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[[File:Guishan Dingxiang.png|260px|right|thumb|A feng shui diagram of a parcel of land, in this case explaining how "yin water" and "yin fire" relate to it – with an auspicious circle.{{sfn|Bennett|1978}}]]
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'''Feng shui''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|f|ʌ|ŋ|ˌ|ʃ|uː|i}} <ref>{{Cite OED|feng shui|1095858841}}</ref> or {{IPAc-en|ˌ|f|ʌ|ŋ|ˈ|ʃ|w|eɪ}}<ref>{{Cite LPD|page=288|2}}</ref>), sometimes called '''Chinese geomancy''', is a traditional form of [[geomancy]] that originated in [[ancient China]]. The term ''feng shui'' means, literally, "wind-water" (i.e., fluid). From ancient times, [[Landscape|landscapes]] and [[bodies of water]] were thought to direct the flow of the universal [[qi]] – "cosmic current" or energy – through places and structures. More broadly, feng shui includes [[astronomical]], [[astrological]], [[architectural]], [[cosmological]], [[geographical]], and [[topographical]] dimensions.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Bruun |first=Ole |year=2011 |title=Fengshui in China: Geomantic Divination Between State, Orthodoxy and Popular Religion |url=https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:norden:org:diva-4033 |edition=2nd |publisher=NIAS Press |isbn=978-87-91114-79-3}}</ref>{{sfnb|Komjathy|2012|p= 395}}

Historically, and in many parts of the contemporary Chinese world, feng shui has been used to determine the orientation of buildings, dwellings, and spiritually significant structures such as [[tombs]]. 

Feng shui's global uptake during the modern era has been complex. Its host of modern detractors has been very diverse, ranging from 16th-century [[Jesuits|Jesuit]] missionaries to the [[Cultural Revolution|Chinese communist revolutionaries]] of the 20th century. Regarding its adoption within [[Western culture|contemporary Western]] societies, one scholar writes that "feng shui tends to be reduced to [[interior design]] for health and wealth. It has become increasingly visible through 'feng shui consultants' and corporate architects who charge large sums of money for their analysis, advice and design."{{sfnb|Komjathy|2012|p=395}} In Western [[philosophy of science]], feng shui is generally regarded as [[Non-science|non-scientific]], while some [[Scientific skepticism|scientific skeptics]] have more narrowly classified it as a [[pseudoscience]].

==History==
===Origins===
The [[Yangshao culture|Yangshao]] and [[Hongshan culture]]s provide the earliest known evidence for the use of feng shui. Until the invention of the [[magnetic compass]], feng shui relied on [[Chinese astronomy|astronomy]] to find correlations between humans and the universe.{{sfn|Sun Xiaochun|2000}}
In 4000 BC, the doors of dwellings in [[Banpo]] were aligned with the [[Asterism (astronomy)|asterism]] ''Yingshi'' just after the [[winter solstice]]—this sited the homes for [[solar gain]].{{sfn|Pankenier|1995}} During the [[Zhou dynasty|Zhou]] era, ''Yingshi'' was known as ''Ding'' and was used, according to the [[Classic of Poetry|Shijing]], to determine the auspicious time for constructing a capital city. The late Yangshao site at [[Dadiwan]] (c. 3500–3000 BC) includes a palace-like building (F901) at its center. The building faces south and borders a large plaza. It stands on a north–south axis with another building that apparently housed communal activities. Regional communities may have used the complex.{{Sfn|Liu|2004|pp=85–88}}

A grave at [[Puyang]] (around 4000 BC) that contains mosaics—a [[Chinese star map]] of the Dragon and Tiger asterisms and [[Big Dipper|Beidou]] ([[Big Dipper|the Big Dipper, Ladle or Bushel]])—is oriented along a north–south axis.{{sfn|Xu et al.|2000}} The presence of both round and square shapes in the Puyang tomb, at Hongshan ceremonial centers and at the late Longshan settlement at Lutaigang,{{sfn|Liu|2004|pp=248–249}}
suggests that ''gaitian'' cosmography (heaven-round, earth-square) existed in Chinese society long before it appeared in the ''[[Zhoubi Suanjing]]''.{{sfn |Nelson |Matson |Roberts|Rock|2006|p= 2}}

[[Cosmography]] that bears a resemblance to modern feng shui devices and formulas appears on a piece of jade unearthed at Hanshan and dated around 3000 BC. Archaeologist [[Li Xueqin (historian)|Li Xueqin]] links the design to the ''liuren'' [[astrolabe]], ''zhinan zhen'' and [[luopan]].{{sfn|Chen Jiujin|1989}}

Beginning with palatial structures at [[Erlitou culture|Erlitou]],{{sfn|Liu|2004|pp=230–37}} all capital cities of China followed rules of feng shui for their design and layout. During the Zhou era, the ''Kaogong ji'' ({{lang-zh|t=考工記|c=|p=}}; "Manual of Crafts") codified these rules. The carpenter's manual ''Lu ban jing'' ({{zh|labels=no|t=魯班經|c=|p=}}; "Lu ban's manuscript") codified rules for builders. Graves and tombs also followed rules of feng shui from [[Puyang]] to [[Mawangdui]] and beyond. From the earliest records, the structures of the graves and dwellings seem to have followed the same rules.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}

===Early instruments and techniques===
[[File:La-chinatown-spiral.jpg|thumb|A feng shui [[spiral]] at [[Chinatown station (Los Angeles Metro)]]]]
Some of the foundations of feng shui go back more than 3,500 years{{sfn|Wang| 2000|p=55}} before the invention of the magnetic compass. It originated in [[Chinese astronomy]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Feng |first=Shi |title= Zhongguo zaoqi xingxiangtu yanjiu|number=2|year=1990|journal=自然科學史硏究 (Ziran kexueshi yanjiu)|trans-journal=Research on the History of Natural Science|ref=none}}</ref> Some current techniques can be traced to [[Neolithic]] China,{{sfn|Wang| 2000|pp=54–55}} while others were added later (most notably the [[Han dynasty]], the [[Tang dynasty|Tang]], the [[Song dynasty|Song]], and the [[Ming dynasty|Ming]]).{{sfn|Cheng et al.|1998|p=21}}

The astronomical history of feng shui is evident in the development of instruments and techniques. According to the ''Zhouli'', the original feng shui instrument may have been a ''[[gnomon]]''. Chinese used circumpolar stars to determine the north–south axis of settlements. This technique explains why Shang palaces at [[Yinxu|Xiaotun]] lie 10° east of due north. In some of the cases, as [[Paul Wheatley (geographer)|Paul Wheatley]] observed, they bisected the angle between the directions of the rising and setting sun to find north.{{sfn|Wheatley|1971|p=46}} This technique provided the more precise alignments of the Shang walls at [[Yanshi]] and [[Zhengzhou]]. Rituals for using a feng shui instrument required a diviner to examine current sky phenomena to set the device and adjust their position in relation to the device.{{sfn|Lewis|2006|p=275}}

