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rules in Chinese philosophy that govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to patterns of yin and yang and the flow of energy (qi) the favorable or unfavorable effects are taken into consideration in designing and siting buildings and graves and furniture
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Traditional ("classical," "authentic") feng shui is a ChinaChinese ethnoscience that addresses the design and layout of citycities, villages, dwellings, and buildings. The construction of graves and tombs also includes feng shui, but the rules for dwellings differ from those applied to "yin houses" (houses of the dead). Feng shui was labeled geomancy by 19th-century Christian missionarymissionaries to China; however, geomancy and feng shui differ widely in their scope, aims, and means. The name Feng Shui literally means "Wind and Water". The Book of Burial says "The Qi disperses with the Wind and collects on the boundaries of Water". Hence the name.Traditional feng shui uses a specialized compass called a Luopan, and a comprehensive array of calculations involving mathematical iterations. It has foundation texts, core theories and methods, and an impressive past based on archaeological discoveries and the work of archaeoastronomy archeoastronomers. Traditional Feng Shui schools can be segregated in to 2 broad groups: San He (Three Harmonies) and San Yuan (Three Cycles). The Former emphasizes on the effect of surrounding Landforms while the Later gives more weightage to the Time Factor.The New Age versions — Black Hat Sect, Pyramid Feng Shui, Fuzion, Intuitive, etc. — do not share this history. These offshoots typically use "intuitive" methods with concepts from the 19th-century SpiritualismSpiritualist movement, and self-help techniques and affirmations, along with modern interior design. For example, the Black Hat Sect version of Feng shui, which began in 1960s Hong Kong (and incorporated as a US church in 1986), explains feng shui as the art of arranging objects within a home to obtain an optimum flow of ''qi.'' In traditional feng shui, the objects within a structure are of lesser significance than the siting of a building and its local environment, especially microclimates. It's believed by many that individuals using New Age methods seek to profit from naïve consumers by explaining New Age versions as "classical" or traditional" feng shui. Yet, according to recent fieldwork in rural China by Ole Bruun, ''qi'' flow is rarely a concern in traditional feng shui.
Archaeology - In 1978 researchers presented evidence at a Zhouyi conference that the Hetu and Luoshu, the two most-recognizable diagrams related to feng shui, are actually 3-D star maps. The estimated date for the astronomy is at least 6000 BCE. A page in "The Astronomical Phenomena" (Tien Yuan Fa Wei) compiled by Bao Yunlong in the 13th century also shows the Luoshu as a star diagram. The original trigrams of the Yijing, known popularly as the eight digrams or "Bagua," seem to be included in these maps.Traditional Feng Shui began as an interplay of construction and astronomy. An early Yangshao village at Banpo (c. 4800 BCE) had its cemetery at the north and its dwellings built on a north-south axis. The dwellings were oriented to catch the mid-afternoon sun at its warmest a few days after the winter solstice. (Some tribes in southern China still refer to this month as "House-building Month.") Professor David Pankenier and his associates performed retrospective computation on the Chinese sky at the time of the Banpo dwellings to show that the asterism (astronomy)asterism ''Yingshi'' (Lay out the Hall, in the Warring States period and early Han era) corresponded to the sun's location at this time. (This housing alignment persisted throughout the Neolithic through the history of China; it is used today whenever space permits.)The asterism ''Yingshi'' originally was Xuangong (“Dark Palace”), a name that indicated winter and the northern sky. It was a star-landmark of the spring equinox and winter solstice from c. 7000 BCE to c. 3900 BCE. Ding (α Peg) was the leading-star. Yingshi was used to indicate the appropriate time and orientation for a capital city, according to the ''Shijing''; by the time of the Zhou the asterism had been used to orient homes, villages, and capital cities for three thousand years. Most capital cities of China, including Beijing, follow this design. The rules for capital cities and other habitations can be found in the Zhou-era ''Kaogong ji'' (Manual of Crafts). Rules for builders were codified in the ''Lu ban jing'' (Carpenter's Manual). A grave at Puyang (3000 BCE) that contains mosaics of the Dragon and Tiger constellations and ''Beidou'' (Big Dipper) is similarly oriented along a north-south axis, and it includes the classical "heaven-round, earth-square" design applied to other buildings in China at varying periods, and was used in the design of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing.At Lamao, an excavation recently yielded an artifact (c. 3000 BCE) that researchers claim to be marked with the Twelve Branches commonly used for calendars and feng shui calculations. Other markings appear to be constellations of the time.An excavated grave at Lingjiatan contained a jade plaque (c. 3000 BCE) with a compass design. (Similar markings were also found on pottery from the Taihu region.) According to researchers, the shape of the jade denotes the Earth. The center square is the sun. The larger circle is the movement of Earth through the seasons. The “arrows” point to cardinal and intercardinal directions. Historian Li Xueqin links this artifact with the liuren astrolabe, the ancestor of the shi and the Luopan.At Taosi the traditional home of King Yao, an observatory (c. 2400 BCE) with 12 sighting windows may have been used as mentioned in Yaodian (in the Shijing) and Wudibenji (in the Shiji), as Yao assigned astronomers to observe sunrise, sunset, and evening stars in culmination. According to modern astronomers, Yao's pronouncement of the four major constellations is consistent with the astronomy for the age of the observatory. By tradition Yao is linked with the practice of feng shui.The tombs of Shang kings and their consorts at the cemetery of Xibeigang near Anyang lie on a north-south axis, ten degrees east of due north. The Xia and Shang palaces at Erlitou are also on a north-south axis, slightly west of true north. These orientations were obtained by astronomy; the magnetic compass or zhinan zhen was not invented until the later Han era. Feng shui devices in the late Qin and early Han eras consist of two-sided boards with astronomical sightlines. Liuren astrolabes have been unearthed intact from Qin-era tombs at Wangjiatai and Zhoujiatai. These devices date between 278 BC and 209 BC. The earliest feng shui manual unearthed by archaeologists has been dated to the Qin era.Today feng shui practitioners can select from three types of Luopan: ''San He'' (the so-called "form school", although the compass name means "Triple Combination"), ''San Yuan'' (the so-called "compass school", although the compass name actually refers to time), and the ''Zong He'' that combines the other two.
