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Saturday, 21 November 2009 |
 In recent decades, the word Feng Shui done in Western countries a great career. Although the Chinese is one of the inherent elements of life for thousands of years, it was only in 1960 for the first time Europe and the United States was presented by the issue of Fengshui masters and their students of this science, who, during the Cultural Revolution in China, thus saving precious book by the destruction of emigrated to Hong Kong or Taiwan.
Real interest in the West occurred in the eighties, and reached its apogee in the mid-nineties with a craze for the Orient. Others believe that the United States many years earlier, recognized this doctrine, namely, during the Gold Rush era (years forties nineteenth century), which attracted many prospectors from around the world including immigrants from China. Today, the world created school of Feng Shui, Feng Shui and the same has ceased to be regarded as an exotic symbol of the Far East, and begins to be successfully used in everyday life people in the West and also in large corporations worldwide. History of Fengshui Feng Shui (pronounced Phong Shuei) literally "Wind and Water. Original meaning of these two words are: The wind, which can not be seen - invisible Water, which can not be touched - elusive Feng Shui is as long as there is a Chinese culture. The beginnings were quite mundane and involved the fact that humans settled in the area. Data resides decision was usually for life, so they attached great importance to the environment of your home. From a practical point of view, a good home is a house set in a peaceful, stable and fertile soil, free from the risk of slippages of the land, and even more from earthquakes, good sunny (it allows the front house warming, favors crops) near the river, which served no only irrigation, but it was also an excellent means of transport, but the house had to keep it away from the river flood.
From just such minor observations and comments of Feng Shui has developed slowly in science including not only the general principles of spatial organization of life, but also the principle of maintaining health, ensuring wealth, maintaining harmony in human relations (between humans and the environment) from the universal principles the smallest details, written by experts and grown-masters. One of the most ancient texts of Feng Shui is the "People's Book of Rituals," and the first real guide of Feng Shui was written by Yang Yun Sung who lived in the ninth century AD. Its principles of Feng Shui reflected in the shape of the terrain and water, hence the school was named after "School Forms". The principle was to assign fragment of the entire area of land or certain associations, such as rock-like beast of prey or injured, as well as on land, where trees grow poorly, or grass, is a bad place to settle in August, as negative of the countryside and thus the the house and its inhabitants. In turn, harmonious, peaceful valley is definitely a better place to live. "Compass School" and, based on Chinese astrology (the house-building in accordance with the position of favoring a star) and geographical directions (here it comes to solar lighting - house facing to the south is more exposed to the heat than the cold north). The school is distinguished by 8 basic and 24 intermediate directions.
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