The ancients respected nature. Since the time of settlement, they have constantly summarized the choice of residential environment and come up with a set of simple principles that are in line with environmental geology: close to mountains and rivers, dry and sunny; You can't scrape in; there are no rocks blocking the way in front, the field of view is wide, and there are no steep cliffs behind, making you want to pounce. These summaries are all in line with scientific principles.
Being surrounded by mountains and rivers, you will feel safe with the mountains at the back, and the water at the front, providing convenient access to water for daily use. Humidity makes people sick easily, while dryness makes people feel refreshed. Sites near water can easily be washed away by flash floods or flooded, so choose high ground. In the northern hemisphere, facing south means facing south, which is suitable for sunlight to enter, which not only brings warmth, but also can sterilize with ultraviolet rays. The field of vision is wide, and you can see the blue sky and white clouds, the winding mountains in the distance, the blue waves of the sea, and the vast mist of the river, which makes you open-minded and relaxed. After climbing the steep cliff, the sense of oppression is relieved and the mood becomes smooth. These are the original selection of houses, the essence of building a county town, which are in line with the principles of environmental geology and are simple principles of human settlement selection.
It is said that Fuxi invented the Bagua. He concentrated all the natural phenomena of heaven and earth into eight hexagrams. The Bagua are related to each other, interpreting a series of complex dialectical relationships such as mutual support and restraint, transformation of advantages and disadvantages, etc. The I Ching was born from the Bagua, which can be used for divination and prediction, determining life and death, determining good and bad luck, and interpreting it as a sacred book of philosophical logic.
Some archaeological experts believe that the original meaning of Bagua was to indicate directions. In the early days of the invention of writing, our ancestors invented pictographic characters. These have specific images to rely on, but the abstract directions of southeast, northwest and north cannot be expressed. Reminiscent of the earlier knotting of ropes to record events, using single and double knots and three arrangements, eight can be obtained There are three patterns, representing the eight directions respectively, so the Bagua was born. The yin and yang Pisces in the center of the Bagua represents the cycle of night and day, and the fish eyes represent the sun and moon. The moon brings light during the night, and the sun brings warmth during the day.
Later, people associated several major natural phenomena with the Bagua. One hexagram represented a natural phenomenon, so there were three consecutive hexagrams of Qian representing heaven, six sections of Kun representing earth; Kan hexagram and Kan Zhongman. (an early pictogram of "water"), the flowing river represents water; the image corresponding to Li Zhongxu represents fire. After these four most important natural phenomena, there are four remaining hexagrams: the broken sunda represents wind, the shaking cup represents thunder, the cup covered by gen represents the mountain, and the broken cup represents the swamp.
Primitive people respected nature and feared nature. They always believed that the evolution of nature was controlled by divine power, so the primitive gods and emperors came into being. With God, God's will is born correspondingly. Floods, earthquakes, mountain fires, thunder and lightning are all manifestations of God's wrath. The wind is gentle and the sun is shining, the crops are abundant, and the livestock are prosperous. These are rewards and gifts from God. With the people of the gods, there needs to be representatives to communicate among them, so wizards came into being. He can talk to God, and he can "guess" God's will. In order to "objectively" reflect the will of God, a double line of yin and yang was created. Throw it three times at will. After three yin and yang signs, you can get a hexagram. This is probably the origin of the Bagua witchcraft predictions.
Feng shui mainly focuses on landscapes. The layout of landscapes is controlled by geological processes, and the shape of landscapes is related to external geological processes. Landscapes in various places have their own characteristics, and the landscape situation is ever-changing. When people build cities and houses, they have to choose the best location among the complicated geographical forms, which triggered the Feng Shui study of surveying and finding caves. It was originally like environmental selection. After divination, the heavenly stems and earthly branches, the four seasons and directions, and the connection with natural forces, it rose to a very abstract yin and yang and the five elements, and the right time and place, and finally evolved into a very superstitious Feng Shui.
In my country's thousand-year cultural heritage, there are essences and dross, science and superstition. In 1949, the People's Republic of China was founded, overthrowing thousands of years of feudal rule, eradicating superstition and removing dross. From the founding of New China until the 1980s, the world was pure and clear, and gods and ghosts stayed away from the people. At that time, Feng Shui was silent. Urban planning was based on natural characteristics. Houses were built according to the direction of the streets. Industrial and mining enterprises and social organizations enclosed land to build hospitals and buildings. They never paid attention to Feng Shui and no one considered good or bad luck.
Unfortunately, superstition has been on the rise since the 1980s and has become more and more intense. Villages and villages build small temples, celebrate by turning to the almanac, marrying with horoscopes, and building houses based on feng shui. What’s even more sad is that some dignified party and government compounds also talk about Feng Shui, using screen walls, rockeries, and stone lions to avoid bad luck. Even the orientation of the door and the layout of the road must welcome the purple lucky star, and the new office building also requires According to Feng Shui masters, the choice of office and the placement of desks are also related to Feng Shui.
In the past, fortune tellers and fortune tellers in the market are now telling people's fortunes and naming names while holding up the signboard of the I Ching Research Institute. Temples are full of people praying for fortune-telling and seeking guidance from mage.
Generally speaking, most of the Feng Shui books popular on the market today mainly promote feudal superstitious ideas, which are merely formal. A very small amount of the content can be affirmed, such as there is a forest behind the house. Drainage ditches should be covered, and beds should not be placed on room doors.