Feng shui, returned to the east from the west
Feng shui, returned to the east from the west
After reform and opening up, feng shui and other Chinese traditional philosophical culture and scientific thinking, gradually began to break the ice of ideology and academic research.Along with the deepening of reform and opening up and the thought movement for the emancipation of the boom, the vast majority of previously imprisoned the ideas and research area has been freed from the yoke of bondage.But the fate of the feng shui is quite rough.I was from the north of the famous historical geographer, landscape design, planning and Oriental cultural ecology (fengshui) expert Yu Xixian Sir, a famous scholars abroad from Mr Yin Hongji writings about feng shui, because at that time, the policy environment reason, may not be published to the halfway of translation.Nearly ten years, due to the realistic demand, particularly in the tourism planning, landscape design, real estate development, urban conservation and construction, emerged a large number of not attach importance to the local context inheritance and heaven, earth and man in harmony of thought and behavior, planning, design, construction and protection of failure, caused the history and culture, tourism planning and landscape design, architecture and people of insight, called for the research and writing up more, to change this passive situation.
In 1986, a foreign scholar's arrival, will open a door for Chinese feng shui study international exchanges, at the same time, also recovery mainland academic circle of feng shui study consciousness.He is above the "foreign famous scholar feng shui", the university of Auckland, New Zealand, a senior lecturer Dr Yin Hongji.Yin Hongji is Korean, Berkeley university in the United States from the world famous master of humanistic geography sol (G, 0, Sauer) settlement and the department of folk society 丨 framEberbard professor,
In 1976 published the "Korean kanyu study," Ph.D. Dissertation, (also called kanyu ancient feng shui), and in the international famous magazine published article on the study of feng shui, the attention of the academia.Yin Hong based on the recommendation of Mr Yu Xixian by Peking University in 1986, to China to study, in order to prove his thesis: feng shui originated in China's loess plateau cave site selection.
At this time, the domestic academic circles began to put the word "feng shui" as the subject of literature retrieval, found missionary to China, foreign scholars research on communication, Chinese feng shui, have long history, and achievements.
Chinese feng shui is about early in the 7th century era of ghost to the Korean peninsula.In South Korea in the history of literature, there are a lot of content about feng shui, is one of the most famous story about ly Thai to and hanyang (Seoul) feng shui.
The koryo period (AD 918-1392), north Korean pine yue (i.e., today's kaesong) its capital.After general yi sung gae (ly Thai to overthrow the regime of koryo, create the yi dynasty (AD 1392 ~ 1910), when the monks suggested hanyang (Seoul, Seoul today), his capital think hanyang geographical environment completely accords with the ideal mode of feng shui.Ly Thai to eventually take the advice of the monks and move to hanyang.
Feng shui was introduced into Japan's time, often assume that a is also in the 7th century or so by the Japanese sui, regulations into Japan.Also the scholar thinks, feng shui is by north Korea to Japan.Males think Japanese scholars watanabe hin, feng shui in east Asia, "neighboring countries in South Korea to start".Feng shui was introduced into Japan, initially affected towns and the construction of temples, layout, and then quickly popular in other buildings and everyday life.In Japan, feng shui is more known as the "home".First half of the Japanese heian period yu more than the emperor of wide flat years (AD 889 ~ 898), fujiwara zc who compiled the catalog of Japan to see in the book, in the "five lines of house class", collected from China outside the yellow emperor, "qing wu son" etc. Several of feng shui books.To the edo period began to publish the author's writing in Japan, one of the most famous such as pine pudong machine of "the home", yi PuYinHe phase, etc.In modern times, Japan's earliest feng shui study books are tomiichi ZhiShunDe "north Korea's feng shui",
Wade town Ming in 1991 issue of the humanistic geographic 43 volumes published "the geomancy geography theory's influence on Li Chaoyi colony", will the lee of the Korean peninsula north Korea times 331 the existing village classification research, divided into 7 types of site selection.Conclusion is that 70% of villages located in the "water in the back mountain", "hidden wind in water", in line with the typical pattern of feng shui.Other influential writings and watanabe hin male "feng shui thought and east Asia", three PuGuoXiong Mao Gangyi kuang co-authored the feng shui and the city image, okamoto, the coordinate YangZhai learning interval design etc.In Japan in 1989 also set up a national conference, feng shui researchers about feng shui study purpose is to plan as a whole, coordinate related research, collecting relevant research information in the world, to create "east over the western" theory, etc.
