Study On The Ancient Geomancy Thoughts And Places Choice Venation

Geomancy, originates from the remote antiquity human being to choose and plan living environment, during the past dynasties spread and inherit, it has been a kind of syntheses of manifold knowledge. Experience many years, Geomantic contents run to store wind and contain water, against yin and towards yang, to pay attention to the direction, to be propitious to lighting and etc. from the beginnings of choosing terra and residence. Geomancy theories have got different characteristics in different periods, but "Qi", as the ultimate hard-core, has never changed. How to retain the "Qi" is the linchpin of ensuring the human being's survival. Based on other people's research, this article tries to analysis the geomantic development venation, development status in different dynasty, through the ancient books, unearthed literature, and archaeological materials, thereby, to open out the connotation of choosing graveyards and habitations in the survival and multiplying process. The whole text divided into three parts:Section one: exordium. It starts with the geomantic original meaning, the reasons of this research, literature review of relevant. Then it goes to explicate the research clue of this thesis.Section two: the geomancy theory developing venation. It illuminates the geomantic theory contents of social class and theoretic characteristic of the time, during the phase of Stone Ages, before Qin, Qin and Han dynasty, Sui and Tang dynasty, double Song and Yuan dynasty, Ming and Qing dynasty.Section three: the geomantic theory of past Dynasties City and Mausoleum. The geomantic theory not only guide people to protect themselves, but also pin their hope on it, to propagate offspring, tend to propitious and prevent ominous. It selects sutra city and mausoleum of the past dynasties, analyses their geomantic situation, opens out their connotations.Conclusion: it makes a summary and points out the limitations of this thesis.