal belongings, including clothes, fingernails and teeth. A ritual is performed to seal the coffin.
Mr Yu said he told a magazine last month of his views on Wang's ba zi. She found his reading accurate, he said. A Chinachem employee told him Wang was born in 1937 and the reading would be wrong if the year was incorrect. But the court earlier heard evidence from Wang's brother Kung Yan-sum that his sister was born in 1936.
Wang's life base, which he planted in May 2005, cost HK$150,000, which Mr Yu said was a fixed, standard price.
Mr Yu said a little pack containing Wang's hair, toenails and foot skin was used, adding that it would be even better if a tooth could be included.