Feng shui anecdotes

How is wu zixu designed for suzhou's old city feng shui

Wu was born in a noble family, chu grew up with a good education, history says he "little good text, long accustomed to wu", a "sandwich nations, Wu Ding world".In 522 b.c., wu zixu was ChuPing for father wu extravagance and brother wu is still king, and refuge and wu.After meeting Wu Gongzi light, planning and stabbed to death king liao of wu, helped childe light to the throne.He lu appointed him as "passers-by", become an important adviser wu.

Wu zixu have eminently and too deep to prince he lu trust.Can watch for wu can, outside the army, he first suggested that ng he lu "first musquash, Fielding, real storage, cure BingGe", and personally to choose wu capital fo.Soil and water "he" phase "like day method", finally selected today the address of the ancient city of suzhou, reasonable planning, built the city he lu (now suzhou).

Wu zixu hosts he lu city site selection and layout.Soil and water, he put forward "phase method to host" principle.Use "junior with heaven and earth as a law like, its sex with a combination of Yin and Yang" field survey, the idea of observation of soil properties, elegant stream water and river valley points, thus the selected site.The structure of the city, location, c2: cooperate with astronomical photograph echo, "Yin and Yang to reconcile, ever-green should, two years when Yang yi qi", "eight lu door, in order to like eight out of the wind;The watergate eight, and gossip "in the land.Will each open a second wall, and it's eight side wind.Lou, artisan second east, west to Lv, professional second, south to dish, snake second, northern qi, second.

Shi-ji law book ", said: "Lv, close the wind in the west."To the west to build the second to like tianmen, introduced on the tongtian Lv wind.And more, wu country yue is inChinese zodiacThe orientation of the snake, so will the southeast door door named snakes.Wu is in of the dragon, Chen fang;With roncq snake, wu win more, the dragon plate, for potential, therefore, southwest of pan gate.North of the square of the second to quashed qi, qi.Chu in the northwest, also called Lv door to break the Truman show.So design the layout of the capital city full of vitality, intended to develop strong, its theme is also cans be imagined.

"The lamp set point" in the song dynasty "three su" feng shui

"Three su" is the home of China's song dynasty famous wit, their home in leshan renshou county of sichuan province, in his ancestors also has an interesting story of feng shui.

Su Xun Sue Wells of old grandfather was a monk, road flyover "white lotus", he had a to make friends, called Jiang Shan, was a famous feng shui master.Jiang Shan swim famous mountains and great rivers once every two years, t cloth, returned to the white lotus road flyover Taoist temple in the rest of the practice.

One day, play chess Jiang Shanzheng and white lotus road flyover, Jiang Shan suddenly asked: "do you want to have to land?"White lotus road flyover is not opening, Jiang Shan and then said: "this time I had come back, I find two pieces of land, a plot of land to dafu than Shi Chong, another piece of land can be expensive in the world, expensive to the prime minister, the two pieces I can only give you a piece, you choose yourself!"

White lotus road flyover to once say: "I am a halfway decent, home and son are reading, don't want to crave what riches and honour, as long as the children of staff will be satisfied."

Jiang Shan wanted to think, said: "both land doesn't fit, but I in previous land elephant mountain, find a good place, will be show out the furious article, I will give it to you, tomorrow morning we will start to look at."

White lotus road flyover heart after listen to very happy.

So, the next day before dawn, the two men went, after 10 days' journey, to the feng shui treasure land like ear mountain cave.Here surrounded by four mountain, dragon as commander-in-chief in japan.now, horse single-pole, dragon head Wolf peak, green trees beautiful and moving, hall is open, mountain layers toward the front case, xiufeng, a writing up into the cloud, a hook small streams from the forest and the upward and away from the left rear, standing on the mountain a loud whistle down, empty valley, voice clear, deep and remote turning long echoed in the valley.Cavity field at the top of the mountain, the big back dangchang usually adopt the azimuth (called "sky" in feng shui terms), acupuncture point slightly open one meter to big alveolus, grass yiyi all around, the breeze rising and falling.