The oldest examples of instruments used for feng shui are ''liuren'' astrolabes, also known as ''shi''. These consist of a [[lacquer]]ed, two-sided board with astronomical sightlines. The earliest examples of liuren astrolabes have been unearthed from tombs that date between 278 BC and 209 BC. Along with divination for [[Da Liu Ren]]{{sfn|Kalinowski|1996}} the boards were commonly used to chart the motion of [[Polaris|Taiyi]] (Pole star) through the nine palaces.{{sfn|Yin Difei|1978}}{{sfn|Yan Dunjie|1978}} The markings on a ''liuren/shi'' and the first magnetic compasses are virtually identical.{{sfn|Kalinowski|1998}}

The [[compass|magnetic compass]] was used for feng shui since its invention.{{sfn|Campbell|2001|p=2}} Traditional feng shui instrumentation consists of the [[luopan]] or the earlier south-pointing spoon ({{lang|zh|指南針}} ''zhinan zhen'')—though a conventional compass could suffice if one understood the differences. Not to be confused with the [[South-pointing chariot]] which was used for navigation. A feng shui ruler (a later invention) may also be employed.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}

=== Later history ===
After the Song dynasty, divination began to decline as a political institution and instead became an increasingly private affair. Many feng shui experts and diviners sold their services to the public market, allowing feng shui to quickly grow in popularity.<ref name=":0" />

During the Late [[Qing dynasty]], feng shui became immensely popular. Widespread destitution and increasing government despotism led to feng shui becoming more widely practiced in rural areas. The Qing dynasty attempted to crack down on [[heterodoxy]] following the [[White Lotus Rebellion]] and [[Taiping Rebellion|Taiping Revolt]], but feng shui's decentralization made it difficult to suppress in popular and elite circles.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Wesley-Smith |first=Peter |date=1994 |title=Identity, Land, Feng Shui and the Law in Traditional Hong Kong |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/aujls10&id=224&men_tab=srchresults |journal=Australian Journal of Law and Society |volume=10 |pages=213–240 |via=Hein Online}}</ref>

Under China's [[Century of humiliation|Century of Humiliation]], feng shui began to receive implicit government encouragement as a method of colonial resistance. Through the militarization of the countryside, the local gentry used feng shui to justify and promote popular attacks against missionaries and colonial infrastructure. This allowed local elites and government officials to bypass foreign [[extraterritoriality]] and maintain local sovereignty. This, in addition to the cultural aspects of feng shui, made the practice a powerful expression of demarcation between foreign and Chinese identities.<ref name=":0" />

Following the rise of Communist China, religion and traditional cosmology were suppressed more than ever, in the name of ideological purity. Decentralized heterodoxies, like feng shui, were best adapted to survive this period. As a result, feng shui became one of the only alternative forms of thought within the Chinese countryside.<ref name=":0" /> Feng shui experts remained highly sought after, in spite of numerous campaigns to suppress the practice.<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal |last=Bruun |first=Ole |date=1996 |title=The Fengshui Resurgence in China: Conflicting Cosmologies Between State and Peasantry |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.2307/2950372 |journal=The China Journal |language=en |volume=36 |issue=36 |pages=47–65 |doi=10.2307/2950372 |jstor=2950372 |s2cid=145614349 |issn=1324-9347|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

It was only after China's [[Chinese economic reform|Reform and Opening-Up]] that feng shui would see a complete resurgence. As economic liberalization promoted social competition and individualism, feng shui was able to find new footing due to its focus on individualism and amoral justification of social differences.<ref name=":4" />

==Foundational concepts==
=== Definition and classification ===
Feng shui views good and bad fortune as tangible elements that can be managed through predictable and consistent rules.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=E.N. |title=Mountains and Water: Essays on the Cultural Ecology of South Coastal China |last2=Anderson |first2=Marja L. |publisher=The Orient Cultural Service |year=1973 |series=Asian Folklore & Social Life Monographs |volume=54 |pages=127–146}}</ref> This involves the management of qi, an imagined form of cosmic "energy." In situating the local environment to maximize good ''qi'', one can optimize their own good fortune.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> Feng shui holds that one's external environment can affect one's internal state.<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal |last1=Gao |first1=Simon |last2=Handley-Schachler |first2=Morrison |date=2003 |title=The Influences of Confucianism, Feng Shui and Buddhism in Chinese Accounting History |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09585200210164566d |url-access=subscription |journal=Accounting, Business & Financial History |language=en |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=41–68 |doi=10.1080/09585200210164566d |issn=0958-5206 |s2cid=154227509 }}</ref> A goal of the practice is to achieve a "perfect spot", a location and an axis in time{{sfn|Field|1998}}{{sfn|Bennett|1978}} that can help one achieve a state of ''shū fú'' ({{Lang-zh|s=舒服|p=|labels=no}}) or harmony with the universe.<ref name=":2" /> 

Traditional feng shui is inherently a form of [[Ancestor worship in China|ancestor worship]]. Popular in farming communities for centuries, it was built on the idea that the ghosts of ancestors and other independent, intangible forces, both personal and impersonal, affected the material world, and that these forces needed to be placated through rites and suitable burial places. For a fee, a Feng shui practitioner would identify suitable locations for the living and the dead to achieve ''shū fú''.<ref name=":2" /> The primary underlying value was [[Materialism|material success]] for the living.{{sfnb|Bruun|2008|p=49–52}}

===''Qi'' (''ch'i'')===
[[File:Lingshan Islamic Cemetery - turtle tomb - DSCF8492.JPG|thumb|A traditional [[turtle-back tombs|turtle-back tomb]] of southern [[Fujian]], surrounded by an [[omega]]-shaped ridge protecting it from the "noxious winds" from the three sides{{sfn|deGroot|1892|p=III, 941–42}}]]

''[[Qi]]'' ({{lang|zh|气}}, pronounced "chee") is a movable positive or negative life force which plays an essential role in feng shui. The ''Book of Burial'' says that burial takes advantage of "vital ''qi''". The goal of feng shui is to take advantage of vital ''qi'' by appropriate siting of graves and structures.{{sfn|Bennett|1978}}

===Polarity===
''Polarity'' is expressed in feng shui as [[yin and yang|''yin'' and ''yang'']] theory. That is, it is of two parts: one creating an exertion and one receiving the exertion. The development of this theory and its corollary, [[Wuxing (Chinese philosophy)|five phase theory (five element theory)]], have also been linked with astronomical observations of [[sunspot]].{{sfn|Allan|1991|p=31–32}}

The Five Elements or Forces (''[[Wuxing (Chinese philosophy)|wu xing]]'') – which, according to the Chinese, are metal, earth, fire, water, and wood – are first mentioned in Chinese literature in a chapter of the classic ''Book of History''. They play a very important part in Chinese thought: ‘elements’ meaning generally not so much the actual substances as the forces essential to human life.{{sfn|Werner|1922|p=84}} Earth is a buffer, or an equilibrium achieved when the polarities cancel each other.{{citation needed|date=February 2009}} While the goal of Chinese medicine is to balance yin and yang in the body, the goal of feng shui has been described as aligning a city, site, building, or object with yin-yang force fields.{{sfn|Swetz|2002|pp=31, 58}}

