Since ancient times, Chinese people have had an extraordinary belief in Feng Shui. From the top to the top, from the top to the common people, every household has more or less a little bit of care. From where to where to open the entrance door, you can attract wealth and treasure, and from where to where to sleep, you can be healthy.
However, with the development of human science, many old ideas have been labeled as feudal superstition. So, is the Feng Shui thing that China has always valued since ancient times really just a pure feudal superstition?
About one-third of a person's life is spent in sleep, which means that most people spend about 26 years on average in bed sleep. No one will deny how important sleep is to us, but problems such as neurasthenia , light sleep, insomnia often bother us.
Since ancient times, there has been such a legend in Feng Shui that the bed faces north and south and the coffin faces east and west. We won’t talk about this coffin facing east and west. Just say that the bed faces north and south. In the Feng Shui and Five Elements, it is believed that the north belongs to water, the south belongs to fire, and water is Taiyin and fire is the sun. Therefore, ancient people believed that as long as we fall asleep in the north and south direction, we can harmonize yin and yang and feel refreshed.
Let’s not comment on the right or wrong of this statement. Just talking about the conclusion of the north-south direction sleep today, will it work?
So from the perspective of our modern science, the existence of the north and south magnetic fields of the earth is undeniable. It is precisely because the direction of the earth's magnetic field is north-south, so when we do some magnetic field experiments, the field effect caused by magnetic changes causes the arrangement pattern and regular changes of iron sand to appear, which can be said to be visible to the naked eye.
We know that magnetism has the characteristics of attracting various metals including iron, and the blood in our human body contains a large amount of iron. At the same time, we also know that in the human blood circulation system , the most important aorta and large veins are in line with the direction of the head and foot of the human body.
In this way, some scholars believe that in the environment of the earth, the magnetic line of penetrates the north and south. Therefore, water molecules, blood, and mineral elements in the human body may be more or less affected by the earth's magnetic lines.
Then when our sleep is the same as the direction of the north and south magnetic lines of the earth, it may make blood circulation smoother. At this time, we are most likely to fall asleep and have the highest quality of sleep.
On the contrary, if we rest in the east and west directions, the direction of blood circulation in the human body is exactly in the direction of the cutting of the earth's magnetic force line, so it may affect the distribution of blood in the body, especially the blood distribution of the brain. This will cause insomnia or dreams, which will affect the quality of sleep.
You should know that the word home is of great significance in the eyes of Chinese people. It means a kind of inheritance, a sense of belonging, and Feng Shui of the home. In fact, many of them look very fine and insignificant details.
But we must have been at home for a relatively long period of our lives, so it is often these details that gather sand to form towers, gradually affecting every bit of our lives.
Since ancient times, we have paid a lot of attention to the Feng Shui of the entrance hall, because the entrance hall is a buffer area between the main door and the living room after entering the door, and it is also the first area behind us entering the door. So this is our first impression of the home. It is definitely self-evident to say that it is important.
There is a saying in Feng Shui, called "the hall is bright and the room is dark". The ancients believed that the entrance must be bright and tidy, so that it can drive away evil spirits and keep the family peaceful. In the old age, there are even many more important families who pay more attention to the entrance. The entrance hall will be equipped with Evergreen Light , which will keep the entrance hall bright.
So from the perspective of modern people, whenever the day is over, when you get home and open the door, the first thing you see is the warm lights in the entrance hall, which is definitely much more comfortable than the darkness when you enter, especially for those friends living alone.
If you enter the door, it is dark and the smell of leftovers and garbage from yesterday comes from your nose. After walking two steps like a thief, you almost tripped by the express box the day before yesterday. It must be bad.
So the entrance does not have to be big, but it must be clean, tidy and bright, which will make people feel comfortable as soon as they get home.
As for exorcising evil spirits, if you think about it carefully, any light on the hall in your home in the middle of the night, it may have a certain deterrent effect on the guilty thief.
In ancient Chinese architectural Feng Shui , it is believed that airflow cannot directly impact the halls and bedrooms, which will make people easily tired and restless. So we can see that in the ancient buildings of many wealthy families, there will be a screen wall at the entrance of the door, which is what we often call shadow back and screens.
We all know that there is a word called weathering and wind erosion. Generally speaking, we say wind erosion landform , which means that some terrain has strong winds blowing all year round, leaving obvious traces on the ground or stones. Some furniture is easily weathered and looks dilapidated in a better ventilated environment or in a house by the sea.