White lotus theater to see the scene in the heart very happy, but sigh a way: "eight white rock hole is high."

To architect Jiang Shan looked at his heart is known, then lowered himself from the bag took out a lamp, lighting it and gently on the acupuncture point mouth, although all around to the wind, but the lamp still.

Jiang Shan finger to put lamp of say: "here is a good point, step also cannot leave, was buried here from your home to the article, about the rest are not into hole, not letter you try."

White lotus to err on the side of road, in the places they think can stand point, by oil repeatedly test, the lamp will be destroyed by the wind.At this time he didn't really gasp in admiration Jiang Shan superb art of feng shui.

A year later, the white lotus road flyover's mother died, he buried it in Jiang Shan points by points.Soon, Jiang Shan again came to the temples, and together with the white lotus road flyover to textual research of his motherThe grave。

Jiang Shan look after sighed: "you this is a small mistake, I help you to correct it."Then, Jiang Shan doing her hurrying, has added many soil and on the left side of the tomb.

In a few years, the white lotus road flyover Su Xun to post official, the son of and even out of the su shi, su zhe.They are under the verses of blasting, in the "eight people of tang and song dynasty", accounted for three Sue home alone.

The story of the "lamp set point", has spread all over sichuan.This suggests that the geomantic art in China folk has a very high place with the government.In the temptation of feng shui feng shui, under the guidance of Mr Even abstinent, indifferent to fame and wealth of the white lotus road flyover could not unmoved.Although he is not for future riches and honour, but beg dignitaries, son this belief for Chinese literary world has launched three great talent, its contribution is also very big., of course, in addition to the role of feng shui, all with three Su Ping of hard work and they are endowed with special day component does not open, this makes them the only such.

Ming emperor zhu di why move to Beijing

Geomantic art has always been considered as the monarch, has traditionally been emperor grave capital, they wanted to have a good result.Celebrates its founding emperor also speak of the star ferry is shipped, known as pole-ziweiyuan, too small walls, days of city walls "three walls," said.Pole-ziweiyuan three walls, but the stars in the sky, with the symbol of the emperor palace right home, too small walls to symbolize three six Dan, day the city walls, with the symbol of the twelve countries territory, in the three walls for the head, a represents a fierce should be through a week of defects.

Now in nanjing, have been touched by the various ge emperor praised: "zhong longpan, the stone rests, release of Chinese walls, the home of the emperors also."Express deep cabinet pound Yang Rong said: "the mountains and rivers, the situation is majestic, wide, nine star's arch, wan dou mirror set each other off and hui, for Kyoto, mo more than jinling."Because of nanjing have such terrain, has the capital.Zhu yuanzhang started at the end of the yuan dynasty, and the counsellor Feng Guoyong advice: "jinling, imperial capital, dial the thought at all."After having obtained the world, zhu yuanzhang DingDing nanjing, ordered the strategist liu bowen planning to build the palace here.Capital prospecting ginnie liu bowen, he came to the zhong shan, the quartet walk careful measurement, carefully chosen the best position of the palace, and embedded piles as a tag, and then report back to the palace to zhu yuanzhang.Zhu yuanzhang listen to very happy, after the location of liu bowen told high about repair the house of the queen, queen high way: "your majesty is the son of heaven, the whole world is you, the selected palace is such a thing, why listen to liu bowen?"Zhu yuanzhang after listening to a high of words, feel right, had the zhong shan, secretly will liu bowen positioning piles taken place.Early the next morning, zhu yuanzhang life liu bowen accompanied him to the selected target to have a look, and he came to the zhong shan.See him buried piles has been move by liu bowen, understand what is going on in the heart, just afraid to forcibly moved to come over, then said 1: "this place is also good, just unavoidable battle and move capital of offspring."After zhu yuanzhang listen to ignored.After the death of zhu yuanzhang, indeed as expected the Ming emperor Zhu Diqiang took his, and moved the capital Beijing.

