风水与传统民居（2）

Geomancy(Fengshui)and Traditional Folk House (2)
风水与传统民居（2）
The geomancy aims at the study of burial ground (“ Yinzhai”) and the dwelling place (“Yangzhai”) । “Yangzhai” is classified into imperial capital and palace , temple , store , village and common dwelling । As far as the influence of geomancy on social life gose , the deepest and most enormous is folk house । It can be studied from three aspects : site selection ,external form , environmental layout , and internal arrangement ।
On the basis of Jiangxi Hilltop School , village site selected through investigation of natural and ecological surroundings by steps of “Milong” (surveying the lie of mountain behind village), “Chasha” (examining the hillocks surrounding village), “Guanshui” (observing the river system around village), “Dianxue” (fixing the site of village)। Mountain and river can determine the direction of air current , and they are called “places being of vitality ” in geomancy । Investigators should observe air , taste water and differentiate earth and stone for assuring the mountains and rivers , soil and vegetation of the village to be a good state . The ideal model of village to be in geomancy is : with the pillowing mountain behind , the river encircled , the hills in front ( as a protective screen ,called Anshan and Chaoshan )。Most of villages in southern China conform to this pattern . It manifests that the geomantic theory is mature on site selection to a certain extent . By geomancy , the mountain behind the village must be of great momentum , namely , its range should rise and fall . “Thousand chis in hight form momentum , and hundred chis form terrain ” ( A thousand chis are around three hundred meters ) . The lie of mountain can be classified into nine kinds or five kinds ; the range shape can be classified into “ the normol ” , “the flank”, “the prograde”, “the retrograde”, “the falling ” and “the rising” .