Feng shui
Feng shui is a Chinese system for arranging buildings, objects, and spaces to harmonize people with qi and the surrounding landscape.
Qi: In Chinese thought, qi is the vital force or process that permeates and animates the world. Feng shui seeks to guide qi through buildings and landscapes.
Form School: A feng shui approach that evaluates landforms, water, and the protective shape of a site. It judges how mountains and waterways gather or disperse qi around a building.
Chinese geomancy: Chinese geomancy is the broader tradition of interpreting land, direction, and cosmic patterns to choose auspicious places. Feng shui is its best-known system for assessing sites and arranging spaces.
Yang house: In Chinese geomancy, a yang house is a residence or other building used by the living. Its siting and interior arrangement are direct subjects of feng shui practice.
Black Sect Tantric Buddhist Feng Shui: Black Sect Tantric Buddhist Feng Shui is a modern feng shui school that emphasizes a fixed bagua map and symbolic interpretation. Its simplified mapping differs from compass-based methods that calculate directions.
Yin and yang: Yin and yang are complementary forces whose interaction describes change and balance in Chinese cosmology. Feng shui assesses how complementary qualities interact within a site.
Compass School: A feng shui approach that uses compass directions, calendars, and symbolic correspondences to assess places. It calculates directional relationships that complement judgments based on visible terrain.
Burial geomancy: Burial geomancy is the practice of selecting and arranging gravesites according to Chinese cosmological principles. Concern for ancestral graves helped shape early ideas about auspicious terrain and orientation.
Chinese garden: A Chinese garden is a designed landscape that combines buildings, water, rocks, and plants in a composed whole. Garden layouts often apply principles of balance, borrowed scenery, and movement through space.
Flying Stars Feng Shui: Flying Stars Feng Shui is a compass-based method that tracks time-dependent patterns associated with directions and buildings. Its changing calculations contrast with approaches that rely mainly on visible landforms.