Beijing since the yuan dynasty of its capital, it is called "the emperor", in jinyuan came back Kublai Khan was a man of insight where tu lu advice, and know that Beijing is the capital of the company better, there are "YouYan, grand situation, south jianghuai, north ShuoMo, center right, with the quartet worship" centers, and should be named after "YouYan" yan, can win the world, and all of the inheritance.Kublai Khan acceded to the throne after the big yan, its capital was mostly.Kublai Khan to charge detention tu lu, often said: "I this to face the world, where lu's work."Can imagine geomantic art at the time of the influence is how big.After the Ming emperor zhu di to oust his, one of his chief of staff, help thin advised him to Beijing its capital: "fu but Beijing, holy land of longxing;North pillow house agent, west of the taihang sceneries, the east mountain, overlooking the central plains, lies a great distance, the mountains and rivers, to control four leveling world, is in Jesus Christ."Zhu di, counsellor of the words, and then move to Beijing.

Zhejiang zhuge bagua village how feng shui layout

The settlement of families, according to feng shui Jian Village, this is the general rule of formation of ancient villages in China.But like zhejiang lanxi zhuge village, the name and home to the acme of a kind of culture, become a daily deduction of morality and philosophy, I'm afraid is still rare.

In various ge village, everything keep simple morals, ancient architecture, primitive farming, simple way of life, and the most magical about zhuge village, when the number is called feng shui layout must in village, China - jiugong gossip layout.27 the sun zhuge bagua village by zhuge liang zhuge big lion on construction since the middle of yuan dynasty, has a history of more than 600 years, although time migration, the personnel metabolism, overall structure did not change, so far is a marvel in the history of Chinese ancient architecture.Its connotation depth, amazing.

Zhuge village northwest low, backed by mountains, facing the water, is the situation of the pursuit of "heaven and earth potential".In addition, zhuge village in eight hill encircle, hill seems even even, shaped like a gossip eight directions become gossip.Building in our village as a cloud, houses, strewn at random have send.Roadway traffic, eight party echo.Zhong Chi located in the middle of the village like tai chi diagram of Yin and Yang, the eight alleys outward radiation, the formation of gossip, hundreds of the Ming and qing dynasties ancient building in our village, dao, provide thousands of appearance, beautiful style., these is the founder of village is good at choose the terrain, the surrounding natural environment and houses with double openings gossip, fully reflects the various ge big lion special geomantic art and elaborate conception.

Song and yuan, war is frequent, various ge big lion in layout design, also give full consideration to the defence problem.Zhuge village of complex terrain, houses alleyway layout changes, have the characteristics of the labyrinth, the jiugong gossip form layout, fully embodies the defense purposes.The anti-japaneseThe warPeriod, the Japanese aggressors from projecting avenue through the post, had not found a bustling village.During the period of northern expedition, the national revolutionary army and the warlord sun in three days of fighting village near zhuge village safe and sound.Find in the village building, surfacefacesBack to back, roadway and even has broken, like tong but closed;The actual situation, a stranger rushed into the village, often may not be the way in and not its size, thieves here and tend to give in easily.

The latter compound how feng shui layout

"Curtilage the good prosperous" is the pursuit of the Chinese for thousands of years of residential culture, landscape auspicious feng shui is looking for building site evaluation system, is one of the principles of Chinese ancient geographical location and layout.

Chinese style western-style buildings surrounded by buildings more space, on the contrary, center construction, and space surrounded by buildings.Chinese style house is left and right sides is symmetrical, more space symmetry design, is to the person natural organic imitation, this kind of imitation can make human get sensory pleasure and edify sentiment, aesthetic feeling, and thus beneficial to health of body and mind.So the Chinese compound use is more partial structure and courtyard compete on low, the atrium is open, the pecking order, hierarchical.First, low wing and smaller than the first.From palace to folk, all follow this pattern, the latter house has these characteristics, and has long been preserved.

