Feng Shui, is a way of life that brings balance and order into places, and help us live in harmony with the environment in USA, China or any other country around the world.
A - Origins of Feng Shui
1. Feng Shui, (literally “wind and water,”) was originated many years ago in the Western Chou Dynasty (The Chou or Zhou dynasty ruled China from about 1027 to about 221 B.C. It was the longest dynasty in Chinese history).
2. Feng Shui has endured as an art of site selection in East Asia for more than 3,000 thousand years and still remains popular in Chinese societies and around the world.
3. Feng Shui, is a traditional Chinese philosophy and technology of site selection. The ancient Chinese developed a unique ways of interacting with the natural environment harmoniously in order to survive.
B - Chinese Feng Shui
1. Feng Shui has been profoundly interwoven with many aspects of Chinese life. It deals with many characteristics, including physical, ecological, spatial, and temporal, as well as spiritual, psychological, religious, and sociological.
2. Selecting proper places in which to live is a fundamental and necessary activity for both animals and humans. Since site selection plays such an important role in human survival, reproduction, and welfare, researchers have proposed theories to explain human habitat selection.
3. The practice of Feng Shui is complex and is generally applied by Feng Shui masters. The Feng Shui masters' judgments are intuitive and somewhat subjective, but two schools of Feng Shui theory can guide them. One is called Luan Tou (mountain peak), which is based on analyses of physical phenomena at a site, such as topography, vegetation, and climate. The other is Li Ch'i (arranging Ch'i), which emphasizes using a compass (Lou Pan) to judge proper site orientation and placement for settlements according to the residents' birthdays. Ancient Chinese believed that the specific year, date, and time of birth were closely related to a person's character and fate. Ch'i is blown away by wind and is accumulated by water.Thus, an ideal site would attract little wind and stand near the water. This is, in fact, where Feng Shui's name came from literally;Feng Shui means “wind and water.” Yin and Yang are two kinds of Ch'i with opposite characters. Yin, characterized as female, dark, void, or negative energy, is passive; while Yang, characterized as male, light, solid, or positive energy, is active. Therefore, only when Yin and Yang meet and stay in balance can life begin.
C - U.S.A. Feng Shui
1. The first fundamental principal of Feng Shui is integration with nature. There is an emphasis on maintaining or enhancing the surrounding ecosystem, when people design a new structure based on Feng Shui methodology.
2. Feng Shui helps increase your wealth. It’s easy to see how a little knowledge can result in some bad choices for the environment. Feng Shui as become a kind of architectural acupuncture. Therefore, use their metaphysical sensors to detect the flow of good and bad energy.
3. A popular Feng Shui belief is that planting bamboo is a sure-fire way to cure a negative flow of energy
The ways of human adaptation to their surroundings reflect and manifest themselves in human behavior. The unique Feng Shui concept of Ch'i has profoundly influenced many aspects of the Chinese. Given that the most ideal situation of Ch'i is harmony and balance, the worldview of the Chinese is a mediated equilibrium; anything should not be too much or too little. Since the origin of all life is the same source of Ch'i, all humans, other species, and environments are equal. No one is superior or inferior to the other, and all should coexist together in peace and harmony
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Works Cited
Hilts, Elizabeth. "Fabulous Feng Shui." E: The Environmental Magazine 15.1 (2004): 45-47.
Works Cited
Han, Ke-Tsung. "Traditional Chinese Site Selection-Feng Shui: An Evolutionary/ Ecological Perspective." Journal Of Cultural Geography 19.1 (2001): 75. Academic Search Complete. Web. 8 Dec. 2011.
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