What is Fengshui?

What is fengshui? Many people thinks that fengshui got to do with taoist or buddhist. Is fengshui something got to do with religion? Do fengshui really need to place alot of items?

Fengshui (风水) directly translated means wind and water. But what is the wind and what is the water?

The wind in fengshui is commonly known as qi (气). We can say that it is the energy in the environment that we stay in that is affecting human. One very simple example is that the noise pollution in the city will cause one to have very bad mood. All this are proven by the scientist that the environment can affect the human. Therefore qi (气) not only means the air but is the energy that is in the environment that we stay in.

Where water is the place where all the qi (气) will stop and stay be it good or bad qi (气). A few example of waters are the roads, junctions in the modern cities, swimming pools, ponds and even reservoirs. Therefore many fengshui masters they use water to activate the fengshui for the house. One example is that they will tell you that this sector is the wealth sector so you will need a water feature to be place at this location or sector. One very important thing to note about water feature is that if you place the water feature at the wrong sector or location, it will also activate the bad energies that will affect the people.

Some people will say that fengshui (风水) is the study of how to stay harmoniously with the environment. That is why in the ancient civilization where all the towns and cities started near a junction of the rivers. Where all the qi (气) is held.

The art of fengshui (风水) is to hide and gather the wind (藏风聚气). Fengshui (风水) is about tapping the correct qi (气) and also making use of the qi (气) not by placing items that you think that it will bring in the qi (气) or make the qi (气) good.

Beside all this fengshui is a form of architecture but in the chinese form of context, check out the history of fengshui for more details about why i had this saying.