Feng Shui Symbol

Feng Shui Symbols

Feng Shui history is fascinating and complex. It takes time to understand the differences between feng shui, especailly to separate the essential feng shui knowledge from the Chinese culturally.In order to create a happy feng shui home, you need to understand the basic feng shui concepts. The feng shui five elements theory, the feng shui yin yang theory, theory of Chi and Bagua applications are basic feng shui concepts.

Symbolic level of feng shui creates a lot of confusion about feng shui applications. Feng Shui Symbols have a rich, culturally specific history and meaning. Most of us are familiar with the look of many feng shui items such as Chinese coins tied with a red string, wind chimes, three legged toads, gods of wealth, etc.

In order for feng shui to work, you do not necessarily have to apply traditional Chinese feng shui symbols. You have to apply culturally specific symbols that resonate with you. Applying feng shui correctly does not imply you have to apply the culturally specific feng shui items that you may not understand or resonate with.

The reason symbolic level of feng shui works is because of the energy specific symbols bring into one's environment, as well as because of their connection with the subconscious level of your mind. The stronger your connection with these symbols, the more you like them, the more powerful they become for you.



Some of the most popular Chinese feng shui symbols are:

Love & Marriage Feng Shui Symbols
Dragon and Phoenix
Mandarin Ducks
The Double Happiness Sign
Peony Flowers
Wealth Feng Shui Symbols
Gold Arrowana or Koi Fish
Chinese Coins
The Three Legged Toad
Golden Ingots
Sailing Ship
Good Fortune Feng Shui Symbols
Chi Lin, the Dragon Horse
Golden Cicada
The Red Bat
Health & Longevity Feng Shui Symbols
Sau, the God of Longevity
Lucky Bamboo
Wu-Lou, Gourd

What Is Feng Shui

What Is Feng Shui

"Feng" means "wind" and "shui" means "water". In Chinese culture gentle wind and clear water have always been associated with good harvest and good health, thus "good feng shui" came to mean good livelihood and fortune, while "bad feng shui" came to mean hardship and misfortune.

Feng Shui is based on the Taoist vision and understanding of nature, particularly on the idea that the land is alive and filled with Chi, or energy. The ancient Chinese believed that the land's energy could either make or break the kingdom, so to speak. The theories of yin and yang, as well as the five feng shui elements, are some of the basic aspects of a feng shui analysis that come from Taoism.

The main tools used in a feng shui analysis are the Compass and the Ba-Gua. The Ba-Gua is an octagonal grid containing the symbols of the I Ching, the ancient oracle on which Feng Shui is based. Knowing the Bagua of your home will help you understand the connection of specific feng shui areas of your home to specific areas of your life.
The feng shui compass, also called lo-pan, is used to access deeper information about a site or a building. It consists of bands of concentric rings arranged around the magnetic needle. "Lo" means "everything" and "pan" means "bowl", which can be interpreted as the key to the mysteries of the universe.

Feng Shui offers a variety of feng shui cures to improve your life. There are many ways you can improve the energy in your home with feng shui such as using feng shui of crystals, feng shui of fountains, feng shui use of colors, feng shui use of clocks etc.
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Feng Shui History

Feng Shui History (Part I)

Feng Shui is an ancient art and science developed over thousand years ago in China. Feng Shui has a history of many thousands years, some say 2,000 years, some say 5,000 years. It is a complex body of knowledge that reveals how to balance the energies of any given space to assure the health and good fortune for people inhabiting it.

Feng shui was practiced since Tang Dynasty, where we can find early recordings about employing feng shui masters in selecting auspicious sites, as well as about feng shui texts being required reading for imperial exams (court of Emperor Hi Tsang, 888 A.D.)

One of the famous feng shui names recorded in the history of feng shui is Master Yang Yun Sang, who left a legacy of many classical feng shui texts and is considered the founder of the landscape school of feng shui.

Throughout his writing, Master Yang emphasized the importance of selecting an auspicious site that has dragon's energy, or dragon's breath, thus the careful examination of the shape of land formations - mountains, hills, valleys, as well as water formations and specifics. The vital energy, or Chi, contained in specific earth locations was described as finding the dragon and its lair, and natural formation where symbolic of animal shapes and energies, such as green dragon, white tiger, etc.

Three texts form the Master Yang's contribution to the foundations of feng shui, particularly the Form, or Landscape School of Feng Shui:

(i) Han Lung Ching - The Art of Rousing the Dragon
(ii) Ching Hang Ao Chih - Methods of Locating the Dragon's Lair
(iii) I Lung Ching - Canons Approximating Dragons


Feng Shui (Part II)

Almost a hundred years later, the Compass Feng Shui School (another feng shui school) gained strength and popularity. A Feng Shui Master by the name Wang Chih who developed his teachings during the Song Dynasty was the main influence in this feng shui school.

The Compass Feng Shui School calculations are based on the compass directions and the I-Ching trigrams arranged in the octagonal symbol of the BaGua.

Other feng shui theories employed by the Compass Feng Shui School of Thought are the Yin-Yang Theory, The Theory of Five Elements, the Lo-Shu Square, and other. The time dimension was first introduced by The Compass School Practitioners, to define the best timing for best energies in specific places.

Furthermore, the concept of the Kua number was introduced as a way to calculate the directions of most auspicious energies based on the client's date of birth.

In late nineteenth century, after a period of existence as two separate schools, the two feng shui schools (the Landscape or Form Feng Shui School, and the Compass Feng Shui School) merged, thus providing for a body of knowledge of unique depth and wisdom in reading the environmental energy patterns.