The ancient and modern significance of the interaction between "Feng Shui" and Feng Shui

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The word "Feng Shui" comes from the cloud in Guo Pu's Funeral Scripture that "Qi dissipates by the wind, but the boundary water stops, and the ancients gathered to make it long, so it is called" Feng Shui ",that is," Qi "related to the ground vein and topography. The simplest expression of feng shui can be called "time and space", that is, all buildings have different time and space, orientation and orientation, and their qi is also different, and ultimately their good and bad luck are also different.

Modern Chinese Dictionary: "Feng Shui refers to the geographical situation of residential bases and cemeteries, such as the direction of mountains and rivers. Superstitious people think that the quality of Feng Shui can affect the rise and fall of families and descendants. "

The geomantic omen in Ci Hai is a superstition in ancient China, which holds that the geomantic omen around the residential base or cemetery can lead to the fate of residents or buried families. "

Modern feng shui experts point out that the word feng shui is no longer in the same breath as feudal superstition. Modern geomantic omen is already a comprehensive subject including environmental science, geology, architecture and health science. Its functions mainly include environmental protection, urban planning, home environment, office environment, etc. in order to achieve the perfect coexistence of people and the environment, people and buildings, and realize the ultimate needs of people.

The difference between Yijing and Feng Shui;

Feng Shui refers to the geographical situation of residential bases and cemeteries, such as the direction of mountains and rivers, and the magic of ancient China. Geomantic omen is the study of the layout of people's living places such as houses and offices, the use of materials and the sustainable development of the environment. The Book of Changes is an ancient philosophy. The two should not be confused. The following content is the general content of China's Yi-ology history, not the history of Feng Shui. The ultimate goal of Feng Shui is to make a reasonable assessment of an ecological environment, so as to achieve the concentrated expression of material and energy information in the environmental ecology and achieve the natural development concept of "harmony between man and nature"!

Ancient and pre-Qin periods

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The tribal leader and ancestor of mankind in Fuxi ancient myths and legends, surnamed Feng, has its capital in Chen (now Kaifeng East, Henan Province). Under the Book of Changes: "The ancients worshipped the king of the world, looked up at the sky, looked down at the ground, watched the articles of birds and beasts, adapted to the earth, approached all the bodies, and far away from all the things, so they started gossip to understand the virtues of the gods and the feelings of all things." People think that gossip was painted by Fuxi.

Shennong is also known as Lianshan and Shanshi Lie. Yan Di, the legendary inventor of agriculture and medicine. According to legend, Jiang Yong (now Sui County, Hubei Province) was born. According to legend, in the19th century, Yi made by Fu reached the hands of Shennong. Shennong expanded the application of imagery, and laid the foundation of traditional Chinese medicine with the image of the rise and fall of yin and yang and rational mathematics. According to legend, it re-enacted the Eight Diagrams and became sixty-four hexagrams, which made it "even Yi Shan".

In the ancient history of the Yellow Emperor, it is said that his real name is Gongsun. Because he lived in Jishui, he changed his surname to Xuanyuan, Xiong and Guizang. According to legend, all ethnic groups in the Central Plains have the same ancestor. After the reign of Shennong, the change of Fuxi reached the Yellow Emperor through eight biographies. It is easy to govern, widely used and profound, and its documents are still similar. Invented writing, temperament, dry branches, five elements, astronomy, calendar, boat, palace, coffin clothes, established a ritual system according to Yi, prospered rites and music to govern officials, helped the people, and opened up Chinese culture. He served as a military commander of eight products. The Yellow Emperor's Book of Changes, headed by Kun, thinks that Kun and soil belong to the same soil, and everything on the ground grows in spring and grows in summer, and the autumn harvest survives in winter, so it is called "returning to Tibet".

Tribal leader in the late Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Ji surname, Mingchang. When the Shang and Zhou Dynasties were Xibo, it was also called Bochang. King Wu, the father of Zhou Wuwang, won the world and respected him as King Wen, so he was also called Wenchang. According to legend, when he was in prison, he ruled the world by hanging down his clothes (clothes like dry clothes, clothes like Kun), played the theory of easy poverty and learning from heaven and man, played Fuxi gossip as sixty-four hexagrams, and made hexagrams.

Jiang Shang Jiang Shang, whose name is Jiang Ziya. His ancestors originally lived in the East and made great contributions to water control together with Yu. For Lu, he took Lu as his surname. Because Zhou Wenwang was named a military commander, he was also called a "teacher". Legend has it that Jiang Shang was poor in his early years. Although he was very talented, he didn't meet his own talent. Later, he heard that Wen Wang was looking for a wise man and went fishing in a tributary of Weishui, which was appreciated by Wen Wang. King Wen was reused after he was released from prison, participated in the planning of cutting down the merchants, and later helped to destroy the merchants and sealed them in the State of Qi. People often call him Jiang Taigong. It is said that he wrote the ancient art book Tamia Liu.

