To judge whether a Feng Shui scholar is a beginner, it mainly depends on whether he can pass three levels: responding to things, responding to people, and responding to periods. This is the minimum requirement for getting started with Feng Shui.
Zhao Ruoqing's "Collection of Drawing Feng Shui Examples" and "Xuankong Feng Shui"
1. Orientation and Opening the Door:
First, Judgment and Orientation:
Building a house or a tomb naturally requires vertical orientation. Generally speaking, it is not too difficult to set the direction. You can find the center point of the land or the center of the golden well of the tomb and use the compass correctly, and then you can set the direction. In the Seventh Luck, you must first set up the direction of the mountain, and then consider the direction of the arrival of the double stars. Do not set the direction of the mountains and water or the direction of the double stars. As long as you coordinate well with the environment, it will be easy to establish an orientation. However, it is not difficult to stand and judge the direction. The real skill lies in judging the direction.
Why is it difficult to determine direction? Modern architecture tends to be artistic, with its three-dimensional shapes and various cross-sectional shapes. According to its uses, there are residential buildings, office buildings, commercial buildings, commercial and residential buildings, commercial office buildings, memorial halls, exhibition halls, science museums, research institutes, shipping halls, customs buildings, etc. Due to different uses, their shape requirements are also different. Determining the sitting direction of a building is not determined based on its use, but based on its cross-sectional shape. Newly built buildings are easier to handle because they have overall drawings and partial drawings. The east-west, north-south, and ins and outs are relatively clear and easier. Old buildings are very troublesome. There are no drawings. You can't climb to the top of the building to observe, and you can't go through the walls to find out. When you board the elevator, pass the left and right corners, and enter the host's house, you are already confused and don't know where you are in the world. If you can't figure out where to sit, everything will be impossible. Based on many years of experience, the author believes that three steps are needed to achieve judgment.
The first step is to identify the building type. Building shapes are basically divided into two categories: one is square, including square, rectangular, I-shaped, concave-shaped, straight-shaped, S-shaped, right-angled, etc., please see the left picture below. The other type is non-square, including triangle, polygon, circle, rhombus, Y-shaped, cross, tic-tac-toe, convex-shaped, etc. Please see the right picture below.
To determine the direction of a house, you must operate the compass correctly. As mentioned above, when using a compass, you should pay attention to the influence of the building steel on the magnetic needle and avoid magnetic induction. More important is operating the compass correctly.
In the past, Feng Shui masters viewed mountains and waters with a bit of mystery and superstition. They believed that Luo Geng was a sacred object and could not be played with casually, let alone dirty. Wrap it tightly and be careful and meticulous when using it. Logically speaking, the compass is a precision instrument, and it should be stored and used with care. If it is damaged or soiled, it will lose its accuracy. Feng Shui masters who use compasses should try their best to keep the compass mysterious. To ordinary people, the words and symbols in the compass are simply mysterious heavenly books. For ordinary Feng Shui masters, they can only understand a few circles. , other circle articles are still heavenly books. He plays with the compass in front of others just to show his mysterious greatness. In fact, he himself knows no more than others. In the past, Feng Shui masters had to recite the incantation three times before using the compass, especially when burying someone else's grave. The incantation was:
There are three wonders in the sky, six rituals in the earth, and the spirits are strange, so they are buried. Corpses,
Yellow sand and red earth, rubble tombs, square and yellow, hundreds of steps, you can see them with a needle.
I don’t know where this spell comes from or who it was written by. Scholars can ignore it. However, it is indeed necessary to learn how to operate.
To hold the compass, you must use both hands. The compass is held flatly in both hands. One side of the compass is against the chest and abdomen, or slightly away from the chest and abdomen. When measuring, people should face the direction of the house and use their minds to make the outer extension line of the compass form a parallel line with the direction of the house. The person's body should stand firmly and vertically, with the mind calm and the hands calm, with the eyes aimed at the Yanxing line, and then slowly turn the turntable with the thumbs of both hands, so that the magnetic needle completely overlaps the red line at the bottom of Tianchi, with the needle tip facing the line tip, and the needle pointing upward. End to end of the line, the readings in both directions are on the vertically intersecting red lines fixed on the disk. The reading on the end facing the house is sitting, and the reading on the end facing your chest and abdomen is facing.
To determine the direction of the house, you must understand the reading clearly.
