House Classics

[Read Ten Thousand Words and Learn Thousands of Truths] "The House Classic", a classic of traditional Chinese Feng Shui culture. Also known as "Huangdi Zhai Jing", it is one of the most widely circulated books on Xiangzhai in ancient my country. The full text is less than 10,000 words, but it contains extremely subtle meanings of life. The content is divided into five parts: preface, general introduction, general method of building a house, a diagram of a Yang house, and a diagram of a Yin house. It explains the principles of Yin and Yang according to the twenty-four ways, explains the good and bad luck of the house, and explains the order of directions and various taboos. Taking King Wen's theory of the Bagua directions in the Book of Changes as the basic cartographic principle, and referring to the theory of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, the good and bad fortunes of the eight directions of the Yang house and the Yin house are discussed.