Talking about Feng Shui (1) What is Feng Shui?
The core of geomantic omen is "gathering qi"
Guo Pu, the originator of China Feng Shui, believes that people who live in places full of "Qi" can live better and more smoothly than others. Therefore, people have to find a vibrant place to live and live. But "Qi is dispersed by the wind" means that "Qi" will dissipate when it meets the wind, and at the same time "Qi" is not static, it is always flowing and rotating. So how can we gather "anger" to help human beings live in it all the time? Therefore, according to the principle that "the water in the anger boundary stops"-that is to say, "anger" will stop when it meets water, the ancients summed up and invented many methods to make "anger" converge and not disperse, or to find places naturally formed in nature that can make "anger" converge and not disperse. These methods of "gathering qi" and finding the place where "qi" gathers are what we call Feng Shui.
The origin of geomantic omen can be traced back to primitive society. After tens of thousands of years of experience, our ancestors summed up a set of effective ways to survive, such as choosing caves that are sheltered from the wind and sunny, and close to mountains and rivers as their residences. , can be regarded as the beginning of feng shui. Later, after generations of sages summed up and applied the laws of the universe in which we live, such as the deduction of gossip and the appearance of confused Luo Shu, the content of Feng Shui became more and more abundant and gradually formed a complete theoretical system. This theoretical system has profoundly influenced the development of Chinese civilization and culture in the development of thousands of years, and has become an important part of China's cultural concept. It is a typical oriental cultural concept, or more precisely, a cultural practice concept that contains rich philosophy and uses the natural environment for reference to improve people's living conditions.
It can be seen as the cave that our ancestors chose to shelter from the wind and the sun, with mountains and waters at their backs, which was the beginning of the concept of geomantic omen.
Of course, after thousands of years of development, Feng Shui has been intentionally or unintentionally doped with many mysterious elements, which makes its development tend to be mysterious and superstitious at some stages. For example, in the late Ming Dynasty, due to the development of social history, a large number of elements with strong feudal superstition, such as "Grey nine planets" and "Xuanyao", were artificially doped into orthodox geomantic omen and used by some people as tools to cheat money and color. Today, the essence of Feng Shui is still mixed with a lot of feudal superstitions and other cultural dross, which leads many people to form the wrong concept that "Feng Shui is superstition".
Ancient science was underdeveloped, and there were many superstitious elements in culture. Superstition and science are mixed together, which is a feature of ancient culture in China. Many scientific things are popularized in the form of superstition. We should rationally and scientifically distinguish the dross and essence of culture, discard the false and retain the true, and take the essence, instead of arbitrarily denying a culture completely. It is a superstition to deny a culture without in-depth research.