After using a compass to measure a house, there must be a reading on the surface of the compass. Sitting on Zi must be pointing towards noon, sitting on Wu must be pointing on Zi; sitting on You must be pointing on Mao, and sitting on Mao must be pointing on Unity. A Tai Chi circle has 24 grids, which are determined as 24 mountain directions. Each grid has 15 degrees, that is, the center of each character is 7.5 degrees to the left and 7.5 degrees to the right. When we measure the direction of a mountain, it is rarely in the middle, either to the left or to the right. This results in a deviation in the direction of the mountain or direction. For example, in Tian Yuan Long Zi Wu Mao You Qian Kun Gen Xun, each character leaning to the left is close to the human Yuan Dragon, and each character leaning to the right is close to the Earth Yuan Dragon. If each character deviates more than four degrees to the left or right, it is bidirectional. Therefore, when sitting on a mountain, the direction can be divided into forward direction (also called lower hexagram) and concurrent direction (also called rising star). For the forward direction, the lower hexagram star chart should be used, and for the concurrent direction, the rising star chart should be used. The good and bad luck of the house, It shows up on the astrolabe.
Second, open the door and receive Qi:
The Yangzhai uses the door to receive Qi. The door is related to the life and death of the family, so the door is very important. What is a door? The entrance for family members to enter and exit is the door. This is the answer from environmental science, but not the answer from Feng Shui. Of course, the door is for entry and exit, but more importantly, it is for receiving Qi. Feng Shui is about Qi. Incoming Qi and outgoing Qi, receiving Qi and exhaling Qi, all depend on the door. Therefore, Feng Shui calls the mouth where Qi is received and exhaled as the door. If the family contains vitality and prosperity, the family will prosper; if the family contains evil and dead energy, the family will decline. In Feng Shui, door is a category, which includes doors of various forms and functions. Starting from the door that collects Qi, then moving to the inner door, and then to the door of the home, it affects the whole family. Therefore, from the perspective of the functions that affect the good and bad luck of a family, doors are divided into three parts: Naqi door, inner road door, and home door.
1. Naqi door: The door that is directly related to the external air is the Naqi door. For example, there is a street in front of the house, or a field (square, playground, station, parking lot, activity venue, etc.), or a lake, a river, or a farmland, which is a place where the air from the ground flows and gathers. The opening that absorbs the Qi in this place is the Qi-Na gate. If the main entrance and exit of a building is close to the outside air, the main entrance is the air intake door. If there is a wall surrounding the building, and there is a gate at a certain position on the wall that connects to the outside air, the gate of the wall is the air intake door. The door of the building is not a gas door. If there is a wall outside a building, and there is a dead end outside the door of the wall, and there is an opening at the outer end of the alley that is connected to the outside air, then the entrance to the alley is the air intake door. The door of the building and the gate of the wall are not the gas gate. Please look at the three pictures in the attachment:
Why is the doorway directly connected to the outside air designated as the air intake door? This should be understood from the original meaning of flying from the mountain to the two stars. From the perspective of the horoscope, in order for the star sitting in the mountain to have an effect on the horoscope, the star sitting in the mountain must enter the center and then fly to the eighth house. Similarly, for a Mercury-directed planet to have an effect on the horoscope, the Mercury-directed planet must be in the center and then fly to the eighth house. The mountain star represents the effect of mountain air, and the Xiangxing represents the effect of water air. In other words, they must have "qi" themselves, and they must be "qi" before they can be effective. Without "qi", how can they have any effect? From the actual situation of building houses in ancient times, the direction of the house is the door, and the door is the direction; outside the door is an open place for activities, called the Mingtang. The Mingtang gathers the natural energy from the opposite direction and sends it into the gate (for the gate, it absorbs it). The Qi in the door is sent into the house and sent to the central hall of the house. Then it is distributed from the central hall to all parties, so that each party has Qi.
Without a door to collect Qi, how can all parties in the house be Qi? The mountain tombs of Yinzhai attach great importance to the bright hall. The purpose is to gather the natural Qi in the bright hall and then send it into the tomb. Therefore, the tombstone (grave door) is the door to directly receive the Qi. Strictly speaking, the reason why a door is called a door is to receive Qi. If it does not receive Qi, it cannot be called a door. This is why the doorway directly connected to the outside air is designated as the air intake door.
