Feng shui
Feng Shui (simplified Chinese: 风水; traditional Chinese: 風水) is a Chinese system of luck. It has to do with the laws which help one improve luck.
Feng Shui means "wind and water" in Chinese. It was invented by the Taoists. Feng Shui has "five elements", they are: Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood. These elements are set up in a specific way: Fire makes Earth, Earth creates Metal, Metal holds Water, Water nurtures Wood, and Wood feeds Fire. Also, Earth dams Water, Water extinguishes Fire, Fire melts Metal, Metal cuts Wood, and Wood consumes Earth.
Many people implement Feng Shui's philosophies in their everyday lives. There are multiple Feng Shui schools, such as "The Western School of Feng Shui" and "The American Feng Shui Institute"
Feng Shui Media
Overhead photograph of the 177 CE earthenware residential feng shui rectification practice pottery basin with the Seven Stars, Eight Trigrams, vermilion script, and small white specks unearthed in 1983 in Linyi, Shanxi.
A feng shui spiral at Chinatown station (Los Angeles Metro)
A traditional turtle-back tomb of southern Fujian, surrounded by an omega-shaped ridge protecting it from the "noxious winds" from the three sides[1]
A feng shui diagram of a parcel of land, in this case explaining how "yin water" and "yin fire" relate to it – with an auspicious circle.[2]
A modern "feng shui fountain" at Taipei 101, Taiwan
- ↑ deGroot 1892, p. III, 941–42.
- ↑ Bennett 1978.