Ancient Chinese society was a ritual society. The feudal ethical system had been prevalent for a long time. In particular, the dominant Confucian ethics had a profound influence and penetrated into almost every aspect of social life and cultural thought. Feng shui is no exception. In its ideological system and space The structure is deeply imprinted with Confucian ethics.
Honoring parents is one of the principles that everyone in the world should follow. Confucianism pays special attention to funeral rituals. When parents die, a grand funeral must be held and mourning must be observed for three years. Feng Shui was developed on this basis. Some Feng Shui books often quote the discussions of the Confucian ancestors Confucius , Cheng Yi , Zhu Xi to promote Feng Shui.
The Three Cardinal Principles and the Five Constant Principles are the moral norms among people advocated in the feudal era. The Three Cardinal Guidelines are the guideline for the king and his ministers, the guideline for the father and the guideline for the son, and the guideline for the husband for the wife; the five constant principles are benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness. The three cardinal principles in Feng Shui are Qi, Mingtang, and Shuikou; the five constants are dragon, cave, sand, water, and direction. The three cardinal principles and the five constant principles are a whole and interconnected. Feng Shui uses this to summarize its main content, which inevitably feels far-fetched. It can be seen that Feng Shui has to move closer to the Confucianism system in order to survive and spread.
Feng Shui emphasizes the three talents of heaven, earth and man. Among the three talents, earth is the most important. Volume 2 of "Guan's Geography Zhimeng" says that among the three talents, the earth is the most important. All the beauty in the sky is due to the earth. Some people judge by appearance, some by heart, and some by fate. However, appearance is born in the heart, and the heart is reborn in fate. Although fate is in heaven, its roots are in the earth.
This passage means that human life is in heaven and man is in earth. Everything attached to heaven is determined by heaven. This is an affirmation of the view of destiny, a continuation of 's idealism , and the reason why the art of physiognomy and earth attaches great importance to authenticity.
When looking at the dragon veins in Feng Shui, from far to near, look for Taizu Mountain, Taizong Mountain, Shaozu Mountain , Shaozong Mountain, Mom and Dad Mountain, until the main point. Its composition system is like a family, was only released after the fifth generation of . When looking for a dragon, you must trace its origins and start from the ancestral mountain, which shows that the dragon's veins are long and the dragon's energy is deep. Usually the ancestral mountain and the ancestral mountain are the source of the mountain, and the parent mountain is the beginning of the mountain range where the school is located.
When "Boshan Chapter" discusses dragons, it discusses ancestors first and parents second: the method of searching for dragons, searching for ancestors, searching for parents and ancestors, living in the extremely high place, parents living in the middle and high place, the dragon body looks back at the ancestral mountain When making a dynasty, this is a return to the trend. The direction of the trend depends on the direction of the river. The direction of the direction is the direction of the river. The water from the ancestral mountain can reach the hall. Those who care about the ancestors are far superior.
This shows that in search of a dragon, one must not only look for the mountains of one’s ancestors and parents, but also that each mountain must have a feeling of looking back on the ancestors’ mountains and a sense of centripetal convergence, which still embodies the idea of loyalty and filial piety in the Chinese concept.
As early as Tang Dynasty , Bu Yingtian's "Xue Xin Fu" pointed out the relationship between ancestors and grandsons in the mountains: To make a fortune in the mountains, descendants are born from the ancestors, and branches are distributed from the roots. Meng Hao's annotation of this sentence in the Qing Dynasty is: far away, distant appearance; hairline, the origin of the mountain; ancestors, the origin of the mountain; descendants, the branches of the mountain. Therefore, those who come from a distant mountain to become prosperous must first come from the mountain of their ancestors, and then branch out and pass on from generation to generation. It is also the case that people have descendants from their ancestors.
Feng Shui pays great attention to the formal hierarchical order. It believes that the best geographical situation is like the ceremony where the emperor meets with his ministers. The emperor sits on the throne, with attendants on both sides, a majestic screen behind, a table in front, and courtiers in the distance, so Feng Shui likes a similar terrain when choosing a site: there are layers of barriers at the back, and guards on the left and right sides. There is a mountain of sand in front of it, and a mountain of Chao Gong in the distance.
Feng Shui believes that there should be shielding guards around the dragon veins, otherwise the main dragon will be alone. The best situation for protecting the pulse is that there are those who are supporting you and those who are supporting you, and those who are protecting and wrapping around you. The more you entrust, the more you protect, the more you wrap, the more noble the Dragon God will be. Feng shui is also divided into Shi Sha, Wei Sha, Jin Sha and Chao Sha according to the arrangement of the sand. The etiquette system of Shi, Wei, Ying and Chao is completely borrowed from Confucian ethics and is a kind of inferiority between master and servant. system of ideas.
Because Feng Shui regards a good geographical situation as the star holding the moon, or as a matter of welcoming the emperor, some people simply regard a good Feng Shui place as a throne shape, a grand master's chair shape, etc. This is also the humanistic aspect of Feng Shui. Element. All of this shows that Feng Shui adheres to the Confucian ethical system to a large extent, and also reminds people that the reason why Feng Shui has been popular in ancient China for a long time is also inseparable from the protection of Confucianism.
Source: Documentary "Chinese Feng Shui Culture"
