This article isn’t really about feng shui as it’s practiced today.
It’s about an earlier way of thinking, when space was understood through calculation and correspondence, long before feng shui became visual or landscape-based.
The Song dynasty tomb is just a window into that older logic.
"In the winter, that seat is close enough to the radiator to remain warm and yet not so close as to cause perspiration. In the summer, it’s directly in the path of a cross-breeze created by opening windows there and there. It faces the television at an angle that is neither direct, thus discouraging conversation, nor so far wide to create a parallax distortion. I could go on, but I think I’ve made my point. " ----- the Feng Shui practice in real life :)
Maybe one way to read qi is as a premodern umbrella concept, powerful, widely used, but never pinned down with modern precision. Feng shui is built on a whole ecosystem of those older terms and assumptions. Once we lose that shared conceptual “preface,” the same system can start to feel mystical—because we’re reading it without the vocabulary it originally depended on.
This article isn’t really about feng shui as it’s practiced today.
It’s about an earlier way of thinking, when space was understood through calculation and correspondence, long before feng shui became visual or landscape-based.
The Song dynasty tomb is just a window into that older logic.
"In the winter, that seat is close enough to the radiator to remain warm and yet not so close as to cause perspiration. In the summer, it’s directly in the path of a cross-breeze created by opening windows there and there. It faces the television at an angle that is neither direct, thus discouraging conversation, nor so far wide to create a parallax distortion. I could go on, but I think I’ve made my point. " ----- the Feng Shui practice in real life :)
Sheldon could become a form-school Fengshui master🤣
Maybe one way to read qi is as a premodern umbrella concept, powerful, widely used, but never pinned down with modern precision. Feng shui is built on a whole ecosystem of those older terms and assumptions. Once we lose that shared conceptual “preface,” the same system can start to feel mystical—because we’re reading it without the vocabulary it originally depended on.