Home Feng Shui layout, related to the five elements and four images
Overviewing the entire knowledge related to Feng Shui, it is not difficult to find that many of them are dialectical and analyzed based on the common sense of the Five Elements and Four Symbols. The crystallization of the wisdom of ancient people that has survived to this day is Feng shui is still applicable in modern and contemporary situations, and the most profound effect is the internal layout and design of home feng shui.
Introduction to classics on the Five Elements
Dong Zhongshu during the Han Dynasty once recorded the Five Elements in "Spring and Autumn Fanlu": "Green dragon on the left (wood), white tiger on the right (gold), white tiger on the front Zhuque (fire), Hou Xuanwu (water), Central Hou earth"; "Book of Zhou·Hong Fan" explains the nature and order of the five elements in more detail: water, fire, wood, metal, and earth. In order to center the mutual development of the "Five Elements" and the "middle" of the orientation, the order of the contents of the "Five Elements, Five Directions, Five Colors, and Four Images" can be arranged as follows: Five Elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water; Five Directions: East, south, middle, west, north; five colors: green, red, yellow, white, black; the corresponding relationships between the four are as follows: water, north, black, basalt; gold, west, white, white tiger; earth, middle , yellow, emperor; wood, east, cyan (blue or green), green dragon; fire, south, red, red bird. It will be clearer if you look at it this way.
What is the Five Elements Theory?
From the perspective of the Five Elements Theory, there is mutual generation, mutual restraint or mutual restriction. The mutual generation is as follows: water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal, metal generates water; the mutual restraint is as follows: wood overcomes earth, earth overcomes water, water overcomes fire, fire overcomes metal, and metal overcomes wood. Their mutual generation, mutual restraint and mutual coexistence maintain the overall balance of things, thus forming the theory of "generation and restraint" in Five Elements.
The Feng Shui meaning of the Four Symbols
The Four Symbols represent the four symbols of Lao Yang, Shao Yin, Shao Yang and Lao Yin in Feng Shui. The most basic image of yin and yang is heaven and earth. Only with heaven and earth can all living things come into being. The most basic images of the Four Symbols are the four seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter. Only with the four seasons can all things change. Shaoyang is spring, Laoyang is summer, Shaoyin is autumn, Laoyin is winter, spring birth, summer growth, autumn harvest, winter Hidden is the form of movement of all things in the four seasons. For example, most ancient Chinese buildings conform to the principles of the four images of Feng Shui. For example, the Sheji Altar in Zhongshan Park in Beijing was built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The top layer is paved with five-color soil: cyan soil (green dragon color) in the east and white soil (white tiger color) in the west. color), the south is red soil (suzaku color), the north is black soil (basalt color), and the middle is yellow soil (symbolizing yellow people). In addition, these soils were selected and transported from prefectures and counties from all over the world, indicating that the four directions paid tribute and the country was prosperous.