About the nature of Feng Shui: Is Feng Shui a science? The answer to this question should be no. Many current Feng Shui arguments cannot withstand scientific testing. Is it just superstition? The answer should also be no. It is true that there are elements of superstition mixed in Feng Shui, but superstition is not the core of the overall useful content of Feng Shui. What is superstition? Superstition is ignorance and ignorance about some things, but blind obedience; or blind affirmation or blind denial of illusory things. So what kind of knowledge is Feng Shui? The answer is: Feng Shui is neither science nor superstition. It is empirical science or empirical science, which is some immature empirical talk. Feng Shui is a method that uses certain characteristics or characteristics of life and terrain that have been experienced, and uses specific Feng Shui methods through terrain and time to deduce the use, changes, trends, and trends of other terrains. This knowledge needs to be further strengthened, deepened, scientifically systematized, and further studied.
Feng Shui and superstition are two completely different things. Feng Shui, like mathematics, has certain formula calculations and deduction methods. Anyone who is familiar with and masters the deduction methods can interpret and apply them. Whether the deduction is right or wrong, deep or shallow depends entirely on the level of Feng Shui research and the skills and proficiency of the deduction person. There is no mystery; there is no need to "call it out" with superstition. The introduction of superstition into Feng Shui, especially the introduction of the superstition "Hu Nong", has its historical reasons and the limitations of Feng Shui research. To the extent that superstition is mixed into Feng Shui, it limits the development of Feng Shui.
What is Feng Shui? , use more scientific thinking.
The essence of Feng Shui expressed in modern Chinese is: creating and choosing better living conditions and survival advantages; rational use of natural objective conditions and laws; meeting necessity, reasonable, comfortable, practical, convenient, beneficial, The key points of safety, beauty, and hygiene; conforming to mechanics and scientific principles; conforming to common sense and logic are good Feng Shui. There is no such thing as a mysterious and puzzling Feng Shui!
Use the standards of necessity, reasonableness, comfort, practicality, convenience, benefit, safety, beauty, and hygiene to evaluate and consider various things respectively. What is necessary, reasonable, comfortable, practical, convenient, beneficial, safe, beautiful, and hygienic is good Feng Shui. On the contrary, bad things will happen, which is bad feng shui. No matter how good Feng Shui is, if it cannot be said to be necessary, reasonable, comfortable, practical, convenient, beneficial, safe, beautiful, hygienic and other conditions, it can only be regarded as a weird theory. No matter how good the Feng Shui is, the core must be suitable for human habitation and life activities.
Must: means that these structures and settings must be necessary, indispensable, not optional, yes, of little substantive significance, and nothing that has no impact on normal life. These structures and settings are necessary for human beings and serve human beings. It would not be appropriate to change the position of these settings, which is to say, it must be this way.
Practical: For example, if the windows can only be placed somewhere, and the lighting effect is good, it means good Feng Shui. If the lighting effect is poor in other locations, or there is no lighting at all, it is actually bad Feng Shui. Another example: when choosing the location of a well, no matter how good the location is, if no water comes out, it will be in vain and completely meaningless. Therefore, when digging a well, you must first choose a location that can ensure that water can come out. This is practical. Another example: Is it okay to put the bedside by the window and dissolve the hanging copper gourds and Five Emperors copper coins? ————Has no practical value. If there is no anti-theft safety net or window, the bedside cannot be near the window, which is unsafe. Even if all the emperors' money from ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, are collected and linked up, the problem will not be solved. On this issue, installing anti-theft security windows can offset the Feng Shui money of 10,000 emperors.
Convenience: For example, door entry and exit should be smooth and convenient. If it is inconvenient, even if it complies with the requirements of the Feng Shui direction and Qi regulations, it will only increase the burden of entry and exit activities, which is actually bad Feng Shui.
Safety: Although it is good to build a pool around the house, it is not uncommon for children to fall into it. As long as a child falls in and is in danger, the Feng Shui of the entire house will be rejected in a few years - smeared, not Repairing the fish pond will lead to a good life, but repairing the fish will bring trouble, and the gain will not be rewarded. Another example: No matter what theory is used to evaluate the place where the ficus boulder bonsai is placed, as long as the placement is unstable and unsafe, inconvenient for viewing and management, and hinders normal activities, it can only lead to disasters and disasters. Another example: Taishan stone, the side with a large door that does not hinder entry and exit is best. If it does not hinder entry and exit, it is a Taishan stone; if it does not hinder entry and exit, it is a stumbling block.
