Fuxi or Fu Hsi (伏羲) is a culture hero in Chinese mythology,credited along with his sister and wife Nüwa with creating humanity and the invention of music,hunting,fishing,domestication,and cooking,as well as the Cangjie system of writing Chinese characters around 2900 BC or 2000 BC. Fuxi was counted as the first mythical emperor of China,"a divine being with a serpent's body" who was miraculously born,a Taoist deity,and/or a member of the Three Sovereigns at the beginning of the Chinese dynastic period.
Feng shui,sometimes called Chinese geomancy,is a traditional form of geomancy that originated in Ancient China and claims to use energy forces to harmonize individuals with their surrounding environment. The term feng shui means,literally,"wind-water". From ancient times,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.
Geomancy translates literally to "earth divination," and the term was originally used to mean methods of divination that interpret geographic features,markings on the ground,or the patterns formed by soil,rocks,or sand. Its definition has expanded over time,to include any spiritual,metaphysical,or pseudoscientific practice that is related to the Earth. In recent times the term has been applied to a wide range of other occult and fringe activities,including Earth mysteries and the introduction of ley lines and Bau-Biologie.
A binary code represents text,computer processor instructions,or any other data using a two-symbol system. The two-symbol system used is often "0" and "1" from the binary number system. The binary code assigns a pattern of binary digits,also known as bits,to each character,instruction,etc. For example,a binary string of eight bits can represent any of 256 possible values and can,therefore,represent a wide variety of different items.
In Chinese philosophy,a taijitu is a symbol or diagram representing taiji in both its monist (wuji) and its dualist forms in application is a deductive and inductive theoretical model. Such a diagram was first introduced by Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhou Dunyi of the Song Dynasty in his Taijitu shuo (太極圖說).
The Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China is a vast encyclopedic work written in China during the reigns of the Qing dynasty emperors Kangxi and Yongzheng. It was begun in 1700 and completed in 1725. The work was headed and compiled mainly by scholar Chen Menglei (陳夢雷). Later on the Chinese painter Jiang Tingxi helped work on it as well.
The bagua (Chinese:八卦;pinyin:bāguà;lit. 'eight trigrams') is a set of symbols from China intended to illustrate the nature of reality as being composed of mutually opposing forces reinforcing one another. Bagua is a group of trigrams—composed of three lines,each either "broken" or "unbroken",which represent yin and yang,respectively. Each line having two possible states allows for a total of 23 = 8 trigrams,whose early enumeration and characterization in China has had an effect on the history of Chinese philosophy and cosmology.
The luopan or geomantic compass is a Chinese magnetic compass,also known as a feng shui compass. It is used by a feng shui practitioner to determine the precise direction of a structure,place or item. Luo Pan contains a lot of information and formulas regarding its functions. The needle points towards the south magnetic pole.
The Luo River is a tributary of the Yellow River in China. It rises in the southeast flank of Mount Hua in Shaanxi province and flows east into Henan province,where it eventually joins the Yellow River at the city of Gongyi. The river's total length is 420 kilometres (260 mi).
Qimen Dunjia is an ancient form of divination from China. It is still in use in mainland China,Taiwan,Hong Kong,Macau,Malaysia,Singapore and the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia. It is one of the Three Styles of Chinese divination,with Da Liu Ren and Tai Yi Shen Shu.
The longma is a fabled winged horse with dragon scales in Chinese mythology. Seeing a longma was an omen of a legendary sage-ruler,particularly one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
Xuan Kong Flying Star feng shui or Xuan Kong Fei Xing is a discipline in Feng Shui,and is an integration of the principles of Yin Yang,the interactions between the five elements,the eight trigrams,the Lo Shu numbers,and the 24 Mountains,by using time,space and objects to create an astrological chart to analyze positive auras and negative auras of a building.
Ancient Chinese urban planning encompasses the diverse set of cultural beliefs,social and economic structures,and technological capacities that influenced urban design in the early period of Chinese civilization. Factors that have shaped the development of Chinese urbanism include:fengshui,and astronomy;the well-field system;the cosmological belief that Heaven is round,and the Earth is square,the concept of qi;political power shared between a ruling house and educated advisers;the holy place bo;a three-tiered economic system under state control;early writing;and the walled capital city as a diagram of political power.
Schuyler Van Rensselaer Cammann was an anthropologist best known for work in Asia.
Zhen Luan (甄鸾) was a Chinese mathematician,astronomer,daoist and buddhist who was active during the Northern Zhou (557-581) of the Southern and Northern Dynasties period.
Yubu,translated as Pace(s) of Yu or Step(s) of Yu,is the basic mystic dance step of religious Daoism. This ancient walking or dancing technique typically involves dragging one foot after another,and is explained in reference to the legendary Yu the Great,who became lame on one side of his body from exerting himself while establishing order in the world after the Great Flood. Daoist religions,especially during the Six Dynasties period (220–589),incorporated Yubu into rituals,such as the Bugang 步罡"pace the Big Dipper",in which a Taoist priest would symbolically walk the nine stars of the Beidou 北斗"Big Dipper" in order to acquire that constellation's supernatural energy.
Bugang is a Daoist ritual dance or walk,based upon the Yubu "Steps of Yu" tradition,in which a Taoist priest paces through a supernatural pattern,such as stars in the Big Dipper or numbers in the Loshu magic square. Texts from the Shangqing School revelations contain the earliest descriptions of bugang,frequently with the practitioner pacing among constellations,especially the Big Dipper's stars. When religious Daoism began during the Six Dynasties period,the expression bugang tadou 步罡踏斗"pacing the guideline and treading on the Dipper" became popular.
The Yellow River Map,Scheme,or Diagram,also known by its Chinese name as the Hetu,is an ancient Chinese diagram that appears in myths concerning the invention of writing by Cangjie and other culture heroes. It is usually paired with the Luoshu Square—named in reference to the Yellow River's Luo tributary—and used with the Luoshu in various contexts involving Chinese geomancy,numerology,philosophy,and early natural science.
Nine Star Ki is a popular system of astrology,often used alongside Feng shui. It is an adjustment or consolidation,made in 1924 by Shinjiro Sonoda (1876–1961),to traditional Chinese divination and geomancy methods,such as Flying Star Feng Shui,the Ming Gua number from the Eight Mansions Compass School of Feng Shui,and combining the Lo Shu Square with the "Later Heaven" Bagua.
Taoist coin charms,or Daoist coin charms are a family of categories of Chinese and Vietnamese numismatic charms that incorporate elements of the Taoist religion. Taoist coin charms come in various shapes,sizes,and formats and can contain inscriptions or wholly pictorial designs. While a large number of Taoist coin charms have their inscriptions written in traditional Chinese characters,a subset of Taoist coin charms have inscriptions written in Taoist "magic" writing. In these countries similar numismatic charms existed for Buddhist and Confucianism,and at times Taoist coin charms would also incorporate symbolism from these other religions.
