History of Feng Shui

History of Feng Shui

The history of Feng Shui is quite long. In ancient times, Feng Shui prevailed in the Chinese cultural circle, and it was a very important factor for food, clothing, housing and transportation. Many documents related to Feng Shui have been preserved. According to the literature, ancient Fengshui was mostly used to select towns and villages, as well as palace construction, and later developed to search for funeral terrain.

The term Feng Shui was first seen in Guo Pu of the Jin Dynasty: "Qi rides on the wind to disperse, while the boundary water stops. The ancients gather to make it not to disperse, but to act to make it stop, so it is called feng shui."

"Du Gong Liu, both Pu and long. The scenery is a hill, and the yin and yang are relatives, and you can watch its flowing springs. His army has three orders and saves his dynasty. The field is food, and the sunset is spent. The inhabitants are allowed to live in the wilderness." It is a chapter in the "Book of Songs". It is about Liu Xiangtu, the ancestor of Zhou people, tasting water, observing the yin and yang of the mountains and rivers, choosing to build houses outside, and managing fields and planting crops with the military and civilians. This shows that at least in the Zhou Dynasty there was a way to taste the water. In the Han Dynasty, a preliminary theory of on-site inspection of geomantic omen was formed. It gradually matured in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and became more and more perfect in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In ancient times, Feng Shui was a more popular culture, and it was a very important factor for food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Fengshui can be divided into two parts: architecture and faith.