===Bagua (eight trigrams)===
Eight diagrams known as ''[[bagua]]'' loom large in feng shui, and both predate their mentions in the ''[[I Ching]]''.{{sfn|Puro|2002|p=108–112}} The ''[[Luoshu|Lo (River) Chart]]'' was developed first,{{sfn|Swetz|2002|pp=36–37}} and is sometimes associated with ''Later Heaven'' arrangement of the ''bagua''. This and the ''[[Yellow River Map|Yellow River Chart]]'' (''Hetu'', sometimes associated with the ''Earlier Heaven bagua'') are linked to astronomical events of the sixth millennium BC, and with the Turtle Calendar from the time of Yao.{{sfn|Porter|1996|p=35–38}} The Turtle Calendar of Yao (found in the ''Yaodian'' section of the ''Shangshu'' or ''Book of Documents'') dates to 2300 BC, plus or minus 250 years.{{sfn|Sun Xiaochun|1997|p=15–18}}

In ''Yaodian'', the cardinal directions are determined by the marker-stars of the mega-constellations known as the Four Celestial Animals:{{sfn|Sun Xiaochun|1997|p=15–18}}

* East: The [[Azure Dragon]] (Spring equinox)—''Niao'' (Bird {{lang|zh|鳥}}), [[Antares|α Scorpionis]]
* South: The [[Vermilion Bird]] (Summer solstice)—''Huo'' (Fire {{lang|zh|火}}), [[Alpha Hydrae|α Hydrae]]
* West: The [[White Tiger (mythology)|White Tiger]] (Autumn equinox)—''Mǎo'' (Hair {{lang|zh|毛}}), η Tauri (the [[Pleiades]])
* North: The [[Black Tortoise]] (Winter solstice)—''Xū'' (Emptiness, Void {{lang|zh-hant|虛}}), [[Alpha Aquarii|α Aquarii]], [[Beta Aquarii|β Aquarii]]

The diagrams are also linked with the ''sifang'' (four directions) method of divination used during the Shang dynasty.{{sfn|Wang| 2000|pp=107–128}} The ''sifang'' is much older, however. It was used at Niuheliang, and figured large in [[Hongshan culture]]'s astronomy. And it is this area of China that is linked to [[Yellow Emperor]] (Huangdi) who allegedly invented the south-pointing spoon (see [[Compass#China|compass]]).{{sfn |Nelson |Matson |Roberts|Rock|2006}}

==Traditional feng shui==
Traditional feng shui is an ancient system based upon the observation of heavenly time and earthly space. Literature, as well as archaeological evidence, provide some idea of the origins and nature of feng shui techniques. Aside from books, there is also a strong oral history. In many cases, masters have passed on their techniques only to selected students or relatives.{{sfn|Cheung Ngam Fung|2007}} Modern practitioners of feng shui draw from several branches in their own practices.

===Form branch===
The Form Branch is the oldest branch of feng shui. Qing Wuzi in the [[Han dynasty]] describes it in the ''Book of the Tomb''{{sfn|Sang|2004|p=75}} and [[Guo Pu]] of the [[Jin dynasty (266–420)|Jin dynasty]] follows up with a more complete description in ''[[The Book of Burial]]''.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}

The Form branch was originally concerned with the location and orientation of tombs (Yin House feng shui), which was of great importance.{{sfn|Field|1998}} The branch then progressed to the consideration of homes and other buildings (Yang House feng shui).

The "form" in Form branch refers to the shape of the environment, such as mountains, rivers, plateaus, buildings, and general surroundings. It considers the five celestial animals (vermillion phoenix, azure dragon, white tiger, black turtle, and the yellow snake), the [[yin and yang]] concept and the traditional five elements ([[Wuxing (Chinese philosophy)|wuxing]]: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water).{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

The Form branch analyzes the shape of the land and flow of the wind and water to find a place with ideal [[qi]].{{sfn|Moran et al.|2002}} It also considers the time of important events such as the birth of the resident and the building of the structure.

===Compass branch===
The Compass branch is a collection of more recent feng shui techniques based on the Eight Directions, each of which is said to have unique qi. It uses the [[luopan]], a disc marked with formulas in concentric rings around a magnetic compass.{{sfn|Cheng et al.|1998|pp=46–47}}

The Compass branch includes techniques such as [[Flying Star Feng Shui|Flying Star]] and Eight Mansions.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}

==List of specific feng shui branches==
{{Unreferenced section|date=July 2020}}

===Ti Li (Form Branch)===
==== Popular Xingshi Pai ({{lang|zh-hant|形勢派}}) "Forms" methods ====
* Luan Tou Pai, {{lang|zh|巒頭派}}, Pinyin: luán tóu pài, (environmental analysis without using a compass)
* Xing Xiang Pai, {{lang|zh|形象派}} or {{lang|zh|形像派}}, Pinyin: xíng xiàng pài, (Imaging forms)
* Xingfa Pai, {{lang|zh|形法派}}, Pinyin: xíng fǎ pài

===Liiqi Pai (Compass Branch)===
==== Popular Liiqi Pai ({{lang|zh|理气派}}) "Compass" methods ====
'''San Yuan Method''', {{lang|zh|三元派}} (Pinyin: sān yuán pài)
* Dragon Gate Eight Formation, {{lang|zh|龍門八法}} (Pinyin: lóng mén bā fǎ)
* [[Xuan Kong]], {{lang|zh|玄空}} (time and space methods)
* [[Xuan Kong Fei Xing]] {{lang|zh|玄空飛星}} (Flying Stars methods of time and directions)
* Xuan Kong Da Gua, {{lang|zh|玄空大卦}} ("Secret Decree" or 64 gua relationships)
* Xuan Kong Mi Zi, {{lang|zh|玄空秘旨}} (Mysterious Space Secret Decree)
* Xuan Kong Liu Fa, {{lang|zh-hant|玄空六法}} (Mysterious Space Six Techniques)
* Zi Bai Jue, {{lang|zh-hant|紫白訣}} (Purple White Scroll)
'''San He Method''', {{lang|zh|三合派}} (environmental analysis using a compass)
* Accessing Dragon Methods
* Ba Zhai, {{lang|zh|八宅}} (Eight Mansions)
* Yang Gong Feng Shui, {{lang|zh-hant|楊公風水}}
* Water Methods, {{lang|zh|河洛水法}}
* Local Embrace

