Is Feng Shui in China a science or pseudoscience?
To talk about China people's attitude towards Feng Shui in China today, I think we should first analyze the mentality of China people in the past century. China's ancient civilization lasted for thousands of years, China reached the summit, and a great country was bombarded by western guns more than 100 years ago. In this humiliating history of more than a century, countless people of insight and people with lofty ideals have explored the road to prosperity, starting with forced trade in the West. From the Revolution of 1911 to the May 4th Movement, from the movement to today's reform and opening up, China people stood in front of their ancestors and dared to speak out: today, we have no quintessence of our country, and China people's psychology of "worshipping foreign things and obsessing foreign things" and "inferiority complex" is exposed. China people who suffered the defeat of 100 years can't blame anyone. We should look at ourselves, but is it necessary for us to "dump the bath water and children"?
Let's look at the fate of China culture first. When we blindly affirm western technology and culture, everyone throws away our ancestors' things, even spits on them and steps on them. Confucianism, which advocates benevolence and righteousness, has been degraded to the nonsense of feudal rulers, and Chinese medicine, which has maintained the life of China people for thousands of years, is regarded as quack and witch doctor. China's geomantic omen, which emphasized the unity of heaven and earth, was even criticized as a trick of feudal superstition, that is, a square character that implied the character of China people, which was also ill-fated in the May 4th Movement. It is true that modern science and technology in the west are developed, and we should learn with an open mind. But if we blindly trust others and abandon our original beautiful things, it will be a waste of money, and the loss will outweigh the gain.
As one of the three pillars of China's traditional architectural theory (China's geomantic omen, China's architecture and China's gardens constitute the three pillars of China's ancient architectural theory), China's geomantic omen is also called geomantic omen. After a hundred years' study, most young people don't know the geomantic omen in China at all, nor have they really touched it. They just listen to other people's geomantic omen as superstition, but blindly believe in western scientific and technological theory and western culture. Even if you suspect that China's geomantic omen is superstitious, you don't want to discover it yourself, because the whole society is like this. Knowing China's knowledge of Feng Shui has become a handle for being laughed at for believing in this superstition, so many people would rather let China's Feng Shui be wronged than be laughed at. Do things that have been discovered and verified by our ancestors for thousands of years make us say that they are useless? Say dross is dross? The mind of our ancestors is not that simple! We can easily tell the truth.
In fact, China Feng Shui is a quasi-scientific university, which is highly appraised by foreign academic circles. China's geomantic omen contains profound and systematic thinking ideas, which are consistent with the code of conduct of China people, that is, easy to reason and easy to construct; On the land of China, there are still many ancient buildings of Feng Shui, which are living fossils of Feng Shui. In the long-term development process, China Feng Shui has infiltrated other related disciplines, which has rich connotations in ancient China philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, geology, geography, ecology and landscape, but it also contains other unscientific and artificial factors, so we should face it squarely and study it.
The core content of China Feng Shui is the unity of heaven, earth and man. China's geomantic omen explores the site selection, orientation and layout of buildings, and the harmonious relationship between nature and human destiny. It is the principle of harmony between heaven and earth in China's geomantic omen that excludes the damage of human behavior to the natural environment, pays attention to the adaptation of human beings to the natural environment, and guides people how to solve the site selection and even construction of buildings according to these inducements, thus creating a unique urban layout, architectural forms and architectural landscape in China, which is beautiful according to local conditions. In contrast, with the opening up of the country, modern western architecture has blossomed everywhere in China, only pursuing concrete and single architectural grandeur, or single formal beauty, or functional practicality, or economic benefits, regardless of the integration with regional, natural and historical conditions, resulting in the convergence of cities from south to north and from east to west in China today, which will be a crime of harming people through the ages.