Where does Chinese Feng Shui begin?

I. The basic structure of Chinese Feng Shui On the whole, Chinese ancient architecture consists of three major theoretical systems, namely, Chinese ancient Feng Shui, Chinese building construction and Chinese gardening. One of the ancient Chinese Feng Shui is the most important part, reflecting the soul of the Chinese people's ideal pursuit of life, directly affecting the rise and fall of dynasties, political winds and clouds, family reproduction, regional changes, personal destiny, wealth and poverty *. Therefore, feng shui practitioners have always had a mysterious influence on Chinese society, the words of the chiseled, heard the respectful as. Although the beggar heard the auspicious words and leaping, honest princes and lords to listen to dangerous words and move. Chinese feng shui claims that its theoretical basis is the Yi Yi structure, promote the idea of unity of man and heaven. In summary, it consists of the form of the law and the law of the composition of the law, all the law to the Zong, the compass is the final characterization of this complex theoretical system, therefore, do not pass the compass that is not versed in feng shui. People usually do not know the compass of feng shui views, as the street, will not be taken too seriously. Combing through the internal structure of ancient Feng Shui, its theoretical structure is mainly for the treatment of the three talents of heaven, earth and man. In the theory of heaven, it involves the laws of seasonal changes, changes in calamities, air currents and winds, thunder and lightning, the sun, the moon, the stars and directions, etc. that affect the earth. At the geographical level, it focuses on the direct and indirect effects of mountains, rivers, trees, tides, topography and soil on human habitation. At the level of life, it focuses on the cyclical nature of change and the inner laws of human birth, old age, sickness and death. According to traditional Chinese thought, life is a host, death is an eternal return, and being born is a temporary journey, therefore, the place of death is sometimes more important than life. As a result, Chinese Feng Shui techniques are divided into two categories: yin and yang houses. And the yin house is often larger than the yang house project, more brilliant. Such as the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang. Complex feng shui theory, all adhere to the unity of man and heaven, the balance of yin and yang, the five elements of the three classical principles. Whether it is a thousand feet for the potential, 100 feet for the shape of the classification, or the compass-oriented method of the mountain range: looking for dragons, sand, water, points, orientation, as well as the pursuit of the overall convergence of the center, the enclosure of the field of the pursuit of the adjustment, you can clearly find its theoretical basis, is nothing more than a set of the following traditional cultural theoretical tools: yin and yang, the five elements, phases of the cycle of birth and growth, the stem and branch of the Chinese zodiac, the four seasons and five directions, the Hetu Luoshu, the gossip, nine palaces, seven obsidian, nine stars, The four seasons, the astrological divisions, the Big Dipper, the twenty-eight constellations, and the primitive legends. Riqi method of pursuing the shape of the eye to see, the gas must be reason to check, the body with the same; Fu Zhen law is divided into two categories, a type of orientation Fu Zhen, a type of time Fu Zhen, the former set up on the inauspicious place to avoid harm, the latter more use of the written word symbols, specific days, specific behavior (such as groundbreaking day, travel day said) to avoid. Stressing the hidden wind and water collection, the unity of man and nature of feng shui thinking, we find that the pursuit of its intrinsic value, with the now fashionable language can be summarized as follows: the pursuit of humanistic landscape and natural landscape harmony; the pursuit of man-made environments and natural landscape harmony; the pursuit of natural harmony between man and the world, the same frequency **** vibration. For example, the pursuit of residential ideals, we must first look into the residential access, when there is a natural wind mouth, dark and hidden to be appropriate, the best water mouth to be zigzagging sentient; terrain should be low and high; the best residential orientation should be back of the mountain, face the water, sun. The best direction for the residence should be back to the mountain, facing the water, and facing the sun. Residents should choose their residence and choose the land to build on. When the earth color is firm and thick, the four winds do not rush, especially no underground winds, the pursuit of the mountain's deep Zhou Na, the terrain is high and dry, and the water should flow around and not near the dip, which is the basic meaning of feng shui. In addition to the pursuit of overall architectural harmony, the layout of the building, spatial division, orientation adjustments, the use of color, pattern selection of all kinds of feng shui in the unique metaphors and symbols, to achieve physical and mental harmony. The inner structure of ancient Chinese Feng Shui, peeling back the layers of