Feng shui, superstition

It is believed that the wind direction and water flow around the residential base or cemetery can lead to the fate of residents or buried families. It also refers to the method of xiangfu xiangmu. Burial book (written by Jin Guopu in the old title): Buried people take advantage of anger. As the saying goes, the air is scattered by the wind, and the boundary water stops. The ancients gathered to make it, but stopped it, so it was called Feng Shui.

Among them, the quotation from Funeral Book is the classic definition of Feng Shui, and the word Feng Shui was used as a special term only after the appearance of Funeral Book. This feng shui does not refer to the wind and water in nature, but "Qi" is its core. This qi is not scientific air and atmosphere, but a supernatural and mysterious qi that "walks underground and is born in all things". The human body is considered as "gathering qi" and "coagulating bone". So when a person dies, if he is buried in a place where he can gather qi, his body will be "anti-qi" and future generations will be "blessed by ghosts".

Therefore, Feng Shui cannot be understood as a natural environment, and it has its own concrete and complete connotation. So when translating the word "feng shui" into western languages. Does not contain the meaning of wind and water, can only be transliterated as Feng Shui. Seeing feng shui is for the sake of "ghost happiness", promotion and wealth, and children and grandchildren. If this point is removed, geomantic omen has already died out in China.

If we compare the definition of Feng Shui in Funeral Book, we can find that what the folk Feng Shui master said is more in line with the original intention of Funeral Book. They think that "Feng Shui is not a science from the perspective of modern science" but "a specious idealistic philosophy" (my view on Feng Shui, page 3 1, a publishing company was established in Hong Kong. ("Twenty geomantic strategies for buying a house", published by Hong Kong Juxiange Culture Co., Ltd.) Seeing geomantic omen is for promotion and wealth. They don't want to squeeze into the forest of science. In bookstores in Hong Kong and Taiwan, feng shui books are generally listed in the category of "numerology", alongside fortune-telling books and ghost books. In the Canadian Chinese community, geomantic omen prevails, and TV stations in China all have programs devoted to geomantic omen, but they don't claim to be science. Wang Chengya of the Chinese Taoist Association also made it very clear that he thinks that talking about Feng Shui from a scientific point of view is divorced from the original meaning of Feng Shui. Because in his view, Feng Shui has a supernatural side that science cannot explain.