concept Updated 2026-08-06 Tags: Fengshui, China, Religion, Landscape

Feng Shui Vital-Energy Theory / 风水生气论

Feng shui vital-energy theory / 风水生气论 is the source’s frame for kan-yu and fengshui in 87.过年最适合聊玄学!探讨神仙方术发展史(接上集). Through [[GuoPu|郭璞]] and [[Zangshu|《葬书》]], the episode presents site selection as a search for qi that is stored, protected, and benefited by wind, water, and landscape form.

The concept includes attribution caution. The episode names Guo Pu as a traditional fengshui ancestor while also noting that the received Zangshu may be a later work falsely attributed to him.

Key Claims

  • Fengshui in the source is a heaven-earth technique rather than only domestic decoration.
  • Qi, burial, wind, water, and landscape enclosure make place morally and cosmologically active.
  • The later four-symbol layout shows how directional animal imagery can organize spatial judgment.
  • Textual attribution should remain source-scoped when dating is uncertain.

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