'''Others'''
* Yin House Feng Shui, {{lang|zh-hant|陰宅風水}} (feng shui for the deceased)
* [[Four Pillars of Destiny]], {{lang|zh-hant|四柱命理}} (a form of hemerology)
* [[Ziwei doushu|Zi Wei Dou Shu]], {{lang|zh-hant|紫微斗數}} (Purple Star Astrology)
* [[I-Ching]], {{lang|zh-hant|易經}} (Book of Changes)
* [[Qimen Dunjia|Qi Men Dun Jia]], {{lang|zh-hant|奇門遁甲}} (Mysterious Door Escaping Techniques)
* [[Daliuren|Da Liu Ren]], {{lang|zh|大六壬}} (Divination: Big Six Heavenly Yang Water Qi)
* [[Taiyi shenshu|Tai Yi Shen Shu]], {{lang|zh-hant|太乙神數}} (Divination: Tai Yi Magical Calculation Method)
* Date Selection, {{lang|zh-hant|擇日}} (selection of auspicious dates and times for important events)
* Chinese [[Palmistry]], {{lang|zh-hant|掌相學}} (destiny reading by palm reading)
* Chinese [[Physiognomy|Face Reading]], {{lang|zh-hant|面相學}} (destiny reading by face reading)
* Major and Minor Wandering Stars (Constellations)
* [[Wuxing (Chinese philosophy)|Five Phases]], {{lang|zh|五行}} (relationship of the five phases or ''wuxing'')
* BTB Black (Hat) Tantric Buddhist Sect (Westernised or modern methods not based on Classical teachings)
* Symbolic Feng Shui, ([[New Age]] feng shui methods that advocate substitution with symbolic (spiritual, appropriate representation of five elements) objects if natural environment or object/s is/are not available or viable)
* Pierce Method of Feng Shui (sometimes pronounced Von Shway)—The practice of melding striking with soothing furniture arrangements to promote peace and prosperity

== Traditional uses of feng shui ==
=== Environmental management ===
Traditional feng shui was a system designed to aid rural villages from the effects of weather and natural disaster.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=He |first1=Xiaoxin |last2=Luo |first2=Jun |title=Fengshui and the Environment of Southeast China |date=2000 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43809172 |journal=Worldviews |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=213–234 |doi=10.1163/156853500507834 |jstor=43809172 |issn=1363-5247|url-access=subscription }}</ref> As a set of consistent rules, feng shui can facilitate collective consensus on development without the need of centralized leadership. Understanding that one's actions could damage the feng shui and fortunes of the entire village, individuals were incentivized to know these rules and carefully manage the development of their land and resources. This served to prevent the [[Tragedy of the commons|Tragedy of the Commons]]. When conflict did erupt during development, feng shui experts played an important role in balancing interests and enforcing orderly development.<ref name=":2" />

Different branches of feng shui were developed and embraced in response to differing local geographies.<ref name=":1" /> In [[South China|southern China]], this often resulted in villages located on high hills safe from flooding and erosion, with pooling streams that allow for easy irrigation and drainage, fields downstream fertilized by sewage, and graves located on the highest hills far from water and on otherwise unvaluable farmland.<ref name=":2" /> To this degree, feng shui could help communities manage their spaces to match their physical, environmental, and aesthetic needs.<ref name=":1" />

=== Conflict resolution ===
A core aspect of feng shui has been its understanding of polarity. As opposed to western [[Dualism in cosmology|dualism]], in which concepts are completely oppositional and irreconcilable, Chinese polarity sees opposing concepts as constantly changing and inseparable. The result is an emphasis on continual compromise and balance in order to maintain harmony.<ref name=":5" />

Feng shui has been observed to play an important role in the mediation of rural conflict. Through its amoral explanation of differential fortunes, feng shui provides a universal set of cosmic rules communities seek to abide by. This can promote community unity while also creating numerous points of polarization. Through the hiring of feng shui experts, disputes between villagers can be peaceably resolved without losing face.<ref name=":2" /> In addition, these impersonal cosmic rules help regulate local jealousies over wealth and prestige.<ref name=":0" />

=== Community mobilization and political protest ===
As early as the [[Tang dynasty]], the Chinese state recognized the disruptive power popular expressions of feng shui had over government authority.<ref name=":4" /> At the community level, feng shui could play an important role in community mobilization and political protest.<ref name=":2" /> By elevating a cosmological explanations of events, feng shui allowed for the expression of otherwise impermissible political opinions.<ref name=":3" />

During the [[Boxer Rebellion]], feng shui was used to justify attacks on western missionaries and colonial infrastructure. Under the perceptions of these infrastructural projects and groups were generating bad feng shui, rebels were able to incite their local communities into revolt against foreign influence.<ref name=":0" />

To a more civil degree, feng shui could facilitate community negotiation. During the development of the [[Shek Pik Reservoir]], feng shui was used to rally the community against the reservoir and hinder construction. It was only after months of difficult negotiations that guaranteed of local oversight, compensation, and resettlement could construction go smoothly.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hayes |first=James |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2jc7j3 |title=Friends and Teachers: Hong Kong and Its People 1953–87 |date=1996 |publisher=Hong Kong University Press |jstor=j.ctt2jc7j3 |isbn=978-962-209-396-6}}</ref> For many communities, feng shui is a method to extract proper deference and compensation from the government.<ref name=":2" />

=== Expression of identity ===
Feng shui has been described as an egocentric tradition.<ref name=":0" /> Because of the nature of fortune, one person's gain comes at another's expense. Thus when compared to the more collectivist traditions of [[Confucianism]], feng shui promotes social competition and the atomization of the [[Chinese kinship|family structure]].<ref name=":4" /> This differentiation has been particularly expressed through excellent siting and the building of bigger homes that can change the local balance of feng shui.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4" />

Feng shui also helps promote ethnic differentiation. In Southern China, different folk traditions and beliefs guide differing interpretations of feng shui.<ref name=":3" /> Through conflicts over burial sites, these contrasting interpretations of feng shui act as an important medium to settle interethnic disputes and define local dynamics.<ref name=":2" />

==Contemporary uses of feng shui==
[[File:Taipei.101.fountain.altonthompson.jpg|thumb|A modern "feng shui fountain" at [[Taipei 101]], [[Taiwan]]]]

After [[Richard Nixon]]'s [[1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China|visit]] to the People's Republic of China in 1972, feng shui practices became popular in the United States. 

