What are the commonly used methods of determining direction and orientation using a Feng Shui compass?

What are the commonly used methods of determining direction and orientation using a Feng Shui compass?
Introduction: The Chinese compass has evolved from simple to complex, and Chinese Feng Shui has also developed from a simple scientific Feng Shui technique that relies solely on the use of energy to an extremely complex metaphysical and numerological Feng Shui technique. So what are the commonly used methods of determining direction and orientation using the Feng Shui compass? Let’s follow the editor to learn more about it below! Want to know more articles and content related to the compass? Welcome to the compass special topic that Mr. Shui Mo has carefully prepared for you to learn more knowledge. Come and have a look! Orientation in Feng Shui is also called "Li Xiang". Li Xiang is the characterization of a building and is the first step in Feng Shui work. For a Feng Shui master, only after the direction is determined can he set up the layout and carry out a series of subsequent calculations and internal designs. No matter how much effort you put into studying interior feng shui, and how you place the refrigerator, television, and crystal chandelier, if the orientation is wrong, everything will fail.

The compass is a common method of orientation in residential Feng Shui.
Orientation by door

In ancient times, the most common method was to determine the direction based on the door. Most of the ancient residences and buildings were only one or two stories high. Usually the main gate faced the street, open space, pond or other terrain, and the entire building was centered on the gate. In this case, the orientation should be based on the gate.
In modern society, urban houses are built higher and higher. In densely populated houses, the doors to the rooms are all in a corridor. In this case, the orientation of doors is gradually disappearing from urban houses. However, in many villas, farmhouses, buildings and factories, the door is still the main orientation. Even in some villages and towns with archways, the entrance and exit archways of the entire area can be used as the direction under appropriate circumstances.
If your home is a villa-type residence, or a courtyard-type residence with a main door facing the street, then the door legislation applies to the orientation of your home.

To stand in the void

A well-designed neighborhood will have large open spaces for residents to carry out activities; a complete residential area will have gardens and sports fields in the middle of the area; the above open spaces are called Mingtang in Feng Shui, which is a good place to store wind, gather energy, and gather wealth and fortune. If the living room, balcony, and most of the windows of your home face the Mingtang, your home should be facing the Mingtang. This method is called the method of empty space. People living in houses below the fifth floor can often face the Mingtang and take the empty direction. In the past decade, we have seen many large and well-developed real estate projects with 20 or 30 floors. However, because they cover a large area, there is a huge Mingtang in the middle of the community with living facilities such as children's playgrounds, lawns, swimming pools, etc., so that houses around 20 floors can also face the Mingtang in the middle of the community, and the scenery is quite good.

Direction based on the sun

Yangfa is the orientation method we use most often in home inspection. If your residence is located in a high-rise building in the city, and you live on the fifth floor or above and do not face an open space, then the law of void cannot apply to your home. In this case, the law of yang is likely to apply to your home. The word "yang" here does mean sunshine, but the direction is not the direction where the strongest light can penetrate. What is more important is the size of the air inlet and the number of windows. Because the Chi in Feng Shui is material, it can only be truly welcomed in by opening windows and doors. A well-designed modern suite often has two or three sides of lighting. At this time, it is not practical to orient the light. The formal method should be to orient it according to the wall with the most windows in the entire house.

Water orientation

In Feng Shui theory, Qi is a kind of energy that comes from nature. This energy will produce different effects in different environments and directions. Sometimes it is a good result, the so-called good luck; sometimes it is a bad result, the so-called bad luck. The air will move forward along the mountains. When the air moves to an open and windy place, it will disperse. If the air moves to a river or a place with water, it will stop moving and gather on the shore. Places where qi gathers are often suitable for human habitation. Ancient Feng Shui works mention that "dispersed by the wind and stopped by the water", which refers to the above-mentioned characteristics.
When a house is built next to a river, or facing a lake, pond, swimming pool, etc., and there are no other orientation conditions involved, the water side can be considered as the orientation. For example, if the pond is adjacent to the east side of the house, we can say that the house faces east.
In urban Feng Shui, buildings are mountains and roads are water. When the qi reaches the side of the road, it will stop. That is to say, if one side of our house faces the road, in the absence of other directional conditions, we can use water legislation to determine the direction of the house.

To establish direction with emptiness

This method of orientation is really helpless, but it occurs from time to time in modern buildings.
When the buildings in a village or residential area are too dense, the buildings and houses will be so close to each other that you cannot see the ground when looking down and you cannot see the sky when looking up. When you open the window, you can see your neighbors' windows everywhere, and when you open the door, you can see narrow alleys and corridors. There are finally one or two windows with a distant view, which is a narrow vertical gap between the tall buildings. The problem is that this narrow gap cannot be used for orientation, because this narrow vertical gap between buildings is a kind of evil spirit in Feng Shui, called "Heavenly Cutting Evil", which has a bad influence on human health and cannot be used for orientation. In the above situation, we have to use virtual legislation to determine the direction.
The virtual orientation is to use the direction of the village, community, or housing estate where the house is located as the orientation. For example, the direction of the main road in and out of the village, the direction of the gate of the community, the direction of the main open space facing the housing estate, and the street closest to the residential area can all be used as the virtual orientation.
Summary: The above is an analysis of some methods of determining direction and orientation using the compass. You can learn and refer to them. The most important thing is to seek analysis from a professional Feng Shui master!

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