Furniture is like this, and the same is true for houses. Because the houses in the air outlet are washed by the wind for a long time, the oxidation level will be higher than those houses that are not in the air outlet. Over time, the houses in the air outlet will definitely look older than houses that are not in the air outlet.
Rebar and cement are the case, let alone people. Therefore, from the perspective of life, avoiding the whistling convective wind blowing directly on the hall and bedroom can make people indoors feel quieter. On the other hand, if the house cannot be chosen, just add a screen to increase more privacy.
Especially in ancient times, many houses were located in the streets and alleys, and people came and went, and passers-by looked at the house from time to time. The people in the house were a little undescending, so wouldn’t they feel very embarrassed?
So only by adding a layer of barrier between the hall and the door can the people in the house feel 's peace of mind.
As the ancients often said, hanging objects on the head of the bed can easily cause blood disasters, hanging on the foot of the bed can easily cause restlessness or even terror in the middle of the night.
Actually, if you think about it carefully, is this superstition? Isn’t this a typical empirical theory? We hang a painting on the head of the bed. Once the nails loosen, the painting will fall and hit the head. Isn’t it a bloody disaster?
You have nothing to do with a mirror at the foot of the bed. When you get up at night, you don’t turn on the lights. When you see yourself sleepy and unkempt in the mirror, it’s normal not to be shocked. You must be restless.
A big taboo in home feng shui is to lie on the beam. The ancients thought that if there is a beam on the bed where we sleep, it would be easy to press the bed, and the body would not be able to move half asleep and half awake.
What is ghost pressing the bed? Putting aside some fantasy cases, science believes that it is a situation in which the body and the brain are incoherent when we enter deep sleep, and the body has not yet fully awakened. This situation mostly occurs when the room is cold, the room is closed, and the oxygen is insufficient.
However, according to the theory of architecture, cold walls in winter is a common phenomenon that everyone knows. So whether it is wooden or reinforced concrete beams, due to their particular structure, beams that are thicker than walls will be more likely to condense cold in autumn and winter.
From the aerodynamic perspective, cold air will sink, so we will feel cold in our sleep without realizing it, and even spasms and will press the bed if we accidentally.
In ancient times, building houses were focused on facing north and south. In houses facing north and south, we talked about left Qinglong , right white tiger, front Vermillion Bird , and back Xuanwu . Here, the Qinglong represents the east, the White Tiger represents the west, the Vermillion Bird represents the south, and the Xuanwu represents the north.
The ancients said that the best house is to have a Mingtang in front and a mountain behind, which is what we often say now face north and south, with mountains and water behind. Is this considered fantasy? Actually, you will understand as soon as I say it.
Because China is located in the northern hemisphere, theoretically, the south-facing houses have sunlight all day long, which not only has good lighting, but also very transparent.
In summer, most of our mainland plates are southeastern, so that houses facing north and south will be cooler. However, in winter, if you live in a house facing north and south, and there are mountains behind you, you can drink less northwest wind.
In addition, the ancients emphasized that the green dragon would rather be tall than the white tiger to look back. This is actually not difficult to explain. It roughly means that the terrain or building in the east can be higher than the house, but the one in the west must not be higher.
Let’s combine it with the sunshine factors mentioned above. The white tiger is in the east, and the sun rises in the east. The temperature of the sun is not high in the morning and the intensity is not particularly high, so it is acceptable to have high buildings in the east to cover it.
The afternoon sun is in the west. At this time, there is plenty of sunshine, which not only illuminates the hall, but also plays a certain role in sterilization and . Therefore, there cannot be blocking objects in the west, and the afternoon sun cannot shine in, which has a great impact on our lives.
In fact, as long as these are explained clearly, they are easy to understand and are not particularly fantasy.
Let’s put aside metaphysical and superstitious thoughts, in fact, most of the Feng Shui knowledge is some valuable experience summarized by the ancients in the lives of generations. Reasonable Feng Shui knowledge can be found in scientific and architectural theories.
Because many people have limited understanding of Feng Shui for homes, there are often some scammers who use some Feng Shui experiences in homes that conform to the laws of nature, and use superstitious colors to deceive money, which will make everyone feel that these are completely superstitious things.
This is the same as the magicians in today's society who often pretended to be gods and were worshipped as gods and worshipped by others. It has the same effect!
So in today's society, only by looking at the experience left to us rationally by the ancients and demonizing the knowledge left by the ancients is the best choice to continue to spread the essence of Chinese traditional culture.
