Early physiognomy was mainly based on observing the terrain, supplemented by good and bad fortune divination. In the Han Dynasty, influenced by the prevailing theory of Yin-Yang, Five Elements, the people who started the earth were linked to the operation of celestial bodies, resulting in taboos such as "ecliptic", "Tai Sui" and "Moon Building", as well as the art of painting houses with five tones and five surnames. The observation of tunnel (space) and the measurement of heaven (time) are parallel.
At the same time, it is believed that the location of ghost house is related to the fate of future generations, and Yuan An's story of Yuan An in the later Han Dynasty embodies this secular concept.
During this period, there appeared such monographs as Terrain of Palace House, Art of Painting Academy, Letters from Zhou's Family, Kamen Yu Jin Kui, etc. After Wei and Jin Dynasties, physiognomy not only inherited the Yin-Yang and Five Elements, but also inherited the law of the interaction between heaven and man, paying special attention to the situation of mountains and rivers, the orientation, back and arrangement structure of tombs and palaces, among which the prominent tendency was to pay more and more attention to the choice of tomb sites.
Guo Pu's Book of Burial clearly put forward the theory of "taking advantage of anger", arguing that the bones of the deceased can be induced by anger in the soil with the living descendants, thus affecting their fate. His theory was highly praised by later artists, accompanied by an extremely complicated theoretical system, which encouraged the custom of thick burial. In the Tang Dynasty, physiognomy began to mature. Famous artists such as Lv Cai, Li, Monk and his party have compiled many influential monographs.
In the Song Dynasty, physiognomy developed into two schools, namely "Zongmiao" and "Jiangxi". Zongmiao School, also known as Li School and House School, distinguishes Yin and Yang with the 24-Mountain Compass in spatial orientation, and determines the good or bad of the five elements through the flip of flying stars. It originated in the Qin, Han and Song Dynasties. Let's start with its great achievements. His theory that divination is more important than topographic observation is quite metaphysical, and it is far less popular in Xiangmu than in Jiangxi School.
Jiangxi School, also known as Chaos School and Chaos School, is said to have originated in Yang Junsong in the late Tang Dynasty. It is said that Empress Yang was in charge of the geography of Lingtai in Tang Palace. When Huang Chao invaded Chang 'an, he took advantage of the "Minister Yu Han" in the palace and fled to Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province to settle down, and then set up a school in Jiangxi. It focuses on topographic observation, and only looks at the coordination of dragons, caves, sand and water according to the beginning and end of mountains and rivers, which is called four classes, regardless of other taboos. Besides himself, there are his disciples Zeng Wenxi and Song Dynasty poets, Wu Jinglian and Cai. For thousands of years, their works, such as Rocking the Dragon Sutra, Doubting the Dragon Sutra, Burying with an Inverted Staff, Clearing the Capsule, Revealing the Heaven, and Discussion on Micro-discussion, have become required books for artists together with Burial Book.
After the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the theory of image number became more and more complicated, and there were more works than in any of the above periods, but most of them did not leave the "Jiangxi School". Yangzhai occupies the phase, and both Jiangxi and Zongmiao have it.
Specifically, the location of Yangji (city and residential base) emphasizes the laws of Jiangxi and has many reasonable factors; The internal modeling of houses (the shape and structural layout of houses) is purely based on the theoretical system of ancestral hall method. Three-dimensional starting, crossing nine planets in the palace, changing hexagrams in the sky and arranging hexagrams in the air are widely used, and making choices on the geomantic compass has become the core content of the house. This situation continued into modern times.
Song Zhao Wei Yan's "The foothills of the clouds are full of banknotes" Volume 4: "Since the Yellow Emperor made a big fuss (the legend is the official history of the Yellow Emperor) and divided Jiazi into five elements with branches and stems, geographers have said that the five elements belong to water, and geographers have said that they belong to water." Taoism also attaches great importance to geographical art. "Confucianism worships reason, compromises honesty and filial piety": "The geography is quiet. The ancients made it, and every time it moved silently, it was used in a variety of ways. " Zhang Sanfeng even thinks that geography corresponds to the principle of heaven and man, and the land has three levels: upper, middle and lower, which should be coordinated with different types of people. "The Complete Works of Mr. Sanfeng", the fifth volume of Tibetan Daoism: "The earth is among the three talents, and the principle of earth and heaven is corresponding. People want to be together, and the sky is also together; People want to choose the land, and the land also chooses people. " Another cloud said, "There are three levels of land today, and those who get land are also divided into three levels. First-class places, with astrology above and maps below, the formation of heaven and earth, and the stability of divination are all made by heaven and man. These are just sages and heroes, and only those with virtue and merit can get them. Medium-sized land is also a scene, but there are changes. Gossip fluctuates, the five elements push each other, and it is a group of true qi, which is faint and muffled. Only honest people with little virtue can get it. Inferior land, one mountain and one water, spread everywhere, see you in ten miles, see you again in a hundred miles, everywhere, everywhere. But we should also know the origin of the dragon, the back of the mountain and the color of the soil. Clever arrangement, compass should combine mountains and rivers, not compass. People will understand when they go hand in hand. People who are honest and have no complaints or evils can get it. These three classes are sloppy, but the following is not worth discussing, and there is no good reason to treat people who are not good at it. "