In southeast Asian countries, the idea of feng shui is also deeply disseminated in business, folk and even politicians, become a kind of, the pursuit of the environment and avoid auspicious folk culture.
In Singapore, feng shui is widely attention.In Singapore, blanch guanyin TangMiao host side, is a Chinese styletempleThe construction of perfect combination of typical resort with feng shui requirements.The temple was founded in 1886, the front surface of the sea, the former can receive sun be the spirit of the lowlands, surrounded on three sides by mountains and faces after a mountain "sit looking at potential of the sea".Another famous religious buildings in Singapore jade emperor temple, there is a stone, and describes the site selection process: "hence thought as a temple, based on permanent QuanJie azbuk, ring port back mountain, deep culvert YueShi, around the green green, resort also."This kind of practice, and China Chronicles account, family location, construction is the same thing.
Today, many hotels, construction of Singapore, in accordance with the local or outside please feng shui master to design or adjust the transformation.It is said that Singapore famous Hyde park hotel, many postponement of renowned feng shui master to the hotel gate, fountains and the reception of the hotel.
Port city of penang in Malaysia, there is a Chinese temple bliss temple, is in accordance with Chinese geomantic site selection model, "the left have qinglongshan, right white tiger hill, bliss temple hill has the feeling of cranes flying."In addition, such as Malaysia and Malaysia airlines headquarters, bloom mehta joint industrial company, etc., all is according to feng shui pattern design, its purpose is to make the region's architectural style, landscape, environment, can achieve the result of coordination and balance.
As for the western study of Chinese feng shui, introduction, can be traced back to the Ming dynasty Italian missionary matteo ricci (AD 1552-1610) in China.In 1582 he was Rome Jesus send missionaries to China, to promote, disseminate Chinese culture, promote cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries has played an important role.In the book "China missionary history", and describes the activities of the Chinese feng shui master: "geographic division according to hill, river, the geographical position to predict good or ill luck.See feng shui, is a novel for westerners.Feng shui, feng shui can decide the family health, wealth, fame, achievement, and a blessing."In his "matteo ricci Chinese reading notes", also describes the stories about Chinese feng shui, and comment on the philosophical background of feng shui, "according to the theory of the Chinese people, the entire material world - people, animals, and hybrid - are all gold, wood, water, fire, soil five elements
"Sure," the Chinese Confucianism the universe is composed of a common matter, the creator of the universe as a continuum (corpuscontinuum), and the heavens and the earth, animals, trees, and four elements (refers to the western tradition inherited from the ancient Greek land, water, fire and wind) of the four elements coexist, and each individual is part of the continuum ".Followed by the 19th century with the missionaries came to China more, more in-depth understanding of Chinese culture, western have sprung up, such as the German missionary Ed (AD 1838-1908) of the germination of feng shui, the Chinese natural science published in Hong Kong (1873), and British missionary kuyt's (ErnestJ. Eitel) written by feng shui, the ancient Chinese sacred landscape science (London, 1883), etc. With high academic standards of monographs.They try to use the western scientific thought, in contrast, Chinese feng shui elements, opened the understanding and modeling of feng shui philosophy of science and the new way of (cultural) core.
Ed in his book wrote: "what is a feng shui?This problem always constantly troubling us.When people buy land, build a house, knocking down a wall, or desiring a flagpole, of people living in the treaty ports the countless difficulties...When the Hong Kong government to open the way, also is the famous leads to happy valley cableway, the local clans into a terrible fear of cancer, because they think it will destroy the Hong Kong dragon vein.When many participate in road construction engineer died of fever in Hong Kong, many foreigners because the miasma and had to give up housing built in the valley of happiness, the Chinese to claim victory, this part is the feng shui of impartial judgment."
