The Study Of Geomancy Industry In Modern Jiangnan

This paper is a special research about the economy industry of geomancy which is called Feng Shui at Jiangnan in modern society. It tries to explore geomancers and their technique,s regional characteristics, and also to explore geomancy,s function in construction industry, agriculture and mining exploration industry. In modern Jiangnan society, the constitute of geomancers is complex and diverse, which include Dishi in civil, Yinyangguan in authority, scholar design planners trained in school and traditional rural geography teacher. They are widely involved in building construction, funeral, agriculture, mining, book publishing, education training and other industries. They are unavoidable social sector occupational groups. The development of their technology practice are not only accompanied with the Jiangnan,s modernization process, but also reflecting a series of social conflicts and other problems in modern Jiangnan society. For example, the science and superstition, tradition and modernity, development and protection and so on. Especially, with the influx of Western technology, some westernized intellectuals saw geomancy as superstition, some geomancers opened their secrets, and set up modern geomancy training schools, established new geomancy textbooks, implement the geomancy education, to attract more people join into geomancy research. These solutions made traditional geomancy industry appear modern transformation. In building construction industry, the geomancer,s status was much higher than the ordinary artists, they had rights to make decision on important issues, such as building siting, planning, layout, design, construction and so on. Geomancers in the construction industry act as the buyer and the seller. They transformed their own geomancy knowledge to technology products, thereby earning rewards. In modern agriculture and industries, geomancer, s techniques were not only widely used in agro-meteorological forecasting and water conservancy development, but also playing a role inprospecting mining. Of course, it also became tools which was used by conservatives to impede economic and reform in the westernization movement in modern Jiangnan society. In addition, the geomancy book,s publishing, marketing and distribution, fromed a huge book market, and also produced huge economic effects. Thus, the development of geomancy industry and its technological economy in modern Jiangnan society is an integral part of modern socio-economic research. This research attempts to set the stylistic rules and the layout of the topics above-mentioned, and try to fill the gaps in the study.