Feng Shui house layout diagram

Feng Shui House Layout

Feng Shui Layout of a Siheyuan

Traditional Siheyuan is mostly surrounded by buildings. The traditional courtyard house is designed with symmetrical spatial positions, which is an organic imitation of nature. This imitation can provide human beings with sensory pleasure and sentimental cultivation, thereby producing aesthetic feelings that are beneficial to physical and mental health. Therefore, the traditional courtyard adopts a front-to-side structure, with the main courtyard being higher at the top and lower at the bottom, with an open atrium, and an orderly and hierarchical structure. The main house is high and the wing rooms are low and smaller than the main house. This formula is followed from the palace to the people.

In a traditional courtyard house, the room with the best feng shui is for the elders. The main hall of the main courtyard not only has a higher roof than the side rooms, but also has one or two more steps. In addition to living and entertaining guests, the owner of the house can The upper floor outside the meeting room is generally used for Buddhist halls and book collections. The wing rooms in the upper courtyard are arranged in the order of elders from east to west, and the next generation in the lower courtyard are arranged in the same way. The south building is the embroidery building or boudoir, where the maids live on the lower floor, while the upper floor houses the maids. Both the front hall and the hall are clearly set back. This is also intended to reflect the etiquette concept of "a woman bows her head and retreats, and cannot stand out".

The girls enter the pavilion at the age of 13 and can only go downstairs when they get married. The embroidered building is mostly connected to the dining room for convenient dining. In the counting house courtyard, regardless of the main room or wing, there are usually no steps in front of the door to show that it is inferior to the owner. The side courtyard where servants, bodyguards, cooks, etc. live is a row of low east-west rooms built close to the walls of the main courtyard. The door latches leading to the main courtyard are all installed on one side of the main courtyard, so that the owner can come at any time. The servants walked around and inspected the residence, but the servants were not allowed to enter or leave the main courtyard at will. The concept of superiority and inferiority and the hierarchical system are all based on Feng Shui. And this is also a rough summary of the traditional courtyard house.

For example, a Shanxi merchant house looks like a castle with three sides facing the street, surrounded by closed brick walls more than three feet high, with parapets and openings on top. The gate faces east and has a top floor, and the middle gate is a cave doorway. Behind the gate is a stone-paved corridor, with protective walls and platforms on both sides. Opposite the end is an ancestral hall with a temple-like structure. Each branch of the compound has a "house-equipped" layout. Building houses from east to west, north and south in the courtyard is called "house-equipped". The local proverb goes like this: "If there is east but no west, there will be no old wife; if there is west but no east, there will be no old wife." There is a saying that "the only way to save your husband is in the north house, there is a ruler but no ministers".

Although there are several symmetrical courtyards, their respective gates must be moved to the wrong side. Feng Shui believes that door to door means mouth to mouth. This will lead to disharmony between father and son. The ending where brothers are feuding, sisters-in-law are in conflict with each other, and sisters-in-law are jealous of each other. Its courtyards are arranged strictly according to the Dayou Nian method. The Dayou Nian method is also called the Nine Stars Flying Palace method. It is one of the commonly used Feng Shui rules in Yangzhai Feng Shui and is the theoretical basis of traditional Siheyuan Feng Shui.