What is the basis of Feng Shui?
Feng Shui is originally the art of physiognomy, that is, the method of checking geography on the spot. It is called geographies, and it is called the art of geography in ancient China. It is intended to be used to select palaces, village sites, and cemetery construction. and principles. The original meaning is the science of choosing the right place. Feng Shui has a long history. In ancient times, Feng Shui was popular in the Chinese cultural circle and was a very important factor in food, clothing, housing and transportation. There are many documents related to Feng Shui that have been preserved. It can be seen from the literature that in ancient times, Feng Shui was mostly used for site selection of towns and villages, as well as palace construction, and later developed to find burial terrain.
If Kanyu Feng Shui does not incorporate environmental philosophy, environmental economics, built environment landscape methods, ecological restoration technology, and environmental ecological science factors, it will be a paradise for liars. Astronomy, geography and human body science are the three scientific pillars of Chinese Feng Shui. The unity of heaven, earth and man is the highest principle of Chinese Feng Shui. Ancient Chinese scientists looked up at the astronomy, looked down at the geography, looked at things close by, and looked at things far away. After five thousand years of practice, research, induction and understanding, they formed the world-famous oriental science - Chinese Feng Shui.
The ancient Chinese science and technology theory believes that everything in the universe is composed of three parts, namely Qi, numbers and images. According to modern scientific opinion they are: energy, information and situation or form. The three coexist, cannot be separated, and have clear boundaries. Qi is an objective existence and can be assumed to be energy according to modern scientific perspectives. Numbers are the procedures or logic for the existence of everything in the universe. According to the modern scientific point of view, they can be assumed to be information. Xiang is the form or changing situation of Qi based on numbers. Summarized in modern science: Image is a situation in which energy exists based on information procedures.
Everything in the universe has information and energy, and has its existence situation. In the same way, if there is energy, it must also have its information and situation, and if there is a situation, it must also have information as instructions and energy as the basis. The existence of everything in the universe is the indivisibility of Qi, numbers and images, which is real and concrete. The information "number" guides the energy "qi" to exist according to a certain situation "image", and the energy "qi" forms a certain existence situation "image" according to the instructions of the "number". The existence situation "image" is commanded by the information "number", so as to Energy "qi" is the basis.
Numbers, gases, and phenomena are information, energy, and momentum, that is, the god who unites nature and man. Western philosophy calls it the "noumenon" of all things in the universe, and it is also a function. "Book of Changes·Xici" states: "The spirit has no prescription and the Yi has no body." The ancient text "Fang" in Shen Wu Fang is also called "Fang Suo", which is the direction. Without Fang means that there is no position, it is everywhere, and it is everywhere. The essence, qi, and spirit mentioned in the Yi Jing and the Buddhist scriptures. Confucius said: "Essence is matter, wandering soul is change." The wandering soul is God and the conformation.
Jing, the sage in ancient China is also called Xuan, Dao, Yuan, Yi and Shui; it is called Jing because the human body’s information comes from the father’s sperm and mother’s egg. It is called Xuan because information is difficult to observe (Huaixuan, Xuanwu is difficult to predict, and Taixuan is indescribable); it is called Dao, because information determines the only way for everything in the universe to evolve; it is called Yuan, because information is at the beginning of the tangible universe; It is called one because one is the beginning of natural numbers, "Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, three gives birth to all things" (holding one, guarding one, returning to one, true one, Taiyi); it is called water because life on earth originated from water.
According to ancient Chinese science and technology theory: "Li" is the principle that studies how numbers, gases, and phenomena can change, change, and remain unchanged. Principle is the form of energy existence recognized by people, referred to as conformation, or energy field. There are metaphysical and metaphysical distinctions. There are two research methods: one is the deductive reasoning method on which Western science is developed; the other is the analogy-induction method based on Chinese and Eastern science and technology. The deductive reasoning method is suitable for limited mathematical scope, and the analogy and induction method is suitable for infinite mathematical scope. People understand Qi and number through Xiang, and Xiang has the distinction between "nothing" and "being". The objective existence that can be perceived by human sense organs or instruments is existence; otherwise, it is non-being. But the objective existence of its images cannot be expressed in words as permanent or permanent; this is what the "Book of Changes" says: "The meaning cannot express the Tao, the words cannot express the meaning, and the book cannot express the words." The objective existence of its images can be expressed in words. Existence is called specialization. "Laozi" said: "Tao can be Tao, but it is not Tao; name can be named, but it is not named." All specific Tao, names, Qi, and numbers are specialized.
Therefore, the Chinese sages believed that matter is a relatively stable specialized form of energy (qi). Modern high-energy physics has proven that matter and energy transform into each other. The universe initially had only energy, that is, gas, and no matter. The universe, including the solar system, was formed from gas. The "qi" that generates the universe is believed by modern science to originate from black holes, while ancient Chinese scientific and technological theory calls it Wuji and Wuwei. "Qi, we can call it 'ether' here, because the material was initially completely fluid, without hardness, discontinuity, or termination, and could not be divided into two parts. This is the thinnest object imaginable."
The "ether" in natural science can only exist as a hypothetical medium that transmits the interaction force between matter. "Ether" seems to be isolated from physical objects, but Zhang Zai and Wang Fuzhi believe that "qi" ” and “shape” are mutually transformed. Therefore, the "qi" they proposed is not so much close to ether as it is closer to the field described by modern science.
Westerners shout "My God!" in admiration, which means "My God". The Chinese shout "Oh my God!" The ancient Chinese ancestors did not artificially create a "God" like Westerners did. They believed that the thing that dominates the heaven, earth, people and everything is "heaven", "qi", "field", and the "essence" of the universe. ” or “numbering weather”, that is, the laws of the universe. And thus, everything in the sky and the earth was "humanized". There is the Jade Emperor in the sky and the King of Hell below. Heaven, earth and man are one and holographic. That is to say, what exists in heaven must exist in the world, and the same applies to the earth. The entire universe is composed of three parts: energy (qi), information (number) and situation (image). Based on this understanding, it is not difficult to understand that Chinese Feng Shui originated from the scientific connotation of ancient astronomy, geography and human body science. Chinese Feng Shui integrates heaven, earth, and people into a large system and comprehensively considers it. It has been denigrated and criticized for a long time. Only today, with the rapid development of science and technology, has it been recognized and discovered again.
In the long-term study of ancient astronomy, geography and anthropology, that is, the laws of development and change of heaven, earth and man, Chinese Feng Shui has gradually formed a complete set of theories of the laws of the universe, and in this theory Basically, the characteristics of the universe are summarized into three major aspects: the holographic nature of the universe; the spirality of the universe; and the yin and yang of the universe.
The three major principles of Chinese Feng Shui: the principle of unity of heaven, earth and man; the principle of balance of yin and yang; and the principle of mutual generation and restraint of the five elements.