Feng shui on jin merchants in the house, in the room for honour person preferred elders, courtyard first atria roofs not only higher than wing, steps may be a two stage, house advocate in the daily life, receive a visitor, deliberation, upstairs is commonly used in buddhist temple, collection;Upper wing with brother younger brother east west out, the house of Commons in the same pattern arrangements for the next generation;South tower for XiuLou or cutting room, the lower house is locked, the upper living, miss his home front room or lobby, were significantly backward retraction, intended to reflect moral codes of "women's head back, can't be somebody" concept, the ladies in his 13-year-old gets married may go down.XiuLou and dining room are interlinked, more for dinner.Offices courtyard, no matter the first wing, no more step, even if the build order, level, to show its low host first.Servants, bodyguard, partial hospital, cook and others lived is close to the courtyard wing walls built a row of low-rise housing, leading to the courtyard of the bolt is installed on the courtyard side, so the owner may at any time to an inferior place that you visit, walking the humans are not random access courtyard.The honour concept, hierarchy as the feng shui and turn.

Jin house looks like a castle, three facing street, for enclosed brick wall all round, three zhangs, parapet and leaned on the mouth.Door sitting west toward the east, on the top floor, the middle gate is hole type.For a stone gate to bust, against the wall on both sides has a wall around, away at the end of the place is the ancestral temple, temple structure.Compound of each branch are "curtilage" layout, inside the house, north and south, east and west building of "house", more local proverb "east west, is not to save an old wife, an have no east west, no husband, only BeiFang monarch without a minister".Though several compound is left and right sides is symmetrical, the respective door must move aside, believe in feng shui, door to door is the mouth to mouth, so big stuttering small mouth, will cause between father and son, internal dispute, owe and, zhou phase avoid is ending.The yard in strict accordance with the method of big swim in arrangement, big swim years also called nine star flying palace, is one of the most commonly used in YangZhai feng shui feng shui principles, eight curtilage pie, feng shui is theoretical basis.According to this theory, in a first give priority to family living, fierce can arrange to do the warehouse or toilet, so the north to do more repository, southeast into buildingThe toilet。

Famous jstars courtyard is composed of six yard, north and south each research.North of inverse turning gossip to decorate, the research by shake hexagrams (east), kangua (north), qian (northwest) arranged in turn from the east to the northwest inverse turning counterclockwise, south along the turning the research pattern of gossip, by xun hexagrams (southeast), from the terms (south), he (southwest) from the southeast to the southwest in turn build order, final rendezvous in the hexagrams (is) in the west.Why build six compound?Is "liuhe" up and down, and it's moral perfection, in addition, six with "lu" homophonic, and auspicious, yu namely "lucky" also.In addition, six yuan and has the oracle of "six hexagram", six hexagram gossip, as the whole of feng shui.

Built in would compound, with things just for the shaft, on both sides of the layout, in accordance with the "east green dragon, west white tiger, better let tsing lung three points, don't put the white tiger is better" said of feng shui, door Ming building are very tall, from west to east town yard also gradually raised.

In order to comply with low feng shui principles from north to south, in the courtyard of the highest building is built in the north.And cao home courtyard of mountain building, and the three main building in the northern tip of symbol and built three pigs, cattle, sheep "sacrifice pavilion", is a deterrent to nan shan, with east river in the match, then became a place for "happiness as immense as the Eastern Sea, live as long as the southern mountain".Is built on the feng shui shan jingshan is the Forbidden City, the five pavilion, cao cao in the jin business but also to build three pavilion, the style is big.