Feng shui has nonetheless found many uses. [[Landscape ecology|Landscape ecologists]] often find traditional feng shui an interesting study.{{sfn|Whang|2006}} In many cases, the only remaining patches of Asian old forest are "feng shui woods,"{{sfn|Chen Bixia|2008}} associated with cultural heritage, historical continuity, and the preservation of various flora and fauna species.{{sfn|Marafa|2003}} Some researchers interpret the presence of these woods as indicators that the "healthy homes,"{{sfn|Chen Qigao|1997}} sustainability{{Sfn|Siu‐Yiu Lau at al.|2005}} and environmental components of traditional feng shui should not be easily dismissed.{{sfn|Marafa|2003}}{{sfn|Zhuang|1997}} [[Environmental science|Environmental scientists]] and [[landscape architects]] have researched traditional feng shui and its methodologies.{{sfn|Chen|Nakama|2004}}{{sfn|Xu Jun|2003}}{{sfn|Lu Hui-Chen|2002}} [[Architect]]s study feng shui as an Asian architectural tradition.{{sfn|Park et al.|1996}}{{sfn|Xu Ping|1998}}{{sfn|Hwangbo|2002}}{{sfn|Lu et al.|2000}} [[Geographer]]s have analyzed the techniques and methods to help locate historical sites in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada,{{sfn|Lai|1974}} and [[archaeological sites]] in the American Southwest, concluding that Native Americans also considered astronomy and landscape features.{{sfn|Xu Ping|1997}}

Believers use it for healing purposes, to guide their businesses, or to create a peaceful atmosphere in their homes, although there is no empirical evidence that it is effective.{{sfn|Emmons|1992| p=48}} In particular, they use feng shui in the bedroom, where a number of techniques involving colors and arrangement are thought to promote comfort and peaceful sleep.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}} Some users of feng shui may be trying to gain a sense of security or control, for example by choosing auspicious numbers for their phones or favorable house locations. Their motivation is similar to the reasons that some people consult [[fortune-tellers]].{{sfn|Zhang|2020}}{{sfn|Tsang|2013}}

In 2005, [[Hong Kong Disneyland]] acknowledged feng shui as an important part of Chinese culture by shifting the main gate by twelve degrees in their building plans. This was among actions suggested by the planner of architecture and design at Walt Disney Imagineering, [[Wing Chao]].{{sfn|NYTimes|2005}} At [[Singapore polytechnic|Singapore Polytechnic]] and other institutions, professionals including engineers, architects, property agents and interior designers, take courses on feng shui and divination every year, a number of whom become part-time or full-time feng shui consultants.{{sfn|Asiaone|2009}}

==Criticisms==
===In China===
[[File:Sycee-Incense.jpg|thumb|[[Sycee]]-shaped [[incense]] used in feng shui]]

After the founding of the [[China|People's Republic of China]] in 1949, feng shui was officially considered a "feudalistic superstitious practice" and a "social evil" according to the state's ideology and was discouraged and even banned outright at times.{{sfn|Chang Liang|2005}} Feng shui remained popular in Hong Kong, and also in the [[Taiwan|Republic of China (Taiwan)]], where traditional culture was not suppressed.{{sfn|Moore|2010}}

During the [[Cultural Revolution]] (1966–1976) feng shui was classified as one of the so-called [[Four Olds]] that were to be wiped out. Feng shui practitioners were beaten and abused by [[Red Guards (China)|Red Guards]] and their works burned. After the death of [[Mao Zedong]] and the end of the [[Cultural Revolution]], the official attitude became more tolerant but restrictions on feng shui practice are still in place in today's China. It is illegal in the PRC today to register feng shui consultation as a business and similarly advertising feng shui practice is banned. There have been frequent crackdowns on feng shui practitioners on the grounds of "promoting feudalistic superstitions" such as one in Qingdao in early 2006 when the city's business and industrial administration office shut down an art gallery converted into a feng shui practice. Some officials who had consulted feng shui were terminated and expelled from the Communist Party.{{sfn|BBC News|2001}}

In 21st century mainland China less than one-third of the population believe in feng shui, and the proportion of believers among young urban Chinese is said to be even lower.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yuce49.com/showjs.asp?js_id=45|title=司马南与巨天中在齐鲁台关于风水辩论的思考 |trans-title=Thoughts on Feng Shui Debate between Sima Nan and Ju Tianzhong in Qilutai|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080215232943/http://www.yuce49.com/showjs.asp?js_id=45 |archive-date=2008-02-15|date=2006-07-06|url-status=usurped|ref=none}}</ref> Chinese academics permitted to research feng shui are anthropologists or architects by profession, studying the history of feng shui or historical feng shui theories behind the design of heritage buildings. They include [[Cai Dafeng]], vice-president of [[Fudan University]].{{sfn|Fudan|2012}}<!-- and Liu Shenghuan of [[Tongji University]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}--> Learning in order to practice feng shui is still somewhat considered taboo. Nevertheless, it is reported that feng shui has gained adherents among Communist Party officials according to a BBC Chinese news commentary in 2006,{{sfn|Jiang Xun|2006}} and since the beginning of Chinese economic reforms the number of feng shui practitioners is increasing.

Feng shui practitioners in China have found officials that are considered superstitious and corrupt easily interested, despite official disapproval. In one instance, in 2009, county officials in [[Gansu]], on the advice of feng shui practitioners, spent $732,000 to haul a 369-ton "spirit rock" to the county seat to ward off "bad luck".{{sfn|NYTimes|2013}} Feng shui may require social influence or money because experts, architecture or design changes, and moving from place to place is expensive. Less influential or less wealthy people lose faith in feng shui, saying that it is a game only for the wealthy.{{sfn|Emmons|1992| p=42}} Others, however, practice less expensive forms of feng shui, including hanging special (but cheap) mirrors, forks, or woks in doorways to deflect negative energy.{{sfn|Emmons|1992| p=46}}

===First Western reactions===
[[Matteo Ricci]] (1552–1610), one of the founding fathers of [[Jesuit China missions]], may have been the first European to write about feng shui practices. His account in ''[[De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas]]''{{sfn|Ricci|1617|p=103–104}} tells about feng shui masters (''geologi'', in Latin) studying prospective construction sites or grave sites "with reference to the head and the tail and the feet of the particular dragons which are supposed to dwell beneath that spot." As a Catholic missionary, Ricci strongly criticized the "recondite science" of geomancy along with [[astrology]] as yet another ''superstitio absurdissima'' of the heathens: "What could be more absurd than their imagining that the safety of a family, honors, and their entire existence must depend upon such trifles as a door being opened from one side or another, as rain falling into a courtyard from the right or from the left, a window opened here or there, or one roof being higher than another?"{{sfn|Gallagher|1953|loc=Book I, ch. 9, pp. 84–85}}

Victorian-era commentators on feng shui were generally ethnocentric, and as such skeptical and derogatory of what they knew of feng shui.{{sfn|March|1968}} In 1896, at a meeting of the Educational Association of China, Rev. P. W. Pitcher railed at the "rottenness of the whole scheme of Chinese architecture," and urged fellow missionaries "to erect unabashedly Western edifices of several stories and with towering spires in order to destroy nonsense about ''fung-shuy.''{{sic}}"{{sfn|Cody|1996}}

===Criticism amid global spread===
Critics charge that feng shui has been reinvented and commercialized by New Age entrepreneurs,{{sfn|Johnson|1997}} or are concerned that much of the traditional theory has been lost in translation, not given proper consideration, frowned upon, or scorned.{{sfn|Vierra|1997}} One critic called the situation of feng shui in today's world "ludicrous and confusing," asking "Do we really believe that mirrors and flutes are going to change people's tendencies in any lasting and meaningful way?" He called for much further study or "we will all go down the tubes because of our inability to match our exaggerated claims with lasting changes."{{sfn|Johnson|1997}} Robert T. Carroll sums up the charges:

