Illustrated Guide to Residential Taboos

Author: Han Jinying
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Chinese people place great importance on "home," and starting a family and building a career are considered the most important events in life. Building a house and establishing a family is like planting a tree and nurturing its roots. If this is done well, the branches and leaves will flourish, and the family will thrive. The () of Chinese people in building homes are renowned worldwide, with a popular and diverse Feng Shui theory that has been practiced for thousands of years. Feng Shui explores the relationship between the choice of location, orientation, layout of buildings, and the natural world, as well as the coordination of human destiny. Feng Shui incorporates elements of philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, geography, ecology, and more, but it also contains unscientific and outdated aspects. Readers who wish to understand traditional Feng Shui theory should be cautious in identifying these elements. This book aims to separate the wheat from the chaff, selecting those aspects of Feng Shui that are beneficial to modern people and modern homes, presenting them in an easy-to-understand manner to help readers grasp basic environmental science knowledge quickly and truly. This will enable them to achieve a healthy and perfect living environment, harness the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and realize the dream of "spiritual land giving rise to outstanding people." Outstanding people emerge from spiritual land; by utilizing nature and following the flow of vital energy, one can draw the spiritual essence of mountains and rivers to nourish the body and mind. This book separates the essence from the dross in the traditional culture of residential architecture, presenting it in a simplified and illustrated form. From the perspective of the integration of modern natural and humanities sciences, it reveals how living environments project onto people's psychological levels and affect their physical health, guiding people on how to achieve ideal homes for both physical and mental well-being.