The origin of the lost art of Feng Shui.

Feng shui art is also known as geomancy, geomancy, geography, geomancy of mansions, Qingwu, Qingnengjia, and shaping method.

Feng Shui is actually a series of propositions and doctrines that discusses and guides people in choosing and dealing with the location, orientation, layout, construction, and date of the residence (yangzhai) and the cemetery (yinzhai), and is a kind of art of choosing the living environment.

Kanpi: Kan is the Way of Heaven, and Yizi is the Way of Earth. From the very beginning, feng shui has been linked to astronomy, calendar and geography. Observing astronomy and geography are the two main features of feng shui.

Phasing the ground: it refers to observing the geographical situation.

Qingwu: named after the Han Dynasty geographer Qingwu Zi, also known as Mr. Qingwu.

Qingbang: It is named after "Qingbangjing", a classic of geomancy written by Guo Pu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, who obtained nine volumes of Qingbang.

But in our country folk, more known as "feng shui", and the manipulation of this profession is called "feng shui Mr.", due to the use of feng shui Mr. yin and yang theory to explain, and people believe that they are with the yin and yang world of the people, so also known as this kind of people "Mr. Yin and Yang".

The term "feng shui" was first used in the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the book "Burial Book" by Guo Pu: burial, multiply the angry also. Scripture said: gas by the wind is scattered, boundaries of the water is stopped, the poly so that not scattered, line so that there is a stop, so it is called feng shui. Therefore, the descendants of Guo Pu for the ancestor of feng shui, but there is a legacy of feng shui within the faction are honored Jiu Tian Xuan female for the yin and yang yard (feng shui door) of the master, because legend has it that Jiu Tian Xuan female in order to help the Yellow Emperor to defeat Chiyu, to save the people's plight and imparted to him Xuan academic number, which includes the art of feng shui.

The important elements in the art of Feng Shui are:

Wind: the phenomenon of air flow.

Water: the flow of water.

Qi: the earth's qi and the qi of some children in the air that are invisible to the naked eye.

Additionally, there are dragons, sand, points, water, sitting direction and other important elements.

In China's ancient cultured people generally know feng shui, a lot of officials and even proficient in feng shui, throughout history, the pre-Qin Dynasty is the conception period of feng shui; Wei, Jin, North and South Dynasties, feng shui has been disseminated; the Song Dynasty is the prevalent period, the Ming and Qing dynasties is the proliferation of the period. Modern history, Feng Shui is very popular in old China.

The sage cloud: divination is not fine, the article in a matter; medicine is not fine, harm in a person; geography is not fine, the family destroyed. Can be seen in the minds of the people occupied by the status of Feng Shui is how important.

So, Feng Shui is in fact a traditional cultural views, a widely spread folklore, a kind of luck to avoid the evil arts.