What does the valve look like? The naqi door is also the entrance and exit of the family. When people enter the house, the air from the bright hall is brought into the house; when people leave the house, the waste air from the house is taken out of the house. This is like human breathing, expelling the old and absorbing the new. The energy gathered in the Mingtang comes from all directions, and the most recent ones are the energy in front of the door and the energy behind the house (sitting on the mountain). The second is the Qi outside each direction. For example, when building a house facing the meridian direction in Zishan, the first thing to receive is the qi from the meridian direction.
If there is a bright hall at noon to gather the noon energy, the Meridian Gate can receive it; if there is no bright hall at noon and no place to gather the qi, the Meridian Gate will not be able to receive the qi, and there will be no way to move toward the stars. Since there is no Qi in the noon direction, we have to accept the Qi in other directions. If there is Qi coming from Kun Fang, there is a door open in Kun Fang to receive Qi from Kun Fang. Kunfang's door becomes the Naqi door. The Qi from the Kun side passes through the Kun Gate, and then enters the flying cloth, and the Kun Qi has an effect on the house.
What is the function of the valve? The function of the naqi gate is to receive the qi of the direction. For example, Zishan is facing the noon direction. There is the Qi of the Mingtang at noon, and there is also a door for receiving Qi. This Qi-receiving door can accept the Wu Qi. There is the Qi of Mingtang in the Kun direction, and there is also a door to receive Qi. This Qi receiving door accepts the Qi of Kun. You Fang has the Qi of Mingtang, and there is a door to receive Qi. This Naqi Gate accepts You Qi. Qianfang has the Qi of Mingtang, and there is a door for receiving Qi. This Qi-receiving door accepts Qian Qi. Zifang has the Qi of Mingtang, and there is a door to receive Qi. This door can accept Zi's Qi. Gen Qi has the Qi of Mingtang, and there is a door to receive Qi. This door accepts Gen Qi. Maofang has the Qi of Mingtang, and there is a door to receive Qi. This door receives Mao Qi. In Xunfang, there is the Qi of Mingtang, and there is a door to receive Qi. This door can accept Xun Qi. As for whether the received Qi is good or bad, it is up to the owner to choose; good Qi can be used, but bad Qi cannot be used, and the door to receive Qi cannot be opened in the bad direction.
How to determine the intake valve? The key is to find where the energy gathers. As mentioned above, streets, squares, playgrounds, stations, parking lots, sports venues, lakes, rivers, and farmland can all be used as Qi Gathering Halls as long as there is slow air flowing and gathering. Usually the place where two rivers meet (called Sancha Water) and the lake where the water gathers is where the Qi gathers. But there are no rivers in the city. Instead, there are streets and small venues. Wherever people gather or where pedestrians stay, it is a place where energy gathers. If there are many vehicles gathering or at the intersection of highways, it can also be used as a gathering hall. In short, places where there are many pedestrian activities and gatherings are the places where energy gathers the most. The door opened in this place becomes the intake door. Urban houses are densely packed, and some of them are surrounded by neighbors. They are neither close to streets nor rivers and lakes. They only have alleys and alleys as access channels. The air intake of such houses is often the entrance to the alley. Because the alley entrance is connected to the main street, it is also the place where most pedestrians come and go. This place can also be used as a Qi Gathering Hall.
2. Internal road and internal door: The passage from the intake door to the home door is the internal road, and the door in the middle of the internal road is the internal door. If the main entrance of the building is designated as the air intake door, then the passages, stairs, and elevators in the house are all internal roads; the stair doors and elevator doors are internal road doors. If the wall door outside the building is designated as an air intake door, then the passages within the wall, the passages, stairs, and elevators in the building are all internal passages; and the main door and elevator doors of the building are all internal passage doors. If the alley entrance is designated as the entrance door, then the entire alley, wall passages, house passages, elevators, etc. are internal roads; and wall doors, building doors, elevator doors, etc. are all internal road doors.
The function of the inner passage and the inner passage door is to introduce and intercept air. In order for the air collected by the air intake door to enter the house, an air intake path is required. There are long and short internal roads. The long ones include alleys, gardens, stairs, elevators, etc.; the short ones are just the passages and stairs inside the house. Generally, the longer the inner path, the more impurities; the shorter the inner path, the less impurities. In addition to entraining air, the internal circuit itself will not affect the good or bad luck in the house. In addition to intercepting the air, the inner door itself will not affect the good or bad luck in the house. However, if the inner path is too long and straight, and there is no inner path door to intercept the air, side effects may occur, such as straight path injection. If the air received by the valve is evil and is introduced through a straight path, it will become a road rush and cause gun evil. Therefore, the internal air path should be avoided and should be curved instead of straight. This is the so-called principle in Feng Shui that "qushui has feelings". If there is a straight path to shoot out, an internal gate should be set up to intercept the incoming air and buffer its impact, thus reducing the power of the evil spirit.
