The Book of Changes is the essence of Feng Shui and a must-read for beginners of Feng Shui. It has many scientific theories in transforming nature and sorting out geomantic omen, which is the basis of geomantic omen science and has strong guiding significance for people to better transform nature and improve their lives.
The Book of Changes is the head of the group classics, which generally include four books: Daxue, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius. The construction of the Five Classics, including The Book of Songs, Shangshu, Book of Rites, The Book of Changes, The Spring and Autumn Annals, and The Four Books and Five Classics, cannot be separated from the thought of the Book of Changes, because the Book of Changes interprets the truth of the universe and people, which is the academic significance of the Book of Changes.
Simply put, Feng Shui is only a small branch of the Book of Changes, which is a systematic philosophy involving society, human beings, the universe and many other aspects.
In some ways, they are the same. The central argument of the Book of Changes is that Yin and Yang are the main basis of geomantic omen. Feng Shui explains the yin and yang of a place, talking about the location, whether it is water or mountains, even the format of the room, and the placement of all kinds of things, all of which are about yin and yang, in line with the fate of everything in the Book of Changes, even the orientation of the room and the degree to which the room is exposed to sunlight.
The Book of Changes covers a wider range of things, and Feng Shui is a knowledge that specifically explains one aspect, especially Yin and Yang. The Book of Changes is the first person to put forward this theory, and Feng Shui has been further developed after learning the Book of Changes and fully absorbing it.
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Feng Shui is a mysterious art with a long history in the Chinese nation. It is also known as Kate art and Qing-nang art, and more academically, it is called Kanyu. Feng Shui is the force of nature and the great magnetic energy of the universe. Wind is vitality and field energy, while water is flowing and changing.
Geomantic omen is the art of observing geography on the spot, which was also called geomantic omen theory in ancient times. This is a philosophy that studies the laws of the environment and the universe. Since man is a part of nature, nature is also a part of man, reaching the realm of "harmony between man and nature".
The founder of Feng Shui is Xuan Nv, the Taoist goddess. The relatively perfect knowledge of Feng Shui rose in the Warring States Period. The core idea of Feng Shui is the harmony between man and nature, so as to achieve "harmony between man and nature". Early geomantic omen is mainly about the methods and principles of the location, orientation and construction of palaces, houses, villages and cemeteries, and it is a kind of metaphysics to choose suitable places.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Yijing
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Baidu encyclopedia-Zhouyi