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Fengshui, or the Search for a Very Human Dragon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Frédéric Obringer
Frédéric Obringer*
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CNRS - Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary China
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Abstract

Fengshui is a practice and skill whose origins go back to Chinese antiquity. It is about finding the best possible arrangement in space to position a grave or a habitation in such a way that human beings who have a link with that place might have success and happiness. The basic idea is that a good geomantic site will fill the distant ancestors with peace in their grave and that they will thus do everything to help their family. The text deals with the history of fengshui, its methods as well as its conception of nature.

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Diogenes , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , August 2005 , pp. 55 - 63
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Copyright © ICPHS 2005

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