Duke Zhou was an outstanding politician in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Last name is Ji, first name is Dan, also known as Gong Dan and Shu Dan. Because the fief was in Zhou (now Qishan, Shaanxi), it was called Duke of Zhou in history. Son of King Wen, brother of Wu. According to legend, he is not only proficient in easy learning, but also can gossip. His remarks can be found in some articles in Shangshu, such as Da Shu Jian, Kang Shu Jian, Tudor, Wuyi and Li Zheng.

Laozi was a famous thinker and founder of Taoism in the late Spring and Autumn Period. The surname is old and the name is brave. He said his surname was Li, his first name was Er, and his word was Bo Yang and posthumous title Yong. Go to Renli, Kuyi and Chu (now Lu Yidong, Henan). He used to be a Tibetan caretaker in the Zhou Dynasty. Laozi's learning belongs to the system of the Yellow Emperor's "Righteousness of Returning to Tibet", which emphasizes kunrou. His thoughts of keeping quiet, valuing softness, respecting yin and doing nothing, as well as the cosmology and numerical inference method of "Tao gives birth to one, one, two, two, three and three things" are considered to be inspired by the divination process in Zhouyi and the two instruments, four images and eight diagrams in Zhouyi. He is the author of Laozi (also known as Tao Te Ching) with more than 5,000 words.

Confucius (55 BC1-479) was a thinker, politician, educator and founder of Confucianism in the late Spring and Autumn Period. Zhong Ni was born in Shandong (now southeast of Qufu, Shandong). Confucius, as a famous scholar and thinker, has profound research and unique views on Zhouyi. Emphasize the significance of divination to moral cultivation. At the same time, it is believed that people who are good at learning the Book of Changes should not perform divination, and that the use of the Book of Changes is to improve people's moral realm, not to predict good or bad luck. This understanding of Zhouyi had a great influence on the later interpretation of Zhouyi by Confucian scholars. Later, Confucianism explained Yi and paid attention to the educational significance of hexagrams rather than divination. As Xunzi said: "Those who are good and easy will not take it." The Book of Changes fully embodies the tendency of Confucius to emphasize the significance of humanitarian education in the management of the Book of Changes. The Book of Changes completed the transformation from a divination book to a philosophical work. The traditional view that Yi Zhuan was written by Confucius has been controversial since Ouyang Xiu's Yi Tong Zi Wen Zhuan was questioned in the Song Dynasty.

Shang Bo (former 507-? ) Confucianism and politicians in the late Spring and Autumn Period. Famous businessmen, word summer, line and word. Confucius is a proud student. According to legend, Xia Zi Yi Zhuan has eleven volumes, which are regarded as false trust by later generations.

Xunzi (former 3 13? -238 BC) An outstanding thinker and master of Confucianism at the end of the Warring States Period. Influenced by the theory of Yin and Yang in the Warring States Period or its explanation of Yi, he took Yin and Yang as a philosophical category to explain the development of things. He also cited the hexagrams in Zhouyi to prove his point of view.

Zou Yan (top 305- top 240? ) A philosopher at the end of the Warring States Period, a representative of the Yin and Yang families, was born in Linzi, Qi (now northeast of Zibo, Shandong). With the concept of yin and yang as the core, the school of yin and yang and five elements was founded. His theory has a certain influence on the study of mathematical school. The theory of "five virtues begin at the end" later became the cornerstone of divination theory in the Western Han Dynasty.

Cai Ze was a debater in the Warring States Period. Yanren. After a close reading of Zhouyi, its Yi theory is influenced by Taoism and Yin and Yang, and the meanings in Zhouyi are explained by Yin and Yang news.

Guiguzi is said to be the ancestor of Chu people and military strategists in the Warring States period. There are different legends about the name. It is called Ghost Valley because it lives in Ghost Valley, and later generations are called Mr. Ghost Valley. He is good at self-cultivation and is listed as the teacher of Su Qin and Zhang Yi in Historical Records. His knowledge originated from the Book of Changes, based on Huang Lao's "mind skills", emphasizing internal and external gains and losses. Later, it evolved into the art of "reaction" and "thinking", which was dominated by strategists. Created all kinds of "magic" and "occultism" and passed them on to future generations. Today, the book Guiguzi has been handed down, which is a false trust to future generations.

