The Living Earth Manual of Feng-shui: Chinese GeomancyThe Chinese have always stressed the importance of living in harmony with nature. They believe towns, buildings, and rooms should be designed and constructed so as not to obstruct the channels of energy that surround the earth. 13 tables, 16 line drawings. |
Contents
Form School | 36 |
ideal and real landscape | 43 |
Typical Chinese map of a hsüeh | 51 |
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accumulation of ch'i aligned ancestor animal Azure Dragon begins burial calendar central needle centre ch'i flows Ch'ien Chêng Chen CHIEH chih China Ching compass points Compass School constellations cycle degrees diviner's board divisions dragon's lair Earth ch'i Earth Plate eight trigrams fen-chin feng Fêng Chen feng-shui compass feng-shui hsien-sheng Figure Fire five elements flow of ch'i Form School Former Heaven Sequence geomancy Heaven and Earth Heaven Pool Heavenly Stems hexagrams hill Hong Kong hsiu hsüeh indicate influence K'un lair landscape Later Heaven Sequence lines Lo-shu located magnetic Metal Ming dynasty mountain Nine Moving Stars orientation outer Heaven Plate p'an practitioner Rings rivers seam needle seasons sexagenary characters shih shui siting straight stream symbols t'ien Taoist tiger tion tombs Tung Sing twelve Earthly Branches Wang Wang Kang watercourses weather ch'i whilst wind Wood Yang and Yin Yin and Yang Yün-Sung