About "creating and choosing better living conditions and survival advantages". In ancient times, the focus was on making correct and reasonable choices and utilizing superior natural conditions. With the advancement of science and technology in modern society, it has become possible to create a better living space. The efforts of modern transformation have laid a good foundation for human living conditions, thus possessing the ability to create Superior Feng Shui possible. Man-made Feng Shui is better than natural Feng Shui because man-made Feng Shui contains a lot of technological factors, making it more suitable for humans. It will definitely be beneficial to think more from the direction of science and common sense.
The core of the traditional Feng Shui concept is: the theory of central axis symmetry. That is, based on a certain point, extend a straight line, that is, facing the mountain, and expand left and right along this straight line, front and back, to form a symmetrical figure (a symmetrical figure refers to: a figure, folded in half, along this line, both sides of the figure, shape can completely overlap), balance left and right, and balance front and back, which is regarded as the most standard Feng Shui plan. In the wild and natural state, the terrain is complex, but the basic idea is to find the relative and symmetrical balance points and evaluate the concept of central axis symmetry.
For example: green dragon on the left, white tiger on the right; court case in the front, backing mountain in the back; the ten ways of Tianxin are used for things. All activities are based on the thinking concept of central axis symmetry. Why should we emphasize axial symmetry? The core essence is based on the unity of nature and man, and the conclusion inspired by the aesthetic characteristics of human development. Thinking from the perspectives of circle, square, and square, the human body has an irregular shape, but there is a basic basis for human development. The most beautiful features are left and right symmetry. The ancients’ understanding of Feng Shui does not rule out being inspired by the beauty of the human body. Since the human body's development is naturally arranged in a left-right symmetry according to the natural arrangement of heaven and earth, and human beings are the spirits of all things, as a matter of Feng Shui, it is also considered that things should be symmetrical between left and right as the best.
The Feng Shui concept of modern housing is: functionality, practicality, convenience, safety, beauty, and hygiene. When things are put to their best use, the way of heaven must be followed. Waste of resources, anger and resentment. If you are coquettish, you will bring disgrace upon yourself. I want to be in love and feel restless. It’s superfluous and unnecessary. The quality of Feng Shui ultimately depends on the mentality of the person concerned. A good mentality means good Feng Shui, and a bad mentality means bad Feng Shui. Feng shui can predict certain events. Optimists and pessimists will have different opinions on the same matter due to their different perspectives, and the consequences of their guidance will be very different. Feng shui cannot determine certain characteristics of changes in things, but it can detect certain characteristics of changes in things. For example: Two doors in a home face each other. Why don’t they complement each other but instead compete with each other? The doors and windows are facing each other, why don't they look after each other, but they are stunned? Here, all objects are still objects, and there is no magic. What is magical is the soul of the person involved, and the soul is the window to the human soul. What kind of mentality the parties have will determine how they will think, and their psychological guidance will lead them to the realm of imagination and behavior. Another example: House Feng Shui, the cabin resembles the shape of a kitchen knife, but the shape of a kitchen knife does not necessarily mean that it is an evil spirit. A kitchen knife cuts meat, and eating meat is a normal thought, but a kitchen knife is an evil thought, but it is abnormal. Why do you think of a kitchen knife instead of cutting meat? Shape offends evil spirits, psychological reasons, this is Feng Shui. Can a modern family survive without a kitchen knife? Different psychological value trends will inevitably lead to different consequences. Another example: a temple, if you think it will protect you, it will really protect you. If you think it is scary, it will be really scary. Why it's scary, there's something unspeakable about the psychology. It's all in your mindset. Another example: Cartoon girl paintings are posted in the couple's room. They like to look good but don't like to be upset. Psychologically directed to two different emotions. Another example: the merit arch can be a positive teaching material that awakens people's aspirations. It can also be considered as unnecessary waste, or even as a construction with bad Feng Shui. The mentality is different, the voice of the heart is different.
The public stairs and elevators are ignored, and only the private parts of the house are considered to be deficient, and seriously deficient. Feng Shui believes that having a ladder is not a lack. Not only is it not a lack, but it is believed that the ladder is the vital eye of the whole building, and the ladder is the life and soul of the whole building. A very simple truth is that without stairs, the whole building is just a dead building. Only with stairs can the whole building be practical and flexible. Adding stairs to a house is the whole of the house. If the common parts cannot be included, the house is not considered as a whole. Such Feng Shui views and theories are narrow personal psychological theories. The consequences induced by such theories can only be one-sided selfishness. Humanities, the further derivation gap is even greater, this is why Feng Shui is so effective.