Han Dynasty

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Sima Yi was a great master of the Western Han Dynasty. Chu people. He studied in Chang 'an (now Xi, Shaanxi). He is proficient in divination and familiar with Zhouyi. He believes that divination is of great benefit, not only to the country, but also to the ministers to be loyal and filial, to save lives and bring them back to life. There are historical records and biographies of Japan.

Dong Zhongshu (179- 104) was a master of Confucian classics in the Western Han Dynasty and the founder of Neo-Confucianism in the Han Dynasty. His philosophy is the product of the combination of the theory of destiny and the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements.

Sean (? -the former 186) ovary. It was passed down as the father of the city (now southeast of Bozhou, Anhui). Liu Hou was founded in the Han Dynasty, and he, together with Xiao He, Han Xin and Chen Ping, was called four outstanding men in the early Han Dynasty. He loved the Book of Changes, was proficient in gossip and developed Taoism, and was praised by later generations as one of the great prophets who could pinch and calculate. It is said that he annotated Jiang Taigong's "Qian Kun Yu Ge".

Dong Fangshuo (154—— former 93) was a writer and master of literature in the Western Han Dynasty. There are many legends and they are regarded as "immortals". It is said that he once wrote Shu Shu Shu Jing in two volumes.

Kong Anguo, a scholar of the Western Han Dynasty. The gossip was written by Fuxi, who said, "The river map was written by Fu, and the dragon and horse went out of the river, so they wrote it to draw gossip. The people who wrote Luo Shu listed negative words at the back of Yu's flood control, ranging from a few to nine, so Yu was the first to succeed. " Shang Shu Hong Fan Chuan

Sima Tan:-Former 100) Historian and thinker of the Western Han Dynasty. Xia yang (now south of Hancheng, Shaanxi) was born. Father of Sima Qian. People think that gossip was written by Fuxi and hexagrams were written by King Wen. It is said that the Book of Changes does not make hexagrams wrong, nor does it stick to hexagrams. Wen You (on six key points).

Sima Qian: (former 145 or former 135-? Historians, thinkers and writers of the Western Han Dynasty. In the third year of Yuanfeng (before 108), his stepfather was appointed as Taishiling and began to record the history. He was convicted and imprisoned for defending Li Ling who surrendered to Xiongnu in court, and was punished for corruption. After he got out of prison, he worked as a secretary. It is an indignant work, Historical Records, which finally completed China's first biographical history book. There is also the study of Zhouyi, which advocates that "Fuxi is honest and easy to gossip" (Preface to Historical Records Taishigong), and that when King Wen was imprisoned, he emphasized hexagrams instead of sixty-four hexagrams.

Jiao Yanshou was a Yi scholar in the Western Han Dynasty. Specializing in Yi-ology, he once studied from Yi-ology, claiming to be an expert, and later taught Yi-ology and. He is good at explaining changes with catastrophes, paying attention to the later images, and it is easy to find out that there are others occupying the waiting school, which was there from the beginning. Lin Yi was written in sixteen volumes, but according to Yu Jiaxi's textual research, it was not written by Jiao Yanshou, but by Cui Zhuan, a Yi-ology scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Confucian scholars in the Western Han Dynasty were the pioneers of "Mencius" in the history of Confucian classics. Explaining the Book of Changes with the theory of Yin and Yang, so as to infer the change of climate and judge the quality of personnel, is an advocate of the theory of divination and qi in Hanshu. His "Zhang Yi Sentence" has been lost, but some of its easy-to-understand contents are preserved in the "Guayi" written by Tang Priest and his party. The characteristic of Yi-ology is to use the hexagrams in Zhouyi to explain the changes of solar terms in a year, that is, to use sixty-four hexagrams to match the four seasons, December, twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two seasons. This is the so-called "divination".

Fei Zhi, the pioneer of "Fei Xue" in the study of ancient Chinese in the Western Han Dynasty. Its Yi-ology first spread among the people and became the representative of the folk Yi-ology in ancient China.

Fang Jing (77- 37 BC) was the pioneer and legalist of Confucian Classics in the Western Han Dynasty. Jiao Yanshou, a disciple of Meng Ximen, once learned to talk about change and disaster. He regarded the Book of Changes as an ancient book for calculating good and bad luck, which created many styles of calculation and was famous for telling the art of calculation and waiting. In the explanation of accounting style, it further developed Meng Xi's theory of divinatory symbols and absorbed the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements at that time. Today, the Jing family has three volumes of the Book of Changes, and the rest have been lost.

Yang Xiong (53- 18) was a famous scholar and writer in the Western Han Dynasty. One is Yang Xiong. because