With jstars courtyard, drainage courtyard, cao home courtyard, often family compound and built in the would is different, the wangs compound depends on the slope structure, by something confrontation Gao Jiaya, red fort door of two parts.Appearance, leaning up to the mountain, with - and floor fold, strewn at random have send.Inside, cave roof, tile vapor, elegant decoration, connotation is rich.Although is built according to the slope, still want to round into a big courtyard, the size of compound is formed, and read separately.Similar and yangquan zhangs' compound, pacify stone house compound, FenXi handsome house compound and qikou ShangZhai around, etc.

Of jin merchants house another characteristic is a variety of screen wall, screen wall in the door called zhaobi, called the screen door.Screen wall, screen wall are feng shui wall.

Jstars courtyard door opposite zhaobi,'s elaborate brick "hundreds of long-lived map", the life of figure on the one hundred "long life", is an abstract deductive became a symbol design, it is said that from the jin business representative Qiao Zhiyong's son-in-law, is in shanxi famous calligraphy homely praise spring, how not to mention its calligraphy value, is the wall, a pair of two couplet is quite resistant to people wonder, for zuo give the design of "unhelpful for compound die principle;Is the moral and storage can "article, jacaranda fulfillment of" and ".Jstars courtyard three brick making fine screen: a picture is engraved with the traditional decorative "turtle John kam", meaning clearly is like a turtle years long life;A picture is transferred to the body, Wei Jie badging Zhao Tieshan calligraphy wall, transcribing the southern song dynasty Lv Zuqian "provinces pro", it is designed to warn family be disciplined and law-abiding members;And there's a picture at the temple, the screen as a set of embossment pattern, on the auspicious phoenix tree, pine tree and sika deer, shoushan stone, etc., at the temple namely land temple, ford from the meaning of fortune's storage.

Often house zhaobi most screen wall in the courtyard, as many as JiuJiuBaShiYi, zhaobi 8, 13, tracery wall, screen wall, wall hanging, 28 thirty-two, tracery wall hanging ownership type screen.In the ancestral temple also has a "life of wall", 240 of longevity, take "the life of two hundred and forty cross" homophonic "two hundred and forty".Another fine there family precepts wall, eu wall wall, deer, samsung hebi, kirin cans, temple cans, wall and wall of landscape of the four seasons.

Geomantic exquisite "air," hoses through "in a" straight "Roman butyl, gas can't straight at room or bedroom, or not.Screen has slowed the function of the air, and "sentient beings" piece of feng shui principles, at the same time plays a slow the roaring of blunt ShaQi flow, coordinated with the gas phase within the residential, this is geomantic on so-called the "gas is not scattered".Zhaobi can cover the line of sight, screen wall can avoid gas rushed, keep the qi chang, so serious, crucial.In addition, with the latter house inside and out compound wear heart lobby, often placed screen operation system, its action also is equivalent to screen from a screen.

"The whole" how to become "quanjude"

The well-known "quanjude" believe that each one of us have heard of, but the name is how to, it is not always clear.

Quanjude, the founder of yan quanren came to Beijing, at the beginning of raw meat city street outside the front door do chickens, ducks, business is booming.He every day to the meat market stalls selling chickens, ducks, go through a dried fruit shop named "DE poly full".This shop signs while striking, business is declining.

In development for three years (1864) the shop is on the brink of collapse.Smart yan quanren came to seize the opportunity, take out the savings for many years, bought the "DE poly full" stores.A: what have a store of their own, the font size?Mr Yan quanren came then hire a feng shui.The geomantic gentleman turned two turn around the store, said: "you this is really a piece of land!Do you see the two lane on both sides of the store, like two stalks of the car, build a building in the future, as a top eight lifted the big car, future limit!"Mr Feng shui added: "however, before the shop is firm, unlucky to divide.Unless it ', gather all the old font size upside down and said "quanjude" namely, Fang Kechong its bad luck, on a royal road to learning."Mr Feng shui words, said yan quanren came to beam."Quanjude" the name is right up his mind, then his name has a "full" word, in both together "poly" is virtue, can flaunt oneself is virtue.So he will store the name as "quanjude", because of the well-run, the name has survived.