What is the relationship between Confucius and Feng Shui?
Confucius
(founder of Confucianism)
Editor
Confucius (September 28, 551 BC-April 11, 479 BC) [1-2], son surname, [3] Kong Shi, Ming Qiu, the word Zhong Ni. Confucius initiated the atmosphere of private lectures and was the founder of Confucianism. [5]
Confucius was educated by Laozi and led some disciples to travel around the world for fourteen years. In his later years, he revised the Six Classics, namely, Poems, Books, Rites, Music, Yi and Chunqiu. According to legend, he had three thousand disciples, including seventy-two sages. After the death of Confucius, his disciples and their re-disciples recorded the words, deeds, quotations and thoughts of Confucius and his disciples and compiled them into the Confucian classic The Analects.
[fēng shuǐ]
geomantic omen (metaphysical terminology) editor
Geomantic omen is a metaphysical art with a long history of the Chinese nation, which is also called Qingwu Art and Qingnang Art. The academic view is called Kanyu. Feng Shui is the force of nature and the great magnetic energy of the universe. Wind is vitality and field energy, and water is flow and change. Geomantic omen is the art of observing geography on the spot, which is also called geography and geomantic omen doctrine in ancient times. It is a philosophy to study the laws of the environment and the universe. Since man is a part of nature, nature is also a part of man, reaching the realm of "harmony between man and nature". The founder of geomantic omen is Xuan Nv, a Taoist goddess. The relatively perfect geomantic omen knowledge rose in the Warring States Period. The core idea of geomantic omen is the harmony between man and nature, so as to achieve "harmony between man and nature". Early geomantic omen is mainly related to the methods and principles of site selection, orientation and construction of palaces, houses, villages and cemeteries, and it is a metaphysics for choosing suitable places.
There are two definitions of geomantic omen. One of them is edema disease, which is mostly caused by the invasion of wind evil, the loss of lung qi due to propaganda, the inability to communicate with water channels, and the retention of water and dampness in the body. Secondly, it refers to the natural situation of residential bases and cemeteries, such as the system of veins and the direction of mountains and rivers.