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Chinese Feng Shui is called Kanyu Science, now called Living Environment Science.
The ancient Chinese called Feng Shui Kanyu, and it was also called geography, so it was called Kanyu Fengshui geography. It can be interpreted as: Kan (observation of sky), Yu (survey of land), wind (air space), water (hydrology and water quality), earth (topography and geology) (research and analysis theory). It originated in the primitive period, took its prototype in the Yao and Shun periods, matured in the Han and Tang dynasties, and flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Feng Shui is the valuable experience accumulated by human beings in long-term living practice. Facing the sun, sheltering from wind and rain, preventing fire, being close to water sources, and facilitating travel have become the most basic living theories. For thousands of years, people have continuously summarized the advantages and disadvantages of the living environment and formed a very mature and systematic Chinese Feng Shui theory.
Feng Shui theory is actually an integration of geophysics, hydrogeology, astronomy, meteorology, environmental landscape, architecture, ecology and human life informatics. natural sciences. Its purpose is to carefully and carefully examine and understand the natural environment, utilize and transform nature, and create a good living environment.
Feng Shui is embedded in every process of traditional Chinese architectural activities. From site selection planning, building units, garden sketches, indoor and outdoor decoration design to construction, it is almost everywhere. From the perspective of modern real estate brand planning, Feng Shui planning based on the architectural layout of modern residential areas should first establish several Feng Shui perspectives: Tai Chi Pan The concept of existence; the concept of all things in the field and energy; the concept of guidance of the field and energy.
1. A comprehensive view of Tai Chi
A city, a village, a courtyard, a building, a house, a room... are all Tai Chi, but at different levels . The layout of residential buildings depends on both its own Tai Chi and the Tai Chi of the building group. The layout of the building group should be based on a square topography and a complete Tai Chi. It is not appropriate to leave a certain part of the building in a bad location. The layout of the building lot should pay great attention to the aura effect of the Tai Chi diagram, and carefully select open spaces. The small green space within the building group should be selected in the central lot, and should be decorated with architectural sketches. In residential design, a house should not be missing corners. Households within a residential floor should not be staggered and divided, resulting in a missing corner of the floor plan of each house.
2. The omnipotent view of field energy
The five major elements of Feng Shui are dragon, cave, sand, water and direction, and their essence is energy. Searching for dragons, catching holes, inspecting sand, looking for water, and orienting are all about finding the auspicious qi that is suitable for the human body and avoiding the evil qi that is not conducive to the human body. There is a field between objects, and Qi comes from the field. Modern science has preliminarily verified that the human body has aura, plants have aura, buildings have aura, and everything has aura. Just like the force of gravity, the energy of the field is also universal. A single building may be insignificant, but if it forms a group of buildings, its atmosphere may change dramatically.
3. Field Qi Guidance
The Qi of Feng Shui is the Qi of the universe, the Qi of the Earth, the Qi of a region, the Qi of building groups, the Qi of plants, and the Qi of the human body. The unified field of Qi is Qi within Qi. The aura of the universe, the earth, and a region is the great aura. The great atmosphere comes from the empty place and stops from the real place. Yangzhai is mostly chosen to be located in similar basins or semi-basins (mountain rings, mountain bays). This kind of area has fertile soil and water, which is suitable for people's livelihood and is conducive to absorbing the atmosphere of the place. The nature of field energy is spiral movement. Any local spiral movement of field energy at a certain level is part of the general environment of the universe.
Small-environment plants, buildings, and human bodies are small-field auras. The aura of a small environment is called earth aura in Feng Shui. Earth aura comes from high places and goes to low places. However, this kind of place, under certain conditions and in the local environment, can be appropriately guided through human intelligent understanding.
The quality of wind (air), water, and earth (earth), and their effects on people.
This is the basis of Feng Shui. Wind is the air that people breathe, water is the water that people eat, source water, and soil is the soil for growing crops and the soil in acupuncture points. Because air, water, and soil are the most basic substances for human survival. If the wind (air) quality, water quality, and soil quality are not good, it will cause biological problems, cause disease, and cause disasters. I don’t think anyone would deny this.
Ancient Feng Shui masters mainly used methods such as looking and smelling the air to measure air quality, tasting water and raising fish to measure water quality, and pinching soil and tasting soil to measure soil quality.
Xue Xin Fu: The grass is luxuriant and the trees are luxuriant, the water is deep and the soil is thick. This is one of the ways to visually test the quality of Feng Shui soil.
In ancient times, when science and technology was underdeveloped, Feng Shui masters could only use primitive methods of seeing, smelling, tasting, pinching with hands, and using scales to identify the quality of Feng Shui grounds. Today, with the advancement of science, , if Feng Shui experts still cling to these simple methods, do not keep pace with the times, do not innovate tools, and do not use scientific instruments to measure air quality, water quality and soil quality. Some even turn a blind eye to these basic principles. If these simple methods are discarded, I think those Feng Shui sages will be furious and curse us if they have spirits in heaven.
The effects of the appearance and affection of Feng Shui land on people.
