How to view Feng Shui

For a long time, people have regarded Feng Shui geography as feudal superstition, criticized and abandoned it. In fact, Chinese Feng Shui geography is an important part of traditional Chinese culture. It is a science that studies the comprehensive environment of China's geology, physiography, hydrology, sunshine, wind direction, climate, meteorology, architecture, landscape, etc. It is also a science that Chinese people seek good luck in. A value orientation of avoiding evil and seeking blessings.

Feng Shui is the guiding principle and practical operating technology for ancient Chinese construction activities. Feng Shui is almost ubiquitous in Chinese architecture, site selection, planning, design, and construction. This is confirmed by the large number of existing ancient towns, ancient buildings, gardens, residences and mausoleums in our country.

In the long-term development process, Feng Shui has intertwined with other related disciplines and has rich connotations in ancient Chinese philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, geology, geography, ecology, landscape and other aspects. The core content of Chinese Feng Shui is the unity of heaven, earth and man. Chinese Feng Shui explores the harmonious relationship between the location, orientation, and layout of buildings, nature, and the destiny of mankind.

Feng Shui is an art that attempts to influence the aura of a certain place through the arrangement of things, from building foundations to interior decoration. It helps people harness the natural power of the earth and the balance of yin and yang to obtain auspicious energy, thereby promoting health and enhancing vitality. Feng Shui is a major cultural phenomenon that China is famous for, and Feng Shui is the essence of ancient architectural theory. Feng shui is a landscape evaluation system for finding auspicious locations for buildings. It is the art of geographical location selection and layout in ancient China.

Feng Shui, as an ancient Chinese architectural theory, can be said to be an important part of Chinese traditional architectural culture. It contains rich content in many aspects such as natural knowledge, life philosophy, traditional aesthetics, and theoretical concepts. In fact, Feng Shui can also be said to be the ancient Chinese sacred environmental theory and orientation theory. Feng Shui theory, in terms of landscape, pays attention to the harmonious unity of human landscape and natural landscape; in terms of environment, it pays special attention to the harmonious unity of artificial natural environment and natural natural environment. The purpose of Feng Shui theory is to explore nature, conform to nature, use and transform nature in a controlled manner, select and create the best architectural environment suitable for people's physical and mental health and behavioral needs, so as to achieve the harmony of yin and yang, the harmony of heaven and man. , the perfect state of harmony between body and mind. In terms of natural environment and natural orientation, Feng Shui theory summarizes the natural knowledge and corresponding life experience in astronomy, geography, meteorology and other aspects related to architecture. For example, consider "backing mountains, facing water, facing the sun" as the best natural orientation. Consider an appropriate amount of "low in front and high in back" as the best terrain for a house, pay attention to the natural directions of "water inlets" (including water inlets and outlets) and "air outlets" (including doors and windows) in residential buildings, and advocate living space The height, size, and darkness of indoor lighting should be appropriate. These environmental factors are closely related to people's physical and mental health. Otherwise, if you build your residence in a place with natural hazards, or if you build your residence into an artificial environment with poor lighting, ventilation, temperature, and humidity, no matter how strong you are, you will still get sick if you live there for a long time. From the perspective of environmental architecture, these have certain scientific truths and are worthy of serious study and reference. In terms of cultural environment and cultural orientation, Feng Shui theory is based on the Yixue culture such as Hetu, Luoshu, Bagua, and Five Elements, through metaphors and symbolic means such as architectural layout, space division, orientation adjustment, color use, and pattern selection. Realize its environmental pursuit of harmony between body and mind.