“风水”文化.doc

1、1“风水”文化Traditional or classical Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese belief system that addresses the layout of cities, villages, dwellings, and buildings. Fengshui has been identified as a kind of geomancy by 19th-century Christian missionaries but they differ widely in their scope, aims and means.Tradi

2、tional or classical Feng Shui involves the use of a Luopan compass and a systematic method involving iterated steps. The New Age versions Black Sect, Pyramid, Fusion, Intuitive, etc. typically do not. The Black Hat Sect school of Feng Shui, which began in the 1960s, heavily influenced by the New Age

3、 movement, explains Feng Shui as the arrangement of objects within a home to obtain an optimum flow of qi; however this qi has never been observed and many believe that certain, corrupt interior designers have abused this concept to profit from nave consumers. During the same time, Pyramid Feng Shui

4、 began a western adaptation of classical Feng Shui to assess how an individual experiences his or her environment.In its original expression:Wind that which cannot be seen invisible.Water that which cannot be grasped elusive.Fng Shu = (A life-force/entity that is) Invisible & Elusive.Feng Shui has i

5、ts roots in the Chinese reverence for nature and belief in the oneness of all things. The assumption is that the key to living a harmonious life is to reflect the balance of nature in their daily lives. This is most easily understood by the following concepts: Yin and Yang, qi, and the Five Elements

6、 Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. In rural China, however, according to recent fieldwork by Ole Bruun, qi flow is rarely mentioned. Nevertheless, Feng Shui is used to increase wealth, health, and harmonious relationships.Classical Feng Shui began as an interplay of construction and astronomy. Ear

7、ly Yangshao houses at Banpo were oriented to catch the mid-afternoon winter sun at its warmest, just after the solstice. (Some tribes in southern China still refer to this month as “House-building Month.“) Professor David Pankenier and his associates performed retrospective computation on the Chines

8、e sky at the time of the Banpo dwellings (4000 BC) to show that the asterism Yingshi (Lay out the Hall, in the Warring States period and early Han era) corresponded to the suns location at this time. Several hundred years earlier the asterism Yingshi was known as Ding. It was used to indicate the ap

9、propriate time to build a capital city, according to the Shijing.The grave at Puyang (4,000 BC) that contains mosaics of the Dragon and Tiger constellations and Beidou (Big Dipper) is similarly oriented with cosmological accuracy along a north-south axis.The tombs of Shang kings and their consorts a

10、t Xiaotun lie on a north-south axis, ten degrees east of due north. The Shang palaces at Erlitou are also on a north-south axis, slightly west of true north. These orientations were obtained by astronomy, not by magnetic compass.All capital cities of China followed rules of Feng Shui for their desig

11、n and layout. These rules were codified during the Zhou era in the Kaogong ji (Manual of Crafts). 2Rules for builders were codified in the Lu ban jing (Carpenters Manual). Graves and tombs also followed rules of Feng Shui. From the earliest records, it seems that the rules for these structures were

12、developed from rules for dwellings.The oldest known Feng Shui device consists of a two-sided board with astronomical sightlines. Liuren astrolabes have been unearthed from Qin-era tombs at Wangjiatai and Zhoujiatai. These devices date between 278 BC and 209 BC. Today Feng Shui practitioners can sele

13、ct from three types of Luopan or Feng Shui compasses: San He (the so-called “form school“, although the compass name means “Triple Combination“), San Yuan (the so-called “compass school“, although the compass name actually refers to time), and the Zong He that combines the other two.Feng Shui (also

14、known as “geomancy“) is an ancient Chinese art used to promote such things as health, happiness and prosperity. The words literally mean wind and water. Feng Shui, also called the Chinese Art of Placement, is a technique that is thousands of years old for bringing balance to ones home, business and

15、the land that surrounds them. It looks at many areas of ones life (health, wealth, family, relationships, career, friends, fame, children, and knowledge) to determine blockages within the home or business, that might cause some type of problem, and then at the different types of “cures“ that can be

16、used to alleviate the problem. The methods for analyzing a space and the “cures“ to correct the problems can vary from esoteric modalities used for centuries to technological solutions of our current timeline. Both must blend in harmony to created balance in ones life.The purpose of life is to creat

17、e balance in all things allowing your consciousness to evlove beyond time and emotion - the duality of the illusion. Healing and working on yourself - is part of the equation - as all things are created by mathematica design / the blueprint or architetcure of our consciousness program in third dimen

18、sion - Sacred Geometry. When you are in a space where feng shui has been used to create balance - you will experience it in all levels of your souls awareness . then you will understand.Feng Shui is an old Chinese art and science which is now becoming recognised by Western Cultures. Its an art simil

19、ar to Interior Design in that it requires skill and knowledge but also a science in that Feng Shui requires calculations and positioning of objects.Feng Shui is all about the way that we live in harmonize with the nature, benefiting from the positive energies in our living environment. By enhancing

20、the relationship between people and their environment we find that the correct combination will create an ability to absorb the Chi or cosmic energy.Good Feng Shui can be achieved by positioning furniture, fixtures etc at the appropriate places based on careful calculations done by the Feng Shui pra

21、ctitioner. Never the less, it still boils down to the skills of the practitioner, and his ability to read the different aspect and elements in the environment and the people, achieving the prefect overall balance of Yin and Yang.Pronunciation and Meaning3There are different ways of pronouncing the w

22、ords, depending upon where you are in the world. Cantonese people pronounce it “Fung Soy“ or on the China mainland they call it “Foong schway“, we recommend sticking to which one you feel comfortable with pronouncing!The words translate from Feng meaning wind and Shui meaning water. However, the rea

23、l explanation of what it really means is based around the invisible Chis energy which is carried along by the wind and water.Chi EnergyIf you want to understand how Feng Shui works, you need to learn about Chi energy - invisible energy. This energy flows through the air, similar to the way radio wav

24、es or satellite transmissions work.Chi is a source of prosperity, harmony, health and honour. To allow for its full effect it should be accumulated gently, but it must never be trapped otherwise it will stagnate and turn into “bad chi“ which brings bad luck. Since ChI is energy, places where it gath

25、ers become rich, full of opportunities and luckier. Places where this energy is absent, life is barren and unproductive. Much of the practice of Feng Shui is to allow the Chi to flow throughout your living space.Yin and YangYin and Yang symbolise energy also, where Yin is symbolised by a broken line

26、 represented as a female passive energy whilst Yang is symbolised by an unbroken line, the opposite of Yin and is represented as a male active energy. This will be explained in detail at a later stage.The Pa Kua (bagua) One important Feng Shui formula concerns the eight main life Aspirations, corres

27、ponding to the four cardinal Directions and the four inter-cardinal Directions of the compass (Lo Pan). Each of these Aspirations is symbolized in the octagonal shaped Pa Kua, one of the most basic Feng Shui tools, which identifies where the particular Aspirational locations lie in your home or work

28、place, allowing you to energize them as required. This will stimulate positive chi (life force) flow and create good Feng Shui for you. A Bagua Map is a tool used in Feng Shui to map a room or location and see how the different sections correspond to different aspects in ones life. The Bagua Map is

29、based on the I Ching, the Chinese Book of Changes. Bagua is translated directly as eight trigram, which describes the eight basic blocks surrounding the center of a room or location. The map is intended to be used to map ones home or office and find areas lacking good chi, and to demonstrate how those physical areas are reflected in ones life.