What is Feng Shui in fact?
Feng Shui in Chinese means - wind flows. The word "fen" translates "winds", but as if "shui" means "flows".This doctrine appeared a long time ago, around 960-1270.Chinese philosophers strongly influenced feng shui, they did not believe that people are the main people on earth. Philosophers believed that there is nothing stronger and more important than nature, and a person should be a part of it. Despite the fact that they divided the forces of nature into four parts, they still considered it a single whole. In the understanding of philosophers, there are four important elements:
- Lee - harmony and order.
- Shu - the proportions of the Earth and the Universe.
- Qi is the breath of life.
- Ying - manifestation of nature in different forms.
Based on these elements, calculations were made, the Chinese sages took into account the location of the stars, the terrain and the time of year, but for what purpose? This was done in order not to create cemeteries. The earth can not accept a dead person anywhere, and if she did not accept it - he became a ghost and could not find peace. This prevented his relatives from living, so there appeared such a mysterious teaching as feng shui.
Five elements of feng shui
About 3,000 years ago, the Chinese distributed nature to the components: metal, wood, water, earth and fire. All these substances and forces personified the happening events on earth. The forces of Yin and Yang are the interaction of the five elements. Regularly elements mix, destroy and recreate each other, while there is a strict sequence of these actions. Fire creates the soil, after which water forms metal, and metal generates water, then water feeds the tree, which lights up and the circle repeats. The result is the following cycle: fire, earth, metal, liquid, wood and fire again.
Next, the destruction cycle starts, but what does it look like? At first the tree hurts the earth, because the roots deform the earth, then the water absorbs into it and extinguishes the fire that destroys the metal, and then the metal chops the tree. The result is a cycle: wood, earth, liquid, flame, metal and wood.
In this case, each element has an association with human senses, the time of year, color, emotional state and so on. For example, metal is associated with autumn and white, and fire with summer and red. Water represents the winter and blue, and the earth is brown and fall. There is also a connection with the internal organs: the power of the trees is responsible for the work of the liver, the heart is the power of fire, the stomach is the power of the earth, the kidneys are the energy of water and the lungs are the energy of the metal.