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Feng shui is basically a discipline with guidelines that are similar in temperament with many techniques of the architectural planning as well as internal furniture arrangements. Space, weather, astronomy, and geomagnetism are basic components of feng shui. Proponents claim that feng shui has an effect on health, wealth, and personal relationships. In fact, feng shui is one of the most compatible forms of astrology that has a solution to any and every problem right from human health to any problem related to the house. Feng shui, in earlier times as well as today, has been known as "Kan-Yu" which means 'The Law of Heaven and Earth.' Today's Feng Shui schools educate that it is the ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement of space to achieve harmony with the environment. The literal translation of Feng shui is "wind-water." This is basically cultural shorthand taken from the one of the passages of the Zhangshu (Book of Burial) by Guo Pu of the Jin Dynasty.

Early feng shui simply relied on astronomy so as to find correlations between humans and the universe and to understand the fact that it is inseparable from an understanding of political power in premodern China. Chinese often used the celestial pole determined by the pole stars to determine the north-south axis of settlements. This technique provided the more precise alignments of the Shang walls at Yanshi and Zhengzhou. In fact, all the capital cities of China followed the rules of Feng Shui for their design and layout. These rules were codified during the Zhou era in the "Kaogong ji" which in English mean the manual of crafts. Rules for builders were codified in the "Lu ban jing" that means the carpenter's manual. In fact, this might be quite astonishing but even rraves and tombs also followed the rules that were laid down by Feng Shui. From the earliest records that are available today, it seems that the rules for the structures of the graves and dwellings were the same.

This technique or science as many calls it, is again quite intriguing and one has to be well versed with the rules laid by Feng Shui to create harmony between humans and the universe. There are various permutations and combinations that need to be done while trying to achieve harmony through Feng Shui. In fact, today wherever we go, we see that things are placed according to the rules of Feng Shui. In fact, houses are also built on the rules laid by this technique. Even though we are in an era of high-level technological advances, we still believe in astrology and things like Feng Shui. In fact, these kinds of techniques help to sustain hope in ourselves to think that things will all be well.

The very basic thing is that even if the world has undergone tremendous changes and has been progressing a lot, still we humans somewhere or the other, tend to get inclined to the cosmic being and to the various techniques that help to unite the cosmic with us.