On The Theory Of Fengshui And Site Selection Of Chinese Ancient Architecture

In Chinese architecture the traditonal Feng shui ("Wind and water"-geomanticomen) has been practised nearly all over site selection, planning design and construction. Although this old theory is permeated with superstition, it embaces fragments of Chinese ancient philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, geology hydrology, and landscape, It also touches the question of how human begins conform to nature.This paper cites a large number of quotations from historical books and referent materials and carries out a textual research on the origin and meanings of the follwing phrases Feng Shui, Kan Yu, Xing Fa, and Yin Yang, These phrases will provide fundamental theories and historical backqrounds for the research word on the history, schools of thoughts, and the aim of Feng Shui.The principles if "facing the house onto the sunny side" and "backing it onto the shadowy side", and "backing onto the mountainside" and "facing onto the water side" are two fundamental patterns in site selection, the space thus formed is often a closed one. Man and environment will form an organtic whole. The landscaping of mountains, water, paths, and greenery will form an outstanding background and have effects of setting off by contrast, multilevels, good skyline shihouettes, borrowed view and vista, etc. this paper reveals the origin, evolution and clnnotations of the "xing shi" principle. "Feng shui" in the site seleltion of emperors tombs, "long" "xue" "sha""shui" "Mingtang" "Jinan" "Yunchao" as well as the requiremements of geology, hydrology, soil and examined carefully, "xing shi" principle is in fact the old Chinese theory of the design of the exteior spance. Systematic and scientific it has high theoretical level.If we make a deep investigation into it with a scientific approach, it will be a great help to expound the theory of Chinese traditional architecture.