How to measure the unevenness and gaps of houses in the city: Modern buildings do have unevenness and gaps. Why? I don't understand. If it's flat and built as a flat-panel coffin or a box-type coffin, wouldn't it increase the building area and reduce the cost? Why are builders and designers so stupid and throwing their money where their mouth is? After living in such a house, I have seen and experienced it for more than ten years. Some of it is clear to me, and some of it is still unclear. It turns out that some of the gaps are necessary for lighting and ventilation, some are needed for the overall aesthetic effect, and some are necessary for structural mechanics. This contains profound Feng Shui principles that are worth pondering.
The structural house type of the community depends on the entire house to determine what type of house it is. I believe that developers and designers will not be so stupid as to throw away the money they already have and throw it into the imperfections. The unique shape must have a unique meaning. Only through a deeper understanding of aesthetics, mechanics, science, and common sense can we correctly grasp these house shapes. Don't let the fallacy of a simple knife-handle house hinder the fresh thinking you should have.
The types of houses in cities have bumps and vacancies due to design and certain needs. They cannot be compared and used in rural areas where one house is built here today and another house is built there tomorrow. Measure the convex and concave views of that kind of house to measure the complete set of designed houses in the city. The complete sets of houses in the city at least consider the overall mechanical balance of the house from the perspectives of mechanics, science, and common sense. Without these protrusions and concavities, it is inconsistent with the principles of mechanics and other scientific design methods, and it directly conflicts with the essential principles of Feng Shui.
The combination of traditional Feng Shui concepts and modern housing Feng Shui concepts should be: regularity, symmetry, functionality, practicality, convenience, safety, hygiene, and beauty. Dormitory construction and selection, interior layout, and office equipment furnishings should also be conceived from these aspects. It is worth noting that modern urban housing buildings have high Feng Shui advantages and effects from an aesthetic point of view.
What needs attention is that the colors of dormitories, house decoration, and furniture should be light and tender, and not too old-fashioned. Light and tender make the interiors and houses look bright and yangy; old ones make the interiors and houses gloomy and gloomy.
(Wear clothes in older tones to appear calm, sophisticated and experienced)
When the terrain permits, the direction of the house should respect the rules of nature. North-south direction is best, keeping it warm in winter and cool in summer. It is the best Feng Shui chosen by nature. The location of the door is optimal for easy access. If it does not comply with the principle of convenient access, even some principles that are most in line with Feng Shui regulations are just empty doors and will be seen as meaningless. What does it mean to fail? The reality is that it has no practical value and meaning.
The location of the kitchen and toilet should be as far as possible in the north direction of the house or in the wind outlet of the hot mountainous terrain in spring and summer. Especially for the kitchen, the best and most appropriate solution is to install it in the north direction of the house or at the air outlet of the hot mountainous terrain in spring and summer. This is incompatible with the traditional view of Feng Shui, but it is a setting that is consistent with the natural wind direction. The general trend of air flow in my country is (observable): it is hot in spring and summer, and the overall general trend of air is advancing from south to north, that is, southerly winds dominate. After the cold in autumn and winter, the overall air flow direction is from north to south, that is, the north wind dominates. Due to this air flow characteristic, the kitchen is set in a north direction, which is conducive to bringing the heat generated in the kitchen out of the house when it is hot in spring and summer and the south wind is dominant; in autumn and winter when it is cold and the north wind is dominant, the heat generated in the kitchen is brought to the outside. Suffocating the interior, relatively speaking, the interior appears warm in winter and cool in summer. The same goes for toilets. Spring and summer are hot and southerly winds dominate, so toilet smell can be carried outside. Autumn and winter are cold, and the north wind dominates, which means that toilet smell is brought indoors, and the chance of bacteria and viruses multiplying is much lower, which is beneficial to people's physical and mental health. Correctly utilize the laws of nature and think more from a scientific perspective.
Treasures are everywhere, and science is even more magical.
It is home to outstanding people, beautiful scenery, and abundant natural resources and beautiful mountains and rivers. Since the beginning of mankind, human beings have used their lives to select places that are suitable for human beings in places around the world. Human beings have left behind a large number of continuous populations, such as cities. Feng shui treasures that are not suitable for humans need to be developed and utilized by humans using more scientific methods.
When you go to those remote places, don’t think that no one has been there. In fact, there are many ruins there. Those ruins prove that people have been there, and they will also prove that those who have been there, There have been trials of life and death. Due to the gap in feng shui, it has been completely eliminated naturally. When you go to a big city, why do you think there is so much population left there? The answer is: there is a wider range of Feng Shui advantages, and natural selection allows the population there to continue and expand.
