? Principle 1 of site selection: near mountains and water.
In the process of living practice, our ancestors summed up many life experiences with wisdom, among which it is very important to build settlements where there are mountains and water behind them. Today, almost all the primitive tribal sites discovered by archaeology were built on riverside platforms, which were suitable for the production and lifestyle of the ancients who were hunting, fishing and picking fruits at that time. In fact, this is also the origin of the principle of relying on mountains and rivers in Feng Shui theory.
? During the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang led his people to Weidong Township, Yueyang County, Hunan Province. The terrain here left a deep impression on him: the 500-mile shogunate mountain stretches here, and there are three mountain peaks protruding in the northeast and west, such as three large petals forming a lotus flower, which is a typical "adobe house" climbing form in Feng Shui. So Zhang took everyone to settle down here and live a quiet and peaceful life. Over the past 500 years, it has developed into a large family with more than 600 households and more than 3,000 people. This is a typical example of a good feng shui house.
? Site selection principle 2: soil quality inspection
Many tombs of ancient emperors have now become tourist attractions. It is not difficult to find that the location of these tombs is generally characterized by beautiful scenery, fresh air and lush vegetation. In other words, the terrain and water and soil here are excellent. In fact, in the process of choosing a mausoleum for the emperor, Mr. Feng Shui not only attached great importance to orientation and other factors, but also attached great importance to and criticized the local soil quality. In order to solve these problems, they often explore in situ, twist with their hands, chew the soil with their mouths, and even dig wells to see the deep soil and water quality, and bend over to listen to the flow and sound of groundwater. These seemingly pretentious, in fact, not without reason.