The geomantic omen of Yangzhai

Geomantic omen, if larger, is related to the rise and fall of the whole country and a region, while smaller, it is related to a city, a village, a unit and a family. Take China as an example. Its terrain is high in the west and low in the east, and it looks like a rooster. According to the map of China, Xinjiang is in the northwest, Inner Mongolia is in the north, Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning are in the northeast and Shandong is in the east. Due west is Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia, and these eight directions on the villa are represented by eight words. The ancients called these eight words "eight diagrams", namely: doing, looking, rooting, truth, training, reason, Kun and meeting. Gan means northwest, Kan means due north, Gen means northeast, Zhen means due east, Xun means southeast, Li means due south, Kun means southwest and Dui means due west. Eight diagrams are divided into five elements: dry for gold, ridge for water, root for earth, shock for wood, ten-day for wood, fire in the forest, Kun for earth and exchange for gold; Eight diagrams can be divided into male, female and child, that is, male, male and old, that is, the old father, Zhen as the eldest son, Kan as the neutron, Gen as the youngest son and Kun as the woman, of which the oldest man is the mother, Xun as the eldest daughter, Li as the middle daughter and Li as the girl. Eight diagrams are divided into yin and yang, that is, dryness, stagnation, stagnation and shock are yang; Xun, Li, Kun and Dui are Yin, and then they are arranged into sixty-four hexagrams according to the position occupied by men, women and children and the direction of the door, so as to decide good or bad luck. Some books also set good or bad luck in the Nine Planets' Book Palace (that is, eight directions of the Eight Diagrams plus one of them-the courtyard well).