Fengshui and Size
21 December 2006
Fengshui, the technology and art
created by the ancient Chinese about thousands
years ago, is designed to help people living in
harmony with environment. Later it spread to
other East and Southeast Asian countries, and now
it is also practiced in many parts of the West.
While the fengshui method gains
more recognition and popularity in the world
during the recent decades, our relationships with
the environment become more strained than ever.
And further alienation is caused by inhabiting
high-rise apartments away from our root, the
ground, and lossing ourselves in huge dwellings.
Some people tend to think the
bigger the house the better the life. But from
fengshui point of view, more often the opposite
is true. A time-honoured fengshui proverb is that
"the bigger the house, the less the
inhabitants, the worse the luck."
The reason behind this is quite
simple. If we consider a person as an air
conditioner who continuingly emits yang qi to
form a desired living field, we can easily
understand why when the size of the space
increases, the nurturing yang qi in the
atmosphere decreases, which leads to a poor
living and working environment. On the other
hand, if we try to optimise a large field, then
we would have to consume more energy, and that
could contribute to a poor physical and mental
health.
And it is why many ancient
Chinese, no matter how noble or rich they were,
would avoid to live extravagantly, particularly
when the personal living space is concerned.
A framed bed
The
Forbidden City is the biggest palace in
the world, but within the palace, the
size of the emperor’s bedroom is not
much greater than that in ordinary
residences. And within the room, the
emperor’s bed is further defined by
frames and curtains, which helps to best
preserve his energy.
According to the I Ching
theory, the celestial number arises at 1, peaks
at 3, declines at 7, terminates at 9 and then
re-arises at 1, while the terrestrial number
arises at 2, peaks at 4, declines at 6,
terminates at 8 and then re-arises at 2. With
this in mind, for an ordinary family, when the
number of bedrooms is kept between two and four,
the household yang qi is believed to be at its
best shape.
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