Geography Feng Shui is superstition or science

Feng Shui, is China's long history of traditional culture, its fundamental ideological basis is the Chinese Zhouyi philosophy; it is the practical application of the theory of the world view of the Chinese Zhouyi philosophy. Because it is a practical theoretical guidance for human production and life, and the ruling class through the ages only focus on their own ruling class feng shui situation, so the Chinese feng shui culture is rarely spread to the folk, to the folk also by the ruling class is stigmatized as a non-mainstream culture, and even many times by the "strangulation"; since the modern era, the people excavated the traditional feng shui culture of the real meaning of the original and the original work, fully affirmed the feng shui culture is superstitious or science. Since modern times, people have explored the true meaning of traditional Feng Shui culture and the original, fully affirmed the care of Feng Shui culture for the human living environment and human beings themselves, has a very high value.

In recent years, China's economic development, people's living standards; the revival of traditional Chinese culture, people are more and more concerned about themselves and their relationship with the surrounding environment, to seek a physical and mental unity, social harmony of the living environment. Feng Shui culture on the human environment of many concepts recognized by the experts of the Zhouyi, and Chinese culture experts; and Feng Shui culture in the folk thousands of years of influence has been deep in the hearts of the people.

However, like other folk beliefs, Feng Shui has received mixed reviews: some people think it is a complete superstition; some think it is compatible with natural sciences; and some think it has both scientific and transcendental (beyond the scope of experience, cannot be confirmed or falsified by experience, from Kant) aspects. Of course, in more common people, feng shui is a kind of "believe it or not" magic.7 M# g8 Throughout the past and present, feng shui has had a great impact on the cultural life of the Chinese people. Such as the symbol of China's feudal kingship of the Forbidden City, the layout of the ancient Chinese "yin and yang" reasoning: all the design of the city, are in accordance with the yin and yang corresponds to each other, gold, wood, water, fire, earth, the distribution of the five elements. Such as the layout of the outer hall using an odd number, said the five doors, three dynasties; the inner court palace with an even number, said the two palaces, six bedrooms; orientation in the east, south, west, north, in the five sides; color in the green, yellow, red, white, black five colors.

Today's HSBC Hong Kong is the symbol of Hong Kong's trade free port. When the design in order to prevent the building in front of the building to destroy the feng shui, HSBC went so far as to buy the whole piece of land in front of its building until the Hong Kong Ferry Terminal, the development of a park named "Queen's Gardens", in order to maintain its feng shui advantage. It is said that the earnings of HSBC have risen steadily as a result. Overseas, in the United States, there was a doctorate in Feng Shui as early as 1976; in Japan, more than 110 out of more than 2,000 colleges and universities have offered courses on Feng Shui. In China, Southeast University in 1996 took the lead in the opening of the "architectural feng shui" course, by the Department of Physics Professor Li Shicheng lectures "Zhouyi culture base whack, widely welcomed by students; in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other cities, where the real estate project design, store location, rent and buy a house, etc., please feng shui masters, "feng shui" has become a trend. "has become a trend.

China's "feng shui" term, first seen in the Jin Dynasty Guo Pu's "Funeral Book": "gas, by the wind is scattered, boundaries of the water is stopped; the ancients gathered so that not scattered, the line so that there is a stop, it is called Feng Shui." This is actually the earliest definition of Feng Shui.

The fundamental basis and core idea of Feng Shui comes from the philosophical idea of yin and yang of the I Ching. Initially, Feng Shui is a practical and simple skills of ancient Chinese ancestors about choosing a living environment, combined with the five elements, bagua, twelve hours, twenty-four mountain directions and other cosmic mapping type of coding, as a theoretical basis and method of operation, to the unique Chinese concepts about the universe of good and bad luck, reflecting the concept of man and nature, man and the external world of harmony, balance and circulation.　　The basic orientation of Feng Shui is fundamentally consistent with the Chinese thousands of years of cosmology and aesthetics of the "unity of heaven and mankind". As the saying goes, "The house is the foundation of a person, and the house is the home of a person. If you live in peace, that is, the family generations of prosperity; if not, the decline of the family". It can be seen that the ancient Chinese in order to live and work in peace and prosperity for generations, can not help but pay attention to feng shui, and do everything possible to find feng shui treasure.　　From the background of Feng Shui, and China's "agriculture-based" purpose. Ancient people attached great importance to the "mountains and water", so that not only the convenience of life, but also elegant environment. The land behind the mountains and facing the water is the most fertile, which is conducive to agricultural cultivation.　　Ancient Feng Shui is actually a kind of environmental observation

After years of in-depth and systematic research, Wang Qi-heng, a professor at the Department of Architecture of Tianjin University, believes that the kernel of Feng Shui embodies the essence of ancient Chinese architectural theory. His research results show that Feng Shui is actually a comprehensive and systematic theory of architectural planning and design that integrates geological geography, ecology, landscape architecture, ethics and aesthetics.

Sun Fengqi, director of the Landscape Institute of Tsinghua University, Department of Architecture, also believes that feng shui is not all superstition, in what place to build a house, what place should not be built, our ancestors figured out a set of empirical theories, which have a scientific basis. Ancient feng shui said very much about people as well as the relationship between the building and the environment.

"Feng Shui can be said to be the ancient view of the environment." Director Sun Fengqi cited the example of Beijing courtyard houses, "If you pay attention to observe you will find that people from the courtyard houses are out of the red face, unlike in the building for a long time will be yellowish, this is because of the construction of the courtyard houses have a scientific basis, conducive to longevity. People living in courtyard houses can spend at least half of the day outdoors, and ventilation is a problem for people living in buildings. Not to mention that feng shui favors one's fortune and all that, what energy is there to make money when one's health can't be guaranteed?"

But we should also see, Feng Shui this set of astronomy, geography in one, the study of nature and people, involving a variety of comprehensive disciplines, in a long time in the process of circulation, evolution, was artificially mixed with a lot of mysterious and even exaggerated components; at the same time by the customary, conceptual and conservative psychological impact, and the real essence of the part of the very few passed on to the world, resulting in fallacies and mislead the world! This has led to the prevalence of fallacies that mislead the world. Objectively speaking, this is the main reason why Feng Shui is regarded as a superstition. Cai Dafeng, professor of the Department of Cultural Relics and Museums at Fudan University, also believes that feng shui as a research object, from the point of view of folklore and architecture have research value; in essence, some of the ancient art of feng shui has been lost, and the so-called "feng shui" and the ancient art of feng shui has been a big difference in the content of the modern feng shui basically removed the superstition component, but there are still some cultural and psychological aspects of the feng shui, but it is not a superstition. Modern Feng Shui has basically removed the superstitious elements, but there are still some belonging to the cultural and psychological aspects, which may be the modern Feng Shui is very difficult to measure the scientific aspects. But strictly speaking, feng shui layout is also an ingredient of science if it can satisfy the physical and mental health of people. If my answer can make you satisfied, I hope to five-star adopt my answer, thank you