fog, can be simply summarized as follows in the Chinese philosophical sense of the pursuit, as well as in the direct application of housing and architecture: 1) harmony with nature; 2) with the world's smooth to take the reverse avoidance; 3) life is short when the life of the most important; 4) behavior when the body and mind of the peace. Regrettably, however, this pursuit has lost its clear guidance and shape because it has been covered in the dust of thousands of years of history and has been subjected to various mystical sayings. This is a great pity for Chinese culture. If Feng Shui had a clear framework across the dynasties, China's current villages and fields would not be so messy. The confusion of reality is the specific manifestation of the theory of confusion. Second, the modern exploration of Feng Shui theory - the ideal landscape Feng Shui in today's scientific prosperity has been declining. The general public will not take it as a serious study. However, people are now beginning to study from a new point of view of scrutiny, is entirely the result of the influence of contemporary social thinking in the West. After the Industrial Revolution, Europe and America began to scrutinize the relationship between man and nature from a unique perspective. The three P's of modern life, i.e., poverty, population and environmental issues (Poverty / Pollution / Population) made the western wise men realize that: houses are not only machines filled with all kinds of wires and equipments, but the buildings themselves are spiritual and alive. Driven by this idea, scholars have discovered that there is indeed a "housing disease", i.e., more than 30 diseases of the human body are directly related to housing. Urban planning scholars have also found that the heat, light and sound treatment, greening, water, wind direction, as well as the design of human environment and leisure environment in the city profoundly affects people's lives and even the rise and fall of the city. Therefore, serious architectural scholars in China have also begun to seriously study the issue of Chinese Feng Shui, and as a result, they have gradually developed the results of research on ideal landscapes, which is also a response to the changes in today's society. Comparative studies have found that Western architecture emphasizes smooth sight lines and has a preference for high points and visual control points, whereas Chinese Feng Shui architecture emphasizes hidden and shielded spatial structures. For example, traditional language describes good feng shui as: left blue dragon, right white tiger, front vermilion bird, back Xuanwu - requiring the Xuanwu to hang its head, the vermilion bird to soar and dance, the green dragon to meander, and the white tiger to tame and stoop. In modern language can be translated as: cave in the mountains stop fall place, the back of the mountain peaks, attached to the plains of the Mingtang, cave around the Qingliu Qu Qu Qu sentient, both sides of the mountain ring, in front of the mountain, the case of the mountain arched to meet. Such as Beijing's Thirteen Tombs for the Jiangxi Feng Shui master Liao Jun Qing spent two years Kam determined the location of the Imperial Tombs, that is, in accordance with the principles of this idea. Good feng shui, in fact, is in the enclosure and shielding, boundary edge and rely on *, isolation and fetal interest in several factors to find coordination, and pay attention to the openings and corridors, the use of vignettes and town to regulate the town, such as pavilions, bridges, attics, towers, doors and feng shui forests, etc., through which to achieve a psychological satisfaction. Therefore, some scholars summarize the ideal landscape in Chinese feng shui as a figurative metaphor: a gourd in or near a mountain. Such as the Kunlun Mountain model: a lonely island on a high mountain; Penglai model: an island of immortality in the sea; Potian model: a small pot-hole style into the place plus a wide pot cavity; Tao Yuanming model: a zigzagging corridor, there is an opening, there is a basin inside; as well as landscape paintings of gullies within the camp. This ideal model implies several meanings of shelter, defense, isolation, and spatial identification. For example, feng shui pavilion and tower are statements about territory; gate, pagoda, and wall can protect from evil and dispel evil; feng shui forest can gather wind and hide qi; and courtyard emphasizes self-made ideal living environment. It should be said that this study of ideal landscapes is a great advancement in traditional Feng Shui. However, compared to the content of classical Feng Shui, there is also obvious insufficiency, that is, the level and scope of its involvement is far smaller than traditional Feng Shui, shallow, especially can not fully reflect the philosophical aspects of traditional Feng Shui and the pursuit of the concept of life, the guidance of reality is not clear. In any case, as a good start, this research has created a modern research direction of Feng Shui. Third, the modern guiding principles of Feng Shui wisdom in the mountains of Europe, the strongest feeling is the church building. As the center of the community and the high point, it is an excellent realization of the outline of the role of the whole community, thus