Dr. Joseph Needham about feng shui?

Joseph Needham was a famous British scientist and experts in Chinese history.His definition of feng shui in the "Chinese history", "adjust the residence and strangersThe deadResidence, is suitable for the magic and coordination in the local universe breathing."

He called the geomantic learn a quasi science, Chinese ancient landscape architecture.Feng shui, he argues, is helpful to many aspects of actual life, such as: it puts forward planting trees and bamboo forest with wind, emphasis on water near the value of homes.

Although he thought that feng shui also has a superstition, but also contains the aesthetic elements, "China's rural, houses, the beauty of the countryside, without charge, can prove this point."