<blockquote>...feng shui has become an aspect of interior decorating in the Western world and alleged masters of feng shui now hire themselves out for hefty sums to tell people such as [[Donald Trump]] which way his doors and other things should hang. Feng shui has also become another New Age "energy" scam with arrays of metaphysical products...offered for sale to help you improve your health, maximize your potential, and guarantee fulfillment of some fortune cookie philosophy.{{sfn|Carroll/Feng Shui}}</blockquote>
Skeptics charge that evidence for its effectiveness is based primarily upon anecdote and users are often offered conflicting advice from different practitioners, though feng shui practitioners use these differences as evidence of variations in practice or different branches of thought. A critical analyst concluded that "Feng shui has always been based upon mere guesswork."{{sfn|Vierra|1997}} Another objection was to the compass, a traditional tool for choosing favorable locations for property or burials.{{sfn|Skinner|2008}}{{sfn|Nguyen|2008|p=185}} Critics point out that the compass degrees are often inaccurate because solar winds disturb the electromagnetic field of the Earth.{{sfn|Lang|2011|p=102}} Magnetic North on the compass will be inaccurate because true magnetic north fluctuates.{{sfn|NASA|2003}}

The psychologist [[Stuart Vyse]] has called feng shui "a very popular superstition."{{sfn|Vyse|2020b}} 

The American magicians [[Penn and Teller]] dedicated an episode of their television show ''[[Penn & Teller: Bullshit!|Bullshit!]]'' to criticize the acceptance of feng shui in the Western world as science. They devised a test in which the same dwelling was visited by five different feng shui consultants: each produced a different opinion about the dwelling, showing there is no consistency in the professional practice of feng shui.{{sfn|Penn|Teller|2003}}

Feng shui is criticized by Christians around the world.{{sfn|Mah|2004}} Some have argued that it is "entirely inconsistent with Christianity to believe that harmony and balance result from the manipulation and channeling of nonphysical forces or energies, or that such can be done by means of the proper placement of physical objects. Such techniques, in fact, belong to the world of sorcery."{{sfn|Montenegro|2003}}

The usage of inward-swinging doors in the former Ozone Disco in the [[Philippines]], due to feng shui belief that these "bring in money", has been blamed as a major factor on the huge number of deaths from [[Ozone Disco fire|the worst fire in the Philippine history]], which occurred in 1996.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/652226/nightclub-door-that-trapped-fire-victims-supposedly-good-feng-shui |title=Nightclub door that trapped fire victims supposedly 'good feng shui' |last=Gamil |first=Jaymee T. |date=22 November 2014 |website=Inquirer.net |access-date=24 July 2025}}</ref>

=== Reception within Western scientific philosophy ===
Feng shui has been identified as both [[non-scientific]] by both scientists and philosophers,<ref name="Fernandez-Beanato pp. 1333–1351">{{cite journal | last=Fernandez-Beanato | first=Damian | title=Feng Shui and the Demarcation Project | journal=Science & Education | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=30 | issue=6 | date=23 August 2021 | issn=0926-7220 | doi=10.1007/s11191-021-00240-z | pages=1333–1351| bibcode=2021Sc&Ed..30.1333F | s2cid=238736339 | doi-access=free }}</ref> while some have gone further to describe it as a paradigmatic example of [[pseudoscience]].<ref name="McCain Kampourakis 2019">{{cite book | last1=McCain | first1=K. | last2=Kampourakis | first2=K. | title=What is Scientific Knowledge?: An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology of Science | publisher=Taylor & Francis | year=2019 | isbn=978-1-351-33660-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DwadDwAAQBAJ | access-date=18 December 2021 | page=}}</ref> This has been because feng shui's characteristic geomantic claims{{sfn|Matthews|2018}} are not amenable to test by the [[scientific method]].

==See also==
{{div col|colwidth=20em}}
* [[Bagua]]
* ''[[Book of Burial]]''
* [[Coin-sword]]
* [[Chinese folk religion]]
* [[Chinese fortune telling]]
* [[Chinese spiritual world concepts]]
* [[Ergonomics]]
* [[Four Symbols]]
* [[Five elements (China)|Five elements]]
* [[Fulu]]
* [[Geomancy]]
* ''[[Green Satchel Classic]]''
* [[Jiaobei]]
* [[Ley line]]
* [[Luopan]]
* [[Shigandang]]
* [[Sanxing (deities)]] Fu, Lu, & [[Old Man of the South Pole|Shou]]
* [[Tajul muluk]]
* [[Tung Shing|Tung Shing (Chinese almanac)]]
* [[Vastu shastra]] (traditional Indian system of architecture)
{{div col end}}