becoming the soul of the whole community. When the church bells ring, the community is enveloped in a peaceful sound of care and comfort. Leaving the level of religious beliefs, the meaning of church architecture as the soul of the community is profound: without the centripetal point and the core of the architectural community is a piece of scattered sand. But how can this community cohesion be expressed in a Chinese community when it is not possible to build church-like buildings in the current Chinese community architecture? This question leads to rethinking the ideas of ancient Chinese Feng Shui. The only way to do this is to summarize the profound thinking in classical Chinese Feng Shui in an organized and clear manner, strip away the mystical trappings, and rationally develop principles that are useful for modern life and truly instructive for real life. To the root, the pursuit of environment and residence in the East and the West is in fact the embodiment of a final philosophy of life, which takes the material form of the house as the carrier, and the choice and planning of community thought as the warp and woof, and finally presents to the world the pursuit of an ideal life in this world. A disorganized community shows the poverty of its inhabitants in their spiritual pursuit. When immediate and superficial satisfaction becomes the light that people chase after, the pursuit of divine tranquility and sensation is denounced as vain and wasteful, and is thus discarded. The price of the excessive pursuit of materialistic desires is the destruction of the agreement and ultimate harmony between man and nature. How can we shape the center and cohesion of communities when we have lost all religious beliefs? Architecture no longer seems to be concerned with the eternal world, and as a result of the Bauhaus movement, houses and buildings, and even cities, have become perishable consumer goods, produced on production lines like fast food, ready to be knocked down and rebuilt at a moment's notice, and the eternal cities and buildings of Paris and Rome have become obsolete. Although the debate between science and religion has not ceased, people's inquiries about life are more urgent and confused than in any other era. By that, how to create a centripetal force, a sense of peace of mind for the community? This is actually a question without an answer, but if we can realize this, perhaps our architecture and planning will be slightly better. Contemplating in the mountains of Deo, through the comparison of Eastern and Western cultures, I found that in dealing with the relationship between human beings and nature, both the East and the West have the core principles of human beings' relationship with nature: taking the good and giving the bad, tending to the bad and avoiding the bad, relying on the right, and the physical and mental peace. From this point of view, the ideal feng shui environment for modern times, there are the following basic judgments: the house has to rely on, eyes have a look, closed degree of appropriate movement and static, home has to support, the heart has to return. According to the characteristics of modern people's living environment, modern feng shui should start from the simple rules, can let the general public to grasp and use, in this even Einstein's theory of relativity and Stephen Hawking's study of space and time can be popularized in the era, this is a sunshine of science should go the way. Following nature should be the basic starting point and principle of feng shui to judge the landscape. In the specific scene observation, should be based on the "discernment of seven to a scene" as the entry point, that is: discernment of seven to: for the mountain to, water to, wind to, sound to, light to, road to. A scene: refers to the surrounding landscape and environment. In accordance with the principle of yin and yang Xieli, when the seven directions are clear, the main aspects of the natural environment on the impact of people have been included. Therefore, the classical feng shui ideas of modern life, if summarized, can be expressed in the following principles: light to the sun, sound and sound, the mountains for the arch, the water for the distance. Wind for the removal of turbidity, trees for the gathering of gas, households have *, staggered. Scattered and orderly, clear and turbid, lift and lower the road, static and dynamic. The most serious, the heart of the community, all the people of the request, can not be careful. The thoughts are in the mouth, the eyes are in the eyes, the people and the gods are clearly distinguished, and the rites and laws are regulated. The world of God and man are each given their own place to live in, to rest the spirit and nourish the body, and to maintain peace forever. Heaven and earth, people out of order, life is restless and no return, the heart is like an outcast, is the result of the pursuit of excessive materialism in society, the principles of modern feng shui, may be able to find a harmonious order for the community and quiet, a kind of self-contained enjoyment of life. According to the above understanding, Yu committed to the study of "modern feng shui simple Kanding method" and "modern residential disease prevention and treatment of science," hoping to benefit the world.