What is Fung Shui??

Answer 1

Chinese way of bringing together items in perfect harmony.

Answer 2

Feng Shui is the art of creating a home environment that brings balance and harmony.

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Answer 3

Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of using stones, crystals, water and even live plants to create a lot of positive energy in one's living space.

Answer 4

Feng shui (pronounced "fung shway") is the ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement of space to achieve harmony with the environment. The literal translation is "wind and water".

Feng shui is not a decorating style. Rather, it is a discipline whose guidelines are compatible with many different decorating styles.

The source of the term is purported to come from the poem "The winds are wild/The sun is warm/The water is clear/The trees are lush".

Feng shui is a discrete Chinese belief system involving a mix of geographical, religious, philosophical, mathematical, aesthetic, and astrological ideas.

For a place to have "good feng shui" is for it to be in harmony with Nature, to have "bad feng shui" is to be incongruous with Nature. People aren't usually described as having good or bad feng shui.

Before the 20th century, very little written, authoritative Chinese texts exist describing feng shui. Knowledge primarily passed down through the oral tradition, but it was also believed to be intuitive and derivable from common sense and our feeling of what is natural. Eitel traces the origins of feng shui as a distinct belief system to Choo-he's writings and commentaries from the Song dynasty (1126-1278). Choo-he's thought greatly influenced Confucianism and became the foundation of feng shui. But, more broadly speaking, feng shui's roots go back to the origins of Chinese philosophy.

In the 19th century, the Chinese government regularly published almanacs containing all the charts, diagrams, and numerical data used in feng shui practice. At the same time, disputes over the proper application of feng shui were resolved in official courts of law. When rebellious groups arose, an initial response governmental response was often to desecrate the graves of the rebels' ancestors.

Early English-speaking settlers in China in the mid-19th century reportedly ran into difficulties sparked by feng shui. Much like modern landowners having problems with building codes, these settlers had trouble in construction and renovation because their proposals did not conform to feng shui principles (many people believed feng shui having problem with building code, that is not right. Indeed, feng shui is Chinese ancestor's building code, the very basic theory methodized the living house and environment into a system for harmonizing with nature. Government building code is still wrapped by feng shui). Further, when unwanted foreigners tried to purchase land, they would be directed to spots with topographies causing very bad feng shui. This happened, for instance, to the English consulate who, when demanding land, was ceded the island of Sha-meen on a mud flat on the Canton river. The houses became white ants.

Early Western commentators on feng shui were skeptical and derogatory. A typical one in 1885 wrote "if any one wishes to see to what a howling wilderness of erratic dogmatism the human mind can arrive, when speculation usurps the place of science, and theories are reverenced equally with facts, let him endeavour to fathom even the elementary principles of that abyss of insane vagaries, the science of Feng-Shui." Others noted that, while naive as a science, it is more accurate than some Western mythologies.

Some scholars have noted that the general guidelines of feng shui have been followed across times and cultures using different language and with different justifications.

Answer 5

Have you ever been in a home, building or garden where you felt particularly comfortable or uncomfortable and didn't know why? Feng Shui (pronounced "fung shway") - meaning wind and water - is an ancient Chinese healing art of living in harmony with your surroundings. It is the art of placement and design, facilitating balance of energy in any given space while maintaining its free flow. ...
http://www.eastendhealth.com/glossary.asp

(Chinese, feng shui: "wind and water"): The ancient Chinese practice of studying and following the natural currents of the Earth to ensure the proper alignment with them so that Qi is not disrupted. Feng Shui is used to determine the suitability and layout of homes, businesses, burial grounds and temples.
http://www.divinitydice.com/dictionary.htm

Literally wind-water, Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of placement based upon a philosophy of the movement of chi or natural energy through our environments. By following the patterns of nature, a practitioner will advise on the placement of everything from an individual object in the home or workplace to the positioning of a building upon property. Feng Shui shows us how to support the flow of energy in our lives to augment health and prosperity.
http://www.footnotesforhealth.com/definitions.html

Great site to check out all avenues of feng shui:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&defl=en&q=define:Feng+Shui&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

Answer 6

Feng Shui is a practice of arranging objects and decorations for maximum aesthetic pleasure. Here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_shui