There are three types of internal roads:
Internal roads in alleys. The alley is also called a hutong. If there are exits at both ends of the alley, this type of alley cannot be called an internal road, and the entrances and exits at both ends cannot be called air intake doors, but can only be called external air vents. Only an alley with an entrance at one end, or a dead end, can have its entrance and exit become an air intake door, and its long and short passages can be called internal air intake roads.
The door is also a gate or aperture. The Qi drawn from the inner passage passes through each entrance (inner passage door) and reaches the door of the household. The entrance makes the flowing Qi form folds, bends, and buffers; it makes the air flow become "affectionate" Qi.
3. Home door: The home door is the entrance and exit of a family. A family living in the same apartment, sharing the same kitchen, sharing the same dining table, and sharing the same meals becomes a small family. The entrance and exit of this small family is the door. The home door is directly connected to the internal activities of the family.
The concept of home is quite complex. The so-called "hometown" refers to the village as home; the so-called family members with the same surname refer to the same surname as the home; the so-called ancestors refer to the same ancestral hall, and the same ancestors refer to the home; the so-called same family refers to the same family, with the common gate as the home; the so-called same ancestors refer to the same family, and the grandparents As a family; the so-called family with parents refers to parents as home. Due to the complexity of "home", the meaning of "home" becomes ambiguous. Now the author defines "family door" as the entrance and exit of a small family, so as to determine the conceptual scope of "family door" and discuss it in order to have guidelines. What is the nature of the family door?
If the entrances and exits of alleys and alleys are Naqi doors, the doors that the interior entrance passes through include wall doors, building doors, and staircase doors, and finally reach the door of a small family household, this door is the inner door. If the wall door is an air door, and the inner entrance passes through the building door, the staircase door, and finally reaches the door of a small family household, this door is the inner door. If the main entrance and exit of the building is an air door, passing through the stairs or elevator, and finally reaching the door of a small family household, this door is the inner door. In this way, it is clear that the door of the house is the inner door.
There are two situations that need to be screened. One situation is a small villa-style building in which a family (small family) lives. The small building door is the door to the house. If the small building door is connected to the outside air, or there is a bright hall outside the door, the small building door is regarded as a naqi door. If the small building door is not connected to the outside air and there is no bright hall outside the door, the small building door is regarded as an inner door. Another situation is that the residents downstairs in the building do not use the door of the building, but open the door elsewhere (such as the balcony or window). This is an alternative way and is not connected to the interior of the building. The door of this resident is the home door. If this door is connected to the outside air, or there is a bright hall outside the door to gather the air, this door is regarded as a naqi door. If this door is neither connected to the outside air nor has a bright hall to gather energy, but only an inner road connecting to the outside, the door is regarded as an inner door. At this point, the category of the family door has been determined to be the inner door. This inner door does not have the function of a valve, nor does it have the function of controlling the whole family. To make it clear, the fortune star of the door cannot enter the eighth house of Feibu, but can only affect one corner of the star. After determining the category of the inner door, we can understand its specific meaning one by one.
First, the type of inner door. The most common interior doors are those of each household in a building. There are many residents in the building. There are high-rise buildings with elevators and multi-story buildings without elevators. High-rise buildings use elevators as entrances and internal roads. People go up and down the elevator, driving air currents up and down before reaching their homes. Some elevators are located in the center, some elevators are located on both sides, and some elevators are located outside the wall. No matter where the elevator is located, as long as people enter and exit through the main door of the building after getting out of the elevator, the elevator belongs to the entrance hall and internal road, and they are both passages that lead and slow down the air. There are many families living on each floor of a high-rise building, and the door of each family is in a different direction. It can be said that there are twelve directions. The doors of each house surround the elevator, absorbing the energy introduced by the elevator. In multi-story buildings without elevators, pedestrian stairs are used as air intake entrances. There are also multiple households on each floor, each with its own door in a different direction. . . . . . . .