Liber XXXI · Taoism & Chinese Religion
Liber XXXI · Taoism & Chinese Religion
Chapter IV
Feng Shui
7 min readFeng Shui: History, Principles and the Chinese Art of SitingFeng shui explained: its origins in Chinese grave siting, qi and dragon veins, the Form and Compass schools, the luopan, and its history up to the present.8 min readGuo Pu and the Book of Burial: The Classic Source of Feng ShuiGuo Pu (276–324), poet, scholar and diviner, and the Book of Burial (Zangshu) attributed to him: living qi, wind and water, the four animals and its date.7 min readThe Luopan: History and Rings of the Feng Shui CompassThe luopan or feng shui compass: the Han diviner's board, the magnetic needle in Song China, its rings of trigrams and Twenty-Four Mountains, three plates.