The wind referred to here is both air and space. Water is the ditches, streams, rivers, lakes and seas formed by the accumulation of water. Land is the mountains and ridges formed by the accumulation of soil. Later, Feng Shui experts called the mountains that were directly connected behind the location (acupuncture points) of the Yin and Yang House called dragons, and the other hills were called sand.
In the process of multiplying and reproducing, governing the country and the people, and marching and fighting, human beings have discovered that observing the sky, surveying the landforms, understanding the topography, and distinguishing the geology are very important, which are related to the survival and decline of mankind, the long-term peace and stability of the country, and the success of the war. Success or failure led to the formation of the original theory of Feng Shui - Geography.
Feng Shui experts have discovered that the shape and appearance of mountains and rivers will affect human behavior and good or bad luck. Feng Shui also humanizes the landscape and space, and interprets the three forms of landscape and space as expressions of affection. Those who are affectionate in the Yin-Yang House are auspicious, those who are ruthless in the Yin-Yang House are unlucky, and those who are anti-emotional in the Yin-Yang House are inauspicious. This is a high-level theory in Feng Shui. These contents are called physical studies in Feng Shui. There are more detailed explanations in the Feng Shui classics Qingwu Sutra, Burial Sutra, Xuexin Fu, Shaking the Dragon Sutra, Suspicious Dragon Sutra, Fawei Fu, and Instructions for the Son of Man.
The location and direction selection of Yin Yang House.
After mastering the above principles, you can choose to determine the location of the Yin and Yang House. In Feng Shui, it is called acupoints. Acupuncture is the core of Feng Shui, because all the efforts of Feng Shui masters are based on the Yin and Yang House. All Feng Shui environments work around the Yin and Yang house. Because only the true acupoint is where the vitality of Feng Shui gathers, and the auspicious energy of Feng Shui can be obtained.
It is easy for everyone to understand that the yang house will have an effect on people due to the influence of Feng Shui. The location where a yin person is buried will have an effect on his descendants, which is incomprehensible with modern science. However, according to the experience of the ancients and a large number of facts of today's people, this effect does exist, and sometimes it is more obvious than the effect of Yangzhai. Why is this? This reason cannot be explained by scientific principles. But we cannot think that things that cannot be explained by modern science are useless and cannot be believed. Because science also has limitations, science is not omnipotent, and modern science is not perfect.
After choosing the location of the Yin Yang House, choose the most appropriate direction to build it to absorb the vitality of the surrounding landscape space. It is called the vertical direction, and the vertical direction has become the key to Feng Shui. If you look at the buildings of ancient government offices, they all face north and south, with Zishan facing noon. It can be seen that Feng Shui pays great attention to direction selection.
The design and construction of Yin Yang House and the improvement of Feng Shui.
Chinese Feng Shui regards the design and construction of Yin and Yang houses as a method that must be mastered to follow the overall process of Yin and Yang house construction. Such as the construction direction, lighting, size, height, color, internal selection and arrangement of rooms, stoves, beds, doors, furniture, etc., as well as external design of wells, gatehouses, roads, bridges, toilets, water outlets, etc. and arrangements etc. The ancients knew that no place can be perfect, and some bad environments can be changed artificially. The so-called skill of eyesight is the tool of workmanship.
In the ancient villages of Houlong Mountain and Shuikou Mountain, a large number of trees were planted and strictly protected. It can be seen that the ancients attached great importance to the construction of the ecological environment. There are also many methods such as changing rivers, building bridges, building roads, digging ponds, building walls, building towers, etc. to change the Feng Shui site to obtain a good living environment. This is the contribution of Feng Shui. Feng Shui calls these work practices, which are also required courses and skills for Feng Shui masters. Therefore, ancient Feng Shui masters were also architectural designers.
Accumulate virtue. As the saying goes: A house that accumulates good deeds will always be happy.
Encourage people to be filial, persuade them to do good, encourage people to make progress, make people happy, and tell people to follow the laws of nature and optimize the natural environment to improve life and society.
This is the basic concept and highest goal of Feng Shui.
The ancient Chinese believed that heaven, earth and man are one, and that the human soul is connected with the aura of heaven and earth. Only a beautiful mind can resonate with the beautiful Feng Shui land. Only those with a beautiful mind can get a beautiful Yin and Yang house and receive the auspiciousness and good treatment of the Feng Shui land. On the contrary, people with ugly hearts cannot get the beautiful Yin-Yang House. They can only get the ugly Yin-Yang House, and they will only be punished by the fierceness of Feng Shui. Therefore, Feng Shui attaches great importance to the shaping and purification of the souls of Feng Shui users and earth masters, and attaches great importance to the cultivation and accumulation of morals. Blessings arise from the heart, and the earth is created from the heart.
1. The principle of the overall system
The Feng Shui theory regards the environment as an overall system. This system is human-centered and includes everything in the world. Every overall system in the environment is an interrelated, mutually restrictive, interdependent, mutually antagonistic, and mutually transforming element. The function of Feng Shui is to grasp the relationship between various subsystems macroscopically, optimize the structure, and seek the best combination.
