Feng Shui Culture of Taoist Culture

Feng Shui culture is an ancient cultural phenomenon in China, which has had a far-reaching influence on Chinese society, economy and culture. Taoist architecture is a place for Taoist priests to preach, to worship and offer sacrifices to gods and goddesses, and to hold various religious ceremonies, which is not only influenced by Taoist culture, but also reflects the concepts and principles of feng shui in its architectural design.

In essence, feng shui culture and Taoist culture are two different things, feng shui based on secular society's survival needs, the pursuit of real life in the ideal environment; and Taoism is based on the secular "immortal world" and "fairyland," the pursuit of a spiritual Taoism, on the other hand, pursues an ideal environment in the spiritual world by focusing on the "immortal world" and "immortal realm". However, the desire for a better life and the pursuit of an ideal environment, as expressed in their contents and forms, make a close connection between the two. Both contain the ideas of yin and yang, five elements, the Zhouyi, bagua, nine stars, gas theory, etc., Feng Shui in the left blue dragon, right white tiger, the front of the Zhuquiao, after the Xuanwu ideal environment model of the four beasts and the four directions of the guardian deity of the Taoist religion has a lot of origins, Taoism in the symbols of the record, jiaojiao, incantation and other terminology is also popular in the feng shui. Taoist classics

The Taoist classics include feng shui works such as the "House Classic", and there are also records of feng shui masters in Taoist books, and many Taoist priests are also folk feng shui masters. Because of the many links between Feng Shui culture and Taoist culture, Taoist architecture, in addition to the influence of Taoist culture, also contains a large number of Feng Shui concepts and principles. Feng Shui concepts and principles have always influenced Taoist architecture in the historical process of Taoist development and evolution. At the beginning of the establishment of Taoism at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was the establishment of the "rule" of Taoist places, and during the Three Kingdoms period, there were the spatial concepts of "twenty-four rule" and "twenty-eight rule", which showed that the "rule" of Taoism in the early period had already been influenced by Feng Shui concepts and principles. The early Taoist "rule" already has the connotation of feng shui culture. For example, "cloud book seven signatures" included "twenty-four rule" of the first rule "Yangping rule" information ", rule in Chang County Pengzhou Jiulong County, to Chengdu one hundred and eighty miles, the road from the Luo Jiang water two Qishan into the waterway forty miles. The rule of the road to the east of the dragon guards, Shenshui two

Bashi on it; southwest of the spring, deciding the water back to the east". In the data, the author recorded the road, gate, spring, transportation, orientation and other matters, these descriptions of the geographic environment of the place of the mountain situation, water flow, orientation and other geographic environment is also the feng shui culture is valued. The description of the geographic situation of the early Taoist sites in the data suggests that when Taoism was first established, it not only took into account the convenience of the travel of Taoist priests, joss-stickers and tourists, the basic needs of life, and factors conducive to the preaching of Taoism, but also consciously or unconsciously utilized the "systematic principle" of feng shui culture. The so-called "systematic principle, that is, the comprehensive consideration of the center, convenient transportation, geography, resources, geological conditions and other objective environmental factors.

Taoist architecture is a profound reflection of Taoist culture, is a vivid embodiment of Taoist thought and belief system, its architectural design is y influenced by Taoist culture; not only that, Taoist architecture since the establishment of Taoism has been affected by the culture of feng shui, in many ways have been branded with the culture of feng shui. Strengthening the study of Taoist architecture and Feng Shui culture can help us understand Chinese traditional culture in an all-round and multi-level way, and can also provide useful reference for the construction of socialist modernization.