There are ancestral halls in ancient villages. Why are most ancestral temples built by the pond?

It is generally believed that the concept of "Feng Shui" originated from Guo Pu's "Funeral Classics" in the Jin Dynasty: "Burying people is beneficial to qi. Qi dissipates by the wind, and the boundary water stops. The ancients gathered to make it last forever, and the deeds stopped, so it was called Feng Shui. " It is believed that shelter from the wind and gathering water can get angry. Regarding "anger", "Lv Chunqiu Ji Chun" says: "Anger is prosperous, and yang is venting." Anger is an element of vitality, and it is the gas for the growth and development of all things. It can be seen that the concept of Feng Shui is based on the beauty of life and centered on "Qi" from the beginning.

There are many schools and nicknames of architectural geomantic omen, mainly including geomantic omen and geography. Xu Shen in the Eastern Han Dynasty once said: "Kan, Tian; Yu, authentic ",Kanyu is the way of heaven and earth, emphasizing the harmony and unity between nature and human beings.

"The Book of Rites and the Moon Order" says: "You must not change your way another day, violate the principles of the Jedi, or disturb the discipline of others." Weather, geographical location and human harmony embody the basic viewpoint of ancient architectural geomantic omen.

Ancient geomantic omen believed that the earth was spiritual, and this simple view of nature contained profound ecological thoughts. First, give life to nature and affirm its value. Secondly, it is considered that nature is a unified ecosystem, and the subsystems are interrelated and interact with each other, which is helpful to maintain the ecological balance of nature.

The pursuit of ideal geomantic omen is actually the pursuit of beautiful ecological environment by the ancients. Many traditional houses and villages in China, such as quadrangles in Beijing, earth buildings in Fujian and Huizhou houses, are deeply influenced by geomantic culture.

They reflect the ecological demands of conforming to nature and serving mankind; It embodies the ecological wisdom of coordinating and balancing the architectural environment with people's activities and emotions according to local conditions, so that ancestors can get spiritual satisfaction such as belonging, aggregation, security and intimacy, so as to live poetically and reproduce happily.