Do foreigners believe in Feng Shui?

In fact, Feng Shui knows no national boundaries.

Mr. Stephen Skinner wrote a book about Feng Shui and asked me to say a few words about it. Feng Shui, also known as the study of Feng Shui, belongs to the category of "numerology" in Sikuquanshu, and belongs to the same category as various fortune-telling and divination. Specifically, it is the art of building Yin and Yang houses (Yin houses refer to the construction of graves and Yang houses refer to the construction of rooms). Since Guan Ju and Guo Pu advocated "treating each other as guests" in the Three Kingdoms period, princes and nobles have been flocking to it, but Lv Cai and others have also profoundly criticized it.

However, to correctly evaluate "Feng Shui", we should start from the beginning. This is also a history that the author of this book, Mr. Steven Skinner, is not clear about.

Natural laws are different from social laws. When people just master the preliminary laws of nature and want to explain society and life, the result of giving full play to the simple view of nature is superstition.

Speaking of superstition, people immediately think of divination and fortune telling. In fact, divination and mathematics originated at the same time in ancient times, and Yin-Yang and Five Elements are also simple natural views summarized by primitive humans in observing nature. But later, they parted ways. On the one hand, it developed into a real science, on the other hand, it developed into various fortune-telling techniques, forming an ancient "learning" called "numerology".