Rural areas basically have microclimate terrain, forming independent ponds. There are spaces in such small ponds that are not conducive to survival. The natural selection and elimination of rural areas are extremely obvious. In these small environments, the location of the terrain is unreasonable, and the use of the compass, the so-called Feng Shui, is meaningless no matter how reasonable it is. Without the reasonable terrain, using the compass becomes child's play. Therefore, in these small environments, terrain selection is the first and foundation; the use of the compass is second and secondary.
Example 1: If houses are built in air-barred areas in rural areas, the probability of a deaf, mute, handicapped or handicapped family is at least 90%. What is a qi barrier, and how do you conduct an on-site inspection and assessment? The simplest way to think about it is: the so-called Qi barrier area is an area where the dew has not dried after nine or ten o'clock in the morning on a hot day.
Explanation 2: There is a mountainous terrain in a certain place, beside a small river running from north to south, in an area about five miles long. It turns out that all the families live in the area near the east bank, which is Dangxishai. Now all the residents live in the west bank, that is, the area in Dangdongshai. Where have the people from the east coast gone? According to rumors and surveys, about 30% of the population moved to the West Bank, and 70% of the population died naturally after living there for less than one or two generations. Only one family died naturally after living there for four generations.
Explanation 3: There is another mountainous area with a north-south terrain of small rivers. It is currently repeating the characteristics of the above-mentioned terrain. The east bank is facing a decrease in population, and the west bank is facing an increase in population. The strangest thing about the advantageous characteristics is that among the dozens of families on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, only three or four families living on the West Bank have two children who have completed college education. The rest of the families basically enter the society in elementary school. Why did the original people choose the east bank to live in these two places? The reason is that the terrain of the east bank is wider than that of the west bank, which is convenient for farming and various activities; why the current people choose the west bank to settle, the reason is that the sunshine on the west bank is better than that on the east bank. The accumulated temperature and temperature difference are relatively significantly higher than those on the east coast. There is such a difference in temperature between the east and west coast due to sunlight exposure. The problem cannot be summed up by a simple "superstition", nor can it be attributed to the wrong use of the compass, nor can it be attributed to the incompatibility of the "zodiac signs". Natural screening and natural elimination are being completed in the above-mentioned places.
Explanation 4: The conclusion of the investigation shows that in the mountainous microclimate environment, most of the Xiaotang Bureau environmental terrain has left many residential sites and small place names with surnames and families, some of which are rumored and some of which are unknown. rumor. There are rumors that the population will naturally die out after one to two generations. Many areas that were inhabited in the past have left traces of ruins that are now uninhabited. Considered from a scientific perspective, this is a clear example of the existence of natural selection and natural elimination in terrain selection. It can also be inferred that the general environment and climatic conditions formed the current pattern through natural elimination over tens of thousands of years.
When you come out of those hundreds of ruins, you will fully understand what true Feng Shui is: superior conditions and space that are conducive to human survival are the true Feng Shui.
There, no matter what the Feng Shui layout is, no matter which school of views is used to adjust it, there is only one conclusion, one vote veto. The specific conditions that are not suitable for human survival veto all Feng Shui schools' Feng Shui Qi-regulating arguments. When you come out of those hundreds of ruins, you will be taught what Feng Shui is: convenience, practicality, safety, beauty, and comfort are the absolute principles of Feng Shui. They won't tell you: the doors are facing each other, the doors and windows are right, the bed is in the wrong place, the stove is in the wrong direction, or many other concerns. But it will tell you: inconvenient, impractical, unsafe, and uncomfortable are real bad Feng Shui.
Decades ago, an old man once said: If a small family moves to a new place and does not encounter good terrain and good Feng Shui, it will not be able to lay the foundation for the continuation of the population. Looking back now, although these words are simple and concise, they are rich in life philosophy.
Compared with cities and towns, rural areas are different: 1. Rural terrain Compared with urban terrain, rural areas are inferior terrain left by thousands of years of natural elimination and selection. 2. Rural areas can only make correct use of terrain and do not have the adjustment ability for large-scale transformation.
There is nothing bad about urban feng shui, only better. Cities and towns are different. Cities and towns have a large climate and environment. It is the essence left by human life choices for tens of thousands of years: 1. Generally, it has the advantage of living space in a large range. Most of the places that can form the size of cities and towns have experienced tens of thousands of years of natural history, life and death, and finally settled into the current pattern. A typical example is in the northwest. Places that cannot become large or small towns. Apart from leaving ruins, there are many places where there are no historical rumors. What is the reason? Unfit for habitation, natural elimination and natural extinction, complete population extinction. 2. In modern cities and towns, the strengthening of transformation has expanded the scale of cities and towns. Without modern transformation efforts, it can be said that all cities and towns only have dead ends and no living eyes. Without modern transformation, the population affordability of cities and towns would be at most one-third of what it is now. Therefore, the current urban layout is the result of history, natural selection and modernization.
