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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