When did Chinese Fengshui come to Europe?

When did Chinese Fengshui come to Europe?

Around the 16th century, Western missionaries began to continuously transmit Chinese culture to the West. The Italian missionary Matteo Ricci once wrote a book "The Notes of Matteo Ricci in China", in which there is a description of Feng Shui: "The Chinese believe that the entire material world is composed of five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Constituted."

In the 19th century, the British missionary Ittle came to China. After many years of research on Chinese culture, he wrote the book "Feng Shui: Ancient Chinese Sacred Landscape Science" and published it in London.

The most famous foreigner who studies feng shui is Needham, an expert in the history of science and technology in the United Kingdom. He has a deep understanding of Chinese feng shui, and has a high evaluation of traditional Chinese feng shui architecture in the book "Science and Civilization in China".