What do you mean by sitting east and west?

Sitting east facing west means that the door of the house faces west. Sitting east facing west is the orientation of sitting, which is a concept of China Feng Shui. The orientation of the house must be relative to the direction. When the gate faces west, the house sits east facing west.

For example, the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall sits east to west. According to Yang Zhuocheng, the designer of the memorial hall, the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is the top of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing and the main body of the Egyptian pyramid. The reason why it sits east facing west is to overlook the mainland.

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Most houses in rural areas face south. The advantage of this orientation is that there is plenty of sunshine indoors, which is very suitable for human habitation in both cold winter and hot summer. This is because most of our country is located in the northern hemisphere, and the sun rises in the east, rotates clockwise and sets in the west, so it is the most ideal direction for people to build houses facing south.

In fact, this problem will not only appear in rural areas, but also in cities. When buying a house, people will be more inclined to buy a house facing south and north and south, just because the house facing this direction is suitable for people to live in.