2. The principle of adapting measures to local conditions
Adapting measures to local conditions means adopting a lifestyle suitable for nature based on the objectivity of the environment. China is a pragmatic country, and adapting measures to local conditions is a reflection of pragmatic thinking. According to the actual situation, practical and effective methods are adopted to make people and buildings suitable for nature, return to nature, return to simplicity, and unite nature and man. This is the true meaning of Feng Shui.
3. The principle of being close to mountains and rivers
Being close to mountains and rivers is one of the most basic principles of Feng Shui. Mountains are the skeleton of the earth, and waters are the source of vitality for all things. Without water, People can't survive. Almost all of the primitive tribes discovered by archeology were on the riverside terraces, which was suitable for hunting, fishing, and fruit picking at that time.
4. The principle of observing the situation
The "Ten Books on Yangzhai" of the Qing Dynasty pointed out: "The place where people live should be mainly the earth, mountains and rivers, which have the greatest momentum and are related to man-made disasters. Blessings are most important. "Feng Shui attaches great importance to mountain topography and puts the small environment into the larger environment.
As long as we observe the small environment from the big environment, we can know the external constraints and influences on the small environment, such as water sources, climate, products, geology, etc. The good or bad fortune of any piece of land is determined by the general environment. It is like taking the pulse in traditional Chinese medicine. From the pulse condition, whether it is strong, thin, weak, tight, slippery, slow, slow, or slow, we can know the general condition of the body, because this is determined by the functional state of the cardiovascular system. determined. The homestead is perfect only when the situation is perfect. Everyone should first examine the general environment of mountains and rivers. Think big and start small, you will have no worries, and the blessings will be great.
5. Principles of geological testing
Feng Shui is very particular about geology, even picky, and believes that geology determines human physique. Modern science has also proved that this is scientific. Some Feng Shui masters visit the site in person, grind it with their hands, chew the soil with their mouths, and even dig wells to check the deep soil and water quality. They also lean over and listen to the flow and sound of groundwater. These may seem pretentious, but they are not. Makes no sense.
6. Principles of water quality analysis
Water in different regions contains different trace elements and chemical compounds, some of which can cause diseases and some of which can cure diseases. The theory of Feng Shui advocates investigating the ins and outs of water, analyzing water quality, controlling water flow, and optimizing the water environment.
7. The principle of facing south
China is located in the northern hemisphere, in the eastern part of Eurasia. Most of the land is located north of the Tropic of Cancer (23 degrees 26 north latitude), with sunshine all year round. Shot in from the south. Houses facing south are easy to absorb sunlight. Sunlight has many benefits for people: first, it can keep people warm, and the temperature in the south room is 1-2 degrees higher than that in the north room in winter; second, it participates in the synthesis of vitamin D in the human body, and children who often spend time in the sun can prevent rickets; third, the ultraviolet rays in the sun have Bactericidal effect; fourth, it can enhance human immune function.
Sit north and face south, not only for lighting, but also to avoid the north wind. China's topography determines that its climate is monsoon type. There are Siberian cold currents in winter and cool breezes from the Pacific Ocean in summer. The wind direction changes throughout the year. There are records of wind measurement in oracle bone inscriptions. "Historical Records and Lvshu" says: "Buzhou Feng lives in the northwest, which is October. Guangmo Feng lives in the north, which is November. Tiao Feng lives in the northeast, which is the first month. Ming Shu Feng lives in the east, which is February."
8. The principle of moderation
Moderate means just right, impartial, neither big nor small, neither high nor low, optimized as much as possible, and close to perfection.
The other meaning of moderation is to be in the middle. The principle of moderation also requires the center to be highlighted, the layout to be neat, and the additional facilities to be tightly centered around the axis.
In a typical Feng Shui landscape, there is a central axis, which is parallel to the earth's longitude and extends north and south. The northern end of the central axis is best to have horizontal mountains, forming a T-shaped combination, and the southern end is best to have a spacious Mingtang (plain). There are buildings clustered on the east and west sides of the central axis, and there are also curved rivers. The imperial mausoleums of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the gardens of the Qing Dynasty were built according to this principle.
9. The principle of following Qi
Qi is the origin of all things. Taiji is Qi. One Qi accumulates to produce two things. There are three and five elements in life. Earth gets it from Qi, water It is obtained from Qi, people obtain it from Qi, and respond to Qi, and all things are not immune to Qi.
Feng Shui theory advocates building urban houses in places with vitality, which is called taking advantage of vitality. Only when the energy is flowing can plants thrive and humans live a long and healthy life.
10. Transformation of Feng Shui Principles
The purpose of people's understanding of the world is to transform the world to serve themselves. "The Book of Changes" says: With the passing of time, it is better to change and to believe in it. Civilization is about talking, tycoons are about righteousness, and reform is about taking responsibility, but regret is about death. The revolution of heaven and earth made the four seasons come into being, and the revolution of Tang and Wu followed the heaven and earth and responded to the people. In times of revolution, righteousness is great. "Revolution means transformation. Only by transforming the environment can people create optimized living conditions.