FENG SHUI

Feng Shui - The Wind Water

“Feng shui”, literally meaning "wind water" is a section of primitive Chinese ideology of nature. It is many times recognized as a structure of geomancy (the art of placing or arranging buildings or other sites auspiciously), but it is largely apprehended with comprehending the relationships between nature and life so that we may make our life with peace and harmony in our environment.

In Chinese thought a system of laws considered to govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to the flow of energy (chi), and whose favorable or unfavorable outcomes are taken into account when sitting and designing buildings.

Feng shui is associated with the very realistic idea that living with somewhat against the benefits of nature for both the human and the environment. It is also associated with the equally realistic concept that our lives are extremely influenced by our physical, emotional and environmental factors. Whether we try to surround our lives with different symbols of death, disrespect, and indifference in the direction of our nature and life, with different noise and different forms of life and nature, with noise and various forms of ill-favoured things, we will underhand ourselves in this procedure. And, whether we try to surround ourselves with beauty, with good character and gentleness, kindliness, pity, music and with different articulation of the sweetness of life, we dignify ourselves and our environment as well.

In a nutshell Feng Shui has become a valuable facet of present day interior decorating ideology in the Western World, though it has been gaining immense popularity in other parts of the globe. As a matter of fact it has also been called a New Age “Energy” of various metaphysical products to help you improve for your overall health and potential of life.

Feng Shui  - What to know?

Feng Shui is also known as Kanyu (one of the three famous Han generals (others being Gentoku and Chohi), called the lord of splendid black beard, which he continually strokes, usually shown carrying halberd, is the art of positioning and placing a building so that it is in melodiousness with its environment.

In accordance with Feng Shui cultural and social matters are affected by natural, metaphysical and cosmological elements. Generally if we practice Feng Shui ideology then we need to know practical use of Feng Shui, one needs to comprehend the impact of cosmology on earth, should have in detail concepts about how astrology and astronomy make impact the positioning of buildings and to comprehending the Confucian classic, need to understand weather and the forces of nature and how it affects on buildings and its surrounding. One need to understand the influence of magnetic fields and how these make positive and negative impact on human being, need to have knowledge how to position buildings correctly in order to tap ‘chi’ or the earth’s energy, need to understand the environmental factors such as hill, valleys flat land and so forth and need to know how these can affect the material as well as metaphysical environment of our lives.

History of Feng Shui

Feng Shui is a primitive philosophy which began to practice in the West Han Dynasty around 30 century BC (Before Christ). The ideology of Feng Shui believes that our earth is a living thing and has full of life and energy or “Chi”. This energy depends on the physical surrounding. It believes a place can revitalize the energy and this is healthy, on the other hand a place can also damage our lives which are called bad energy.

Day by day it has been gaining immense popularity among the masses from rich to poor.     In the primitive China a town was planned in concentric rectangles covered by walls covered by lakes, valleys, gardens and parks. People in China tried to make sure that the natural and the built environment were planned to accelerate the positive energy or “Chi”. These were then landscaped in accordance with the Taoist ideas of Yin and Yang, ineffective and hard, water and hill. Houses were started to construct in such a way that increase positive and harmonious relationship in a family and also in the country. They built the structures in and outside the buildings in accordance with the Feng Shui ideology. 

               

The left of the building constituted Yang or male force and was associated with the forces of heaven and the right of the building constituted Yin or the female force and was associated with the energies of the earth. Built areas, sun lit roofs and elevations in the front were considered Yang. Empty areas, shadowed eaves, set back structures and elevations at the back were considered Yin.

According to Feng Shui philosophy when a house was build the Yin and Yang both need to be balanced and whether the building bend in the direction of any one of these theory then there is miss proposition and as a result inappropriateness. In China, Emperors had built many grand places from the period of Shang Shang Dynasty (1711 – 1066 BC). Kings of China were thought about the sons of heaven and used the ideology of Feng Shui. They built their buildings and places to cover with a positive energy with a favorable environment that can enhance peace, harmony and power.

These sites were covered by various beautiful landscape, parks, gardens, lakes etc. They identified these were inappropriate without water and hills, a difference between Yin and Yang, fluidity and solidity. The portions of the landscape were positioned in such a way that the Yin and Yang were in perfect peace and harmony with proper balance.       

These sites and their gardens are great evidence of what the Feng Shui practitioners were attained in primitive China.