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* {{cite journal |last1=Kalinowski |first1=Marc |title=The Use of the Twenty-eight Xiu as a Day-Count in Early China |journal=Chinese Science |date=1996 |issue=13 |pages=55–81 |jstor=43290380}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Kalinowski |first1=Marc |last2=Brooks |first2=Phyllis |title=The Xingde Texts from Mawangdui |journal=Early China |year=1998 |volume=23 |pages=125–202 |doi=10.1017/S0362502800000973|s2cid=163626838 |ref={{harvid|Kalinowski|1998}} }}
* {{cite encyclopedia |last =Komjathy | first= Louis | year =2012 | editor1-first =Mark | editor1-last =Juergensmeyer |editor2-first= Wade Clark |editor2-last=Roof| title = Encyclopedia of Global Religion|chapter=Feng Shui (Geomancy) |volume= 1| series = | location = Los Angeles | publisher =SAGE Reference | pages =395–396 | isbn = |chapter-url= }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Lai |first1=Chuen-Yan David |title=A Feng Shui model as a Location Index |journal=Annals of the Association of American Geographers |date=December 1974 |volume=64 |issue=4 |pages=506–513 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-8306.1974.tb00999.x }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Lu |first1=Su-Ju |last2=Jones |first2=Peter Blundell |title=House design by surname in Feng Shui |journal=The Journal of Architecture |date=January 2000 |volume=5 |issue=4 |pages=355–367 |doi=10.1080/13602360050214386 |s2cid=145206158 |ref={{harvid|Lu et al.|2000}} }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Lau |first1=Stephen Siu-Yiu |last2=Garcia |first2=Renato |last3=Ou |first3=Ying-Qing |last4=Kwok |first4=Man-Mo |last5=Zhang |first5=Ying |last6=Jie Shen |first6=Shao |last7=Namba |first7=Hitomi |title=Sustainable design in its simplest form: Lessons from the living villages of Fujian rammed earth houses |journal=Structural Survey |date=December 2005 |volume=23 |issue=5 |pages=371–385 |doi=10.1108/02630800510635119 | ref={{harvid|Siu‐Yiu Lau at al.|2005}} }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Mah |first1=Yeow B. |title=Living in harmony with one's environment: a Christian response to 'Feng Shui' |journal=Asia Journal of Theology |date=2004 |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=340–361 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Marafa |first1=Lawal |title=Integrating natural and cultural heritage: the advantage of feng shui landscape resources |journal=International Journal of Heritage Studies |date=December 2003 |volume=9 |issue=4 |pages=307–323 |doi=10.1080/1352725022000155054 |s2cid=145221348 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=March |first1=Andrew L. |title=An Appreciation of Chinese Geomancy |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |date=1968 |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=253–267 |doi=10.2307/2051750 |jstor=2051750 |s2cid=144873575 |doi-access=free }}
* {{cite book|last1=Matthews|first1=Michael R.|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_3IzDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31|title=History, Philosophy and Science Teaching: New Perspectives|publisher=Springer|year=2018|isbn=978-3-319-62616-1|editor-last=Matthews|editor-first=Michael R.|series=Science: Philosophy, History and Education|location=Cham, Switzerland|pages=31|chapter=Feng Shui: Educational Responsibilities and Opportunities}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Montenegro |first1=Marcia |title=Feng Shui: New Dimensions in Design |journal=Christian Research Journal |volume=26 |issue=1 |year=2003}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Nelson |first1=Sarah M. |first2=Rachel A. |last2=Matson |first3=Rachel M. |last3=Roberts |first4=Chris |last4=Rock |first5=Robert E. |last5=Stencel |journal=Journal of East Asian Material Culture |title=Archaeoastronomical Evidence for Wuism at the Hongshan Site of Niuheliang |date=2006 |s2cid=6794721 |s2cid-access=free |url=https://portfolio.du.edu/downloadItem/62721 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Pankenier |first1=David W. |title=The Cosmo-political Background of Heaven's Mandate |journal=Early China |year=1995 |volume=20 |pages=121–176 |doi=10.1017/S0362502800004466 |s2cid=157710102 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Park |first1=C-P. |first2=N. |last2=Furukawa |first3=M. |last3=Yamada |title=A Study on the Spatial Composition of Folk Houses and Village in Taiwan for the Geomancy (Feng-Shui) |journal=Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea |volume=12 |year=1996 |pages=129–140 |url=http://journal.auric.kr/jaik/ArticleDetail/RD_R/102190 |ref={{harvid|Park et al.|1996}} }}
* {{cite journal |last =Smith |first =Richard J. |authorlink = |title =The Transnational Travels of Geomancy in Premodern East Asia, C. 1600–C. 1901 Pt I |journal =Transnational Asia |volume =2 |issue =1 |pages =1–112 |publisher =Rice University |date =2019 |language = |url =https://transnationalasia.rice.edu |jstor = |issn = |doi =10.25613/uxwv-zpzd |accessdate = }}
* {{cite journal |last =Smith |first =Richard J. |author-mask =3 |title =The Transnational Travels of Geomancy in Premodern East Asia, C. 1600 - C. 1900: Part Ii |journal =Transnational Asia |volume =2 |issue =1 |pages = |publisher =Rice University |date =2019a |language = |url =https://transnationalasia.rice.edu/index.php/ta/article/view/35 |jstor = |issn = |doi =10.25613/i5m7-5d0i |accessdate = }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Whang |first1=Bo-Chul |last2=Lee |first2=Myung-Woo |title=Landscape ecology planning principles in Korean Feng-Shui, Bi-bo woodlands and ponds |journal=Landscape and Ecological Engineering |date=13 November 2006 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=147–162 |doi=10.1007/s11355-006-0014-8 |s2cid=31234343|ref={{harvid|Whang|2006}} }}
* {{cite encyclopedia|last = Wilkinson  |first =  Endymion |year = 2018 |chapter= Fengshui|page=463|title = Chinese History: A New Manual |publisher = Harvard University Press| location = Cambridge, MA |isbn =  9780998888309}} 
* {{cite journal |last1=Xu |first1=Ping |title='Feng-Shui' Models Structured Traditional Beijing Courtyard Houses |journal=Journal of Architectural and Planning Research |date=1998 |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=271–282 |jstor=43030469|ref={{harvid|Xu Ping|1998}} }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Xu |first1=Ping |title=Feng-shui as Clue: Identifying Prehistoric Landscape Setting Patterns in the American Southwest |journal=Landscape Journal |date=21 September 1997 |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=174–190 |doi=10.3368/lj.16.2.174 |s2cid=109321682 |ref={{harvid|Xu Ping|1997}} }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Zhuang |first1=Xue Ying |last2=Gorlett |first2=Richard T. |title=Forest and forest succession in Hong Kong, China |journal=Journal of Tropical Ecology |date=1997 |volume=13 |issue=6 |pages=857–866 |doi=10.1017/S0266467400011032 |jstor=2560242 |hdl=10722/42380 |s2cid=83846505 |hdl-access=free|ref={{harvid|Zhuang|1997}} }}
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===Blogs and online===
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* {{cite web|last=Carroll |first= Robert T. |title=Feng Shui | url=http://www.skepdic.com/fengshui.html |work=The Skeptic's Dictionary |access-date=2012-05-14|ref={{harvid|Carroll/Feng Shui}} }}
* {{cite web|last1=Vierra|first1=Monty|title=Harried by 'Hellions' in Taiwan|url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/newsletter/harried-by-hellions-in-taiwan/|work=[[Skeptical Inquirer]]| date=March 1997 }}
* {{cite web |last1=Vyse|first1=Stuart|author-link=Stuart Vyse|date=May 2020|title=Superstition and Real Estate|url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/superstition-and-the-chinese-real-estate-market/|work=[[Skeptical Inquirer]]|ref={{harvid|Vyse|2020a}}}}
