The Historical Development of Master Feng Shui

As early as the pre-Qin period, there were activities to find a house. On the one hand, it is the residence of the living, on the other hand, it is the cemetery of the dead. "Preface to Shangshu Zhaozhao" said: "If you become a king, you will be rich. If you want to build a city, let Zhao Gong build a house first." This is a house in Xiangyang. "Filial piety-mourning" and "auspicious home" are the homes of Xiangyin. This is the method of divination and land selection. Pre-Qin sages Pan Geng, Gong Liu and Zhou Gong all contributed to the practice of mutual respect. Feng Shui Master spoke highly of Qin Huiwang's half-brother, Ashizi. Legend has it that he once predicted that there would be a hall of heavenly kings on both sides of his cemetery, and it really came true. There were no taboos in the pre-Qin period, but it also developed into a magic number, and there were not so many superstitions. Han dynasty is an era full of taboos, such as date, location, traditional life, east and west, prisoners' graves and so on. Tomb decoration 180, stone beast, town tomb to ward off evil spirits. The town tomb documents unearthed from the Fenghuang Mountain Tomb in Jiangling, Hubei Province say that "Jiangling dares to sue the underground" and "the dead return to Yin and the living return to Yang". There are also books on geomantic omen, such as Migration Law, Art of Painting Academy, Kanyu Phnom Penh and On the Terrain of Palace. There was a man named Qing Wuzi who wrote "Buried Sutra", and later Feng Shui masters regarded him as their ancestor.

The Wei and Jin Dynasties produced such masters as Guan Ju and Guo Pu. During the Three Kingdoms period, Guan Ju was famous for his expertise in plain warfare. Geography of Guanshi refers to Mongolia and is written under the pseudonym Guanlu. Guo Pu's deeds are even more amazing, which are introduced in detail in the comments of Burial Book. Ming Di was the most taboo emperor in the Southern Song Dynasty. To make a bed and build a wall in the palace, you must pray to God first. He heard that there were colorful clouds in Xiao Daocheng's ancestral grave, so he secretly sent someone to nail the four corners of the grave. As a result, Xiao Daocheng finally became emperor.

During the Southern Qi Dynasty, Hengyang had a strange custom. When the villagers get sick, they say it's a man-made disaster, and they have to dig their ancestral graves to wash their bones. When Yang Gongren, the prime minister of Sui Dynasty, moved to his ancestral grave, he invited five or six groups of Feng Shui masters to the fragrant mansion. One of them, Shu Chuo, guessed what was going on underground and rewarded him. At that time, the most famous incense emperor was Xiao Ji, who once chose an auspicious place for the queen. Wendi didn't listen to his advice, so he predicted that the luck of Sui Dynasty would not last long. He wrote books such as To Yao Di Lu.

In the Tang Dynasty, there appeared a large number of famous teachers, such as Fu Tuhong, Sima Toutuo,,, Zeng, among which the most famous. He recited the palace geomantic books and spread them all over Jiangxi. His disciples were all students. At that time, geomantic omen was also very popular in the northwest. There are a lot of geomantic omen in Dunhuang area, and a book called "Yin Yang Jia Tu Jing" is circulated locally, which advocates the principle that houses are sunny, high and close to the water.

Song Huizong believed in geomantic omen, once listened to the words of surgery, and raised the northwest terrain in order to have more children and more blessings. In the Song Dynasty, people generally attached importance to Feng Shui. Zhu said that people died in their own homes and were buried in March. Choose the terrain first and open it another day. There were many Feng Shui masters in Song Dynasty, such as Lai Wenjun, Chen Tuan, Wu Jinglian, Fu, Xu, Zou Kuan, Cai and Li. It is said that Liu Ji was the best feng shui person in Ming Dynasty. There is a book called Landscape and Wandering, which is named after him.

Throughout history, the pre-Qin period was the gestation period of Feng Shui theory, the Song Dynasty was the prevailing period, and the Ming and Qing Dynasties were the flooding period. Since this century, geomantic omen has had a great market in old China. After liberation, it suffered a heavy blow in theory, but it is still used in practice. In modern society, with the international attention to geomantic omen and its applicability, geomantic omen, an ancient discipline, has new vitality.