Feng Shui in More Recent Times - During the early 1800s feng shui was introduced to the US with the first Chinese immigrants. The notorious Four Corners section of New York, which was then a Chinese ghetto, featured gambling houses and other structures that incorporated feng shui, as did the Chinatowns in San Francisco and Los Angeles. In 19th-century Australia, the Joss House was built using feng shui. It has also been practiced by western "hongs" or trading companies to satisfy local business communities and to encourage luck in business. Since the mid-20th century, feng shui has been illegal in the PRC, primarily because Mao Zedong (who had studied feng shui) denounced many practitioners' propensity for fraud. Other reasons have been suggested, which is why a department of the Chinese government was assigned to oversee its use. Ole Bruun's fieldwork has shown that during the Cultural Revolution, most feng shui practitioners had their books burnt, were persecuted and jailed, and underwent extreme privations for their knowledge of ancient Chinese culture. Very few were willing or had the means to leave the country. Feng shui is still used in rural China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. It is not well-known among younger Chinese in the People's Republic of China (PRC). However, rapid modernization of China has led to feng shui becoming a worthy subject for scholarly inquiry at Chinese universities. As Chinese scholars increasingly work with their counterparts in the rest of the world, a new picture is emerging of the history and application of this ancient ceremonial custom.
Postmodernism - in Los Angeles, allegedly an articulation of feng shui, though there is little evidence.]]The famous Bank of China Tower on Hong Kong Island, a blade-like design by I.M. Pei (not a feng shui adept), was supposedly a deliberate curse upon the Government House, Hong KongGovernment House and the former British administration. No updated version of this fable exists to explain effects on the current occupants.In fact, the Citigroup building which sits right next to the Bank of China Tower is a direct target of its blade like design, in theory severing all the good chi. The architects of the Citigroup building therefore designed it with a curved facade in order to shield and deflect the negative elements eminating from the neighboring Bank of China building.Disneyland Hong Kong applied feng shui in the layout of the park.Architects and landscape designers around the world are increasingly asked to include feng shui principles in their designs, even in places that do not include significant Asian populations. Regardless of the country of practice, businesses generally use feng shui to increase sales and boost morale. Homeowners may apply it as interior decorating or during the design and construction of a home. The interest in feng shui principles has apparently accelerated in recent years with young designers' increased knowledge of microclimates, green building techniques, the threat of global warming, E.O. Wilson's biophilia hypothesis, and as a design reaction to the "inhuman" spaces of Modernism.The Cheung Kong Tower as one of the famous building in Hong Kong, which had been reviewed by Li Ka Shing Feng Shui consultant. The building inside is totally in green and the major entrance is toward the east direction that Feng Shui Specialist believes that it would bring much more wealth to the Li Ka Shing family in the earth of Hong Kong.
Combination of Statistics and Scientific - In thousands of years ago, the Lok She and Hall To predicted the success of the harvest of each year. By the centre of Lok River, the ancient people has found the pattern of incidents of each crop. After a few thousands of years, people found the old records of incidents were accurate, they then pass their knowledge to the followers.There have been over 100 types of Feng Shui theory. But the most applicable is by practise. A lot of Feng Shui doctor would hide themselve if they know much about it. It is harmful if people know its usage.The basic theory of it is to utilize the 5 elements of earth and 8 elements of Gaw. The 5 elements are Gold, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth. The 8 elements of Gaw is Kin, Tu, Fire, Chun, Shung, Water, Kun and the Kwon. The combination of them could deduce the things to be happened in a house, a region and any where of the earth. Edited by Josephine Lau at 10/Nov/2005 12:40de:Feng Shuies:Feng Shuieo:Fengŝuofr:Feng shuinl:Feng Shuija:風水pl:Feng Shuipt:Feng Shuiru:Фен-шуйsl:Feng shuisr:Фенг Шуиfi:Feng shuita:பெங் !சுயிth:ฮวงจุ ้ยzh:風水? !Category:DivinationCategory:Ps eudoscience
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