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* {{cite web |last1=Brandmaier|first1=Werner| url=https://instituteoffengshui.com/wind-water/|title=Feng Shui |work=Institute of Feng Shui |access-date=2021-07-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713043801/http://www.instituteoffengshui.com/fengshui.html |archive-date=2011-07-13|ref={{harvid|Brandmaier|2011}} }} practitioner, turned to dowsing.
* {{cite web | last = Cheung Ngam Fung | first =Jacky | title =History of Feng Shui| year =2007 | url =http://www.fengshui-liufa.com/history.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927122452/http://www.fengshui-liufa.com/history.html |archive-date = 2007-09-27}} not really archived. Moreover, the sentence to be proven is rather void
* {{cite web |last1= Field |first1=Stephen L. |year=1998 |url=http://www.fengshuigate.com/qimancy.html |title=Qimancy: Chinese Divination by Qi |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223065625/http://www.fengshuigate.com/qimancy.html |archive-date=2017-02-23}}
* {{cite web|author1=Penn|author2=Teller|access-date=11 November 2021|series=Bullshit!|title=Feng Shui/Bottled Water|website=[[IMDb]]|date=2003-03-07|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0672530/}}
* {{cite web|url=http://zjc.zjol.com.cn/05zjc/system/2005/01/14/003828695.shtml |title=Chang Liang (pseudonym), 14 January 2005, ''What Does Superstitious Belief of 'Feng Shui' Among School Students Reveal?'' |publisher=Zjc.zjol.com.cn |date=2005-01-31 |access-date=2012-05-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306142756/http://zjc.zjol.com.cn/05zjc/system/2005/01/14/003828695.shtml |archive-date=2012-03-06 | ref={{harvid|Chang Liang|2005}} }}
* {{cite web|url=https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/29dec_magneticfield|title=Earth's Inconstant Magnetic Field|publisher=NASA Science|date=2003-12-29|access-date=6 February 2012|ref={{harvid|NASA|2003}}|archive-date=2023-06-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230622182928/https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/29dec_magneticfield/|url-status=dead}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.fudan.edu.cn/new_genview/now_caidafeng.htm |title=蔡达峰 – Cao Dafeng |publisher=Fudan.edu.cn |access-date=2012-05-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509032825/http://fudan.edu.cn/new_genview/now_caidafeng.htm |archive-date=2012-05-09|ref={{harvid|Fudan|2012}}  }}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20090206-119946.html |title=Feng Shui course gains popularity |publisher=Asiaone.com |date=2009-02-06 |access-date=2012-05-14|ref={{harvid|Asiaone|2009}} }}
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===Miscellaneous===
====Traditional China====
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* {{cite journal|author1=陳久金 (Chen Jiujin)|author2=張敬國 (Zhang Jingguo)|title=含山出土玉片圖形試考 (Hanshan chutu yupian taxing shikao)|trans-title=A preliminary analysis of the iconography in the jade fragments from the excavation site in Hanshan |journal=文物 (Wenwu) |trans-journal=Cultural Relics, Beijing |volume=4 |year=1989 |pages=14–17|ref={{harvid|Chen Jiujin|1989}}}}
*{{cite journal|author=殷涤非 (Yin Difei)|trans-title=The divination boards and astronomical instrument from the tomb of the Marquis of Ruyin of the Western Han|title=西汉汝阴侯墓出土的占盘和天文仪器 (Xi-Han Ruyinhou mu chutu de zhanpan he tianwen yiqi)|journal=考古 (Kaogu)|trans-journal=Archaeology, Beijing|date=May 1978|volume=12|pages=338–343|ref={{harvid|Yin Difei|1978}}}}
*{{cite journal|author=嚴敦傑 (Yan Dunjie)|title=關於西漢初期的式盤和占盤(Guanyu Xi-Han chuqi de shipan he zhanpan)|trans-title=On the cosmic boards and divination boards from the early Western Han period|journal=考古 (Kaogu)|trans-journal=Archaeology, Beijing|date=May 1978|volume=12|pages=334–337|ref={{harvid|Yan Dunjie|1978}} }}
*{{cite web|url=http://history.sina.com.cn/bk/gds/2013-11-28/164670191.shtml
|title=武则天挖坟焚尸真相：迷信风水镇压反臣|trans-title=The truth about Wu Zetian digging graves and burning corpses|work=星岛环球网, 文史| trans-work=Sing Tao Global Network, Culture and History|access-date=2013-12-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091223173140/http://www.stnn.cc/arts/200908/t20090810_1079619.html|archive-date=2009-12-23|url-status=dead|ref={{harvid|Sina|2009}} }}
*  {{cite web |url=http://culture.china.com/zh_cn/history/kaogu/11022843/20070717/14225498_4.html |title=丧心病狂中国历史上六宗罕见的辱尸事 |trans-title=Six rare humiliation incidents in Chinese history| access-date=2013-12-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070817061329/http://culture.china.com/zh_cn/history/kaogu/11022843/20070717/14225498_4.html |archive-date=2007-08-17 |url-status=dead |ref={{harvid|kaogu.china|2007}}}}
*  {{cite book|trans-title=The history of Chinese tomb robbers|title=中国人盗墓史（挖出正史隐藏的盗墓狂人）
|author= 倪方六(Ni Fangliu )|publisher=上海锦绣文章出版社 (Shanghai Jinxiu Articles Publishing House)
|isbn=978-7-5452-0319-6|date=October 2009 |ref={{harvid|Ni Fangliu|2009}} }}. The "Ming Sizong robbed Li Zicheng's ancestral grave" section can be read at {{cite web|url=http://book.ifeng.com/lianzai/detail_2010_01/11/293453_77.shtml|script-title=zh:凤凰网读书频道|work=ifeng.com|access-date=2013-12-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203160613/http://book.ifeng.com/lianzai/detail_2010_01/11/293453_77.shtml|archive-date=2016-02-03|url-status=dead}}
*{{cite web|work=中华命理风水论坛|trans-work= Chinese Numerology and Fengshui Forum|trans-title=The mystery of Chiang Kai-shek digging Mao Zedong's ancestor's grave| url=http://kaiyun.china.com/zh_cn/geomancy/mr/11063443/20100613/15979672.html| title=蒋介石挖毛泽东祖坟的玄机|archive-url=  https://web.archive.org/web/20100620232203/http://kaiyun.china.com/zh_cn/geomancy/mr/11063443/20100613/15979672.html |date=2010-06-13|archive-date=2010-06-20 |ref={{harvid|Fengshui Forum|2010}} }}
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====Post-1949 China====
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* 2001: {{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/chinese/news/newsid_1210000/12108792.stm |title=風水迷信"困擾中國當局|trans-title=Feng Shui Superstitions Troubles Chinese Authorities|publisher=BBC News Chinese Service |date=9 March 2001|access-date=2012-05-14 |ref={{harvid|BBC News|2001}} }}
* 2006: {{cite news|author=Jiang Xun |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/trad/hi/newsid_4870000/newsid_4872500/4872542.stm
|title=透視：從"巫毒娃娃"到風水迷信|trans-title=Focus on China: From Voodoo Dolls to Feng Shui Superstitions|language=zh|date=11 April 2006 |access-date=2012-05-14 }}
* 2010: {{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/hongkong/8206601/Hong-Kong-government-spends-millions-on-feng-shui.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/hongkong/8206601/Hong-Kong-government-spends-millions-on-feng-shui.html |archive-date=2022-01-11 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Malcolm | last=Moore | title=Hong Kong government spends millions on feng shui | date=2010-12-16}}{{cbignore}}
* 2013: {{cite news |last1=Levin |first1=Dan |title=China Officials Seek Career Shortcut with Feng Shui |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/world/asia/feng-shui-grows-in-china-as-officials-seek-success.html |work=The New York Times |date=10 May 2013|ref={{harvid|NYTimes|2013}} }}
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====United States====
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* 2005: {{cite news |last1=Holson |first1=Laura M. |title=The Feng Shui Kingdom |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/25/business/worldbusiness/the-feng-shui-kingdom.html |work=The New York Times |date=25 April 2005 |ref={{harvid|NYTimes|2005}} }}
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