Kuyt, wrote in the book, "feng shui, in my opinion, no matter how is another name for natural science".He based on the analysis on Chinese feng shui theory of natural philosophy, systematically from the "truth", "number", "gas", "form" four levels, the feng shui boils down to "the law of nature" (TheLawsofNature), numerical than the "natural" (TheNumericalProportionsofNature), "the breath of nature" (TheBreathofNature), the appearance of the "natural" (TheFormsandOutlinesofNature) four propositions of the system.He passed to grind redundancy analysis to recognize
Navigation to the Chinese concept of feng shui, the world is the interaction of all things, who also can't more than the outside, he survive any of the activities are to be identical in nature, and thus to avoid bad for human survival under the breath of life, construction activities have to benefit for the harmony of the nature.But on the other hand, geomantic think, the balance of the environment is not static, under the premise of the overall consideration in the environment, can still human environment, to that of the common human reaching a new equilibrium.He stripped the geomantic superstition coat that, feng shui, the ancient Chinese science, with organic whole view of nature, the material world is not in the static structure of has nothing to do with each other all things, but the life of "breathing organism", including people, each link, is interacting., so to speak, kuyt's research, to promote the scientific and rational in feng shui, and even today, at the time of its research methods and conclusions are reached a certain height.
Modern and contemporary research scientists of China's feng shui when historians of science and technology in ancient China, a member of the royal society, member of the British academic school Joseph Needham.His definition about feng shui feng shui is regulating the aura of harmony with the universe of a kind of magic "by domestic scholars.Geomantic theory, he said, "always contains a kind of aesthetic elements", "in China's rural, houses, the beauty of the villages and towns, without charge, all can be obtained to explain."
In 1984, Todd couples published book ecology design basis, which devotes a section "world view" feng shui, citing the journal pulandian meeting in New York in 1982, Paul sun (PaulSun) report, the paper said: "feng shui view from the heaven and earth then they will look, also contains the profound spiritual induction.It is a kind of harmony with nature, coordinate method, in order to make habitant can and their descendants in the settlement place a plain life...Feng shui really contains profound wisdom, and make it completely became a guide to humility, deferential behavior of nature.Feng shui as a kind of world view, to provide a stable culture and indicates a common principle explanation."According to Yu Xixian scholars such as statistics, by 1989, modern foreign research literature about feng shui, there are 120 of Korean, Japanese, there are 220 species, there are 150 Chinese, 250 kinds of Europe and the United States.With Europe and the United States, among them the most studied, and the content of science and higher levels.
In the United States, the Chinese feng shui was originally brought by south China university of technology in the 19th century.And at the end of the 20th century, along with the industrialization and urbanization of a series of problems such as environmental, social, psychological and health, feng shui in the intellectual community, not only in the United States and in business, politics became widespread popularity.In the 1970 s to 80 s, "feng shui" flourished in the United States began.In many places, the discretion of the real estate prices, often depends on the good or bad feng shui.Therefore, real estate company in the purchase of land or building office building, often need well-paid understand see feng shui feng shui master.Some celebrities, businessmen, and politicians, singers, movie stars, etc, when purchasing a house, and often to feng shui master, please see first before you decide.According to reports, after Reagan left office, he was in the movie circle of friends, the collective all chipped in to buy him a residential buildings, is a famous invited Hong Kong feng shui master to read.
Spread from the feng shui and research we can see that in the course outline, feng shui is already go beyond China's borders, and more and more become a kind of cultural phenomenon of globalization.And if we study of feng shui and popularity is not paying attention, successors, carry forward is not a Chinese.Apart from western scholars to speed up, strengthened the academic study of feng shui, and the pace of the theory applied, is South Korea, Japan, Singapore and other countries, relevant institutions and scholars are also expanding the scope of its research and achievement.Such as I contact with a feng shui study and practices of Singapore, he feng shui related courses in Singapore university of science and technology, awarded the degree at the university of science and technology, also often to China to recruit project, feng shui landscape planning.South Korean scholars even put forward the thought of feng shui is their original Korean nation, not from China to, they also proposed to apply to the United Nations for intangible cultural heritage.Visible, at present in our country, the correct view of the research and popularization and feng shui feng shui study carry forward is very urgent.For wan shikai, also not be meaningless.
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