Since the beginning of mankind, human beings have spent their lives to select areas of natural geography that can accommodate human beings, and have formed residential communities, such as cities. Cities are treasures left behind by human beings at the cost of their lives. Where humans cannot live, the population has become extinct. If there is no special human transformation efforts, if we live there again, the stories of the past may still be repeated. The experience of urban formation is first natural selection, and then the intervention of politics, economy, and humanities. The addition of these factors forms political geography, economic geography, and human geography. The interaction of these geographical factors and the combination with natural geography are the basis of modern The fundamental reason why cities and towns have greater Feng Shui advantages.
Reply on whether the Xuan Kong Da Gua, the twenty-eight constellations of gold, and the Xuan Kong Flying Star are the most accurate and effective:
The Xuan Kong Da Gua is the combination of the sixty-four hexagrams and the three hundred hexagrams. The eighty-four lines are fixed on the compass according to a certain method. According to this method of use, there are 384 different line positions for Yin and Yang houses, that is, there are 384 different theoretical methods of using things. If combined with the specific environmental terrain, of course it will be ever-changing, and the theoretical system should be large and complete. The twenty-eight constellations line degree is used to determine the use of gold based on 360 degrees, that is, there are 360 ??ways to use it, and it is as flexible and changeable as it is combined with the specific environment. But the problem is:
1. All compasses have differences (my experiment is: for each experiment, ten compasses are randomly selected. After several comparisons, the maximum difference is ten degrees, and the general difference is two degrees. third degree). In the past, people generally used round disks and could not detect this difference. Nowadays, square disks are invented, which are more convenient and trouble-free to use than round disks. The square plate can be used to test the compass deviation. After testing, it is found that all commonly manufactured compasses have deviations (modern precision azimuth instruments with one part per hundred thousand all have deviation characteristics, not to mention ordinary manufacturing). I don’t know the ancients What kind of compass was used, and what method was used to confirm, test, and fix the three hundred and eighty-four lines and the three hundred and sixty degrees to the compass. Are compasses made in ancient times really better than modern ones? If the compass is not accurate, how can it be used correctly?
2. Feng Shui is an empirical discipline. If there is no empirical example as a basis, it can only be considered as going from theory to theory, from formula to formula, and cannot be considered as a tested science. This empirical discipline, according to the argument of an authoritative person in China, is that for each method of use, 500 examples must be found and demonstrated based on real-life examples before it can be considered as a scientific logical inference. According to this argument, there are 384 theoretical ways of using the Xuankong hexagram, and there are 360 ??ways of using the 28-constellation line to divide gold. The author of the big hexagram must complete about 200,000 social survey cases. The author of the share must complete a survey of 180,000 social cases before it can be deemed to be worthy of scientific argumentation. What is actually the case remains to be further considered and demonstrated by later scholars.
3. Jiang Dahong created the Xuankong Flying Star method, with 216 forward rounds, 216 alternate rounds, and 432 total rounds. According to this theory, Based on the domestic authoritative 500 examples to prove the argument, Chiang had to complete the research on 220,000 examples. For the time being, let’s not ask whether there are examples to prove the argument, let’s talk about Chiang himself. What about Jiang Dahong, the founder of Xuankong Feixing? Could it be that the Jiang family had no Feng Shui? When he was young, the Jiang family passed the Jinshi examination and served as a county magistrate. If you can create your own school, wouldn’t you use it to adjust your Feng Shui layout? Chiang died without a wife or children, and was impoverished and impoverished. Others paid for his body to be collected and buried.
The conclusion is: Zhang Wuzhe’s Xuankong Dagua method, Jiang Dahong’s Xuankong Flying Star method, and the method of dividing gold by the twenty-eight constellations of Lianshan Guizang. These are relatively complicated theoretical systems in the theory of Feng Shui and Qi regulation, and most people dare not get involved. Some people have been doing Feng Shui their whole life, and they cannot even name these Feng Shui Qi regulation methods, let alone their specific practical applications. Although the systems and methods of these Feng Shui Qi management theories are complex and profound, and the integrity of the system itself is more complete than other Feng Shui Qi management systems, however, with an empirical scientific attitude, we can only identify this Feng Shui Qi management theoretical system. After theoretically completing the formulas and systems, it is necessary to conduct further scientific verification of practical facts. If someone is willing to make efforts in this area, find examples to demonstrate from reality, and complete empirical considerations, it should be considered a world-first.